2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. dignity B. favored C. endanger D. striking E. peered F. distinctive G. adapted H. wonder I. commitment J. expense K. share

1. Tan Dun ______ music from the original Kun opera and added his own work to these traditional pieces.
2. For a long time, my mother had not understood my ______ to the struggle.
3. It’s difficult to preserve your ______ when you have no job and no home.
4. In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the ______ of his own family.
5. In the 1800s, Beijing opera slowly replaced Kun opera as the ______ form of opera.
6. Families worry that sending children away to study in higher education could ______ the Yupik language and culture.
7. When one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be ______.
8. The ______ features of Kun opera are spoken story-telling, singing and dancing, and each character has their own particular style of movement on stage.
9. When a whale is killed, the houses and school empty as everyone races to the beach to take a ______ of the meat.
10. They ______ out the window fearfully at the ivy vine, and then looked at each other for a moment without speaking.

3 . 到附近一个教堂去的唯一通道是通过那条小径。（access）（汉译英）

5 . ---Tom enjoys _____ basketball on Sunday afternoons, doesn’t he?
---Yes, he does. But what his sister enjoys _______.

A．to play, dancing	B．playing, to dance
C．to play, to dance	D．playing, is to dance

6 . Directions: Choose one of the phrases from the box to complete each sentence in the proper form.

spring up             in one’s prime            on a large scale          date back to      dump into            approve of                 go on a diet

1. By no means ________we ________ their new scheme to invest in the stock market, which will cost us all our savings.
2. My class teacher insisted that all the rubbish _________ the classified dustbin in different colors.
3. Deep in the mountains, we eventually found the caves, __________ early Viking times in about 800 AD.
4. Many intelligent buildings are claimed ___________ in the Central Business District in the past two decades.
5. He was devoted to the medical research, worn out on a daily basis, which deprived him of his life __________.
6. He must ____________ now, for such a foodie has been skipping his lunch every day since last week.
7. However, the cost of production could fall as they are manufactured ____________, just as mobile phones have become cheaper.

7 . 长远来看, 不光饮食的失衡和锻炼投入的不足，就连经常的熬夜，也是肥胖的罪魁祸首。（not only）(汉译英）