完形填空(Cloze Test)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Since mankind ___1___, people have looked to the stars, ___2___ them to be Gods. Some called them the“Wanderers”, and invested a complex mythology（神话）in them. Many ___3___ worshipped（敬神）them through song, praise, prayer（祈祷）. For thousands of years people thought the planets, moons and Sun ___4___ the Earth, and that the Earth was the ___5___ of the universe. When telescopes were ___6___ in the seventeenth century, people began to think that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, and that the planets did not revolve around the Earth, but ___7___ the Sun. This concept was called heliocentrism. People started ___8___ of the planets as worlds very much like our own, and not the mythological Gods people thought they were. People started to think that other civilizations（文明）___9___ on other planets which were too far to see. As ___10___ were improved, more planets were found. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There may even be other planets ___11___ Pluto, but only time will ___12___ the answer to that question.

　　Our solar system has 9 planets that orbit a big star called the Sun. (An orbit is the path that a planet moves through. )All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical （椭圆的）paths.

　　All the planets ___13___ different amounts of time to get all the way round the Sun. ___14___ takes a year to make one complete orbit. In fact, that's how we decided ___15___ a year should be--it's the length of time it takes us to get all the way around the Sun!

完形填空(Cloze Test)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Since mankind ___1___, people have looked to the stars, ___2___ them to be Gods. Some called them the“Wanderers”, and invested a complex mythology（神话）in them. Many ___3___ worshipped（敬神）them through song, praise, prayer（祈祷）. For thousands of years people thought the planets, moons and Sun ___4___ the Earth, and that the Earth was the ___5___ of the universe. When telescopes were ___6___ in the seventeenth century, people began to think that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, and that the planets did not revolve around the Earth, but ___7___ the Sun. This concept was called heliocentrism. People started ___8___ of the planets as worlds very much like our own, and not the mythological Gods people thought they were. People started to think that other civilizations（文明）___9___ on other planets which were too far to see. As ___10___ were improved, more planets were found. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There may even be other planets ___11___ Pluto, but only time will ___12___ the answer to that question.

　　Our solar system has 9 planets that orbit a big star called the Sun. (An orbit is the path that a planet moves through. )All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical （椭圆的）paths.

　　All the planets ___13___ different amounts of time to get all the way round the Sun. ___14___ takes a year to make one complete orbit. In fact, that's how we decided ___15___ a year should be--it's the length of time it takes us to get all the way around the Sun!

完形填空

The Brick

　　About ten years ago, a young and very successful manager named Josh was travelling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit fast in his 1 car.

　　He was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars. 2 his car passed, no child rushed out, but a brick did and WHUMP! It 3 his shiny black side door! Josh 4 out of his car, grabbed the kid and pushed him up 5 a parked car. He shouted at the kid,“ 6 was that all about and who are you? Just what are you doing?”He went on with 7 “That's my new Jaguar, that brick you threw is going to cost you a lot of money. Why did you throw it?”

　　“Please, mister, please…I'm 8 ! I didn't know what else to do!” 9 the youngster.“I threw the brick 10 no one else would stop!”Tears were dripping down the boy's chin as he 11 around the parked car.“It's my brother, mister,”he said.“He rolled 12 the sidewalk and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't 13 him up.”Sobbing, the boy asked the manager,“Would you please help me get him 14 into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.”

15　　 beyond words, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief 16 wiped the cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK. He then 17 the younger brother push him down the sidewalk toward their home.

　　It was a long and slow walk back to his expensive car. Josh 18 did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the damage to 19 him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention. Pay 20 to the bricks of life coming at to you.