1、Module 1 Wonders of the world一、词汇A根据句意及提示写出形式正确的单词。1What _ you _（do）at seven yesterday evening?2The Grand Canyon is one of the _（wonder ）of the natural world.3I _（be）to Xinjiang twice. Its really a beautiful place.4When I _（arrive） , it was raining.5Some of the pyramids are over 200 feet in _.（high）
2、.6The rain stopped and the sun _.（rise）.B用方框中所给单词的正确形式填空。quick keep be talk seem make use laugh say happyThe best way of learning a language is 1 it. The best way of learning English is 2 in English as much as possible. Sometimes youll get your words mixed up and people will not understand you. Some
3、times people will say things 3 and you cant understand them. But if you 4 your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Dont be 5 if people 6 to be laughing at your mistakes. Its better for people 7 at your mistakes than to 8 angry with you, because they dont unders
4、tand what you 9 . The most important thing for learning English is: “Dont be afraid of making mistakes because everyone 10 mistakes.”二、单项选择1 When _ you _ the computer? Three years ago.Ahave; bought Bhad; bought Cdo; buy Ddid; buy2Hi, Kate. You look tired. Whats the matter?I _ well last night.Adidnt
5、sleep Bdont sleep Chavent slept Dwont sleep3 Did anyone _ the football match yesterday evening? Yes, we won.Awatch Bwatched Cwatches Dwatching4Do you know where our headmaster _?Aliving Blive Clives Dto live5Its 4 oclock. They _ their compositions.Awrite Bwrites Cwrote Dare writing6My mother _ to do
6、 some shopping after work. So am I.Awill go Bgoes Cwent Dis going7The little girl _ in the kindergarten when her mother came in.Acry Bcries Cwas crying Dis crying8There will be a parents meeting tomorrow. But my parents cant come because they _ to Shandong.Ahas gone Bhave gone Chas been Dhave been9H
7、asnt Betty come yet? No, I _ for her for nearly 2 hours.Await BwaitedChave waited Dhad waited10The story _ in London many years ago.Awas happening Bwill happen C happenedD happens11Peter was playing the piano while Alice _.Awas singing Bsang Cwould sing Dsinging12She told me that she _ my aunt the n
8、ext week.Awill visit Bwould visit Cis going to visit Dvisited13Whos taken away my English textbook? _.AI have BHe had CShe did DHe took it14Mary, could you help me? Wait a moment. I _.Aread a book Bdid my homeworkCwas watching TV Dam cooking dinner15Do you know Huang Ting well?Yes. She and I _ frien
9、ds since we met in Wuhan last summer.Amade Bwere Chave been Dbecome三、阅读理解AHere are six business cards. They are three persons. They are Andrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma Bell. The cards on the left are old ones and the cards on the right are new. Read the cards and then choose the right answers.MOR
10、ISONBAKER10010200 FIFTH AVENUENEW YORK, NYMOREIRVINE10012250 Mercer StreetNew York, NYAndrew M. Irvine, LawyerHome: 12 East 23rd StreetNew York, NY 10010（212）555-1819（212）555-2617Andrew M. Irvine, LawyerHome: 12 East 23rd StreetNew York, NY 10010（212）555-1819Sandy A. WestAssistant Sales Manager111 C
11、ommercial StreetSan Francisco, CA 94109（415）772-3622Home: 350 Arbor LaneSan Francisco, CA 94103（415）474-6188Sandy A. WestSales Manager111 Commercial StreetSan Francisco, CA 94109（415）772-3622Home: 350 Arbor LaneSan Francisco, CA 94103（415）474-6188Northern UniversityEnglish Language InstituteBoston,
12、MA 02115（617）264-3132Emma B. Bell, Assistant ProfessorHome: 189 Washington Street, Apt. 7ABrookline, MA 02115（617）347-6661Northern UniversityEnglish Language InstituteBoston, MA 02115（617）264-3132Emma B. Bell, ProfessorHome: 373 Park Place Brookline, MA02116（617）525- 80541If you want to get some adv
13、ice about law, you can ring the number _.A （415）772-3622 B （617）264-3132C （212）555-2617 D （415）474-61882If you want to visit Professor Bells home, you can go to _.AWashington BSan FranciscoCNew York DBrookline3_ havent changed their places of work.ASandy West and Emma BellBAndrew Irvine and Sandy We
14、stCEmma Bell and Andrew IrvineDAndrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma BellBI first started playing the piano when I was three. My parents are musicians, so they were both very encouraging. It was their dream, I think, to raise a child who could one day become a world-class pianist. So they asked an expe
15、nsive personal teacher to teach me, and I practiced every day, sometimes for five or six hours at a time. Despite（尽管）the long hours and frustration（挫折）, I did enjoy it, especially at first, and I was good. According to my parents and my teacher, I was really excellent, and I was on the road to becom
16、ing a professional musician, just like my mother and father.The trouble was, my head really wasnt in it. My real interest was something quite differentmathematics（maths）. Numbers were the things that really shone brightly in my mind. I found more beauty in a mathematical equation（相等）, I told my pare
17、nts, than in a piano sonata（奏鸣曲）. So when I went to college, I chose to study mathematics, not music. Then I got a job, working as an accountant.Now I work with numbers every day. My parents couldnt understand, and even now I guess they are still angry with me. They say I wasted a special gift. But
18、I still believe what I did was right for me.1It cost the writers parents a lot to _.Ahelp him with his lessons Braise their son to be an excellent pianistCbecome professional musicians Dpractice playing the piano2At first what the writer did showed that _.Ahe was hopeful in musicBhe hated playing th
19、e pianoChe didnt have a gift for musicDhe liked mathematics better3The writers parents felt very sorry for their son because they thought _.Ahis heart wasnt really in music Bthey didnt like his job of an accountantChe wasted a special gift Dhe didnt realize his mistake4Which is the best title of thi
20、s story?ANobody Understood Me BThe Road to My CareerCMy Parents Dream DDont Be Sorry for MeCMatt Mason has seen the futureand its fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系统）thats built i
21、nto the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器） . Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦）it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Masons company. “But you can program it to come on at 3 a. m., and i
22、t will just wet-mop the floor for you.”When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new sys
23、tem will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕） where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e- mail, keep
24、a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters（工作台）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the
25、height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MITs Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and
26、 bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.1How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?AThree. BFour. CFive. DSix.2In future, if you want to clean your house, you will _.Ahave a recycling system built in the wallBget up early to start yo
27、ur cleaning systemCuse your fridge to give orders to a cleanerDleave the work to a kind of cleaning machine3What is future kitchen work like?ATerrific and relaxing. BEasy and interesting.CEnjoyable and exciting. DFunny and amazing.4From the passage, we know _.Apeople will have more and more time enj
28、oying themselvesBfuture kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayCthe fridge can be found in the center of a future houseDpeople must be expert at computers to use these inventions四、完形填空Mr. Klein told the class that a new student, Inez, would join them soon. He 1 that Inez was deaf.
29、 She “talked” with others by using sign language. Mr. Klein knew sign language, and he decided to teach 2 students so that they could also “talk” with Inez.First, they learned to sign the letters. Some letters were hard to 3 . Other letters, such as C, were easier because the shape（形状）of the hand wa
30、s the same as the shape of the letter.The 4 thing they learned was fingerspelling. They signed one letter after another to spell a word. They 5 with two-letter words such as at and on. Then they spelled 6 words.Finally, Mr. Klein showed that 7 one sign could be used for a whole word. To make the sig
31、n for the word fine, a person spreads out（张开）the fingers on one hand, 8 the thumb（拇指）to the chest（前胸）, and moves the hand away from the chest. Signing is not just 9 with the hands. Expressions on the face are also 10 The students learned to sign a question mark by using expressions on the face.When
32、Inez first entered the classroom, she looked 11 . But the students signed, “Good morning, Inez.” She gave the class a big smile and signed back, “What a wonderful 12 !”1Ahoped Bsaid Cguessed Dthought2Ahis Bmy Cher Dour3Aspell Bcheck Cremember Dwrite4Afirst Bonly Clast Dnext5Amet Bstarted Cagreed Dhe
33、lped6Anewer Beasier Clonger Dnicer7Anever Bperhaps Cstill Djust8Ajoins Bfixes Ctouches Dties9Amade Bdone Cgiven Dchosen10Aimportant Bdifferent Cdifficult Dstrange11Aserious Bsurprised Cfrightened Dnervous12Awelcome Bcongratulation C. progress Dsuccess五、阅读与表达阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。Jason Queally is one of the
34、 fastest men in the world on a bicycle. But do you really call the thing in the picture a bicycle? Well, yes. Jasons human- powered（人力的）machine, with its two wheels, is, of course, a bicycle.Every year, a very important human-powered bicycle race is held in Nevada, USA. The speed of the bike is meas
35、ured（测定）for only 200 metres, but players take more than a kilometre to get their bikes going fast. Jason Queallys fastest speed for the 200-metre race was 103.5 kilometres an hour.At this years race, Jason failed to reach the finishing line. He was speeding along at about seventy kilometres an hour
36、when he began to lose control（控制）of his bike. When he tried to slow down, it began to smoke. Soon the inside of his bike was filled with smoke. He couldnt see, and he couldnt breathe. At seventy kilometres an hour, a crash（撞击）could be very serious. Jason was frightened, but he managed to stop the bi
37、ke safely. He would repair his bicycle and try another time to be the worlds fastest man on a bike. Better luck next time, Jason.Maybe youre surprised that these bikes go so quickly, but is it useful? It could be. Cars are becoming more and more popular, and they are very safe, comfortable and easy
38、to drive, but they also pollute the air in our cities. Scientists and engineers are learning from fast racing bikes how to make human-powered vehicles（车辆）that might be useful for daily travel.1Is Jasons human-powered machine a bicycle?_2How often is the human-powered bicycle race held in Nevada?_3Di
39、d Jason stop his bike safely or was he badly hurt?_4Why did he lose this years race?_5Whats the best vehicle for daily travel like according to the writer?_六、根据中英文提示，完成句子1他正在写一篇名为“我爱北京”的作文。He _ “I love Beijing ”2我要采访贝基王。Ill _ Becky Wang3天太黑，他什么也看不见。It was _.4提高英语的最佳途径之一是参加一个英语俱乐部。One of the best way
40、s to improve your English is _.5我写完作业就去看电影。Ill go to see the movie _.七、书面表达根据中文提示和英文书信内容，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于 50 词的回信。（信的开头和结尾已给出，其字数不计入所完成的回信内）假如你叫李玲，是英国中学生露茜的笔友，你收到了她的电子邮件。请根据她来信的 内容写一封回信。针对她的困惑，谈谈你的看法，同时提出一些建议，告诉她应该做什 么，不应该做什么。Dear Li Ling,These days Tom Cruise, the film star, always comes into my mi
41、nd. I think of him night and day. I just sit in my room and watch videos of his films again and again. Ive written hundreds of letters to him and sent e-mails to his fan club, but all I get back are only photos with his names on them. I dream that some day Ill meet him and that hell feel the same wa
42、y about me. I dont want to learn my lessons any more, and Ill have final exams next month. Im thinking of running away to Hollywood to meet him. Can you help me with the problem?Yours,LucyHi Lucy,Nice to hear from you. _Yours,Li Ling拓展探究阅读短文，用适当的词填空，使短文意思完整。A terrible earthquake（地震）happened in Wench
43、uan on May 12, 2008. 1 people lost their lives and homes. During those days, a lot of stories about 2 could be heard. Here is 3 of them. After the earthquake, under a fallen building, some soldiers found that a 4 died in a very strange way. When they were ready to take her away, they were surprised to find that a baby in her arms was 5 alive. The baby was sleeping and 6 hurt at all. Between the dead m
