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centuries. Eating turkey was also a British holiday custom people brought to the New World. 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 Among the big birds, turkey is the most suitable for Thanksgiving. Turkeys were born in spring. They spend about eight months eating insects on the farm. By Thanksgiving, they have grown to about 10 pounds. Turkeys are cheaper than geese(鵝 ), which are more difficult to raise, and cheaper by the pound than chickens. Cost is an important factor for holiday shoppers, because people will not prepare just one meal. Thanksgiving Day is the time to bake meal and other types of pies. The food can last through the winter. 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 21. The underlined word “savouring” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________” in Chinese. A.享用 B.欣賞 C.飼養(yǎng) D.清潔 【 解析 】 根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容可以推測 savour是 “吃,享用 ”的意思,所以選 A。 C D 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 Ⅳ .還原短文 (共 5小題;每小題 2分,滿分 10分 ) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的七個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出五個(gè)能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。s hands and eyes work together, controls(控制 ) the left hand. The leftside of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. and studies have found that D C 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 lefthandedness is twice as mon among artists than among people in other jobs. No one really knows what makes a person bee righthanded instead of lefthanded. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people bee lefthanded because their main brain is damaged(損害 ) when they are born. so scientists guess there must be another reason (原因 ) why people bee lefthanded. One idea is that people usually get righthanded from A 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 their parents. If a person does not receive the gene(基因 ) for righthandedness, he/she may bee either right or lefthanded according to the chance(偶然性 ) and the people they work or live with. 30. ________ people no longer think lefthanded people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, lefthanded children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today they don39。t use the left hands to work with things. 模塊自我綜合評價(jià)二 Ⅴ .連詞成句 (共 5小題;每小題 2分,滿分 10分 ) 根據(jù)括號內(nèi)的中文提示,將所給的英文意群連接成正確的句子,每個(gè)句子首字母需大寫,句末需加標(biāo)點(diǎn)符號。 ) ____________________________________________________ 35. and, have great fun, the, always, get together, kids, they(這些孩子總是聚在一起,他們玩得很高興。 提示: 1. 簡要介紹我國的端午節(jié)