2 .

own, influence, improve, catch, pleasant, suffer from, wear, get rid of, discover, wide

1. The Chinese government pays great attention to ________ people’s lives.
2. At the weekend, Americans dress in the clothes which people ________ in the past and live in the way that people did then.
3. I ________ in a heavy rain on my way home. As a result. I had a bad cold.
4. Some of pets are very clever and they can sense their ________ feelings.
5. —The World Cup Final was so exciting! Did you enjoy it?
—I didn’t watch TV at that time. because I ________ stomachache.
6. Students should be encouraged to read ________ instead of only reading their text books.
7. —The environment has a great ________ on a child’s character.
—That’s why Mencius’ mother moved the house three times.
8. We were said to be living in the Information Age, a time of new ________ and great changes.
9. There was a（n）________ smell in the fridge because my mother kept the food in it for a long time.
10. It's necessary to depend on yourself to find some ways to ________ your bad habit.

3 . 用方框中所给动词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

ride, teach, win, prefer, repair, love, improve, chat, discuss, reduce

1. The students ________ how to enter the writing competition yesterday.
2. My sister, Mary, ________ classical music to pop music.
3. I ________ eating ice cream on a hot day. It tastes good.
4. Look! The little boy ________ a bicycle over there.
5. Linda’s health ________ greatly since she started on this new diet.
6. Children should ________ how to respect others in their daily life.
7. Mrs. Wu was doing the dishes while her husband was ________ his bike.
8. When the new railway is completed in 2025, the time of the two cities ________ by half.
9. —Paul, where is Sam?
—He is in the garden. He ________ with Grandma.
10. At the 2014 Oscar ceremony, the film Twelve Years a Slave ________ an award for best picture.

5 . 用所给词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。

rise   drive   disappear   turn off   improve

1. When it’s 8:30 p.m. on the last Saturday of March every year, lights ________ around the world and it keeps for an hour to remind people to protect the earth.
2. Mr Li said he ________ nearby when Flight MU5735 fell into the mountains in Guangxi last month.
3. —What’s your opinion about this problem?
—Well I think the tigers ________ unless we take action at once.
4. The sea level ________ by 1.31 mm each year from 1900 to 2015.
5. In China, the living standards of hundreds of millions of people ________ during the past 40 years.

7 .

realize, cancel, improve, dig, divide

1. Unless the weather ________, we will have to cancel the picnic.
2. It’s five o’clock in the morning. He with his parents ________ in the garden to plant trees.
3. We ________ our mistakes. Please give us a chance to correct it.
4. This Saturday our class ________ into four groups to do a survey.
5. All flights ________ because of the snowstorm yesterday. Passengers could do nothing but take the train.