A pearl necklace Penny was a five-year-old girl．One day when she and her mother were at a grocery store.Penny saw a plastic pearl necklace．What a (63)beautiful necklace!She wanted it very much.so sh 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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18．A pearl necklace（项链）　　Penny was a five-year-old girl．One day when she and her mother were at a grocery store，Penny saw a plastic pearl necklace．What a （63）beautiful necklace！She wanted it very much，so she begged her mother to buy it for her．The mother said，"Well，I can buy you the necklace，but when we get home，we should discuss what you can do to pay for it．Can we do that？"Penny agreed with much （64）happiness，and she got the plastic necklace she liked．
How much Penny loved the necklace！She （65）wore it everywhere and every minute．Penny also did part time jobs to earn pocket money and she worked very hard．Soon she managed to pay off the price for the necklace．
Penny's daddy knew all her （66）effort and knew how much Penny cared about the necklace．One night，he asked Penny，"Penny，do you love me？"
"Sure，Daddy，"the little girl said．
"Then how about giving me your necklace？"
"Oh，no，Daddy！（67）Not my necklace！"Penny cried．
"Oh，dear，it's fine，"her father gave her a kiss．
Several days （68）later，Penny went to her daddy，with her lips（嘴唇） trembling（颤抖）．"Here，Daddy．I love you．"She held out her hand．Inside it was her beloved plastic pearl necklace．
Seeing this，Penny's father smiled with surprise．He then pulled a cute box out of his pocket．Inside the box was a （69）real and colourful pearl necklace，whi ch was waiting for Penny for so long．

分析这是一篇记叙文．这篇短文通过讲述Penny买珍珠项链这件事，告诉我们家长应该用正确的方式来教育孩子．短文中当Penny想要买那条项链的时候，她的妈妈说她必须得自己赚钱来买．后来Penny的爸爸假装想要那条项链，来试探Penny是否明白什么是爱．他们用正确的方式来教育自己的孩子．

解答 63题答案：beautiful 考查首字母填空．根据前句说Penny看到一个塑料珍珠项链，后句又说她非常想要，结合提示"b"，可知非常漂亮故用beautiful．
64题答案：happiness考查首字母填空．根据前面说想买，她妈妈同意给她买了，所以它应该非常高兴，结合提示"h"，及前面的介词with，后面要用名词，故答案是happiness．
65题答案：wore考查首字母填空．根据前面说她非常喜欢那个项链，所以应该时时时刻刻都戴着，结合前后两句的loved和did可和时态是过去时．及提示"w"故用wear的过去式wore．
66题答案：effort 考查首字母填空．结合前面的句子，可知Penny为了买这个项链也做了兼职工作，以赚取零用钱，她工作得很努力，很快她设法还清了项链的价格．所以此处的句子应该是她的爸爸知道她的努力和她多在乎这个项链，及提示"e"，故用名词effort．
67题答案：考查首字母填空．根据前面的句子说把项链给我吧？她爸爸说，后面Penny一听，哭了，并说：不，后面的提示"N"，应该是说我的项链不行，故用not．
68题答案：later 考查首字母填空．根据句意应该是一些天后及提示"l"，故用later．
68答案：real 考查首字母填空．根据句意可知是她爸爸把她一直想要的项链给买来了，及提示"r"，故用形容词real．

点评这是一篇记叙文．这是一篇值得学习的教育孩子的文章．需先感知下文章的大意．然后结合语境及所给提示，填上合适的词使文章更完整．

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9．Frederic Mishkin，who's been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30years，is good at solving problems and expressing ideas．Whether he's standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation，his hands are always waving and pointing．When he was in graduate school，one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office．
It turns out，however，that Mishkin's professor had it exactly wrong．Gesture doesn't prevent but promotes clear thought and speech．Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language，adding information that's absent from our words．It's learning's secret code：Gesture reveals what we know．It reveals what we don't know．What's more，the agreement （or lack of agreement） between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn．
Manyof the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow，a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago．"We change our minds by moving our hands，"writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work．Particularly significant are what she calls"mismatches"between oral expression and physical gestures．A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one，for example，but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate，which is correct．Such differences indicate that we're moving from one level of understanding to another．The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem we're working on； we can't yet absorb these concepts into language，but we can capture them in movement．
Goldin-Meadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to
learn，but that it actually helps to bring learning about．It does so in two ways．First，it elicits （引出） helpful behavior from others around us．Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction．Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn，and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques．The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning，bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts．A 2007study by Susan Wagner Cook，an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa，reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra （代数） were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture．

72．According to Paragraph 1，Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands becauseC
A．he could litter express his ideas that way
B．he always pointed his finger at his professor
C．his professor did not like his gesturing
D．his gestures prevented his professor from thinking
73．How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge？A
A．It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed．
B．It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking．
C．It provides significant clues for solving academic problems．
D．It reduces students'reliance on teachers'instruction．
74．What can be inferred from the passage about gesture-speech mismatches？B
A．They can stimulate our creativity．
B．Instructors should make full use of them．
C．Teachers can hardly explain new concepts without them．
D．They serve as a stepping stone to solving real life problems．
75．What could be the best title of the passage？D
A．Hand Motions，a Second Language
B．Gesturing：Signal of Understanding
C．New Uses of Gesturing
D．The Secret Code of Learning．

6．How much sleep do we need？The answers are （31）different．Some people need only three hours of sleep a night．（32）Others need ten hours of sleep．Most Americans sleep for an average（平均）of seven to eight hours a night （33）After fifty years old，the average sleep hours go （34）down to 6.5hours a night．
Most people will have a （35）terrible night when they can't fall asleep．About one in three Americans has （36）aproblemwith sleep．Many of these people cannot fall asleep．This is in fact a disease called insomnia（失眠症）．
This disease is not new．Many famous people in （37）history had insomnia．Some of these people had their own （38）ways to sleep well．Benjamin Franklin，the famous inventor，had four beds．He （39）moved from one to another to fall asleep．King Louis XIV（路易十四国王）of France had 43beds and hoped to （40）fallasleep in one of them．Mark Twain，the famous American writer，had a different way．He lay on his side across the end of the bed．

31．A．difficult	B．interesting	C．different
32．A．Others	B．Young people	C．Old people
33．A．Before	B．After	C．At
34．A．up	B．down	C．straight
35．A．terrible	B．wonderful	C．peaceful
36．A．a question	B．an interest	C．a problem
37．A．China	B．America	C．history
38．A．hobbies	B．ways	C．answers
39．A．moved	B．jumped	C．ran
40．A．go to bed	B．fall asleep	C．enjoy reading

13．Under the Dome（穹顶），a 103-minute documentary self-funded by former news anchor Chai Jing，was released on video-sharing websites in China on Feb 28．It has rapidly drawn the public's attention about air pollution and encouraged people to join in efforts to make a difference．
A recently study found people's lives are made shorter in North China．It is showed the life expectancy（平均寿命） had been cut down by 5.5 years there．Researchers think that the heavy air pollution in China should be to blame（承担责任）．It's really the truth．Our government has already done something．However，it doesn't seem to work so well．
"Air pollution in China is doing harm to people's health．The harm is much more serious than we can imagine，"said Chen Yuyu of Beijing University，one of researchers of this study．
Dirty air brings serious problems in North China．In January this year，the air pollution was worse than that in other places．That was caused by rising temperature and waste gas（废气） from coal heating．
Chinese government should strongly fight against air pollution．They should think of more proper ways to deal with the problem．People should be encouraged to take buses，ride bicycles or walk，instead of driving cars．The factories that pollute heavily should be closed．
"We need to improve our environment，although it might be expensive．Protecting our environment means protecting ourselves，"Li Hongbin，another researcher of the study said．

阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的表格，每空一词．

Present situation	●People's lives are made shorter in North China． ●Air pollution is（61）harmful to our health．
（62）Causes/Reason（s）	●Air pollution was caused by rising temperature and waste gas（废气） from coal heating．．
ways to（63）solve the problem	●We had better not（64）drivewhen we go out． ●Chinese government should（65）closethe factories that pollute heavily．