(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Fast Reading
Read the following passage as quickly as you can, and **plete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
In the 1900"s, American townspeople usually washed and brushed their teeth **bed their hair in the kitchen. Or they kept a water pitcher(大水罐) and a wash basin in their rooms and took care of these things there.
The bathtub was a wash tub (澡盆)filled with water from the stove. If you were small enough, you could sit down by drawing your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed together. Then the men and boys did. In most families, this was Saturday night because Sundays they went church.
A small number of families did have running water. But that depended on whether there was a water system where they lived and on whether they could afford the plumbing (水管设施). Some people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895, but many others did not have their first bath in a bathtub until 1910 or later when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.
1. In the first paragraph, "took care of" means "______".
A. kept B. looked after
C. used D. kept and used
2. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Males and females in the family took turns using the bathtub.
B. Some bathtubs were big enough for many people to bathe in at the same time.
C. All the women and girls of a family could bathe together standing up in the tub.
D. When several family members bathed together, they did not use the bathtub.
3. The reason for some families bathing on Saturday is that ______.
4. Some families have running water, because they can ______.
5. The plumping is too ______ for every family to afford.
Banked Cloze
Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once.
I hear many parents saying that their teenage children are rebelling(反叛的) , and I wish it were so. At their age they ought to be 1 from their parents and learning to make their own decisions. But take a good look at the present situations of our teenagers. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they 2 their parents.
They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new 3 in music. But somehow they all 4 listening to the same crowded loud music. Their reason for thinking or 5 one way or another is that the crowd is doing it.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to 6 against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what every 7 teenager should have and be. All this 8 to great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. And it has a 9 influence on him or her.
But the 10 is worth climbing over. They should try to find themselves and be themselves.
Word Bank
A. stand up B. break up C. end up D. adds up
E. growing away F. growing up G. acting in H. directions
I. ways J. barrier K. disagree L. argue
M. individual N. unique O. negative
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beckhamCloze
There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
My ears are recently full of joyous remarks from my friends such as, "oh, Beekham is so handsome, so cool, that I can"t help falling in love with him!" Or "what perfect skills he has!" Yeah, I agree 1 some degree, though I sometimes do want to ask them how much they 2 Beckham, apart from his appearance and how much they know about football 3 scoring goals. It seems funny that we are crazy for things, with which we are unfamiliar or 4 we are uncertain, but we all, my friends 5 l, consider this 6 .
We need these pleasures to brighten up our lives. But that doesn"t amount to craziness 7 nonsense(胡闹). As an old saying 8 : "Don"t judge a book by its cover." We should not 9 anything from its appearance. We should all know, it is one"s good character and great contribution that 10 one a star and unforgettable. Therefore we"d better say 11 about Beckham"s good looks.
If we close our eyes, 12 in deep thought, we can find that the things 13 us to be in truth happy, sad or moved 14 a clear meaning. If we don"t go deeper and just satisfied with superficial(表面的) things, 15 we will find that we have not really gained anything 16 our first impression has blinded and misled us, and we"ll remain ignorant(愚昧无知的) 17 we realize that and make some changes.
It is believed that thinking and going deeper than before is sign of great 18 . If one day we are willing to go deeper into everything, no matter how much it 19 us, we will finally prove how much we have grown up, how much more sensible(明智的), mature, and intelligent we have 20 .
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