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Unit 6 Lesson 17
一、单项选择
1.—Where will the school leavers’ party be held?
—In the school sports hall. Look at your ________. There are lots of details on it.
A.treasure B.textbook C.invention D.invitation
2.All of us know that knowledge is the most valuable ________ for humans.
A.standard B.treasure C.invention D.instruction
3.The weather in England is so ________ all the year round that people enjoy the lives there.
A.pleasant B.confident C.valuable D.original
4.A home without books is like a house without windows. Books are great ________ in our life, which guide us to the bright future.
A.treasure B.decision C.purpose
5.In the Behind the Names in CCTV-4, Li Ke, a young man from Luoyang, with his ________ and experience, won the final competition.
A.treasure B.friendship C.knowledge D.suggestions
6.My best friend likes writing and she wants to be a .
A.policewoman B.teacher C.writer
7.Traditional Chinese Medicine is a great ________ for our nation.
A.treasure B.resolution C.pleasure D.standard
8.I was attracted by the lady’s warm smile. It was really like a hidden ________ .
A.pleasure B.treasure C.attention D.invention
二、完形填空
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist and educator, died at the age of 91 in Hunan last month. He was called the “Father of Hybrid Rice(杂交水稻)” and he helped ___9___ people around the world.
Yuan Longping was the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice which helped fight __10__ in China. Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 percent of the world’s population, but only 7 percent of its ___11___. In the 1960s, Chinese people had a difficult time. Millions of people died because they had no food. As an agronomy teacher, Yuan was very ___12___ to see this. “How can I help them have enough food?” he thought. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. It has a high output(产量).
At that time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was worth ___13___. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day