阅读周周练一、完形填空。

通读下面短文，从A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。

When I was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. I was too thin; I wasn’t a good student; I talked too much; I was too 1 , and so on. At last, I became very angry and ran to my father.He listened to me 2 . Then he asked, “Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a 3 of what she said and find the 4 that are true.”I did as he told me. To my great 5 , I discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change. Bu t there were things I could and wanted to change. For the 6 time, I got a clear 7 of myself.I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you.” he said. “You know the truth about 8 better than anyone else. When people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful.”Our world is full of people who think they know your business. Don’t 9 and feel 10 . Listen to them.( ) 1. A. beautiful B. proud C smart( ) 2. A. quietly B. happily C. quickly( ) 3. A. joke B. programme C. list( ) 4. A. secrets B. points C. lessons( ) 5. A. surprise B. interest C. fact( ) 6. A. first B. second C. next( ) 7. A. book B. picture C. drawing( ) 8. A. yourselves B. myself C. yourself( ) 9. A. clean B. open C. close( ) 10. A. hurt B. safe C. pretty二、阅读理解。

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。

AWhy do plants grow in some places and not in others? Why does some land have so much growing on it, while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all?To grow, plants need several things. One is warmth. In very cold places almost nothing grows. Plants also need water. In very dry parts of the Earth only a fe w unusual plants can grow. That’s why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.Plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. They find it difficult to grow on hard land. The town is built on hard land. The plants here have only the soil found between the cracks of the stones to grow in.Another thing plants must have before they can grow is food.What will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? A few plants, such as beach grass, will g row in sand, but most plants won’t. Even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants.( ) 1. According to the passage, plants need ______ things to grow well.A. twoB. threeC. four( ) 2. What does the underlined word “cracks” mean in the text?A. 缝隙.B. 表面.C. 夹层.( ) 3. From the passage, we can know it is ______ for plants to grow in dry places.A. easyB. difficultC. impossible( ) 4. The reason why most plants can’t grow on the sandy beach is that ______.A. there isn’t enough sunlightB. there is too much waterC. it has little food for plants( ) 5. The passage can most probably be found in a ______book.A. scienceB. historyC. travelBThe Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair—like parts of certain plants.Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia (斯供的纳维亚半岛), which now makes a great deal of the world’s paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. After that, the forest countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States became the largest paper producers. Today in Finland, which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land. New paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 meters long and 6 meters wide in one minute.When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.( ) 6. Which of the following is the first to make paper?A. China.B. Scandinavia.C. Germany.( ) 7. Schaeffer found out that .A. the best paper was in the forestB. a German made the best paperC. wood could be made into the best paper( ) 8. What docs the underlined word “industry” mean in Chinese?A. 农业 D. 工业 C. 国防( ) 9. According to the passage, paper is not used for ______.A. newspaperB. envelopsC. food and drinks( ) 10. The second paragraph mainly talks about paper making.A. in the United StatesB. in ScandinaviaC. in Europe三、完形填空。