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There are more and more electronic products like smart phones in our life. However, doctors have 1. that children are finding it hard to hold pencils because of too much use of electronic products.

“Too much use of smart phones is stopping children’s finger muscles(肌肉) from developing. It makes 2. unable to hold a pencil correctly,” they said. “Children are given a pencil, but they are not be able to hold it 3. they don’t have the basic movement skills.”

Payne said the nature of play had changed. “It’s 4. to give a child an iPad than encouraging him to do muscle-building play like building blocks. Because of this, they’re not developing the 5. they need to hold a pencil.”

Six-year-old Patrick has been having weekly training classes 6. six months. The 7. is to help him develop the necessary strength in his fingers to hold a pencil.

His mother regretted that she 8. gave Patrick electronic products to play with instead of traditional toys. When he got to school, he couldn’t hold pencils and 9. to write because he couldn’t move pencils correctly. “The training classes are 10. a lot and I’m really strict with his use of electronic products now,” she said.

1.warned 2.them 3.because 4.easier 5.skills 6.for 7.purpose 8.always 9.learn 10.helping 【解析】【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了孩子们由于过度使用触屏的电子产品导致他们握笔困难的相关情况。 1.句意：然而，医生_________由于过度使...

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There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much. He became a student of a master puppet-maker. 1., the young man was not so clever as his classmates. His teacher and the other 2. were always telling him that he had no ability to make puppets, so he would never succeed.

Even so, he enjoyed 3. puppets so much that he worked day after day to improve his skills. With his efforts, they would always find something wrong with the puppets that he had made. So they often 4. his puppets out of the workshop.

The young man wasn’t going to give up. He made up his mind 5. all his time in making just one kind of puppet. Years passed, and with each new attempt(尝试), his puppet became a little bit better. By now, his puppet was much better than his old classmates could make, but he still kept making 6. improvements than before.

By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly 7.. After so many years of hard work, he finished work on his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it is perfect.” And for the 8. time in all those years, instead of throwing his puppet away, he put it on the shelf. He felt very 9. and happy. What made him succeed was not 10. talent but his hard work of so many years. If you want to make a difference in your life, you should keep it in your mind that success lies in never giving up.

1.Sadly 2.students 3.making 4.threw 5.to spend 6.more 7.wonderful 8.first 9.satisfied 10.his 【解析】【主旨大意】本文主要讲述了年轻的木偶师傅成功的故事，启发我们：只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。即使缺少天分，但若坚持不懈，每天努力一点点，每次完善一点点，...

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Carrots are grown around the world. When people think about carrots, they 1. think they are long and orange-colored. In fact, carrots are in many different 2. and shapes.

Carrots live in a dry environment. They should be 3. in a field that is dry. To prepare a carrot garden, you should 4. up the earth and turn it over. Weather, soil condition, 5. time affect the taste of carrots.

How do you know 6. a carrot is ready to be harvested（收割）? By 7. color. The brighter the color is, the 8. the taste is.

Most people do not know that carrots can be grown 9. the winter months. If the winter is not cold enough, you can grow it in summer. Warm days and cool nights are the best time to plant it.

Carrots are eaten in many different ways. They are 10. into thin pieces and cooked with other food. All in all, it is filled with treasure.

1.usually 2.sizes 3.grown 4.dig 5.and 6.whether 7.its 8.better 9.during 10.cut 【解析】【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了胡萝卜的种植方法、种植时间、生长特性以及收割时间等。 1.句意：当人们想到胡萝卜时，他们_________认为它们修长并且是橙色...

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Mark, 30, was the manager of a food company in the UK. He gave 1. his job the year before to live in a caravan (大篷车) near England’s city of Bath. There, he grew 2. own food and recycled junk that other people threw away.

He used fish bones with wild seeds to 3. his teeth and old newspapers as toilet paper. He grew vegetables, mushrooms and nuts on a small piece of land and sometimes 4. leftovers (剩菜) from nearby restaurants.

Mark said he did these things 5. he doesn’t want to live a wasteful life. “There are people going 6. on the other side of the world. There are people who die 7. medicine, food and clean water,” he said.

“We’re over here in the West spending crazy amounts of money on expensive things,” Mark 8. the reporter.

Mark lived for 9. year without spending any money, but he didn’t expect other people to copy his example. He just wanted to send the 10. to people to “consume (消费) a bit less”. Meanwhile, he plans to continue his happy life.

1.up 2.his 3.brush 4.ate 5.because 6.hungry 7.without 8.told 9.one 10.message 【解析】 【主旨大意】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了来自英国的马克辞去食品公司经理的工作，过了一年不花钱的生活，想通过这一方式来鼓励人们平时减少不必要的消费。 1.句意：为了居住...

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We met a dog when we walked along the road in a rural （乡村的）area. We thought maybe his family was camping somewhere nearby, so we passed him by. A few 1. later, on our return trip, he was still in the same place. When he saw 2. , he laid down in the middle of the road, so we were unable to get around him.

We 3. the car and looked around for a few minutes, trying to figure out if anyone who was around him. Nobody appeared, so we felt that he was abandoned.

My husband said, “If he doesn’t bite me when I try to pick him up, then we have a new dog.” Then the dog happily 4. us with no fight at all. He kept sticking his head between the two front seats and 5. us for picking him up.

The dog was extremely under weight. He was 6. with new wounds. So we fed him a lot in the next 7. weeks and he gained over twenty pounds. We took him to the veterinarian(兽医), and he said the dog appeared to be in good health.

He had 8. been mistreated（虐待）, but he was still so sweet. He had no manners, but he was a quick learner. He no 9. tried to get on the bed, but liked sitting in one of the folding chairs. Since then, he had become a 10. of our family.

1.hours 2.us 3.stopped 4.joined 5.thanking 6.covered 7.two 8.obviously 9.longer 10.member 【解析】【主旨大意】本文作者讲述了和家人在乡间小路遇到一只被人抛弃的小狗，他们收养并好好照顾好它，这只小狗成为了自己家庭的一员，体现了人与动物之间的和谐关系。 ...

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Many years ago, there was an old man who had four sons. He wanted his sons 1. not to judge things too quickly. So he told 2. to go and look at a pear tree. It was far away from his home. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the 3. son in autumn.

When the sons came back, the old man asked them to describe what they had seen.

The first son complained the tree was 4. with only dry branches. The second son said the tree 5. with buds （芽；苞）and full of hope. The third son said the tree was full of green 6.. They looked so beautiful, and it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The youngest son said that the tree was bowed down 7. heavy fruits. It was full of life and fulfillment(收获).

The old man explained that all of his sons were right, 8. each of them had seen just one season of the tree. He 9. them that they couldn’t judge a tree or a person by only one season. “If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the hope of your spring, the 10. of your summer, and the fulfillment of your autumn.” said the old man.

It is true that we shouldn’t let the hard season break the happiness of the other seasons. Never give up during the difficult days and better times are sure to come some day.

1.to learn 2.them 3.youngest 4.ugly 5.was covered 6.leaves 7.with 8.but 9.told 10.beauty 【解析】【主旨大意】这记叙文讲述了一位老人让他的四个儿子分别在不同的季节观看同一棵梨树却得出了截然不同的结论，从而得出感悟：人生如树，也有春夏秋冬四季之分。树之四...

Fish couldn't live ________ water.

A. with B. in C. without D. of

C 【解析】句意：鱼离开水不能活。A. with带着，有； B. in在……里面； C. without没有； D. of……的。fish是可数名词时单复数同形，a fish(一条鱼)，fish(好多鱼)；复数形式时fishes(各种种类的鱼)；当不可数名词时fish(鱼肉)。这里fish是复数形式，指鱼这一类。根据常识可知，鱼离不开水，所以这里用否定意义的介词without，故选C。 ...

—How do you study for a test?

—________ studying with friends.

A. By B. With C. On D. At

A 【解析】句意：--你怎样为了考试而学习的？--通过和朋友一起学习。A. By+doing通过做某事； B. With和，带着； C. On关于，在……上面； D. At在。问句是以how开头的句子，how在句中作状语，所以by+doing来回答。故选A。

The exciting performance drew the passers?by's ________.

A. confidence B. attention C. patience D. taste

B 【解析】句意：令人兴奋的表演吸引了路人的注意。passer?by 路人，其复数形式是passers?by。A. confidence自信； B. attention注意； C. patience耐心； D. taste味道。这里是短语draw one’s attention引起某人的注意。故选。

Let's get some ________ about tourism on the Internet.

A. information B. message

C. invention D. experiments

A 【解析】句意：让我们在网上取得一些关于旅游业的信息吧。A. information信息，是不可数名词； B. message消息，是可数名词；当前面有some时，该词应该用复数形式，故排除B；C. invention邀请；可数名词，当前面有some时，该词应该用复数形式，故排除C； D. experiments实验。根据on the Internet可知，在网上得到了应该是信息。故选A。...