课时训练(三) Modules 1— 6(七下)
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Ⅰ.[2019·绍兴改编] 完形填空
A video showing a 12-year-old boy from Moche, Peru, doing his homework on the sidewalk, under a streetlight, has been watched several million times on Facebook after being shared by the local police.
Staff at the Moche police station first 1 Victor Martin late last month, while checking security cameras(监控摄像). They found a young boy sitting on the sidewalk by 2 at night. At first, they thought he was doing something bad, but later they realized he was actually writing something in his notebook, taking advantage of the streetlight overhead. Moved by the boy’s wish, the police shared the video on Facebook.
At the time of this writing, Victor’s heartwarming and 3 heartbreaking story has spread all around the world. Local TV station 4 to find the boy and sat down with his mother to learn why he was doing his homework on the street instead of at home.
It turns out that the 12-year-old’s family is so 5 that they couldn’t pay for electricity, so they just depended on a candle during the night. Unluckily, Victor Martin could 6 finish his homework before the sun went down, and recently he couldn’t 7 the weak candle light any more.
“One day, my son said ‘ 8 I continue with the candle, I will be crazy! I’d better go outside to finish my homework,’”Rosa Angulo Cordoba told Panamericana TV. She 9 that Victor’s neck would often become hard to move because of tilting (倾斜) his head to let the candlelight through.
Victor’s mother said that although he 10 housework and takes care of the family sheep every day, the sixth grader takes school very seriously and gets good grades.
( )1.A. met B.interviewed C.noticed D.caught
( )2.A. he B.him C.his D.himself
( )3.A. by the way B.at least C.at the same time D.in the end
( )4.A. managed B.stopped C.promised D.refused
( )5.A. traditional B.popular C.special D.poor
( )6.A. hardly B.even C.only D.still
( )7.A. change B.stand C.enjoy D.protect
( )8.A. Although B.Because C.If D.Until
( )9.A. added B.warned C.hoped D.lied
( )10.A. puts off B.worries about C.gives up D.helps with
Ⅱ.[2019·杭州] 阅读理解
If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.
Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect(影响) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.
Some parents are worried too—for example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I’m worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.
But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink. Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn’t worried at all. “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little, but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes anymore. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have started dressing girls in pink—before that it was a color for boys.
