Fill in each blank with a proper word beginning with the given letter.

　　Do you live in a city? Do you know h________ cities began? Long ago, the w________ had only a few thousand people. These people m________ from place to place, They moved over the mountains, hunting a________ for food.

　　No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives c________. They did not have to l________ for food any more. They could s________ in one place and grow it.

　　People began to live near one another. So the first v________ were formed Many people came to work in the villages. The villages grew very big.

　　When m________ appeared, life in the villages changed again. Factories were built, more and more people began to live near the factories. Cities began to come into being.（形成）

　　Today, some people are moving back to small villages, Can you tell w________?

完形填空：阅读下列短文，根据空处首字母提示和上下文填入一个恰当的词。

　　When Bill and Kate married, neither of them had much money, so they were not able to b ________ (1) a house. Two years later, Bill's father died and l ________ (2) him some money, so they bought a h ________ (3). When they moved into i ________ (4) for the first time, one of Bill's friends sent him a bottle of wine a ________ (5) a present. The bottle was in a paper box.

　　At that time, Bill and Kate had a lot of w ________ (6) to do. They had to clean the house and decided where to p ________ (7) their TV sets, beds, cupboards, desks and tables. They were so b ________ (8) that they forgot about the bottle of wine. They put it in a cupboard and didn't e ________ (9) open the paper box. A few months late, when they had a baby, Bill i ________ (10) some friends to his house. He thought of the wine and took it out from the cupboard. It was so sweet. Bill had never thought that would be the best present for the wonderful party for his wife and his baby.

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Maria Gomez was born in Peru（秘鲁）.She grew up in a small village. She  1  when she was six years old. She went to elementary school，but she 2 to high school. Her family was very  3 ，and she had to go to work when she was thirteen years old. She  4 in a shoe factory.

When Maria was seventeen years old，her family   5  to the United States. First they lived in Los Angeles，and then they moved to San Francisco. When Maria  6  in the United States，she was not very happy.

She missed her friends in Peru，and she didn’t  7 a word of English. She began to study English at night，  8  worked in a factory during the day.

Maria studied very hard，and now she speaks English well. She’s still  9  at night，but now she’s studying typing. She wants   10 a secretary. Maria still misses her friends. But she’s very happy now，and she hopes she will have a good future（将来）in the new country.

1.A. went to school B. go to school   C. goes to school   D. begins school

2.A.went            B. didn’t go         C. began      D. wasn’t

3.A.rich            B. poor           C. happy          D. glad

4.A.works       B. is working   C. is going to work D. worked

5.A.moved       B. go             C. stayed         D. lived

6.A.reached     B. arrived      C .got             D. moved

7.A.tell            B. talk           C. know           D. say

8.A.when        B. so             C. or             D. and

9.A.studying        B. studied        C. study          D. studies

10.A.to do      B. do             C. to be          D. be

 

句子翻译 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）
1.这个男孩很聪明,但我怀疑他是否会在学习上有巨大的成功
Although the boy is clever, I doubt whether ____________________in his study or not.
2.我们仔细地将第一次实验的结果与第二次的做了比较.
We carefully ______________________________with that of the second one.
3.他们搬家住到市中心后,问题开始出现了.
_______________________after they moved house to live in the city centre.
4.他们过去常常为看什么电视节目彼此争吵。
They used to _______________________________what TV programmes to watch.
5.他们无法确定这场比赛是否能够现场直播.
They weren’t sure if ____________________________.
6.我认为这部小说不值得看.
I don’t think this novel____________________.