1、台儿庄市2014高考英语完形填空、阅读理解精品系列（13）含答案任务型阅读 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。Parents can help their seventh and eighth grade students stand out in and out of their English classroom by introducing them to newspapers. Newspapers not only offer information on current events, but they can also
2、 be used to test your childs knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and more. Who, What, Where, When, Why, and HowHave your child read the first couple of paragraphs of a news story. Ask them to write down all of the important facts, such as who, what, where, when, why and how. This helps parents to see
3、if their children comprehend the basic facts and information they read. GrammarParents can monitor a childs understanding of grammatical parts of speech (词性) without a grammar textbook. Ask your child to read a paragraph in an article and then list a specific number of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adve
4、rbs, pronouns, prepositions and the like, which serves more of a test of their grammatical knowledge. Encourage them to list each of these parts of speech in a paragraph. Then, reread the paragraph to see if they missed anything. PersuasionAsk your child to select an advertisement from the newspaper
5、. Have them investigate how specific words or phrases influence their feelings about a particular product. Then, encourage them to create an advertisement of their own for an item they do not like. Tell them not to show their true feelings and try to make people want to buy this unwanted item. After
6、 that, ask them to list the persuasive techniques used in their ad. Facts vs OpinionsSelect an editorial for your middle schooler to read. Have your child divide a piece of paper into two columns, one marked fact, and the other marked opinion. Have your student decide which column it fits under. Thi
7、s will help your child better understand facts versus opinions. Another related exercise is responding to an editorial. Encourage your child to write letters to the editor or responses to editorials or other articles. Before your child sends his or her letter, check the opinion section to see what r
8、equirements there are. Headlines and Synonyms (同义词)Ask your middle schooler to rewrite a couple of headlines using the synonyms of the original words. Compare the headlines. Do the original versions or the rewrites sound better? This is a great exercise to help students learn synonyms and expand the
9、ir vocabulary. If you find your seventh or eighth grade child is struggling with these newspaper activities, it may be an indicator that they have fallen behind in their reading skills. These activities were designed with a seventh or eighth grader in mind; therefore, while they are educational, the
10、y should be more of reinforcement (增强) instead of a major reading challenge. OutlineSupporting detailsAn approach to learning 1 students in seventh and eighth grades to newspapers can be helpful in learning English.Newspaper 2 Ask students to read the first paragraphs of a news story and write down
11、the important and 3 facts to see if they can understand them. Have students read an article and list different parts of speech to improve their understanding of 4 . Select an ad and ask students to find the persuasive expressions 5 in it, and then create their own ad for a product they dislike. Sele
12、ct an editorial and have students 6 between facts and opinions. After that encourage them to write a 7 to an editorial. Ask students to write a few synonyms and compare them with the 8 headlines to help them with their vocabulary expansion.Possible results It may 9 that a child is poor at reading if
13、 he or she has 10 with these activities. These activities, designed for special graders, can not be used as a major reading challenge.任务型：1. Introducing 2. activities 3. basic 4. grammar 5. used 6. distinguish 7. response / reply8. original 9. indicate / show 10. difficulty / trouble8（参考答案 BADC）Read
14、 the following reviews for movies that are showing at the moment. And then answer questions.Happiness（Romance）Happiness tells the story of two people （Lisa Turbot and Danny Roy）who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and dont like each other. But then they c
15、orrespond by email and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like romances. It also has beautiful music.Scream I（Thriller）In Scream I, Paul（Colin Jacks）is a young man who joins a thriller club. Each of the members tries to frighten the others. Paul is told to st
16、ay in an old house for the night. Everyone who has tried to stay in the house before has died. This movie is very frightening but also quite silly. It doesnt make sense for Paul to stay in the house when things start to go wrong. Only for people who like thrillers.Pauls Heroes（Comedy）This is a very
17、funny war movie set in World War Two. Six soldiers（including Sammy Turblow）have to get to Italy to take secret messages to the American army there. During the movie, they dress up as women and fight with Italian workers. You can guess the ending, but its great fun getting there._（Drama）This is a ver
18、y good drama with Jack Ross, a hard-working truck driver. His wife becomes ill and he has to find a doctor who can help her. In his travels he meets Dr. Lloyd（Phil Driver）who has found the cure for the illness, but Jack Ross has only twelve hours to get the medicine back to his wife on the other sid
19、e of America. This is an excellent movie, which is very exciting.1. The underlined word “correspond” can be replaced by _.A. date B. communicate C. exchange D. write 2. A thriller is most probably a film which tells something _.A. frightening B. instructive C. humorous D. interesting3. Which of the
20、following is the best title for the fourth film?A. A Hard-working Truck Driver B. MedicineC. A Strange Illness D. Twelve Hours4. Where can we probably read the passage?A. On the sports page. B. A travel brochure. C. On the entertainment page. D. In the test book.AHoney(蜂蜜)from the African forest is
21、not only a kind of natural sugar, it is also delicious. Most people, and many animals, like eating it. However, the only way for them to get that honey is to find a wild bees nest(巢)and take the honey from it. Often, these nests are high up in trees, and it is difficult to find them. In parts of Afr
22、ica, though, people and animals looking for honey have a strange and unexpected helper-a little bird called a honey guide. The honey guide does not actually like honey, but it does like the wax (蜂蜡) in Once it has their attention, it flies through the forest, waiting from time to time for the curiou
23、s animal or person as it leads them to the nest. When they finally arrive at the nest, the follower reaches in to get at the delicious honey as the bird patiently waits and watches. Some of the honey, and the wax, always falls to the ground, and this is when the honey guide takes its share.Scientist
24、s do not know why the honey guide likes eating the wax, but it is very determined in its efforts to get it. The birds seem to be able to smell wax from a long distance away. They will quickly arrive whenever a beekeeper is taking honey from his beehives, and will even enter churches when beeswax can
25、dles are being lit.56. Why is it difficult to find a wild bees nest?A. Its small in size.B. Its hidden in trees.C. Its covered with wax.D. Its hard to recognize.57. What do the words the follower in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. A bee. B. A bird.C. A honey seeker. D. A beekeeper.58. The honey guide is spe
26、cial in the way _.A. it gets its foodB. it goes to churchC. it sings in the forestD. it reaches into bees nests59. What can be the best title for the text?A. Wild Bees B. Wax and HoneyC. Beekeeping in AfricaD. Honey-Lovers Helper参考答案 BCAD *结束 About twenty of us had been fortunate enough to receive i
27、nvitations to a film-studio(影棚)to take part in a crowd-scene. Although our act would last only for a short time, we could see quite a number of interesting things.We all stood at the far end of the studio as workmen prepared the scene, setting up trees at the edge of a winding path. Very soon, brigh
28、t lights were turned on and the big movie-camera was wheeled into position. The director shouted something to the camera operator and then went to speak to the two famous actors nearby. Since it was hot in the studio, it came as a surprise to us to see one of the actors put on a heavy overcoat and s
29、tart walking along the path. A big fan began blowing tiny white feathers down on him, and soon the trees were covered in snow. Two more fans were turned on, and a strong wind blew through the trees. The picture looked so real that it made us feel cold.The next scene was a complete contrast (对比). The
30、 way it was filmed was quite unusual. Pictures taken on an island in the Pacific were shown on a glass screen (幕). An actor and actress stood in front of the scene so that they looked as if they were at the waters edge on an island. By a trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, and blue,clear ski
31、es had been brought into the studio!Since it was our turn next, we were left wondering what scene would be prepared for us. For a full three minutes in our lives we would be experiencing the excitement of being film stars!60. Who is the author?A. A cameraman.B. .A film director.C. A crowd-scene acto
32、r.D. A workman for scene setting.61. What made the author feel cold?A. The heavy snowfall.B. The man-made scene.C. The low temperature.D. The film being shown.62. What would happen in the three minutes mentioned in the last paragraph?A. A new scene would be filmed.B. More stars would act in the film.C. The author would leave the studio.D. The next scene would be prepared.参考答案 CBA
