单词填空

1.Everyone knows the i          of teamwork in a basketball game

2.Which do you think is more (宝贵的)____________，health or wealth?

3.Last night a big fire broke out and only a few people were able to_________ (逃离) from the burning building . 

4.The manager will go on a vacation for half a month and his secretary will be in charge during his a________. 

5.They ________(试图) to promote their new product but failed..

6.It was reported that three people were killed and seven were i ________ in the traffic accident. 

7.He wishes to be a singer and now his dream was turned into r       .

8.It is a pleasant thing to go            (观光) in this beautiful city.

9.Now many teenagers are concerned about some ___________ (社会的) problems.

10.We are c________ that Chinese athletes can perform well in the London Olympic Games.

 

The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That’s good, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.

“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”

“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.

“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

1.The best title for the article is _______.

A．When the Computer Is Down

B．The Most Frightening Words

C．The Computer of the Airport

D．Asking the Computer

2.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A．She could sell a ticket.

B．She could write out a ticket.

C．She could answer the passengers’ questions.

D．She could do nothing.

3.Why do you think they had not a backup computer?

A．Because it was easy down

B．Because it was very expensive.

C．Because it was not advanced enough.

D．Because it was not as big as the main computer.

4.The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A．a modern computer won’t be down.

B．computers can take the place of humans

C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D．there will be great changes in computers

 

第四节完型填空：（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

Recent studies show that only one out of three people have strong and healthy self-confidence . That ____26 two out of every three people simply don’t know the ____27 they already have to be successful when it’s _____28 there in their hands!___29 if you want others to believe in yourself first. Rememer: “ No one can ask you feel inferior unless you _____30them.” A successful businessman says, “you can’t push anyone up a ladder____31 he knows he can climb himself.”

Many of us have an image____32 , the  image we have of ourselves. ___33one guy put it: “You can’t win horse race if you think you look_____34 on a horse.” To succeed, the first person you have to ____35 is yourself! So stop believing your own lies about yourself. Just ____36 your mind and you will change your life.

One of the most harmful weapons that can kill you success in life are the two little words: “____37”You know that people used to ____38 that if human being s traveled faster than 30 miles an hour it would ____39 our circulation of blood and kill us?Thank  goodness a few people didn’t believe that ___40 thinking, or we wouldn’t be riding in cars , buses, and flying in airplanes today. You’ll never know until you____41.

Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But _____42 he did it, most people in the would didn’t think it was even _____43. Yet only weeks after Bannister did it , suddenly _____44 all over the world began running a mile in less  than 4 minutes! If we believe something can be done, we’ll _____45 do it.

26 .A. means     B. reflects   C. reads      D. explains

27. A. chance     B. strength  C. ability     D. reason 

28. A. immediately B.properly   C. accurately D. right

29. A. Because   B. But      C. What     D. While

30. A.let        B. challenge  C. admit    D. make

31. A. if        B. except     C. until     D. unless

32. A.quiz      B.question    C. problem D. mystery

33. A. When    B. As        C. While   D. Since

34. A. curious   B. good –looking C.serious  D.funny

35. A. beat      B. knock      C. strike    D. defend

36. A. settle     B. bend       C. change   D. fix

37. A. I failed.   B. Not me.     C. Can I？  D. I can’t

38. A. imagine   B. think       C. suspect   D. doubt

39. A. start      B. help        C. stop     D. quit

40. A. silly      B. empty      C. reasonable D.terrible

41. A. judge     B. realize      C. understand D.try

42. A. after      B. before      C. since    D. because

43. A. likely     B.unbelievable  C. possible D. impossible

44. A.workers    B. runners     C. competitors D.players

45. A. simply    B. seldom     C. always  D. usually                

 

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

 1 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

 2 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy!    3 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.   4  Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.  5  One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.

A．And think of people in cold countries.

B．Sports help to train a person’s character.

C．Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.

D．Many people like to watch others play games.

E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

 

If you are planning on traveling, there are few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey.

First of all, always check and double-check departure (出发) time. It is surprising how few people really do this carefully. Once I arrived at he airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and I thought she had said that the plane left at 10:50. When I arrived at the airport, the person at the departure desk told me that my flight was closed. Therefore, I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an important meeting.

The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards (信用卡), it is still important to have some local money in cash (现金). Once I arrived at a place at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi but because I had no dollars, I offered to pay in pounds instead. “Listen! I only take real money!” the driver said angrily. You can imagine how terrible I felt at that moment.

The third and the last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination(目的地) before you leave. I feel sorry for some of my workmates who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome of Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during the day.

1.Where is the writer most probably from?

A．Britain

B．The USA

C．Italy

D．Greece

2.When the writer found he had no dollars to pay the taxi driver, he      .

A．asked the driver to give him a free ride

B．offered to pay in pounds

C．gave the driver some fake(假) money

D．tried to pay by credit card

3.Generally, in May the weather in London is     .

A．warm and dry	B．cold and dry
C．hot and wet	D．cool and rainy

4.The writer mainly tells us      .

A．how to make life easier

B．how to be well prepared for a trip

C．how to enjoy ourselves on trip

D．how to schedule our trip