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（A）Elena 和 她的朋友Paula 正在美国度假。请你根据明信片上的内容，将短文补充完整。每空一词。
Hi Tony

I'm in San Francisco now. We arrived here yesterday. Before that, we     1    ten days in New York. It was wonderful. Paula and I saw a lot of interesting places,including the Empire Building. We climbed to the    2    . It was very high and we were both really excited to be there. We went to see the Statue of Liberty down the river    3    boat. We walked through Greenwich Village and watchedmany artists at work. The paintings weren't    4    ,so 1 bought one. We also went to the theatre and saw a play.    5    the ending was sad, I enjoyed it very much. The weather was OK - a bit wet sometimes. But now here in San Francisco, it's hot and sunny.

Love, Elena (and Paula)

2 . Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）
Today I want to tell you something about Qingdao. I like Qingdao because of the beautiful v    1    . The beaches in Qingdao are good. They are clean. They are c    2    with people during national holiday. Many tourists come here. Laoshan is famous for its mountain. Taiqing Palace is in the southeast of the mountain. It is the oldest temple in Laoshan. Ba Da Guan is one of the 3. b    3    places to visit. You can s    4    many different buildings there. Every year, lots of t    5     spend their holiday there. Welcome to Qingdao!

3 . Rivers are one of our most important naturalresources(资源). Many of the world’s great cities are located on rivers, and almost every country has at l______one river running through it that plays an important part in the lives of its people.

Since the beginning of history, people have used rivers for transportation. The longest one in the United States is the Mississippi. The lifeline of Egypt is the Nile. To the people of India, the Ganges is great, but it is also important for transportation; ships cant______along it for a thousand miles. Other great rivers are the Congo in Africa and the Mekong in southeastern Asia. The greatest of all fornavigation（航海）, however, is the Amazon in Brazil（巴西）. It is so wide and so deep that large ships can go about two thousand miles up it.

B_______transportation, rivers give food to eat, water to drink, water for crops, and chances for fun. In order to increase thesupply(供给) of water for crops, engineers sometimes build adam(大坝) a________a river and let a lake form behind the dam. Then people can use the water not only toirrigate(灌溉) their fields but also top_______electricity for their homes and industries.

However, large cities and industries that are located on rivers often cause problems. As the cities grow in size and industries increase in number, the water in the rivers becomes polluted with c_______and other materials. People are learning the importance, however, of doing more to keep their rivers clean if they want to enjoy thebenefits(利益) of these natural resources.

1. l___________
2. t_____________
3. B_____________
4. a__________
5. p____________
6. c______________

4 . IX．语法填空

The seasons in Australia are opposite (相反的) to     1    (our). When it is winter here, it is summer there. Australia is in     2    south of the world. June, July and August are the winter     3    (month). The summer is     4    December, January and February.    5    (Australia) main problem is water. A very large of the country has no rain at all,     6    the east coast has rain all the year round. There     7     (be) no dry months here. In March, 1982, there was a terrible drought (干旱) in Australia. The summer rain didn’t fall. Because there was not enough rain and the grass didn’t grow     8    (good), people had to sell many of their sheep and many sheep     9    (die), too. It was a great disaster (灾难) for Australian    10    (farm).

5 . 阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标及所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。
The world’s longest cross-sea bridge, the 55-km-long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge(HZMB), opened     1    Oct 24.The Guardian described it as one of the “seven     2     (wonder) of the modern world”.
The project of the HZMB began in 2009 and     3    /kɒst/ about 120 billion yuan. The bridge connects Hong Kong and Macao to Zhuhai.
The HZMB is special in many ways. It is     4    (design) to have a service life of 120 years,20 years longer than most bridges.
And it’s not just a bridge. In one section,     5    bridge turns into a 6.7-km undersea tunnel (隧道) that
passes through two man-made islands. The tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel for road traffic in the world, allowing large ships to     6    /k?n’t?nju/ passing through the sea area above the tunnel.
The bridge’s engineers had to consider many things     7    avoid affecting the environment while building the bridge.
The HZMB will make it much     8    (fast) to travel between the three areas it connects. It took four hours to travel from Hong Kong to Zhuhai in the past, but now the     9    /'d??:ni/ time is reduced to 45 minutes. By drawing local cities and areas closer together, the bridge will be helpful to the     10    (develop) of Hong Kong. Macao and nine Guangdong cities. Amazing China!

6 . 缺词填空   先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。
There is a town called Walden in England. It is a q    1     small town. Cars c    2     go into the centre of the town, so it’s very pleasant(令人愉快的) to walk around.
You can s    3     at least half a day visiting the museum. It’s on a hill outside the town in a lonely old building. The museum brings history to life. You can even ride on a horse and cart ( 马车 ) in the street. I was really interested in a 1950s living room in the museum. It was just l    4     my grandmother’s house. I lived there when I was a c    5    .
If you can’t wait, there’s a new exhibition (展览) opening soon. Walden is f    6     for candy! If you like candy, this exhibition is the place for you. You can learn about its history. I n    7     see so many different kinds of candies.
But I won’t go now b    8     it will start on the 26th of May.
When you are there, have a look around Walden too. I    9    you start in the main square and follow(跟随) the green signs, they’ll take you to the museum, and you’ll see lots of o    10     interesting things on the way, too.
Welcome to Walden!

7 . 短文填空
Street Phone Booths Given New Life
When was the last time you used a phone booth (电话亭) on the street? As the number of the mobile phone users has    1    , phone booths have become something out of date. But Shanghai is trying to bring new life to the old phone booths by turning them into mini-libraries.
Shanghai plans to divide(划分) 263 phone booths in Xuhui district（区域） into six new types. One type will each offer 60 books for people to read or borrow. A     2     type will allow users to listen to audiobooks (有声书) and even record(录制)their     3    voices. A third type will become “Celebrity Exhibition Halls (名人亭)”, showing old photos and works of famous artists like Ba Jin and Lu Xun.
Shanghai is not the only city     4     to save the old phone booths. The British has cared about them even more, since the red phone booths became a part of the country’s identity (标识). The world’s first phone booth was built in the 1880s in Germany. But in the 1930s the UK painted them red and made them a special attraction in cities.
In recent years the country has come up with many     5    to help phone booths stay useful. The UK company British Telecom has added screens and free WiFi to some booths. Users can use     6    to surf online and search for maps and weather reports.
The company also allows people to rent (租) some booths to change them as they want to.     7     2009, more than 1,500 phone booths have been turned into flower shops, mini-cafés, art museums and even shower rooms (浴室), according to the Sina News.
Maybe in the future phone booths will become city attractions once again,    8     in a more creative way.

8 . 阅读下面的短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空白处填上一个恰当的词或使用括号中词语的正确行使填空。

Shanghai, on the east coast of China, is the     1     (big) city in the country.     2     (it) population is 13 million. Shanghai is     3     the Huangpu River. There are many beautiful     4     (park), like the Yu Yuan Gardens. Pudong is the new part of Shanghai, with lots of tall     5     (build), like the 468-metre-high Oriental Pearl Tower. Putuoshan is a small     6     (island) in the East China Sea, near Shanghai.

Dianshanhu     7     (lake) is in the the Qingpu District, in the     8     (west) part of Shanghai. It is bigger than West Lake in Hangzhou. It is also popular with tourists. Behind it is the old town of Zhujiajiao. There is a high hill in this old town,     9     (call) North Hill. There are 36 very old bridges across the rivers here. It is     10     very interesting place to visit.

9 . 短文填空、请根据短文内容及首字母提示填空，使短文意思完整、连贯。

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. It was b    1    more than 4, 000 years ago in Egypt. It is so p    2    that millions of tourists from around the world come to visit it every year.

In Egypt there are over 80 pyramids and the l    3    one is the Great Pyramid. It l    4    on the west bank of the Nile. In fact, all the pyramids along the Nile are on the west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. That is w    5    their dead bodies were buried(埋葬)on the west bank of the Nile.

You can h    6    imagine how huge the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2 million blocks. Some are as heavy as five school buses. A    7    they were heavy, workers were able to put a block into the pyramid every three minutes.

The workers, Egyptian men and women, worked in teams. The teams had different t    8    . Some dug up the stones. Others moved them. Another team cut the stones. The last group put the stones into the pyramid. There were so many different teams, but the pyramid is perfect. No stone is in the w    9    position.

But how did the Egyptians move those heavy stones to the top w    10    any modern machinery(机械)? No one knows for sure. Many things about the Great Pyramid are still a mystery.

10 . The Big Merino is in city of Goulburn. Merinos are a     1     of sheep. They can live in dry     2    . Some places in Australia are very    3    , so these sheep are very important     4    the farmers there,     5    the big Merino, there is a small     6     about the     7     of wool in Australia. Visitors can also    8     up to the Big Merino’s    9     and look at the     10     through its eyes.