题目内容
根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。在答题卡标有题号的横线上，完整地写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空一词）
The book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. Verne is a son of a lawyer. However, he decides to be a writer i1.of a lawyer. He likes sailing and the sea. He likes exploring the world. He and his wife s2. much time sailing on his ship. They sail to many places and have adventures. Later all of these are w3. into his books. The book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is about Captain Nemo and his submarine—a kind of vessel that travels under w4.. His submarine is called Nautilus. Submarines are common today, but Verne writes about this submarine many years b5. they exist! Some of Verne’s ideas come true in history.
The story starts in New York City and takes the readers to many d6. places. Verne describes some real places like the Mediterranean Sea, the South Pole and the Antarctic. But the storya7. talks about visits to some fictional locations like Atlantis, an underwater city. Many people think the title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to h8. deep the submarine travels under the water. However, the submarine never travels over a few leagues below the water. In fact, the title refers to the d9. which Captain Nemo and his submarine travel during the course of the book. The book is full of mysteries and magic things under water. It
has been t 10 into many different languages and sells well.
Has anyone told you that it’s fun to play with English words? For a long time these “words within words” in English have been used to surprise and educate us…and they often make us laugh too. Now we go to learn about them.
Riddles(谜语) How did the animals open the zoo door? They used a monkey! What’s the longest word in English? Smiles—there’s a “mile” between the first and last letters! These jokes —a question followed by a surprising answer — are known as “riddles”. But the ones above are examples of a special kind of riddle, a riddle which is funny because a word is hidden within another word. Many English speakers are crazy about this kind of words with double meaning. And it can be found in texts written in English a very long time ago. But riddles are not the only example of “words within words”. |
Hidden words During Victorian times (1837—1901), the game of hiding words within a whole sentence became popular. Look carefully at this sentence—The king eats his lunch in a fine palace. Can you see that the countries “China” and “Nepal” are hidden in it? The Victorians even used hidden words to teach children history and geography at school. Today we still see hidden word games in books and magazines, but we also use hidden words in jokes. |
Palindromes(回文词) Palindromes are words and phrases which can be read the same forwards and backwards. The pop group “Abba”, for example, is a palindrome. The sentence “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is also a palindrome. We find them interesting, but they can also be funny: I kept receiving emails about reading maps backwards, but then I realized it was just spam(垃圾邮件)! |
1.Which of the following is a riddle?
A. step—pets, part—trap B. hiding words within a whole sentence
C. silent—listen, the eyes—they see D. Which letter is a question? Y (Why) .
2.By reading the article we can know “___________”.
A. Riddles are the only example of “words within words”.
B. Victorians even used riddles to teach kids history at school.
C. “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is a palindrome as well.
D. These “words within words” in English often make us cry.
3.The best title of the passage is ________.
A. It’s fun to play with words B. “Words within words” educate us
C. Riddles & Hidden words D. The pop group “Abba”