1、缺词填空1.While travelling in Russia,Ed Jackson ran short of（缺少）（缺少）money.So he wrote his brother,asking for 500.“Send the by telegram（电报）（电报）to the bank here,”he wrote.After a week Ed began the bank.He his passport to the bank clerk(职员职员).“Nothing has come for you,Mr.Jackson,”he was told.This went for
2、three weeks,and Mr.Jackson got very .He then phoned his brother,asking the money was.The brother said it had been sent three weeks .That evening Ed Jackson was arrested(被捕被捕)for failing to his hotel bill.He tried to tell the police what his problem was,but no one would believe him.At last he was to
3、the police station for fifteen days.tomoneyvisitingshowedonworriedwherebeforepaysent2.Once there was a king.He liked to write .He thought his stories were good,so he liked to show them to his people.As his people were afraid to criticize(批评)the kings stories,they all said that his stories were very
4、good.One day,the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer.He wanted the writer to praise(表扬)those stories.But the writer said his stories were so that he should throw them into the fire.The king got very angry him and sent him to prison(监狱).After time the king had pity on the writer a
5、nd set him free.When the writer returned from prison,the king ordered him to come to his palace.Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked him what he thought of them.After them,the writer at once turned to the soldier and said,“Take me back to prison,please.”storiesbadwithsomereading3.La
6、st May I stayed in Santo Lusa for a week.That was my trip there.One morning I out to visit a famous museum,but I didnt know way to go,so I stopped a strange and asked,“Excuse me,does this street lead(通向)to the Grand Museum?”“Yes,”he answered.“Go along this street and turn left and turn left at the s
7、econd crossing.You cant it.”So I two blocks(街区)and turned to my left,but the museum there.Then I asked a second stranger.He said,“Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing.”But I couldnt find the museum.I asked a third stranger and he said the same thing.This time I found the Grand M
8、useum.Just then walked up and said.“Excuse me,wheres the nearest b?”I answered ,“Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing!”firstsetwhichmisswalkedWasntagainsomeonebankquickly4 Why does the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy lean?It leas because of a mistake.It has leaned almost since th
9、e day the tower was _.In 1174,the people of Pisa,Italy wanted to build a bell tower.They wanted the tower to be the _ beautiful bell tower in Italy.The city _ needed a bell tower because the church did not have _.As soon as the first floor of the building was finished,the tower started to lean.Build
10、ers tried to make the building _ _ again as they added more floors,but the leaning tower got _ as the tower grew.It took about 180 years to finish the tower.Today,the leaning tower has eight _.It is 54.5 meters _.And it leans almost 4 meters to one _.The tower is also sinking into the _.On which it
11、was built.every year,the tower leans another 1.7 cm.builtmostalsoonestraightworsefloorstallsideground5.Climbing a mountain is hard work.But one step after another finally brings a person to the _.Along the way,he can stop and look _ _.And the _ he climbs,the more wonderful his view is.If he keeps cl
12、imbing,he will have a new world before him.He will have a new way of _ everything.Now learning _ language is something like climbing a mountain,This new language can give you a new view of life.And it is more than a book at he surface of things.It can open the way into peoples minds and hearts,into
13、a culture very _ _ from the one of your own.This will make you _in things that money cant buy.Even though you never set foot on a ship or plane,you can be an armchair _ through books.Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to _ the scenery around him,everyone who is interested in reading wi
14、ll find _ in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language.toparoundhigherseeinganotherdifferentrichertravellerenjoyfun6.In the past few months two important _e_ have taken place in the world.The war on Iraq _ thousands of people lose their homes.How people all over the world _ t
15、hey could live a peaceful（和平的）（和平的）life!Many people died on SARS.Its _ duty to make a contribution _ fighting SARS.We all believe _ we work with one heart,world peace is _ one day and science is able to win _ SARS,just like the Chinese climbers who overcame（克服）（克服）_ and finally _ the top of Mount Qo
16、molangma on May 21,2003.eventsmadewisheveryonestoifcomingagainstdifficultiesreached7.Wang Yani was born in 1975 in GongCheng,China._ a baby,she loved to draw.She drew lines everywhere.She o_ drew on the walls!Her father was an artist.Yani wanted to be like _.So she tried to stand like her father _ he painted.This made him laugh.One day,she _ lines on his painting.She was only two and a half years _,but her father got angry.She cried and said,”I want to paint like you!”_ her father thought about
