题目内容

阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

One day when I was five years old, my mother took me to a swimming pool. She wanted to teach me how to swim. 1. (sad), I was almost drowned(淹死,溺死). 2. I was rescued by a man, my mother was so 3. (frighten) that she decided never to let me get close to a swimming pool again. 4. , I thought quite differently. Instead of letting that horrible incident create more fear around water for me, I decided to become a good 5. (swim). After I told my mother about that, she thought I was right and 6. (agree). So I started to learn how to swim again. My mother became more careful and I was not in danger again. Later I became 7. interested in swimming that I decided to compete in swimming events. After years of efforts, my dream came true. I was the first African American 8. (win) an Olympic Gold Medal in swimming. I did so at both 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

Now I spend much of my time 9. (help) children learn how to swim. Hundreds of children each year drown in the United States. 10. (learn) how to swim can prevent 80% of these tragedies.

练习册系列答案
相关题目

When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.

Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive(使人上瘾的) thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.

With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.

Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality.

Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?

Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, he points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don’t have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances(熟人) through the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says.

If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it’s because it has become very widespread. In 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. Today, almost 300 million Americans carry them. The number of cell phones is far more than that of wired phones in the United States.

1.Which of the following could probably best explain the title of the passage?

A. Cell phone users smoke less than they used to.

B. More people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes.

C. Cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes.

D. Using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes.

2.The underlined word “curb” in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A. rescueB. controlC. developD. ignore

3.Which idea does the example of a woman talking on the phone in the car support?

A. Women use cell phones more often than men.

B. Talking on the phone while driving is dangerous.

C. Cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy.

D. Cell phones do not necessarily bring people together.

4.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A. How to make people get closer.

B. The advantages of wired phones.

C. How to use cell phones properly.

D. Giving an example to prove the bad effects of cell phones.

While the presence of rats in homes may cause anxiety and annoyance,they rarely result in driving out the residents.But that is exactly what happened to the inhabitants of the 10-square-mile Hawadax Island off the coast of Alaska,almost 230 years ago.Now thanks to a five-year effort by scientists,the terribly silent “Rat Island” as it had been called for many years has been returned to its rightful owners—birds!

Hawadax Island is part of a chain of volcanic islands in the Bering Sea called the Aleutian Islands.The rats that arrived there in 1780,when a Japanese ship carrying them broke down nearby,completely destroyed the native population because the environment of the island was not built to defend its animals from these predators.There isn't any tree on the island,which meant that the birds were accustomed to building their nests low in the ground,giving the rodents(啮齿动物) easy access to both eggs and baby chicks.As years passed,the birds that had called the island home for thousands of years became endangered and eventually,disappeared completely.

In 2007,the US FWS(Fish and Wildlife Service) started a serious plan to rid the island of the rats and try bringing back the beautiful birds that had once called it home.Given that there were an estimated 10,000 rodents inhabiting “Rat Island” and the fact that they reproduce rapidly,it was not an easy task.But by 2009,the island was officially declared rat free!

Then slowly but surely,the birds began to return. Unfortunately,some of the pioneers were unintentionally killed from the leavings of the raticide,a poison that had been used to wipe out the rodents.But now it seems things are becoming more stable and the island is starting to increasingly look like its former self.Before the transformation,“Hawadax”,also known as “Rat Island”,was a silent and ghostly place with bird bones,snail remains and rocks covered in rat feces(粪便).

Today,birds' singing and flying in and out is a common sight.Tufted puffins and song sparrows,which had long disappeared,are gradually making their way back.Scientists have also been observing an increase in ground nesting and shore birds.Though the island is still not back to its full glory,the signs are encouraging and things can only get better,as time passes.

1.The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to ________.

A.birds' being driven out

B.the presence of rats

C.birds' returning to the island

D.residents' worrying about rats

2.Birds on Hawadax Island became an easy target because ________.

A.their chicks were extremely weak

B.they nested randomly

C.they reproduced too rapidly

D.this island was treeless

3.From the passage,we can know the plan of US FWS ________.

A.has helped the island fully recovered

B.cost little but benefited greatly

C.involved poisoning the rats on a large scale

D.accomplished its goal after exactly 24 months

4.Which would be the best title for the passage?

A.FWS help get rare birds back to alaska island

B.Japanese changed a bird paradise into rat island

C.Alaska's rat island returns to a bird paradise

D.FWS plan to drive rats out of rat Island

Xinhua News—The Beijing government has set out to recruit thousands of university graduates to work as junior officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the city’s employment problems.

The government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to work as assistants to village heads or party secretaries in suburban areas.

People interested in jobs in Beijing’s rural villages and towns can send applications to Beijing Municipal Bureau of Personnel or log on to www.bjbys.com from February 1 through March 15.

“We hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and to start their careers,” Sun Zhenyu, the Deputy Director of Beijing Personnel Bureau, told Xinhua News Agency.

The government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 Yuan in the first year, 2,500 Yuan the second year and 3,000 the third year, provided their performance is up to the required standards, Sun said.

Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was one of the first graduates to find work in the city’s countryside. After majoring in Industrial and Commercial Administration, Wang served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijing’s Pinggu District. For one project, Wang contacted people at Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences and arranged for the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting. Her efforts paid off. The village had a plentiful harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year.

Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according to the figures provided by the Ministry of Education.

The ministry predicts that 4.95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this year, 820,000 more than last year. About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate. In Beijing, a record of 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year. Less than half of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to Beijing Personnel Bureau.

1.From the story of Wang Lina we can learn that _________.

A. Wang had great difficulty in helping villagers plant organic strawberries

B. local farmers can get big harvests if they work together with her

C. the sooner you go to the countryside, the sooner you will be successful

D. university graduate can realize their value no matter where they work

2.The underlined word “recruit” in the first paragraph probably means ________.

A. forceB. employC. encourageD. train

3.The last two paragraphs seem to tell us that ________.

A. it is not easy for graduates to find jobs nowadays

B. more and more graduates will work as junior officials

C. the universities should not enroll so many students

D. there are more and more jobs provided by the Ministry of Education

4.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

A. The Government’s Help for University Graduates

B. A Good Choice for University Graduates

C. Job Hunting for University Graduates

D. What is the Best Career?

Here are six steps to better studying.

Pay attention in class

Do you have trouble paying attention in class? Are you sitting next to a loud person? Tell your teacher or parents about any problem that is preventing you from paying attention.

Take good notes

Write down facts that your teacher mentions or writes on the board. Try to use good handwriting so you can read your notes later. It’s a good idea to keep your notes organized by subject.

Plan ahead for tests and projects

Waiting until Thursday night to study for Friday’s test will make it hard to do your best. One of the best ways to make sure that doesn’t happen is to plan ahead. Write down your test dates. You can then plan how much to do after school each day, and how much time to spend on each topic.

Break it up

When there’s a lot to study, it can help to break things into several parts. Let’s say you have a spelling test on 20 words. Instead of thinking about all of the words at once, try breaking them down into five-word groups and work on one or two different groups each night.

Ask for help

You can’t study effectively if you don’t understand the material. Be sure to ask your teacher for help. If you’re at home when the confusion occurs, your mom or dad might be able to help.

Sleep tight

So the test is tomorrow and you’ve followed your study plan—but suddenly you can’t remember anything! Don’t panic. Your brain needs time to digest all the information you’ve given it. Try to get a good night’s sleep and you’ll be surprised by what comes back to you in the morning.

1.We know from the passage that a loud person is ________.

A.a student who always answers questions loudly in class

B.someone who likes to talk with others in a loud voice

C.a student who likes speaking with others in class

D.a person who makes a lot of noise in public places

2.If you don’t understand what you have learnt, you can ________.

A.read your notes over and over again

B.turn to people around you for help

C.put aside the material for later review

D.ask your teacher to explain it the next day

3.By saying “Sleep tight”, what does the author mean?

A.Sleep again after waking up.

B.Sleep holding your breath deep.

C.Get a good night’s sleep.

D.Go to sleep early every night.

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网