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A. Choose the
best answer
（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案
)
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12
分
)
Dear Anne,
Thanks
for your email.
It’s great to have a
pen pal from another country. My name is Jeff,
and my
family has a farm in
Australia. We grow wheat and other crops on our
farm. Let me tell you what happened
here last week.
Until last week, our plants had been
growing well because we’ve had a lot of rain. Then
the locusts
came. They flew towards our
farm in a
swarm
(
一
大群
), which contained millions of
locusts and covered an
area of several
square kilometers. The locusts came from an area
far away. They
had flown through the
night.
Early the
next morning, I went outside with Dad. We looked
at the swarm in the sky. I had never seen
so many animals together at a time. Dad
said there was nothing we could do for the crops.
I wasn’t afraid,
because locusts don’t
hurt people.
The swarm
landed in our fields, and the locusts ate most of
our wheat. We lost a lot of our harvest.
Then the locusts flew to other farms in
our area and ate some of those crops,
too.
I didn’t go to school
that day, because the swarm of locusts made it
hard for drivers to see on the roads
and the school bus didn’t run. Instead,
I helped Mum and Dad on the farm.
The locust
plague
(
灾祸
) is over now, and the
locusts have all gone. Mum and Dad said we must
get
the damaged fields ready for the
new plants. We are going to be very busy on the
farm. Email me again
soon.
Your new friend,
Jeff
1.
Jeff’s family
runs a ______ in Australia.
A) factory
B) restaurant
C)
company
D) farm
2.
The weather in
Jeff’s hometown this year is helpful
______.
A) for plants to
grow
B) to
people’s health
C) for
animals to grow
D) to the
local industry
3.
The disaster in the
e
-
mail took place
______.
A) last
year
B) last month
C) last week
D) yesterday
4.
Which of the following matches the
situation of the disaster?
A)
B)
C)
D)
5.
Jeff wasn’t
afraid of locusts because they don’t
______.
A) stay long in an
area
B) attack
people
C) come
out at night
D) eat many
crops
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6.
The best title
for this e
-
mail is
______.
A) Pen
Friends
B) An
Australian Family
C) A
Locust Plague
D) Animals in
Australia
B.
Choose the
words and complete the passage
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完成短文）（
12
分）
Who makes movies? Actors and directors,
of course. But if you watch the list of all the
people who
worked
on
the
movie,
you’ll
find
hundreds
of
other
names.
Some
of
the
most
important
people
in
filmmaking aren’t famous.
Here are ___1___ important jobs
behind
the scenes
(
幕后
).
Makeup artist: Making
characters look believable
The
makeup
artist’s
work
sounds
___2___.
But
it’s
more
than
just
making
the
lead
actress
look
beautiful. If the hero
gets a cut on his face, the makeup artist creates
that cut, and it has to look exactly the
same tomorrow. And the special makeup
for a monster or a space alien can take six hours!
Their work must
always be careful and
good, so you don’t ___3___ it when you watch the
movie.
Scrip supervisor:
Putting movie scenes together
Imagine shooting a scene inside a
living room. The clock says 9:05, and the actor is
eating a sandwich.
Later, the director
decides to change just the end of the scene. The
script supervisor must
___4___ everything. The clock must
still say 9:05, and the sandwich must not look
different. In order
not to make
mistakes, the script supervisor keeps records of
every scene and all its details.
Special effects coordinator: Making
impossible things look real
After
a
movie,
people
often
ask,
“___5___
did
they
do
that?”
In
films,
people can fly,
dinosaurs walk through cities, and spaceships go
to other planets.
These are all the
work of the special effects coordinator. Some
special effects,
especially
in
science
fiction
movies,
are
made
with
computers.
Others
are
produced
by
machines,
which
can
make
a
rainy
day
or
a
snowy
night
at
any
time of
the year.
Foley artist:
Creating the sounds of the cinema
Think of your favorite scary
movie and its sounds—footsteps, loud
rain, and creaking doors. Many
sounds
can’t be recorded during the filming of a movie,
so Foley artists produce them in their
studios
(
工作
室
). They create the sounds of a fight scene,
and the wind, rain, and thunder in the background.
In a Foley
artist’s studio, there are
even special ___6___ for recording different kinds
of footsteps.
Next time you
see a movie, look for these names in the
list.
1.
A)
three
B) four
C) five
D)
six
2.
A) simple
B) familiar
C) useful
D) important
3.
A)
understand
B)
remember
C)
notice
D)
hear
4.
A) teach
B) explain
C) introduce
D) check
5.
A)
Why
B) Where
C) When
D)
How
6.
A) tables
B) floors
C) windows
D) chairs
C.
Read the passage and fill in the blanks
with proper words
（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其
内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给
)
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14
分）
Many students feel that living in a
private home in Britain will be a help to
them in learning English, and will also
be a good experience in itself. Younger
students may feel h___1___ in a home
than in a hotel, for they can have someone
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