完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
Have you ever tried to draw a straight line, only to find it turns out all wrong? Or, wanted to show 1 at a party but the song you’d practised so many times suddenly 2 more difficult?
I’ve had both these 3 . As a Senior 3 student, I have to 4 many exams. Each time, I enter one, thinking “I 5 fail this time.”
But don’t be surprised --- it’s not 6 we don’t try, or don’t do enough preparation, 7 don’t take it seriously. On the contrary, it is because we put ourselves under too much 8 . It is thinking: “I must…” that makes us taste the terrible flavor of 9 ．
We often 10 to our friends: “Don’t be too hard 11 yourself!” But when we 12 our own goals, we may not listen to our own advice．
In doing so, we are making our path to success increasingly difficult．
So why not 13 this crazy pursuit(追求)to get the best? Just face the problem 14 before you with a calm mind, enjoy the hard work and you will succeed．
In my opinion, 15 a calm state of mind is a skill for life. For people who want to succeed, 16 this is a very important lesson．
So 17 time when you’re trying to draw a straight line or 18 a performance, tell yourself: “If I can just do it better than last time, it’s a 19 ． ”
Keep a calm state of mind, and you will be happy 20 you succeed or fail．
| 小题2: | | A．looks | B．appears | C．listens | D．becomes |
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| 小题3: | | A．experiences | B．chances | C．times | D．difficulties |
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| 小题4: | | A．finish | B．win | C．take | D．join |
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| 小题5: | | A．can’t | B．may | C．shouldn’t | D．haven’t |
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| 小题6: | | A．why | B．since | C．when | D．because |
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| 小题8: | | A．care | B．power | C．pressure | D．attention |
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| 小题9: | | A．exams | B．difficulty | C．marks | D．failure |
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| 小题12: | | A．share | B．achieve | C．build | D．set |
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| 小题13: | | A．throw away | B．get away | C．take away | D．let away |
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| 小题14: | | A．waiting | B．sitting | C．lying | D．laying |
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| 小题15: | | A．Becoming | B．Making | C．Growing | D．Keeping |
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| 小题16: | | A．trying | B．realizing | C．using | D．training |
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| 小题18: | | A．put on | B．play on | C．give on | D．show on |
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| 小题19: | | A．success | B．task | C．lesson | D．hit |
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| 小题20: | | A．if | B．either | C．neither | D．whether |
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小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:C
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:A
小题20:D |
小题1:show off“炫耀”,符合上下文，你想在聚会时炫耀一下，选B。
小题2:考查连系动词的用法，歌曲不可能是看起来，A、B都不对，C项不是连系动词，选D。
小题3:第一段讲的是一些经历，作者都有遇到过，选A。
小题4:“参加考试”用“take the exam”,选C。
小题5:考查情态动词，考试中，学生会下决心不能失败。选A。
小题6:从下面的并列句it is because we put ourselves under too much。。。，所以填D。
小题7:否定句中的并列词用or，句意是：这不是因为我们不努力，没准备好，也不是不认真。选B。
小题8:put sb under too much pressure“给某人太大的压力”，选C。
小题9:从上文的：I can’t fail this time.说明是品尝到失败的滋味，选D。
小题10:say to sb“对某人说”，后面接说话的内容，speak后面一般接语言，talk to“和某人交谈”不接说的内容。Tell sb没有to，选A。
小题11:考查介词的搭配：be hard on“对…苛刻”选B。
小题12:set our own goals表示“确立自己的目标”选D。
小题13:句意是：为什么不抛弃这种追求完美的想法呢？throw away“扔掉，抛弃”选A。
小题14:lying是现在分词作定语，原形是lie，“躺”，意思是：在你面前的困难,注意lay是“放置”，不符合句意，选C。
小题15:D，句意是：保持一种冷静的思想状态是生活的技能。
小题16:B，句意是：对于想成功的人来说，意识到这点是很重要的一课。
小题17:next time 做连词的用法，后面接时间状语从句，选C。
小题18:A，put on performance“表演”。
小题19:前面讲的都是失败的问题，所以现在是：下次做得更好就是成功，选A。
小题20:whether you succeed or fail“不管你是成功还是失败”选D。 |
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试题【完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）Have you ever tried to draw a straight line, only to f】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Let’s pretend we’re sailing down the Rhine River on a pleasure boat. The Rhine is one of the main waterways of Germany, and the river traffic is heavy. It’s interesting to watch the many boats going up and down the river. But the river traffic is not nearly so interesting as the beautiful scenery along the banks and hillsides. The boat is passing many old castles. We can see people working in the vineyards (葡萄园) on the hillsides. There are vineyards as far as the eye can see. Wine from the Rhine Valley is famous all over the world.
Suddenly our boat slows down and begins to turn a little. We are coming to a sharp bend in the river. On our right we can see a rocky cliff over 400 feet high. At first it looks quite ordinary, but there is nothing ordinary about it. There are many stories, poems, and songs about the cliff. We are looking at the Lorelei. Then someone on the boat begins to sing in German, the song of the Lorelei. It is a song about a beautiful siren (妖妇) who has lured(引诱) many sailors to their deaths.
The siren is supposed to sit on the rock combing her long golden hair and singing. The sailors who hear her forget to steer（掌舵）, and the current of river hurls (掀翻) their boats on the rocks and dashes（猛撞）them to pieces.
Soon other people on the boat begin to sing. The beautiful song adds to special magic to the moment, and you begin to realize why so many people have made this trip down the Rhine to see the rock of the Lorelei.
小题1:The most interesting thing to those who are sailing down the Rhine River on a pleasure boat is . | A．to watch many boats going up and down the river | | B．to see the beautiful scene along the banks and hillsides | | C．to hear a song about beautiful siren | | D．to see a beautiful siren combing her golden hair |
小题2: Which of the following is famous all over the world?| A．The Rhine River. | B．The River Traffic. | | C．Wine from the Rhine Valley. | D．The Lorelei. |
小题3:We can see a rocky cliff over 400 feet high .| A．on our right when coming to a sharp bend | B．on the Rhine hillsides | | C．from the Rhine Valley | D．on the boat |
小题4: The song of the Lorelei is about .| A．The Rhine wine | | B．a rocky cliff | | C．the beautiful scenery along the Rhine River | | D．a beautiful and dangerous siren |
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All plant cells are capable of taking up（吸收）water. Even dead ones do to a certain degree. Absorption（吸收）of water by dead cell walls makes wood become larger.
In common land plants, the living cells of roots take upmost of the water. Land plants without roots do exist, however. Those greenish-yellow lichens（苔藓）you see on rocks in the high mountains have no roots. Half a billion years ago, when water plants started to enter the land, the first land plants did not have roots.
Even among the flowering plants, one finds rootless forms. These flowering plants are “the higher plants” because they evolved（进化）recently and are thus considered higher on the evolutionary scale（进化度）.
In the Peruvian desert, there grows one of these rootless higher plants, a bromeliad. It is a relative of the pineapple. Even if this plant had roots, they would be of no use, because where the plant grows, it never rains. The plant gets its water only from the dew（露水）it collects at night, when its leaves cool off. Such rootless plants, of course, can be moved with ease, but they will only grow when they are placed out in the open. If they are placed too near a house, the radiation from the heat of the house prevents the leaves from cooling and so prevents dew from forming, and the plant dies.
In the southern United States and in Puerto Rico, one sees bromeliads growing high above the streets on the insulation（绝缘物）of electric wires. These plants get their water from rain, and the only soil they ever come in contact with is the dust that may blow on their leaves.
小题1:Wood becomes larger because of .| A．dead cell walls | B．water entering dead cells | | C．the growth of cells | D．the death of cells |
小题2:From the passage we know that the evolutionary scale is graded according to .| A．evolutionary cycles | B．heights and depths | | C．time | D．kinds |
小题3:The “bromeliad” is a plant that .| A．has no roots | B．is a pineapple | | C．can grow anywhere | D．takes up water through its leaves |
小题4:The most suitable title for this passage is “ ”.| A．Absorption of water by plants | B．Rootless plants in America | | C．Plants in the desert | D．Higher plants |
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Butterfly’s wings
One day a small opening appeared on a cocoon(茧), a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it was struggling to 1 its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten 2 it could and it could go no further. So the man decided to 3 the butterfly: he took a pair of scissors and 4 the remaining part of the cocoon. The butterfly then 5 easily.
But it has a swollen(肿胀的) body and 6 wings. The man continued to 7 the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the 8 would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would 9 in time. Neither happened! 10, the butterfly spent the rest of its life 11 around with a swollen body and small, shriveled(褶皱的) wings. It 12 was able to fly. What the man did in his 13 and haste(匆忙)did no good to the butterfly. He didn’t know the 14 cocoon and the struggle 15 for the butterfly to get through the tiny 16 were the natural way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings 17 it would be ready for flight once it achieved its 18 from the cocoon.
Sometimes the 19 is exactly what we need in our life. If we are allowed to go through our life without any 20, it would not be a good thing to us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
| 小题1: | | A．build | B．force | C．form | D．destroy |
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| 小题2: | | A．as far as | B．as long as | C．as soon as | D．as quick as |
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| 小题3: | | A．seize | B．leave | C．bring | D．help |
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| 小题4: | | A．took off | B．made up | C．cut off | D．picked up |
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| 小题5: | | A．spread over | B．came out | C．stayed in | D．flew away |
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| 小题6: | | A．hard | B．strong | C．small | D．large |
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| 小题7: | | A．watch | B．look for | C．look after | D．follow |
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| 小题8: | | A．butterfly | B．wings | C．cocoon | D．scissors |
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| 小题9: | | A．disappear | B．enlarge | C．lose | D．contract |
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| 小题10: | | A．Luckily | B．Probably | C．In all | D．In fact |
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| 小题11: | | A．crawling | B．approaching | C．running | D．wandering |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．seldom | C．always | D．never |
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| 小题13: | | A．fear | B．kindness | C．evil | D．confidence |
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| 小题14: | | A．restricting | B．loose | C．soft | D．little |
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| 小题15: | | A．prepared | B．wanted | C．allowed | D．required |
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| 小题16: | | A．place | B．room | C．opening | D．space |
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| 小题17: | | A．even if | B．otherwise | C．when | D．so that |
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| 小题18: | | A．life | B．success | C．progress | D．freedom |
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| 小题19: | | A．courage | B．struggle | C．wisdom | D．strength |
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| 小题20: | | A．fun | B．friends | C．obstacles | D．achievement |
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According to the dictionary definition of“create, ordinary people are creative every day”.To create means“to bring into being, to cause to exist something each of us does daily”.
We are creative whenever we look at or think about something in a new way. First, this includes an awareness of our surroundings. It means using all of our senses to become aware of our world. This may be as simple as being aware of color and texture(质地),as well as taste, when we plan a meal. Above all, it is the ability to notice things that others might miss.
A second part of creativity is an ability to see relationships among things. If we believe the expression,“There is nothing new under the sun, the creativity is remaking or recombining(***) the old in new ways.”For example, we might do this by finding a more effective way to study or a better way to arrange our furniture, or we might make a new combination of camera lenses and filters to create an unusual photograph.
A third part of creativity is the courage and drive to make use of our new ideas, to ask for them to achieve some new results. To think up a new idea is one thing; to put the idea to work is another.
These three parts of creativity are included in all the great works of geniuses, but they are also included in many of our day-to-day activities.
小题1:“There is nothing new under the sun” really implies that _________.| A．a new thing can only be created at the basis of earliest things | | B．a new thing is only a tale | | C．we can seldom create new things | | D．we can hardly see really new things in the world |
小题2:What does the author think about the relationship between a new thought and its being put into practice?| A．It’s more difficult to create a new thought than to use it in practice. | | B．To find a new thought will clearly lead to the production of a new thing. | | C．A man with an excellent ability of practice can easily become an inventor. | | D．One may come up with a new thought, but can not put it into practice. |
小题3:The best title for this passage is__________.| A．How to Develop One’s Creativity | B．What Is Creativity | | C．The Importance of Creativity | D．Creativity, a Not Faraway Thing |
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| Expert: Science Adviser - <>3/21/2011
| QUESTION: Dear Marie,
Do you have some good suggestions of biology: plant, animal, human science experiments that would work well with teenagers? Scientific methods must go with the experiments. Thanks! <
Donna
ANSWER: Dear Donna,
Marie is not online and I’ll help you instead of him. There are a lot of little things that can be done, but do you mean lab experiment or statistical analysis, etc.? Let us know what can be suitable for you teens, and we will do our best to send you some experiments to do.
Best，
Gloria
| Expert: Science Adviser - 3/23/2011
| QUESTION: Dear Gloria,
I need lab experiments. The teenage students and I will use data from these experiments to make charts, graphs, tables, etc. and to provide claims and evidence to explain more about the results. Thank you very much.
Donna
ANSWER:
Hi there,
Your best and easiest way is to do some chemistry experiments. Those are very easy and most probably you can do it in the lab and have charts, etc. for you. I do not have any particular one at the top of my head because I do cancer research and it is a bit more difficult than research for teenagers. I think you can look through these and see if you find something useful for you. http://www.siraze.net/chemistry/sezennur/experiments.htm
If not, get back to me and Marie, and we’ll look more. The good thing about this site is that it has the procedures that you can follow.
Good luck，
Gloria
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小题1:How many Science Advisers are there working for this website?| A．Only one. | B．At least two. | C．About three. | D．Over five. |
小题2:According to Donna, she and the teenage students need ___________.| A．experiments in the lab | B．statistical analysis | | C．chemistry experiments | D．charts and evidence |
小题3:Who is this text for?| A．Teenagers. | B．Teachers. | C．Parents. | D．Experts. |
小题4:According to Gloria, Donna and the teenage students should __________.| A．turn to others for help | B．do cancer researches | | C．look through a website | D．tell who will be helped |
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