1 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

After reading an article     1     “Cigarette Smoking and Your Health” I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with     2     and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone     3    up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement     4    I produced a packet of     5     from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt     6     uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took     7     guiltily, lit it and smoked     8     satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.     9    , as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He    10    has done it lots of times!

2 . 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.

3 . 默写文段
    1    . It was full of people. The hostess, a very thin lady, came forward. “Welcome,” she said. “My name is Yong Hui.     2    .” Then she gave a menu to Wang Peng. There are few choices of food and drink on it: just rice, raw vegetables served in vinegar, fruit and water.    3    .     4    . He could not believe his eyes. He threw down the menu and hurried outside. On his way home he thought about his own menu. Did it make people fat? Perhaps he should go to the library and find out.     5    ! He had better do some research.

4 . 课文内容填空

Middle English is the name     1    (give) to the English used from around the 12th to the 15th centuries. Many things played a part in the     2    (develop) of this new type of English. The most important     3    (贡献) was from the Normans, a     4     (French speak) people who    5     (打败) England and took control of the country in 1066.     6    , the Norman Conquest did not affect English as much as the Angles and the Saxons’ victory about 600 years earlier, which led to Old English     7     (replace) Celtic. Even though the Normans spoke French for the e    8     250 years they ruled England, French did not replace English     9     the first language. On the other hand, the English language did borrow many words from French. This resulted in even more words with similar meanings, such as answer (from Old English) and reply (from Old French). It is interesting to learn     10     the words for animals and meat developed.

5 . 课文内容填空

John Snow was a famous doctor in London —so    1    , indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal     2    . But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people     3    to cholera.

First there was England. Wales was    4     to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people refer to England you find Wales    5    as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to “Great Britain”. Happily this was accomplished without    6     when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.

At first my new surroundings were difficult to    7    . The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gases had little oxygen     8    . Hit by a    9     of fresh air, my head ached. Just as I tried to make the necessary    10    to this new situation, Wang Ping appeared.

6 . 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。

Lesson1: …The most unusual car was a Benz which had only three     1    .

…Many of the cars broke     2     on the course and some drivers spent more time under their cars than in them! A few cars, however, completed the race. The winning car reached     3     speed of forty miles an hour—    4     faster than any of its rivals.

Lesson2: ...Though she     5     for a moment, she finally went in and asked to see a dress that was in the window. The assistant     6     served her did not like the way she was dressed. Glancing at her scornfully, he told her that the dress     7    . The woman walked out of the shop angrily and decided to punish the assistant next day. She returned the shop the following morning     8     in a fur coat, with a handbag in one hand and a long umbrella in the other.

...Not realizing who she was, the assistant was     9     to serve her this time.     10     great difficulty, he climbed into the shop window to get the dress. As soon as she saw it, the woman said she did not like it.

7 . John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so    1    ,indeed,that he    2    Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became    3    when he thought about helping ordinary people    4    to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its    5    was understood.So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem.

First there was England.Wales was    6    to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people    7    to England you find Wales    8    as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without    9    when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland    10    in the same peaceful way.

8 . As they walk down the halls during their years together at Shady Side, our boys and girls —— so soon to become men and women —— are learning to think, to work, to question, to be     1     and     2    , to     3    with others, to laugh at their mistakes and to act     4     when     5     comes their way.

Sir William Osler, a famous Canadian doctor,     6     the value of     7     by saying, "No man is really happy     8     a hobby, and it makes precious little     9     what the outside     10     may be."

9 . Frederick William I, the King of Prussia,     1     that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have     2     . This gift was the Amber room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber     3     had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was     4     popular in those days. It was also a treasure     5     , which took the country’s artists about ten years to make.

10 . 课文填空请根据课文内容填出正确的词或短语。

Our eating habits have changed, as    1     our way of life, and the fuel we need for our body is also different. Other nutrients, such as fiber and minerals, help keep our body    2     well. Vitamins, which we can get from eating vegetables, fruit, fish and drinking milk, help our body    3     disease. It is probably better, however, if we spend our time and money in buying good food and     4     a balanced diet. If we eat healthy food in the right    5    , we do not have to buy any supplements. The same goes for “crash diets” that some companies say will make us    6     fast.     7     eating expensive diet food or going on unhealthy diets, we can simply try to eat less fat and sugar and     8     more.

Kwanzaa is a seven-day festival     9     the culture and history of African Americans. Kwanzaa is a time for learning    10     joy. On the last day of Kwanzaa, family and friends     11     to enjoy a large meal and to celebrate the new year.

    12     a new festival may seem an unusual way to celebrate history and culture, but we are in fact creating new festivals every year.     13     we celebrate a festival it changes a little and in that way we keep our culture    14     . The Spring Festival, Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and all the other holidays and festivals help us understand who we are, remember where we come from, and     15     our hopes for a happy future.