小卷速测(十) 语法填空+阅读B+C+任务阅读
(限时:30分钟)
Ⅰ. 语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix? In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. 1. was unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it 2. (actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of 3. most outstanding examples of environmental clean-up.
But the river wasn't changed in a few days 4. even a few months. It took years of work 5.
(reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work 6. (pay) off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit 7. is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don't know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don't you want a quick fix immediately?
While there are 8. (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the 9. (change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be 10. (patience).
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Passage 1
In the waters off Brisbane, Australia, a seven-foot-long sand tiger shark swims in pain. A two-foot-long spike sticks out of her side. It's a piece of fishing equipment that the shark ate carelessly. After traveling into her body, the spike punctured(刺) through the shark's stomach.
A man swimming in the water notices the shark. Then, he warns Sea World Marine Park in the nearby town of Gold Coast. Sea World sends a 12-person team from its rescue center to where the shark was discovered in Moreton Bay Marine Park. Soon, they find her lying on the seafloor. “She'll die without help,”says Trevor Long, leader of the rescue center.
Using an onboard crane(吊车), the rescuers move the shark into their boat's 13-foot-long tank(缸). Then Dr. David Blyde gives the shark pain medicine and performs an operation to remove the spike. After that, the team sails with the shark to Sea World 33 miles away. They place the fish in a 49-foot-long tank and wait to see if she gets better.
To give the shark's stomach time to get better, she isn't fed for the first few days. A week after her operation, Long offers the shark a small, dead fish. The animal refuses to eat. But days later when he drops another fish into her tank, the shark enjoys her meal. By now the shark's wounds are getting better.
Two weeks after her rescue, they take the shark back to the boat and return her to Moreton Bay Marine Park. As the fish is lowered by the crane to the water's surface, two rescuers jump into the ocean and guide her into the sea. From the boat, Long watches her swim away.“The shark has another chance,” Long says.
1.What happens to the sand tiger shark? ( )
A.She is unlucky and gets hurt badly.
B.She has nothing to eat for a few days.
C.She swims in Sea World and loses her way.
D.She is seriously ill because of sea water.
2.According to the text, Sea World . ( )
A.helps protect and save animals
B.is 33 miles away from Gold Coast
C.hasn't enough space for another shark
D.has never performed operations on sharks
