1 . Directions：Read the following passage and fill in the blanks to complete the summary. No more than eight words for each blank.

The school that is changing American education

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P-TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me. It knitted together educators and job creators, giving kids not only a high school degree, but a two-year associate degree and a job guarantee at one of the country’s top blue-chip firms, IBM.

The latest great national leap forward in secondary education was during the post W.W. Ⅱ period, when state governments decided that high school education, previously optional, should be compulsory in order to ensure the kind of skilled workforce needed to compete in a new, higher tech industrial era. Now, many leaders---including the President, the education Secretary, scores of blue-chip CEOs and executives, and most top educators---believe we’re once again at such a turning point. When it comes to high school, an increasing number of them buy into the idea that not only should educators and job creators b e much more closely connected, but that as Stanley Litow, the IBM executive behind the program puts it,“six should be the new four.”The push for all American kids to have a post high school future, like Tennessee governor Haslam’s recent calls for two years of free community college for every student in the state, seems to come almost daily.

The statistics support it. A Four-year high school degree these days only guarantees a $15 an hour future. According to projections by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, the U.S. economy will create some 47-million job openings in the decade ending 2018, but nearly two-thirds will require some post secondary education. The Center projects that only 36% of American jobs will be filled by people with only a 4-year high school degree---half of what that number was in the 1970s. What’s more, the cost of not trading up educationally could be disastrous---workers with an associate degree will earn 73% more than those with only a high school diploma.

Many leaders maintain that children should     1     and that high schools should     2    . The idea is based on     3    . On one hand, more jobs will require     4    . On the other, an associate degree will ensure     5    .

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I     1     and agreed to meet her at the convenience store down the road. Of course you’ve guessed who Jenny was. She was the girl I had shouted at for singing. When I recognised her in the convenience store, I     2     and apologized for my rude behaviour. I felt so guilty, but Jenny just laughed and told me she was glad to see that I’d also left my glare in the library! I     3     at this and I invited her back to my apartment for a quick cup of tea.

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“Writing that report wasn’t easy, but I realised that people needed to know and so I didn’t give up,” Junyan told me. This     1     because she won an award for the report. “I discovered then that     2     I am committed and never give up I will be able to produce     3     reports.” That’s exactly what Wang Junyan has been doing as the face of Universe TV.

4 . Fill in the blanks with words and phrases that are taken from your textbooks.
1. Fast food restaurants are now _________rapidly all over the country in the United States. Speed is a very important __________. People usually have a short ________ ________because they just do not want to _______ ______ ______ ______. Fast food restaurant are places that _________ ______ ______ hundreds of people in a short time. There is usually very _____ ______ and the food is always very cheap.
2. In Japan, ______ ______ ______is often held while people are drinking tea. The ceremony, usually held in a teahouse, ______ ______ ______ the sixteen century. Guests ______ ______ ________ set up then and the tea ______ is a powdered green tea. Though still ______ today, the tea ceremony may not be ______ ______ ______ it used to be. Young people tend to ______ other drinks.
3. In the seventeenth ______, Rives, blown heavily . ______ ______. His hands dropped helplessly. Danny thought it was his chance ---the boy was ______ ______ ______, he decided to _____ the deadly blow. But before he could do that, Rivera caught him off his ______ and hit him ______ ______ ______. Danny went down. When he ______ Rivera gave him another blow on the neck and jaw.

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The    1    between the two restaurants was on! A week later, Wang Peng’s restaurant was nearly full and he felt happier. Perhaps he would be able to earn his    2    after all and not have to close his restaurant. He did not look forward to    3    in debt because his restaurant was no longer popular. He smiled as he welcomed some customers     4     at the door but the smile left his face when he saw Yong Hui walking in. She did not look happy but     5     at him. “May I ask what you were doing in my restaurant the other day? I thought you were a new customer and now I know that you only came to     6    on me and my menu,”she shouted. “Please excuse me,” he calmly     7    , “I wanted to know     8     all my customers had gone last week. I followed one of them and found them in your restaurant. I don’t want to upset you, but I found your menu so    9    that I stopped worrying and started advertising the    10    of my food. Why don’t you sit down and try a meal?”

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③Life-long commitment and, indeed, the survival of society itself rely on people seeing beauty __________ __________ __________ __________ . The human race would soon die out if we could only see beauty (9) __________ __________ __________ __________ limited criteria.

Physical beauty must also __________ __________ __________ an attraction to something deeper within a person.

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②One afternoon, hundreds of unlucky passengers who had been expecting to __________ __________ __________ to New York were told it had been cancelled. One unfortunate counter agent was dealing with all the passengers when an angry man, who had been queuing for some time, __________ __________ __________ __________ the front.

When this happens, he smiles and nods, indicating that everything is fine. When the waiters are not looking, however, he __________ __________ __________ the raw meat anywhere he can reach—the sugar bowl, the tiny flower vase, inside a bun and under a plate.

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The Sundance Film Festival     1     boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was     2     back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its     3     and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest     4     It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to     5     the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system

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Yet, some people are    1     They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the     2     that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of     3     on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users     4     it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the     5     use for the Internet.

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①With these severe restrictions on her communication, Helen’s behavior was __________ __________. She was stubborn and angry, and often broke things when she __________ __________.

Now that Helen understood __________ __________ __________ __________, she was very eager to learn more and use it as much as she could. Children who can see and hear learn language easily but for Helen, it was a __________ __________ __________ __________ process.