Reading and Blank-filling
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A
A king had two sons and asked famous
teachers to teach them. After a few 1
（year）， the king fell badly ill. He wanted to
choose one of his sons as the next king. He
thought it over 2 a whole night. At last， he
decided 3 （test） his sons.
One day， he gave a room to each of 4
（they）， “You must fill the room completely
with anything you wish. But there should be
no space left and you can’t ask for advice from
anyone！”
The next day the king 5 （visit） his
elder son’s room. The room was completely
filled with grass. The king felt sorry about it.
Then he went to 6 other room， but it was
closed. His 7 （young） son asked him to
get in and closed the door again. It was dark
everywhere， so the king shouted at him 8
（angry）. But suddenly the second son lighted
a candle and the room was full of light. The
king felt very 9 （excite） and hugged him
proudly.
He realized： Wisdom （智慧） is more
important than simple answers 10 are easy
to get.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
B
This is Tammels School， a primary school
in Finland. The students are having a math class
with their robot teacher. The “teacher” is 1
small， blue machine about 25 cm high， Reuters
reported. Whenever students have problems，
it helps them very 2 （patient） and never
gets bored. “The robots can make students
3 （active） in class than usual. I see Elias
as one of the 4 （tool） to get different kinds
of practice and activities into the classroom，” a
teacher told Reuters. So far， the school 5
（introduce） four robot teachers， one of 6
（who） is a language teacher that can speak 23
languages and dance to music. “It’s necessary
to encourage kids to come up 7 new ways
to make use of technology in school life，” the
head of the school 8 （add） in the interview.
The robot teachers 9 （use） to help
improve teaching. This doesn’t mean that
human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots
can teach well， 10 they are not able to keep
class in order. The school still needs human
teachers.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
C
Have you 1 （notice） that some people
are not as healthy as before though life has
improved a lot？ Nowadays some people eat
more， so they are getting 2 （heavy） than
before. This makes 3 easy for people to get
sick. Eating unhealthy food is another problem.
It will 4 （sure） make people healthy to
stay away from junk food and try to eat more
5 （kind） of food per day. To become
healthier， people should still exercise more.
Doing sports daily will make people keep
6 a good condition. Many people are quite
busy studying and 7 （work） and they go
to bed very late， even when they have to go to
school 8 to work early the next morning. If
such situation 9 （keep） on for a long time，
people will finally get sick. Doing sports is a
good way to get 10 （relax）. It will do good
to people’s health.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
D
Try reading the following sentences
as fast 1 you can： “She sells seashells by
the seashore. The shells she sells are surely
seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore，
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy， was it？ What you’ve just
read 2 （call） a tongue twister （绕口令）.
It is 3 exercise made up of sounds that
are hard to pronounce in order to help people
pronounce words 4 （fast） and more
correctly. Try the next example： “Peter Piper
5 （pick） a peck of （许多） pickled peppers
（腌辣椒）. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of
pickled peppers？ If Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers， where’s the peck of pickled
peppers Peter Piper picked？”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much
6 （mean）. They are just used to improve
people’s ability to pronounce words. Although
they may be very difficult， these exercises are
very 7 （importance） to people who are
trying to speak English correctly. This is 8
tongue twisters help people tell the differences
between similar sounds.
So if you wish 9 （pronounce） words
more smoothly， you’d better try picking out
some tongue twisters and 10 （practice）
them.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
E
When I’m growing up， I don’t hear “I