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22.根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。 1．- I really like your bike．Is it expensive? - I don't know how much it is．It's my ____ (uncle)． 2．We think Samuel is the most suitable person to be our monitor because he does everything very ____ (careful)． 3．Citizens can enjoy ____ (read) thousands of volumes of electronic books online with the first "WeChat library" in Jianye Library, Nanjing． 4．We need to make more young people ____ (learn) Shadow Play so that it won't disappear in China． 5．With the ____(develop) of technology, the journey to Mars might only take about 20 minutes in spacecraft in the future． 23.根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词 。 Suppose you find a bright yellow bike on a street corner in the city．You hop on it and ride away．But wait-isn't this s__1__? No one shouts, "Stop! Thief!" That b__2__ this free ride is just fine with the city． You can find h__3__ of free yellow bikes in some U．S．cities．The idea began in Portland, Oregon, in 1994．People saw a need for f__4__ transportation, and they wanted to help c__5__ pollution．So, to get citizens out of their cars and onto pollution free bikes, they s__6__ the Yellow Bike Project． The public bike are p__7__ bright yellow a nd placed throughout the city．People can hop on a yellow bike and ride to work to school, or to run errands．They then leave the bike for the n__8__ rider．There have been times when bikes have been stolen, but most people obey the r__9__．What would be the point of stealing something that's already free? Portland's i__10__ quickly became popular．Within two years of its start similar programs were set up in cities in six other states． 五、信息匹配（共1小题） 24.根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使对话内容完整正确。 A: Guess what? I'm going to Chiang Mai next week． B: Wow, sounds like fun! But I believe that April is the __1__ month of the year there． A: Yes, that's true．But there's a water festival there from April 13th to 15th． B: I wonder if it's __2__ the Water Festival of the Dai people in Yunnan Province． A: Yes, I think so．This is the time of the Thai New Year．People go on the streets to throw water at __3__． B: Cool! But __4__ do they do that? A: Because the new year is a time for cleaning and __5__ bad things．Then you'll have good luck in the new year． 六、阅读填空（共1小题） 25.阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后第1-10小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。 Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford, where his father farmed and worked as a weaver．His mother was a housewife． Few people went to college at that time, but Noah loved so much to learn that his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut's only college．Noah graduated in 1778．He desired (渴望) to study law, but his parents didn't have more money to send him to school．So, in order to make a living, Noah taught in Glastonbury, Hartford and West Harford．Later he studied law． Noah did not like American schools．Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed (挤满) into one room schoolhouses with poor books and untrained teachers．Their books came from England．Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books so in 1783．Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language．Mot people called it the "Blue Backed Speller" because of its blue cover． For 100 years, Noah's book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words．It was the most popular American book of its time．Ben Franklin used Noah's book to teach his granddaughter to read． When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary．He did that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently．He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way．He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English．Noah used American spellings like color instead of the English color and music instead of musick．He also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like skunk and souash．He spent over 27 years writing his dictionary．When Noah accomplished (完成) his dictionary in 1828, at the age of 70, the first American dictionary came out．It had 70．000 words in it． Noah did many things in his life．He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited magazines．When Noah Webster died in 1843, he was considered an American hero． (责任编辑：admin) |