| 任务型读写 阅读短文,根据所读内容在文章后表格中填入最恰当的单词,每空限填一词. People traveling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land, sea or air. Hardly anyone can positively enjoy sitting in a train for more than a few hours. Train carriages soon get full of passengers and stuffy. It is almost impossible to take your mind off the journey. Reading is only a partial solution, for the noise of the wheels clicking on the rails soon makes you sleepy. During the day, sleep comes in short periods. At night, when you really want to go to sleep, you can rarely manage to do so. Surely you arrive at your destination almost worn out. Long car journeys are even less pleasant, for it is quite impossible even to read. On motorways you can, at least, travel fairly safely at high speeds, but more often than not, the greater part of the journey is spent on roads with few service stations and too much traffic. By comparison, ferry trips or cruises offer a great variety of civilized comforts. You can stretch your legs on the spacious decks, play games, meet interesting people and enjoy delicious food-always assuming, of course, that the sea is calm. If it is not, and you are likely to get seasick, no form of transport could be worse. Even if you travel in ideal weather, sea journeys take a long time. Airplanes have the reputation of being unsafe and even hardened travelers are afraid of them. They also have the disadvantages of being an expensive form of transport. But nothing can match them for speed and comfort. Traveling at a height of 30,000 feet, far above the clouds, and at over 500 miles an hour is a very exciting experience. You do not have to think out ways of taking your mind off the journey, for an airplane gets you to your destination rapidly. For a few hours, you settle back in a deep armchair to enjoy the flight. The real enjoyment is to watch a film and drink wine on some services. But even when these things are not available, there is plenty to keep you occupied. A plane offers you an unusual and breathtaking view of the world. The journey is so smooth that there is nothing to prevent you from reading or sleeping. No matter how you decide to spend your time, one thing is certain: you will arrive at your destination fresh and energetic. You do not have to spend the next few days recovering from a long and arduous journey.
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| Suppose, for example, that a teacher tells her students they each must do one hundred maths problems 1 coming to school the next day. The 2 complain about so much home study. But one student does not 3 anything at all. That student is an eager beaver. He 4 to work out maths problems, and does not mind all the 5 . Another eager beaver works as a salesman for a business. He 6 arrives at the office before anyone else, and is the 7 person to leave. The man works hard, because he 8 his job. He is a true “eager beaver”. The expression 9 the name of a hardworking animal, the beaver. Beavers are 10 creatures. They are like mice and rats, but much 11 . Some weigh more than twenty-five kilograms. Beavers have a large, black, flat tail to 12 them swim. They also have thick brown hair or fur to keep them warm in cold 13 .They have front teeth 14 enough to cut down large trees. Beavers spend a lot of time in the water, building dams（堤，坝） to form little 15 or pools. They work hard to cut down trees, 16 branches and put them across streams. They use their tails to pack mud on the branches to make the dams solid. 17 other animals work so hard. In fact, for two hundred years or more, the beaver was the most valuable animal in North America. And thus most of the beavers were killed. For a time, they were in danger of 18 completely. But laws were passed to 19 the beaver, and today, the 20 is rising. And, like the animal, the expression “eager beaver” is in no danger of dying out. | |||
| ( )1.A.when ( )2.A.children ( )3.A.do ( )4.A.loves ( )5.A.physical labour ( )6.A.seldom ( )7.A.most eager ( )8.A.has to do ( )9.A.comes from ( )10.A.tailless ( )11.A.smaller ( )12.A.make ( )13.A.rain ( )14.A.fearless ( )15.A.lakes ( )16.A.grasp ( )17.A.All ( )18.A.running away ( )19.A.feed ( )20.A.condition |
B.instead of B.teachers B.speak B.refuses B.easy job B.sometimes B.last B.needn’t do B.is separated from B.good-looking B.larger B.watch B.land B.smooth B.pipes B.suck B.Most B.disappearing B.raise B.population |
C.as C.parents C.ask C.hates C.homework C.always C.only C.loses C.is given to C.strange-looking C.quicker C.let C.water C.quick C.gardens C.remove C.Many C.missing C.catch C.quality |
D.while D.headmasters D.say D.fails D.housework D.never D.first D.enjoys D.has nothing to do with D.kind-hearted D.better D.help D.ice D.sharp D.parks D.climb D.Few D.losing D.protect D.safety |
an players then voted not to receive the silver medals.