One of the things to be learnt in a foreign language is guessing all the time what kind of thing to come when listening to someone talking. People do this all the time in their own language, so it is necessary (必要的) to do this in a foreign language, too. Here are some examples.

1. "What's the matter？" "I went to a party last night, so I…"

2. "I feel so tired these days."" I think you'd better…"

3."Of course, she never stops talking. She is one of the most…"

You can see from the above three examples that the context (上下文) helps a lot in understanding what is being talked about. So "guessing "is very important in understanding English, especially (尤其)spoken English.

1.This passage tells us mainly about _________.

A. the importance of "guessing " in learning a foreign language

B. how to guess what one is going to talk about

C. some examples of right guessing

D. how important it is to guess all the time

2.From the context, we can see maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 1 is _________.

A. "… so I didn't have a good time."         B. "…so I went to bed very late."

C. "…. So I felt unhappy."                      D. "… so I got up very early."

3. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 2 is ________.

A. "I think you'd better have a good rest and take good care of yourself."

B. "I think you'd better have something to drink."

C. "I think you'd better get some help from your friends."

D. "I think you'd better be more careful."

 

根据短文内容和所给的首字母，写出短文中所缺的单词，使短文完整，合乎情景。将完整的单词写在下面框内。

   The mobile phone is a useful thing, but maybe I don't know h  1    to use it. Sometimes it makes things difficult for me.

   One day I wanted to see my friend nearby. I could a  2   at his house in five minutes, but I looked at my mobile phone and thought i  3    would be better to ring him up. I r  4   him for the first time, but the line was busy. Five minutes later, there was an answer, but it was the wrong number. Then I tried a  5   and this time I got an answer from him.

   I asked him if he was at home in the afternoon. And he said--at 1  6   I thought he said--he would be at home all afternoon. So I went to his house, but then I found n  7 in. I called him for the fourth time. This time I got so angry that I s  8   , "You are not at home? But you just told me over the telephone that you would be at home all afternoon!"

   Here w  9   his answer, "No, I said: 'I will NOT be at home all afternoon.'"

   I went back to my room, sat down in front of the mobile phone and looked at it. What e  10   could I do? Nothing!

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One of the things to be learnt in a foreign language is guessing all the time what kind of thing to come when listening to someone talking．People do this all the time in their own language, so it is necessary（必要的）to do this in a foreign language, too．Here are some examples．

1．"What's the matter?" "I went to a party last night, so I…"

2．"I feel so tired these days．" " I think you'd better…"

3．"Of course, she never stops talking．She is one of the most…"

You can see from the above three examples that the context（上下文）helps a lot in understanding what is being talked about．So "guessing " is very important in understanding English, especially（尤其）spoken English．

根据上面短文的内容，选择正确答案。

1．This passage tells us mainly about         ．

A．the importance of "guessing " in learning a foreign language

B．how to guess what one is going to talk about

C．some examples of right guessing

D．how important it is to guess all the time

2．From the context, we can see maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE I is         ．

A．"…so I didn't have a good time．"               B．"…so I went to bed very late．"

C．"…So I felt unhappy．"                     D．"…so I got up very early．"

3．Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 2 is         ．

A．"I think you'd better have a good rest and take good care of yourself．"

B．"I think you'd better have something to drink．"

C．"I think you'd better get some help from your friends．"

D．"I think you'd better be more careful．"

4．Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 3 is         ．

A．"…she is one of the most famous film stars．"

B．"…she is one of the most beautiful women．"

C．"…she is one of the most famous speakers．"

D．"…she is one of the most talkative women．"

5．From the passage we can infer（推断）that guessing is          in learning a foreign language．

A．the only way

B．more important in spoken English than in written English

C．more important than any other way

D．more important in written English than in spoken English

Kelly Christopher, a student at Lutheran High School in California, US, loves oranges. One day last week, she used a pole(竿子) to pick oranges off trees and collect them in baskets. It's the first time in her 15 years she's picked fruit from trees.

 "This is quite different from buying oranges in the supermarket," said Christopher. "Every time I eat an orange, I'll remember this experience."

Christopher was one of the 30 student volunteers at Soil Born Farms. She volunteered as part of a project which was set up in 2009 to help homeowners in South Land Park pick oranges and other fruits out of their backyards. Before, the fruit would rot on the ground or get eaten by animals. Now the fruit is donated to those who need it.

"It is good for many people", said Randy Stannard, who works for the project. "The homeowner gets fruit picked and more people can have healthy food."

"Two harvests (收成 ) were organized in 2009 and volunteers picked 3,000 pounds (1,360kg) of fruit", Stannard said. In 2010, the number was 20,000. This year, Soil Born Farms hopes to get 40,000 pounds. They will harvest every weekend from January to April.

Shannon Galloway, Christopher's science teacher, brought her students into the project this year.

"You're making use of a resource that might be wasted," she said. "I think it's meaningful to everyone."

Donato Frazier, 15, always climbs up a ladder(梯子) and gets on the top of the tree.

"Standing on the treetop is pretty cool," Frazier said. "I can see clearly that many baskets are filled up, and even see that many people are eating healthy fruit because of our volunteer work."                                          

1.Christopher and other students went to pick fruits from real trees because they wanted to _____.

A. have some fresh fruit for themselves

B. make some money by selling fruit

C. provide people with more healthy fruit

D. buy some cheap fruit from their neighbors

2.When was the project set up?

A. In 2008.             B. In 2009.     C. In 2010.     D. In 2011.

3.What will happen to the fruit if they don’t help the homeowners pick it?

A. The fruit will rot or be eaten by small animals.

B. People who need the fruit will come to pick it.

C. The fruit will be used as a resource for research.

D. Homeowners will pick the fruit and sell it.

4.What does the underlined word resource mean?

A. 资源             B. 调查         C. 对策         D.  娱乐

5.How do the students feel about their work?

A. It’s interesting and easy.

B. It’s meaningless and hard.

C. It’s meaningful and exciting.

D. It’s tiring and boring.

 

Last Friday after I got my pay, I went shopping on my way home. In the crowded supermarket, I lost my purse and my money was gone with it. I felt very angry and sad. We were not rich and the money was important for us. How could I tell my wife about it?

I felt really sorry for losing the money. When I got home, I cleaned the house and prepared a nice meal. I hoped what I did could comfort(安慰) my wife. When she came back, she was surprised to see the clean house and the nice meal. Then I began to tell my story when we were at table, but my wife didn't respond (反映) as if she had not heard my words. Maybe she was trying hard to hide her anger, I thought.

“I've lost my pay." I said to her again.

“I see.” She didn't seem to be angry with me. For a moment, she said nothing but enjoyed the meal with me.

“I've lost my money," I could not help asking, “why don't you blame (责备) me?"

“Oh, my dear," she raised her eyes, looked at me and said, "I'm thinking about how to comfort you. It's the thief who is to be blamed!"

根据短文内容，判断句子正误，正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”

1.I got my pay last Monday.

2. In the supermarket I lost my purse and money.

3. I cleaned the house because I liked doing it.

4.My wife was surprised to see what I did.

5. When my wife heard my story, she became very angry.