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1.The food is very delicious in that restaurant. We could go and ______ it. A. sell B. help C. produce D. try 【答案】D 【解析】
A. sell销售；B. help帮助；C. produce句意：那家饭馆的饭菜很可口。我们可以去试一试。考查动词词义辨析题。生产；D. try尝试。根据句意语境，可知try合乎句意，故选D。 2.Susan never gets upset when she has to wait in line. She is very ______ . A. shy B. honest C. funny D. patient 【答案】D 【解析】
句意：当苏珊排队等候时，她从不心烦意乱。她很有耐心。考查形容词辨析题。never get upset从不心烦意乱，表明有耐心，根据句意语境，可知选D。 3.--Could I speak to Paul? I phoned _____. --Sorry he is still in his meeting. A. late B. earlier C. earliest D. later 【答案】B 【解析】
句意：——我能和保罗通话吗？我早些时候打电话来了。——对不起，他还在开会。考查副词比较级辨析。still仍然；根据对句Sorry he is still in his meeting.，结合句意语境，可知打电话更早些，故选B。
4.Sorry I'm late. I _______ with a friend and I completely forgot the time. A. talk B. am talking C. was talking D. will talk 【答案】C 【解析】
句意：对不起，我迟到了。我和一个朋友聊天，我完全忘记了时间。考查动词时态辨析题。and连接并列结构，前后时态须一致，可排除ABD三项。根据句意语境，可知选C。 5.I live near a big _______. It gets very noisy on match days. A. hospital B. store C. bank D. playground 【答案】D 【解析】
句意：我住在一个大操场附近。比赛日非常吵闹。考查名词辨析题。on match days在比赛日；根据句意语境，可知是操场附近，故选D。 6.-- Can students go online during lessons? -- They can ________ it is for that lesson. A. if B. or C. so D. but 【答案】A 【解析】
句意：——学生可以在课上上网吗？——如果是为了上课，他们可以上网。考查连词辨析题。if如果，表条件；or或者，表选择；so所以，表结果；but但是，表转折。答句是条件状语从句，需用if连接。根据句意结构，可知选A。
7.Kids have to take many extra classes after school classes. They _______ hard to study for good grades. A. push B. are pushed C. are pushing D. have pushed 【答案】B 【解析】
句意：孩子们不得不上很多课外班。他们刻苦学习以求好成绩。考查被动语态。句中的they指上文的kids，是动词push的受动者，需用被动语态；根据句意结构，可知选B。 8.We ________ a party for Kate. It's supposed to be a surprise. A. were having B. had C. will have D. have had 【答案】C 【解析】
句意：我们将为凯特举办一个聚会，这应该是个惊喜。考查动词时态辨析题。根据句意语境，可知举办聚会这个动作还没有发生，需用一般将来时，故选C。
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There are purple clothes, purple handbags, purple bicycles, purple furniture, even purple computers! So purple is one of the most___9___colors today. But in the past, purple was a very expensive and unusual color. Let’s take a look at the rich___10___of the color purple. Some scientists believe that the first plants to appear on Earth over 500 million years ago___11___looked purple, not green. Plants today are green because___12___use green chlorophyll (叶绿素) to produce energy.___13___these early plants probably used something called retinal, which is a dark purple color.
During the time of the roman Empire (37 BC-476 AD), it was very___14___to make purple dye (染料). The dye came from sea snails (海螺) .But10.000 dead sea snails___15___you just one gram (克)of purple dye… as well as a
very bad smell! This___16___purple dye was called Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred___17___of emperors. In 16th--century England, purple was___18___for the kings family members. Queen Elizabeth Is clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed to___19___the color. In 1856. William Perkin, an 18-year-old___20___student, noticed something strange while doing an experiment (实验). The chemicals (化学药品) he used to clean his instruments___21___with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple color. This___22___Perkin to start a company using this chemical mixture to make purple dye. The dye was much___23___than sea snail dye. Thanks to Perkin, now anyone can afford to wear purple clothes.
9. A. peaceful B. popular C. exciting D. serious 10. A. history B. style C. research D. product 11. A. gradually B. especially C. exactly D. probably 12. A. others B. they C. we D. some 13. A. And B. So C. But D. Until
14. A. dangerous B. common C. difficult D. strange 15. A. got B. passed C. wasted D. cost 16. A. basic B. harmful C. special D. perfect 17. A. color B. smell C. plant D. animal 18. A. even B. never C. seldom D. only 19. A. wear B. sell C. change D. make 20. A. geography B. science C. art D. math 21. A. compared B. mixed C. collected D. kept 22. A. survey B. suggestion C. discovery D. exam 23. A. healthier B. thicker C. cheaper D. darker
【答案】9. B 10. A 11. D 12. B 13. C 14. C 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. D 19. A 20. B 21. B 22. C 23. C 【解析】
试题分析：这篇说明文通过对比和举例，介绍了紫色的来历和发展，说明紫色曾经是是一种非常昂贵和不寻常的颜色，但在科学家Perkin的努力下，用两种化学混合物制造紫色染料，终于使紫色成为当今最流行的颜色之一。