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10

小题，每 小题

1

分）

Passage 1

There are only two 1._______(season) in some countries

—

the dry season and the

2.______(rain)

season. They are India, Vietnam and some countries in Africa. It’s never cold

there

and it doesn’t snow. In the dry season it is as

3._______(warm) as it is in the rainy season. When it

is the dry season, it doesn’t rain at all. It’s very, very hot. All grass and

4.______(leaf) in the trees

are yellow. Animals and people are very thirsty. It is a very 5.________(difficulty) time for them!

When it is the rainy season, the rain doesn’t stop, it

6._______(rain) day and night. There is a lot

of water around! Some animals like it, but some don’t.

There is a place 7._____ there are no seasons at all. It is 8.______ Antarctic. It is very cold all

the year round. There are no countries and no cities there. There are some villages lives

there? Some 9._______(science) from some countries go there to learn about 10._______(cold)

place

, its animals and birds. But there are no trees, no flowers, no fruit there, so people can’t

live

there long.

Passage 2

During the 2019 Rio Olympics, people were surprised 1.______(see) the round, purple marks

on the body of the famous American 2.______(swim) Michael Phelps. What happened to him? In

fact, he just visited a doctor of 3._______(traditional) Chinese medicine (TCM) and had

“cupping”(

拔火罐

).

Massage and acupuncture(

针灸

) are two other importance 4.______(kind) of TCM. Chinese

massage can make you relaxed and fresh. In acupuncture, doctors put long 5.______ (needle) into

the patients’ heads, faces, arms

, etc. It takes away pain, 6._____ the look is funny.

TCM is 7._______ important part of Chinese culture. The earliest medical classic in China,

Huangdi’

s Classic on Medicine

, 8.______(come) out more than 2,000 years ago. The book is

about the relationship between man and nature. In Chinese culture, yin and yang are the two parts

of nature. Nature keeps 9._______(balance) if yin and yang work well together. The human body

needs such a balance, too. TCM helps to do that. Quite 10._______(special), for some health

problems, a doctor of TCM will not give you medicine. Instead, he may

give you just a food plan

and right ways to eat.

Passage 3

I’ve been smoking ever since I was very young. To be

1._____(honesty), I never considered

what could happen 2.______ my body if I kept 3._______(smoke)

. I just knew that I couldn’t help

smoking, 4._______(especial) when I felt very anxious. One day, I started to notice that it was

getting harder and harder for me to do simple things like walking. Several months 5._____(late), I

couldn’t get through a conversation without coughing.

6.______(final), I went to see a doctor. He told me I had COPD(

慢肺阻

). He said I had to

stop smoking. I wasn’t sure I could make it

. Actually

I wasn’t sure I wanted to

stop it. He said that

it would get harder to breathe7._____

I didn’t stop smoking, and that one day I might have to be

seriously ill in bed. That made me so 8.______(scare) enough that I decided to give a r,

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after a few days, I failed. I knew it would be harder when I spent a lot of time with my best friend

9.______ was a smoker.

Then I tried again. That time, I tried the patch(

戒烟贴

), which made a big difference. It took

almost

5

months,

but

I

was

finally

able

to

stop

smoking.

I

could

feel

comfortable

and

10._______(hope). My son has also been a huge help. He has been a non-smoker for almost ten

years now. Whenever I wanted a cigarette, I would give him a call. He helped me remember why I

had to stop smoking.

Passage4

I love cycling. This spring my elder brother and I1. _______ (spend) a long weekend cycling

in the countryside. We rode 2. _______ (slow) along because we didn’t want to break any speed

records. We just wanted 3. ______ (get) some fresh air and a break from schoolwork. We really

had a great time 4. _____ (ride) along country roads. And there was one of the best things about

our trip that made us happy: every few 5. ______ (kilometre) there was a village where we could

find everything we needed.

However, 6. ______ the second day, something happened. We were going down the hill when

my brakes(

刹车

) started making a noise, but I didn’t mind at all. At midnight, we were woken by

7. _____ noise in the hotel. We were tired 8. ____ we set off the next morning, but soon felt

cheerful when the sun came out.

We enjoyed 9. _____ (we) this time. I think nothing is 10. ______ (well) than cycling if you

are looking for a break that is active and cheap.

Passage 5

In 12 seconds in the year 1903, two young 1.______(America) changed the world forever.

That was the length of the first successful flight

of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s plane.

Wilbur was born in 1867 and Orville in 1871. The Wright brothers 2.______(develop) a

strong interest in flight from early childhood. They taught 3._______(them) maths and

engineering. They started their flying experiments with big kites and gliders(

滑翔机

) and

4.________(final) decided to make their own plane. The two brothers worked very hard to make a

small engine and a propeller(

螺旋桨

) for their plane.

Their first plane 5._______(weigh) 340 kilograms. 6._____(it) wings were 12 meters wide.

On 17 December 1903, Orville sat in the plane and made the first successful flight at Kitty Hawk,

North Carolina. His flight lasted for only 12 seconds and only covered 37 meters, but this was the

first time human beings 7._______(successful) sent something 8.______(heavy) than the air to the

sky with powered flight. Wilbur also flew the plane on the same day. In the last flight of the day,

Wilbur flew for 59 seconds and covered a 9.______(distant) of 260 meters.

The Wright brothers improved their plane, and by 1909, it could fly for 32 kilometers. The

Wright brothers are surely among 10.________(important) inventors of the 20th century.

Passage 6

Every day people invent new things. This time it is 1.______ automatic washing machine.

What’s so special about the machine? It is

2.______(special) designed for young dog! The

washing machine is called the Dog O’Matic. It has a hole for your

3.______(dog) head to pop out.

4.______ you lock your dog inside this machine for about half an hour, it will come out clean, dry

and sweet-smelling. If your dog feels 5._______(frighten), you can pull it out immediately and

complete the job in a normal bathtub.

The 6. _____(invent) of the machine, Romain Jarry, is a French businessman. He has worked on

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