.-- Shall we take a walk outside?

– Sorry, I’m too busy ______ for the coming exam

A. prepare B. to prepare

C. preparing D. with preparing

______ beautiful the music they are playing sounds! _____ excellent players!

A. How, What an B. How, What

C. What, what D. What, How an

These problems are too hard to work out, ______?

A. are they B. aren’t they

C. is it D. isn’t it

Could you explain why __________ for the next week’s Reading Festival?

A. to recommend the book

B. you recommend this book

C. did you recommend this book

D. do you recommend this book

—Peter, may I borrow your iPad for the afternoon?

-- ________.

A. All right, you may.

B. Yes, I’d love to

C. Yes, you’re welcome

D. Yes, I must

完形填空

通讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出可填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。

Once I spoke at a high school. After the speech, the principal asked me to see a special student. An ______ had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me, and it would mean a great deal to him. I agreed.

He was Matthew. _____ he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to see five, then they were told he would not make it to_____. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal weight lifter.

I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. He spoke about _____ and succeeding and seeking (追尋）his dreams.

When we finished talking, I went to my bag and pulled out the first gold ______ I won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of a winner and knew more about ______ and overcoming obstacles (克服障礙) than I ever would. He looked at it for a while, then took it off and handed it _____ to me. He said, “You are a champion. You earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.”

Last summer I got the news that Matthew had______ and a letter Matthew had written to me a few days before:

Dear Rick,

My mom said I should send you a thank-you letter. The doctors are _____ to tell me that I don't have long to live any more. But I still smile as much as I can.

I told you that in the future I was going to the Olympics and win a gold medal. But I know nowI'll _____ . I know I'm a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven, God will give me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you.

Thank you for loving me.

Your friend

Matthew

1.A. excuse B. effectC. operationD. illness

2.A. While B. WhenC. Although D. Because

3.A. threeB. tenC. twenty D. thirty

4.A. winning B. teachingC. playingD. working

5.A. cup B. coin C. watchD. medal

6.A. failureB. success C. luck D. smile

7.A. around B. in C. back D. down

8.A. went away B. passed away C. stayed away D. moved away

9.A. surprisedB. braveC. sorry D. happy

10.A. neverB. everC. oftenD. seldom

1.We can see this ad _____________.

A.at a cafe B. at a library C. at school D. at home

2.We can go for lunch at __________ on Monday.

A.10：30B.11：45C.12：30D.14：30

3.Mrs Zhou will spend ________ if she goes for dinner on Friday.

A.$6 B.$7 C.$11D.$12

4.Mr. Brown and his 8-year-old son had to pay _________ for dinner last Sunday.

A.$7 B.$11C.12 D.$17

In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must be able to understand the language when we hear it spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves, correctly, with confidence and without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to compose（組成）sentences that are grammatically correct. We must know how to arrange sentences in paragraphs, so as to write a good letter or composition.

There is no easy way to succeed in language learning. A good memory is of great help, but it is not enough simply to memorize rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their meaning. We learn words not by ourselves, but in sentences. We must learn by using the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those who are studying a new language. Practice is very important. We must practice speaking and writing the language whenever we can.

1.The most important things to learn a foreign language are_______.

A. understanding and speaking

B. memorizing and listening

C. writing and understanding

D. hearing, speaking, reading and writing

2.Someone hears and writes English very well, but he speaks it very badly. This is because________.

A. he doesn't have a good memory

B. he often hesitates to practice speaking it

C. he always remember lists of words and their meanings

D. he doesn't understand the language when he hears it spoken

3.One can never learn a foreign language well only by_______.

A. doing more exercises

B. studying the dictionary

C. learning through use

D. using the language

4.Which of the following is the most important in learning a foreign language?

A good memory. B. Speaking.

C. Practice. D. Writing.

In some science fiction movies, evil robots refuse to die, no matter how hard people fight back.

Now science fiction has become science fact. For the first time, scientists have made a robot that can take a beating (挨打) and keep on going. Scientists from Cornell University made the robot, which looks like a spider with four legs.

Until now, even the most advanced (先進(jìn)的) robot was almost certain to break down when it was damaged. That is because its computer inside simply doesn’t know how to make the machine work after its shape has changed.

To deal with this problem, the scientists put eight motors (發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)) and two sensors (傳感器) that read how the machine is working. They all give signals to the machine’s software. Using this information, the computer can then figure out the machine’s shape at any moment.

The new technology is a big advance in robot-making, scientists say, and it’s far from scary. It may someday help scientists create better artificial (假的) arms and legs and give new freedom to people who lose them. It might also help scientists understand how people and animals figure out their own sense of place in space.

“It has been difficult to design robots that can work well when the environment changes or when it’s damaged,” says Olaf Sporns of Indiana University in US. “With this work, we are nearer to solving this problem.”

1.Why do robots easily break down when they are damaged?

A. They cannot repair themselves.

B. The computer has changed a lot.

C. They have no computers inside.

D. The computer cannot work if the robot changes.

2.The new technology allows the robot to _________.

A. do house work for humans

B. keep working after being damaged

C. remember a lot of information

D. tell people where it is

3.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 refers to ________.

A. sensors

B. robots

C. arms and legs

D. scientists

4.How do the sensors in the robot work?

A. They can replace the computer when it’s broken.

B. They can find out where the damage comes from.

C. They help the computer learn the robot’s condition.

D. They can send signals to the person who uses the robot.

詞匯運(yùn)用

根據(jù)下列漢語(yǔ)注釋，首字母,句意或者音標(biāo)，寫出各單詞的正確形式.每空限填一詞。

1.I found the job _________(累) at first but I soon got used to it.

2.In this way they can learn more and _________ (明智)make their decisions.

3.She stared at him again, ________(不能) to believe the evidence of her senses.

4.The boats far away in the center of the river are the local _________ (漁夫).

5.Strongly_________ (吸引) by the show, all the audience clapped their hands.

6.The gravity on Mars is only _________ (八分之三) of that on the earth.

7.He was caught s_________something from the shop yesterday.

8.The old man spent a lifetime fighting a_________ racism(種族主義).

9.—The tickets sold out when I got to the cinema.

—So you ________ to see the film.

10.— I like history better than Chinese. How about you?

— I like ________. My favourite is music.