1、阅读下面的短文,将划线部分译成英文或中文。
The world is not hungry, but it is thirsty. It seems strange that nearly 3/4 of the earth is covered with water while we say we are short of water. Why? Because about 97% of water on the earth is sea water which we can’t drink or use for watering plants directly. ①Man can only drink and use 1% of water on the earth. It comes from rivers and lakes. And some of the water is polluted, ②因此我们不能全部利用它。
Now more water is needed. The problem is: can we avoid (避免) a serious water shortage later on? ③首先,我们应该学会怎样节约用水。Secondly, we should find out the ways to reuse it. Scientists have always been making studies in the field. Today, in most large cities, water is used only once and then runs to the sea or rivers. But it can be used again. ④Even if every large city reused its water, still there would not be enough. Thirdly, there is a lot of water in the sea. What we need to do is to separate (分离) the salt from sea water. This is expensive, but it’s already used in many parts of the world. ⑤Scientists are trying to find a cheaper way. So you see, if we can find a way out, we’ll be in no danger of drying up.
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【2】把②汉译英:____________________________________
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【4】把④英译汉:____________________________________
【5】把⑤英译汉:____________________________________
2、As we all know paper-cutting is ____________Chinese art with a long history.
A.common B.modern C.traditional D.new
3、The students who are more confident have more to achieve their dreams.
A.directions B.chances C.secrets D.excuses
4、—Have you watched the movie called Amazing China?
—Sure, I have. ________ great achievements our country has made!
A.What a
B.What an
C.What
D.How
5、—Why was the plane put off?
—________ the heavy rain.
A.Because
B.Because of
C.Instead of
D.After
6、—Jim, are you ______ only child in your family now?
—Yes, but ______ new baby is on the way.
A. a; the B. an; the C. the; a D. the; the
7、—What ________ awful rain it was last Friday!
—Yes, but I loved ________ rainbow after it rained. It looked so beautiful.
A.the; an
B.an; the
C./; the
D.an; /
8、May I ask you ____ questions?
A.any B.a little C.a D.some
9、— It is reported that both of _______ two kids were saved out of the river by _______ university student.
— True. He was really brave, wasn’t he?
A. the; a B. the ; an
C. the; the D. a; the
10、I have got ________ ready. Let's deal with business now.
A.something B.anything C.nothing D.everything
11、This is the adventure novel written ________ my favourite writer.
A. from B. of C. in D. by
12、If you come to Beijing, I ______ you to the Summer Place.
A. take B. took C. will take D. have taken
13、— Which subject do you like best, Tom?
— Well, physics. Because the ________ are very interesting.
A.experiments
B.wonders
C.deals
D.rules
14、It took _______ people one week ________ the work.
A.hundreds of; finishing
B.hundred of; to finish
C.hundred of; finishing
D.hundreds of; to finish
15、---Could you tell me _______? ---At the end of January.
A. how often he heard from his pen pal B. how soon will he be here
C. that he went on vacation D. when you will start your vacation
16、The _______ movie we watched yesterday made us _______.
A.frightened, frightened B.frightening, frightening
C.frightening, frightened D.frightened, frightening
17、—Why is the photo of Mo Yan always hung on the wall in your bedroom?
—Because I ________ him and want to be a great writer like him.
A. hold on to B. look up to
C. pay attention to D. look forward to
18、The project they’re working on ________ many teenage problems that they care about.
A. covering B. covers
C. include D. including
19、It’s ______ to watch ________movies.
A. fun, funny B. fun, fun C. funny, funny D. funny, fun
20、The poor old man lived alone and _________ a cold rainy morning.
A.passed away in B. past away in
C. passed away on D. past away on
21、—I hear you have got a ticket ____ the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
—Yes, I got it ________ my uncle.
A. of; from B. to; from C. to; by
22、吃含有苏丹红1号的食物是不安全的。
_____ to eat food with Sudan1.
23、该看脱口秀节目了。
________________ watch the Talk Show.
24、1st January is the New Year’s Day, the first day of the year. It is a legal(法定的) holiday. Many people invite their friends to come and visit them in the afternoon or evening.
The only legal holiday in February is Washington’s Birthday in the USA. Although Washington was born on February 22, his birthday is now celebrated on the third Monday of February.
The last Monday in May is Memorial Day(纪念日). This holiday remembers the service members, men and women, who died for their country.
America’s great national holiday, Independence Day, falls on the fourth of July. It celebrates the birth of the United States. People had to fight hard to win this independence.
The first Monday of September is Labor Day. The workers in the USA go to all kinds of places to enjoy the fine weather at the end of summer.
【1】When was Washington born?
A. January 1st. B. February 22nd.
C. July 4th D. May 1st.
【2】Which holiday remembers the members who died for their country?
A. New Year’s Day.
B. Washington’s Birthday.
C. Memorial Day.
D. Labor Day
【3】The American people celebrate _________ on July 4 every year.
A. New Year’s Day B. May Day
C. Memorial Day D. Independence Day
【4】From this passage we know _______.
A. American people do not work on New Year’s Day
B. Americans celebrate Independence Day on June 14
C. Labor Day comes on May 1 in the United States
D. Father’s Day falls on the third Sunday in June.
【5】This passage mainly tells us something about _______.
A. Independence Day B. America’s holidays
C. Memorial Day D. New Year’s Day
25、There are many different kinds of festivals around the world. Here are four of them.
Saint Patrick’s Day in Ireland Ireland is an island country. It’s in the west of Europe. There are wide green fields. Saint Patrick’s Day is on March 17. It’s an important holiday in Ireland. This holiday is to remember Saint Patrick. He did good things for the people of Ireland. During the holiday, there are parades (游行) and lots of green. You can see people in green clothes, and you can even see green buildings. |
Red Wednesday in Iran Red Wednesday is a fire jumping festival in Iran. It is on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year. People jump over the fire. They hope that it will take all the bad things away. |
The Winter Carnival in Canada When winter comes, it’s party time in Quebec City, Canada. The Quebec Winter Carnival is all about outdoor fun. It starts on the first Sunday in February and lasts for 10 days. One of the most popular events is the dog sled (雪橇) race. It has more than 30 teams and the race goes on for 6 kilometers. You can see joy and happiness on every face. |
The Desert Festival in Tunisia Tunisia is a very important country in North Africa. Every year on the last Sunday in December, the Desert Festival is held in Tunisia. As “ships of the desert”, camels (骆驼) have the leading role in the festival. There is camel racing and camel wrestling (摔跤). |
【1】On Saint Patrick’s Day, you can see the following EXCEPT________
A.camels
B.parades
C.people in green
D.green buildings
【2】What do people do on Red Wednesday in Iran?
A.They run in the snow.
B.They wear red clothes.
C.They jump over the fire.
D.They watch the camel racing.
【3】Which of the following is TRUE about the dog sled race according to the passage?
A.The race happens on March 17.
B.The race goes on for 6 kilometers.
C.The race has a history of about 10 years.
D.About 30 people go to the race every year.
【4】Where can we probably find this passage?
A.In a storybook.
B.In a cookbook.
C.In a travel magazine.
D.In a sport magazine.
26、It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.
Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail (详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.
I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.
【1】 People with little education usually ______.
A. spend a long time in school
B. have a good chance to get a job
C. spend the best years to choose jobs
D. have fewer chances to get a good job
【2】The earliest education was probably to ______.
A. make a man lead a better life
B. teach a man to write and think
C. make people get a way of living
D. teach people to read good books
【3】The underlined word “well-rounded” in the passage means “______” in Chinese.
A.圆满的 B.崭新的 C.公平的 D.全面的
【4】 It is expected that educated people will be able to ______.
A. accept education as a way of living
B. take an interest in the whole world
C. develop their abilities to make plays
D. learn subjects like language and math
【5】The passage mainly tells us that ______.
A. education should make a man improve
B. people can get education in a short time
C. people should be able to get better paying jobs
D. all subjects are so important for a way of living
27、Nowadays there’s a discussion about whether it’s appropriate to have Internet slang (网络用语) in homework. Different students give different opinions.
Zhang Boren, 11, Beijing | I think Internet slang is very cool and it will make people’s articles or homework much more interesting. Language is always changing. New words come in and old words go out. For example, the Chinese phrase zhainan, which means someone who likes to stay home, originated from Japanese. This word is widely used right now. I think now is the time for Internet slang to come into our real lives and even our homework. We just have to accept this. |
Chen Junyu, 13, Jiangsu | In my opinion, Internet slang can be used in homework. Firstly, not all the words are “low” as some people say. For example, you can find out slang such as rear waves (后浪), meaning young generation, which is positive and sometimes used in news reports. Secondly, these words have a lot of meanings that we can learn. Take “mythical beast (神兽)” for example. It originally meant animals from antiquity (文物). Now it can refer to naughty kids. All in all, Internet words aren’t all bad. |
Yan Zihan, 13, Guangdong | I think Internet slang should stay on the Internet. It’s not good for real life because not everyone knows the meaning of slang phrases. For example, Q means thank you, but I didn’t know what it meant before. I don’t think Internet slang should be used in our homework as teachers might not know what you’re saying. They might get angry and give you a low score. |
Yin Peixin, 12, Hubei | I think Internet slang is a new and fun way for people to express how they feel, though sometimes it makes me feel left out when I don’t know some new Internet slang phrases. Still, I don’t really have a problem with them since they really are a very important part of modern society. But in more formal use, such as homework, I think we shouldn’t use Internet slang. |
【1】The Internet slang zhainan comes from ________.
A.English
B.Japanese
C.German
D.French
【2】Now Mythical beast can refer to ________.
A.young generation
B.someone who likes to stay home
C.animals from antiquity
D.naughty kids
【3】________ thinks Internet slang should only appear on the Internet.
A.Zhang Boren
B.Chen Junyu
C.Yan Zihan
D.Yin Peixin
【4】Which sentence is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Zhang Boren thinks it’s OK to use Internet slang in students’ homework because language is always changing.
B.According to Chen Junyu, some of the Internet slang have positive meanings.
C.Yan Zihan thinks we can use the Internet slang in homework because teachers won’t misunderstand their meanings.
D.In Yin Peixin’s opinion, Internet slang shouldn’t appear in students’ homework because it’s informal.
【5】We can probably read this passage from the magazine ________.
A.Campus Life
B.Business Week
C.Scientific China
D.Lonely Planet
28、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,每空格限填一次,首字母已给)
This year some twenty-three teenagers from all over the world will spend about ten months in US homes. They will attend USA schools, meet US teenagers, and form impressions of the r【1】 America. At the same time, about thirteen hundred American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new languages and gain a new understanding of the rest of the world.
Here is a two-way student e【2】 in action. Fred, a boy of nineteen, spent last year in Germany with George’s family. In turn, George’s son Mike spent a year in Fred’s home in America.
Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived, but after two months’ study, the language began to come to him. School was completely different from what he expected—much h【3】. Students took fourteen subjects instead of the six that are usual in the United States. There were a【4】 no outside activities.
Family life too, was different. The father’s word was law, and all activities were around the family not a certain member of the family. Fred found the food too simple at first. Also, he m【5】 having a car.
“Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out and have a good time. In Germany, you w【6】, but you soon learn to like it.”
At the same time in America, Mike, a friendly German boy, was also forming his idea. “I suppose the lessons in American schools are too easy by our l【7】,” he says. “But I have to say that I like it very much. In Germany we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many outside activities. I think that maybe your schools are better at training for citizens.” There ought to be some middle ground between the two.
29、World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of _________.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of the students can buy books of special _________, much lower than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year _________ 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading _________ he’s very busy. On World Book Day 2009, he _________ people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Books can’t change the world, but people can change the world by changing _________ through reading ,”he said.
Reading can benefit (有益于) people _________. Reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent. Reading helps us to follow the _________developments of science and technology. Reading _________ us with information about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things __________are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain __________ about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the __________ we became. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language __________ English. We all know that we __________ learn everything at school, for example, the ways of English people are speaking and writing today.
“Reading makes a full man. ” Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of materials can help know more about the outside world and perfect us. __________, it is necessary for us to form a habit of reading everyday.
【1】
A.listening
B.speaking
C.reading
D.writing
【2】
A.colours
B.prices
C.topics
D.value
【3】
A.by
B.from
C.in
D.since
【4】
A.because
B.though
C.through
D.when
【5】
A.allowed
B.called on
C.introduced
D.ordered
【6】
A.itself
B.ourselves
C.themselves
D.yourselves
【7】
A.by the way
B.in many ways
C.in any way
D.in the way
【8】
A.earlier
B.later
C.latest
D.late
【9】
A.gets
B.opens
C.provides
D.shares
【10】
A.how
B.that
C.those
D.where
【11】
A.think
B.to think
C.talk
D.to talk
【12】
A.outstanding
B.prettier
C.smarter
D.outgoing
【13】
A.like
B.at
C.about
D.towards
【14】
A.can
B.can’t
C.might
D.have to
【15】
A.So
B.However
C.But
D.Therefore