完型填空专项 American people divide their days into several blocks of time, and plan different activities-____1. A. for __ different times.American time is "on the dot"(精确地). If something is supposed to happen at Eight o'clock, it will begin at eight. Americans value promptness(准时)and may become angry if a person is more than 15 minutes late 2 E. without a good reason. If you know you are going to be late, call in advance and let someone know. 3 D.if you arrive late, you should apologize and explain why. Americans arrive 4 C. on time for doctors' appointments. The doctor may keep you 5 B. waiting , but if you keep the doctor waiting, you may get a bill with the doctor's time! This is my timetable. I study at No.3 Middle School of Dongfang. From Monday to Friday I get up ___1 B. at ___ 6:30 a.m. I have ___2 D. breakfast ___ at 7:00 and then I go to school. I don't like to be late. Our classes ___3 E. start ___ at 8:30 a.m. We have four classes in the morning. I often have lunch at school with my classmates.In the afternoon, we have two classes. Classes are over at 3:30, and I get home at 4:00. But sometimes I don't ___4 A. leave ___ school so early because I play basketball on the playground. I have supper at about 6:00. After supper I do my homework. I often watch TV, but sometimes I ___5 C. like ___ to do some reading and the story books are very interesting. I usually go to bed at about 10:00 p.m. The world is not only hungry; it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 75% of the earth's surface is covered with water. But about 97% of this huge amount is seawater, ___1 B. or ___ salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3% of the fresh water that comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other ___2 C. sources ____. And we can't even use all of that, because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers. Even worse, some of it has been polluted. However, as things stand today, this small amount of fresh water, which is constantly being replaced by rainfall, is still enough for us. But our need ___3 D. for.___ water is increasing rapidly - almost day by day. We all have to learn how to stop wasting our previous water. One of the first steps we should ____4 A. take ___ is to develop ways of reusing it. Experiments have already been done in this ___5 E. case____ , but only on a small scale. The systems that have been worked out resemble those used in spacecraft. Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four parts, ___1___ a part. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days. Your ship goes into ___2___ time part every day if you make a five-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time ___3___ one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you let it ahead. Each day of your journey has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___4___ the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day ___5___. When you go across the line, you change your calendar one full day, back or ahead.1. A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins2. A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins3. A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins4. A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. begins5. A. a different B. one hour C. cross D. changes E. beginsKEY:BADCE Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know __1__ to do when it slipped from his horse and fell __2__ the road. The sack was __3__ heavy for him to lift, and his only hope was that presently some one would come riding by and lend a hand.It was not long __4__ a rider appeared, but the farmer's heart sank when he recognized him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle near by. The farmer would have dared to ask __5__ farmer to help, or any poor man who might come along the road, but he could not beg a favor of so great a man. 1. A. another B. what C. too D. onto E. before2. A. another B. what C. too D. onto E. before3. A. another B. what C. too D. onto E. before4. A. another B. what C. too D. onto E. before5. A. another B. what C. too D. onto E. beforeKEY:BDCEA Almost everyone likes dogs, and almost everyone likes __1__ read about dogs. I have a friend. He bas a big police dog with the name Jack. Police dogs are very clever. Every afternoon my friend takes Jack __2__ a log walk in the park. Jack likes these long walks very much. One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for a walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became much worried. He wal。