Concorde"s Birthday
CONCORDE, the world"s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first 1 on 2 March
1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a
2 of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to 3 together on the project. The plane 4 over 1.5
billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing.
Concorde flies at twice the speed of 5 . This means that it 6 only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London
and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference
between the USA and Britain, it is 7 to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave
London! You can catch the 10:30 a.m. 8 from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour 9 !
Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds.
Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway 10 the most. They each have seven planes. |
( )1. A. invented
( )2. A. talk
( )3. A. work
( )4. A. paid
( )5. A. voice
( )6. A. spends
( )7. A. possible
( )8. A. plane
( )9. A. later
( )10. A. build
| B. produced
B. dream
B. do
B. wanted
B. sound
B. takes
B. impossible
B. passenger
B. late
B. make
| C. flew
C. meeting
C. carry
C. needed
C. noise
C. covers
C. real
C. flight
C. earlier
C. sell
| D. took of
D. fight
D. finish
D. cost
D. shout
D. travels
D. unreal
D. airline
D. early
D. own
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核心考点
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| 用所给动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。 | As school kids, we have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize,
or they 1 (be) very small, you may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
Once you 2 (have) a dream, what do you do with it? you ever 3 (try) to make your dream 4
(come) true? In fact, achieving our dreams 5 (be) the biggest challenge in our life.
You may think you"re not very good at some subjects, or that it 6 (be) impossible for you to become
a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from achieving your dream.
In fact, everyone can realize their dreams. The first thing you must do is 7 (remember) what your
dream is. Keep telling yourself what you want, and you 8 (realize) your dream faster. 9 (do) this step
by step. A dream 10 (not realize) in one day. Many small dreams make up a big dream.
You 11 (meet) difficulties on the way to realize it. But the most difficulty 12 (come) from you.
You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV 13 (lead) to better exam
results. And you can pay 5 yuan for a new book instead of an ice cream. Never stop 14 (dream). Never
forget your dreams. And never 15 (give up) your dreams. | | 阅读短文，将下列句子还原到文章中。 | From a plane we can see the fields, cities, mountains or seas below. 1 . People and man-made satellites
have been sent out into space to look at the earth carefully and peep, and have learnt more about the earth in the
last few years.
The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. 2 .
3 . It nearly covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one
place and at that place the sea is about 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9
kilometers high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place,there would be still 2 kilometers of water
above it!
In most part of the sea, there are many kinds of fishes and plants, Some live near the top of the sea. Others
live deep down. 4 .
5 . When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men go down into the deep sea.
But, in 1970, five women scientists lived in deep sea for fourteen days.
A. The sea is very big.
B. The sea can be very cold.
C. There are also a lot of small living things,
and lots of fishes live by eating them.
D. But it can be very terrible when there is
a strong wind.
E. If we go into space, we see more and
more of the earth. | | 完形填空。 | School students in China have been learning dance for a year since 2008. Are they doing well? On
September, 2008, a dance competition was 1 in Xi"an. Let"s take a look.
More than 2,500 students from 40 schools 2 the competition. The Middle School affiliated (附属的)
to Xi"an Jiaotong University was the 3 of all the junior teams.
The 100 students of the school were happy to 4 the first prize. They made their dance special 5 a
"five Olympic rings" pattern (形状). They also 6 the waltz and the traditional yangge dance. No pains, no
gains. The students said they had been practising for 7 half a year. "We were nervous at first 8 we didn"t
know each other," said Zeng Jingyi, a 13-year-old girl. "What"s more, the boys were clumsy (笨拙的) and
often stepped on the girls" 9 !"
Only practice makes perfect. The students practiced more than three hours a day."Sometimes I saw
boys playing basketball in the playground," said Xu Rui, a 13-year-old boy. "How I wanted to join them!
But I didn"t. Dancing can be 10 too. We should work hard for our school"s honor." | ( )1. A. offered
( )2. A. joined
( )3. A. inventor
( )4. A. lose
( )5. A. for
( )6. A. created
( )7. A. almost
( )8. A. but
( )9. A. feet
( )10. A. boring
| B. held
B. took part in
B. editor
B. catch
B. in
B. received
B. hardly
B. while
B. legs
B. difficult
| C. awarded
C. went to
C. winner
C. raise
C. to
C. performed
C. seldom
C. so
C. hands
C. different
| D. happened
D. belong to
D. leader
D. get
D. with
D. managed
D. always
D. because
D. arms
D. fun
| | 阅读理解。 | Students should dress well at school. This is because schools are places where students study. Students
shouldn"t be dressed fashionably or strangely. That is thought of as impolite behavior at school. So many
schools have their own school uniforms. In general, the price is cheaper than that of common clothes in
markets. The colors and styles between boys" and girls" are different. And each uniform has the school name
where the student studies. Many students think they look very nice.
However, some schools also allow students to choose other clothes they like. But those who wear other
clothes must obey the school rules about clothing at school. The following are rules from Zhongshan Middle
school.
* Clothing must cover shoulders and backs.
* No halter tops (三角背心) are allowed.
* Skirts must be long enough to cover girl"s knees. Skirt straps (裙带) must be as wide as three fingers.
* Shorts must be at least as long as where your finger tips are when your arms are straight by your side.
* Sleeveless (无袖) shirts are only OK for boys. | | 1. Why can"t students wear fashionable clothing at school? | A. Because fashionable clothing looks beautiful.
B. Because fashionable clothing is strange.
C. Because fashionable clothing has a different color from school uniforms.
D. Because students will be thought of impolite. | | 2. When we see a student"s school uniform, we may know ______. | A. where the school is
B. where the student lives
C. what the teacher"s name is
D. which school the student studies at | | 3. According to the passage, we can know that ______. | A. some schools allow students to wear common clothes
B. school uniforms are more expensive than common clothes in markets
C. both boys and girls can wear halter tops at Zhongshan Middle School
D. at Zhongshan Middle School, girls are required to wear sleeveless shirts | | 4. Which picture shows good manners at Zhongshan Middle School? |    
A B C D | | 5. The passage mainly talks about ______. | A. sleeveless shirts
B. rules of dressing in schools
C. fashionable clothes
D. different school uniforms | | 完形填空。 | Have you ever heard of the saying, "if you want a friend, be 1 !" what does it 2 ? There are many
different things that you can do to 3 friends. You may find out what they are if you 4 someone make
friends.
Here is 5 one new teacher made friends with the 6 in her class on the first day of the school. When
the bell 7 , the teacher smiled at all the students. Then she said, "Good morning. How nice it is to have all
of you 8 my class this year! I want to 9 each of you very much. I am sure we will enjoy working
together."
The teacher smiled, used a pleasant 10 and acted 11 a friendly way. She told the students her 12
and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told them something she liked to 13 and hoped to do with them
during the year. The students knew that she liked many of the same things they like. Everyone felt that she
14 what she said. Each of them wanted to know 15 and be her friend. Then she let the students tell
something about 16 . So they felt that the teacher knew them. Could you make friends as the teacher 17 ?
How do you know and like your classmates? One 18 is to find out more about them. During the 19
you can talk to them. You may ask them their names and the names of the schools they went to last year.
They want to know about you, too. You may tell them about your interests or your holiday experiences. It
is often easy to be friends with people who have the 20 interests and play the same games. As you talk,
the others may be thinking." I like to do. It should be fun to be friends with you."
Remember! Just talking together in a friendly way is one good way to make friends. | ( )1. A. it
( )2. A. mean
( )3. A. make
( )4. A. look
( )5. A. what
( )6. A. teachers
( )7. A. rang
( )8. A. on
( )9. A. teach
( )10. A. voice
( )11. A. on
( )12. A. family
( )13. A. do
( )14. A. meant
( )15. A. much
( )16. A. themselves
( )17. A. was
( )18. A. way
( )19. A. break
( )20. A. no
| B. one
B. want
B. meet
B. hear
B. how
B. students
B. got
B. in
B. know
B. sentence
B. by
B. father
B. done
B. liked
B. better
B. their parents
B. did
B. day
B. class
B. different
| C. that
C. have
C. have
C. listen
C. why
C. workmates
C. sang
C. with
C. learn
C. phrase
C. in
C. work
C. be
C. was
C. enough
C. the teacher
C. got
C. teacher
C. teaching
C. many
| D. careful
D. show
D. get
D. watch
D. when
D. parents
D.spoken
D. about
D. like
D. sound
D. to
D. name
D. doing
D. forgot
D. still
D. the school
D. saw
D. weekday
D. day
D. same
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