() 1.—Hi, Susan! What are you going to do during the summer holiday?
—I'm going to cooking because I like eating delicious food.

A.clean up
B.put up
C.take up
D.make up

C

本题可根据各选项短语的含义，结合语境来选择合适的答案。
选项A：“clean up”意为“打扫干净；清理”，与“cooking（烹饪）”不相关，不符合语境。
选项B：“put up”有“张贴；搭建；举起”等意思，与“cooking”没有直接联系，不符合语境。
选项C：“take up”有“开始从事；开始学习”的意思，“take up cooking”即“开始学习烹饪”，符合“因为我喜欢吃美味的食物，所以暑假我打算学习烹饪”的语境。
选项D：“make up”意为“编造；组成；化妆”等，与“cooking”不搭配，不符合语境。

() 2.—Nick, I lost my pen and I couldn't find ______ anywhere.
—There are many pens in that box. Just take ______.
A.it; it
B.it; one
C.one; it
D.one; one

B

首先分析第一个空，这里指的是“我丢了钢笔，到处都找不到它”，这里的“它”指的是前面提到的特定的那支钢笔，所以应该用代词it。接着分析第二个空，句子说的是“那个盒子里有很多钢笔，拿一支就行”，这里并不是特指某一支钢笔，而是指那些钢笔中的任意一支，所以应该用代词one。综合以上分析，第一个空应填it，第二个空应填one。

() 3.We have only one position left, so ______ of you can get it.
A.neither
B.both
C.either
D.none

C

根据"only one position left"可知只有一个职位，"so"表结果，说明你们中只有一人能得到。neither指两者都不；both指两者都；either指两者中任一；none指三者及以上都不。此处未明确人数，但结合选项，只有either符合“两者中任一”能得到职位的语境，因只有一个职位，两人中一人可得。

() 4.It's kind ______ you ______ help me with my English.
A.of; to
B.for; to
C.of; for
D.to; to

A

在英语中，"It's kind of you to do sth"是一个固定句型，表示“你做某事真是太好了”。其中"kind"是描述人的品质的形容词，所以后面应该用"of"来连接。而"to help me with my English"是动词不定式作目的状语，表示“帮助我学英语”。因此，正确的填空应该是"of"和"to"。

( ) 5.—How far is the express railway from Beijing to Shanghai?
—It is a ______ ride.

A.5-hour-long
B.5-hours-long
C.5 hours' long
D.5 hour long

A

本题考查复合形容词作定语的用法。“数词-名词单数-形容词”构成复合形容词，中间用连字符连接，名词用单数形式。选项A“5-hour-long”符合该结构；选项B中“hours”为复数，错误；选项C“5 hours' long”结构错误，名词所有格后不能直接加形容词；选项D“5 hour long”缺少连字符，且名词未用单数形式。故正确答案为A。

( ) 6.Bill thought necessary to work with friends and share different ideas.
A.he
B.him
C.it
D.they

C

Bill thought后接复合宾语，真正宾语是to work with friends and share different ideas，需用it作形式宾语，构成"think it + adj. + to do sth."结构，故选C。

三、任务型阅读
Parents are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even to England, the US or Australia, though this costs too much. Many also want their children to learn a musical instrument or ballet that will give them a head start in life. Parents believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so they often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor couples buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children's skills vary. They will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today's children don't believe in themselves.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever. Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of pleasure and confidence.
An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and interested. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to repair it, your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teach a child to read a book. They also teach them to think, and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.
| How parents should 1 their children | |
| Common practice | • Being 2 with money when it comes to education.• Sending children to the best schools or 3.• Wanting children to take extra-curricular classes to have a head start in life.• Spending more money than they can 4 on education. |
| Bad result | Children will lack(缺少) 5. |
| 6 | Teach their children practical skills, which are of the greatest 7, such as cooking, sewing, or 8 a broken radio or TV. |
| Good results | • To make the children hard-working, 9 and confident.• To enable them to 10 and to use their minds. |

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