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Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't   1   it to be blue - the name has nothing to   2   the color of our closest celestial(天体) neighbor.

A full moon   3   on December 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.

"If you're in Times Square, you'll see the   4   moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.

The New Year's Eve blue moon will be   5   in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up  6   New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.

However, the Eastern Hemisphere can celebrate with a partial lunar eclipse(月蚀) on New Year's Eve when  7   of the moon enters the Earth's shadow. The   8   will not be visible in the Americas.

A full moon occurs   9   29.5 days, and most years have 12.  10  , an extra full moon in a month - a blue moon - occurs every 2.5 years. The   11   time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won't   12    again until 2028.

Blue moons have no astronomical   13   , said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"`Blue moon' is just a   14   in the same sense as a `hunter's moon' or a `harvest moon,'" Laughlin said in an e-mail.

The popular definition of blue moon   15   after a writer for Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946 misunderstood the Maine Farmer's Calendar and marked a blue moon as the second full moon in a month. In fact, the calendar   16   a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.

Though Sky & Telescope corrected the  17   decades later, the definition caught on. For purists(语言纯正癖者), however, this New Year's Eve full moon doesn't even qualify as a   18   moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter season.

In a tongue-in-cheek essay   19   on the magazine's Web site this week, senior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: "If skies are clear when I'm    20  celebrating, I'll take a peek(眯着眼睛看) at that brilliant orb(天体) as it rises over the Boston skyline to see if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'll just howl."

(   ) 1. A. wish                  B. wait                        C. hope                D. expect

(   ) 2. A. deal with            B. do with                   C. develop with     D. form into

(   ) 3. A. occurred            B. came                       C. ran                   D. went

(   ) 4. A. full                   B. half                         C. bright               D. part

(   ) 5. A. out of sight               B. visible                     C. big                   D. clear

(   ) 6. A. until                  B. when                       C. before              D. since

(   ) 7. A. part                   B. all                           C. any                  D. none

(   ) 8. A. moon                 B. eclipse                     C. sun                  D. shadow

(   ) 9. A. each                  B. every                             C. either                      D. all

(   ) 10. A. On the whole    B. Generally speaking   C. On average       D. In addition

(   ) 11. A. last                  B. next                        C. other                D. another

(   ) 12. A. go                   B. see                          C. come                D. look

(   ) 13. A. point                B. evident                    C. theory              D. significance

(   ) 14. A. name                      B. object                      C. phenomenon     D. tradition

(   ) 15. A. created             B. came about              C. made                D. copied

(   ) 16. A. named              B. called                      C. introduced               D. defined

(   ) 17. A. error                B. name                       C. reality              D. number

(   ) 18. A. blue                 B. red                          C. yellow              D. grey

(   ) 19. A. published         B. posted                     C. printed             D. written

(   ) 20. A. in                    B. out                          C. away                D. on

1-20 DBAAB AABBC ACDAB DAABB


解析:

本文介绍了一次天文现象:蓝月亮。完成本完形填空时,我们应把生活中的天文现象的实际和作者的思路逻辑联系起来。

1. D 考查动词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语境,及日常生活中的常识(月亮怎么着都不会是蓝的),我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:别期望月亮是蓝的,这个名字跟月球的颜色一点关系也没有。我们不难看出此处应该填上表示期望之意的动词,也即是D项,而其余ABC项依次分别所表达的意思是:但愿,等待,希望,具有很大的迷惑性的AC两项,其中A项的不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑,C项中的hope其后不跟复合宾语结构,故我们选择A项为最佳答案。

2. B考查动词短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。由上一题的分析我们不难看出此处应该填上表示和……有联系之意的动词词组, 而have nothing to do with……就是这样的意思,也即是B项,而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:处理,随着……发展,形成,这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合,故我们选择B项为最佳答案。

3. A 考查动词的含义辨析及准确应用。联系上下文的语境,及日常生活中的常识, 经过分析,语意是:12月2日发生圆月,此处应该填上表示出现、发生之意的动词,这四个词中只有A项有这样的意思。其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:来,跑,去,很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺,故我们选择A项为最佳答案。 

4. A 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。联系上下文的语境,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:如果你在时间广场,你就会看见这轮圆月。此处应该填上表示圆的之意的词,也即是A项,而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:一半,明亮,部分,这些意思在这儿都不适用于此处的上下文之间语言逻辑,故A项为准确答案。 

5. B 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。联系上下文的语境,及日常生活中的常识,经过分析,语意是:这轮新年前夕的圆月将会在美国,加拿大,欧洲,南美洲和非洲看得见。这四个词中只有B项有看得见这样的意思。而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:看不见,大的,清晰的,其中D项的迷惑性很大,而根据常识,月亮有时清晰可见,有时模模糊糊,这些意思在这儿都不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑,故B项为准确答案。

6. A 检测连词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。经过分析,语意是:对于澳大利亚和亚洲的观看者来说,这轮圆月一直到新年那一天才能出现。我们容易推理出此处应该填上表示直到之意的连词,这四个词中只有A项(until)有这样的意思,而其余BCD三项依次分别所表达的意思是:当……的时候,在……之前,自从…….开始,它们都不和not搭配,也构不成直到…..才之意,这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合,故我们选择A项为最佳答案。

7. A检测名词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语境,及日常生活中的常识,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:然而东半球可能要在新年前夕当月球部分进入地球的影子是来庆祝月蚀。我们不难看出此处应该填上表示部分之意的名词,这四个词中只有A项有这样的意思。而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:所有的,任何的,没有,很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺,故A项最佳。

8. B 联系上下文的语境,及日常生活中的常识,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:月蚀在美洲看不到。这四个词中只有B项有月蚀之意,其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:月球,太阳,影子,很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺,故B项最佳。

9. B 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。由日常生活中的常识,我们不难看出此处应该填上表示每隔之意的形容词,这四个词中只有B项有这样的意思,而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:每一,两者中的任何一个,所有的,具有很大的迷惑性的是A项,但是它没有这样的用法,故B项为准确答案。

10. C 检测插入语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。由日常生活中的常识,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:平均来说,格外圆的月亮,也就是蓝月亮,每两年半发生一次。我们容易确定此处应该填上表示平均来说之意的词,也即是C项,而其余ABD项依次分别所表达的意思是:整体上看,大体上说,另外,这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合,故我们选择C项为最佳答案。7. A 

11. A 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。联系上下文的语境,经过简单计算,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:上一次出现蓝月亮是在2007年5月。四个词中只有A项有紧接前面的,刚过去的,上一次之意,而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:下一个,别的,另一个,很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺,故D项最佳。

12. C 考查动词短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语境,,经过简单计算,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:下一次新年前夕蓝月亮直到2028年才会再出现一次。能表示这个意思的只有C项了,其余ABD三项依次分别所表达的意思是:去,看见,看,很清楚放句意不通顺,故C项最佳。

13. D 检测名词的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语境,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:蓝月亮现象本身并没有天文学方面的意义,而只是一个名字而已。此处应该填上表示意义,重要性之意的名词,也即是D项,而其余ABC项依次分别所表达的意思是:要点,证据,理论,这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合,故我们选择D项为最佳答案。

14. A 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解。由上一题的分析我们不难看出此处应该填上表示名字之意的名词,而BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:客体,现象,传统,很明显放在这儿都不能使句意通顺,故A项最佳。

15. B 考查动词及其短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。联系上下文的语意,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:蓝月亮这个大家熟悉的定义在《Sky & Telescope》这家杂志的一位撰稿人弄错了《Maine Farmer's Calendar》这种日历而把一个月中的第二次圆月标注成蓝月亮。分析后我们不难看出此处应该填上表示出现产生之意的动词,这四个词中只有B项有这样的意思。而其余ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:创造,制作,复制,这些意思在这儿都不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑,故B项为准确答案。

16. D 考查动词短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。由上一题的分析,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:事实上,这种日历把一个季节中的第三次圆月定义为蓝月亮。所以,此处应该填上表示定义之意的动词,也即是D项,具有很大的迷惑性容易让人上当的是AB两项,但是它们通常直接跟名词作宾语补足语,不用中间加上as,C项的意思是介绍,很明显放在这儿不能使句意逻辑上合理通顺,故D项最佳。

17. A 由上一题的分析,联系上下文的语境,我们容易推理出这一句的语境是:虽然这家杂志多年之后更正了这个错误,但是这个名称继续使用。不难断定此处应该填上表示错误之意的名词,也即是A项,而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:名称,现实,数字,这些词语所表示的意思都和这儿的语言逻辑不相契合,语意也不顺畅,故我们选择A项为最佳答案。

18. A 检测形容词的含义的准确记忆与理解及联系上下文能力。经过分析,语意是:对于偏爱语言纯正的人来说,新年前夕的圆月不配蓝月亮这个名字,只是冬季的第一次圆月而已。再说全文都是在论述蓝月亮,我们容易推理出此处应该填上表示蓝之意的形容词,也即是A项,而其余BCD项依次分别所表达的意思是:红,黄,灰,很明显放在这儿都不合适,故D项最佳。

19. B 考查动词短语的含义辨析及在语言逻辑方面的准确应用。经过分析,语意是:在一篇发布在这家杂志网站上的小笑话里,高级编辑Kelly Beatty写道:如果天空晴朗,当我出门庆祝的时候,我会眯着眼看看这个天体从波士顿的地平线升起,来弄清楚它是否蓝色的,或者我会大笑。因此,此处应该填上表示发布(在网上而不是杂志上)之意的动词,那就是B项posted,其余ABD项依次分别所表达的意思是:出版,印刷,写,这些意思在这儿都不符合此处的上下文之间语言逻辑,故B项为准确答案。

20. B 检测副词的含义的准确记忆与理解。由上一题的分析我们不难看出此处应该填上表示在外面之意的副词,ACD项依次分别所表达的意思是:里面,远处,上面,很明显放在这儿都不合适,故B项最佳。

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The 16-year-old country girl in Zhucheng, Shandong Province has experienced one disaster after another in her short life. Li lost her mother at three. Four years later, her father became paralyzed after a tractor accident. At 12, her misfortune returned with the death of her grandma. Since then she has been forced to shoulder all the responsibility for her broken family.
Li learnt to cook and managed to live a life with an allowance of only 24 yuan per month. The most difficult thing she had to deal with was helping her father bathe, dress and use the toilet as he could hardly move.
"I felt embarrassed, and so did my dad. It was really hard at the beginning," she recalled.
During most of her junior school years, Li went to classes only once a month as her father was seriously ill at the time.
"I taught myself at home and asked teachers for help on my school days," she explained.
Li's hard work paid off this fall. She was admitted by Zhucheng No 1 High School, a local key school, based on her good performance in the entrance exams.
The school offered Li and her father a room on campus to live in so she could look after him during breaks.
Once in a while, Li felt sad when she saw her classmates going shopping or hanging out with friends.
"I envy them sometimes because they have both mum and dad to look after them. However, I soon feel relieved as I still have my dad with me," she said.
Li admitted that the difficulties in life had taught her to be strong.
"I believe I will go on and continue my studies at a good university," she said, in a confident tone.
Her teacher Mr. Wang has the same belief. Li made great progress in the recent monthly exams. "She works hard and is always eager to excel . It's not easy for her never to be late for school, but she has managed to make it work," Wang said.
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A.her father was badly injured in a car accident
B.her mother passed away when she was 3
C.her grandma died when she was 12
D.misfortune in her life forced her to do so
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B.many young students hate going to school with their parents
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【小题4】According to the passage, which statement is Not True? __________.
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C.Li Qinmei often goes to attend her father after class
D.Li Qinmei is able to go to class on time though she has to attend her father
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请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

When it comes to studying, some students may have different study habits, and some ways of studying may work for one and may not for another student. However, there are certain basic rules that can prove to be effective(有效的) in studying for an exam.

Make a plan for how to develop good study habits that last long. A plan should include a schedule(时间表) on when to study. It doesn’t have to be fixed(固定) and can be changed in case something more important and unexpected comes up. Start with a weekly schedule and determine which period of the day is filled with classes. Use some of the remaining time to study. When creating(制定) the schedule, one should include laboratory activities and extracurricular(课外的) work and take care of personal things and the job if there is one.

Study when one is fully awake and energetic(精力充沛); it is recommended. Study for no less than 30 to 90minutes after a meal or two hours every day. If one is tired from work and decides to study, it may not be effective, especially if one finds the subject too difficult. It will only give stress and that night might only be forgotten in the next morning when he wakes up. For some students, they can study anywhere if they want; it could be in the library, study rooms or private rooms. A place where one can to focus attention on one’s study is recommended.

Make friends with those that are also eager to learn and pass the exam or achieve good grades. However, one has to balance(平衡) the time to spend with friends. Have and keep a healthy relationship with them.

Take down notes during the class. The hints(暗示) of some questions teachers give will come out in the exam. Sometimes they repeat the topic more than twice, so pay more attention in class. If one does not understand the topic, don’t hesitate(犹豫) to ask questions. A failure in communicating is one of the most common mistakes among students.

Rewrite notes taken from the class. It will help remember the topics that have been discussed and will give one more new ideas. For some students, they find that rewriting notes is very effective.

Take a five-minute break or go out and get some fresh air once in a while when studying. It will relax the mind and help one think better. Do come back to study after taking a short break.

Title

How to be effective in studying for an exam

Theme

Although students’ study habits are 1.       , some basic rules can be helpful for them.

Creating a schedule

*The schedule should not be fixed because something important or that you weren’t 2.      may happen.

*Start with a weekly schedule and include all possible things.

(73)   and place

*Study during the time when you are fully awake and full of 3.     .

*Choose a suitable place where you can 4.   your attention  study.

The right friends

*Make friends with hard-working students.

*Balance the time or your relationship with them will be 5.     .

(77)    in class

*Take down the hints a something that is repeated many times during the class.

*Never hesitate to6.      with teacher.

Rewriting notes

Writing notes again is7.     in remembering well what you have learned.

Taking a break

A short break will make your mind8.       .

 

If you find that your teacher is unfair to you, think about what is happening. Try to find out whether your teacher really dislikes you, or whether something else is going on. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

1.  Ask your classmates if they are having trouble with the teacher, too. If they say yes, perhaps your teacher is to blame.

Are you working up to your ability? Maybe you got a C in your last test, and your teacher told you that you could do better. And the kid sitting beside you got a C, too.2.  Isn’t this unfair? Well, it could be that your teacher knows that you could do better if you put more effort into it.  3.

4. There’s nothing wrong with being sensitive (敏感的) ,but if you react to criticism quite differently from others, this could be a reason why you think your teacher doesn’t like you.

Does your teacher seem to act unfairly all the time, or just once in a while? Think about the harsh (苛刻的) things your teacher has done to you. Are these things happening every day, or just once or twice a month? If your teacher really hates you, you would probably be picked on all the time.5. 

A.Are you the only person being treated badly, or is your teacher rough on the whole class?

B.Are you getting along well with your classmates?

C. Are you more sensitive than other students?

D. Are you interested in your lessons?

E . If your teacher has acted unfairly only a few times, then there’s probably something else going on.

F.Teachers often grade students by different standards.

G.But the teacher didn’t say anything to him!

 

You probably know you should say “please” and “thank you” at restaurants. You probably know the rules of a library. You know you should respect and be nice to your classmates. But do you have music manners?

Keep It Down! You have to notice the volume of your music. You should not play your music so loud that everyone around you can hear it. Some people might even get angry. Usually, when you play the music loud on an MP3 player, other people can’t hear the words of the song. They just hear a loud sound. Not one wants to listen to this. Very loud music can also be bad for your ears, so even if you are alone when listening to your MP3 player, you shouldn’t have it turned up too high.

Take Them Off! You need to know when to turn your MP3 player off and put it away. Libraries and schools don’t allow MP3 players. There are other places, like museums, that don’t have rules, but it would be rude to have your MP3 player on. Sometimes, it just doesn’t make sense to listen your MP3 player at event. Why would you listen to music at a play, a movie or a sporting event? You would miss what is going on and others would wonder why you even came.

Take One Out! Once in a while it’s okay just to take out one earphone and not other. Imagine you are listening on your MP3 player when someone asks you the way. It would not be rude to take out one earphone, tell him the way, and put back the earphone and continue listening. You can also do this when you order food at a fast-food restaurant or when you answer the telephone.

It’s Your Choice! There are times when you need to decide what is best. For example, some people can listen to music on their MP3 players when reading books, while others think it is disturbing. In cases like this, you need to do what seems right for you.

1.The underlined word “volume” in Paragraph Two probably means “_____”.

A.the type of music

B.the amount of a sound

C.the beat of a song

D.the colour of an MP3 player

2.We should turn down the music when we are alone because loud music  _____ .

A.is not enjoyable

B.makes us tired

C.is bad for MP3 players

D.hurts our ears

3.It’s all right to use our MP3 player in __________.

A.schools

B.libraries

C.restaurants

D.museums

4.What can be the best title of this passage?

A.Music Lovers

B.Music Manners

C.MP3 Players

D.MP3 Earphones

 

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