闵行二模试卷选词

2018年 选词 A. managed to B. showed off C. products D. death E. research What can you do with nuts? A scientist named George Washington Carver answered that question, over and over again. We should say thanks to him for more than 300 __46__. When Carver was born in 1864, he was a slave(奴隶) on a farm in Missouri. Later, he got freedom. As a teenager, he worked on a farm and __47__ finish high school. At the age of 30, he became the first black student at the college in lowa. Several years later, he took a job

at a college in Alabama, where he worked until his __48__ in 1943. Carver studied agriculture, the science of farming. His __49__ made huge improvements in farming in the southern United States.

A. remained B. embarrassed C. similar D. material E. gained Carver studied peanuts. He knew that the south couldn’t grow just cotton. Planting cotton year after year wore out the soil and made it useless. Carver learned that if farmers planted cotton one year and peanuts the next, the soil __50__ healthy. To encourage this practice, Carver thought of new uses for the peanut. Would you like to try peanut and raisin ice cream? How about using peanuts as a

kind of __51__ to make shampoo? Perhaps you would prefer to make paint from peanuts, or maybe you would like to bake with peanut flour. Glue? Paper? Rubber? The list goes on and on. He also thought of __52__ uses for pecans(山核桃) and other nuts. Carver __53__ little from most of his inventions. He didn’t feel that it was right to sell his ideas. He gave them freely to help farmers and fellow scientists. Carver’s life is one that we could all use as an example.

2017 A. clean B. lamp C. changed D.special E. On the other hand There have been some strange laws in the past . In the times of Peter Great in Russia , rich people weren’t allowed to have beards (胡子). If they wanted to keep their beards , they had to pay a _______tax （税） to the government .

In eighteenth-century England , people had to pay “window tax” for each window in their houses. However , this law was finally _______because many people chose to live in houses without windows so that they didn’t have to pay !

In the nineteenth century, female teachers in the USA couldn’t get married , or even go out with men . If they got engaged (订婚), they had to give up their jobs immediately .

_________, male teachers could get married and have children without any problems ! If you travelled in any motor vehicle in nineteenth-century Britain , the law said that

here must be someone in front of you, waving a red flag, or at night time a red ___49___. This meant, in practice, that you couldn’t travel at more than about eight kilometers per hour! 46. _________ 47. __________ 48. __________ 49. ___________

A. only B. problem C. hot D. leave E. stayed In the Midwest of the USA in the 1880s, you were not allowed to eat ice cream sodas on Sunday. Restaurant owners solved this ___50___ by serving ice cream without soda, which became known as a “Sunday”or “sundae”.

Also there are some more unusual laws from around the world. In Singapore, people who like to chew gum（口香糖）must ___51___ Singapore. The government really wants to keep the city clean and will fine you for chewing gum.

In Thailand it’s against the law to drive a car or motocycle without a shirt on, no matter how ___52___ it is. Punishments（惩罚）are different in different areas and can include warnings and tickets costing about $10. No joke - the local police will stop you.

Don’t buy things using coins in Canada. The Law of 1985 doesn’t allow using ____53____ coins to buy things. Even the use of the dollar-coin is limited. The shop owner has the right to choose whether to take your coins or not.

50. ________ 51. _________ 52. __________ 53. __________

2016

A. fear B. relatives C. members D. continue E. ordinary

On every packet of cigarettes, people are warned against the dangers of smoking: 'Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is Harmful to Your Health. However, millions of people 46 smoking. Why?

Facts show that families and surroundings play a very important part. All those smokers come from smoking families or have smoking friends or 47 . Films and TV plays also play a part. People watch their 'heroes' on TV drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes. 'Heroes' seem to 48 nothing, neither killing themselves nor killing others with alcohol and cigarettes. If they are not afraid of the harm of smoking and drinking, why should 49 people be afraid?

Knowing and believing seem to be two different things. If smoking is really as harmful as doctors say, it is time for smokers to think about it and try to give it up!

A. satisfied B. with pleasure C. wise D. immediately E. in surprise

Once there was a lazy poor man living in a small house with spider webs (蜘蛛网)on the walls and mice running around. People didn't want to come into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day. One day, the poor man visited a 50 old man and asked him for advice about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase and said. 'This is a magic vase that will bring you happiness.' The poor man looked at the vase 51 . Why would he need a vase in his poor house? However. he didn't want to throw away such a beautiful vase. so he brought it home on the table. 'It's not right for something so beautiful to be empty.' the poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful. But he was still not 52 .'It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.' At this, he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls. His house turned into a comfortable place 53 . The poor man suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. From then on, he worked hard and his life got better and better.

2015

A. still B. small C. easy D. far away E. taking off Miss King lives in Rock City. She has asked Sam and Ann to visit her. Rock City is __46__,but Sam and Ann can get there quickly by plane. They have had their first plane trip.

In the morning, the children got up at six o’clock. It was __47__ dark at that time, but Sam and Ann didn’t want to be late for the plane. They arrived early at the airport. The planes were standing behind a big fence. Sam was carrying the bags. Ann had the tickets in her hand. They got on the plane. “Hello, there. I’m Miss Smith,” a pretty girl said to the children. “When the plane is __48__, you have to buckle your safety belts. And you may unbuckle them later.”Sam found the safety belt and buckled it. The plane flew high in the sky. Ann yelled. “Look, everything we left behind is __49__! The big lake is like a little puddle, and all the cars are like ants!”

46_______ 47______ 48______ 49_______ A. picked up B. back C. land D. putting on E. mine

Miss Smith brought the children a tray with milk and biscuits on it. The children drank the milk and saved the biscuits. Then Miss Smith __50__ the tray and took it back to her little kitchen. Ann followed her. The kitchen is at the back of the plane. “I like your kitchen,” Ann tells Miss Smith. “But __51__ is bigger. Isn’t hard to fix dinners in this small kitchen?” “No, Ann” Miss Smith told her, “It isn’t hard at all. All the dinners are made in a big kitchen in the city. They are stacked in my little kitchen on shelves. Everything stays hot on the shelves. When it’s dinner time, I just slide your dinner onto a tray and bring it to you.”Ann walked __52__ and sat beside Sam. She told him what the plane’s kitchen was like.

Then Miss Smith stopped by and said, “Your trip is ending, children. In a little while, we will __53__ in Rock City. I like having you on my plane.”They said goodbye to Miss Smith and their first plane trip. They felt very happy.

50._______ 51._______ 52.________ 53._________

2014

A. because of B. enough D. eating

It can be dangerous to travel on the ocean. Ships sometimes sink 46 land. When this happens, people have to get into small lifeboats. If another ship does not come and help them and they do not have 47 food or water, they may die.

Most people believe that we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do, we shall be very ill 48 the salt in the water. But a doctor named Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could keep alive at sea by drinking sea water and 49 small fish,

C. gently E. far away from animals and plants from the Ocean.

A. easily D. take notes

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