— I spend all my free time ______ English.

A. practice B. practices

C. to practice D. practicing

A. along B. across C. past D. into

【題目】

Jadav Payeng is a forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the past 38 years, he has planted trees on a sandbar (沙洲) of the Brahmaputra River and has_____ it into a forest. One day in 1979, 16-year-old Payeng was walking

______ the bank of the Brahmaputra River. He saw many snakes on the sandbars. These snakes died in a few days’ time

_______the heat and the absence (缺失) of trees. Payeng felt very_____ when he saw

this. He decided to plant some trees. Single-handedly, he started planting bamboo trees, as only bamboo trees could survive (存活) in the sandbars.

To water the trees was a difficult_______for one man. With his hard work and great effort, day by day the______ bamboo trees grew into a forest. His tree planting has changed the soil (土壤). Now the sandbar is a thick forest and________ to thousands of plants and animals. A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and_____ there for a few months.

Payeng is now in______fifties. He has planted close to 1,400 acres (英畝) of forests and is

______ as the Forest Man of India. In 2015, he was honored with Padma Shri, one of the top awards (獎) in India.

【1】A. divided B. put C. turned D. threw

【2】A. along B. through C. across D. past

【3】A. according to B. because of C. as for D. so that

【4】A. lonely B. happy C. tired D. sad

【5】A. task B. journey C. condition D. answer

【6】A. wild B. tall C. young D. old

【7】A. way B. guide C. room D. home

【8】A. stay B. lie C. sit D. wait

【9】A. her B. his C. its D. their

【10】A. invited B. served C. known D. formed

試題出處：改編自 2017 年中考福建省中考短文填空原文

The Chongyang Festival is a Chinese traditional festival. It is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. It's also c【1】 the Double Ninth Festival.

The festival started as e【2】as the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). It has a history of more than 1,700 years. Among the numbers from zero to nine, nine is the h【3】 odd number (奇數(shù)).

People believe that two “nines” meeting together stand for a long life. So it

is a special holiday f【4】 Chinese people to show love and respect for their elders. They hold many k【5】 of activities in honor of old people, wishing them good h【6】 and a long life.

The festival comes d【7】 the golden time of fall. On the day, people traditionally drink Chrysanthemum (菊花) wine, eat Double-Ninth Cakes and c【8】mountains. They also carry a kind of plant named dogwood. People in ancient times b【9】 that the plant could drive away evil (邪惡的) spirits and prevent them from c【10】 an illness in winter.

Do you check your mobile phone often? Do you feel anxious if your mobile phone is not with you? When there is no WiFi or signal for your mobile phone, will you get nervous? If you say yes,

then you’ve got addiction(上癮) to mobile phones.

①Nowadays, we can see the scene everywhere in the life: in subways, restaurants, roads, people are watching their mobile phones. From family party


to dating with friend, people couldn’t top checking their twitter, WeChat, facebook on the mobile phones and

snubbing(忽視)the persons in front completely. Phubbing

(低頭癥) influences not only the young people, but also the old and even the kids.

"Phubbing" is a new word which comes from the words "phone" and "snub". It describes the habit of snubbing someone in favor of a mobile phone. ②因為玩手機(jī)，更多的人變得沉默。They do nothing but bow to play mobile phones.③time, spendtoo, they, phones, much, the on(.) And they don' t have time to communicate with persons in real life.

If we keep playing with phones when we are with our friends or family, we will spend less time talking to them. In fact, they need and deserve to be cared for.

Let us put down the cell phones and enjoy the nature, the food, the books and all the beautiful

things and persons around us.

【1】將文中①處畫線句子翻譯成漢語。_____________________________

【2】將文中②處畫線句子翻譯成英語。_____________________________

【3】Where does the word "phubbing" come from?

【4】將文中③處畫線內(nèi)容，連詞成句，題中標(biāo)點已給出。__________________________

【5】What advice does the writer give to the people who have "phubbing"?__________________

The idea of a smart city was brought up by US company IBM in 2010. Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our lifeconvenient. How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from.

In 2009, Dubuque became the first smart city in the US. The city used smart water meters to take the place of traditional water meters. They can detect（探測〉water waste and leakage（泄漏）and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. This way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste.

Santander in Spain also gives us a look at the future. If people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government organized a research team and provided an App（應(yīng)用程序〉that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special

【1】According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?

A. Digital technologies are used in smart cities.

B. An English company first raised the idea of a smart city.

C. A smart city is mainly made up of free Wi-Fi and phones.

D. A smart city is still an idea and hasn’t come into being.

【2】The underlined word “convenient” is the closest in meaning to _____.

A. useful B. normal C. suitable D. easy

【3】Compared to traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in .

A. cleaning water B. supplying water

C. saving water D. producing water

【4】The example of Santander shows the use of smart systems in aspects（方面）EXCEPT _____.

A. business B. health care

C. traffic controlling D. public transportation

【5】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Digital technologies help improve city planning.

B. Smart cities will make our future life better and smarter.

C. Smart cities are very common in both Dubuque and Santander.

D. Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.

A .helped me; cheered me

B. helped me out; cheered me up

C. helped me up; cheered me up

D. helped me out ;cheered me out

A.too much， too many B.much too， too much

C.much too， too many D.too much， too much

—________．

A．She’s kind

B．She’s tall

C．She likes skating

---I’d like to go _________ warm.

A. would you like to; some where

B. will you like to; anywhere

C. would you like to; somewhere

D. will you like to; somewhere