2 . Directions: After reading the two passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends.     1     they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections (注射) so that they won’t carry disease afterwards. They have special animal food stores,     2     they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food.     3     you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody     4     (allow) to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law    5     killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by car, people would be very sad about it.

People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family ties are not as close as     6    . When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

4 . 语法填空

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even     1     （good）, you might live longer, an American researcher reports.

“Adults who have a sense of humor live longer than     2     who don’t find life funny, and the survival edge is particularly large for people     3     cancer,” says Richard Smith of the Columbia University of Science and Technology.

He     4    （present）his study of about 54,000 Americans,     5     he had followed for seven years, at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting last Monday.

At the start, patients filled out questionnaires on     6     easily they found humor in real-life situations and   how important a humorous idea was. The study showed next the greater role humor played in their lives,     7     greater their chances were in     8    （survive）the seven years. Adult scoring in the top one-quarter for humor appreciation were 35% more likely     9    （be）alive than those in the bottom quarter. In a smaller group of 2,015 people who had a cancer diagnosis(诊断) at the start, the study found     10     important that a great sense of humor cut the chances of dying by about 70%.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Any bird that crossed his path would be eaten by Rex, a German shepherd. Rex    1    (rescue) from his previous shelter, where he was going to be put down after a biting incident. Last year, he    2    (eventual) arrived at Puriton Horse and Animal Rescue.

Geraldine was a goose abandoned by owners who could no longer put up     3     her. She wasn’t exactly the picture of     4    (warm), either, when she arrived at the same shelter three months ago. The dog and the goose were individually given labels like cruel and dangerous. Neither seemed particularly harmonious with humans or even members of their own species.

But when the two     5    (annoy) creatures were offered a chance to hang out together, something magical happened. They chased each other when first     6    (introduce), but Geraldine stood up for herself and that was that. They just fell in love with each other.

“I’ve been doing rescue work since 1997 and seen all     7    (kind) of strange animal behavior, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Sheila Brislin,     8    is the founder of the shelter. “It’s so amusing to see them because they love each other to bits. They are very affectionate. She just    9     (run) around alongside him all day long and whenever we take him for     10    walk in the woods she has to come, too.”

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Rescue in the Rapids

ON A BREEZY Saturday in April 2014, former police officer Kevin O’Connor and his son, Ryan, were standing in a park near the Fox River in Geneva, Illinois. As Kevin gazed at the river, he caught sight of several people on the bank     1    (motion) toward the water. When he looked in that direction, he noticed a bright red boat turning in a spinning circle in the stormy water at the base of the Geneva Dam，300 feet away.

Kevin assumed the person on the boat     2     (jump) out of it. “Then I heard a warning signal with a loud sound,” says Kevin, now 42. “That’s     3    I realized somebody was in trouble.”

He couldn’t see anyone in the river,     4    he sped toward the bank and dashed into the freezing water. About 150 feet from shore, he spied an object moving downriver. “I thought it was a life jacket,” he says. “When I caught up to it, I realized it     5     (attach) to a person.”

Now in water up to his neck, Kevin grabbed the man,     6    was floating on his back unconscious, under both armpits and held his head above the surface. Kevin struck the man’s chest again and again. After five hits, the man coughed up water and began speaking incoherently. Just back to life, the man was still weak. Battling the current, Kevin sidestepped his way     7    the shoreline, repeatedly digging his shoes into the river’s rocky bottom. When he reached the bank, someone jumped into the river and helped Kevin lift the 200-pound drowning man over a six-foot brick retaining wall to waiting doctors, who took him away in an ambulance. The man recovered, but a friend who was boating with him died after being trapped underwater near the dam.

Kevin pulled     8    up to sit on the shore beside Ryan, who had followed his father’s path down the river. “When I caught my breath, I realized I saved someone’s life, which is what I     9    do.” Kevin says.

In December 2015, Kevin received an award from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. “Lots of honour-receivers lost their lives saving someone,” he says. “     10     (put) in the same category is very humbling.”

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On the afternoon of 11 March 2011, Tetsu Nozaki watched helplessly as a wall of water     1    (crash) into his boats in Onahama, a small fishing port on Japan's Pacific coast.

    2    (spend) the past eight years rebuilding, the Fukushima fishing fleet is now confronting yet another menace — the increasing likelihood     3     the nuclear plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), will dump huge quantities of radioactive water into the ocean.

"We strongly oppose any plans to discharge the water into the sea, " Nozaki, head of Fukushima prefecture's federation of fisheries cooperatives, told the Guardian.

Currently, just over one million tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1, 000 tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, but the utility has warned that it will run out of space by the summer of 2022.

    4    (release) the wastewater into the sea would also anger South Korea, adding to pressure on diplomatic ties.

Seoul, which has yet to lift an import ban on Fukushima seafood     5    (introduce) in 2013, claimed last week that discharging the water would pose a "grave threat"     6     the marine environment — a charge rejected by Japan.

Japanese Government officials say they won't make a decision     7     they have received a report from an expert panel, but there are strong indications that dumping is preferred over other options     8     vaporising, burying or storing the water indefinitely.

Critics say the government is reluctant     9    (support) the dumping option for fear of creating fresh controversy over Fukushima during the Rugby World Cup,    10     starts this week, and the buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

8 . Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Swimming way to success

What does it take to graduate from a university? Many     1     say all you have to do is take classes and pass the exams. Well, it requires more than it if you’re a student at Tsinghua University.

Starting this September, freshmen at the university will have to take swimming courses. If they fail a swimming test at the beginning of their university course, they won’t receive their degree     2     they can pass the test successfully, according to an announcement by Tsinghua University president Qiu Yong.

Exceptions     3    (allow) for students with certain physical or mental conditions, if proved by medical staff.

Liu Bo, head of the Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, explained     4     the university is linking swimming ability with degrees.

“As a requisite(必要的) survival skill, swimming is beneficial for students in the long run, since swimming is helpful in improving students’ endurance and is     5    (harmful) to joints(关节) and muscles as a water sport,” he told China Daily.

Viewing the ability     6    (swim) as a must for students is not something new to this university - it was also a requirement in the early 20th century.

It was later dropped     7    a rising number of students and a lack of facilities. Besides Tsinghua University, Peking University and Xiamen University have also listed swimming as a compulsory course for students.

However, the announcement has caused a heated debate.

Some welcomed the new rule, saying it’s a necessary skill that can save lives. “Swimming is a fundamental(基本的) skill. It’s a way to stay healthy and is lifesaving in emergency situations. I believe making     8     mandatory(强制的) is necessary,” Yuan Jiaxiang, a junior in Tsinghua’s Department of Civil Engineering, told China Daily.

However, some said it has nothing to do with getting a degree. “It’s not reasonable to require people to be able to swim for them to graduate,” Zheng Xiaoyu, a high school student from the Middle School Affiliated to Northern Jiaotong University, told China Daily. “For a lot of people who grew up in inland cities, learning how to swim as an adult will be difficult.”

In fact, Chinese universities are not the only education organizations     9     encourage their students to swim. A few colleges in the United States - including Cornell, Columbia and MIT - offer swim classes to students. “Anything     10    (prevent) people from dying needlessly is a valuable skill,” Fred DeBruyn, director of aquatics(水上运动) at Cornell, told The New York Times.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Back to School Reform

For schools in the New York City, this school year was met by a particular reform issue. It began in June of 2018, when, as part of an effort to fight the enduring problem of segregation(种族隔离), Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his intention     1    the testing requirement should be discontinued for admission to the city’s eight selective “élite” high schools. Then, late last month, the Advisory Group released a report     2     (suggest) that the city rethink its entire approach     3     identifying and educating high-achieving children. More accurately, it recommended replacing the gifted-and-talented programs with new initiatives     4    challenge premature children without relying on a test or academic tracking. However, Asian-American parents fearing that the proposed change     5    (disadvantage) their children filed a lawsuit to block it.

Testing holds great attraction     6     it is neutral, indifferent to a student’s background and wealth. But this is not     7    the current system functions. Success is closely related to socioeconomic advantages and access to test preparation. For example, Asian-American students tend     8    (rate) lower on the most subjective parts of college admissions evaluations.

It’s not clear what the result of the current debate will be. One thing, however, is certain: the competition for places at New York’ chools     9    (drive), in part, by a lack of faith in the quality of education in other parts of the system. Also, it is seen as a conflict between different social groups fighting for a system in which their children are     10    (likely) to be restricted by discrimination.

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Time to fight gaming problem

If you’re a gamer constantly     1     (glue) to your phone, it could be time to ask for medical help. On June 18, the WHO officially listed “gaming disorder”     2     a mental illness, like drug or gambling addiction.

Video gaming is like a non-financial kind of gambling from a psychological point of view. Gamblers use money as a way of keeping score,     3     gamers use points.

However, playing your favorite game every now and then is no reason to be worried. People need to understand this doesn’t mean every child who spends hours playing games     4     (be) an addict, otherwise doctors     5    (flood) with requests for help.

But according to the WHO,     6     you lose control over your gaming habits and put gaming above everything else in life, you should be prepared to face serious problems. According to a study published by China Youth Day in July, about one in five young Chinese play online video games for at least four to five hours per day.

Thankfully, measures have been taken     7     (address) the problem. In April, the Ministry of Education issued a notice asking Chinese schools and parents to prevent students from becoming addicted to the Internet and games.

Other countries have also taken action. In 2011, South Korea passed a “shutdown law” to stop children under the age of 16 from playing video games between the hours of midnight and 6 am. Meanwhile, in Japan, some mobile phones have a special mode for children     8     lets their parents control what games they can download and     9     they can play them for. In the United States, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, a nonprofit organization, puts age restrictions on most games,     10    (mean) the children under a certain age are unable to buy them.