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8B U1-8
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U1
语法选择
Joanne Rowling was born in Bristol
1
England. She always wanted
2
stories.
At
school,
she
used
3
up
stories
with
her
friends.
When
she
left
school,
she
went
to
university
4
French. After leaving
university, she had many different jobs. However,
most
of all, she wanted to write. One
day, during a long train journey, she got the idea
of
5
about a
boy who is a
wizard(
男巫
).
In
1992, she left England to Portugal to teach
English. Then she got married. But the marriage
soon ended and Joanne
went
back to
Edinburgh in
Scotland. She had
6
little money
that
she
lived
in
a
very
small,
cold
house.
She
even
couldn’t
7
the
heating(
供热
).
But
she
finished
her first book about Harry Potter there. She was
very
8
and happy when the book
was
published(
出版
). Much to her
surprise, her book was a great
9
. It sold in millions. It
won many prizes. It made Joanne very
rich and it made her
10
very famous
(
)1. A. in
B. at
C. on
D. to
(
)2. A. write
B. wrote
C.
to write
D. writing
(
)3. A. to make
B. made
C. making
D. make
(
)4.
A. study
B.
studied
C. to study
D. studies
(
)5. A. writing
B. write
C. to write
D. wrote
(
)6. A. such
B. so
D. too
(
)7.
A. paid
B. pay
C. paying
D. pays
(
)8.
A. excitingly
B.
exciting
C.
cxcitedly
D. excited
(
)9. A. succeed
B. successful
C.
successfully
D. success
(
)10. A. to
become
B. become
C.
becomes
D.
becoming
完形填空
Once,
in
a
small
village,
lived
a
family
with
eight
children.
Two
of
the
children
loved
___1___very
much,
but
the
family
was
so
poor
that
it
was
impossible
___2___
both
of
them
to
study at
the art college at the same time. After many
discussions, the two boys finally ___3___a
plan. They would
toss(
抛
) a coin.
The loser would
go down into
the
mines
(
煤矿
) and, with
his
money
he
would
make,
support
his
brother
studying
at
the
college.
Then,
when
the
brother
who
won
the toss finished his studies, after four years,
he would support ___4___ brother studying at the
college.
James won the
toss and Jack went down into the mines. James
worked with all his heart and
his
paintings were much ___5___
than those of most of his
teachers,
and when he
finished his
college, he was beginning
to make a lot of money for his paintings.
When James returned, a big
6
was held for
his great success by the family. Soon after
the meal began, James stood up from his
seat to thank his dear ___7___
He said,
can go
to the art college and your dream will ___8___. I
will take care of you.
But Jack
___9___ softly,
so it' s too late. Now
I can' t even hold a glass.
To show his
great love and respect, James drew his brother' s
hands ___10_ _
fingers
towards
the sky. He called his drawing
（祈祷）
Hands
（
）
1. A. painting
B. books
C.
school
D. money
（
）
2. A. be sent
B. send
C.
sent
D. to send
1
（
）
3. A. looked out
B. worked out
C. took out
D. went out
（
）
4. A. others
B. other
C.
the other
D.
another
（
）
5.
A. better
B.
worse
C. cheaper
D. older
（
）
6. A. show
B. dinner
C. painting
D. competition
（
）
7. A. brother
B. sister
C.
father
D. mother
（
）
8. A. come in
B. come back
C.
come out
D. come true
（
）
9. A. spoke
B. said
C. talked
D.
told
（
）
10. A. in
B.
with
C. on
阅读理解
Imagine a
school with more than l ,800 classes in Math ,
Science and History. What's
more,
this
school
is
open
twenty-
four
hours
a
day,
seven
days
a
week.
The
best
part
is
that
it's
free
Welcome
to the Khan Academy.
The Khan
Academy is a collection of short educational
videos. Each one teaches a lesson in
English
easy
to
understand,
and
most
are
about
ten
minutes
long.
The
school
now
has
its
own
website,
and
about
200,000
students
a
month
use
it.
Bill
Gates
has
even
watched
its
educational
videos with his
son, and he has praised(
称赞
)
the school in public.
The
man
reasonable
for
the
Khan
Academy
is
Salman
Khan.
It
all
started
when
this
MIT
graduate agreed to teach
his young cousin math. He began by using a
computer and a phone. Later,
he
made
videos
and
moved
them
to
the
Internet.
Soon
after,
people
around
the
world
started
watching these educational videos on
the Internet.
The
secret
of
the
school's
success
is
the
videos.
They
use
drawings,
diagrams(
图表
)
and
statements to get to the
heart of a subject very quickly.
Not
e
veryone
likes
the
Khan
Academy.
Some
said
that
the
videos
didn’t
have
the
teacher
student
interaction(
互动
)
that
traditional
schools had.
However,
many
praise
the
Khan
Academy,
saying that it helps them understand
ideas more quickly.
Thanks
to
Salman
Khan,
the
dream
of
a
free,
world
class
Internet
school
for
everyone
is
becoming true.
(
) 1. What is the best part
of the Khan Academy?
A. It costs nothing.
B. It has lots
of classes.
C.
It is always open.
D. It is convenient.
(
)
ing
to
the
passage,
how
many
students
use
the
website
of
Khan
Academy?
A. About twenty thousand.
B. Over one
thousand eight hundred.
C. About two hundred
thousand. .
D. Over ten thousand eight
hundred.
(
)
underlined
w
ords
“responsible
for
most
probably
mean
in
Paragraph 3.
A.
宣传
B.
负责
C.
捐赠
D.
赞助
(
) 4 .Why does
some people NOT like the Khan Academy?
A.
Because the videos are not interesting.
B. Because they don't like computers.
C. Because it is difficult to
understand the videos.
.
D. Because they can't make
interaction with the teachers.
(
) 5
What can we learn from the passage?
A. Khan and his cousin made videos to
teach Math.
B. Students of the Khan
Academy prefer traditional schools.
2
C. The videos help the
students learn more quickly.
D.
The Khan Academy won’t be free in the
future.
U2
)
语法选择
Mr. Ball is the head of the office.
He’s able to deal with(
应付
)
nearly all kinds of matters. So
he’s
often busy and has no time to do housework. His
wife knows him well and
1
all at home.
Two weeks ago their daughter was badly
hurt and had to be in hospital. Mrs. Ball had to
look
after 2
there and she couldn’t go
home. So Mrs. Ball
3
in the
restaurant. As he never did
some 4
, the rooms
were all in a mess.
Yesterday morning,
before Mr.
Ball
got
up, the telephone
5
.
He
sat
up to
answer it.
His
friend told him 6
an
important telephone number down. But he could find
neither a pen7
____
a piece of paper. He found
there was
much dust on
8
table, so
he wrote the
number with
a
finger on the
table. Then he went back to work and soon forgot
it.
Two hours later, his wife 9
back and began
to clean the room. The husband came 10
to
find
the
number,
but
his
wife
had
cleaned
the
desk.
He
couldn’t
see
the
number
and
called
out
angrily, “Who let you clean the room?”
1. A. does
B.
do
C. doing
D. done
2. A.
him
B. her
C. she
D. herself
3. A. eat
B. eats
C. ate
D.
eating
4. A. clean
B. cleans
C. cleaned
D. cleaning
5. A. rang
B. rings
C. was rung
D. is ringing
6.
A. write
B. to write
C. writes
D. to writing
7. A. or
B. nor
C. and
D. but
8. A. a
B. an
C.
the
D. /
9. A. go
B. goes
C.
was going
D. went
10. A. out
B. off
C. at
D.
in
完形填空
My mother often asked me
what the most important part of the body is. When
I was young, I
thought
1
was very important, so I said, “My
ears, Mommy.”
She said, “No.
Think about it and I will
2
you again.”
Several years passed before she asked
me again. After carefully thinking, I thought I
got the
3
answer. So this time I
t
old her,
“Mommy
，
seeing is very
important, so it must be our
4
”.
She looked at
me and told me, “You are learning fast, but the
answer is not correct
5
.”
Wrong
again
！
Mother asked me a few
more times and always her answer was, “No. But you
are getting cleverer every
y
ear.”
Then last
year, my grandpa
6 . Everybody was sad and crying. My
Mom looked at me when
it
was
our
7
to
say
our
last
goodbye
to
grandpa.
She
asked
me,
“Do
you
know
the
most
important body part
yet, my dear
？
”
I was
8
when she asked me this now. I always
thought this was a game
between her
and me. She saw
the confusion(
迷惑
)on my face
and told me, “This
9
is very
important. For
each answer you gave me
in the past, I have told you that it was wrong and
I have given you an
example
why.”
She loo
ked
down at me as only a mother could. I saw her eyes
filled with tears. She said, “My
dear,
the most important part is your
10
.”
3
I asked, “Is it because it can hold up
my head?”
She replied, “No,
it is because it can hold the head of a friend or
a lov
ed one when
they cry.
Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on
sometimes in life. I only hope that you have
enough love and
friends so that you
will always have a shoulder to cry on when you
need it.”
1. A. sound
B. taste
C. noise
D. voice
2. A. tell
B
. answer
C.
ask
D. advise
3. A. good
B.
right
C. bad
D.
wrong
4. A. hands
B.
shoulders
C.
eyes
D. mouth
5. A.
too
B. either
C.
also
D. as well
6. A.
died
B. cried
C
. played
D. changed
7. A.
duty
B
.
turn
C.
habit
D
. point
8. A.
happy
B. excited
C. interested
D. surprised
9. A. trouble
B. matter
C. problem
D. question
10.
A. shoulder
B. back
C. head
D. arm
阅读理解
Attention,
students! Beach
party
comes
! We
are going to
have an outdoor party at
the National
Park on July
15.
Activities
：
1. Ride bikes from the Student Center
to the beach.
2. A picnic
on the beach.
3. Swimming and sailing
contests.
What to
bring
：
sun cream,
sunglasses, hats, swimsuits, hiking shoes and
personal items.
Deadline
for signing up(
报名
)
：
Sunday, July 8
Fee
：
200 per
person.
Meet at the Student
Center at 10:00 am, July 15
P.
S
：
All the food will be
offered by the Students’ Union.
1. Where do you usually find a poster
like this?
A.
On the beach
B. In a bookstore
C.
In a school
D. In a park
2. Students don’t
nee
d to bring _______.
A. swimsuits
B.
sunglasses
C. food
D. hiking shoes
3. Where do the students meet?
A.
At the Student Center.
B. At the
National Park
C. On the beach
D. At the Students Union
4. Which of the following
is WRONG?
A. Boats are needed in the activities.
B. The party
begins at 10:00 p.m.
C. The last day to sign up
is July 8.
D. Students will have a picnic on the
beach.
5. What’s the main purpose of
the po
ster?
A. To tell students what to
do in the summer.
B. To teach
students how to plan a party.
C. To make
money for National Park.
D.
To get more students
to join
the activities if possible.
U3
语法选择
Can Books Be Replaced
（取代）
by Computers?
4
Paper
1
first
created
（创造）
about
2,000
years ago, and has been made from silk,
cotton, bamboo. Since the 19th century,
paper has been made from wood. People
2
to write
words on paper to make a book. But in
those days, books could only be produced by hand.
As a
result, they were expensive and
rare. And because there weren't many books, few
people learned to
read.
Then
printing was
3
in China. The first printed books
4
by
5
ink
on a
wooden block and holding the paper
against it. When printing
6
developed greatly at the
beginning of the 11th century, books
could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a
result, more
people learned to read.
But will books
7
in
the future? Today information can be received
online, downloaded
from
the
Internet
rather
than
found
in
books,
and
information
can
be
kept
on
CD-ROMs
or
machines such as MP3 players. These
machines are smaller and lighter than books so
that they can
be carried
8
.
Computers
9
in
classrooms
widely
now, and newspapers
and
magazines can already
be read online.
So
10
books be replaced by computers one day?
What’s your idea?
1. A. is
B. was
C. are
D. were
2. learnt
learnt
C. learn
D. learned
3. A. invent
B.
invented
C. invention D.
invents
4. A. was making
B
. made
C. were made
D. was made
5. A. put
B. puts
C. putting
D.
was put
6. A. are
B. was
C. were
D. is
7. A. be
needed
B. was needed
C.
were needed
D. are needed
8.
A. easy
B. easier
C. easily
D. the easiest
9. A. were used
B. was used
C. are used
D. will be used
10. A. will
B. was
C. were
D. are
完形填空
Once there was a little boy. He got
angry ___1___. His father gave him some nails
(
钉子
) and
told
him, “
___2___
you get angry,
put a nail into the wall.”
___3___ the first day, the boy put 37
nails into the wall. A few days later, there were
___4___
nails in the wall and he found
it was ___5___ to get angry. Soon the boy was
happy every day.
Then, his
father asked him to ___6___
a nail each
day when he wasn’t angry. After some time,
all the nails were gone.
Then the father___7___ the boy to the
wall a
nd said, “Well done, son. But,
look! the wall is
___8___ of holes.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar
(
伤疤
) in people's ___9___. No
matter how many times you say
sorry, the scars will ___10___ be there
just like the holes in the
wall. Please
don’t get angry easily. Think before you say
something to your friends and your family
when you’re angry.”
1.
A. easily
B. carefully
C. quickly
D. hardly
2.
A. Before
B. Because
C. When
D. Although
3.
A. In
B. At
C. On
D. For
4.
A. more
B. fewer
C. less
D. worse
5..
A. good
B. easy
C. bad
D.
hard
6..
A. put
on
B. look out
C. take out
D.
find out
5
7..
A. took
B. met
C. threw
D. left
8..
A. full
B. round
C. empty
D. deep
9..
A. faces
B. hearts
C. heads
D. hands
10.
A. seldom
B. sometimes
C. never
D. always
阅读理解
People from other countries will find
many different surprising things in Britain.
Greek: A man from Greece see a special
way of driving in Britain. People drive on the
left in
the British street,
but
the British people never
feel
surprised. The Greek
man said,
“I’ve been in
Britain for nearly a month now. But at
first, I couldn’t always remember to drive on the
left. Every
time, my friend reminded
me. ”
Japanese: Japanese
people can’t understand why British people keep
their shoes on at home. In
Japan,
people walk in the room without shoes. If a
visitor keeps his shoes on at home in Japan, the
Japanese people think he is very
impolite.
Spanish:
The
Spanish
people
mind
the
way
that
the
British
people
greet
each
other.
They
themselves seem to be afraid of
touching. When they meet, they just smile or nod
but never kiss or
hug(
拥抱
) in Spain.
But the British people think kissing is a very
usual greeting when they meet!
There is
an old saying, “When in Rome, do as Romans do.”
When we go to a foreign country,
we
should follow the
etiquette(
礼仪
) of the
country.
(
) 1. The Greek visitor _______.
A. always drives on the left
B. used to drive on the
left
C.
drove correctly in Britain with his
friend’s help
D. has been in
Britain for a year
(
) 2.
_______
think it’s impolite to wear shoes at
home.
A. The Japanese
B. The Greek
C. The English
D. The Spanish
(
)
3. When greeting, the Spanish __________.
A. kiss each other
B. hug each other
C. smile at each other
D. shake hands
(
) 4. _______
seem not to be afraid of touching each other..
A. The Spanish
B. The British
C.
The Japanese
D. The Greek
(
)
5. Etiquette in the world _________.
A. is the same
B. is important
C. is different and
interesting
D. is strange
U4
完形填空
People
all
over
the
world
celebrate
Valentine’s
Day
（情
人节）
．
However,
the
holiday
1
differently in different countries
2
each culture has its own Valentine’s
Day customs
．
For
example
，
people
in
the
United
States
and
Japan
both
celebrate
Valentine’s
Day
3
February
14
．
But in
Japan
，
only romantic partners
come together, while in
America
，
it
_4
by
close
friends
or
lovers
．
Chocolate
5
by
people
in
the
US
and
it
is
common
in
Japan
，
< br>too
．
However, in the US
other kinds of gifts are also 6
，
and many people exchange
cards
．
The
biggest
7
is that in
Japan
，
only girls and women
_8
chocolates to boys and
men
，
but
in the US
boys and girls will give cards or small gifts to
all of
9
friends
．
And while
American
men and women both receive
gifts
，
women usually get
10
expensive gifts than
men
．
That’s
why I
would like to be a man in Japan but a woman in the
US!
1.
A
．
celebrates
B
．
is celebrating
C
．
celebrated
D
．
is celebrated
2.
A
．
although
B
．
where
C
．
because
D
．
if
6
3.
A
．
on
B
．
in
C
．
at
D
．
by
4.
A
．
can share
B
．
is sharing
C
．
can be shared
D
．
shares
5.
A
．
is preferred
B
．
prefer
C
．
prefers
D
．
is preferring
6.
A
．
give
B
．
given
C
．
gave
D
．
gives
7.
A
．
difference
B
．
differences
C
．
different
D
．
differently
8.
A
．
give
B
．
to give
C
．
giving
[
来
D
．
given
9.
A
．
theirs
B
．
they
C
．
them
D
．
their
10.
A
．
many
B
．
more
C
．
few
D
．
fewer
完形填空
Do
you know something about
cartoon? The word “cartoon”
1
Italian.
It
first
referred to
the picture
before an actual
（真实的）
drawing on the wall. In
the mid-19
th
century, it
came into
English.
2
the 1840s, it
has also come to mean any drawing that is
humorous
（
幽默的）
,
satirical
(
讽刺的
)
or showing an opinion. It usually appears in a
newspaper and magazine, with or without a
shot test.
Today cartoons
are sketches of the
3
lives of most people. They
can
4
people’s lifestyle
and the
thoughts in some degree
（程度）
.
People of all ages,
5
young children enjoy all
kinds of
cartoons
6
newspapers and
magazines, or television and at the movies.
Cartoons not only show
their life in
detail, but help form it. They have set the style
for clothing, food, manners and many
other things. They have
7
ideas to
plays, movies and television
series
（系列）
and so
on. Names
or
8
from cartoon series have
also come into modern languages.
Many
cartoonists draw with special pens. Some use the
9
.
Surely, computers have special
10
on the making
of animated cartoons. This helps us to enjoy more
lively cartoons.
（
）
1. A. learned
from
B. came from
C. took from
D. heard from
（
）
2. A. Since
B. Before
C. After
D. During
（
）
3. A. happy
B.
sad
C. daily
D. pleasant
（
）
4. A. make
B. match
C.
write
D.
record
（
）
5.
A. especially
B.
separately
C. brightly
D. effectively
（
）
6. A. on
B. in
C.
at
D. with
（
）
7. A. supplied
B. found
C. decided
D.
attracted
（
）
8.
A. actors
B. words
C. pictures
D.
characters
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）
9.
A. pencil
B.
TV
C
. computer
D. symbol
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）
10. A. effect
B. stage
C. effort
D.
warning
阅读理解
Sharing Everything
A
young man saw an old couple sitting down to have
lunch at McDonald’s. He noticed that
the
y
had ordered one meal
and another empty cup. As he watched , the
gentleman carefully divided the
hamburger in half ,and then counted out
the fries ,one for him ,one for her ,until each
had half of
them .Then he
poured(
倒
) half of the soft
drink into the empty cup in front of his wife .
The old
man then began to eat, and his
wife sat watching.
The young man decided to
ask if they would allow him to buy another meal
for them so that
they didn’t have to
share theirs.
The old gentleman said “Oh
no. We’ve
been married for 50 years,
and everything has always
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