1 . 课文填空

Old French made other    1    to Middle English as well. In old English Germanic way of making words plural was used. For example, they said housen instead of houses, and shoen instead of shoes. After the Normans took    2    they began using the French way of making plurals, adding an-s to house and shoe. Only a few words     3     their Germanic plural forms, such as man/men and child/children.

After the Norman Conquest, high-class people spoke French while common people spoke English. However, by the latter half of the 14^th century, English had come into    4    use among all classes in England. In 1399, Henry IV became King of England. His mother     5     was English, and he used English for all official events.

2 . 根据P26-P27课文，完成下列表格（每空一词）
Colin's items for his     1     holiday

A tent and a     2     bag	For a good night's     3
A life jacket	For white-water     4
A pan	For     5     food
6	For     7     travelling
8     clothes	For keeping     9
A first-aid kit：bandages，    10    ，scissors and cotton balls

3 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

An ancient bus stopped by a dry river bed and a party of famous actors and     1     got off.     2     in dark glasses and old clothes, they     3     special precautions so that no one should recognize them. But as they soon discovered, disguises can sometimes be too perfect. …‘It couldn’t be     4    , Gloria,’ Brinksley Meers agreed.

Snow     5     thick on the ground. The woman knew that the     6     village was miles away. When it grew dark, she turned a suitcase     7     a bed and put the children inside it,     8     them with all the clothes she could find. During the night, it got     9     cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case     10    , but it was too small.

4 . 课文填空
1. An advertisement uses words and pictures to _________ people to buy a product or service, or to believe in an idea. Newspapers, magazines, the Internet, radio and television are the most common places to find them. There are two main types of advertisements —commercial advertisements and public service advertisements(PSAs). A commercial advertisement is _________ which someone has paid for to advertise a product or service. PSAs are often run for free, and are meant to educate people about health, safety, or any other problem that affects public _________.
2. All through history, people from many different countries and cultures have lived together in Britain. The English language is made up of the grammar and _________ these people brought to Britain. That is _________ English has so many different rules that confuse people.
3. The Chinese language _________from Western languages in that, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which stand _________ ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters. In many cases, a single character can also make up a word. The history of the Chinese language can be examined by looking at _________these characters developed.
4. In 334 BC, he took his army, now with 42,000 men, into the Middle East and then Egypt, _________ every army that stood in his path. Then he turned his eyes east, and marched all the way to India, finding victory _________ he went. It seemed that nothing could stop him from taking control of the entire world.

5 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

I. Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been     1     built for him. It was over 30 feet in     2     and had a 2500 horse-power engine...However, a few days     3    , he was told that a mistake     4    . His average speed had been 301 miles per hour. Since that time, racing drivers have reached speeds of over 400 miles per hour.     5     his father’s footsteps, Sir Malcolm’s son, Donald, also set up a world record.

II. They have all been put to shame by a boy     6    , while playing truant, travelled 1600 miles. He hitch-hiked to Dover and,     7     evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered     8     the boat had, in     9     meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy     10     he crept off.

6 . 课文原词填空

Along with these physical changes, there come many psychological changes. Boys and girls tend to be different in this     1    . Many boys become risk-takers—they want to find their own limits and the limits of the world around them, but may not have the     2     to make good     3     in their behavior. At the same time, girls often want someone—anyone—to talk to, as they try to    4     with their strong feelings.

7 . However, the     1     of scientists towards this rise are completely different. On the one hand, Dr Foster thinks that any     2     in which the temperature increases     3     5 degrees would lead to a catastrophe. She says, “We can’t predict the climate well enough to know     4     to expect, but it could be very serious.” Others who agree with her think there may be     5     rise of several metres in the sea level, or predict severe storms, floods, droughts, famines, the     6     of diseases and the disappearances of     7    . On the other hand, there are those, like George Hambley, who are     8     to this view and believe that we should not worry about high levels of carbon dioxide in the air. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad environmental       9    . In fact, Hambley states, “More carbon dioxide is actually a positive thing. It will make plants grow quicker; crops will produce more; it will     10     a greater range of animals, all of which will make life for human beings better.”

8 . 课文原词填空

In 1983, he joined the army, and went to flight school He graduated in 1987 and became a     1    , In 1998, he    2     to be a member of Project 921, which is now called Shenzhou. He was one of the only 14     3     from 1,500 candidates. The team spent the next five years being trained. They not only studied all the subjects    4    to be an astronaut, but also learnt    5     skills and all about how spaceships and rockets are built. Yang     6     among the very top in the everything the group studied.

9 . 课文填空

Since the 1970s many new    1     have been found for me. …I have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars.     2    , my goal is to provide humans with a life   of high quality. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a    3     friend and helper of the human race.

10 . All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150, 000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue the workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.     1    . To the north of the city, most of the 10, 000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there.     2    . Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress,     3    .     4    , or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed,     5    .