— Why didn’t you arrive there until three days later? 

— Because the heavy rain _____ the difficulties of the journey.

— How was your interview last Monday?

— ____.

Five million, five hundred and fifteen thousand, one hundred and fifty-one is ______.

完形填空

It seems that the cities in the future will have to change. Because the world’s population

1 , there will be  2  people in the cities tomorrow.

It may be    3   for any family to live in a house with land around it. There   4  enough space for them. 5   to solve this problem may be the skyscraper city(摩天城). The highest building in the world today is in Taipei. It’s about 509 metres high. The skyscraper cities in the future will be many times 6  .

In a skyscraper city about 250,000 people will live. Nearly a million people can 7  in four of these great buildings. Each skyscraper city will have four towns in it and each town will have ten villages. They will live, work and 8   their free time in them. They won’t need to leave the city 9  they want to. They will be able to move about in the city by transport controlled 10  computers. Let’s imagine how the life will be then!

閱讀理解

A

The one-child policy in our country has made most families much smaller than before. That is to say, there are fewer children in a family. But the population of China is still growing faster. Why? In fact, it’s a serious problem not only in China, but also in the whole world. It’s reported that the world population is expected to reach 9,200,000,000 by 2050. There are two important reasons. First, there are still more and more babies born every year. Next, people in the world can live much longer than before.

The earth is too tired, but it has to burden(擔(dān)負(fù)) more in the future. Who can save her?

根據(jù)所給短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。

1.   The passage tells us that the whole world is suffering from(為……苦惱) the      .

2.The underlined word “expect” means _______ in the sentence.

3.The population of the world will be about ______ by the year 2050. 

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

5.Which is the best title for the passage?

閱讀理解

B

How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month? Maybe 200 yuan? But for Li Beibei, 30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch—1.5 yuan each day. “Meat is too expensive for me,” said Li.

Li, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Beijing’s Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers(外來務(wù)工人員). They came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, He’nan two years ago. Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job.

Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 am and rides her bike for 20 minutes to get to school. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework—usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all her work. During the weekdays she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. “I could cook when I was eight. Dad said sometimes I cook better than Mum!”

Li said she wanted to be a doctor. “I watch TV and find out there are many people with AIDS in He’nan. Some are kids. They need help,” said Li.

But she is afraid to leave school. “I hope I will always be in school,” said Li. “Dad works hard to get money. I promise him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future.”

1.Li Beibei came from ______.

2.Which of the following sentences is TRUE? ______.

3.She spends ______ on her homework everyday.

4.Her wish is to be a doctor because she wants to ______.

5.The best title of the passage should be ______.

閱讀理解

C

China Youth says that more and more girl students have entered colleges to study in the recent few years. As we know, once the number of boys was larger than that of girls and boys did much better than girls in our country for a long time. Now, things have changed a lot.

In recent years, the proportion of girl students is growing fast. In 1998, about 39.7% of college students were girls. In 2000, it was 41.07% and in 2001, the number was 42.14%.

There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, there is little difference between boys and girls in their intelligence(智力). That’s to say, girls are as clever as boys. And boys have more interests than girls, so they may not always do well in their study.

Secondly, girls are more careful than boys. They work harder at school and they do better in all exams.

Another reason is that with the development of society, people pay more and more attention to girls’ education.

1.China Youth says that more and more ______.

2.42.14% refers to(指) the number of ______.

3.The writer gave us ______ reasons to explain the question.

4.What does the underlined word “proportion” mean in Chinese?

5.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

詞匯。

1.It usually takes me half an hour __________ (walk) to school.

2.The government should pay much attention to the __________ (increase) population.

3.The grand piano takes up too much __________ (room).

4.I think Beijing is one of the ___________ (beautiful) places in the world.

5.No one __________ (know) when he will be back.

6.There are sixty m__________ in an hour.

7.Today we rarely(很少) see s__________ pouring from chimney.

8.Women commit (犯) far fewer c__________ than men.

9.All of us should put r__________ into dustbin (垃圾箱) to protect the environment.

10.It is very impolite for you to fail to keep an a__________.

動詞填空

閱讀下面短文，用所給動詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使短文完整、通順。每空不限一詞。

Rose is one of the funniest girls in her class. She looks like a boy, and she is good at performing. So she (1)__________(choose) to play Harry Potter by her classmates last week. She said happily, “I’m sure that I am able to do the job well because I (2)__________(see) the movie many times already.”

Dick, one of Rose’s best classmates, is also an actor in the play. He (3)__________(like) to perform the play with Rose. He said, “We are confident that we (4)__________(do) well in our school art festival next week.”

Mrs. Smith, their teacher, pays much attention to their play. She often encourages them. Yesterday afternoon when she (5)__________(watch) their performance, she took photos of them.

完成對話

通讀下面的對話, 然后根據(jù)上下文補(bǔ)全對話內(nèi)容。

A: Have you (1)r_________ today’s newspaper?

B: No, I haven’t. (2)W_________ there any important news?

A: There’s a (3)r_________ about the population of our country. It says we have got another 16,000,000 people this year.

B: Oh, the population is growing faster and (4)f______.

A: If the population goes on (5)g_________, it will be the (6)b_________ problem in our country.

B: Of course. The population of the babies born in one year in China is (7)a_________ as large as the population of Australia.

A: I’m afraid there will be only (8)s_________ room for us some day.

B: But if every family has only (9)o_________ baby, things will turn (10)b_________.