I 完形填空：
On Easter Day 1722, some European explorers found a lonely island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They 1 it Easter Island. The explorers found that the island had good soil 2 the 200 natives living there survived with little food. Even more 3 , these people also lived among the ruins of what might have been a once great civilization. All that is left of it are around 800 giant stone statues 4 human heads. They 5 up to 270 tons and the tallest measures over 11 meters. The stone men face 6 , rather than out to sea, and their eyes are focused upon the sky. They are all carved from 7 volcanic rock (火山岩) and some have hats on their heads and eyes made from white coral. Since their 8 , these huge stone men 9 one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Who built them? Why did they do it? Some experts believe the stone men are 10 to Inca stonework, and suggest the figures were created by people of Peruvian descent (血统). 11 have even gone so far as to say that they came from outer space. The latest suggestion 12 the idea that Easter Island represents one of the worst cases of resource abuse in human history. It is said that a small group of Asians settled on Easter Island 13 between 400 and 700 AD. They developed a great civilization with huge forests and 14 food. At the peak of their civilization, the people began to build the giant 15 men. Why they did this is still 16 , but it is possible the figures represent the settlers’ gods or ancestors. 17 the statues grew larger, the people’s lifestyles became more and more wasteful. The forest began to disappear, which 18 all the animals dying out. 19 couldn’t get food and were forced to eat other humans. Society began to 20 and the islanders themselves finally destroyed the stone men.
1. A. said B. were called C. named D. spoke
2. A. and B. but C. however D. still
3. A. surprise B. surprised C. surprising D. surprisingly
4. A. looking B. resembling C. liking D. standing for
5. A. weigh B. lift C. get D. measure
6. A. forward B. outward C. onward D. inward
7. A. broken B. soft C. hard D. burnt
8. A. looking B. invention C. discovery D. covering
9. A. have happened B. have led to C. have taken place D. have created
10. A. usual B. common C. familiar D. similar
11. A. Another B. Other C. Others D. Many
12. A. is focused on B. is based on C. is depended on D. is concentrated on
13. A. some day B. one day C. sometime D. once
14. A. plenty of B. number of C. much of D. amount of
15. A. clever B. stone C. wooden D. iron
16. A. welcome B. known C. unimportant D. unknown
17. A. While B. After C. With D. As
18. A. resulted in B. resulted from C. created D. lay in
19. A. The islands B. The people C. The animals D. The Europeans
20. A. break out B. break in C. break into D. break down
II 阅读理解：
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X-rays were first discovered by a German scientist, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, in 15, almost by accident. He and several other scientists were experimenting with passing electric currents through certain gases in a special glass tube from which the air had been moved. One day Rontgen noticed that, even when the tube was covered with black paper, some strange kind of radiation was coming through and making a screen nearby glow. Rontgen could not see anything coming out of the tube, but then he discovered that if he put the screen in the next room on the other side of a closed door, the rays could pass not only through black paper but also through wood.
The next thing he found out was that if he put his hand between the rays and a photographic plate, the rays would print a shadow of the bony framework of his hand on the plate .In fact, the rays could pass as easily through the fleshy part of his hand as through the black paper, but hardly at all through the bone. So Rontgen made the first X-ray picture of a hand, showing just how the bones in the hand fit together.
1．What puzzled Rontgen one day during his experiment was __________.
A．some passing electric current
B．some radiation coming through the covered tube
C．the black-paper-covered tube
D．the screen nearby
2．The screen didn’t stop glowing even when __________.
A．it was moved to the next room
B．it was moved to the other side of the room
C．the door was closed
D．the black paper was moved from the tube
3．Rontgen put his hand between the rays and a photographic plate in order to ______
A．stop the radiation
B．make an X-ray photo of it
C．find out more about the rays
D．see through the bones of his hand
4．The rays proved to be incapable ( 不能的)of passing through __________ .
A．wood B．flesh
C．bone D．black paper
5．From the passage, we know X-rays are __________.
A．invisible B．changeable
C．white D．bright
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Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like，mainly because tea was very expensive．It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity．Some of them were not sure how to use it．They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves．Then they served them mixed with butter and salt．They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches．
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it directly from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it．
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it，but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk．Because she was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did，they also drank their tea with milk in it．S1owly this habit spread until reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk．
At first，tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening．No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess(公爵夫人)found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it．She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, teatime was born．
6 Which of the following is true according to the text? __________.
A．The Britons got expensive tea from India．
B．Tea reached Britain from Holland．
C．The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea．
D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea．
7This passage mainly discusses__________.
A．the history of tea drinking in Britain
B．how tea became a popular drink in Britain
C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea
D．how tea-time was born
8Tea became a popular drink in Britain__________.
A．in the eighteenth century B．in the sixteenth century
C．in the seventeenth century D．in the late seventeenth century
9People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because__________.
A．it tasted like milk
B．it tasted more pleasant
C．it became a popular drink
D．Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea
10We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of __________.
A．a famous French lady B．the ancient Chinese
C．the upper social class D．people in Holland
III 短文改错：
Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, was famous for a man of few words. He knew what he should talk and when he should not. It was very hard of anyone to enjoy talking with him. One evening he was inviting to dinner. A lady sitting next to him past the sugar for his coffee. “Mr. President,” she said. “Today a friend of me said that I couldn’t get much than two words out of you. I said I can, and we made a bet.” “You lose,” answered the president.下载本文
