第三节 完形填空（2）（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

 根据所学课文语段，在41-48题所在的空格处填入适当的词，每空一词，并将答案转写到答题卡上。

 We leave London   41  15^th July, and we’ll be flying to Morocco, in northern Africa. We’re going to travel on  42 , through the Sahara Desert. It’s the biggest desert in the world---about  43  size of the US! I  44  it will be very hot, dry and dusty there.

However, not long  45  the tomb had been opened, people in Carter’s team began to fall ill and die  46 . Upon entering the tomb, Carter’s lucky pet bird,  47  had led him to the place, was eaten by a snake. Then, a few months after Carter had opened the tomb, Lord Carnarvon, who was also  48  when the tomb was opened, fell ill with a fever and died in Egypt.

A recent report on online education, made by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a serious academic (学术的) title, but a most interesting conclusion: “ Students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
The report examined the research on online and traditional classroom teaching from 1996 to 2008. Some of it was in K-12 settings, but most of the studies were in colleges and adult continuing education programs.
Over the 12 years, the report found 99 studies in which there were comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The result of the Department of Education’ s research showed that usually, students doing some or all of the course online would rank a little higher than the classroom students with little but meaningful difference.
“The importance of the study lies in showing that online learning today is not just better than nothing — it actually tends to be better than traditional instruction.” said Barbara Means, the study’ s lead author and an educational psychologist at SRI International.
This hardly means that we’ll be saying goodbye to classrooms. But the report does suggest that online education could be set to develop sharply over the next few years.
Until fairly recently, online education totaled to little. That has really changed with the arrival of webbased video, instant (即时的) messaging and teamwork tools.
The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more suitable for individual (个体的) students than is possible in classrooms. That allows more “learning by doing,” which many students find more attractive and useful.
“We are at a turning point in online education,” said Philip R. Regier, the leader of Arizona State University’ s Online and Extended Campus program.
The biggest near-term growth, Mr. Regier predicts, will be in continuing education programs.
【小题1】What do we know from the passage?
Most of the studies were done in high schools.
The report was based on more than 100 studies.
The studies were carried out for more than 20 years.
The difference between online and traditional teaching is not big.
【小题2】We can learn from the passage that __________.
traditional education will come to an end
traditional education is not popular any longer
online education didn’ t develop rapidly until recently
middle schools are facing the choice between online and traditional teaching
【小题3】Which is NOT the reason why many students prefer online learning?
Online teaching is more suitable for individuals.
Classroom teaching is not practical and useful.
Students can learn by doing in online courses.
Online teaching is more interesting.
【小题4】Which do you think is the best title for the passage?
Study finds that online education beats the classroom
Why is online education on the rise?
A report on online education
Classroom teaching is out

I hated dinner parties. But I decided to give them another shot because I’m in London. And my friend Mallery invited me. And because dinner parties in London are very different from those back in New York. There, “I’m having a dinner party” means “I’m booking a table for 12 at a restaurant you can’t afford and we’ll be sharing the cheque evenly, no matter what you eat.”

Worse, in Manhattan there is always someone who leaves before the bill arrives. They’ll throw down cash, half of what they owe, and then people like me, who don’t drink, end up paying even more. But if I try to use the same trick, the hostess will shout “Where are you going?” And it’s not like I can say I have somewhere to go : everyone knows I have nowhere to go.

But in London, dinner parties are in people’s homes. Not only that, the guests are an interesting mix. The last time I went to one, the guests were from France, India, Denmark and Nigeria; it was like a gathering at the United Nations. In New York, the mix is less striking. It’s like a gathering at Bloomingdale’s, a well-known department store.

For New Yorkers, talking about other parts of the world means Brooklyn and Queens in New York. But at Mallery’s, when I said that I had been to Myanmar recently, people knew where it was. In New York people would think it was a usual new club.

1.What does the word “shot” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Choice.           B．Try.              C．Style.             D．Goal.

2.What does the author dislike most about dinner parties in New York?

A．There is a strange mix of people.            B．The restaurant are expensive.

C．The bill is not fairly shared.                D．People have to pay cash.

3.What does the author think of the parties in London?

A．A bit unusual.                          B．Full of tricks.

C．Less costly.                            D．More interesting.

4.What is the author’s opinion of some New Yorkers from her experience?

A．Easygoing..                            B．Self-centred.

C．Generous.                             D．Conservative.

5.What is the main idea of this article?

A．The author hated dinner parties.

B．The author prefer dinner parties in London to those in New York.

C．The difference between London and New York.

D．Mallery invited the author to a party.

——We don’t think we’ll be able to go mountain-climbing tomorrow.

—— _________ the weather turns out fine?

A．How come         B．How about         C．What if           D．Why not

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短文改错
适用：全国卷 I
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
We all know that healthy is very important to us.Both            76.______
study and work depend by strong bodies. Doing sports  77.________
and games help us keep strong and healthy. If we do not  78.________
take any exercise, we may feel tired but get sick easily. 79.________
There’re many different kinds of sports we can do them, 80.________
such as playing ball games, running, walking and swim. 81._________
However, now we have too much homework to do in 82._________
every day. We hope that we’ll be giving less homework 83.________
and have more time take part in sports. We also hope 84._______
that our school can hold a sports meeting every term. 85._________