Unit 11 The Winning Team
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Peter kept his eyes on the ground. He felt like there was a heavy weight on his shoulders as he walked home alone. It was the 1. ______ (bad) day of his life. His mind would not stop thinking about what happened only just an hour ago on the school soccer field. How could he have missed 2. ______ (score) that goal? He had let his whole team down. His stupid mistake made him angry. His team had lost the game because of him. He was really worried that his coach might kick him off the team.
As soon as he walked through the door, his father asked, "What's wrong, son?" Peter's feelings 3. ______ (write) all over his face. "I lost the game," Peter replied. Then he went into his room without another word. Ten minutes later, Peter heard his father 4. ______ (knock) on his bedroom door. He opened the door to let him in.
"Look, Peter. I don't know what happened. But whatever it was, don't be too hard on yourself."
"I lost the game, Dad. I failed my team. They'll probably never let me play again."
"Soccer is about team effort. You're not the only reason your team lost. If you have a good team, you should support each other. Besides, winning or losing is only half the game. The other half is learning how to communicate with your teammates and 5. ______ (learn) from your mistakes."
Peter didn't say anything, but what his father said made him think 6. ______ (careful).
The next day, Peter went to soccer practice with courage rather than fear in his heart.
"Hey, guys," he said to his teammates. "I'm really sorry about yesterday. We were so close to 7. ______ (win) that game. But I think if we continue to pull together, we're going to win the next one."
To his surprise and 8. ______ (relieve), his teammates all nodded in agreement.
"Yeah," they said, "don't worry about it. It's never just one person's fault. We should think about how we can do 9. ______ (good) next time."
Peter smiled. It made him feel lucky to know that he was on 10. ______ winning team. He knew that soccer was about team work, and that he should learn from his mistakes 11. ______ that he could do better next time.
Unit 12 April Fool's Day
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes 1. ______ each other.
One April Fool's Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped 2. ______ (grow) spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country 3. ______ (sell) out. In another famous trick, a TV show in England reported the 4. ______ (discover) of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people 5. ______ (phone) the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Many April Fool's jokes may end up 6. ______ (be) not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool's Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get 7. ______ (marry). However, when she said yes, he replied, "April Fool!" That little joke didn't have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show 8. ______ (cancel).
One of the world's most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real 9. ______ hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people 10. ______ (leave) their homes.
April Fool's Day can bring lots of fun, 11. ______ we should always remember: never play tricks that may hurt others.
Unit 13 Rethink, Reuse, Recycle!
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Do you often throw away things you don't need anymore? Have you ever thought about how these things can actually 1. ______ (put) to good use? Nothing is a waste if you have a creative mind.
You have probably never heard of Amy Hayes, but she is a most unusual woman. She lives in a house in the UK that she built 2. ______ (her) out of rubbish. The windows and doors come from old buildings around her town that 3. ______ (pull) down. The top of the house is an old boat turned upside down. And the gate in front of her house is made of rocks and old glass bottles. Amy recently won a prize from the Help Save Our Planet Society. The president said, "Amy is an 4. ______ (inspire) to us all."
Amy isn't the only one who is good at 5. ______ (recycle). Jessica Wong from Hong Kong uses old clothes that people don't wear anymore to make bags. She has been doing this for a few years now. She opened a small shop where she sells her bags, and she has also set up a website to sell them online. She especially likes to use old jeans to make handbags. Her bags are cute and 6. ______ (use). "I plan to write a book about new ways to use old clothes," she said. "I hope people can read my book and enjoy it!"
Wang Tao set up a small business in Shanghai four years ago. He is known for using iron and other materials from old cars 7. ______ (make) beautiful art pieces. Some are large pieces that look like animals or humans, and some are smaller pieces you can put at home. The more popular works can even 8. ______ (see) in art shops around the city. Wang Tao hopes to set up a "metal art" theme park to show people the importance of environmental protection. Not only can the art bring happiness to others, 9. ______ it also shows that even cold, hard iron can be brought back to life with a little creativity.
We can learn a lot from these three people. All of them are setting good examples for us. It's never too late to take action to make a 10. ______ (different) to the environment. We should think twice before we throw something away. After all, everything can 11. ______ (reuse) if we have a creative mind.
Unit 14 Graduation Speech
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for coming today to attend the graduation ceremony at No.3 Junior High School. First of all, I'd like to congratulate all the students who 1. ______ (be) here today. I remember meeting all of you when you were just starting Grade 7 at this school. You were all so full of energy and thirsty 2. ______ knowledge. And yes, some of you were a little difficult to deal with! But today I see a room full of talented young adults who are full of hope for the future. You've all grown up so much and I'm so proud of you.
Although you've all worked very hard over the last three years, none of you did it alone. I hope you'll remember the important people in your lives who helped and supported you — your parents, your teachers and your friends. Please consider what they've done for you and what they mean to you. Never fail 3. ______ (be) thankful to the people around you.
Lastly, the end of junior high school is the 4. ______ (begin) of a new life. I don't need to tell you that life in senior high school will be 5. ______ (hard) and that you have many difficult tasks ahead of you. You'll make mistakes along the way, but the key is to learn from your mistakes and never give up. But along with difficulties, there will also be many exciting things 6. ______ (wait) for you. Behind each door you open are chances to learn new things, and you have the ability to make your own 7. ______ (choose). Choose wisely and be responsible for your decisions and actions. Although you have to go your separate ways now, I hope that in a few years' time, you'll come back to visit our school. As you set out on your new journey, you shouldn't forget where you came from. The future is 8. ______ (you).
Good luck and hope 9. ______ (see) you again sometime soon!
This speech is not only for the graduating students, 10. ______ also for all the teachers who have worked hard for the students over the past three years. It's time for them to take pride in 11. ______ (they) too.
参考答案
Unit 11
1. worst 考点：形容词最高级，the后接形容词最高级，表“他人生中最糟糕的一天”
2. scoring 考点：非谓语动词，固定搭配miss doing sth.（错过做某事）
3. were written 考点：动词语态，一般过去时的被动语态，表“他的情绪都写在了脸上”
4. knocking 考点：非谓语动词，固定搭配hear sb. doing sth.（听见某人正在做某事）
5. learning 考点：非谓语动词，与前面的communicating并列，作介词about的宾语，用动词-ing形式
6. carefully 考点：词性转换，副词修饰动词think
7. winning 考点：非谓语动词，介词to后接动词-ing形式
8. relief 考点：词性转换，名词，固定搭配to one's relief（令某人宽慰的是）
9. better 考点：副词比较级，表“下次做得更好”
10. a 考点：冠词，泛指“一支必胜的队伍”，winning以辅音音素开头，用a
11. so 考点：连词，固定搭配so that（以便、为了），引导目的状语从句
Unit 12
1. on 考点：介词，固定搭配play tricks/jokes on sb.（开某人的玩笑）
2. growing 考点：非谓语动词，固定搭配stop doing sth.（停止做某事）
3. had been sold 考点：动词语态&时态，过去完成时的被动语态，卖光的动作发生在人们意识到之前，是“过去的过去”
4. discovery 考点：词性转换，名词，the后接名词，表“特殊水的发现”
5. had phoned 考点：动词时态，过去完成时，打电话的动作发生在当天结束之前，是“过去的过去”
6. being 考点：非谓语动词，固定搭配end up doing sth.（以…告终）
7. married 考点：词性转换，固定搭配get married（结婚）
8. was canceled 考点：动词语态，一般过去时的被动语态，节目被取消
9. that 考点：连词，固定搭配so...that...（如此…以至于…）
10. had left 考点：动词时态，过去完成时，离开的动作发生在警方宣布是骗局之前，是“过去的过去”
11. but 考点：连词，表转折关系，“愚人节能带来很多乐趣，但我们要记住，永远不要开可能伤害别人的玩笑”
