课文填空

1.But as the moon gave ___________________________, I didn’t dare open a window.

2.The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me ________________________; it was the        first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face.

3.Actually all languages change and develop _____________________________________with each other.

4.Then gradually between about AD 800 AND 1150, English became less like German because those          ___________________________________spoke first Danish and later French.

5.She gave me a _______________________---the kind that said she would not change her mind.

6.When I told her the air would be ___________________________and it would be very cold, she said it    would be an interesting experience.

7.Jasper has put up “No Parking” signs outside his gate, but these have not _______________________.

8.Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and __________________________, he landed in a deserted      car park.

9.The Wayle is a small river that ____________________the park near my home.

10.I turned to look at the children, but there weren’t any ___________________: they had all run away.

It’s just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no   1  . It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.

It all began because my husband Mike  2  Christmas – oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the   3  aspects of it – overspending and the frantic（匆忙的）running around at the last   4  to get gifts because you couldn’t think of anything else. So, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters and ties and reach for something   5  just for Mike.

The inspiration came in an   6  way. Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was   7  at the school he attended; and shortly before Christmas, there was a match against a team of mostly   8  kids sponsored by a church. These young men, dressed in ragged sneakers,  9  a sharp contrast to our boys in their nice uniforms and sparkling new shoes. As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without   10  , a luxury that they obviously couldn’t   11  . Well, we thoroughly   12  them and took every weight class. Mike shook his head sadly. “I   13  just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of   14  , but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.”

Mike loved kids and he knew them. That’s when the   15  for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local   16  goods store and bought wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them anonymously（匿名）to the   17  . On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the   18  inside telling Mike what I had done, and that was my gift for him. His   19  was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in   20  years.

1．A．participation                                          B．conversation

       C．identification                                       D．qualification

2．A．loved                    B．celebrated            C．spent                  D．hated

3．A．educational            B．commercial          C．spiritual               D．social

4．A．minute                  B．time                    C．holiday                D．week

5．A．expensive              B．practical              C．especial               D．special

6．A．unusual                 B．awkward             C．astonishing          D．attractive

7．A．wrestling               B．swimming           C．boating                D．studying

8．A．white                    B．wealthy               C．black                  D．bright

9．A．presented              B．possessed            C．prohibited            D．preserved

10．A．shoes                  B．helmets               C．gloves                 D．pains

11．A．advocate              B．abuse                  C．adopt                  D．afford

12．A．defeated              B．deleted                C．delighted             D．deserted

13．A．think                   B．believe                 C．wish                   D．imagine

14．A．energy                B．skill                     C．advantage            D．potential

15．A．envelope              B．idea                     C．money                D．shop

16．A．sporting              B．clothing               C．cheap                  D．opening

18．A．story                   B．ad                       C．signature             D．note

19．A．car                     B．smile                   C．eye                     D．helmet

20．A．succeeding         B．past              C．passing           D．difficult

In 1841, a book was published which astonished the world. It was called“Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan”. The author John Loud Stephens had just returned from a long, difficult and dangerous journey through the thick rain forest of southern Mexico and Guatemala. He had once been there with Frederick Catherwood, an architect and artist, to search for the remains of a lost civilization known as the Mayas（玛雅）.Very little was known about the Mayas at that time, but Catherwood’s drawing in the book showed incredible cities with temples, pyramids and other buildings as impressive as those of their northern neighbors, the Aztecs. These cities, however, were deserted. The inhabitants（居民）had disappeared almost a thousand years before.

       Since that time, far more has been learned about this remarkable civilization. The Mayas had a highly developed system of government and of agriculture, as well as an incredibly accurate system of measuring time. They were also wonderful engineers capable of moving huge blocks stone long distances and cutting them to accurate shapes and sizes.

       And yet although the Mayas knew about the wheel, they never used it. Neither did they use metals other than copper. What is ever more surprising is that they suddenly abandoned many of their cities and built new ones in the jungle. Some time around AD900, Mayan civilization collapsed. By the year 1200, their last great capital, Chichen Itza, was deserted.

       Who were these strange people and the even stranger gods they worshipped(崇拜)? What brought about their sudden and mysterious collapse? Some writers have tried to prove that the Mayas had contact with visitors from space and even that they themselves came from another planet. Some people believe that their civilization came to an end because the Mayas never developed a proper resistance to local germs and diseases. All we really know is that when the first Europeans appeared off their coast in 1517, this great and mysterious culture was only a memory.

65．Stephen’s book astonished the world because        .

       A．it was the first time people heard about Mayas

       B．the Mayas were excellent builders and farmers

       C．he had experienced so may difficulties to find this lost civilization

       D．it described that the Mayas used to be an advanced civilization

66．One of the most surprising findings about Mayas was that      .

       A．they developed accurate system measuring time

       B．they knew how to build pyramids with stones

       C．they deserted their cities and moved to new ones

       D．they built cities which they never lived in

67．Mayas civilization collapsed probably in       .

       A．a thousand years before 1841                B．around AD 900

       C．any year between 1200 and 1517           D．AD1200

68．What brought about Mayan sudden collapse?

      A．Tropical germs and diseases                   B．European conquest

       C．Mysterious force from outer space         D．No one knows for sure

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。

注意：1. 每空格1个单词。2.所有答案写在答题纸指定位置，否则不计分。

Searching for the truth

Collecting and writing news is like researching in history: the best information comes from those who were there at the time. So if' we want to study the history of China in the sixth century AD, we look at the writings of the people who lived then. They are called the primary sources because they tell us what it was like to live then. People at a much later date who write about the same events are called the secondary sources. For example, when we read the original writings of Jia Sixie on agriculture, we are reading a primary source; when we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading secondary source because the passage was written about him and his ideas many years after he died.

When we make news, we use primary and secondary sources. We can see this most clearly in TV programmes. As we watch the news on TV, the person presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source( because he tells us about the news) and the reporter in Iraq or Washington is the primary source (because he is telling us about what is actually happening there). Without these reporters acting as primary sources, you would never find out what really happened in a war, earthquake, sports meeting, concert or festival. These reporters explain what is happening, so we have a clearer idea of what is going on there. They often take photographers with them who act as primary source by giving pictures of events.

In a newspaper, the position is different because these two roles are often combined. This means a reporter who investigates a story may be the same person who writes it. If this happens, the reporter is both the primary and the secondary source. But the photographer who works with him/her is still a primary source.

One of the reasons that it is important to separate primary and secondary sources is that they help us to decide what is a fact and what is an opinion. A fact is something that everybody agrees has happened. An opinion is somebody's idea of what happened. So facts and opinions are often mixed in any report, whether in a newspaper or on TV.

What have you learnt from the above passage?