阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一个选项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）

    A girl went to her father to ask his advice. She was having a hard time in life, and it seemed that as soon as one problem disappeared, another one appeared in its place.

Her father is a cook.   1     _______. He poured water into three pans and put them on to boil. After the water boiled, he put some carrots into the first pan, some eggs into the second pan and coffee into the last one. He waited without saying a word.

  2       ________He took out the carrots and eggs and put them in a bowl. He poured the coffee into a cup. He asked his daughter, “Dear, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee.” She replied. “Touch the carrots,” he told her. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. She found that the egg was hard.     3    _______. She asked, “What’s the meaning, Father?”

Her father said, “As you see, each thing reacted (反应)differently to the boiling water. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after boiling.     4  ________. The coffee beans were very special, but they changed in the water, too. ” “Who are you?” asked her father. “When trouble knocks at your door, how do you react? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee? ”

 

A.  After 20 minutes, her father turned off the stove B.  He took her into the kitchen C.  The fragile(脆弱的) eggs became hard after being cooked D.  So it’s easy to understand. E.  At last, her father asked her to taste the coffee

 

 

先阅读短文，然后根据短文内容从方框内所给的单词中选择最恰当的词（注意词形变化）填入短文空白处，使短文完整、通顺。一词只用一次，一空限填一词。方框中有两个词是多余的。

well, homework , come , dress,  important , parent ,  hold , nothing , how , necessary , help, housework, anything

 Now lots of parents will buy everything that their children want to have. If they go on with the habit , their children won’t know the money    1   from hard work .
Some parents like to   2  birthday parties for their children . If they keep on doing this , their children will think it   3  for them to enjoy birthday parties every year . Year after year , maybe they will forget their    4  birthdays and only remember their own . It is against traditional habits.
Many parents don’t let the children do    5  . They think children have only one thing to do. They should study hard and do  6 in their lessons . If parents go on doing like this, the children will only learn to open their mouths to be fed and stretch out (伸出) their arms to be   7   every day . When the children grow up , they will be able to do    8  , and they won’t even find a  9  . Parents should teach the children    10   to do housework because it can   11     them start good habits of working by themselves.

根据对话内容及方框中所给的选项补全对话。选项中有一项是多余的。（5分）

( Li Lei is a Chinese exchange student in America. He is chatting with Jason in his host family. )

Jason : Hi, Li Lei! Here is your juice.

Li Lei: Thanks, Jason.

Jason : Not at all.   1.  

Li Lei; That's right. How time flies!

Jason :  2.

Li Lei; Yes, 1 do. The teachers are very helpful, and the students are active and confident.

Jason : It's kind of you to say so. And I hear you Chinese students are very hard-working.

Li Lei: We sure are.   3.

Jason : By the way, do you have any plans for this weekend?

Li Lei:   4.  How about you?

Jason : I want to do some volunteer work. Shall we go to the old people's home visit?

Li Lei; Sounds great!  5.  

Jason : I believe you will like it.

A. Nothing much. B. How long have you been here? C. It'll be a new experience to me.        D. You have been here for months, right? E. We are strict in our schoolwork.         F. Do you get used to the school life here?

 

 

根据对话内容， 从方框内所给的选项中选出最佳选项， 将其答案的序号写在方框下面的横线上， 选项中有两项为多余项。

W: Sorry, I can’t.  (1) ____

M: Are you having an exam tomorrow?

W: Yes.  (2) ____

M: I wish you good luck.

W: Thanks.  But I am a little afraid.

M: Afraid? (3) ____

W: But I haven’t worked hard in the past few days.

M :(4) ____

W:Oh, I like my English teacher, Sue, best.  She teaches history and she always makes the lessons interesting.

M: Do all the students like history?

W :(5) ____  My friend Tom hates it, because we have lots of homework every Monday and every Wednesday we have a test.

A. Why do you like your history teacher? B. Who is your favorite teacher? C. Yes, it’s such an interesting subject that we all like it. D. I have to go over my lessons. E. Oh, no! F.  We are having our mid-term exam. G. You always study well.

 

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）

What is a spelling bee?   1  , but it is so popular in the Unite States. It is a game for children to spell English words.

The National Spelling Bee is the largest education contest(比赛) . It first began in 1925 in Washington.D. C.   2 . It is open to students in eighth grade or lower and not reaching their 15th birthday.

The contest is quite simple. When it's your turn, the teacher says a word and you have to spell it.   3 , you stay in the game. If you spell it wrong, you're out. What's not so easy are the words the teachers ask you to spell.

Usually, children need to spend a lot of time learning vocabulary. They must remember thousands of English words and spell every word correctly in the contest. Only winners in regional (地区的) contest can enter the national contest. It’s many children’s dream to win the regional contest and go to Washington, D. C. The final winners will be called the Spelling Bee.   4 . Do you also think they are great?

A. If you spell it right

B. Not too many Chinese students know it

C. It is held in late May or early June of each year

D. The children like the sports a lot

E. It means they have worked hard