任务型阅读：根据短文内容，完成下列表格。

Sandwich was an Englishman.He lived in the 18th century.Sandwich was rich, but he liked to play cards for money.He often played for 24 hours, and didn’t even stop to have his meals.He ordered his servants(仆人) to bring him some meat and bread.He put the meat between two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand.People liked Sandwich’s idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did.From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food sandwich today.

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

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1. “Three Little Cows” is ___________.

A. the name of a zoo              

B. the name of a movie

C. the name of a restaurant          

D. the name of a party

2. When are great drink specials and half price pizza offered?

A. On Monday and Friday, 3-6 pm.  

B. From Monday to Friday, 3-6 pm.

C. On Wednesday, 6-10 pm.        

D. At any time.

3. From 6 pm to 10 pm on Wednesday, customers can __________.

A. have free wine                 

B. make a bottle of wine

C. pay $10 less for the wine         

D. have wine for only $10

Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the 1.c            listening to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the 2.o     way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For 3.e         , if you can’t remember something when you are doing your 4.h       , what will you do? You can look at your books to 5.f       the answer.

How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are6.i          in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually 7.g        at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by 8.t         hard, by reading books, and sometimes by asking

9.o         people. These are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep doing like these for a long time, you are 10.s       to make great  progress in your study.

阅读短文，根据短文内容和已给出的首字母，在空白处填入适当的单词。将完整的单词写在短文后面的横线上。

Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge c  1  in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four f  2  . So, no matter w  3  you stand, you can r  4 

the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is about the s  5  of a double-decker(双层)　bus. The hands are about four meters l  6  . It is about the size of two people standing on top of each other. I  7   you go to London, you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament（议会大厦）. In that place, you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower. In the Houses of Parliament, you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower. In the Houses of Parliament, you will probably hear it as w  8  as you see it. The giant clock m  9  such a loud noise, “Ding dong, ding dong” that the whole city can hear it. It sounds every quarter of an hour.

The clock was n  10  after a big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man did much building work in London many years ago.

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