1 . Directions：Fill in the blanks according to the text. One word for each blank only.

Furthermore, the work flow was     1    . There was one especially absent-minded young man in the assembly line who     2         3     buttons. After a while I recognized him as“Big Jim”who used to sit behind me in math class in high school. He was very slow and all the shirts were held up at his position. Workers     4     him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do; therefore a great deal of time and efficiency were lost as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked. All week I wondered why he wasn’t fired.

2 . 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    .

3 . 请根据课文内容填空，并将正确答案写在答题卡的相应位置，与课文原文不一致不得分。

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.

4 . 请根据课文内容填空，并将正确答案写在答题卡的相应位置，与课文原文不一致不得分。

“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.

5 . 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.

6 . 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.

7 . 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.

8 . 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    .

9 . 根据课文内容填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）

Most teenagers tend to s    1     from growing pains during adolescence, during which they go through many   p    2     and psychological changes. For one thing, parents are       3    （严厉的）on their children. They cannot t    4     children’s improper behavior in daily lives.

They often c    5     that their children show too much enthusiasm for social media, which greatly reduces their concentration on study. For another thing, parents attach too much importance to a    6     performance of their children. Once children fail to live up to their expectations, they will get upset. Therefore, teenagers often feel stressed and even c    7     about their future.

To deal with the situation       8    （适当地），teenagers should communicate     9    （定期地）with their parents, which will definitely minimize their growing pains and achieve a b    10     between life and study.

10 . A

Water had also appeared on other planets like Mars but,     1     the earth, it     2     later. It was not immediately obvious that water was to be     3     to the development of life.     4     many scientists believe is that the continued presence of water allowed the earth to dissolve     5     gases and acids into the oceans and seas.

B

Some people have the idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days, but they forget     6     Canada is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast. Here in Vancouver, you’re in Canada’s warmest part. People say it is Canada’s most beautiful city,     7     by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Skiing in the Rocky mountains and sailing in the harbor make Vancouver one of Canada’s most popular cities     8     in. Its population is increasing rapidly. The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world. It is so wet there that the trees are     9     tall, some     10     over 90 metres.