Passage Five

Mary Donaldson is worried about her 16-year-old daughter. Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on，(1)she thinks of nothing but how to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps on doing exercise. (A)Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when he decided to go on a diet, Mary encouraged her. (2)She felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she loses 10 kilograms. However, Sophia has lost over 20 kilograms until now. Her eating and exercising habits are having a harmful effect on her health. She is too thin and is often sick.

Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and losing weight, but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating as usual. Sophia's mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. (B)Every day she goes to a club to do exercise. When she is not there, she spends her time reading magazines like Fashion & Beauty (《时尚与美》). The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful. Sophia says. "If I look like these models, I will be happy."

(C)Mary doesn't know how to help (3)her daughter. She feels sorry for having encouraged her at first, because Sophia no longer feels good or pleased with her body. She's afraid that Sophia will never be happy if she keeps comparing herself with the models in the magazines. (D) Common people are not supposed to look like models. The most ordinary face becomes (4)beautiful when the person behind it is filled with confidence, wisdom and the joy of life.

 Damin usually (A) sets off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants ready for work. First, he ties a piece of grass around their necks(B)为了阻止它们吃大鱼. Then when Damin’s boat (C)_________ the right place in the river, he pushes (D)them into river. Damin uses(E) several was to attract fish. During the day, he jumps up and down on his boat. The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat. (F)The fish are then taken and thrown into a big basket by Damin. (G)______ net are required for this type of fhishing.

(A)

We are  (1)   to live in such a rich country. However,   (2)   of us usually waste some things. Wasting happens everywhere. It   (3)  to be a simple matter, but it hurts the earth a lot. Our earth is in  (4)  . As middle school students, we need to try our   (5)  to keep ourselves away from doing that.

Electricity is one thing that we waste most. Lights, TVs, radios and other things are often   (6)   on even when no one is using them. We should turn them off when we do not need them. It takes us less than a second to do it. The   (7)   thing we often waste is water. Fresh water is so valuable that we shouldn’t waste it. It is only a simple stuff of  (8)   of a tap.

(B)

I am sure everybody can do this easily if he wants to. Another big waste is food. My mother used to cook so much food that much of it was thrown away. I told her we had wasted so much food. She thought I was right and now cooks only what we can eat.

It is not right to be wasteful. I find there is a simple way of not wasting things. That is to use only what we need. Do not touch what we do not need. In this way, we can stop wasting. We only have one world, it is necessary for us to protect our homeland. Every one of us can do something to save the earth. It is also the best way to save ourselves.

(C)

Harry Potter is a set of popular books created by J.K.Rowling in Britain. The books tell us some stories about a talented wizard(魔法师)，Harry Potter. When he was eleven years old, he had an unhappy life. However, a strange letter changed everything. It said he was accepted by Hogwart’s—a magic school which was closed to the common people. All kinds of adventures happened to Harry from then on. He met Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger on his way to school. They became good friends later. Harry did well in his lessons and worked hard to play magic. Harry always had a positive（积极的）attitude when he faced the difficulties. With the help of his friends, he tried his best to beat the enemies. Finally, he came back with the world peace. Smile appeared on everyone’s face. If someone wants to know what takes place in the magical world, he will have to read the set of books by himself!

任务1：阅读短文（A），用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空一词，每词限用一次）

Tom and Jerry

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular（A） ________characters in the world. In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to (B)_______ Jerry, but he never has any success. Almost every cartoon (C)ends with Tom in trouble and Jerrylaughing athim. (D)The stories are full of fun and have a long history.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. Their boss told them to make funny cartoons. Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse. They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and (E)总是使猫陷入麻烦.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940. It was a great success. Over the next 17 years, they made many Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of them are (F)around seven minutes long.

In total, Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons. The cartoons were so good that they won a number of awards. The famous cat and mouseremainpopular today, as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.

Hunan TV’s new program ,Dad ,Where Are We Going ? ,has become very popular since last year. The show tells us that fathers should take ⑴_______________ in their children’s growing –up. In fact, this topic was always mentioned by Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), a famous official during the late Daoguang Period of the Qing Dynasty (1644 -1912).

Although Zeng ⑵______________ most of his time away from his family, his letters back home to his children have become famous . In these letters , there are many helpful suggestions on proper behavior . Many of his ways on child education are popular among today’s Chinese parents. His child –raising methods are useful for today’s busy fathers.

According to Zeng, the purpose of education was to learn wisdom from books ,rather than get an official position . Children should know that the most important aim of studies is to get more knowledge about nature and life.

  Some teachers say that parents should build a good relationship with their children. Parents shouldn’t force(强迫) their children to realize their wishes.

  In Zeng’s letters ,he asked his young children to do housework as a part of their daily life . He believed that doing housework would make his children more confident and independent(独立的) .

任务一：请根据短文内容分别写出⑴⑵处所缺单词。（每空限填一词）

任务型读写（满分5分）

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. At the age of fourteen, he became his father’s helper. It took him a lot of time learning about engines(发动机). And on holidays he often made one engine into pieces and studied each piece carefully. George could not read or write, but he became a very good worker soon. He began to learn English when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The _________ was the greatest one of all. Today when we take trains from one place to another, we’ll think of this great man—George Stephenson.

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