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基础篇

A）Choose the best answer(根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）

My father and I often enjoyed climbing the mountain near my house. We talked a lot and I learned lessons from his life. He always told me, "You should have goals like climbing the mountain." Without the mountain-climbing, we couldn't have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. It gave me time to talk with my father and develop my patience.

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so hard for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds' singing. But soon I got tired and thirsty. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it then, but my father said to me, "You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can't see it before you reach the top, just like in life."

At that time, I wasn't able to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence . I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal .

1. ( )The article tells us that mountain-climbing was often ___________ for Father and Son.

A) hard B) interesting C) comfortable D) terrible

2. ( )The writer had ___________ time to spend together with his father because his father was very busy.

A) enough B) few C) quite a few D) little

3. ( )The word "quit" in the article means ___________.

A) take off B) show off C) give up D) in charge of

4. ( )What is the meaning of the underlined(画线) sentence?

A) You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.

B) The sky is always as clear as crystal.

C) You can find life is full of nice things.

D) Never give up half-way.

5. ( )We can infer from the last paragraph that ___________.

A) the writer was very successful in his life

B) the writer didn't reach the top of the mountain

C) although the writer was young, he could understand his father

D) the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain

6. The best title for the article is ___________.

A) Reaching the Top of the Mountain B) Enjoy the Beautiful Views

C) Talks between Father and Son D) Father and I

B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage(选择最恰当的选项完成短文）

In the USA, children start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school until they are sixteen. But most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they (1) high schools. There are

two kinds of schools in the USA: public schools and private schools . (2) children go to public schools. Their parents don't have to (3) their education because the school get money from the government . If a child goes to a private school, his parents have to get enough money for his schooling. Some parents (4) like private schools though they are much more expensive.

Today about half of the high school students study in universities after they finish high schools. A student at a state university doesn't have to pay very much (5) his parents live in that state. Many students work' while they are studying at universities. In this way they get into (6) working habits and live by their own hands.

1.( ) A) leave B) enter C) reach D) pass

2. ( )A) Several B) Most C) A few D) Few

3. ( )A) worry about B) pay for C) ask for D) think of

4.( ) A) still B) never C) also D) already

5.( ) A) before B) because C) if D) though

6.( ) A) wrong B) bad C) happy D) good

C. Fill in the blanks with proper words

You can find out many things about a tree by studying its rings. Each year, from t________ to bottom, a tree grows a new layer (层) of wood around itself. If you cut across a tree trunk or branches, you would s________that these layers of wood look like rings. By counting tree rings, you can tell how o________the tree is. If you count ten rings, for example, the tree is ten years old.

Looking at the picture shown above, you can see that each tree ring has a dark part and a light part. The light part wood grows in the spring, the dark part wood in winter. Look also, that some rings in the picture are wide and o_________are narrow (窄). Trees grow aide rings during the years when they get a lot of water and sun-light. By examining tree rings, you can tell what the weather may was like many years ago.

Giant sequoia (红杉) trees, such as the one in the photo above, grow in north-western California.