1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
A) plan
A) Everybody A) company A) information A) easy
A) important A) interesting B) idea
B) Somebody B) museum B) news B) terrible B) necessary B) changing C) record C) Nobody C) library C) message C) OK C) unusual C) exciting D) cause D) Someone D) hotel D) note D) hard D) exciting D) surprising
美言金句 《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》是一本每年出版的参考书，保持着全球公认的世界纪录，书中记录了人类所创造的极限以及自然界的奇迹。
Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. What kind of book is the Guinness Book of World Records?
______________________________________________________________ 2. Hugh Beaver’s book was a great success, wasn’t it? How do you know it? ______________________________________________________________ 3. What do you think of the book?
______________________________________________________________
Text 6 黄石公园
A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.
1. Jackson has donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes (公共事业) through
his foundation (基金). In 1984, Jackson received an a__________ at the White House from President Reagan (里根总统).
2. Jackson’s music has touched millions of fans. Without him, pop music would not have been
the s__________ today.
3. The Double-Seventh Festival (七夕节) is a traditional Chinese festival for young ladies, but in
the past century or so it had been forgotten. The younger Chinese generation, for example, seems more f__________ with Western festivals. 1. a__________ 2. s__________ 3. f__________
B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
Yellowstone National Park
A National Park is a large piece of land where animals are free to come and go. Trees and plants (1) g__________ everywhere. People go to the National Park to enjoy (2) n__________. Many people stay in the campgrounds (营地) in National Parks. They sleep in tents and cook their food over campfires. They also take a walk in the parks. On a gate at the (3) e__________ to Yellow Stone, a sign says, “For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People”.
Yellow Stone is the world’s oldest National Park. It became a National Park in 1872. It is also the largest park. It (4) c__________ parts of the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho (怀俄明州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州). Yellow Stone is two-and-a-half times the (5) s__________ of Rhode Island (罗得岛州), the smallest state in the United States.
Yellow Stone is famous for its geysers (天然间歇泉). These holes in the ground shoot hot water into the air. There are about seventy geysers in the park. The most famous is Old Faithful (老实泉). About (6) e__________ hour Old Faithful shoots hot water hundreds of feet into the air.
Two-and-a-half million people visit this beautiful park each year. Americans take good care of the park. They tell visitors not to (7) p__________ the flowers. They also tell them not to feed or hunt animals. 1. g__________ 2. n__________ 3. e__________ 4. c__________ 5. s__________ 6. e__________ 7. p__________
美言金句 黄石国家公园是美国国会批准建立的国家公园，建成于1872年3月1日，绝大部分位于怀俄明州西北部，部分在蒙大拿州南部和爱达荷州东部。
Yellow Stone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress as a national park on March 1, 1872, is located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho.
C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. What can people do in a national park?
______________________________________________________________ 2. Which is larger, Yellow Stone or Rhode Island?
______________________________________________________________ 3. How often does Old Faithful shoot hot water hundreds of feet into the air? ______________________________________________________________
Text 7 布鲁斯和爵士乐
A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.
1. There have so far been 23 more blue-sky days this year than there w__________ last year in
Shanghai.
2. To millions of Michael Jackson’s Chinese fans, June 26 was a b__________ Friday, wasn’t it? 3. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (国家航空和宇宙航行局) may be
going to the same old moon soon again, but it is going to do s__________ different. 1. w__________ 2. b__________ 3. s__________
B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
Blues and Jazz
People from Europe and America brought Africans to America as slaves before and during the nineteenth century. These Africans brought their music with them. After the American Civil War (1861-1865) (美国内战), the African-American people in the United States were no (1)
1__________ slaves. Their African-American music became (2) f__________. It started in the south, in Louisiana and Mississippi. Then it (3) t__________ to the north. This music became blues and then jazz.
Blues and jazz became very (4) p__________ in the twentieth century. A person who “sings the blues” feels sad. Usually, he or she lost something — maybe a person, or money, or a job. Blues express sad feelings sometimes in a (5) f__________way. People played blues first with only one or two instruments, for example, a guitar, or sometimes a piano. Sometimes they sang without any instruments. Jazz can be (6) h__________ and is often faster.
Musicians who play blues and jazz change the music to show their emotions. They play the music differently each time. Today people all over the world (7) s__________ like listening to blues and jazz because all people have strong emotional (情感的) feelings sometimes. 1. 1__________ 2. f__________ 3. t__________ 4. p__________ 5. f__________ 6. h__________ 7. s__________
美言金句 布鲁斯歌曲和爵士乐流行了一个多世纪，影响了几代人。
Blues and Jazz have been popular for more than one century. They have also made great influence on one generation after another.
C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage.
1. Do blues and jazz spread from the south to the north or from the north to the south? ______________________________________________________________ 2. Blues singers are the persons who sing when they feel sad, aren’t they?
______________________________________________________________ 3. What is the difference between blues and jazz?
______________________________________________________________
Text 8 哥伦布发现新大陆
A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.
1. Because of the economic recession (经济危机), many companies have r__________ wages. 2. In the morning, the weather forecast said it would rain in the afternoon but it turned
o__________ to be a fine day.
3. An 8.0-magnitude (级) earthquake h__________ Sichuan in May, 2008. Rebuilding projects
in the worst-damaged Beichuan have been completed. 1. r__________ 2. o__________ 3. h__________
B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
Discovering the New Land
Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Italy. When Columbus was a teenager, he left home and became a sailor. Later, Columbus moved to Portugal. He became a sea captain and sailed to many (1) d__________ places.
In Columbus’s time, people from Europe always traveled east to the Indies to buy gold, silk,
and spices. They thought the only way to reach the Indies was to go east. But Columbus believed he could sail (2) w__________ across the ocean to the Indies. He thought his route would be (3) e__________. He made a plan and wanted to have a try.
Columbus needed money to try his plan. He asked the King of Portugal (葡萄牙) for support. The King of Portugal said no because he thought Columbus’s plan was (4) i__________. Then Columbus asked the King and Queen of Spain (西班牙). They were interested in his plan. They agreed to help him. Columbus promised to bring (5) t__________ riches from his voyage (航行).
On August 3rd, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain into the unknown.
On October 12th, 1492, one of the sailors saw a beautiful island. “Land! Land!” he shouted. Columbus claimed the land of Spain.
He thought they had reached a (6) n__________ part of the Indies. But this was not (7) t__________. This island was near America. Columbus never thought he was wrong.
Columbus returned to Spain in March 1493. Cheering crowds greeted Columbus. The King and Queen made him governor of the new land. 1. d__________ 2. w__________ 3. e__________ 4. i__________ 5. t__________ 6. n__________ 7. t__________
美言金句 哥伦布发现新大陆，一个耳熟能详的故事，激励了一代又一代人。心怀梦想，秉持恒心，再远的梦想也能实现。
Columbus’s discovery of the New World, a very familiar story to us, encouraged one generation after another. With determination and persistence in heart, even the distance dream can be realized.
C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage. 1. What was Columbus’s great plan?
______________________________________________________________ 2. The king of Portugal said no to Columbus’s plan, didn’t he?
______________________________________________________________ 3. What did Columbus become when they came back to Spain?
______________________________________________________________
Text 9 勇敢勋章
A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.
1. Since the first Chinese mainland A/H1N1 was reported on May 11, a total of 125 cases (例)
h__________ been found by June 11, 2009.
2. Passengers who were checked with a fever had to be sent to hospitals for m__________
observation (观察) before the month of June, 2009.
3. People l__________ flowers to show their sorrow for the passengers and the crew of Air
France Flight 447 on June 3, 2009. 1. h__________ 2. m__________ 3. l__________
B. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
A Medal for Bravery
One warm May day, two eighteen-year-old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Baker’s Beach. The two students were named Albert Kogler and Shirley O’ Neil. They headed out to sea over a (1) d__________ of 50 meters. Albert was in front.
“Suddenly I heard him scream (尖叫),” Shirley recalls, “I looked up and saw this great gray thing going up in the air. The water seemed to be (2) a__________. Kogler screamed again. “It’s a shark! Get out of here!”
An eye-witness, Army Sergeant (中士) Leo P Day saw (3) e__________ what happened next. “I could see this boy fighting with the shark in the water,” he said. “The sea was red with blood. He was shouting and signaling (发信号) someone to go back, go back. Then I saw the girl. She was swimming towards him. She completely ignored his warning.” Shirley O’ Neil reached Kogler, and tried to take his hand.
“When I pulled, all I could see was his arm, hanging by a thread,” (咬断的手臂连着一点点) she said. So she put her arm about Kogler’s back, and started to swim towards the bank. She kept praying “Don’t let it attack again!” That (4) j__________ to the bank seemed to last for hours. At last, as they neared the bank, a fisherman threw them a line, and pulled them (5) b__________ the rest of the way.
The young man had lost a lot of blood, and died two and a half hours (6) 1__________ From the teeth marks, experts identified the attacker was a Great White Shark.
For what Sergeant Leo P Day called “the (7) g__________ exhibition of bravery I have ever seen,” the President of the U.S. gave Shirley a medal for bravery. 1. d__________ 2. a__________ 3. e__________ 4. j__________ 5. b__________ 6. 1__________ 7. g__________
美言金句 勇敢并非没有恐惧，而是克服恐惧，战胜恐惧。
Courage is not an absence of fear, but a will to overcome it in the face of life’s many challenges.
C. Answer the following questions according to the above passage.
1. What happened to Albert Kogler when he was swimming in the sea?
______________________________________________________________ 2. Shirley O’ Neil failed to get him back to the bank, didn’t she?
______________________________________________________________ 3. What would you do if you found Albert Kogler was in danger?
______________________________________________________________
Text 10 京剧史话
A. Warming up exercise: Fill in the blanks with a proper word and its part of speech.
1. In 2007, the Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Mid-Autumn
Festival, was added t__________ the list of public holidays of China, a measure designed to preserve (保护) and pass down traditional culture. Chinese people now have at 1__________