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短文填空 选择恰当的单词填空,每词限用一次。(有两个多余的选项)
Yeah, comes, children, is, drop, To me, story, much, challenge, parents |
There is a human story, a story about luck, and above all, a __8__about basketball.
There are so many things to what has happened already to Jeremy Lin, because the rest of the league missed him and the Knicks nearly did, because he __9__ from Harvard, because he is Asian-American, because basketball New York has fallen for him as suddenly and completely as it has. But as __10__ as this is a basketball story, a New York story, a story about an Asian-American kid who has become this kind of sudden star, the best part of it __11__ that it is an American story.
It is a story about immigrant(移民) parents and the country of possibilities they imagined, for themselves and their__12__, a story of hard work and perhaps dreams most of all.
“From the time we’re young enough to understand that this is a country of chances,” Lin’s college coach at Harvard, Tommy Amaker, said. “__13__, that’s what right about this story, not just his Ivy League background. This isn’t just about luck, it’s about putting in the work to be ready when chance does come your way.” Amaker said, “Did he need some luck?__14__, he needed some luck. But when he finally got some in the pros, he was ready. This kid didn’t just __15__ from the sky. I get that he’s more interesting because he’s Asian-American, and he’s from Harvard. But when his moment arrived, he was ready for it.”(Joy-Ride English,2012,5)
8. ____________ 9. ____________ 10. ____________11. ____________
12. ___________ 13.___________ 14. ____________ 15. ____________
8. president 9. presents 10. close 11. few 12. often 13. except
14. but 15. housecleaner
短文填空选择恰当的单词填空,每词限用一次。(有两个多余的选项)
by,nobody,popular,invented,can,quickly,and,beginnings,anyone,make |
Pick up one of these cubes and you probably won’t be able to put it down.How hard(1)_____ it be to rearrange(重新排列)the nine colored squares on each side of the cube? In fact,there are 43×1030 possibilities! It has been 31 years since the cubes were sold in stores around the world.Its(2) _____,however, began years earlier as a simple classroom example.In 1974,Dr.Erno Rubik(3) _____ the“Magic Cube”as he called it. He did this to help his students understand 3-D concepts.This classroom model was quickly changed into a (4) _____ toy.In 1979,Ideal Toys bought the rights(权利)(5) _____ sold it as“Rubik’s Cube”.The invention(6) _____ became a 1980s cultural icon
As time went(7) _____,the cube’s popularity became less,however,it made a comeback with the Internet.Now(8) _____ can go online and find many videos that show ways to solve the cube.Erik Akkersdijk of the Netherlands holds the present world record.He finished it in just 7.08 seconds l
短文填空 选择恰当的单词填空,每词限用一次。(有两个多余的选项)
answer, alone, oldest, start, until, ask, fortieth, own, teach, first, money, later |
In Britain you are allowed to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can ____. When you are learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road ____. You don’t have to go to a driving school——a friend can ____ you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take the ___ for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.
Before you are allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your ____ car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then ____ a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you are allowed to take it again a few weeks ____ if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her ____ test after 212 driving lessons. When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you are allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s ____ driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test ____1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.
短文填空选择恰当的单词填空,每词限用一次。(有两个多余的选项)
thanked,no,unhappy,on,some,when,came back,happy,mountain,quickly |
It was Mother’s Day.Nancy was 800 miles away from her parents,so she was a little 1 .In the morning she phoned her mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day,and her mother told her about the beautiful flowers in the garden.Later that day, 2 she told her husband about the flowers,he said,“I know where we can find all that you want.Get our children Peter and Lily,and come on.’’So they went,driving down the country roads.
There on a 3 ,they saw a lot of beautiful purple flowers.Nancy ran 4 to enjoy the flowers.Carefully,she picked a few here and a few the re.And on their way home there was a big smile 5 her face.
When they were passing a nursing home,she saw an old granny sitting in a chair.The granny had 6 children with her.They stopped the car and Nancy walked to the old woman,put the flowers in her hands,and smiled at her.The old granny 7 her again and again.She smiled happily,too.
When Nancy 8 to her car,her children asked her,“Who is that old granny? Why did you give our flowers to her?”
“I don’t know her,”Nancy said,“But it’s Mother’s Day,and she is alone.But I have both of you,and I still have my mother.Just think how much those flowers meant to her.”