根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
【小题1】Tom is busy preparing for a party to celebrate his sister’s     (twelve) birthday.
【小题2】My cousin is made         (study) with his new friends in USA.
【小题3】—What’s your favorite fruit?
—I like apples __________ (well).
【小题4】On            (child) Day, our classmates sent a lot of stationary to the school in the disaster area.
【小题5】So they ordered Armstrong to cut the __________ (fly) short and he successfully brought the spacecraft down into western Pacific Ocean.
【小题6】Mother is busy __________ (prepare) for the coming big dinner in the kitchen.
【小题7】—How was your day off yesterday?
—Perfect! It was my grandma’s ________(eighty)birthday. We had a big cake.
【小题8】—Will you take part in the Chinese writing competition next week?
—Sure. I consider it as a chance to prove________ (me).
【小题9】If you want to improve your English, you should practice________ (speak) it as much as possible in and out of class.
【小题10】—You will be ________ (welcome) if you speak loudly in the place like this.
— I’ve got it. Thank you.

When you are reading something in English, you may often meet with a new word. What’s the best way to know it?

You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you a lot about the word: the pronunciation, the Chinese meaning and how to use the word. But how can you know where the word is ? How to find it in the dictionary both quickly and correctly?

First, all the English words are arranged(安排) in the letter order. In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with letter A, then B, C, D…. That means, if there are two words “desert” and “pull”, “desert” will be certainly before “pull”. Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may look at the second letter. Then the third, the fourth… For example, “pardon” is before “plough”, “judge” before “just”, etc. Do you understand how to look up in the dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friend. I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English study.

1.This passage is about______.

A．new words in writing                     B．different dictionaries

C．the best way of reading                   D．using an English-Chinese dictionary

2.In the dictionary you may not find_______.

A．how to pronounce the word               B．the spelling of the word

C．who used the word first                  D．how to use the word

3.In an English-Chinese dictionary, the last word______.

A．begins with Z       B．begins with A       C．is a short one       D．is not often used

4.Which group of words is in the right order in an English-Chinese dictionary?

A．perhaps, produce, plenty                 B．straight, subject, surprise

C．century, center, business                  D．foreign, entrance, headache

5.In the passage the writer tries to tell us _______.

A．we have to use a dictionary when we read something in English

B．an English-Chinese dictionary can tell us everything about a word

C．how to look up a word in a dictionary.

D．all English-Chinese dictionaries are the same

这是某学校通过校长意见箱收集到一些学生的意见和建议。请阅读下文，根据所提供的内容，完成下列表格，把答案写在答题卡指定的位置上。

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任务型阅读（5分）

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers

as the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers when they have   (1)  time during the day to learn what is   (1)  in the world.

(2)Sometimes we are too busy to read all the news. So we just take a quick look at the front page. At times, we may be in a hurry to look at the names of the passages.

In the world we can find newspapers everywhere. Some publishing houses publish(出版)

newspapers once a week, but they publish most of the papers once a day with many pages. You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers, some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They only choose what they like.

Today newspapers in English have the largest number of the readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21^st Century. They bring us more and more information together with the Internet.

1. 在(1)句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整，上下文通顺_________ ,_________

2.将(2)句译成中文：_________________________________________________

3. How often do publishing house publish(出版) most of the papers ?

___________________________________________________________________________

4.在文中划出与下列句子意思相近的句子：

Sometimes we may read the titles of the passages in a hurry.

___________________________________________________________________________

5. 找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子：

___________________________________________________________________________

Last weekend，an English short play was________in the school hall．

1. A.
   put into
2. B.
   put down
3. C.
   put on
4. D.
   put up