Tom didn’t take part in the after-school activity yesterday, _________ _________? 69. The students’ projects will be on show in three days. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ will the students’ projects be on show? 70. Can you tell me when I should water the flowers? (改为简单句)
Can you tell me _________ _________ water the flowers?
71. Laura spent one week finishing reading the book Harry Potter. (保持句意基本不变)
It _________ Laura one week _________ finish reading the book Harry Potter.
Part 3 Reading and Writing (第三部分 阅读和写话)
Ⅸ. Reading comprehension (阅读理解): (共36分)
(A)
Complete the following dialogue with proper sentences in the box (选出适当的句子完成下列对话): ( 6分)
A) Are you going to go with anyone?
A: Have you made any holiday plans? B: 72 I am going to go camping. A: That’s great! 73
B: For a week. I only have a five-day holiday. A: 74 B: I’ll probably leave around the end of May. A: And where are you going to go?
B: I haven’t thought about that yet. Perhaps I will go to one of the national parks.
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B) Yes, I’ve decided on one thing. C) So, when are you leaving? D) How long will you be away? E) I will probably not. F) No, I haven’t. G) That sounds like fun. A: National parks? 75
B: Yeah. I will go hiking and do some fishing there. A: Are you going to buy a tent?
B: I am not sure. 76 It’s too expensive. A: 77 B: No. I need some time alone. I’m going to travel by myself.
( B )
It seems that everybody tells lies（谎言）— well, not big lies, but what we call ―white lies‖. Telling white lies isn’t that bad. Most of the time, people do it because they want to protect a friendship. Some studies show that the average person lies about seven times a day. The only real questions are about when we lie and who we tell lies to. A recent study found that people often say something different from the facts. Here are some ways they do it.
? Lying to hide something:
People often lie because they want to hide something from someone. For example, a son doesn’t tell his parents that he’s dating (约会) a girl because he doesn’t think they will like her. So he says he’s going out with the boys.
? Giving false excuses:
Sometimes people lie because they don’t want to do something. For example, someone invites you to a party. You think it will be boring, so you say you’re busy.
? Lying to make someone feel good:
Often we say something different from the facts to make someone feel good. For example, your friend cooks dinner for you, but it tastes terrible. Do you say so? No! You probably say, ―Mmm, this is delicious!‖
? Lying to hide bad news:
Sometimes we don’t want to tell someone bad news. For example,
you have just had a very bad day at work, but you don’t feel like talking about it. So if someone asks you about your day, you just say all was fine.
True or False（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示): ( 6分)
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78. White lies are usually big lies. 79. People tell white lies in different ways.
80. Young people may tell white lies to hide something from their parents. 81. People sometimes tell white lies to refuse invitations politely.
82. When you taste something terrible, you may tell a white lie to make the host happy. 83. From the passage we learn that white lies are harmful to friendship.
( C )
For 99% of human history, people took their food from the world around them. They ate all that they could find, and then moved on. Then about 10,000 years ago, or for 1% of human history, people learned to farm the land.
The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in, or which part of our country we live in. For example, in the south of China they eat rice, but in the north they eat noodles. In European countries near the sea, people eat a lot of fishes. In central (中部) Europe,
away from the sea, people don’t eat so much fish, they eat more meat. In Germany and Poland there are hundreds of different kinds of sausages.
In North America, Australia, and Europe, people eat with knives and forks. In China, people eat with chopsticks. In parts of India and the Middle East people use their fingers and bread to pick up food.
Nowadays it is possible to transport (运输) food easily from one part of the world to the other. We can eat what we like, when we like, at any time of the year. In Britain, bananas come from Africa; rice comes from India or the USA; strawberries come from Chile or Spain. Food is very big business. But people in poor countries are still hungry, and people in rich countries eat too much. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案): ( 12分) 84. 10,000 years ago, people .
A) learned to farm the land C) couldn’t find food around them
B) cooked different kinds of food
D) transported food from one country to another
85. In central Europe, away from the sea, people eat .
A) more noodles C) more meat
B) much fish D) much rice
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86. In North America, Australia, and Europe, people .
A) eat with chopsticks
C) use their fingers to pick up food A) Chile and Spain
B) eat with knives and forks D) use bread to pick up food B) America and Australia D) Germany and Poland
87. have many kinds of sausages. C) China and Japan
A) What we eat depends on where we live. B) Poor countries are still having food problems. C) Rich countries don’t need food from other countries. D) Nowadays we can eat what we like at any time of the year. A) Ways to Find Food C) Food Choices
B) Food Around the World D) World Food Problems ( D )
Julia Hill, an American woman, was born in 1974. She was 23 years old when she discovered that a company wanted to cut down part of a forest in California. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees. One of the trees was 70 metres tall and 1,000 years old.
Julia wasn’t happy about this. She traveled to California and climbed up the tree. ―If I sit in the tree,‖ she said, ―the company can’t cut it down.‖ At the beginning, Julia planned to stay in the tree for two weeks. She lived in a small tree-house and her friends were very helpful — they cooked food for her every day. She used her mobile phone to talk to her family and to news reporters. She stayed in the tree day and night.
Environmental organizations supported her, but other people weren’t on her side and they tried to stop her. The company used a helicopter that stayed near her tree-house for a long time. The helicopter was very noisy and there was a lot of wind. Julia didn’t like it, but she stayed in the tree.
In the end, she was successful. The company agreed not to cut down the redwood. Finally, after two years and eight days in the tree, Julia Hill climbed down and walked on the ground again. She and her friends were very happy.
Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 12分)
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88. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
89. Which is the best title of this passage?
90. What nationality is Julia Hill? 91. How tall and how old was the tree Julia Hill stayed in? The tree was tall and old.
92. How did she keep in touch with others while staying high up in the tree?
She kept in touch with others . 93. When did she climb down the tree? After the company . 94. How long did Julia Hill stay in the tree? For . 95. Why did Julia Hill stay in the tree? She wanted to . Ⅹ. Cloze test (完形填空):（共24分）
A. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语
完成短文):（8分）
In 1999, a television company in Britain made a very popular programme called The 1900 House. They changed an ordinary house in a street in London so it was 96 a house from the year 1900. For example, it had no electricity, just gas for the lights and the kitchen. The toilet was outside in the garden, and all the furniture was from 1900 or before.
Then they found a family — the Browns — to live in the house for three months. 97 people in the family lived in the house: Paul and
Joyce Brown, their daughters, Kathryn, Ruth and Hilary and their son, Joe. For three months, while they were living in the house, they had to wear Victorian (维多利亚时代的) clothes and live like people 98 . For example, they didn’t wash their hair with shampoo but with something else like lemon. They didn’t have a washing machine so they had to wash their clothes by hand, and they had to use the toilet outside in the garden. But the family didn’t have to go shopping. 99 , the TV company did all their shopping for them. There were 100 inside the house to make videos of the family’s everyday life, and the Browns talked on television about their experiences.
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