六、课文内容填空（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将相应答案写在答题纸上。

Festivals have many origins, some religious, some seasonal, and some for special people and events.

Festivals of the Dead are   79   (hold) to honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do   80  . For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in   81   of their ancestors. 

Harvest festivals can be very   82   events. People are grateful   83   their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is   84  . In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls   85   flowers and fruit. Some people might win awards for their farm produce, like the    86   (big) watermelon or the most handsome rooster. And in China, people   87  the moon and enjoy mooncakes.

Festivals let people enjoy life, be proud of their customs and forget their   88   for a while. 

. —What do you think of their marriage?  

   —______, if I were Kate, I would not marry him.

A. Generally speaking    B. On the contrary 

C. To be honest           D. As a result

 Was it in the grand closing ceremony __________ people bathed themselves in a sea of abundant happiness?

A. that                         B. what                 C. which               D. where

 Children find_____difficult to sit for hours with little to do while flying.

A.which         B.this      C. that         D. it

第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节：阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

Every afternoon hundreds of thousands of youth fill Internet cafes, switch on a game console (游戏机), or otherwise sit down to enter fantasy worlds. I’m talking about video games. These games can be fun and exciting, but we need to look out when this pastime becomes an addiction.

Games are often quite exciting and dramatic, but they generally aren’t very intellectual. We don’t learn as much from them as we would only reading a book. Spending too much time playing them can take away our study time. We need to remember that we are students first. Nothing should ever get in the way of proper studying.

Video games can also be a bad effect on younger children who may be watching. Many video games are violent and the object in most of them is to kill the other player(s). This does not send the right message www..comto the children who need to be told that violence is not acceptable and need to be taught how to deal with situations maturely. Even if we do need to sit down and play a violent video game, we need to make sure that it does not affect the younger people around us.

Playing a computer game in our spare time is not a bad thing. Games can be a great way to relax after studying, to connect to our friends, or just to help our creativity. However, games should not become the focus of our life. We need to make sure that playing games never interferes with our studies and that we aren’t thinking about them all day. If we ever find ourselves playing them too much, we need to break the addiction. If that happens, we need to step away from the computer or television screen and learn to spend our time more productively.

41. The writer mainly tells the readers __________.

to play computer games every afternoon

not to play computer games too much

not to affect other people while playing games

to spend more time studying

42. The writer thinks about computer games all of the following except _________.

A. exciting           B. dramatic           C. intellectual          D. violent

43. Computer games may have bad effect on younger children because __________.

these children often stay in Internet cafes all day long

children often forget to do their lessons

computer games are often violent

children don’t have enough money to play computer games

44. The writer advises computer game players ________.

not to affect younger people around

not to play violent games

never to enter Internet cafes

to teach younger children how to play computer games

 You could ________ this a really nice room if you bought a new carpet.

        A. make              B. turn                  C. grow                 D. get        

He does ___________________ that he cannot spare no time to play with his children.

 A.such busy a job   B.so a busy job  C.such busy job   D.so busy a job

      — Can you tell me how to learn English well?

      — Do more speaking, I think, __________ you’ll be good at spoken English.

   A. or                           B. and          C. then             D. until

—Where are we to hold the conversation？

—We'll go to a quiet place and no one　　　　disturb us.

A.should  B.could  C.must  D.shall

 -- You speak very good English!

   -- Thanks. I_______ English since I was a small boy.

   A. studied       B. had studied      C. was studying    D. have been studying