1. He doesn’t like working. In other words, he is ________ (懒惰的).

2. The ________(色拉) is made of vegetables and fruit.

3. One evening she came back home in high ________(精神) with flowers in her hands.

4. Last weekend we played cards together with some friends and ________. (亲戚)

5. The ________ (袋鼠) uses its back legs to jump.

6. The doctor asked him to check his blood pressure at different ________ (period) of the day.

7. I ________ (write) to my parents at the moment.

8. Australians love going to the beach for ________ (swim)．

9. On the second day, we ________ (go) horse riding.

10. I enjoyed the slow and ________ (relax) riding.

11. David was surprised ________how much the parrot can speak like humans.

12. Don’t read ________ the sun. It’s bad for your eyes.

13. You should catch up with him, or you will be far ________.

14. My mother always worried ________ me when I was out.

15. He has a very close relationship________his little sister.

16. The book is my favourite. It is written by J．K.Rowling.（合并成一句）
________________________________________________________________________

17. Basketball is a game. I love it best.（合并成一句）
________________________________________________________________________

18. That man is Mr Smith. He is taking photos near the river.（合并成一句）
________________________________________________________________________

19. This one is a photo of a shark. I saw it on the Great Barrier Reef.（合并成一句）
________________________________________________________________________

China is a large country. The population is over 1.3 billion. It has a special culture with a very long history.
Chinese food plays an important role for Chinese families. Different foods have special meanings. The main difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favourite drink and it is popular in the market.
Chinese calendar is different from the one used in Western countries. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of ringing out the old and ringing in the new. It has special foods and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year's Day sweeps away all the old year's bad luck.
The Chinese zodiac(生肖), known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve cycle. Each year is named for an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. For example, the year that begins in 2016 is the year of the monkey.
Chinese is a complex(复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4，000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character(文字) stands for a word and also a meaning. Besides Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects．
20. What's the population of China?

A．Almost 4，000.

B．More than 1.3 billion.

C．12 million.

D．About 13，000 million.

21. The underlined “dialects” probably means “________” in Chinese.

A．交际	B．对话
C．方言	D．文化

22. According to the passage, what's one of the main foods in China?

A．Tea.	B．Rice.
C．Meat.	D．Fruit.

23. The year that begins in 2016 isn't the year of the monkey, is it?

A．Yes, it is.	B．No, it isn't.
C．I don't know.	D．Maybe.

24. What's the main idea of the passage?

A．Different foods have special meanings in Chinese culture.

B．Chinese is a popular language.

C．Chinese culture.

D．Chinese population.

用方框中所给单词或短语的适当形式填空。每个单词或短语限用一次。
lie, far, grape, at the moment, in
25. Work hard, or you'll be left ________________ behind others.
26. ________________， we are standing on the Great Wall.
27. They are like us ________________ many ways.
28. They grow ________________ and other fruits.
29. I like ________________ in the sun with my family beside me.

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
Let me tell you about my travel. At the moment we're visiting Ayers Rock. During different     30     (阶段) of the day, it changes its colours. Ayers Rock is a     31    (中心) of Aboriginal culture. Some of their ancient stories describe the spirits that created the world.
Perhaps you may be     32    (吃惊的) to find that the Australians have a close     33    (关系) with the British. That's because many Australians have British     34    (亲戚). Like the English, Australians like ham and beef with lots of salad. They also grow grapes and other     35     (水果)．
Australians are not     36     (懒惰的)．They like doing all kinds of     37    (活动). They often go horse riding and     38     (享受) the relaxing riding. They also go to the beach for swimming and     39    (冲浪) or just lying in the sun.

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法结构和上下文连贯的要求，在空白处填入适当的词或用括号中所给词的正确形式填空，每空不超过两个词。
Lots of people like travelling in the world. It's interesting to visit    40     country, but sometimes there are problems when we don't know the language very     41     (good).
It may be difficult to talk with the people there. We may not know how     42     (use) the telephone in the country while we    43     (visit) it. We may not know how to buy the things we need.     44     the strange country we might not know    45     to go or what to order in a restaurant.    46     isn't easy to decide how much to tip waiters or taxi drivers.    47     we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It isn't pleasant to have    48     experience like that. After a short time, however, we can learn what to do and what to say. We must learn    49     (enjoy) life in another country, or we may be sorry to leave.