1. Michelangelo, who __________ a poor family, was trained at an early age like any other craftsmen in Italy.
2. Mike __________ his grandparents and was brought up in a small village. 3. Helen __________ English. She always gets full marks in English tests. 4. Mozart __________ playing the piano very much when he was three years old. VII. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms 1. The sports meeting ended with the __________ (close) speech by our headmaster. 2. The internet can __________ (able) people to get to know what has happened all over the world.
3. The electric light is one of the greatest __________ (invent) in the world. 4. It’s a __________ (please) trip, isn’t it?
5. Jack found several __________ (mouse) in that dirty room. VIII. Rewrite the following sentences as required 1. I go to play badminton twice a week.（对划线部分提问） __________ __________ do you go to play badminton. 2. Both of the twins are good at foreign languages.（否定句） __________ of the twins __________ good at foreign languages. 3. He spent 100 dollars on the digital camera.（保持句意不变） The digital camera __________ __________ 100 dollars.
4. If you are dishonest, I won’t make friends with you.（保持句意不变） __________ __________ , or I won’t make friends with you. 5. He needed to set out so early.（改为否定句） He __________ __________ to set out so early.
Part Three Reading & Writing
IX. Choose the best answer
The designer of Apple computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with his schoolmates and teachers. But he was full of new ideas. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out halfway.
Steven Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months, and then he set out to visit India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better.
After he had returned from India, he began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steve Jobs started to make a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple computer in his bedroom and actually built in his garage. he chose the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent in an orchard. The Apple computer was a great success, and Steven Jobs soon became famous worldwide. Today he is a millionaire. He was many factories and research institutes.
1. Steven Jobs was ______ when he was young. A. not one of the best students at school B. not a clever student at school C. a poor student at school D. his teachers’ favourite student 2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Steven Jobs was full of new ideas, but they weren’t useful. B. Most of the teachers thought Steven’s new ideas were valuable. C. Steven had a lot of new ideas, though he was not a top student.
D. Steven Jobs didn’t finish his college study because people didn’t see the value of his new ideas. 3. Steven took a trip to India, because ______ . A. he didn’t like the job there
B. he believed that a trip could make him more comfortable C. he enjoyed the trip to India.
D. He wanted the trip to give him more ideas and make his life better. 4. Steven Jobs made his first computer ______ . A. in his garage B. in his bedroom C. in a workshop D. in an orchard
5. Steven Jobs gave the name “Apple” to his computer because ______ . A. he liked apples very much
B. it could remind him of a happy summer in an orchard C. his first computer looked like an apple
D. he was eating an apple while he was designing this computer.
X. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage
A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clean plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school. There might be a person students didn’t want to forgive in their lives. They chose a ______ , wrote the person’s name and the date on it and put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were very heavy. They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere for one week. They would put it beside their bed ______ , on the seat when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desk at school. Days of carrying the bag around with them made students get to know the weight they were carrying in their minds. And they had to pay attention to it all the time so they didn’t forget it or ______ it in embarrassing places. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and the time so they didn’t forget it or ______ it in embarrassing places. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and ______ nasty. Too often we think of tolerance as a gift to other people, and it clearly is for ______ ! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred in our hearts, we will have to carry them around all our lives. 1. A. bag 3. A. get
B. potato B. let B. tasted B. ourselves
C. desk C. leave C. smelt C. himself
D. pen D. at night D. lose D. felt D. yourself
2. A. in the morning 4. A. sounded 5. A. themselves
XI. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words
Do you like chili? Can you make it by yourself? here we’ll teach you how to make chili. We can divide the cooking into f__________ steps, which all together take about an hour and a q__________ . First, chop the onion, and cook it w__________ the meat in the frying pan until the meat turns brown. S__________ , add the beans and the tomato soup and let the mixture boil over low heat for about ten minutes. Next, mix about two tablespoons of chili powder, a tablespoon of flour, a tablespoon of salt, and three c__________ of water. Then stir them in the frying pan. Turn the heat down and let the chili just simmer for forty-five minutes. Finally, when the chili is done, serve it in soup bowls.
XII. Answer the questions
B. in the afternoon
C. during the day
Man has been to the moon. It has been the first step to the future travels in space. The moon is much nearer to the earth than all the planets. Venus, the nearest planet to the earth is millions of kilometers away! Travelling to the planets will be man’s next step. It will be more difficult than travelling to the moon and certainly more exciting.
In 1977, an American spaceship reached Mars, the second nearest planet from the earth. A wonderful robot slowly walked on the planet and worked hard. It sent a lot of information back to the earth. The most exciting piece was that there used to be a lot of water on Mars, The American scientists wanted to find the answer to the questions “Is there any life on Mars?” Unlikely, no life was found there, but American scientists do not lose heart. How about Venus? Russian spaceship has found that it is so hot that there must be no life there.
Spaceships in the future will be bigger and faster. They will be able to carry people to moon or other planets.
Many may in the future find planets likes the earth and make them his home. But there is still a long, long way to way. Man should learn to know that the earth will be his only home for a long time and begin to love and take good care of it.
1. What is the first step to the future travels in space?
___________________________________________________________________ 2. Is Venus the nearest planet to the earth?
___________________________________________________________________ 3. Are there any living things found on Mars for now?
____________________________________________________________________ 4. Why there must be no life on Venus?
____________________________________________________________________ 5. Why does the writer think that man should take good care of the earth?
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XIII. Write a letter in at least 50 words according to the given situation ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Dear Tom,
Yesterday was my birthday.___________________________________________
