题目内容
My sister-in-law, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had _______ and canned so many that they’d begun to feel their skin turn slightly _______. That’s when she decided it was time to share her blessings(福气). She started calling everyone she knew. When that _______, she began asking everyone in the neighborhood like a _______, eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes. “Feel free to take _______ you want,” Sharon told her. Later that day, Sharon found that her garden had indeed been _______. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didn’t go to _______.
A few days later, Sharon _______ the door. There was the neighbor, holding a hot loaf(条) of some kind of sweet bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly: “I wanted to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to _______ that I took a few other things and hoped you wouldn’t mind.”
Sharon couldn’t think of ________ else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so. “Oh, but you ________,” the neighbor said. “You had some of the prettiest zucchini(西葫芦) I’ve ________ seen.”
Sharon was ________. Zucchini in her garden? They hadn’t even planted any zucchini. But her neighbor ________ that there really were bright-green zucchini in Sharon’s garden. Sharon’s curiosity ________ the better of her and she had to go see where the zucchini had grown. The two of them walked together into the backyard. When the neighbor pointed at the long green ________, Sharon smiled. “Well, ________, those are cucumbers that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter for eating or canning.”
The neighbor looked at Sharon, ________ written all over her face. She gulped(大口吸气) a few times, and then, smiling, ________ out the bread, part of a batch(批) she had shared all over the neighborhood. “I brought you a nice loaf of ________ bread. I hope you like it.”
1.A. bought B. grown C. eaten D. sold
2.A. red B. yellow C. dark D. pale
3.A. worked B. happened C. stopped D. failed
4.A. housewife B. politician C. friend D. farmer
5.A. whichever B. whatever C. wherever D. whenever
6.A. harvested B. stolen C. damaged D. cleared
7.A. shop B. factory C. waste D. soil
8.A. closed B. repaired C. left D. answered
9.A. expect B. suggest C. require D. admit
10.A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
11.A. could B. did C. should D. do
12.A. ever B. never C. always D. seldom
13.A. embarrassed B. pleased C. confused D. satisfied
14.A. apologized B. demanded C. replied D. insisted
15.A. took B. made C. got D. kept
16.A. flowers B. vegetables C. fields D. gardens
17.A. obviously B. actually C. naturally D. separately
18.A. shock B. delight C. excitement D. fright
19.A. gave B. pulled C. pointed D. held
20.A. tomato B. zucchini C. cucumber D. vegetable
阅读快车系列答案The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters. In many cases, a single character can also make up a word. The history of the Chinese language can be examined by looking at how these characters developed.
Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. According to an ancient story, a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. One winter day while he was hunting, he saw the tracks of animals in the snow and observed that the appearance of each one was different. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to represent different objects. The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects. Some characters have been simplified and others have been made more difficult over time. However, as a whole the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms.
Not all characters were developed from drawings of objects. Sometimes to express ideas, some characters were made by combining two or more characters together. Other characters were developed for directions and numbers. It is easy to distinguish their meanings by looking at them.
Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced. Therefore, a method was developed to have one part of a character indicate the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation. Many Chinese characters used today were made this way.
In the 1950s the Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters and now they have widespread use in China’s mainland.
Brief 1. | The Chinese language is 2. from western language because it uses characters to 3. ideas, objects or deeds. |
The origins of Chinese characters | An idea 4.to Cangjie after he observed the tracks of animals 5. appearance differed from each other in the snow. |
The 6. of Chinese characters | ·As a whole, the characters developed from drawing into standard forms. ·Some characters were made by comining two or more characters together, whose meanings are easy to 7.. ·Many Chinese characters consists of two parts, one 8. the meaning and the other suggesting the pronunciation. ·Now, Chinese characters have become much 9. and been used in china’s mainland 10.. |
and the boy to 4. (safe). He quickly took the boy to his farmhouse, where Mrs. Fleming fed him, 5. (dry) his clothes, and sent him home.