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Alice Munro was b_______ in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school t___
___. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, c___
___ out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (职员).
Munro’s f_____ collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), w___
___ the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was p_
__. This book earned Munro a s__
___ Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at b___
_ the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.
On 10 October, 2013, Munro w____ awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is k___
__ as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
首字母填空。
Do you know Sweden(瑞典)？It is in the n of Europe．It is the fourth largest c
in Europe with an area of 450, 000 square kilometers and the number of people is about 8.5 million. Over one third(三分之一) of them live in the three largest cities, namely Stockholm, Goteborg and Malmo. More than half of Sweden is c__
______ with trees. It is one of the r__
___ countries in the world. About 100 years ago Sweden became industrialized(工业化). Most people gave up their farms and went into the cities. But now great c
have taken place. Sweden is the country where the famous Nobel Prize(诺贝尔)are awarded. Many people who have visited Stockholm, the c
of Sweden, must have b
to the places where Nobel Prizes are awarded. The first language of Sweden is Swedish. English is the first foreign language in schools. Many middle-school students can s
two to three languages. Most of the Swedish people, men and women, o
and young, can speak English. So there is no p
to speak with them in English．
用所给动词的适当形式填空Zhang Yimo’s new movie Going Home is worth ___________(watch) twice.
Premier Zhou Enlai devoted all his life to____ (work) for our country and people.
He___________(prefer) English to Chinese last term.
Many teenagers often go to school without___________ ( have) breakfast. It is not good for them.
It is important for us ___________ (take) action to prevent A-Flu-HINI (甲型H1N1流感) spreading.
Potatoes are very popular today. But in the past this was not true. Potatoes grew in South America 5,000 years ago. But they only became popular in other places 200 years ago.
In the 16th century, the Spanish took the potato from South America to Europe. But the people didn’t like this strange vegetable. Some people thought that their skins would look like the skin of the plant if they ate the potato. So they only ate the leaves. This made them sick because there is poison (毒药) in the leaves.
In the 1800s, people started to eat potatoes. Potatoes became the main food in Ireland. Then something unlucky happened. In 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. Two million people died of hunger.
Today each country has its potato dish. Germans eat potato salad, and the USA has the baked potato. Of course, the French invented French fries.
Fill in the blanks according to the passage. Only one word for each blank.
Potatoes were____in South America 5,000 years ago. But they weren’t popular in other places
___200 years ago. In the 16th century, the Spanish took them to Europe. They ate leaves
of having potatoes. As a result, people were badly ill because of the poison in the leaves. In the 1800s, people started to eat potatoes.
___, there was something wrong with the potatoes. Two million people died because of the shortage (缺少) of potatoes in 1845. But now there are many
___of potato dishes in the world.
In England, recently three foreign came to a bus stop and waited. About five minutes later, the bus they wanted came along. They were just going to get on when suddenly there was a loud noise behind them. People rushed onto the bus and tried to push them out of the way. Someone shouted at them. The bus conductor came rushing down the stairs to see what all the trouble was about. The three foreigners seem all at sea and looked
. No one had told them about the British customs of lining up for a bus that the first person who arrives at the bus stop is
person to get on the bus.
Learning the language of a country isn't enough. If you want to have a pleasant visit, find out as much as possible about the and customs of your host country. You will probably be surprised just how different they can be from your own. A visitor to India would do well to remember that people there consider it impolite to use the left hand for passing food at table. The left hand is
to be used for washing yourself. Also in India, you might see a man shaking his head at another to show that he doesn't agree. But in many parts of India a shake of the head means
. Nodding your head when you
a drink in Bulgaria will most probably leave you thirsty.
In that country, you shake your head to mean "yes"-a nod means "no". At a meal in countries on the Arabic Peninsula, you will find that your glass is repeated refilled as as you drink up . If you think that you have had enough, you should take the cups or glasses in your hand and give it a little shake from side to side or place your hand over the top.
In Europe, it is quite usual to your legs when you are sitting talking to someone even at an important meeting. Doing this in Thailand, however, could bring about trouble. Also , you should try to avoid(避免) touching the head of
adult---it's just not done in Thailand.
完成对话。在对话空格中填上适当的单词，使对话完整正确；一空一词（含缩写词）。（共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）
A: Tommy, do you know that a plane of Malaysia Airlines was missing?
B: Yes. I heard about the news after the first class. At that time, I was taking a with my friends outside the classroom.
A: What bad news it was! I was really when I heard the news.
B: The plane was from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 passengers on it.
A: Right, but the of Chinese on the plane is 154. Do you think they
asleep when the accident happened?
B: Maybe. So far, knows what happened to the plane and the passengers.
A: The plane has been out of contact for a of days. People all over the world feel both sad and worried.
B: do I. I watch news about it on CCTV every day.
A: It is reported that 26 countries the team to find the plane.
B: I hope people can find the plane as soon as and all the people are safe.
A: I hope so. They must be able to come back some day.
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