1 . Robot teachers are now very popular with pupils in some primary schools in South Korea. Compared with human teachers, the robot teachers are    1    (patient). They never get angry and are always kind to the students. That's    2    the children can always get on well with their robot teachers.

English-teaching robots    3    (send) to three primary schools for eight weeks last December.    4    (equip) with a microphone and video camera, the robots teach students as teachers. Researchers found that the English-teaching robots helped raise students’ interests in the language and build up their    5    (confident). More and more students came to like studying and they got better grades in exams. Meanwhile, other robot teachers,    6    can teach math, science and art, have also been developed.

Many people think these robot teachers should be used    7    faraway village schools so that the children there can also receive a good education.    8    (give) rural school children more learning chances, the South Korean government has expressed great interest in    9    (develop) these robots. No doubt there will be more and more robot teachers working with students. Perhaps they will    10    (complete) replace human teachers one day in the future. Who knows?

A teacher gave his     1     (pupil) some sunflower seeds to let them learn to look after a plant. One boy in the class,     2     loved sunflower seeds, was very excited. He planted the seed and looked after it     3     great care for many days.

When the first shoot (嫩芽) finally appeared, the boy,     4    (fill) with impatience, went to see his teacher. The teacher said that he would still have to take care of the plant for quite some time     5     he was able to collect many seeds from just one sunflower. The boy was    6    (disappoint), but he kept     7     (look) after his sunflower.

However, he grew increasingly impatient, and did little else but pester (纠缠) his teacher for wanting to take out the plant. As soon as the boy saw the sunflower’s first seeds, he cut the plant. But the plant was still green, and of course the seeds couldn’t    8    (eat).

The boy was annoyed. He had put so much effort into     9     sunflower, but in the end he wasted it all for his impatience. And he was even    10     (angry) when he saw how big his classmates’ sunflowers grew. Finally, he decided not to be so impatient any more.

3 . A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3­month trip, which turned out to be a miracle (奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life working on the farm. The son started this     1    (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer—a serious     2    (ill).

The reporter wanted to take his father to travel in the hope     3     his father can find his younger self in his last days. They     4    (travel) more than 13,000 kilometers and took over 110, 000 pictures on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.    5    their surprise, his father got     6    (good) and became more open-­hearted.

He even taught himself to play     7     violin, and then he played     8    very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting     9    trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever.

Time carves (雕刻) the old father’s face     10     youth (青春) flows in his blood. This is the real style.

Once there was a wise landowner who had two sons. After a few years, the landowner fell ill badly. So he considered     1     (select) one of them to rule the family according to their abilities. He called both of them and gave each one a room. He said，“You must fill your room completely with anything you wish. It can be anything! But there should not be any space     2     (leave) behind and you should not seek advice     3     others! "

The next day, the landowner visited the     4     (old) son's room. The room was completely filled with hay (干草). The landowner sighed on the     5     (foolish) of the son. Then he went to the room given to the younger son. But it     6     (keep) closed. The landowner knocked at the door. The younger son asked     7       (he) father to get in and closed the door again. It was darkness everywhere and the landowner shouted at his son     8     (angry). But the younger son lighted a candle     9     said, “I have filled this room with light! Now the landowner felt very happy and hugged his son proudly. He understood that the younger would be the right person     10     (rule) the family.

(2018·河南省中原名校高考预测金卷)More than 700 years ago, a 17-year-old Italian youth followed his father and uncle on a journey to the East, dreaming about the mysteries of China. The three set     1     on a path that might have frightened even the most ambitious travellers. The young adventurer was Marco Polo.

Having a talent for languages, Marco Polo learned to speak Mongolian and Chinese. Later under the orders of Kublai Khan, he     2     (travel) far and wide across China. Along the way, he stopped     3     (record) detailed notes about the local customs, geography and values of the people, so as to report back to the Khan.

Marco Polo returned to Venice 24 years later. With     4    (count) treasures brought back from the East, he became     5     wealthy man overnight.     6     he witnessed in China aroused much interest among his countrymen. Marco Polo’s journey to China and the contents of his     7    (vivid) written book, The Travels of Marco Polo, which     8     (think) to be a fairy tale in Europe at the time, triggered a wave of European interest in the Orient.

Marco Polo’s story is both one about an explorer’s search riches and a Westerner     9     (follow) his dream to reach China. More than 700 years later, China, the once mysterious Oriental nation, is igniting the Chinese dream of many modern Marco Polos, attracted by its rapid     10     (develop) and its growing importance in the world.

Auckland is the     1    (large) city in New Zealand. It has    2    population of a million people and    3    (locate) on North Island.    4    1945, the city of Auckland has grown. There are many famous sights in Auckland,    5    (include) Mt Eden, Harbour Bridge and Sky Tower,    6    is the city’s tallest Tower. Auckland    7    (call) “the city of sails” because it has more boats than anywhere else in the world. What’s more,    8     has a warm climate with plenty of sunshine. It is easy     9     (travel) to Auckland. There are regular international     10     (fly).

Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy     1    (become) rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground. Books and magazines told how to travel to the area and the best method of finding gold.     2    , most of the information was false. It was not easy to find gold. It was     3    (extreme) hard to work under very difficult condition. The American    4    (write) Jack was among the gold seekers. He became famous     5    writing about his experiences in Alaska Canada. He wrote a short story     6    (call) “The White Silence”, which perhaps best explains the terrible conditions of gold seekers(淘金者).

In the story, Jack explained how the extreme cold made the world seem     7    (die). It causes strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world     8    (seem) to increase a man’s fear of death. This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

The story also told what could happen to a person who had an accident. There     9    (be) not many doctors in the gold fields. A seriously injured person could only expect to die. Jack’s many stories truthfully explained just     10     hard it was to be a gold seeker in eighteen ninety-seven.

8 . It was a dreadfully cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two,     1    (head) home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home     2     the bus stop.

    3     my house was only two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road. I tried to thumb a ride but failed. My little boy woke up with a start and began to cry. I     4    (convince) that things might become worse and nobody would bother to help on such a terrible day. A few minutes later,     5    truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it pulling back and the driver looking directly at us. A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take     6    .” He called out. I stood there    7    (astonish), barely believing that the man     8     existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so     9    (consider). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I accepted the offer and expressed my gratitude to him.

This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me     10     it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.

Red is a particularly popular color in China. A pair of red shoes —     1    they are for sports, dances or just fashion — is a must-have for every Chinese woman’s shoe collection. For most Chinese brides, red shoes should also be worn     2     their big day.

As women’s feet     3     (connect) with female attraction, red shoes often emphasize this aspect     4     convey a special beauty. In some classic Chinese novels, there are    5     (describe) of charming women in red silk shoes.

If you wear a dark dress in cold     6     (season), a pair of red shoes can raise your ensemble（整套服装）to a     7     (high) level. They can also go with different levels of red color,       8     (give) the wearer a lively and joyful look.

    9     (sure) red will always be a beloved color for designers, and red shoes have also become a choice for many supermodels. If you are also a fan of this     10     (energy) color, consider wearing a pair of red shoes for every Chinese Lunar New Year!

10 . The Dragon Boat Festival which occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar is a     1     (tradition) holiday that commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan

It is a celebration where many eat zongzi and     2     (race) dragon boats. In China, the festival was also celebrated as “Poets’ Day” in honor of Qu Yuan, who     3     (know) as China’s first poet.

The local people began the tradition of throwing sacrificial cooked rice into the river for Qu Yuan,     4     others believed that the rice would prevent the fishes in the river from     5     (eat) Qu Yuan’s body. At first, the locals decided     6     (make) zongzi in hopes that it would sink into the river and reach Qu Yuan’s body. However, the tradition of wrapping the rice in bamboo     7     (leaf) to make zongzi began the following year.

A dragon boat is a human-powered boat     8     is traditionally made of leak wood to various designs and sizes. They usually have     9     (bright) decorated designs that range anywhere from 40 to 100 feet in length, with the front end shaped like open-mouthed dragons, and the back end with a scaly tail. The boat can have up to 80 rowers to power the boat, depending on the length. A sacred ceremony is performed before any competition in order to “bring the boat to life” by painting the eyes The first team to grab a flag at the end of the course wins     10     race.