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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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The three men built a small boat and set sail. All of a sudden, two dinosaurs rose to the surface and began to fight each other. The small boat was almost     1    by the dinosaurs before they were able to get away

They sailed to shore and explored the forest. They came across huge insects and many strange creatures. As they were     2     around, they noticed a man sitting    3    a tree in the distance-he was at least four meters tall. The men became afraid, and ran back to the boat.

They set sail again, and saw what looked like an exit, but it was    4    by rocks which had fallen down from the ceiling. They made a bomb to blow up the rocks. After the bomb exploded, their boat rushed     5    forward into a large hole. The boat floated down with the water. It was too fast for them to escape, They could only hold on to the boat in terror.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

7 . 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.

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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.

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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.

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The newly invented digital camera is     1    : you can take pictures without film. You can     2     and exhibit your picture globally in a few seconds through the Internet. The images     3     in a hard drive will never wear     4     like traditional photos. Digital cameras also satisfy     5     photographers by allowing them to view their masterpiece in real time.