My name is Ben. I’m 13 years old. I have a friend.
He’s 13, too. We both have blond hair and blue eyes. We look the same, but
. Look! He is in a yellow T-shirt and
. My shoes are blue and
. Are we cool?
从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，补全短文。其中有一项为多余选项。(10分)
Try reading the following sentences as fast as 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 is called a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Pete Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability (能力) to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them.
Tongue twisters are helpful in improving skills.
| A．listening | B．pronunciation |
| C．writing | D．communication |
The first tongue twister is hard because .
| A．it is very boring to read |
| B．it teaches us a lot of knowledge |
| C．we don’t know who “she” is |
| D．the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar |
The passage is probably taken from in a school newsaper.
| A．Story Time | B．Latest News |
| C．Study Garden | D．Lost and Found |
【改编】Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need , ” his father said. “But if you work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no talent.You will never be a pianist.” an eight-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly hurt. He decided that he didn’t want to be a any more. For the next two weeks, he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely, his father didn’t push, but waited.
Luckily the day came when his teacher asked him to some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he realized he could show other people that he had ability to do it well. That day he told his father that he wanted to study with a new teacher. that point on, everything turned around.
He started winning competitions in the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition. When it was that Lang Lang won, he was too excited to hold back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big . In 1997 Lang Lang moved again, this time to Philadelphia, US. There he spent two years practicing and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his successful performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, gigs (演奏会) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall started in. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(找到) him, and lets him .
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【原创】—I’ll go on a holiday to Australia next month.
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| A．Have a good time | B．Congratulations |
| C．Please | D．Best wishes to you |
Battleship is ________ film I have ever watched. I have never watched _____ one.
| A．the most exciting; a more exciting |
| B．the most excited; a more excited |
| C．the most exciting; the more exciting |
| D．the most excited; the more excited |
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