VI．Close test.(完形填空)

Thomas Edison wore        1     caps during his life,    2     thinking caps, the caps of many famous schools and colleges. But the most important cap was his thinking cap. It had saved his mother’s       3   . One day when he was a boy his mother fell ill. The doctor wanted       4     her an operation (手术). But the light in the room was not bright. Edison quickly 5     his thinking cap and he found a way       6      his mother. Edison was good at           7   his hands and his head. He was the most interested       8     electricity. We can see his        9    everywhere because they are very common. They were   10    by Edison’s thinking cap.

(  )1. A. much              B. many                      C. a lot                      D. lot of

(  )2. A. as                  B. for                        C. such as                D. was like

(  )3. A. living              B. life                     C. lives                  D. alive

(  )4. A. give                B. to give                     C. to gave                D. give

(  )5. A. take off          B. put off                     C. put down                D. put on

(  )6. A. save             B. to save                    C. saving           D. saved

(  )7. A. use               B. make                   C. using                       D. making

(  )8. A. at                B. of                     C. in                             D. on

(  )9. A. inventors B. invent           C. invents                    D. inventions

(  )10. A. inventing  B. invented        C. made                           D. making

拓展阅读

A)    Read the passage and write True (T) or False (F).  阅读短文，判断正(T)误(F)

Three things are necessary for us to keep alive (活的). They are air, water and food. We eat food two or three times every day. We breathe (呼吸) air continually (不断地) day and night. If a man does not eat and food, he can live for about three weeks; if he is stopped from drinking, he can keep alive for about three days, but if he doesn’t breathe, he can keep alive for only about three minutes. So we see that breathing is more important than drinking, and drinking is more important than eating.

(  ) 1. We can’t live without air, water and food.

(  ) 2.A man can keep alive for about twenty-one days if he has water to drink and air to breathe.

(  ) 3. He can live for about three days if he only drinks water.

(  ) 4. If he is stopped from breathing, He’ll die in a moment.

(  ) 5. Food is the least important of the three.

B)Answer questions according to the passage. (根据短文内容，完成选择填空)

Many years ago, there was a family named Franklin. They lived in Boston. There were five girls and six boys in the family. On a January day in 1706 another baby boy was born. The boy’s mother and her husband gave the boy a name-Benjamin.

Benjamin was the brightest of all the children. He could read when he was five and he could write by the time he was seven. When he was eight, he was sent to school.

In school, Benjamin had been good at reading and writing but not good at maths.

He read all his father’s books. And whenever (无论何时) he had a little money, he spent it on a book. He liked books. They told him how to do something. At that time he invented the paddles (桨形工具) for swimming.

(  ) 1. The Franklins lived in            .

A. England            B. America           C. France                    D. Australia

(  ) 2. There were              children in the family.

A. five                  B. six                    C. eleven                  D. twelve

(  ) 3. Benjamin was born in the               month of the year 1706.

A. first          B. sixth                 C. seventh           D. fifth

(  ) 4. Benjamin          maths when he was in school.

A. did well in              B. did well at        C. didn’t do well in      D. didn’t do well at

(  ) 5. Benjamin          much money           books.

A. spent, on         B. cost, buying             C. took, buy          D. pay, off

C)阅读短文，然后根据内容从方框中选中10个单词，并用其适当形式填空。

fly, find, put, throw, wing, beaten, reach, come, learn, closed, watch

White Tom and Mary were on holiday at the seaside, they enjoyed   1   the seagulls. They 2  a lot about these birds. They will often come  3    to on the beach when you are eating anything. If you   4   a piece of bread to them ,they soon snatched (抓住) it up.

Seagulls swim well, but they do not often dive for fish. They are also good at   5  with their large wings. When a seagull is flying, he   6  his legs under his body.

Tom often watched them   7   closer to the ground because he liked the way they   8   the air with their wings and brought down their feet before they   9   the ground.

Mary liked to see them gliding (滑翔) over the sea as they often do, without their   10  moving, but she said she didn’t like the noise they make.