Adventure in Africa
by Connie Lee Berry
Ages 7-9 85 pages Kid's Fun Press December 2007
Adventure in Africa is written for children aged between 7 and 9 and may just be my favorite book in the Incredible Journey Series. In this book the two main characters Max and Sam are taken to an African Safari camp. Even with all the care taken by the staff to ensure the safety and comfort of the camp, things do go wrong and the two brothers find themselves rescuing an elephant and their tour guide, while braving the native wildlife and habitat of Africa.
Adventure in Africa is one of four books in this series of fluent readers’ paperback travel adventure books by Connie Lee Berry. The font(字體) is quite large and there are roughly a dozen maps, images and pictures in the book, which will attract younger readers. As an extra attraction, the back cover of the book lists some activities for children to do.
The animal photos were exciting, especially when the boys were able to ride an elephant! The pictures on the cover look like regular photos of family vacations. A large, interactive （互動的） companion website (www.ijbooks.com) allows readers to join in activities, contests and a club.
The price of the book is only ＄3.95 (US) now,＄1 lower than before, and Adventure in Africa is a bargain. Hurry up to order one.
60. The book Adventure in Africa is written for _________.
A. all the readers B. young parents C. young kids D. high school students
61. From the first paragraph we get to know _________ of the book.
A. the general idea B. the design C. the author D. the price
62. The last word in the passage ‘bargain’ probably means ‘something _________.
A. cheap B. expensive C. useful D. priceless
63. The purpose of the writer is _________.
A. to tell readers something about Africa B. to ask readers to join in contests
C. to introduce the book D. to attract young readers to buy it
科目：高中英語 來源：吉林省2010屆高三第八次模擬考試英語試卷 題型：完形填空
II．完形填空：（每小題1．5分, 滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從16到35各題所給的四個選項選出最佳答案。
Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand outstretched．Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met．She never failed to__16__ smile, my grasp, and my greeting．
On the last day of our visit, I found myself__17__on a busy corner across the street from our hotel．Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me．We had been advised to walk__18__ through the crowded traffic without looking right or left．Let them__19__ us．
__20__tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to__21__ the flood of vehicles．As I __22__ on the roadside．I felt a hand on my elbow and looked__23__to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me．She nodded her head toward the street__24__ that she would take me across．Together, we moved slowly into the disorder．
When we__25__ the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn’t help saying, “You have the most beautiful smile in the world．”
She__26__knew little English, but must have__27__ the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big hug while the__28__streamed by us on both sides．
Then we__29__ moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away,__30__smiling and waving back to me．
I had not given her a single__31__．But we had__32__ something much more important---a warming of hearts in friendship．
This__33__ reminded me of something Mother Teresag once said, “ If you cannot do great things, you can do small things with great__34__．” I will always remember this__35__．
16．A．receive B．accept C．return D．answer
17．A．alone B．away C．off D．aside
18．A．purposefully B．straight C．actively D．carefully
19．A．miss B．avoid C．separate D．dismiss
20．A．And B．So C．But D．Therefore
21．A．see B．meet C．face D．witness
22．A．moved B．wandered C．hesitated D．wondered
23．A．up B．back C．down D．forward
24．A．explaining B．marking C．meaning D．expressing
25．A．covered B．reached C．touched D．hit
26．A．actually B．obviously C．generally D．personally
27．A．recognized B．required C．misunderstood D．achieved
28．A．customers B．strangers C．traffic D．passengers
29．A．suddenly B．continuously C．luckily D．unwillingly
30．A．yet B．even C．already D．still
31．A．gift B．present C．cake D．coin
32．A．owed B．owned C．shared D．seized
33．A．exploration B．experience C．adventure D．interview
34．A．love B．feeling C．courage D．pity
35．A．aspect B．idiom C．sentence D．lesson
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年浙江省高三上學期12月月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
閱讀下面的短文, 并根據短文后的要求答題。
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers told me, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”
How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
“Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.①. It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” When others shout, “No, you can’t!”
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mclintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments. ②
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. ③ As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle(起皺紋) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means “God within”. And what is God within is but a sense of love---proper love of self(self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.
④ If we can’t do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “ I am tempted to call Layton as a genius.”
We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”.
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses---finding pleasure in the backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the charming beauty of a rainbow.
第一節(jié)：根據短文內容, 從A、B、C、D、E中選出最合適放入短文空缺處的選項，并將序號及相應答案寫在答題紙上。選項中有一項是多余選項。
A. A. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
B. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
C. It can certainly help you hang in there when the going gets tough.
D. Music, for Casals, was a hobby that made life a never ending adventure.
E. Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power.
根據短文所給的信息， 用一個完整的句子回答下列問題，并將序號及答案寫在答題紙上。
⑤What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in paragraph 6?
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年浙江省溫州市高三上學期五校聯考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the horizon was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world's 14 highest mountains.
His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia's snowcapped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.
"It tends to be the trickiest, the most dangerous," said Viesturs. "There's no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches (雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain."
In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog's tale of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog's story was of frostbite (凍傷) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away.
Viesturs got his start on Washington's Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world's highest peaks. Finally, he's done.
The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. "You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it," said Viesturs. "If we have the patience and the respect, and if we're here at the right time, under the right circumstances, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down."
What's next for a man who can't stop climbing? "I'm going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick back and enjoy the summer," says Viesturs. But for a man who's climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.
1.What record has Ed Viesturs set?
A. He has succeeded in climbing to the world’s 14th highest mountain.
B. He has been to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains.
C. He has become the first to climb to the height of 26,545feet.
D. He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14 highest mountains in the world.
2.The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “______”.
A. frightened B. discouraged C. interested D. upset
3.The author used Viestures’ words in Paragraph 6 to support a view that ______.
A. mountain climbing is a dangerous sport
B. mountains should be regarded as living creatures
C. mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy
D. those who like mountain climbing won’t stop climbing
4.What’s the next probably plan of Viestures?
A. Stopping climbing and staying with his family.
B. Climbing to the top of the world’s 14 tallest mountains again.
C. Climbing another one of the highest mountains.
D. Writing down the experiences about his adventure.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年廣東省廣州東莞五校高三第二次聯考英語卷 題型：完型填空
Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.
Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month."
But what he _____5_____ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, Dad called out over his shoulder, "You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the ____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理學家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door."
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科目：高中英語 來源：2014屆江西省南北校區(qū)高一9月聯考英語試題 題型：完型填空
It was always thought that Treasure Island(金銀島) was the product（產物） of Robert Stevenson’s imagination（想像）. 36 ，recent research has found the true story of this exciting work .
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 37 for many years .In 1881 he returned to Scotland to spend 38 .With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 39 .
Each morning they would go out for a 40 over the hills .They had been 41 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd, Stevenson’s son, felt the days 42 .To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 43 .
One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 44 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 45 . “What’s that?” he asked “That’s the 46 treasure”, said the boy. Robert suddenly 47 something of an adventure(冒險) story in the boy’s 48 .While the rain was pouring ,Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 49 a twelve-year-old boy just like Lloyd .But who would be molded(塑造) into the hero — a pirate(海盜)?
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked with the 50 of a wooden leg , Robert had always wanted to 51 such a man in a story. 52 Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 53 .
So thanks to a 54 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 55 stories in the English language.
1.A．However B．Therefore C．Besides D．Finally
2.A．alone B．next door C．at home D．abroad
3.A．meeting B．story C．holiday D．job
4.A．Lloyd B．Robert C．Henley D．John
5.A．talk B．rest C．walk D．game
6.A．attempting B．missing C．planning D．enjoying
7.A．warm B．dull C．busy D．cold
8.A．cleaning B．writing C．drawing D．exercising
9.A．doubted B．noticed C．decided D．recognized
10.A．the sea B．the house C．Scotland D．the island
11.A．lost B．buried C．discovered D．invented
12.A．saw B．drew C．made D．looked
13.A．book B．reply C．map D．letter
14.A．singer B．hero C．writer D．child
15.A．help B．problem C．use D．up
16.A．praise B．produce C．mold D．accept
17.A．Yet B．Also C．But D．So
18.A．read B．born C．hired D．written
19.A．rainy B．sunny C．cool D．windy
20.A．news B．love C．travel D．adventure
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