题目内容
根据短文内容和首字母提示,在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。(每空一词)
On Thanksgiving Day. About 88 percent of Americans car turkey. But one l 1. turkey not only survives but also becomes famous! Every year, turkey farmers p 2. a turkey to the U.S. president. However the president does not e 3. this turkey. But gives in a “pardon”. The turkey is s 4. to Florida for a Thanksgiving parade. Then it lives on a farm for the r 5. of its life.
Turkeys come from North America and have been part of American culture for c? 6.. Benjamin Franklin even wanted the turkey, i 7. of the bald eagle, to be America’s icon. Turkeys living on farms are large birds that cannot fly. But w 8. turkeys are quite fast. They can fly at a s 9. up to 88 kilometers per hour. They can also run as fast as 40 kilometers per hour.
Turkeys don’t have ears. They h 10.? with a snood (肉垂) above their beaks. But their hearing is five times better than human’s.
短文填空:先通读下面的短文,然后根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的单词。使短文完整。所填单词必须在答题卡标有题号的横线上完整写出。(本大题共10空,每空0.5分,共5分)
On Thanksgiving Day. About 88 percent of Americans eat turkey. But one l 1. turkey not only survives but also becomes famous! Every year, turkey farmers p 2.a turkey to the U.S. president. However the president does not e 3.this turkey. But gives in a “pardon”. The turkey is s 4.to Florida for a Thanksgiving parade. Then it lives on a farm for the r 5.of its life.
Turkeys come from North America and have been part of American culture for c 6.. Benjamin Franklin even wanted the turkey, i 7.of the bald eagle, to be America’s icon.
Turkeys living on farms are large birds that cannot fly. But w 8.turkeys are quite fast. They can fly at a s 9.up to 88 kilometers per hour. They can also run as fast as 40 kilometers per hour.
Turkeys don’t have ears. They h 10.with a snood (肉垂) above their beaks. But their hearing is five times better than human’s.
根据短文内容和首字母提示,在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。在答题卡标有题号的横线上,写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。(每空一词)
The pig that dares to dream
The best-loved pig in Hong Kong is called McDull. His mom makes a wish that he will look like Chow Yun-fat or Tony Leung, two movie heartthrobs, but he is distinguished (区分) only by a birthmark around his right eye.
The cartoon piglet is not smart, either. Everything he tries, he f___1.____. He wants to be an Olympic champion of qiangbaoshan, but the sport doesn’t really exist, of course. He d_____2.____ of going to the Maldives (马尔代夫), but ends up on a one-day tour of a Hong Kong landmark i____3.______.
However, the slow, dumb(木讷) pig has won over Hong Kong people, often stereotyped(塑造) as eager to quick success. So far, there are five McDull movies s ___4.____ in both the mainland and Hong Kong.
The popularity of McDull sometimes makes his creator Alice Mak confused. “Maybe people see themselves and their friends in McDull," she says. Like McDull, Mak moves and speaks slowly. She describes herself a___5.___ a simple person, who does not try to draw too much meaning from the McDull stories. As a Christian, she has some simple beliefs, such as God creates h____6._____ because he loves them and wants them to be happy.
"McDull reminds people they u____7.___ to be as simple and happy as him," Mak says. "If there is a theme in all the McDull movies, it is about how a simple person keeps his or her simplicity in a complicated(复杂) world."
In one of the McDull movies, he talks to the audience: "I suddenly realize that there is s___8.___ you just cannot have. No noodles, no Maldives, no golden medal, no treasure ... it turns out that being stupid is not funny, it could mean failure. Disappointment is not funny, fat is not funny, fat does not even mean you have more strength. When I grow up, when I face the tough world that is not f____9.___, what should I do?"
"W____10.____ he has been doing in the movies is to find new dreams. Most of them keep failing him, but he always starts again with a new one," Mak says. "Maybe that`s why both children and adults find him adorable (可爱的)."
The famous Chinese mathematician(数学家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.
In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸运的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!
Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”
So he did. He devoted(贡献) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(荣誉) for our country.
He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.
1. Which of the following is not true?
A. Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.
B. Hua Luogeng died in China.
C. Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.
D. Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.
2. The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.
A. 帮手 B.服务员 C.助教 D.教授
3.Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?
A. in China B. abroad C. in Cambridge D. in England
4. From the story we can guess that Hua Luogeng was born in ____.
A. a rich family B. a poor family
C. a mathematician family D. a fortunate family