2024年4月5日发(作者：丛寄真)
二、科普类
1
The seahorse is a very strange fish. Do you know w________ its head looks like? It looks like a h________.
Of course it is not as b________ as a horse. You can pick it up with one h________. It swims with its head up
and t________ down.
This strange-looking fish often remains still (静止的). It will h________ on to a bit of weed (草) with its tail.
Then when a small fish swims by, the seahorse will s________ jump and eat it up.
M________ seahorse lays eggs. These eggs are k________ in father’s pouch (育儿袋). When the eggs hatch
(孵出), the babies pop (蹦出) out of the pouch i________ the sea.
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No man can change the weather. Nobody can control (控制) the weather. But if we study carefully the signs
around us, we can tell the important c________ in weather. This way of t________ what the weather will be
like on the f________ day or two is called weather forecasting.
For many centuries and in all countries people have s________ the weather and tried to make weather
forecasting. Sometimes the objects far away such as hills and tall trees seems to be very c________ and near.
This is a sign of much water vapor (蒸汽) in the air, and so r________ may come. Rings (光环) round the sun
are sign of the c________ rain. Many people fell pain in their bones (骨头). This is a sign of the coming of wet
weather. Some birds fly h________ if fine weather is coming, they fly near the g_______ if rain or storm is on
the w________. If you see a rainbow (彩虹) during rainy weather, this sign shows that the weather will become
clear and fine. If a fog comes out in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm.
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The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit like a long-beaked (咀) chicken, but it has no tail and it
cannot fly. Kiwis live in f________. They sleep in the day time and come out to f________ at night. They eat
worms and insects (昆虫) that live among dead l________. They also enjoy fallen f________.
The Kiwi is a very strange-looking bird. It is about 45cm long. A female (雌性) Kiwi weighs (重)
o________ 4 kilos, but her egg weighs about 0.5 kilo e________. That’s nearly ten times as h________ as
chicken’s egg! It gets its name from its c________ of Ki-wee.
The number of Kiwis is getting smaller and smaller because so many have been k________ by the cats, dogs
and other animals that people have t________ to New Zealand. What a pity!
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Light and shadow (影子) usually go together. They are friends. We r________ light every day. At the same
time, we m________shadow.
Light cannot shine t________ you. Your body stops it from p________. There is a dark spot (斑点) on the
ground next to you. The light cannot reach the dark spot. That is your shadow.
At noon the sun shines right o________ your head. Your body h________ stops all light from reaching the
ground. So your shadow is quite short. In the early morning or late afternoon, the sun is low in the sky. Your
body k________ a lot of light from reaching the ground. So your shadow is long.
We love light, especially sunlight. Without sunlight, life on the earth can’t live at all. Most of us like to stand
in the shadow of a tree in s________. But some people are afraid of their own shadows at night. They do not
want to walk in a d________ street. They do not want to see the shadow, either. But still light and shadow
usually go t________.
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There are modems that can move information at speed of light. A modem is machine that c________ a
computer to a telephone line and send information to another computer.
The new modems use a cable (电缆) TV system (系统). They move information very f________.
A fifth grade teacher is waiting to use the new modems. They are fast. It is i________ when she is working
with 30 kids. When a teacher n________ to get something, one can not sit for ten minutes w________ for it.
The difference with the new modems is s________. With a common modem, it might t________ 18 minutes
to get a file. With one of the new cable modems, it could get the file in just two s________.
A news reporter w________ that the information being sent should be interesting.
H________ a fast modem is not worth it if one can not get good information from it.
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When man began to wearch the skies, he saw a lot of things. In the universe, the earth s________ to be just a
small bit of dust. It is only a small p________ and travel around the sun.
The sun, together with i________ planets, travel in the Milly Way (银河). The Milly Way has about thirty
billion stars l________ our sun, and is one of about a hundred million galaxies (星系) in the u________.
Because the space is so g________, it is difficuly to w________ out how far away a star is.
I________ of kilometers, we have light-years. A light-year means how far light rravels in one y________.
Our nearest neighbor galaxy is more than 90,000,000 light- year away from the e________.
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二、科普类答案
1. what; horse; big; hand; tail; hang; suddenly; Mother; kept; into
2. change; telling; following; studied; clear; rain; coming; high; ground; way
3. forests; feed; leaves; fruits; only; each; heavy; call; killed; taken
4. receive; make; through; passing; over; hardly; keeps; summer; dark; together
5. connects; fast; impossible; needs; waiting; speed; take; seconds; warns; having
6. seems; planet; its; like; universe; great; work; Instead; year; earth
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2024年4月5日发(作者：丛寄真)
二、科普类
1
The seahorse is a very strange fish. Do you know w________ its head looks like? It looks like a h________.
Of course it is not as b________ as a horse. You can pick it up with one h________. It swims with its head up
and t________ down.
This strange-looking fish often remains still (静止的). It will h________ on to a bit of weed (草) with its tail.
Then when a small fish swims by, the seahorse will s________ jump and eat it up.
M________ seahorse lays eggs. These eggs are k________ in father’s pouch (育儿袋). When the eggs hatch
(孵出), the babies pop (蹦出) out of the pouch i________ the sea.
2
No man can change the weather. Nobody can control (控制) the weather. But if we study carefully the signs
around us, we can tell the important c________ in weather. This way of t________ what the weather will be
like on the f________ day or two is called weather forecasting.
For many centuries and in all countries people have s________ the weather and tried to make weather
forecasting. Sometimes the objects far away such as hills and tall trees seems to be very c________ and near.
This is a sign of much water vapor (蒸汽) in the air, and so r________ may come. Rings (光环) round the sun
are sign of the c________ rain. Many people fell pain in their bones (骨头). This is a sign of the coming of wet
weather. Some birds fly h________ if fine weather is coming, they fly near the g_______ if rain or storm is on
the w________. If you see a rainbow (彩虹) during rainy weather, this sign shows that the weather will become
clear and fine. If a fog comes out in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm.
3
The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit like a long-beaked (咀) chicken, but it has no tail and it
cannot fly. Kiwis live in f________. They sleep in the day time and come out to f________ at night. They eat
worms and insects (昆虫) that live among dead l________. They also enjoy fallen f________.
The Kiwi is a very strange-looking bird. It is about 45cm long. A female (雌性) Kiwi weighs (重)
o________ 4 kilos, but her egg weighs about 0.5 kilo e________. That’s nearly ten times as h________ as
chicken’s egg! It gets its name from its c________ of Ki-wee.
The number of Kiwis is getting smaller and smaller because so many have been k________ by the cats, dogs
and other animals that people have t________ to New Zealand. What a pity!
1
4
Light and shadow (影子) usually go together. They are friends. We r________ light every day. At the same
time, we m________shadow.
Light cannot shine t________ you. Your body stops it from p________. There is a dark spot (斑点) on the
ground next to you. The light cannot reach the dark spot. That is your shadow.
At noon the sun shines right o________ your head. Your body h________ stops all light from reaching the
ground. So your shadow is quite short. In the early morning or late afternoon, the sun is low in the sky. Your
body k________ a lot of light from reaching the ground. So your shadow is long.
We love light, especially sunlight. Without sunlight, life on the earth can’t live at all. Most of us like to stand
in the shadow of a tree in s________. But some people are afraid of their own shadows at night. They do not
want to walk in a d________ street. They do not want to see the shadow, either. But still light and shadow
usually go t________.
5
There are modems that can move information at speed of light. A modem is machine that c________ a
computer to a telephone line and send information to another computer.
The new modems use a cable (电缆) TV system (系统). They move information very f________.
A fifth grade teacher is waiting to use the new modems. They are fast. It is i________ when she is working
with 30 kids. When a teacher n________ to get something, one can not sit for ten minutes w________ for it.
The difference with the new modems is s________. With a common modem, it might t________ 18 minutes
to get a file. With one of the new cable modems, it could get the file in just two s________.
A news reporter w________ that the information being sent should be interesting.
H________ a fast modem is not worth it if one can not get good information from it.
6
When man began to wearch the skies, he saw a lot of things. In the universe, the earth s________ to be just a
small bit of dust. It is only a small p________ and travel around the sun.
The sun, together with i________ planets, travel in the Milly Way (银河). The Milly Way has about thirty
billion stars l________ our sun, and is one of about a hundred million galaxies (星系) in the u________.
Because the space is so g________, it is difficuly to w________ out how far away a star is.
I________ of kilometers, we have light-years. A light-year means how far light rravels in one y________.
Our nearest neighbor galaxy is more than 90,000,000 light- year away from the e________.
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二、科普类答案
1. what; horse; big; hand; tail; hang; suddenly; Mother; kept; into
2. change; telling; following; studied; clear; rain; coming; high; ground; way
3. forests; feed; leaves; fruits; only; each; heavy; call; killed; taken
4. receive; make; through; passing; over; hardly; keeps; summer; dark; together
5. connects; fast; impossible; needs; waiting; speed; take; seconds; warns; having
6. seems; planet; its; like; universe; great; work; Instead; year; earth
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