Chuck,unlike other frogs,didn't like catching flies himself. But he did love eating them.

Some frogs thought Chuck was lazy. Some believed he must think he was too good for them. Some thought Chuck was the strangest frog ever.

That didn't matter to Chuck. Each morning,Chuck jumped over and sat under the spider's web. Then when Lady Eightlegs went off to dip (浸) her feet in the pond,Chuck ate flies from her web.

One morning while Chuck was enjoying his fly breakfast,Lady Eightlegs returned and caught him.

“You're the one who keeps eating my flies!”she cried.

Chuck jumped away and into the pond. Now there was an idea!Why not spin (结) his own web?

He collected some vines (葡萄藤) from a nearby farm. Then he began to spin his web. He worked on his web for hours,until very late at night. And then he fell asleep.

When he woke up the next morning,he found that he got caught by the vines.

“Help!”he shouted.

Lady Eightlegs looked up from the edge of the pond. She hurried up to help Chuck out of the vine web.

“No matter how hard I try,I can't spin a spider's web,”Chuck said.

“Of course not,”Lady Eightlegs said. “You're a frog. Frogs can't spin spider's webs any better than spiders can swim,I guess.”

“But I always see you in the water,”Chuck said.

“I only wade in (蹚水) up to my knees,”Lady Eightlegs sighed. “How wonderful it would be to swim in the middle of the pond and float (漂浮) peacefully under the sun.”

Chuck smiled,“I have an idea.”

From that day forward,Chuck carried Lady Eightlegs out to the middle of the pond,where they floated and played together. When they returned to land,they shared a breakfast of flies from her spider's web.

It wasn't exactly an ordinary friendship. But Chuck was not an ordinary frog.

1.The second paragraph is written to show that Chuck ______.

A.was different from other frogs        B.didn't get along well with other frogs

C.led a lonely life                    D.was a proud frog

2.What do we know about Chuck's web?

A.Lady Eightlegs helped Chuck spin it.    B.It was successfully spun by Chuck.

C.It was spun far from the pond.          D.Chuck failed to spin it himself.

3.It can be inferred from the text that ______.

A.Chuck had tried to catch Lady Eightlegs    B.Chuck had difficulty collecting vines

C.Lady Eightlegs was very wise             D.Lady Eightlegs swam well

4.What was Lady Eightlegs' attitude towards Chuck in the end?

A.Worried.            B.Friendly.                         C.Doubtful.              D.Cold.

 

Vivi Mac, an amazing artist from France, can use nearly any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits(名人肖像).Although she has yet to display her short-lived work of arts in a proper art gallery, Vivi Mac has already made a name for herself online.

We've seen some amazing food artists in the past, but none are quite like this one .Karen Eland is a master coffee painter, Elisabetta Rogai uses wine as her medium(媒介),Kelly McCollam uses food colouring(食用色素)to recreat classic paintings, but the self-taught Vivi Mac can take anything from chewing gum to milk and turn it into a fantastic portrait  When working with liquids, Mac uses a simple plastic straw and her hands to guide the unusual .mediums around a plastic plate which acts as a painting. Just how she manages to capture the finest facial features  is still a mistery  to me, and I've seen videos of her doing it many times,

Vivi Mac has never attended art school. She only used online resources like blogs and facebook to learn the basics of drawing and painting. She started out working with pens and paper, but soon realized drawing wasn't just creative enough for her. She got into speed  painting and body painting, posting videos of her works on You Tube, but it wasn't until she began experimenting with different kinds of foods that her art got serious coverage. Photos and videos of her eatable celebrity portraits, like Bruce Lee in milk  Ice Cube in crushed ice or Amy Winehouse in wine, became popular on the French inter-webs and changed Vivi Mac into an online celebrity.

1.What does the underlined word "display" in the first paragraph mean?

A .Exhibit.      B .Create.      C .Produce.      D. Store.

2.What is the difference between Vivi Mac and other food artists?

A.She Uses wine as her medium.

B.She is famous for her food website.

C.She turns any  kind of food into a portrait

D.She uses spices to recreate classic paintings.

3.In which section of a website are we most likely to find the passage?

A .Food        B .Science       C .Art          D .Health

 

III.阅读理解

第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,共30分)

    阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the centre of London there is a tall white building with the name “Bush House”. It is the home of BBC English.

BBC is the abbreviation of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is an organization maintained by the government, providing British people with broadcasting and TV service.

At first, BBC was established as a private business. It began to broadcast on February 14, 1922. In 1927, it was reorganized and replaced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In November, 1936, it became the first TV broadcasting corporation in the world with TV programmes broadcast.

BBC provides people with the latest news, entertainment and education. These programmes are not under the control of the government. Nor are they affected by other organizations. In the meantime, BBC does not express its own opinion on international affairs or public policy.

BBC has two TV channels, covering the whole country, that is BBC-1 and BBC-2 and three radio broadcast webs, one for family service, another for entertaining programmes, the third for special interesting programmes. The third web broadcasts four programmes. They are classical music, teaching programmes, sports and famous arts and common knowledge. BBC programmes include foreign language programmes, broadcast in 35 foreign languages.

The BBC World Service sends radio programmes around the world in 42 languages. With a regular audience of about 140 million listeners, it reaches more people than any other ternational broadcaster. The World Service also prepares news programmes for its sister television organization and is responsible for a major new gathering service getting information form the world’s media. The World Service receives a direct grant from the British Parliament for operating international broadcasting.

BBC English is part of the BBC World Service. BBC English is for people who want to improve their English. It broadcasts all kind of programmes, which change from month to month. There is a special grammar programme for explaining difficult grammar points. There are programmes about life in Britian. There is also a programme about the differences between written and spoken English. English lessons are broadcast every day on the radio with explanations in English and other languages. They are the easiest to follow. For example, BBC English broadcasts programmes for China with explanations in Chinese.

It is not difficult to find out information about the programmes. You can write to BBC English and ask for any information you need.

It is necessary to use a short-wave radio to pick up the programmes. Sometimes it is difficult to receive them clearly. If you do have difficulties, it is better to try once again another day.

36.BBC English broadcasts all kinds of programmes ____.

   A.which change from month to month       B.which change regularly

   C.in special grammar rules                           D.by explaining different grammar points

37.If one needs any information from BBC English, one can ____.

   A.get it easily free of charge                     B.get it easily by paying something

   C.hardly get it without paying anything       D.seldom get it just by writing a letter

38.I think all the programmes from BBC English is of great use to you. This sentence means ____.

   A.I think all the programmes from BBC English is very great

   B.BBC English has many great useful programmes.

   C.You can use all the programmes from BBC English

   D.All programmes from BBC English are very useful for me

My mother had been gone from my life for a year when my father took my sister, Kate, and me to visit her. It was about an hour from our home to Camarillo State   1  , but it might as well have been halfway around the world for how   2   we saw each other.

A   3   curtain had fallen when Mom left. Sitting on the grass, Kate and I, eight and five years old, were   4  , subdued (闷闷不乐的) by the unsettling prospect of what   5   Mom would be in. What would she look like? How would she   6  ?

Reports from the doctors   7   she’d been going through some tough times,  8   the first six months, my father said. She cried a lot, and at night, when she   9  Kate and me, the doctors tranquilized (calm sb. using a drug) her.

  10  , walking toward us in the distance, we saw her, or   11   we thought was her. But this woman seemed old and unsteady on her feet as she walked along,  12   the arm of a man in a white uniform.

I felt goose bumps springing on my arms. Yes, it was Mom. But her red   13  , once so thick and shiny, was now dry and wild, all the natural waves gone.  14   so attentive and full of life, Mom seemed tired, her eyes sad, searching. Her face   15   me most. Webs of broken blood vessels crisscrossed her skin, providing a map of the violence she had endured (忍受). It would be years before I understood better what had happened to her: She and many other patients had been given, against their   16  , electroshock treatments.

Sitting down on the blanket, Mom  17   us close, first Kate and then me. I had   18   this moment, figured everything would return to normal once I fell into her embrace (怀抱). She would   19    again and take care of me; she would play the piano as she loved to. We would be a   20   again.

1.A.Hospital                B.Prison                 C.School                D.Theatre

2.A.far                        B.seldom                C.soon                   D.often

2,4,6

 
3.A.light                      B.beautiful              C.colorful               D.heavy

4.A.crazy                    B.silent                   C.delighted             D.dull

5.A.condition               B.form                   C.dress                  D.room

6.A.say                       B.work                   C.act                      D.speak

7.A.responded             B.reminded             C.persuaded            D.indicated

8.A.especially              B.normally              C.typically              D.eventually

9.A.laughed at             B.cried out for        C.looked out for      D.thought of

10.A.Fortunately          B.However             C.Therefore            D.Suddenly

11.A.what                   B.who                    C.which                 D.that

12.A.holding                B.supporting           C.leading                D.fastening

13.A.cheeks                B.hair                     C.eyes                    D.lips

14.A.Before                 B.Ever                    C.Once                  D.Yet

15.A.frightened            B.annoyed              C.attracted              D.disappointed

16.A.aim                     B.dream                 C.will                     D.proposal

17.A.pushed                B.dragged               C.kissed                 D.pulled

18.A.asked for             B.expected for        C.longed for           D.looked for

19.A.return                 B.bake                    C.live                     D.entertain

20.A.unity                 B.victory                C.family                D.legend

Once there was a girl called Arachne who was very proud of her skill at weaving. Many people came to see her   1  her threads in red, blue, green or yellow that made her   2         

pictures glow with life. “The goddess Athene   3   have given you such a gift,” they said. But Arachne tossed her head. “No,” she replied   4   “I’ve taught myself everything I know. ”   5 those words, the goddess Athene decided to teach her a lesson. First she    6   herself as an old woman and   7   Arachne’s door. When she opened it, the goddess warned her, “You shouldn’t compare yourself with the great Athene. You should be more   8   .” At that Arachne grew very angry. “ Let her come here and have a   9  with me. Then we’ll see who’s better at weaving! ”   10  Athene threw off her disguise and the contest began.

  All day the two contestants wove bright  11  into marvellous pictures. Arachne’s was definitely   12  in skill and design. At that Athene grew   13  angry that she hit Archne. At once the girl became smaller and smaller. Her head disappeared and her body became   14  . Her human arms and legs disappeared to be replaced with twice as many thinner insect-like  15  . As Arachne ran to hide, Athene laughed   16  “You may live, Arachne, but you will do your weaving   17  from now on. ” Hearing those words, Archne began to  18  a thread and to weave a pattern in the air. She had become the first  19  . Since then she has continued to recreate her lost   20  beautiful masterpiece in her webs, and all other  spiders have followed her.

1. A. color         B. do              C. print            D. describe

2. A. taken         B. woven           C. drawn           D. moved

3. A. should         B. could               C. must               D. might

4. A. proudly           B. angrily           C. kindly           D. friendly

5. A. Saying        B. Finishing         C. Hearing          D. Listening

6. A. disappointed       B. disguised            C. discouraged      D. disaffected

7. A. took on           B. put on           C. turned on            D. knocked on

8. A. careful        B. humble          C. proud           D. honest

9. A. conversation       B. fight            C. competition       D. meeting

10. A. Immediately    B. Fortunately       C. Hopefully            D. Generally

11. A. colors            B. threads          C. wool            D. feather

12. A. superior      B. inferior          C. good               D. excellent

13. A. such         B. too             C. very            D. so

14. A. longer        B. prettier          C. bigger              D. rounder

15. A. heads       B. eyes            C. legs            D. ears

16. A. unhappily     B. uncertainly       C. untruly          D. unkindly

17. A. on the ground B. in the air         C. at home         D. on the wall

18. A. preserve      B. press               C. prepare         D. produce

19. A. mosquito      B. fly              C. spider           D. insect

20. A. and          B. or              C. but             D. so

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