上海高考新题型31-33.doc

31 (A) Long ago the sky was close to the Earth. Men and women did not have to plant their own food．When they were hungry，they just reached up and broke off a piece of the sky (1)______(eat). Sometimes the sky tasted like ripe bananas．Other times it tasted like (2)______(roast) potatoes. The sky was always delicious. People spend their time (3)______(make) beautiful cloth. They painted beautiful pictures and sang songs at night. The grand king, Oba, had a wonderful palace. His servants made beautiful shapes out of pieces of sky. But one man named Adami wasn’t careful. At festival time, he took so many delicious pieces of sky that he couldn’t eat them all. He knew he (4)______not throw them away. He tried to give the pieces to his wife．“Here, wife，”Adami said．“You eat (5)______ rest．” “I can’t ”，Adami’s wife said．“I’m too full．” Adami asked all his children to help him eat the delicious pieces of sky，but the children couldn’t eat (6)______ more bite ．So Adami decided to try to hide the pieces at the bottom of the garbage pile. Suddenly，the sky became angry and the clouds turned black．“You have wasted my gift of food”，yelled(高叫) the sky. “This time I will go away so you cannot waste me anymore.” All of the people cried，“What will we eat? We might starve！” The sky said，“You will (7)______ ______learn how to plant crops in the ground and hunt in the forests. If you work hard，you may learn not to waste the gifts of nature.” From that time on, people worked hard to grow their food and cook their meals. They always tried to remember not to waste the gifts of nature. (B) Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, eventually sold nearly everything he wrote, (8)______ included short stories with such titles as “Ring Around the Sun”; “The Martian Way”; and “I, Robot”. Today his short stories have been collected in no less than 33 volumes. (9)______ his best works is a story entitled “Nightfall”, which he wrote when he was just 20. The members