三、短文填空(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读短文,从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其适当形式填空,使短文通顺、意义完整。每空仅填一
词,每词仅用一次。
suddenly, listen, spend, grow, slow, finish, field, he, fast, and
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer. He planted lots of rice seedlings(幼苗) in the
36. Every day he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He wasn't a very patient man. He
thought they were growing too slowly. "How could I make them 37 faster?" He thought hard in
bed and couldn't fall asleep. 38 he came up with a good idea.
He thought that he didn't need to 39 time watching the seedlings grow in the daytime. He
jumped out of bed 40 rushed to the field at once. In the moonlight, he began working on the
seedlings. He pulled them up one by one. After he 41 his work, it was already the next morning.
"What a wonderful idea!" he said to 42. "Look! How 43 the seedlings have grown
during one night!" With great satisfaction, he went back home and told his son what he had done
proudly. After 44 to the words, his son stood there in silence(沉默) for a few minutes.
When the sun rose 45 in the east, the old farmer was heartbroken to see that the seedlings
pulled up by him died one by one. What a sad story! One mustn't violate the laws of nature.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

36. field
37. grow
38. Suddenly
39. spend
40. and
41. finished
42. himself
43. fast
44. listening
45. slowly

36. 根据语境，农民在田地里种植水稻幼苗，结合所给单词，填field（田地）。
37. make sb/sth do sth是固定搭配，此处表示“让幼苗长得更快”，填grow（生长）。
38. 前文提到他苦思冥想无法入睡，此处表示“突然想到一个好主意”，句首单词首字母大写，填Suddenly。
39. spend time doing sth是固定短语，意为“花费时间做某事”，符合“不需要花费时间看幼苗生长”的语境，填spend。
40. 此处连接“跳下床”和“冲向田地”两个并列动作，填并列连词and。
41. 结合语境“完成工作后已经是第二天早上了”，用finish的过去式finished。
42. say to oneself是固定搭配，意为“自言自语”，此处用he的反身代词himself。
43. 此处修饰动词grown，要用副词，结合语境他认为幼苗长得快，填fast。
44. after是介词，后面接动词的动名词形式，listen的动名词是listening，符合“听完这些话后”的语境。
45. 此处修饰动词rose（升起），要用副词，slow的副词形式是slowly，表示“太阳慢慢升起”。

四、读写结合(共两节,满分25分)
第一节 任务型阅读(共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读短文,用英文填空或回答问题。(注意每小题的词数要求)
Do you know the crow(乌鸦)? It's a scary black bird. Most people don't like it because that. But
not all of the crows are scary.
The crow is very smart. Many people can't remember the crow because they think the crows are the
same. But the crow can remember you next time it sees you.
The crow is filial(有孝心的). When the crow is a baby, the mother crow gets food for it. Then
when the mother crow is old , the baby crow gets food for her.
The crow is also friendly. Some crows near Amy's house make friends with her because they often
get food from her. To thank Amy, the crows often bring small gifts to her.
What do you think of the crow now?
46. People don't like the crow because it's a .
47. The crow can you when it sees you next time.
48. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refers to "".
49. The crows bring Amy small gifts because they often from her.
50. What can you learn from the passage?

46. scary black bird
47. remember
48. the baby crow
49. get food
50. Crows are smart, filial and friendly.（答案不唯一，合理即可）

46. 根据短文第一段“It's a scary black bird. Most people don't like it because that.”可知答案。
47. 根据短文第二段“But the crow can remember you next time it sees you.”可知答案。
48. 根据短文第三段“When the crow is a baby, the mother crow gets food for it.”可知，此处“it”指代the baby crow。
49. 根据短文第四段“Some crows near Amy's house make friends with her because they often get food from her. To thank Amy, the crows often bring small gifts to her.”可知答案。
50. 短文分别介绍了乌鸦聪明、有孝心、友好的优良品质，围绕这些品质总结即可。