III 完形填空(10分)

How to practice spoken English?

How can we practice our spoken English (英语口语)?

The first and most important thing is to believe 31 . You should always have confidence or you 32 be able to improve your English. You should often encourage (鼓励) yourself, “Come on, don’t be afraid!’’

You should never lose heart and never give up.

Maybe you are afraid of losing face, but you should think we are students and we’re 33 , there’s no need to worry 34 anything. You must always be active in practice. There’s no problem that your pronunciation and intonation(语调) can’t be as good 35 the native (某国的,当地的) people because we are Chinese, and we don’t have chances to live in foreign countries and talk with the people there 36 . But you must know that the main way to study English is to make ourselves understood and understand other people. You should believe that native speakers will not 37 you, 38 they will encourage you . If you are brave (有勇气的) enough, you’ll certainly be better at 39 English than before.

40 be shy or afraid! Just have a try.

( ) 31. A. itself B. yourself C. themselves D. myself

( ) 32. A. can’t never B. are never C. will D. will never

( ) 33. A. learning B. saying C. students D. teaching

( ) 34. A. / B. to C. about D. for

( ) 35. A. so B. with C. as D. than

( ) 36. A. some time B. sometime C. sometimes D. all the time

( ) 37. A. laugh at B. get over C. open up D. seem like

( ) 38. A. so B. instead C. or D. nor

( ) 39. A. speaking B. speech C. speak D. spoke

( ) 40. A. Don’t B. Not C. No D. Do

IV 阅读理解(10分)

( A )

Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63.To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three was there to mean." not any "tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.

Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6.3.But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3.Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. at last ,only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.

Now zero has many important uses .Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?

( ) 41. Long long ago people didn`t know how to ____.

A. write B. write zero C.write numbers D. sixty-three

( ) 42. Long long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote_____.

A.28 B.2 8 C.228 D.208

( ) 43. Later ______ was used to mean space.

A. "not any" B. letter"0" C. zero D. a dot

( ) 44. People used circles _____________.

A. to remember ways B. to remember numbers

C. not to forget the space D. to mean nothing

( ) 45.The story tells us _____.

A. how zero came to be used B. how to write zero

C. what’s the use of zero D. that zero means a dot, a circle or space

(B)

If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle (吹口哨)three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal(信号)for three times is a call for help.

Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.

If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches(树枝). Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.

When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.

( ) 46..If you get lost in the forest, you should___________.

A. try to find your friends B. stay in one place and give signals

C. walk around the forest D. shout as loudly as possible

( ) 47..Which signal is a call for help?

A shouting here and there B. crying twice

C. shouting or whistling three times together

D. whistling every where in the forest