Cloze 5(2015 盐城) 

     An old carpenter ( 木匠) was ready Lo retire.His boss was l to see the good worker go. He asked the carpenter 2 he could build just one more house.The carpenter said yes,3 his mind was not on his work any more.

     He used poor materials and worked on ihe house 4 . When the carpenter finished his work,the boss 5 the frontdoor key to him. “This is your house, ” he said. “A 6 for you."

     What a surprise!What a 7!If he had known he was building his 8 house,he would have done it differently. Now he had to live in the house he had poorly built.

     9 it is with us.Sometimes we build our 10 carelessly.At important points we do not try our best.Then with a shame we look at the situation we have 11 .We find that we are now living in the house we have poorly built.But we don't have a 12 to make it all over again.

     Think of 13as the carpenter.Think about your life. Build it 14 .It is the only life you will ever build because life is a do-it- yourself project.

     Your life today is the 15 of your attitudes and choices you made in the past. Your life tomorrow will be that of your attitudes and choices you make today.

   1.A. glad   B. nervous   C. ready   D. sorry

   2.A. if   B. when   C. how   D. why

   3.A. and   B. but   C. or   D. so

   4.A. carefully   B. completely   C. carelessly   D. successfully

   5.A. handed   B. lent   C. sold   D. threw

   6.A. gift   B. promise   C. choice   D. question

   7.A. task   B. wisdom   C. shame   D. stress

   8.A. real   B. expensive   C. old   D. own

   9.A. Neither   B. So   C. Nor   D. As

   10.A. studies   B. lives   C. jobs   D. feelings

   11.A. created   B. changed   C. discussed 1) . affected

   12.A. plan   B. chance   C. method   D. pleasure

   13. A. himself   B. herself   C. myself   D. yourself

   14.A. wisely   B. peacefully   C. rapidly   D. widely

   15.A. talent   B. wealth   C. result   D. difference

Cloze12(2013 辽宁沈阳) 

      Do you know that humans have been cleaning their teeth for over 7 ,000 years? According to the BBC. the Ancient Egyptians used a type of toothpaste (牙膏) .1  it is believed that the Egyp?tians used a finger 2   a toothbrush to clean their teeth. Chinese people may have 3  the first toothbrush around 1 ,600 BC.

     Your toothbrush,however,may have also become 4   .Because it is now possible to clean our teeth 5  using our hands!

     Two Canadians,Adel Elseri and Said Fayad,have invented 6  called T2T or “tongue-to-teeth”.Elseri says he came up with the idea 7  he was driving home after a long day at work. His 8   is a toothbrush that goes onto your tongue (舌) . T2T has special edges (边缘) and toothpaste.So just 9  your tongue over your teeth and it cleans your teeth just like a toothbrush 10  !It will make your breath fresh too.

      Elseri and Fayad made this hand-free toothbrush because they believed it was a 11   way for someone to brush their teeth. But people can only use the T2T 12  Would you use the tongue-to-teeth? The Huffington Post in the US 13   readers what they thought.Sixty-one percent said that they would use it while only thirty-nine percent said they 14  . Person- ally think I'm going to stick to (坚持用) the 15  !

   1.A. So   B. Then   C. But   D. Or

   2.A. instead of   B. because of   C. more than   D. less than

   3.A. discovered   B. developed   C. built   D. invented

   4.A. science   B. history   C. problem   D. secret

   5.A. by   B. from   C. without   D. for

   6.A. nothing   B. everything   C. anything   D. something

   7.A. until   B. when   C. since   D. though

   8.A. idea   B. story   C. word   D. plan

   9. A. hold   B. pull   C. move   D. check

   10.A. is   B. does   C. was   D. did

   11.A. healthier   B. easier   C. harder   D. longer

   12.A. again   B. soon   C. once   D. already

   13.A. told   B. asked   C. warned   D. advised

   14.A. shouldn't   B. should   C. wouldn’t   D. would

   15.A. finger   B. toothbrush   C. mouth   D. tongue

Passage 12(2011黑龙江哈尔滨,A) 

    Venice is an attractive city in Italy.Tourists throughoul ihe world love traveling to Venice. But sometimes you’ll have such strange expe- riences.One moment you walk across tlie Rialto Bridge ,and there ’s  nothing speoial.Unfortunately,when you come back to the bridge an hour later,its underwater and everyone's wearing rain hoots.

    That?s just the way it has always been,which may be considered seriously by Italian government. Before the sea comes to Venice,the government has decided to build the MOSE gates. Actually (实际上) , there were many kinds of gates that were built to stop the floods,hut all the gates were just built on the ground. Besides,the flooding was becoming worse. Industrial (工业的) factories buill nearby on the mainland also made the condition get worse,causing the city to sink about 0. 75 feet in the 20th century.

    So the Italian government asked some of Italy's biggest construction and engineering companies to build the MOSE project,which was planned to be built under the sea water to stop floods. Now the government are using 3 000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion euros (欧元) on it.The MOSE gates are being built at the inlets (海湾) .Each MOSE gate is 197 feet long,28. 5 to 37 feet tall,and weighs up to 22 tons. It's nearly the size of a 20-story building. Before the gates are in use,they are under the sea and full of water. When the flood comes,the water in the gates will be poured out,and then the gates will be filled with air. So the gates can go up with the sea water. Once they’re in the right place,they will stop the sea water pouring into Venice.These gates will be able to deal with floods up to 10 feet,and as long as the sea level (平面) rises no more than two feet in the next 100 years,the MOSE will work as expected.

    The MOSE project is now two-thirds done.The head engineer,Giovanni Cecconi,said, uThis is a war.During the war,it's not impor?tant that you win. Ifs important that youVe alive. We're alive. 'Anyway,this project is saving Venice from falling.

1. The underlined word4' construction' in the passage means “ ”in Chinese.

   A. 建筑   B. 农业   C. 交通

2. Before building the MOSE gates,the Italian government   stop the floods.

  A. never built gates on the ground

  B. built many kinds of gates on the ground

  C. built some gates which were under the ground 

3. When the flood comes,  can describe the working steps of the MOSE gates.

          

   A. a—?b—>c   B. b——>^c   C. b—>c—?a 

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. The Italian government are using 3 000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion dollars on the MOSE.

  B. The MOSE project is half done now.

  C. Each MOSE gate is 197 feet long,28. 5 to 37  feet tall,and weighs up to 22  tons.

5. The best title for this passage should be.

  A. The Journey to Venice

  B. The MOSE Project in Venice

  C. Several Kinds of Floods in Venice

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