词语填空 (共10小题，计10分)

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯 (每个单词限用一次)。

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Twenty-First Century Books

Probably you have seen someone reading a book on an electronic reading device. Over the past few years, these small computers have become more popular. For that reason, more companies that make   1  paper books are now making electronic books (ebooks). Most ebooks are the same as paper books,   2  people download a file into a reading device rather than   3  the paper book. This way they can   4  many books.

Books companies are adding special features   5  some ebooks. These extra features might include sound files, picture files, or video files. When the readers click on these files they learn more about the book, the story, or the writer.

The latest electronic readers are smaller and   6 , but they are also much more powerful. They can store much more information, so writers and book companies can do more with   7  ebooks. They do not want to just add files to   8  completed book. They are making the sound, picture, and video files part of the story. Readers need these files to understand the whole story. Readers can   9  change the story.

Readers already have a lot of books to choose from. If they can change the way stories end, they will have more   10 !

 

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空不限一词）。（15分）

1.If you want keep fit, you should eat _______(little) fast food than before.

2.They love reading. They are ________(read) of your magazine;

3.Kitty enjoys cooking. She likes to cook _________(taste) meals at weekends.

4.People like going horse ____________(ride) in Inner Mongolia.

5.There _________(be) a lot of traffic on the city roads, but it got better later.

6.Our school football team played _________(bad) yesterday and lost the final.

7.I think his advice is ________(use), I don’t want to take it.

8.At the _________(begin), Mary didn’t feel well.

9.The Class1, Grade8 students ___________(plan) their class trip to the park now.

10.During this ________(year) Reading Week, I read the most books in my class.

11.My story makes the little boy ________(laugh) happily.

12.In cooking lessons, I can learn how ________(cook).

13.Our school life is different from ________(they).

14.Laura is a true friend. She likes to keep secrets to ____________(she).

15.The apples in the picture look like the real __________(one).

 

It was near Christmas during my first semester teaching a new school. I love my small special class more than any group I had taught in the past. They were hungry for knowledge and I was enjoying teaching.
Other teachers had told me that our children were from poor families and not to expect any child to bring a Christmas gift. In fact, I wasn’t expecting any gifts.
Imagine my surprise when every child brought me a gift on the day before our holiday break. First, I got a much-loved stuffed monkey from a shy girl. I was told, “He is my favorite, but I love you and I want him to be with you, Miss Taylor” How thrilled I was!
Next came a new set of Christmas tree lights that was “missing” from a mother's cupboard.
Finally, I came to one little boy’s gift which I had never received. It was an old, dirty and broken Christmas story book. Just then I wanted to express my happiness, I was interrupted(打断)by the giver, “And see, it is new! It still has the price tag.”        "
When other children laughed at him, I stopped them and said, “Oh, books are good in that way. The story is always new if you have not read it before. Now, Let’s share one together.” Everyone listened quietly as I read the most wonderful Christmas story of my life.
I still keep those Christmas gifts, They always remind me of my lovely kids.
【小题1】Why did the teacher like her small special class?
【小题2】 When did the children bring their teacher gifts?
【小题3】Who sent a stuffed monkey to the teacher?
【小题4】Was the Christmas story, book new?
【小题5】How did the teacher feel when she got the presents?

Online shopping is growing fast in China, and more and more Chinese are buying books online. At the same time, traditional bookstores are facing new challenges. A bookstore in Beijing is going out of business（生意）. All of its books are on sale. Bookstore owner Wang Jian says hot sales of books on the Internet pushed him to change the way he did business.
China has the highest online book buying rate（率）in the world. More than years ago, dangdang.com became the first online bookseller, and now becomes very important in the Chinese online book market.
Facing this challenge, the Xinhua Bookstore also built its online store a few years ago. Zhang Jian, CEO of the Xinhuabookstore.com, says now they are enlarging their online services.
A “price war（战争）”is taking shape between traditional bookstores and online bookstores. Faced with the low-cost advantage of online bookstores, traditional ones can do nothing but lower their prices. At the same time, online bookstores are also starting price wars between each other.
Now some traditional bookstores are trying their best to attract buyers in their own way. They exhibit books better and provide(提供) a very relaxed reading environment in the bookstore. Even though, traditional bookstores can hardly compete with some of the advantages of online bookstores, for example 24-hour service.
【小题1】What is the passage about?

A．The development of online bookstores.

B．The disadvantages of traditional bookstores.

C．The great advantages of online bookstores.

D．The challenges traditional bookstores face.

【小题2】What made Wang Jian change the way he did business?

A．The small sales of his books.

B．The tiring work of selling books.

C．The high cost of running the bookstore.

D．Competition with other traditional bookstores.

【小题3】To attract buyers, traditional bookstores and online bookstores both choose to        .

A．lower the prices of books

B．provide 24-hour service

C．provide relaxed reading areas

D．exhibit books in a better way

【小题4】We can know from the passage that       .

A．traditional bookstores will break up sooner or later

B．dangdang. com is the first website selling books in China

C．more and more people will start bookstores on the Internet

D．most of the buyers who buy books online are young students

The new book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood is warmly welcomed by the children in China. It sells well across China. You can see and hear the advertisements about the book here and there.
Why is the book so attractive to children? After reading it, I was attracted by the magic world. I cannot help asking: where is our own Harry Potter?
China has a long history and colorful culture. With a large market of teenagers, China published(出版)many popular books among children. However, why are the present books not as good as those foreign ones?
Firstly, quite a number of children’s books are written for teaching, and they have little interest. Reading them, children often have a feeling of being “educated”. Certainly, they don't like them. Secondly, fewer children like the same stories, but most Chinese books are usually much the same. One knows the ending as early as in the beginning. Finally, the writers seldom think about children’s needs.
First-class Reading, for children should be interesting, and written in their language.
【小题1】About the present Chinese children's books, which is NOT right?

A．They have little interest.

B．Our writers seldom know children’s needs.

C．Most of them are the same.

D．They are better than foreign ones.

【小题2】Harry Potter is so popular, because________.

A．it’s the same as Chinese books

B．it can lead children into a wonderful world

C．it's not written in children’s language

D．it’s advertised more often on TV or posters

【小题3】The Chinese meaning of the underlined phrase “First-class Reading” is_______.

A．第一批读物

B．一节课的阅读

C．一流的读物

D．基础的阅读

【小题4】“Where is our own Harry Potter?” means________.

A．the writer can’t find any books for children

B．Chinese parents should buy Harry Potter for their children

C．our children should learn from Harry Potter

D．Chinese writers should write better books for our children

【小题5】Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Ways to read books.

B．A magic boy, Harry Potter.

C．Books and advertisements.

D．Our children need better books.