IV. Cloze test (完形填空):(10%)Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格內填入適當的詞,使其內容通順,每空格限填一詞,首字母已給。)
29.Denies Walme in Dallas,Texas,USA,now 14 years old,published his best-seller "Unbending Gisula" eight years ago. The book is a(1)
a little whale(鯨) named Gisula.One day,Gisula did not take his mother's words and went up to the beach.Then he got lost and had to l(2)
to live by himself.The coloured pictures were drawn by Denies himself.Denies published the book at the age of six.He is said to be the youngest writer and picture artist. Another s(3)
thing about the book is that it became a best seller immediately after it was published and b(4)
him a lot of money. Because he spent much time w(5)
the book,his study was very good and he had to learn the year's work a(6)
.But his gift(才智) of writing is highly praised by the teachers and students.And he was even invited to give talks on writing. But Denies does not want to be a writer.He said, "I like planes most,I dream of b(7)
B. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words:7%
30.Look it up! May's father bought her an encyclopaedia.Here are three articles she found in it. Dinosaurs Dinosaurs lived on the Earth over sixty million years ago.This was a long time before people existed.Dinosaurs lived everywhere.Some were as small as chickens.Others were as big as ten elephants.Some dinosaurs had wings and could fly. Many dinosaurs were harmless.They were as(1)
as sheep and ate plants.Others were harmful.They were fiercer than tigers and ate meat.Dinosaurs all(2)
out suddenly.Nobody knows why.We know about the lives of dinosaurs from the skeleton,eggs and footprints they left behind. (See Earth History) Diogenes Diogenes was a famous(3)
.He lived in Greece about two thousand years ago.He taught that the way to be happy was to own as(4)
things as possible.All he owned was a big jar that he lived in,a coat,a purse and a cup.He was very happy.One day,Diogenes saw a boy drinking water from his hands by a fountain,so he threw away his cup and became even happier. DISNEY,WALT Disneyland is a famous(5)
park in the USA.Disneyland was created by Walt Disney (1901-1966),who is famous for his cartoon characters:Mickey Mouse,Donald Duck,Goofy,Snow White and many others. Disney was born in the USA. (6)
leaving school,he sold newspapers and delivered mail.At the same time,he studied art at night.Finally he got a job that he really liked - drawing cartoons for films. Disney's most famous cartoon character,Mickey Mouse,was a real mouse.It(7)
sat on Disney's desk while he was working.Disney drew the mouse and put it in a cartoon.Soon Mickey became a star and Disney became rich and famous. (See Cartoons)