完型填空

    阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Brittany Amano wants to make sure every child in the US has enough to eat.

Brittany Amano, now 18, knew how it felt to go hungry. Her mother tried to find a ___1__ in Honolulu, Hawaii to support the family. Her grandmother helped out as much as she could. But the family __2__ had to depend on a local food bank to live on, and for that she was __3__.

When they lost their home, Amano’s family had to live in a friend’s basement （地下室）. “I could feel how hunger and homelessness__4___ my family.” Amano told a reporter from TFK. “The experience made me want to give ___5__ to others in the same situation.”

In fourth grade, she and some of her friends started a good project. They _6__ $ 700 and collected 800 pounds of food. __7_ twelve, Amano set up the un profit （非营利的）group Hawaii’s Future Isn’t Hungry. She hoped to raise $ 10,000 __8___ she finished high school. She ended up raising more than $ 500,000 in four years.

With the ___9_ collected, the nonprofit group, now called The Future Isn’t Hungry, can offer fresh fruits, vegetables, and other ___10__ foods to school kids on Fridays. This is to make sure that the kids and ____11___ families have enough food to get them ____12___ the weekend. So far, the effort has helped more than 750,000 people.

In the fall of this year, Amano will __12__ Duck University, in North Carolina on a full scholarship. After that, she plans to return to ___14__ the city that gave her so much. “It doesn’t matter if you help one million people ___15_ just one person,” she says. “The smallest action can make a huge difference.”

1. A. job  B. club    C. house  D. school

2. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. never

3. A. careful   B. helpful C. hopeful      D. thankful

4. A. satisfied  B. influenced   C. developed   D. managed

5. A. hope      B. choice C. surprise      D. pleasure

6. A. paid       B. saved  C. raised  D. borrowed

7. A. By  B. At       C. Until   D. Below

8. A. if    B. since   C. when  D. because

9. A. food       B. clothes       C. books D. money

10. A. sweet   B. healthy       C. cheap        D. delicious

11. A. his       B. her      C. their    D. our

12. A. into      B. across C. along  D. through

13. A. enter    B. visit    C. drop   D. leave

14. A. set off  B. club    C. give back   D. come up

15. A. or B. as       C. but     D. and

语法填空

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

Dear Auntie Em,

     Great news! Mrs Mumford just told me I had been chosen as one of the school ___1___ (student) to visit the University of Cape Town in South Africa this summer! She said the program __2____ (design) for some of the brighter teenagers to experience a different culture. _3_____ a good chance!

     The only problem is: mom and dad __4____ (simple) won’t let me go. They said it was dangerous for me, a girl, ____5__ (travel) alone. But my guess is that they think it too expensive. I ___6___ (keep) telling them I had been on a plane on my own before. They needn’t worry about ____7__ (I) because this trio would be almost the same as that time when I had visited you in Texas. __8___. They just won’t listen!

     Will you help, Auntie Em? It will be ___9___ very important experience to my personal growth.

Love, (and love you even ___10___ (much) if you manage to make mom & dad agree with me.

阅读理解

    阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项选出最佳选项。

Leon was a postman. Every day wake up and feed his 37 cats. Leon didn’t really want 37 cats, but one by one they had appeared on his doorstep, and Leon had taken them in.

Every day, after feeding the cats, Leon would collect the mail from the red postboxes in the village and take it home. “If only I had 37 helpers instead of 37 cats, my job would be so much easier, ” Leon thought. Just then, the cats started meowing for their dinner. That gave Leon an idea. That night, Leon worked late making 37 cat-sized postal backpacks. Then, he went around to each postbox, putting up signs that read: postbox closed! Please use the postal cat service.

The next day, Leon put a backpack on each cat and dropped off the cats around the village. Leon knew that the cats would be happy walking around all day. He also knew that they would always come home for dinner. Leon spent the day relaxing, waiting for his helpers to return. Leon was right. The cats did return, but they did not bring home many letters. Some got the letters wet. Some bit off the corners of the letters. Some even lost their backpacks. “”Cats are just too unreliable（不可靠的）,” Leon thought.

Just then, a strange sound came from the outside of Leon’s door. A dirty dog was waiting to be invited inside. That gave Leon an idea.

1. In Paragraph 2, Leon _______ that night.

A. made postal backpacks              B. put up a sign on each cat

C. had dinner with the cats             D. collected letters in the village

2. According to the last paragraph, we can infer（推断） that Leon would _______.

   A. let the dog take a shower            B. invite the dog to dinner

   C. make the dog work for him          D. walk the dog around the village

3. From the passage we know Leon was ______.

   A. honest     B. brave      C. strict      D. funny

Luca Gramberini has been scuba diving since he was a kid. His family owns a scuba company. For the past three summers, Luca has added gardening to his underwater activities. He helps run Nemo’s Garden, a project to grow plants in the sea.

From May through September, Luca and other divers are working on Nemo’s Garden in the Mediterranean Sea, 150 feet from the coast of Noli, Italy. Five large balloon-like objects, called biospheres（生物圈）, hold plants such as beans and strawberries. The biospheres are filled with air and placed 20 feet below the surface. “My father came up with the idea because he loves gardening very much,” Luca said.

According to Luca, the sea is a good place to grow plants because underwater temperatures remain stable, changing little from day to night. The biospheres act like greenhouses. Inside the air-filled biospheres, fresh water keeps evaporating（蒸发）, providing the plants with a good environment to grow in. “We have already seen the plants, grow faster and better,” Luca says. “And there are fewer storms that can knock down the biospheres during the summer.”

Luca hopes Nemo’s Garden will provide a new way of growing crops. “There is not enough land on the Earth,” he says. “And in many developing countries, bad conditions make it difficult for crops to grow.”

Though the project has just started, Nemo’s Garden has achieved success and is moving to different areas. “We’re going to try growing other plants.” Luca says. “We hope to set up biospheres in other countries. There are many possibilities.”

1. Nemo’s Garden is a project to ______.

   A. do scuba diving in the sea          B. stop storms in the sea

   C. make fresh water from the sea       D. grow plants under the water

2. The underlined word “stable” in paragraph 3 means ______ I Chinese.

   A. 平衡的     B. 正常的    C. 稳定的    D. 合适的

3. The passage is probably taken from the _______ part of a newspaper.

   A. travel       B. science     C. health      D. sports

4. The best title for this passage is _______.

   A. Gardens in the sea                B. Projects for summer activities

C. Plants in greenhouses                D. Conditions for crop growing

Some English words have more than one meaning. These are called multi-meaning words.

Multi-meaning words have the same pronunciation with different meanings. For example, let’s look at the word “ball”. You could have a “ball” which means you would have a good time. You could toss a “ball” which means you throw an object. You could be on the “ball” which means you know what is happening. You could go to a “ball” which means a dance.

______Take the word “can”. You “can” ride a bike which means you are able to ride a bike. You have a “can” of soup which means the soup is in a round-shaped holder. You can do the “can-can” which is a dance from the 1920s. And you might get “canned” if you do a poor job at work, which means you might lose your job.

How about “fly”? You can “fly” an airplane or you can hit a “fly” that is on your food in your house. Or, you can “fly by the seat of your pants” which means you don’t make a plan before taking an action. And, you know that the “fly” of a zipper（拉链）is the top part of the zipper.

There are hundreds of words that are multi-meaning words. The word “set” has more meanings than any other word in the English language. When you have time, why don’t you try to think of all the ways the word “set” is used?

 If you look at the title of this book Can a Fly, Fly? ... you know that the answer is “Yes” because you have seen an insect named a “fly” go up in the air and move around through the air…which is what “fly” means. Can a Fly, Fly? Of course, it can!

1. If Tom is often late for work and fails to finish his tasks, he will_______

   A. do the can-can    B. get canned    C. be on the ball    D. go to a ball

2. According to the passage, the word “______” has the most meanings in the English language.

   A. ball     B. can     C. set      D. fly

3. Which of the following is the best sentence to fill in the blank in paragraph 3?

   A. Let’s try another word.               B. Let’s make a word list.

   C. Here’s a survey report.               D. Here’s the guessing game.

4. The writer writes the passage in order to _______.

   A. tell a story about learning English words

   B. introduce a book on learning English words

   C. share an experience in learning English words

   D. present different pronunciations of the same word