A）根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。
【小题1】 If Simon_________________ (have) time next weekend, he will go to the zoo.
【小题2】How_________________ (care) you are! You’ve knocked the cup off the table again!
【小题3】 Yesterday was the _________________  (hot) day of the year.
【小题4】 It seemed that the victim had many_________________  (enemy).
【小题5】I’m patient. I don’t mind _________________  (wait) for people.
B）根据句子意思及汉语提示，写出所缺的单词。
【小题6】Susan plays the piano very _________________ (好).
【小题7】 Have you ever_________________ (骑) a horse?
【小题8】I’m sure your cousins can do these exercises _________________ (自己)
【小题9】I love children, _________________ (尤其，特别)when they smile.
【小题10】My brother sleeps with the window open _________________(除非)it’s really cold.

Have you ever seen a horse with toes (脚趾)? Millions of years ago, horses had many toes.They had four toes on each front foot.They had three toes on each back foot.The horses were smaller than cats.

These small horses lived in the forest.Their many toes helped the horses run over the soft wet ground.

It was very hot in the forest.But the weather changed.It became cold.Many trees couldn’t live in cold weather.The trees died and fell.Forest became open field.The sun made the ground dry and hard (坚硬).Horses began to change too.They began to get bigger.This took a long time.On the dry hard land, horses needed only their middle toes for running.At last their middle toes became hard.

1.Long ago, the horse had four toes on each of its __________.

A．back feet          B．front feet          C．right feet          D．left feet

2.The cats were __________ the horses at that time.

A．as big as          B．smaller than        C．bigger than        D．as small as

3.When the weather changed, __________.

A．many trees grew well in cold weather        B．animals began to change too

C．cats were older than the horses            D．horses were the same as they are

Homesick is a compound (复合的) word made up of “home” and “sick”. You know

  1  each word means on its own, of course. But think about what the words mean when they are   2  together. “Homesick” means “Thinking of home, unhappy away from home.” In other words, it means “sick for home”.

　　Now think for a minute   3  the word SEASICK. If you change the word “home” in the definition (定义) to the word “sea”, would the definition  4  “seasick” ? Does seasick mean “thinking of sea, unhappy away from sea”? It means something quite  5 . Seasick means “made sick by the only place where you are on the sea.” It means “sick because of the sea.” When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, the   6  place you want to be is at sea.

　　Have you ever   7  a person being heartsick? Heartsick does not mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are   8 down deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.

　  And so, when you are carsick, you are “made sick by the movement of a car on the road.” You are sick because of the car, not sick for it.

You can see, then, that   9  compound words are what they seem at first glance (一瞥). Think about the compound words, such as handshake and   10 . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.

1.                A．what           B．that            C．which    D．who

2.                A．read           B．used           C．thought   D．understood

3.                A．for            B．from           C．about    D．like

4.                A．fit             B．read           C．get D．have

5.                A．different        B．same           C．right D．wrong

6.                A．first            B．only           C．safe D．last

7.                A．heard of        B．heard from      C．thought over   D．thought about

8.                A．hit            B．hurt           C．loved D．moved

9.                A．not others      B．not every       C．not all    D．not other

10.               A．careful         B．southern       C．illness D．handwriting

Have you ever gone    ?

A．surfing           B．to surf            C．surf              D．surfed