Most children _____ watching TV _____ reading books.

A. prefer, to    B. rather, than C. will, instead of   D. like, than

We don’t have enough time to prepare for the party, so we have to ____.

A. put off it    B. put it off     C. put it down D. put down it

The microwave oven _____ things.

A. is used for cooking                B. used to cook   C. is used to cooking        D. is used as cooking

--- I hope to visit Hawaii some day.

--- _____. I like places where the weather is always warm.

A. I hope not  B. I think so    C. I do, too     D. I agree

It’s very dangerous for you to go _____ the forest by yourself.

A. along         B. across        C. on      D. through

根据对话内容及方框中所给的句子补全对话。选项中有一项是多余选项。

(Winter vacation is coming. Jane and Alice are talking about their vacation plan.)

Jane: ________1__________

Alice: Let’s go to Kunming.

Jane: _________2_________ But how are we going there?

Alice: How about taking the train?

Jane: Well, I don’t want to spend much time on the train.

Alice: _______3________

Jane: I agree. But we need to book(预定) tickets beforehand(提前).

Alice: I see. ________4_______

Jane: It's really kind of you. Thanks a lot.

Alice: _______5________

A. Where are you going?

B. Where shall we go for vacation?

C. That sounds like a good idea!

D. Let’s go there by plane then.

E. I’ll phone the airport tomorrow.

F. It’s a pleasure.

从下面方框中选择适当的选项填入文中，使短文通顺、完整。选项中有两项是多余选项。

Since 1946, one of the most important inventions has been the computer. It  1   changed our lives greatly.

The first computer was built  2  1946. It was as   3   as a room and very difficult and slow to use. But since the invention of silicon "chip"(硅片), computers have become smaller, easier and   4  to operate. Some computers are as small as TV sets. Some can   5  be made smaller than a book. And computers are getting smaller and smaller all the time. Who knows what the computers of tomorrow will be   6  ?

There are several   7  why the computer is useful to us. First, a lot of information can be put into computers. Second, the computer works very quickly—  8  times faster than a man—and it will not be   9  . Third, modern computers can be built into other kinds of machines, like radios, cars and planes. So today people can spend less time   10  more work with a computer.

       Sometimes I doubt(怀疑) whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to make money. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books or I see on TV. They never say, “ I love you.” It’s not their style.

       One day, my mother was sewing(缝) a quilt. I sat beside her.

       “ Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.

       “ What?” she replied, still doing her work.

       “Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.

       She stopped her work and raised her head. Then she bowed her head and went on sewing.

       I thought I had hurt her. At last I heard my mother say: “Susan, look at this thread(线). Sometimes it appears(出现), but most of it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere, but it’s really there.”

       I listened carefully but I didn’t understand her until the next spring. My father suddenly got seriously sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

       After they got back, she helped my father walk slowly down the country road every day. My father had never been so gentle.

       “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

       “Susan, don’t worry about me,” he said gently, “ I just like walking with your mom.”

       Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。（5分）

（   ）1. At first Susan thought maybe there wasn’t love between her parents.

（   ）2. Susan’s mother didn’t answer the question directly because she was very angry.

（   ）3. Her mother told her what love was and Susan understood it very well.

（   ）4. Her parents’ behavior made her understand her mother’s words.

（   ）5. Now she thinks that love only means flowers, gifts and sweet kisses.

Most people in the U.S. speak only one language, English. They do not learn to speak a second language. Languages are taught in high schools, but very few students learn to speak well. Why don't Americans speak other languages?

First, most Americans never travel to other countries. The United States is a very large country. Americans can travel a long distance and don’t leave the United States. They do not need to learn a second language.

Second, one of the countries next to the United States is Canada. Most people in Canada speak English. Some Americans live near Canada. They travel there often. But they do not have to learn a new language.

Third, many people in other parts of the world speak English. If Americans travel to other countries, they can speak English there, too.

Some Americans think that it is a mistake to speak only English. They believe it is very important to learn a second language. Maybe someday other Americans will agree. Then more people will speak a second language in the United States.

根据短文，将右栏内容与左栏搭配完成句子，并将字母编号填入题前括号内。

（   ）1. The mother language in the U.S.               A. almost everywhere in the world.

（   ）2. Most Americans                                        B. it’s necessary to learn a second

（   ）3. Languages are taught in high schools, language.

（   ）4. Americans can speak English                      C. but very few students learn to

（   ）5. Some Americans think that speak well.        D. is English.

                                                                               E. like to travel in their own country.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

（   ）6. Most Americans never learn to speak __________.

       A. English                                  B. to people in other countries

       C. fluently (流利地)                    D. a second language

（   ）7. Most Americans speak only English because __________.

       A. they can't learn other languages

       B. they never travel to other countries

       C. other languages are not important for them

       D. they don't have language classes in school

（   ）8. In other parts of the world,  __________.

       A. everyone speaks English          B. no one speaks English

       C. many people speak English      D. everyone speaks a second language

（   ）9. Some Americans think it is a mistake to __________.

       A. learn other languages              B. speak only English

       C. travel to other countries          D. go to school

（   ）10. We can know from the passage that most people in Canada__________.

       A. never travel to other countries as Americans

       B. speak only English, too

       C. also speak English

       D. do not like to learn a second language

Alexander Graham Bell was a British man who was a teacher to people who could not hear. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847 and went to school in Edinburgh and London. People who can not hear any sounds at all are called deaf people, and Alexander became interested in helping them to learn to speak. He taught people how to use their mouths to make the sounds needed for talking.

Bell’s family moved to Canada in 1870 and to the USA in 1871. For several years he taught the people who could not speak in Boston. But at the same time he was developing a way to use electricity to send the sounds of talking along a wire, and he made the first telephone in June, 1875. He worked hard in his workshop for six months with his helper Tom Watson. Finally, he spoke these famous words slowly into the telephone, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” and Watson came to him.

The telephone developed quickly in the USA over the next few years. The Bell Telephone Company started in 1877, and in 1878 the first telephone centre was built in New York. More than 150,000 people had telephones in their homes ten years later. Alexander Graham Bell was a kind man and spent much of his money and time during the rest of his life helping deaf people. In 1922 he died in Canada.

根据短文内容回答问题。

1. Where was Alexander Graham Bell born, in England or Scotland?

2. What was he interested in doing when he was in Britain?

3. When was the first telephone invented?

4. Did he stop helping the disabled when he became famous?

5. What do you think of the great inventor?