1 . 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。

The British have many traditions but there is nothing more quintessential (典型的) than taking afternoon tea. We know the British have a love affair with drinking tea,     1     more than 160 million cups drunk every day, but it was the invention of afternoon tea that turned tea-drinking into     2     popular pastime.

This sociable feast involves drinking good quality tea     3     (comfort) while nibbling (小口吃) on nice sandwiches, scones with jam and cream and a selection of small cakes. And, of course, it can only happen in the afternoon!     Afternoon tea,     4     (design) as a light snack to bridge the gap between lunch and dinner, dates back to the 1840s.   It went on to become a     5     (fashion) social occasion for the upper classes.

Now there is a resurgence (复苏) in its     6     (popular) in the UK and it is available to anyone who can afford it.     7     it can be enjoyed at home, the best way to experience it is at a smart hotel of café. But if you’re thinking of visiting such a place     8     (enjoy) a plate of sweet and tasty treats with a steaming hot brew, remember the rules you must follow to avoid     9     (ask) to leave.

Writer Henry James once noted that “there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour devoted to the ceremony known as afternoon tea”. I’m sure once you try it, you     10    (agree).

2 . My ambassadorial duties will include ________(introduce)British visitors to the 120­plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research centre in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.

3 . Fast food is full of fat and salt; by ___________ (eat) more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

4 . The story happened in ancient times. A king was so clever that he thought of a good way to test     1     his men were reliable.

One day, he had a huge rock     2     (place) on a roadway at night. Then he hid     3     (him) nearby and watched carefully to see if anyone would remove the big rock. Some     4     (wealth) businessmen and high officials came by, but they simply walked around it. Many of them even loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none of them would bother     5     (get) the big stone out of the way.

Then a villager came along carrying a load of vegetables. On     6     (approach) the big rock, he stopped and laid down his burden, trying hard to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing, he     7     (final) succeeded. As the villager picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the rock     8     (be). The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king, saying that the gold was for the person     9     removed the huge rock from the road.

The villager learned a valuable lesson that many others would never understand: Every obstacle presents     10     opportunity to improve one’s condition.

5 . Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact     1    she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished    2    a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without     3    （stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason     4    she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak     5    old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished     6    he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she     7    choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had     8    （success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts     9    your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary     10    (dismiss解雇), and her record remained unbroken.