Volunteer(志愿者) Projects Abroad

1.“The Village” is the name for _________.

A. a local magazine

B. a volunteer project

C. the task given by the editor

D. the place where volunteers live

2.What will the volunteers in Cambodia do?

A. Help with fishing.

B. Clean up the seabed.

C. Give a diving course.

D. Teach the village children.

3.The underlined word “coaching” probably means ________.

A. nursing B. watching

C. playing D. teaching

4.All the volunteers of the three projects will ________.

A. work for two weeks

B. be at least 16 years old

C. stay with local families

D. learn the local language

— It’s getting late. I'm afraid I must be going now.

—OK. ________.

A. Take it easy B. Go slowly

C. Stay longer D. See you

—It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it ?

— Yes, it’s _____ that I’d like to take a walk.

A. so nice weather B. such a nice weather

C. so nice a weather D. such nice weather

Study hard, and you will ______ to Beijing University.

A. admit B. be admited

C. be admitted D. be admitting

A new cinema _____ here. They hope to finish it next month.

A. will be built B. is being built

C. has been built D. is built

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Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his ________ time, he likes to get out in the country and take some ________ of animals.

For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his ________. But his father didn’t take Bill along with him ________he was fifteen.

He and Bill drove to the farm which ________ to his uncle in the afternoon. They ________ the night there, so that they could ________ out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm ________ the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember ________ he was. He turned over ________and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he ________ that he was at the ________ and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got ________ quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the ________ . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It ________ good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk ________ , because they didn’t want to ________ up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle ________ hot coffee and took some sandwiches ________ Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera ________ and started out.

1.A.busyB. spareC. enoughD. limited

2.A.foodsB. drawingsC. paintingsD. pictures

3.A.tripsB. busesC. holidaysD. mountains

4.A.afterB. whenC. untilD. unless

5.A.ledB. stuckC. gotD. belonged

6.A.costB. spentC. sleptD. took

7.A.startB. beginC. walkD. step

8.A.telephoneB. machineC. bellD. clock

9.A.whereB. howC. whoD. what

10.A.quicklyB. sleepilyC. quietlyD. suddenly

11.A.imaginedB. pronouncedC. forgotD. remembered

12.A.mountainB. townC. farmD. station

13.A.dressedB. orderedC. eatenD. prepared

14.A.bathroomB. kitchenC. dining-roomD. sitting-room

15.A.seemedB. feltC. tastedD. smelled

16.A.manyB. soundlyC. muchD. highly

17.A.wakeB. goC. putD. come

18.A.ofB. withC. inD. by

19.A.thatB. whatC. afterD. before

20.A.coverB. supplyC. operatorD. equipment

For thousands of years，we have looked for ways to measure time. Early humans found that the regular movements of the sun，the earth，the moon，and the stars made good ways to measure time. The rising and setting of the sun were used to distinguish day from night.

But，eventually，people needed to tell time more accurately，or exactly. So，by using the sun’s position in the sky，they divided the day into dawn，morning，midday and evening.

Then it was noted that the sun cast a changing shadow as it moved across the sky. Time could be told more accurately by setting up a stick and marking the positions of the sun’s shadow. It was the ancient Greeks who divided each position of this “sundial(日晷)” into hours.

But the sun doesn’t always shine. So，for the past 6,000 years，many other ways of keeping time have been tried. Slow?burning candles were divided into hours，and the hourglass was invented. When all the sand in the top of an hourglass has shifted to the bottom，an hour has passed.

Later，the pendulum(摆钟)，with its regular back?and?forth movement of weights，was used to move the hands on a clock. Pendulums are still used in grandfather clocks.

Today，even more accurate clocks are in use，such as battery?operated quartz clocks（石英钟），digital clocks，and clocks run by electrical tuning forks and tiny atoms. These atomic clocks are the most accurate clocks ever invented. The exact time can be kept to within 1 second a century.

1.Humans in the old days used ________ to tell day from night.

A．the rising and setting of the sun

B．battery?operated quartz clocks

C．atomic clocks

D．digital clocks

2.A sundial works by ________.

A．tracking the movement of the stars around the sun

B．marking a shadow cast by the moving sun

C．burning candles in the sunlight

D．watching the stars

3.Which of the following was NOT used in the past to measure time?

A．An hourglass. B．A sundial.

C．Digital clocks. D．A pendulum.

4.Which of the following ways of measuring time is ordered from the least accurate to the most accurate?

A．Sundial，pendulum，sun.

B．Atomic clock，quartz clock，sundial.

C．Sun，pendulum，atomic clock.

D．Digital clock，hourglass，slow?burning candles.

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目前，街头出现了越来越多的猫与狗，对此你们班同学们组织了一场讨论：城市内是否可以饲养宠物。根据下表所提供的信息，介绍讨论情况，并说明自己的观点和建议。

注意：1．词数100左右。2．可以适当增减细节，以使行文连贯。

3．开头语已为你写好。

Recently we have had a heated discussion on whether people should keep pets at home in cities.

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At first sight the planet Mars(火星)does not appear very welcoming to any kind of life. It has very little oxygen and water, the temperature at night is below 50 degrees and winds of 100 miles (161 kilometers)per hour cause severe dust storms. However, the surface of the planet seems to show that water flowed across it at some time in the past, and it is believed that there would be enough ice at the poles to cover the planet with water if it melted. Although there is no life on the Mars now, some scientists think there may have been some form of life a long time ago. At that time, the planet had active volcanoes(火山); the atmosphere was thicker and warmer; and there was water. In fact, in some ways the Mars may have been similar to the Earth, where life exists.

Some people believe that the Mars could support life in the future if the right conditions were produced. The first step would be to warm the planet using certain gases which trap the Sun’s heat in the planet’s atmosphere. With warmth, water and carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）, simple plants could begin to grow. These plants could slowly make the Mars fit to live on. It is judged that the whole process might take between 100, 000 and 200, 000 years. In the meantime, people could begin to live on the planet in a special closed environment. They would provide a lot of useful information about conditions on Mars and the problems connected with living there.

1. According to the passage, the planet Mars has no __________on it.

A．animals B．mountains

C．dust D．winds

2. What is the topic of Paragraph 2?

A．Certain gases should be used to warm Mars.

B．Plants should be grown to make Mars fit to live on.

C．Mars could support life with right conditions in the future.

D．People could live on Mars in a special closed environment.

3. The most suitable title for the passage is __________.

A．No Life on Mars

B．A Study of Mars

C．The Future conditions on Mars

D．The Possibility of Life on Mars

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Humans and animals have always lived together. For example, many people have dogs in _1.___ homes. Dogs __2.___ （be）very affectionate animals. They are also very sensitive to the feelings of the people with ___3.____ they live, and it seems quite natural ____4.______ (have) them in our houses. __5.____ all the many different types of dogs come from one species of animal, the grey wolf. These wild animals came into villages 12,000 years ago, ____6._____ (look) for food. People found that wolves could help in the __7.____ (day) struggle for survival by guarding their homes and ___8.____ (hunt) wildlife to kill and eat. In some very cold parts of Northern Canada, the skin of very old dogs is still used _____9._____ warm clothes. Dogs are useful and many people love them—that is why they ____10.___ (call) “ man’s best friend”.