组合练 08

（阅读理解+完型填空+书面表达）组合练 08

一、阅读理解

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When you are about to do something brave, a cheerful wish of “Good luck!” from a friend can be helpful. But if you think you need lots of luck, what else might you do?

In the UK and the US, there are some strange traditions for bringing yourself a little more good luck. Some are hundreds of years old and some are much newer.

Have you heard the saying “When you wish upon a star”? If you are looking up at the sky on a clear night and you see a sudden flash of light, it is probably a shooting star! Seeing one doesn’t happen very often. The saying goes that if you see one, you have been very lucky, and so if you make a wish, it will come true.

Maybe you have heard of the lucky rabbit’s foot. Some people believe that rabbits are lucky animals, so they carry a special part of the rabbit, its foot, for good luck. There are all kinds of strange, unclear rules about which of the rabbit’s feet is the luckiest. It is said that this good luck tradition is the oldest one of all. However, as the funny saying goes, “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit!”

People in Britain love trees. If it is autumn and leaves are falling from the trees, some people try to catch the leaves as they fall because they think each leaf they catch will bring them a lucky month in the following year—they will need to catch 12 falling leaves to have a whole year of good luck!

1. ________ is mentioned in the oldest good luck tradition.

A. A shooting star B. A falling leaf

C. A cheerful wish from friends D. A rabbit’s foot

2. From Paragraph 3, we know that________.

A. shooting stars can often be seen B. people can see a shooting star on a rainy night

C. you will be lucky when you see a shooting star D. people believe that it’s unlucky to see a shooting star

3. British people try to catch 12 falling leaves because________.

A. the leaves fall in autumn B. there are so many leaves to catch

C. they want to have a whole year of good luck D. the leaves can bring them lucky month

4. In Paragraph 5, the underlined word ‘them’ refers to (指)________.

A. trees B. people C. leaves D. years

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I often dreamed about Pisa when I was a boy. I read about the famous building called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when I read the word Pisa, I was thinking of pizza. I thought this tower was a place to buy pizza. It must be the best place to buy pizza in the world, I thought.

Many years later I finally saw the Leaning Tower. I knew then that it was Pisa, not pizza. But there was still something special about it for me. The tower got its name because it really leans to one side. Some people want to try to fix it. They are afraid it may fall over and they don’t like it leans over the city.

I do not think it’s a good idea to try to fix it. The tower probably will not fall down because it is 600 years old. Why should anything happen to it now? And, if you ask me, like what it looks like. To me it is a very human kind of leaning. Nothing is perfect. And who cares? Why do people want things to be perfect? Imperfect things may be more interesting. Let’s take the tower in Pisa for example. Why is it so famous? There are many other older, more beautiful towers in Italy, but Pisa tower is the most famous. People come from all over the world to see it.

5. This passage is about ________.

A. Italian pizza B. Italy’s problems

C. how the Leaning Tower of Pisa got its name D. why the writer likes Pisa

6. The writer used to think Pisa was ________.

A. in Spain B. not very famous C. not the same as pizza D. the same as pizza

7. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is ________.

A. modern B. falling down C. 600 years old D. 60 years old

8. The writer ________.

A. doesn’t like what the tower looks like B. likes what the tower looks like

C. thinks it’s one of the most beautiful towers in Italy D. doesn’t like towers

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My mother is a teacher, and I grew up with the challenges a teacher faces. I often asked her, “Why do you teach? What keeps you teaching?” The answer was always the same. “There is always that one child, that one moment that is worth.

Now, I am a teacher, too. But different from my mother, I teach students challenging activities outdoors. And when my mother asked me the similar questions, my answer was “it’s that one child, that one special moment.”

One of those moments happened recently. I was working with a group of girls in a four-week programme. Everything went on well through the “Team” events and we were moving on to a “High” one called the Wire(钢索)walk.

In the Wire Walk, each girl had to climb up the pegs(木桩)in a tree to a wire, 8 meters high, and then walk across it. Of course, everything was safe for sure.

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