期末听写材料3篇(含有答案,盛菊制作)

期末听写材料3篇

Passage 1

If you have ever flown across several time zones, you have (26) ____ jet lag. You arrived in a new time (27) _______, but your body was still living on the time in the old zone. You were wide (28) _____wanted to sleep all day.

People (30) ___Plants and animals are all in rhythm with the natural (32) __－day and night and the seasons.

At sunrise, plants open their leaves and begin producing food. At night, they rest. In the temperate zones of the earth, trees lose their leaves in (33) ___sunlight. In the spring, leaves and flowers begin growing again as the days lengthen.

Rain sets the rhythm of desert plants. Plants in the desert may appear dead for months or even years, but when it begins to rain, the plants seem to (34) ________ overnight. The leaves turn green, and flowers appear. The plants produce seeds quickly before the rain stops. These seeds may lie on the ground for years before the rain starts the cycle of growth again. The plants’ biological clock gave the signal for these things to happen.

At dawn most birds (35) ______ and start singing. When the sun goes down, they go to sleep. When spring arrives, they start looking for a mate. When winter comes, some birds fly to a region with a warmer climate. Their biological clock tells them it is time to do all these things.

Passage 2

A little over a year ago I began (26) _____ to swim the English Channel this (27) ____. I will be 58 years old then.

My friends thought I had (28) ______; my wife, though not (29) __sanity, was somewhat (30) _A challenge and an element of (31) ________ you are 20 or 58.

But why did I (33) ______ to swim the channel at 58?

The channel has always been the supreme challenge to swimmers; a test of ability, (34) __ One fact that (35) __to swim the channel.

I don’t think I’m a superman. I do think I have at least three things going for me.

First, I am training hard. It’s long been a goal for me to swim the channel. I feel that I am psychologically prepared.

Passage 3

People usually sing because they like music or because they feel happy. They show their (26) __by singing. When a bird sings, (27) _____, its song usually means much more than that the bird is glad. Birds have many (28) _______ for singing. They sing to give

information. Their songs are their (29) ___.

The (30) ____ are sung by roosters. They sing when they want to (31) ___ a hen. It is the way of saying that they are (32) _____ a wife.

Birds sing to (33) __ others not to come near, too. To a bird his tree is his home. A bird doesn’t want to have (34) ______ around him.

Birds have other ways of giving information. Some birds dance, (35)

their tails or make other signs. One bird looks for a wife by building a small garden.

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