1 . 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。）

A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3-month trip,     1     turned out to be a miracle (奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life    2     (work) on the farm. The son started these    3     (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer-----a serious    4     (ill). The reporter wanted    5     (take) his father to travel in the hope that his father can find his younger self in his last days. They    6     (travel) more than 13,000 kilometers and took over 110,000    7     (picture) on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.     8     their surprise, his father got    9     (good) and became more open-hearted.

He even taught himself to play    10     violin, and then he played it very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting another trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever. Time carves (雕刻) the old father’s face but youth flows in his blood. This is the real style.

2 . —We need an immediate reply.
—I see. I'll send the paper to you________away.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式。

There is a gigantic study that’s been done in 38 cultures.     1    turns out that in every culture, both males and females desire their potential mates to be bright. But we don’t have our IQs     2     (print) on our forehead. How do we know that someone’s     3    (intelligence)? In Western cultures, at least, it’s often by the person’s sense of humor. Because creating and appreciating jokes both require us to make     4     (connect) between many separate pieces of information,     5     (have) a sense of humor shows that we possess a wide knowledge and     6     we know how to think about things in novel and creative ways.

Take a cartoon     7     example: a mouse is standing outside his house, having just pulled a gun on a cat, who pretends to give in by raising one paw (爪). “Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math,” the cat says. In order to appreciate this joke, you need to know that mice are     8     (usual) the victims of cats, many guns have six bullets (子弹), and cats     9     (say) to have nine lives because of their ability to always land on their feet. You also need to be able to do some math     10     (understand) that the cat has the advantage in this scene after all.

4 . 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。

High school years are a large part in    1    (shape) the person you are going to become. A school often    2    (provide)education for you,and it can also be a place     3    you can develop relationships with many different people,join clubs,and participate in a variety of different sports.These years can make you become a high school student    4    (fill)with many different emotions,including happiness, anger,sadness, envy, loneliness,stress,and a numerous amount more.This is also a time when peer(同龄人)pressure is most commonly put upon a vast majority of teens.

Peer pressure is the influence from members of one's peer group.This can include influencing another to drink,smoke,cheat on a test,lie,skip class,and etc.The list is     5    (end).Peer pressure at high school is both harmful    6     effective because it can lead to teen depression,high stress levels,negative behavior    7    (issue),and poor decision making and outcomes.

Despite the fact that peer pressure is most commonly seen as a very negative issue,it can     8    (see)positively in some situations.This can involve pressuring your peers to avoid   drugs,be honest,avoid alcohol,respect others,work hard,exercise,be kind, be responsible,and more.Friends and peer    9    (actual)affect the choices you make.Choosing to have good friends can have a very strong effect    10     you.

5 . 阅读下面材料在空白处填上适当内容

In the late April 2014, a violent storm swept through the southern Unite States,     1     (destroy) more than $1billion in property and killing 35 people. But a group of migratory birds in eastern Tennessee sensed the oncoming mess and left long before the first clouds arrived. A year earlier, the team had tagged golden-winged warblers(莺) with leg trackers     2     (study ) their annual migrations to South America. Two days before the storms     3     (strike), five golden-winged warblers sipped away traveling nearly 700 kilometers south to the Florida coast.

It is the first time that the birds which normally migrate with the seasons     4     ( observe） to slip away when a big storm hits. The researchers suspect this     5     (behave ) occurs only when the threat of injury outweighs the energy costs of a long trip. But nobody knows     6    the birds guessed the storm's severity and left so soon.     7     (Puzzle)by it, the scientists initially reasoned that delicate changes in weather-atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, or rainfall signaled the upcoming disaster. Yet when they checked weather records, none of these factors waved     8     (significant) before the storm. Instead, the team assumes that the approaching storms created     9    disorder of infrasounds --- low-frequency sound waves that bird can hear     10    humans can't.

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.

Many Bird Populations Are in Trouble

A new report warns that many bird populations in the United States are in trouble. The report says about 200 kinds of birds are    1    decreasing in number, have restricted environments or are facing other threats. That represents about one-fourth of America's bird populations.

The report uses information    2    (gather) by scientists in the United States and other countries. This year, it includes birds of Hawaii and Puerto Rico.    3    the birds of mainland North America.

The National Audubon Society says the report confirms some unwelcome changes. It shows that many songbird populations    4    (decrease) by as much as fifty percent or more since 1970. For example, in the central United States, the Henslow's sparrow population has dropped by eighty percent.    5    number of Hawaiian Akikiki has dropped from 6,800 birds thirty years ago to only 1,000 birds today.

The National Audubon Society says these decreases come at a time    6    bird watching in the United States is more popular than ever. One study found that about 70,000,000 Americans took part in bird watching last year. That. is up 250 percent from the number    7    (report) twenty years ago.

Mr. Gill, an official with the National Audubon Society, says that birds are a good way    8    (test) the health of Earth's environment, He adds that the things that harm birds also harm people    9    share the same space. He says people should think about    10     decreasing bird populations are telling us about the environment we share.

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Astronomy is the oldest science     1    （know）to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about the heavens. But man was     2    （limit）by the six planets that he could see only     3     his eyes alone. The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size colour, and     4    （bright）of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars     5    （move ）as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens. Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Man knew a little about the moon     6     there were telescopes.

He did not know that the planet called Saturn had     7    （ring）around it. His sight was     8     limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Before the spectroscope, man did not know what kind of gases     9    （be）around the sun or other stars. Without the radio-telescope, we did not know that radio noises came from far in space. Today, astronomy is a     10    （grow）science. We have learned more in the last fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

8 . 语法填空(在空白出填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。)

Cultural TV programs experienced a come-back at     1     start of the Chinese New year in 2017. Since its broadcast, the program, Readers,    2     (become) a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, it is bringing fresh     3     (enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers set out to interpret the power and values behind     4     (tradition) Chinese culture. The weekly talk show, produced and hosted by the famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all walks of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Readers has brought the almost-lost habit     5     reading aloud back into the public spotlight,     6     allows the audience     7     (appreciate) the beauty of language. The participants also     8     (active) share stories from their own life,     9     (explain) reasons why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can     10     (adapt) into songs. So far this program has been considered one of the most popular shows in China.

9 . 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。

The Great Pyramid was built nearly 5,000 years ago for a king    1     (call) Khufu. It is on the west bank of the Nile River.    2    (actual), all the pyramids along the Nile River are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians thought of the rising of the sun as the beginning of life and the    3    (set) of the sun as the end of life. This is why their bodies    4    (bury) on the west of the Nile.

    5     is very hard to realize how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 pieces of stones, most of    6    weigh two and a half tons. Some even weigh fifteen tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut, moved     7    lifted these stones. Almost all the stones came    8    the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats. It took more than 100,000 people twenty years    9    (build) the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today. Each of the    10    (side) of the Pyramid is 755 feet long. It is about twenty-minute walk all the way around it.

10 . 段落语法填空

Since an early age, I have developed an interest in art. I must admit that I am crazy about the paintings by Vincent van Gogh(1853-1890).

    1     (consider) as one of the greatest artists all the time, this Dutch Post-Impressionist artist had a great influence on the 20^th century art. His father was a church minister,     2     belief lay in God. Vincent spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief period as a teacher, he tried to be a minister too, but he was not     3     (success). Van Gogh had mental problems and was often emotional, which made     4     difficult for him to succeed. It is not until 1880     5     Vincent began his career as an artist. However, during the last ten years of his life, he produced more than 2,000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. Most of his best-known works     6     (produce) during his final two years, when he was     7     (serious) ill.

In 1890, at the age of 37, van Gogh shot himself in the chest. The only painting he sold during his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, was created in 1888. It is now     8     exhibition in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia. Several     9     (painting) by van Gogh rank among the most expensive in the world. On March 30, 1987, van Gogh’s painting Irises was sold for a record of $53.9 million. On May 15, 1990, his Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for $83.5 million, thus     10     (set) a new price record.