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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Since mankind ___1___, people have looked to the stars, ___2___ them to be Gods. Some called them the“Wanderers”, and invested a complex mythology（神话）in them. Many ___3___ worshipped（敬神）them through song, praise, prayer（祈祷）. For thousands of years people thought the planets, moons and Sun ___4___ the Earth, and that the Earth was the ___5___ of the universe. When telescopes were ___6___ in the seventeenth century, people began to think that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, and that the planets did not revolve around the Earth, but ___7___ the Sun. This concept was called heliocentrism. People started ___8___ of the planets as worlds very much like our own, and not the mythological Gods people thought they were. People started to think that other civilizations（文明）___9___ on other planets which were too far to see. As ___10___ were improved, more planets were found. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There may even be other planets ___11___ Pluto, but only time will ___12___ the answer to that question.

　　Our solar system has 9 planets that orbit a big star called the Sun. (An orbit is the path that a planet moves through. )All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical （椭圆的）paths.

　　All the planets ___13___ different amounts of time to get all the way round the Sun. ___14___ takes a year to make one complete orbit. In fact, that's how we decided ___15___ a year should be--it's the length of time it takes us to get all the way around the Sun!

完形填空(Cloze Test)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Mark Twain, ___1___ quite a lot, often ___2___ circumstances, usually financial circumstances（经济状况）forced him to. He was born in Floridian Missouri in 1835, an d___3___ to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about ___4___ old. Most people think he as born in Hannibal, but that isn't true. After his father ___5___ when he was about twelve, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left. ___6___ he could earn more money. He worked for a while as a typesetter ___7___ various newspapers, and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi.

　　Twain loved this job, and many of his books show it. The river job ___8___ however, because of the outbreak of the civil war. Twain was in the federate army for just two weeks, and then he and his whole company（同伴）went west, ___9___ from the war and the army.

　　In Nevada in California, Twain prospected（寻找）for sister and gold ___10___ luck, but did succeed as a writer. ___11___ that happened, Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and ___12___ enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much ___13___ .

　　Somehow his travel, ever when forced, inspired his writings. ___14___ many other popular writers, Twain derived（得到）much of the materials for his writing ___15___ the wealth and diversity（多样性）of his own experience.

完形填空(Cloze Test)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned. Parents are trying to hide presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real ___1___ On Christmas Eve, young children find the excitement almost unbearable （不能忍受的）. They are torn between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to ___2___ late so that they will not ___3___ the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie ___4___ for a long time, hoping to see Father Christmas.

　　Last Christmas, my wife and I ___5___ hid a few large presents in the storeroom. I ___6___ the moment when my son, Jimmy, would ask me where that new bike had come from, but ___7___ he did not see it.

　　On Christmas Eve, ___8___ took the children hours to go to sleep. It must have been nearly ___9___ when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began ___10___ stockings. Then I pushed in the ___11___ I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We knew we would not get much sleep that night, for the children were ___12___ to get up early. At about five o'clock the next morning, we were ___13___ by loud sounds coming from the children's room. ___14___ I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came riding into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, ___15___ close behind pushing her new baby carriage. Then came the baby, moving on his hands and knees with a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke us up completely. The day had really begun with a band （巨响）!

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　　Music forms an important part of many cultural and social activities. People use music to 1 feelings and ideas. Music also serves to entertain and relax.

　　Music is a performing 2 . It differs from such arts as painting and poetry, in which artists create works and then display or publish them. Music composers need musicians to explain the meaning of their 3 and perform it. So musical performances are partnerships between composers and 4 .

　　Music is one of the oldest arts. People 5 started to sing as soon as language 6 Hunting tools struck 7 may have been the first musical instruments. By about 10000 BC, people had 8 how to make flutes （长笛） out of hollow（空的） bones. Many ancient people, 9 the Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians, and the people of India, used 10 in court and religious ceremonies （宫廷与宗教庆典）. The first written music dates from about 2500 BC.

　　Classical music, also called art music, is composed according to certain

11 and performed by musicians from 12 music. It includes symphonies （交响乐） and music for opera and ballet. Classical composers have written 13 styles of music during different periods of history.

　　 14 music includes many kinds of music, such as 15 music, jazz, rock music, and music from films. Popular music is generally much

16 than classical music.

　　 17 music is made up of the old 18 of a people. Most folk songs begin in distant areas. One person makes up a song, and other people

19 it and learn to sing it. Some folk songs have been passed on in this way for hundreds of years. Many 20 of classical music have used folk music in their works.

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　　In most countries people like to keep certain animals as pets. The same animals are not liked in every 1 . For example, in England 2 likes dogs, but in Malaysia some people think the dog is a very 3 animal.

4 , the most popular animals are dogs, cats and birds. A few people, especially in Asia, 5 monkeys and snakes.

　　In European countries many children like white mice. 6 , their parents do not. The 7 pets to keep are cats. They are very clean and do not need much 8 , they can take care of 9 . They need food,

10 , but if their owners forget them, they can usually 11 a mouse or a bird.

　　Birds are often beautiful and some of them 12 well, but they need a lot of care. They must have 13 food and fresh water every day, and their

14 must be kept Very clean.

　　Some people keep tropical （热带的）fish, but fish are not really pets. A pet is 15  16 we can stroke （抚摸）or talk to, something that we can pet. It is neither very exciting 17   pleasant to talk to fish.

　　Perhaps the most beautiful and clever of all animals are 18 .

19 they live in the sea, they are not fish. They are mammals （哺乳动物）. They are friendly and happy with people. 20 , they need a lot of fish to eat every day.

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　　Many television programmes are very realistic. One who watches TV often 1 that whatever happened in the film could 2 happen to him. With only 3 imagination, every man in the street becomes a thief,

4 , or a murderer. Jane had been watching a spy film at a friend's house. In it, a young girl had been followed and was murdered. She felt a little frightened 5 to the station. She took the train back to the centre of the city. There were a lot of people travelling, so she felt much 6 .

　　She looked round at the other people in the train. A man sitting opposite her, 7 a newspaper, took a quick look at her. She thought 8 of it until she saw him staring at her. Remembering 9 and feeling very uncomfortable, she got out of the train and went to the bus stop. When he got on 10 bus as she did, she felt that he was following her. As long as she had been with other people she had not been frightened, but when she 11

the bus, the streets were almost 12 She walked as quickly as she

13 She could hear footsteps following her but she dared not

14 back. After what seemed to have been hours, but was in fact a few

15 , she reached the front door. She felt for keys, but was unable to find them, 16 she was so frightened. The footsteps 17 behind her. She felt a hand on her shoulder. Instead of feeling hands round her neck, however, she heard a 18 voice.

　　“I 19 if I frightened you. I'm your new neighbour. I thought I

20 you on the train, but I wasn't sure.”

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　　Sports are full of wonderful moments, but perhaps 1 is as exciting as the finish of the marathon. It is the longest, hardest 2 of all. The name “marathon” comes from a village in 3 . A famous battle was

4 there in the year 490 BC. When the Greeks had beaten the Persians （波斯人）, a soldier 5 all the way 6 Marathon to Athens, more than 40 kilometres to 7 people the good 8 . When the modern Olympic Games 9 in 1896, the organizers knew this 10 . The marathon has been a race 11 that time.

　　In the ancient world, the Olympic Games were held 12 four years of 1,000 years. They were an important part of life. In the 13 Games we try to copy their 14 . The finest sportsmen in the world are collected in one place 15 at least the finest “amateurs（业余爱好者）” are. An amateur is someone who does not earn 16 money from sport. It is often difficult to say who is an amateur and who is not. It is 17 that Olympic athletes do not earn large amounts of money tike professional （职业的） sportsmen. But Olympic athletes are often students or teachers of a 18 They have to 19 a lot of time training. Their governments pay for their training travel and pocket money, 20 they want them to win. Some people think this changes the Olympics. They feel that the Games are now a political marathon.

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　　Bill Robinson is on trial for murder. He 1 in a small town in Ohio and then went to Kent State University for one year. When he was nineteen years old, he was 2 to join the army and was soon 3 to fight in Vietnam. He was very 4 there as he hated the 5 and he hated killing people. Two years later he returned home and tried to 6 where he had left off (stop), but things were never quite 7 again for the young black man. For one thing, he always had 8 dreams about the war. He could not concentrate on his studies and soon he had to 9 school. Then he was 10 from one job after another. He wanted to meet someone

11 and get married, but he just couldn't seem to 12 anyone. He became 13 easily and people kept away from him. He was always

14 Finally one day, while eating at a restaurant, Bill lost 15 of himself and 16 someone for no 17 at all. Bill's lawyer hopes that he will not be held responsible（承担责任） for the shooting. He hopes that the 18 and the jury will 19 that Bill was “temporarily insane （患精神病的）” and did not really choose to 20 anyone.

完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　When people don't know the language, the most common way is 1 communicate through 2 . However, many gestures have different meanings, or on meaning at all, in different parts of the world. In the United States, 3 example 4 your head 5 means “Yes”. In some parts of Greece and Turkey, 6 , this motion can mean “ 7 ”. In Southeast Asia , nodding your head 8 a polite way of 9 “I heard you”.

　　In ancient Rome, 10 the emperor wanted to spare someone's life, he would put his 11 up. Today in the United States, when someone put his/her thumb 12 , it means“ 13 is all right”. However in Sardinia and Greece, the gesture is insulting and 14 not be used there.

　　In the United States, 15 your clasped hands 16 your head means “I' m the champion” or “I'm the winner”. It is the sign fighters make 17 they win a fight. When a leading Russian Statesman made this gesture after a White House meeting, Americans misunderstood and thought he meant he was a winner. In Russia, however, it is a sign of 18 .

　　In the United States, 19 your hand tip with the thumb and index finger in a circle and the 20 three fingers spread out means “Everything is OK” and is frequently used by astronauts and politicians. In France and Belgium, it can mean “You are worth nothing”.

完形填空，阅读下面短文，从所给各题的四个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned. Parents are 1 with difficult jobs of hiding presents from 2 young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real 3 . On Christmas Eve, young children find the 4 almost unbearable. They are torn between the wish to 5 up late so that they Mil not miss the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie 6 in bed for a long time, hoping to get a short 7 at Father Christmas.

　　Last Christmas, my wife and I 8 managed to hide a few large presents in the store room I 9 the moment when my son, Jimmy, would ask me where the new bike had come from, but 10 he did not see it.

　　On Christmas Eve, it took the children hours to go to deep. It must have been nearly 11 when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began 12 stockings. Then I 13 in the bike for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We know we would not get much 14 that night, for the children were sure to get up early. At about five o'clock the next morning, we were 15 by loud sounds coming from the children's room--they shouted excitedly! 16 I had time to get out of bed, Jimmy came 17 into our bedroom on his new bike and his sister, Mary, 18 close behind, pushing her new baby carriage. Even the baby arrived, he moved on the 19 and knees into the room dragging a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke us up 20 . The day had really begun with a bang.