Question

任务性阅读（先阅读（A）（B）两篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列四项任务）

Produce     call      late      early      one

People knew about electricity hundreds of years ago, but they didn’t understand it until the English scientist William Gilbert described it clearly and first used the word electricity in 1600. As a result, Gilbert is   1   the father of modern electricity.

In 1660, the first machine for   2   static electricity was invented. In 1729, scientists learned how to tell conductors from non-conductors .In the late 18th century, scientists invented the   3   batteries , and in the early 19^th century, they invented the earliest form of an electric motor. Practical application of a motor had to wait 10 years until a scientist invented the electric generator . Around half a century   4  , Pearl Street Station, the  5   power factory began producing electricity on September 4,1882, in New York City. Pearl Street had one generator and it produced power for 800 electric light bulbs . Within 14 months, pearl Street had 508 users and 12,732 bulbs.

Today, one power factory in the Us can produce enough electricity for 180,00 homes.

(B)

In many Western schools, sports day is a big event. Children take part in competitive sports, trying to break school records and win gold medals.

Sports days, or sports meets, are usually held in the warmer seasons, either at the beginning or the end of the school year. They are also called field days.

Elementary school sports days are fun. They usually have activities such as the egg and spoon race and the sack race. Other events include the skipping race and the three-legged race. In middle and high schools, sports days include many of the common track and field events. They are more serious and competitive than elementary school ones.

Students parents and other relatives also come to the school on sports day. They are audience!

Although sports days are exciting, they also have some problems. According to some reports in the US, sports days have become too competitive to be good for students. Some parents put too much pressure on their children. Some schools have banned “mothers and fathers” races as there is much fighting and cheating.

任务1：用方框中所给单的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理（每词限用一次）

1.        2.        3.       4.       5.       

任务2：根据英文释义及首字母提示，拼写单词

6.r        : the best result

7.p        : a thing that is difficult to deal with

任务3：同义句转换，每空一词

Some schools have banned “mothers and fathers” races as there is much fighting and cheating.

Some schools have banned “mothers and fathers” races  8       9    much fighting and cheating.

任务4：根据短文（B）内容简单问题

Why don’t some schools have “mothers and fathers” races?

10                                                        

Answer 1

1.caused  2.producing  3.earliest    4.later   5. first   6.record  7.problem

8.because  9.of       10.Because there is much fighting and cheating in them.