1 . In the past, if I had to look away from my phone, I felt like I was going to die. When I had lunch with my family or dated with my friends, I couldn't resist     1     (reply) to a text message or checking my Facebook, WeChat     2     the mobile phone. Before long, it was easy for me     3     (get) tired. The more I texted during the day, the     4     (poor) my sleep was. I couldn't even focus on my study.

My friend told me that people     5     can't help checking their phones all day are known as phubbers (低头族). Phubbing trends not only involve the young people, but     6     elderly. Soon, I found a slogan on a website as follows: stop twittering, stop posting photos...

    7     (thankful), I realized there was actually an outside world. My     8     (divide) attention could keep me from what is truly important. Now, I can use the phone without     9     (feel) like a drug addict. I have more time     10     (enjoy) real­life activities. Use your cell phone and don't let it use you.

2 . Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry     1     (write) in Classic Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms. Many     2     (poem) come from particular historical periods, such as the poetry of the Tang Dynasty and the verse of Song Dynasty.     3     (it) existence dates back to at least as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry or Shijing. There are     4     (vary) combinations of forms and genres, most of     5     arose at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Development of Classical Chinese poetry     6     (active ) continued up to the year of 1919, when the May Fourth Movement     7     (take) place, and is still popular even today. Classical Poetry created during this 2,500 year period has been developing continuously,     8     (produce) a great deal of diversity - classified by both major historical periods     9     dynastic periods.

Of the key aspects of Classical Chinese poetry is its close inter - relationship with other forms of Chinese art, such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy (书法). Classical Chinese poetry has proven lo have a strong influence     10     poetry worldwide.

3 . Yuan Longping was born in 1930 and graduated from college in 1953, when hunger was a big problem for many people in    1    countryside. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice    2    (be)his life goal. He began to search    3    a way to increase rice    4    has a high output.    5    (use)his hybrid rice, farmers manage to produce harvests twice as large as before. Now, he is considered as a pioneer, who devotes his life to    6    (rid) the world of hunger.

Yuan Longping is quite content with his life.    7    , he doesn’t care about being famous. He feels it gives him less    8    (free) to do his research. He would rather keep time for his    9    (hobby). He enjoys listening to violin music, swimming and reading. Money means very little to him. Indeed, he believes that a person with too much money has more rather than    10    (few) troubles.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

More and more public schools in America make it a rule that students must finish a certain amount of community service     1    they are allowed to graduate from high school. They work on projects like making the environment better or     2     (feed) homeless people.

Many school systems in the United States now ask students     3    (do) some kinds of community service as part of their studies. Students involved in service projects help     4    (they) as well as their communities. They learn about the needs of people and aid     5    (organize).For this reason, holidays     6    (become) the prime period for volunteer work so far. Volunteers get no pay, but experts point out that it is     7     excellent opportunity to learn and practice new skills.

According to the statistics, more than 60% of young Americans have participated    8    different kinds of community service, such as cooking for homeless people, or painting old buildings, etc. Some students like to do their volunteer work in     9    (centre) parts of America, but the majority of teens prefer to do it in their hometowns. Tom, a 16-year-old middle school student in California, often    10    (do) community service in a local hospital. He works 16 hours every week either receiving calls at the information desk, or helping push patients back to their wards(病房).

5 . 根据提示，填写单词的正确形式。

I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old.     1     her fellow teacher said that we     2    (celebrate) her 39th birthday! We were all     3     (surprise) and puzzled.

After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about     4     (birth). If a woman is     5     40, or even if she is 80, her birthday is always the 39th. If she is in her thirties, her birthday will be the 29th. And in her     6    , it’s the 19th. They usually have their “real” birthday when they are     7     20.

This shows that American women,     8     (special) elderly women, are very sensitive about their ages. But my teacher always says, “We want to be       9    . ” so about the age of Western women, my advice is     10     if you don’t know it, don’t ask about it; if you really know it, don’t mention it.

6 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family, Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before    1    (return) to her family’s house in Amherst where she lived    2    peaceful life. She kept in touch with her friends by writing letters and was     3    (willing) to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room.
Dickinson’s poems are unique(独一无二的) for the time she lived in; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use half rhyme. Many of her poems deal     4    themes(主题) of death and immortality(永生). Dickinson wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but few of     5    were published. Although most of her friends probably knew about Dickinson’s writing, they didn’t know     6    she had produced so many poems until after her death in 1886, when her younger sister Lavinia discovered the place where the poems were hidden.     7    her sister had not discovered them, the broadness of Dickinson’s work wouldn’t have become known.
Dickinson’s first collection of poetry was published in 1890, the content(内容) of     8    was heavily edited(编辑) by the publishers     9    (fit) the conventional poetic rules of the time. A complete and mostly unedited collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955. Now Dickinson     10    (consider) to be one of the most important American poets.

7 . 语法填空

A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway    1     (have) a close knock on Oct 22. He was so    2    (absorb) in his Smartphone that he didn't see a train approaching until it brushed past him,    3    (throw) him to the ground. This should serve    4    a warning that people should be aware of their surroundings, especially    5    crossing roads.    6    (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver     7    (stop) the train. An l8-minute delay followed the incident,    8    led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.

The Smartphone    9    (addict) has spread like an infectious disease. It's evident that it will do great harm to society. What's even    10    (bad),some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends. Some people blame the Smartphone for the sad story, yet in fact people's weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.

8 . 语法填空。
It was raining lightly when I     1    (arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn’t care. A few hours     2    , I’d been at home in Hong Kong, with     3    (it) choking smog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.
I’d skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River     4     are pictured by artists in so many Chinese     5    (painting). Instead, I ‘d head straight for Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it’s only an hour away     6     car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.
Yangshuo     7    (be) really beautiful. A study of travelers     8    (conduct) by the website TripAdvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it     9    (regular) arranges quick getaways here for people     10    (live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Have you ever     1     (imagine)what the world looks like through the eyes of a bee? You can try it out with the MicaToolbox．
The MicaToolbox is a free plugin(插件)     2     (build)by scientists at the University of Exeter in Britain. Together with Image J, a popular piece of software for     3     (science)pictures, it can turn many image into animal vision. This means people can check out the pictures     4     appear in the brains of animals such as insects, birds, and fish.
The way we see our world depends on how our eyes deal     5     light. Human eyes have three types of photoreceptors(感光细胞)，and this makes us see     6     colors of red, green, and blue. Animals,     7     , might see it     8     (different). A cat’s vision is similar to a human who is color blind, while bees can see ultraviolet(紫外线)light, easily finding patterns on flowers that show them the way to honey.
As of now, the MicaToolbox has already been used in many research projects,     9     (look)at, for example, how animals hide     10     (they). You can download the software from researcher Jolyon Troscianko’s website http: // www. jolyon. co. uk／myresearch／image—analysis／image—analusis—tools.