Lei Feng Day and Volunteer Spirit Evolution

I. Choose the best answer: ( ) 1. My mother doesn t like this kind of film. _______my father. A. So do B. So does C. Neither do ( ) 2. I ll be back ______ five minutes. A. for B. in C. of ( ) 3. --_______ will Swan Lake last? A. How far B. How often ( ) 4. I d like to have a cup of coffee with milk. A. Neither do I B. Neither would I C. So do I ( ) 5. The film _____ Monkey King is _____ these days. A. called, in B. called, on C. calling, on ( ) 6. He works very hard, so it is ____ that he always gets the good marks in all the subjects. A. surprising B. a surprise C. not surprised D. not surprising ( ) 7. If you go to Sichuan Road, you ____ many shops. A. see B. will see C. to see D. seeing ( ) 8. I m going to ________the Color Run in our city. It must be an exciting event. A. attend B. enter C. join D. take part in ( ) 9. I forget to bring some money with me, can you ________ the books for me? A. pay B. pay for C. spend D. cost ( ) 10. I have to ______them 20 pounds for this room each month. A. pay B. paid C. cost D. took D D. Neither does B D. on -- 80 minutes. C C. How long D. How soon I would --_______. D. So would I D B 1. Take part in take part in the social practice 2. Join (join the Party/army) (join sb in doing sth ) 3. Attend (attend meeting/school/concert) D. going, with C B D B Pay for sth A Pay sb

in all II. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms: 1. Two kilos of apples and three kilos of oranges. It is $10 _________ (together). 2. When you re a child, life is one big ___________ (adventurous). 3. Don t miss the new cartoon. It is very _________ (excite) 4. You ll certainly enjoy __________ (you) in the cinema, children. 5. _________(final) you will find City Cinema on your left. 6. March is the _________(three) month of the year. 7. Tomorrow we ll have a short __________(discuss) about our spring outing. discussion altogether adventure exciting yourselves Finally third

III. Fill in the blanks with join/take part in/ attend 1. His brother ________ the army three years ago. 2. We are having supper now. Would you like to ________ us? 3. As a student, we must ________ school every day. 4. Alarge number of students __________ the May 4 Movement. 5. Did Susan __________ the relay race? take part in joined join attend took part in 1. Take part in take part in the social practice 2. Join (join the Party/army) (join sb in doing sth ) 3. Attend (attend meeting/school/concert)

IV. Rewrite the following sentences as required: 1.This bottle is filled with milk. ( ) This bottle is ________ ________ milk. 2. My father will come back in three days. ( ) ________ _______ will your father come back? 3.My mother likes love stories better than police stories. ( ) My mother ________ love stories _______ police stories. prefers to full of How soon be full of = be filled with prefer A to B= like A better than B

Fill in the blanks with the right words A. ways B. remembers March 5 is Lei Feng Day". It started fifty years ago. Now half a century has passed. Is the spirit of Lei Feng outdated( ) Some people have ___1____us that it is not, but people have also changed the ways in which they help others. Zhao has been a volunteer for 18 years, She still ___2___her experience at a nursing home several year ago. An old man held her hand and said," You don't need to do anything for us. Seeing young people here is all we need." Those words made Zhao think: in what __3___can we better help people? Before we give a helping hand, we should ___4__what they want," Zhao said to the Evening News. Besides Zhao, other people have shown their understanding of the spirit of Lei Feng. Last January, "noodle fever" swept Zhengzhou, Henan. One local man, Li Gang, 42, said in his blog that he had a __5__illness and needed a lot of money for an operation. However, what he was able to able to have his restaurant. Li's blog spread__6____.Soon his restaurant was filled with customers every day and Li was able to able to have his operation on February 2 . In this way, people could help Li without hurting his dignity( ). 1.________2.________3.________4.________5.________6.________ E B A D C. quickly D. find out E. shown F. serious 1. 2. C F

Charles Babbage: Father of the Computer Charles Babbage was born too soon. He hoped to invent a calculator ( ).But the technology of his time was too simple. Babbage could not make his dream come true. All his life, Babbage was interested in n_____. For example, he would find out how f______ a pig s heart beats or make a table to calculate ( )how much wood a man could saw( ) in 10 hours. Babbage was also an inventor. Around 1830,he decided to d______ and build a machine for doing simple mathematical calculations( ).He c______ this machine the Difference Engine. Making the Machine The Difference Engine was very big and difficult to make. It was made of two tons of steel and gears( ). While he was building this h______ machine, he had an idea for a new machine. Re-inventing the Engine In 1854, two Swedish inventors built a working mechanical calculator. It was based on the Difference engine. Their machine was able to print out different kinds of forms and tables, it was very accurate. Babbage was the first person to come up w_____ the idea of computers. And he is more famous today than he was in his day. 1.______________2. __________3.______________4.__________5.___________6._____________ numbers fast design called heavy with