2 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

In the USA the high school graduation ceremony is of great     1    (important). 12th-grade students, or seniors, who are about 17 or 18 years old, look forward to     2    (attend) this event.

The graduation ceremony itself takes place at the end of May or beginning of June,     3     usually includes music, awards, and a guest speaker. After the speeches, students walk to the front of the room to receive their diplomas from the headmaster. Students start preparing for graduation a long time     4     it happens. They order rings designed     5    (especial) for their class.

    6     tradition is to have their photographs taken. These photographs are used for the class yearbook, which is a     7    (print) book about all the students in the school. Students have special cards called announcements printed to send to friends and relatives to tell them about their graduation. The cards often include     8     invitation to the ceremony. If you receive it, you should send a present     9     money to the graduate. A few weeks before the ceremony, the students     10    (measure) for the cap that they will wear at the ceremony. After the ceremony, families usually have graduation parties for friends and relatives. It’s a day and a night that high school seniors remember for a long time.

3 . 语法填空

Jan Tchamani, an English teacher in Birmingham, UK, suddenly developed a serious illness. She found herself out of work and     1     (stick) at home. After a while, she discovered that     2     (surf) the Internet could help her feel less lonely and bored. She could do everything online. She also joined     3     online group where she could talk about her problems and get support and advice     4     others. She realized that one of the greatest     5     (benefit) of the Internet was its ability to remove the distance     6     usually exists between people.     7     (inspire) by the people online, she started an IT club and taught some older people how to use Internet. She and her friends organise events and collect money     8     (pay) for private teachers. Jan has started taking online classes to learn more about how to use the Internet to make society     9     (good). Jan’s life has been     10     (great) improved by the Internet!

4 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once there lived a rich man     1     wanted to do something for the people of his town.     2     at first he wanted to find out whether they deserved (值得) his help.

In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed     3     very large stone. Then he     4    (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.

“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of     5     complained about the stone but not tried to remove it. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone,     6    (say) to himself: “The night     7    (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along       8       (late) in the dark and will fall against the stone.”                            

Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his     9     (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last!     10     the stone, he found a bag of money.

5 . 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。

The official medals of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games    1    (display) on October 26th. The organizing committee introduced the medals-called tong xin,     2    means togetherness that day.

The medals are inspired by yu bi, a Chinese jade artifact     3    (date) back 5, 000 years. A total of five of this kind of jade have been unearthed from a tomb up to now.

Each medal     4    (have) carvings of the Olympic rings on one side. The rings represent the pursuit of unity     5    harmony, and they also represent the Olympic values of solidarity and inclusiveness. Carvings of cloud patterns, an element     6    (use) on the torch of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, snowflakes and ice markings fill the outer rings.     7    other side of the medals has the Beijing 2022 emblem at the center. Visually, it looks quite plain at first glance, while details such as the carving of clouds and snowflake patterns as well as the uneven surface have made it     8    (special) than expected, according to the committee.

Gaining     9    (inspire) from jade for a second time honors the Chinese capital’s unique position as the first city    10    (host) the Summer and Winter Olympics.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或所给单词的正确形式。

My husband and I were paying a visit    1    my parents in Tucson. We went to a fast-food restaurant for dinner together. My husband went to the counter     2    (order) dishes and I stood with my parents. My dad is 90 years old．He can hardly see very well and walks with a stick. I was scanning the restaurant,     3    (wait) to sit at the first table that was     4    (convenient) than others. A woman who was sitting with her son made eye contact with me and asked me to come to her. With a     5    (puzzle) look on my face, I pointed to myself and said, “Me?” She     6    (nod) and said, “Yes, you.” I walked to the table and she said, “Bring your family here. I can finish eating at the counter. My son is in     7    hurry to leave anyway.” My eyes     8    (fill) with tears as she wiped down the table and guided my dad to the seat. I always believe that there are     9    (natural) kind people in this world. This woman has set a good example to her son,     10    is a really lucky guy.

8 . 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。

Beijing-based Xiaomi shipped     1     (many) smartphones worldwide than Apple during the second quarter of this year,     2     (go) beyond the iPhone maker for the first time, according to a report. Xiaomi was responsible for 17 percent of all smartphone shipments during the April through June period, while Apple shipped 14 percent, according to the report    3     market analyst Canalys. Meanwhile, South Korean giant Samsung held onto the No.1, with 19 percent of shipments.

The report comes as Apple pushes high-end devices like the iPhone 12, some of     4     come with sticker prices of more than $ 1,000. Xiaomi, by contrast, sells phones that are 75 percent cheaper than iPhones and 40 percent cheaper than Samsung devices, giving    5     company a leg up in the developing world, according to Canalys research manager Ben Stanton.

Though Samsung held onto the top in the second quarter,   Xiaomi appears to be gaining    6    (popular) on and on. The Beijing-based company’s worldwide shipments increased by 83 percent year-over-year rapidly     7     (compare) to 15 percent at Samsung and 1 percent at Apple.

“Xiaomi already has its sights set on the next prize-taking the place of Samsung     8     (become) the world’s largest dealer,” said Stanton. “Xiaomi is growing its overseas business     9     (quick),” Stan-ton said, adding that its shipments increased more than 300 percent year-over-year in Latin America and 150 per-cent in Africa.

This is not the first time a Chinese phone maker    10     (win) Apple. Shenzhen-based Huawei went beyond Apple in smartphone sales for the first time in 2018.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

“The dangerous thing about lying is people don’t understand how the act changes us,” says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University. Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two. Lying is even considered     1     developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, with sophisticated planning and attention     2     (require). But, for most people, lying gets increasingly limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

According to Ariely, lying takes work. In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gains while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine. Some people told the truth instantly. But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal(颅腔壁的)control network, which is involved in complex thinking. It suggested that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and after thinking about it,     3     (choose) the latter. For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural(神经的)reward centers were     4     (active) when they won money were less likely to be among the group of liars, and the opposite was seen among those so-called habitual liars, suggesting that lying     5     have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie. We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we see others being dishonest. And we are less likely to lie when we think others are watching. “We     6     a society need to understand that, when we don’t punish lying, we increase the probability of     7     happening again, influencing all of us,” Ariely said.

In a 2016 study, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people’s brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future. When people told a lie, the scientists noticed a burst of activity in their amygdala, a crucial part of the brain that produces fear and guilt. But when scientists had their subjects     8     (play) a game in which they won money by deceiving their partner, they noticed the negative signals from the amygdala began to decrease. “Not only that,” said Ariely in an interview with National Science Channel, “     9     people tended to lie more when they faced no consequences for dishonesty. This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies,     10     get bigger over time.”

10 . 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。

When you are in England you must be very careful in the streets     1    the traffic drives on the left. Before you cross a street you must look to the right first     2    then the left. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from     3     , the streets are very busy. Traffic is the most     4     (danger) then.When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful,     5    . Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful.    6     a look first, or you will go     7     wrong way. In many English cities, there are big buses     8    two floors. Your can sit on the     9     (two) floor, from     10    you can see the city very well. It’s very interesting.