题目内容
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. So animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering (不开花的) plants.
Flowering plants can make seeds (种子). Fruits protect the seeds. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit.
Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores (孢子). Spores are very, very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float (飘) in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores fall on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.
1. The main idea of the first paragraph is that _______.
A. plants are important for life
B. plants can’t grow without air
C. there are many plants in the world
D. we can’t live without water
2. Plants can make food from _______.
A. flower, water and air B. water, sunlight and air
C. air, water and soil D. air, sun and light
3.What fact does the passage lead you to believe?
A. Of all living things, animals are the most important.
B. Spores are seeds.
C. All fruits of flowering plants have seeds.
D. Without plants, man will die out.
4. What will the writer probably (可能) talk about in the following paragraph?
A. how plants can make food from air
B. how spores grow into new plants
C. why some plants have no seeds
D. why non-flowering plants are more important than flowering plants
I am Lily. I have a piece of good news to tell you. We have a new apartment(公寓).The rooms are small, but they are all comfortable. There are more rooms here than in our old apartment. This is good because now I have my own room. In the old apartment, I must share a room with my sister.
My bedroom is my favorite in our apartment. I can be alone in it. I can read and draw. I can listen to music. I can play games and send my friends e-mails on my computer.
M y second favourite room is the kitchen. I like helping my mother cook my meals. She is a very good cook and often teaches me how to make many different kinds of dishes. She lived in Morocco when she was a girl, and she can cook Morocco food. It is delicious.
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Lily’s apartment | |
The old apartment | It has fewer rooms and I share a room 1._ my sister. |
The new apartment | The rooms are small, but they are all comfortable. |
My favourite room is my 2._ .I can be alone in it. I can read and draw. I can listen to music. I can play games 3._ my computer and send e-mails _4._ my friends.·The kitchen is my second favourite room. I can help my mother with 5._ . My mother’s Morocco food is delicious | |
Minoru Yamasaki was a well-known American architect (建筑师). He was born in 1912 in Seattle, Washington. His parents came from Japan. Minoru went to college to study architecture. Every summer he worked in a fish factory to help pay for college. Often he worked from four o'clock in the morning until midnight. He slept in a room with 100 other men. Later in life, Yamasaki remembered these times and was always good to his workers.
Yamasaki sometimes dreamed about his work. Once he woke up at three o’clock in the morning. He remembered a building that was in his dream. He got up and started to draw. Yamasaki used a new design for the buildings. These buildings are now the Century Plaza Hotel, and Tower in Los Angeles, California.
Yamasaki was different from other architects. His buildings give people a feeling of peace and happiness. Many of his designs have pools of water, flowers, and windows on the roof to let in light. He always designed buildings to please people. He wanted to give them a place away from the busy ways of modern life.
Yamasaki worked for several companies. But his success began when he started his own company. In 1956, he won the Architect’s First Honor Award for his design of an airport in St. Louis, Missouri. He won two more awards over the next five years. In 1962, he designed the World Trade Center in New York. It is very famous.
In 1993, a bomb exploded (炸弹爆炸) in the World Trade Center. But the buildings did not fall down because they had a good design.
Yamasaki had strong opinions about his buildings. They had to be built his way. He refused to change the design of his buildings, even if he lost a job.
Minoru Yamasaki died in 1986. He designed more than 300 buildings. People will enjoy the design and beauty of his buildings for a very long time.
The title | A well-known 1. architect |
Be 2. | In 1912 in Seattle, Washington |
In college | Went to 3. architecture in college |
Worked in a fish factory to 4. for college | |
5. a room with 100 other men and often stayed up very late until midnight | |
His design of buildings | Made people feel peaceful and 6. |
Had 7. opinions about his buildings | |
The World Trade Center didn’t fall down after a bomb explosion | |
Successful career(事业) | Was not the 8. as other architects |
His success didn’t begin until he started his own 9. . | |
Won 10. Awards for his famous design before 1962 and designed over 300 buildings in his life | |
Date of death | Died in 1986 |