综合能力提升八

1、.Unit 8Detective stories综合能力提升八.【2019·孝感】完形填空Billy's favourite colour was orange. But he couldn't see what orange looked like. A month after he was born, his mother noticed that his eyes weren't as _1_ as a normal baby's. “Billy would _2_ be able to see. He is blind，” the doctor

2、 said. Even so, with the hope to help Billy learn _3_ about the world around him, his mother kept describing everything she saw for him. Not just through his mother's words, Billy saw _4_ his ears and hands, too. He had perfect hearing. “In fact, he _5_ see many things that normal people don'

3、;t notice.” _6_ Billy lived in the dark, he always believed a dream would light up his life. He found that he was _7_ in computer science. So he began learning it at seven years old. As a young boy, he _8_ going to Stanford University some day. And for years of efforts, he finally achieved his dream

4、.Many people wanted to find out the secret of his _9_. Billy explained, “Just move forward! Don't let any difficulty _10_ your dream from coming true.”You cannot choose what you are given, but you can choose how you make use of it.()1.A.big BbiggerCbiggest Dthe biggest()2.A.noBoftenCnever Dusual

5、ly()3.A.all BnoneCneither Dboth()4.A.between BwithoutCamong Dwith()5.A.needBcanCmust Dshould()6.A.Or BIfCAlthough DBefore()7.A.bored BworriedCkind Dinterested()8.A.looked through Blooked forClooked forward to Dlooked up()9.A.success BsmileCtrouble Deyes ()10.A.wake BpreventCleave Dthrow.【2019·常

6、德】任务型阅读In the USA, each year, students take part in a kind of competition called the Science Olympiad.It has a lot of different events. Students go there to show how much they know about the science of music, biology, chemistry and others. My best event is forestry.The big day had come at last! Firs

7、t, I went to watch the tower building competition. That's when students build small towers and put heavy things on top of it. They hope they can hold them up. One of my schoolmates was putting things on her tower. She was nervous, and in the end it was too heavy for her tower to hold itit broke!

8、 I felt bad for her. After lunch, I helped some teammates with their events. One was geography, and the other was history. I don't know much about those things, so I just watched my teammates do most of the work. At last, it was time for my favourite eventforestry. The rules were easy. We had to

9、 look at more than 40 different kinds of leaves and find out which plants they were from. We also had to answer some questions about the uses of each leaf. I knew almost all of the leaves and could answer most of the questions. I had spent more than a month studying on the Internet to get ready. In

10、the end, it was time for the awards, I was nervous, because the forestry awards were last. We won second place in the whole state! A nice man gave me a medal and smiled at me. 根据短文内容，回答下面问题。1What is the Science Olympiad?_2Is forestry the author's(作者的) best event?_3Why did the author feel bad for the first event?_4Where did the author prepare for his event?_5Which prize did the author's team win, the second or the last?_详解详析.15ACADB610CDCAB.1.It has a lot of different events. Students go there to show how much they know about t