Test 27 (Lesson ) 分数 ___________
I. 用下列单词的适当形式填空，每个词只用一次（20%）
monument present support compete reluctant weight fantasy heaven spectacle festival
1. You need _____ if your eyesight is impaired.
2. The statue is a ______ to our war dead.
3. They _____ flowers to their teacher.
4. Christmas and Easter are two _____ of the Christian church.
5. I am _____ to get out of bed on cold mornings.
6. The two students _____ with each other for the highest mark.
7. He has to _____ his mother and brother.
8. The mayor’s opinion carries great _____ in the town.
9. The astronomer scanned the ______ through the telescope.
10. He lives in a world of _____.
II.选择填空（20%）
1. Ten minutes ______ an hour when one is waiting for a phone call.
A. seemed B. to seem C. seem D. seems
2. Tom dropped in to see us on his way ______ home from the theater.
A. a B. the C. / D. to
3. May I have ______ world with you?
A. a B. an C. the D. /
4. Jack isn’t a hard-working student, for it is the third time he has been late, _____?
A. wasn’t it B. hasn’t it C. isn’t it hasn’t he
5. You should keep it in the icebox, ______ it will go bad.
A. and B. or C. but D. so
6. Miss Wang has ______ strong points and knowledge.
A. many a B. a lots of C. plenty of D. a great deal
7. His brother works ______ an engineer at a car factory.
A. as B. at C. in D. on
8. I forgot _____ my exercise book with me, so I can’t lend it to you now.
A. to bring B. bringing C. to have D. having brought
9. After school, the students came home, ______.
A. be happy and gay B. being happy and gay C. to be happy and gay D. happy and gay
10. This book can be used in ______ countries.
A. English-speaking B. English-spoken C. speaking English D. spoken English
III. 课内阅读理解（20%）
1. Which of the following is true about Lesson 93?
A. The monument was presented to the United States by the people of England.
B. It took the designer 20 years to complete the statue.
C. It took around 2 years for the statue to be put together again.
D. The statue symbolizes liberty and is erected on an island in New York.
2. Which of the following is true about Lesson 94?
A. The little children are trained to swim for future Olympic Games.
B. Children can learn to swim before they can even walk.
C. Babies of two months are too terrified to enter the water.
D. Many of the children prefer to pedal their tricycles.
3. Which of the following is true about Lesson 95?
A. The ambassador was wearing the hat when someone fired a shot through the window.
B. The fire broke out in the ambassador’s office.
C. Horst wanted to kill the ambassador with the extinguisher.
D. University students had negative opinion about the country Escalpopia.
4. Which of the following is true about Lesson 96?
A. The festival in Japan is a very sad occasion.
B. The dead are expected to be very tired after the long journey.
C. Lanterns are used to light the dead people’s way home.
D. Throughout the country, lanterns are placed into the water when the festival is over.
IV. 课外阅读理解（20%）
The fiddler crab is a living clock. It indicates the time of day by the colour of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crab’s changing colour followings a regular twenty-four hour plan that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun.
Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply answer to the sun’s rays, changing colour according to the amount of light striking it? To find out , biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight the crab’s skin colour continued to change exactly on time. This characteristic probably developed gradually in answer to the daily rising and setting of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regulated inside the living body of the crab.
The biologists noticed that once each day the colour of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this happens fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides. The crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!
1. The fiddler crab is like a clock because it changes colour _____.
A. in a regular 24-hour rhythm B. in answer to the sun’s rays
C. following the rhythm of the tide D. every sixty minutes
2. The crab’s changing colour ______.
A. tells the crab what time it is B. protects the crab from the sunlight and enemies
C. is not regulated inside the living body of a crab D. is useless
3. When the fiddler crabs were kept in the dark, they _____.
A. stopped changing colour B. changed colour more quickly
C. changed colour more slowly D. changed colour on the same timetable
4. The crab’s colour-changing ability was probably developed _____.
A. by nature B. during millions of years C. by biologists D. both A and B
5. The best title for this selection would be _____.
A. A New Discovery B. Wonderful Nature C. A Scientific Study D. A Walking Clock
V. 根据所学Lesson34内容，按照首字母提示完成文章（20%）
In Japan, the dead are said to be able to return their homes and so a Festival for the Dead is held once a year for the living to w _____ the dead.
As they are expected to be hungry after their long journey, food is laid out for them. Specially made lanterns are h ______ outside each house to help the dead to find their way. All night long , people dance and sing. In the early morning ,the food that has been laid out for the dead is t _____ into a river or into the sea as it is c ______ unlucky for anyone living to eat it. In towns that are near the sea, the tiny lanterns which had been hung in the streets the night before, are placed into the water when the festival is o ______. Thousands of lanterns slowly d _____ out to sea g _____ the dead on their return journey to the other world. This is a moving s _____ , for c _____ of people stand on the shore watching the lanterns drifting away until they can be seen no m _____.
