Unit 1 Advertising 5 同步练习

Unit 1 Advertising 5 同步练习同步练习 完形填空完形填空 一一 This year our youngest daughter Shelly is four She received an unusual Christmas 1 from Santa It was a beautiful bubble maker a simple machine of plastic and cloth The inventor promised it would create huge bubbles 2 enough to swallow a four year old kid Both Shelly and I 3 trying it out but it was dark so we d have to wait until the next day Later that night I 4 the instructions of the machine while Shelly played alone with some of her other new toys The inventor of the bubble maker had 5 all types of soaps for making bubbles and found that one kind of soap created the best bubbles I 6 to buy some the next day The next morning I 7 very early because of the noise in the house Shelly was up I knew in my sleepy mind that Christmas Day festivities would soon begin so I got up and made my way towards the kitchen to make coffee In the hallway I 8 my daughter already wide awake with the bubble maker in her little hand The magic of Christmas morning 9 in her four year old heart Her eyes were shining with excitement and she asked Daddy can we make bubbles now I rubbed my eyes and 10 I looked towards the window where the sky was only beginning to lighten I looked towards the kitchen Shelly I said it s too early I haven t even had my coffee yet Her smile 11 Immediately I felt I broke her heart Then I said yes Minutes later we got to a store 12 and in no time at all we were out creating bubbles together 1 A present B wish C dream D plan 2 A colorful B large C beautiful D bright 3 A thought highly of B made use of C looked forward to D looked down upon 4 A wrote B read C accepted D hid 5 A sold B tasted C produced D tried 6 A begged B stopped C decided D hesitated 7 A stood up B woke up C turned around D watched out 8 A impressed B surprised C scolded D met 9 A broke B failed C grew D struggled 10 A cried B laughed C screamed D refused 11 A spread B disappeared C improved D lied 12 A bravely B proudly C carefully D quickly 完形填空完形填空 二二 Today we read a passage about dying to be thin It was about a Canadian actress 1 had to go to hospital because she took some weigh loss pills She lost 7 kg in 2 months 2 the pills contained something that causes liver failure so she had to get 3 new liver A young Chinese man donated more than half of his liver to save 4 life Recently my cousin learned about a new weightless pill 5 she really wants to try it I ve told her the story of the actress but she didn t listen She s only 12 but has become a girl who is worried 6 her figure and how she looks She often refuses to eat My aunt is worried that my cousin will buy the pills in secret She says health is priceless She thinks that children must eat properly as they are growing all the time What 7 you think I should do 8 can I help my cousin 阅读理解阅读理解 A Full of beauty happiness and a healthy love of life the Bulgarian 保加利亚人的 festivals and customs date back to old time when man tried to live in peace with nature The merriest and richest festivals are Christmas and the New Year when the so called sourvakari makes the round of house with wishes for health and wealth Other main festivals include ladouvane a holiday for young girls on New Year s Day or Midsummer Day 24th June Shrovetide and Mummers Games which mark the start of spring and lazrouvane a traditional festival for love and family health and richness And among them the widely popular and typical Bulgarian customs and festivals are martenitsas and rose picking Every year on March 1st the Bulgarians give each other martenitsas a small doll made of white and red strings a symbol of the beginning of spring health and happiness In late May and early June every year the rose picking season starts in the Valley of Roses which is between the Balkan Range and the Sredna Gora Mountains Rose picking starts at dawn before sunrise and before the pleasant smell of the rose has disappeared The Bulgarian rose produces 70 percent of the world s rose oil which is used by the very well known perfume 香 水 company as a basic element of its products This is the time of the Festival of Roses celebrated with carnivals happy activities folk songs and dances in Karlovo and Kazanluk on the first Sunday in June 1 The passage is mainly about A Christmas and the New Year in Bulgaria B the origin of Bulgarian festivals and customs C rose picking and perfume industry in Bulgaria D typical customs and festivals of Bulgaria 2 Which of the following can be the best title for the passage A Martenitsas the Beginning of Spring B Beauty Happiness and Love C Bulgarian Festivals and Customs D Rose picking and Martenitsas 3 The author of this passage intends to A let us know some knowledge of Bulgarian culture B tell us the differences between customs and festivals C explain the connection between customs and industry D find the origin of the Bulgarian customs 4 The second and third paragraphs of the passage A tell us how popular rose picking is B link two festivals with health and richness C show us two merriest and richest festivals D talk about two typical Bulgarian festivals 5 This passage is most likely to appear in a A magazine of travel B book on world culture C history book D daily newspaper B Meteorologists 气象学家 love hurricanes because they are wonders of nature But if you re on a ship at sea or in a house on the beach a hurricane is not so pretty The screaming winds and huge waves can overturn a ship At the shore they can break windows knock down trees or pull the roofs from houses The most dangerous part of a hurricane s destruction is flooding Hurricane winds can push the ocean water toward the shore building it up into a huge rushing tide called a storm surge 风暴 潮 Water level at the shore can rise 20 feet in just a few hours The deadliest hurricane in United States history happened in 1900 when Galveston Texas was struck In the big storm surge more than 6 000 people were killed These days with more and more people living in coastal cities experts predict that if a hurricane hit without warning the death toll could be even higher But scientists have learned a lot about hurricanes since 1900 Meteorologists can now track the path a hurricane takes and predict where it is likely to hit days in advance When Hurricane Isabel swept toward the North Carolina coast in 2003 the National Hurricane Center was able to make forecasts five days ahead and scientists were off by only one hour in their prediction Of where and when Isabel s eye would make landfall The information collected by the hurricane hunters improves the accuracy 精确度 of such forecasts by 30 percent saving thousands of lives Scientists are interested in the reason why hurricanes start but they haven t found yet However they do know hurricanes form only over warm ocean water 6 In the eyes of meteorologists a hurricane is a kind of A natural secret B natural mystery C natural disaster D natural beauty 7 What kind of damage can a hurricane cause A Earthquake B Flooding C Volcano D Drought 8 The underlined sentence in the last paragraph may mean A the hurricane cam