阅读下面短文，在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。
（每空格限填一词）（本题共五小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
Liu Xiang is not an overnight success. He was born in Shanghai ___【小题1】__ 13th July, 1983 and, like many Olympic sports stars, he started training when he was very __【小题2】. In Grade Four, he went to the Junior Sports School of Putuo District of Shanghai. Liu was encouraged at first to train as a high jumper. Then, in 1998, his skill at hurdling was noticed by his _【小题3】_____ Sun Haiping. In 2004, he __【小题4】___ the first Olympic Gold medal for China in Athens, Greece. Now he is training hard to go for more __【小题5】__for China. Just because he was trained for gold!

“Reading makes a full man” (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen was one of the most wellknown women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, the Hunchback of Notre-
Dame, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
任务：阅读上文，根据其内容填空。

The numbers of writers are mentioned in the passage.	【小题1】______________________
Nationality	Jane Austen was from【小题2】_______
Jane Austen’s famous novel	Pride and Prejudice
Victor Hugo’s famous novel	【小题3】______________
The winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1954	【小题4】__________________

 

Yao Ming was born in China in 1980. Now the big name from China is playing for the Houston Rockets in the NBA. He is the son of two basketball players and he learned how to play basketball when he was young. Now, as one of the stars in the NBA, he is working hard to show the world that Chinese basketball players can do well in this game, too!
Pele was a famous football player. He was born in Brazil in 1940. He started playing for Santos when he was only 16 and he didn't retire（退役） until 1977. He played for Brazil 111 times and he scored 97 international goals. Pele came from a poor family. He started playing football in the streets. He played for Santos and quickly became an international star.
Steffi Graf was born in Germany in 1969. She won the tennis semi-final（半决赛） at Wimbledon in 1985 when she was only 16, but she lost the final to another great tennis player, Martina Navratilova. People were 'surprised at the strength and power of her game. She soon became a famous tennis player and won most of the main matches.
【小题1】Who is the youngest player in the passage?

A．Pele.

B．Yao Ming.

C．Steffi Graft.

D．No one.

【小题2】 __________ comes from South America.

A．Pele

B．Yao Ming

C．Steffi Graft

D．No one

【小题3】Yao Ming began to learn to play basketball __________.

A．when he was 15	B．when he was young
C．when he was tall enough	D．when he was strong enough

【小题4】From the passage, we learn __________.

A．Steffi Graf was born in 1985 in Wimbledon

B．Martina Navratilova was also a tennis player

C．Steffi Graf won few of the main matches

D．Steffi Graf won the tennis final when she was 16

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的三个选项（A、B和C）中，选出最佳选项。

Martin Luther King was born in Georgia, U.S.A. When he was a boy, he sang with other children in the church.

Little Martin knew that it was very important to love and be kind to others.

Although the church was very important to Martin, he was interested in other things, too. He liked sports very much. He was not tall, but he was very strong. The boys in his town often met at Martin’s house for a game of football or basketball.

Martin liked school and was a very good student. He went to college at fifteen. At first, he didn’t know what he wanted to study. He knew the black people didn’t have the same rights as the white people, and he also knew that the black people were not as happy as the white people. He wanted to work for the black people. He wanted to help the poor black people.

Later he really became a famous man. He was fighting for the men’s rights all his life. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. He was murdered(谋杀) on the evening of April 4, 1968.

1.Martin was from_______.

A. America                                           B. England                                            C. Japan

2.When Martin was a boy, _______.

A. he didn’t like singing

B. he was not strong

C. he enjoyed playing football and basketball

3.When Martin was a little boy, he knew that it was very important_______.

A. to like sports       

B. to go to the church

C. to love and be kind to others

4.Marin knew that_______.

   A. he would not study again

   B. he would work for the black people

   C. the black people had the same rights as the white people

5.Martin was famous all over the world because _______.

   A. he was a kind man

B. he fought for the men’s rights

   C. he was murdered

 

句型转换

1.Why don’t you ask Tom for help?(改为同义句)

                  ask Tom for help?

2.Have you got any pen friends?(改为同义句)

        you           any pen friends?

3.Don’t forget to speak English,                   ?(完成反意疑问句)

4.To remember new words is difficult.(改为同义句)

        difficult          remember new words.

5.I was born in Tianjin in 1991.(对画线部分提问)

      and                you born?