Module 1 Wonders of the world一、词汇A．根据句意及提示写出形式正确的单词。

1．What ________ you ________（do）at seven yesterday evening?2．The Grand Canyon is one of the ________（wonder）of the natural world.3．I ________（be）to Xinjiang twice. It's really a beautiful place.4．When I ________（arrive）, it was raining.5．Some of the pyramids are over 200 feet in ________.（high）.6．The rain stopped and the sun ________.（rise）.BThe best way of learning a language is 1 it. The best way of learning English is 2 in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words mixed up and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things 3 and you can't understand them. But if you 4 your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don't be 5 if people 6 to be laughing at your mistakes. It's better for people 7 at your mistakes than to 8 angry with you, because they don't understand what you 9 . The most important thing for learning English is: “Don't be afraid of making mistakes because everyone 10 mistakes.”二、单项选择1．— When ________ you ________ the computer?— Three years ago.A．have; bought B．had; boughtC．do; buy D．did; buy2．—Hi, Kate. You look tired. What's the matter?—I ________ well last night.A．didn't sleep B．don't sleep C．haven't slept D．won't sleep3．— Did anyone ________ the football match yesterday evening?— Yes, we won.A．watch B．watched C．watches D．watching4．Do you know where our headmaster ________?A．living B．live C．lives D．to live5．It's 4 o'clock. They ________ their compositions.A．write B．writes C．wrote D．are writing 6．—My mother ________ to do some shopping after work.—So am I.A．will go B．goes C．went D．is going7．The little girl ________ in the kindergarten when her mother came in.A．cry B．cries C．was crying D．is crying 8．There will be a parents' meeting tomorrow. But my parents can't come because they ________ to Shandong.A．has gone B．have gone C．has been D．have been 9．—Hasn't Betty come yet?—No, I ________ for her for nearly 2 hours.A．wait B．waitedC．have waited D．had waited10．The story ________ in London many years ago.A．was happening B．will happenC．happened D．happens11．Peter was playing the piano while Alice ________.A．was singing B．sang C．would sing D．singing12．She told me that she ________ my aunt the next week.A．will visit B．would visitC．is going to visit D．visited13．—Who's taken away my English textbook?—________.A．I have B．He had C．She did D．He took it 14．—Mary, could you help me?—Wait a moment. I ________.A．read a book B．did my homeworkC．was watching TV D．am cooking dinner15．—Do you know Huang Ting well?—Yes. She and I ________ friends since we met in Wuhan last summer.A．made B．were C．have been D．become三、阅读理解AHere are six business cards. They are three persons'. They are Andrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma Bell. The cards on the left are old ones and the cards on the right are new. Read the cards and then choose the right answers.1．If you want to get some advice about law, you can ring the number ________.A．（415）772-3622 B．（617）264-3132C．（212）555-2617 D．（415）474-61882．If you want to visit Professor Bell's home, you can go to ________.A．Washington B．San FranciscoC．New York D．Brookline3．________ haven't changed their places of work.A．Sandy West and Emma BellB．Andrew Irvine and Sandy WestC．Emma Bell and Andrew IrvineD．Andrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma BellBI first started playing the piano when I was three. My parents are musicians, so they were both very encouraging. It was their dream, I think, to raise a child who could one day become a world-class pianist.So they asked an expensive personal teacher to teach me, and I practiced every day, sometimes for five or six hours at a time. Despite（尽管）the long hours and frustration （挫折）, I did enjoy it, especially at first, and I was good. According to my parents and my teacher, I was really excellent, and I was on the road to becoming a professional musician, just like my mother and father.The trouble was, my head really wasn't in it.My real interest was something quite different—mathematics（maths）. Numbers were the things that really shone brightly in my mind.I found more beauty in a mathematical equation（相等）, I told my parents, than in a piano sonata （奏鸣曲）. So when I went to college, I chose to study mathematics, not music. Then I got a job, working as an accountant.Now I work with numbers every day. My parents couldn't understand, and even now I guess they are still angry with me. They say I wasted a special gift. But I still believe what I did was right for me.1．It cost the writer's parents a lot to ________.A．help him with his lessonsB．raise their son to be an excellent pianistC．become professional musiciansD．practice playing the piano2．At first what the writer did showed that ________.A．he was hopeful in musicB．he hated playing the pianoC．he didn't have a gift for musicD．he liked mathematics better3．The writer's parents felt very sorry for their son because they thought ________.A．his heart wasn't really in musicB．they didn't like his job of an accountantC．he wasted a special giftD．he didn't realize his mistake4．Which is the best title of this story?A．Nobody Understood MeB．The Road to My CareerC．My Parents' DreamD．Don't Be Sorry for MeCMatt Mason has seen the future—and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning.He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系统）that's built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦）it up.“This may trouble you,”says Kara, an expert in Mason's company.“But you can program it to come on at 3 a. m., and it will just wet-mop the floor foryou.”When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax.“More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says.“A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e- mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables.“Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters （工作台）of the same height.“The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines.“But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT's Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.1．How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?A．Three.B．Four.C．Five.D．Six.2．In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________.A．have a recycling system built in the wallB．get up early to start your cleaning systemC．use your fridge to give orders to a cleanerD．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine3．What is future kitchen work like?A．Terrific and relaxing. B．Easy and interesting.C．Enjoyable and exciting.D．Funny and amazing.4．From the passage, we know ________.A．people will have more and more time enjoying themselvesB．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayC．the fridge can be found in the center of a future houseD．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions四、完形填空Mr. Klein told the class that a new student, Inez, would join them soon. He 1 that Inez was deaf. She “talked” with others by using sign language. Mr. Klein knew sign language, and he decided to teach 2 students so that they could also “talk” with Inez.First, they learned to sign the letters. Some letters were hard to 3 . Other letters, such as C, were easier because the shape（形状）of the hand was the same as the shape of the letter.The 4 thing they learned was fingerspelling.They signed one letter after another to spell a word. They 5 with two-letter words such as ‘at’ and ‘on’. Then they spelled 6 words.Finally, Mr. Klein showed that 7 one sign could be used for a whole word. To make the sign for the word fine, a person spreads out（开）the fingers on one hand, 8 the thumb （拇指）to the chest（前胸）, and moves the hand away from the chest. Signing is not just 9 with the hands. Expressions on the face are also 10 The students learned to sign a questionmark by using expressions on the face.When Inez first entered the classroom, she looked 11 . But the students signed, “Good morning, Inez.” She gave the class a big smile and signed back, “What a wonderful 12 !”1．A．hoped B．said C．guessed D．thought 2．A．his B．my C．her D．our3．A．spell B．check C．remember D．write4．A．first B．only C．last D．next5．A．met B．started C．agreed D．helped 6．A．newer B．easier C．longer D．nicer 7．A．never B．perhaps C．still D．just8．A．joins B．fixes C．touches D．ties 9．A．made B．done C．given D．chosen 10．A．important B．different C．difficult D．strange 11．A．serious B．surprised C．frightened D．nervous 12．A．welcome B．congratulation C.progress D．success五、阅读与表达阅读短文，根据其容回答问题。