题目内容
参赛者 剪刀 生气勃勃的
for example be known for as far as I know
send to send for all over the world
competitor scissors lively
以……而著名 在许多不同的地区 例如 以…… 闻名 据我所知 送到
派人去请（叫） 全世界
从方框中运择合适的词，用其适当形式填空。
invent discover find |
1. The camera in 1887 by Joseph
Nicephore Niepce.
2. Do you know who America?
3. Twenty years later，he his younger brother.
We all love new inventions. 1. But have all these inventions really improved the quality of our lives? Imagine this ： Your rushing to finish your homework on the computer. 2. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How do you feel? Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feel stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, have no telephone, no car, even no any
electricity often seem to be happier? 3.
One family in theUKwent back to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter and grandsons Benjamin, 10，and Thomas, 7，spent nine weeks in
a house of the 1940s. 4. The grandmother, Lyn, said, “5. ” The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a trendy (时尚），beer-drinking granny to one who cooked things.
A. | They had no washing machine, microwave oven, |
| computer or mobile phone. |
B. | Suddenly the computer goes black and you |
| lose all your work. |
C. | Perhaps because they live simpler lives. |
D. | The more things you have, the more difficult |
| life becomes. |
E. | They are exciting, amazing and can even |
| change our lives. |
F. | I love my children very much. |
G. | The new inventions are really boring. |
阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框内所给的词 的适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。
dream wake | important | find | why |
come when | remember | idea | long |
“ Dreams may be more 1. than sleep. We all need to dream,”some scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several 2.__ each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old films. They 3. to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to 4.
an answer. Some people get new 5. about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can be carried over into dreams. Sometimes we 6. up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t 7. the dream. Dreams can disappear (消失）quickly from memory.
Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的）. The more we sleep, the 8. we dream. The mind is working hard 9. we dream. That is 10. we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.