2 . 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。

Yuan Longping,     1     (know) as the “world father of hybrid rice”, has won the life science section of the Future Science Prize, with two other scientists.

“There is no limit     2     scientific research, and I still have a dream     3     is hybrid rice going global and covering the whole world,” Yuan said in a video address at the award ceremony for the 2018 Future Science Prize in Beijing on Sunday. “I hope hybrid rice can be     4     (benefit) to people around the world and play a big role in     5     (enhance) world food security.”

Hybrid rice can feed an additional 70 million Chinese people every year,     6     (make) huge contributions to ending hunger in the country, Yuan said.

Yuan is a pioneer in hybrid rice research. He     7     (develop) the first hybrid rice in 1974.

The 88-year-old agricultural scientist shared the Life Science Prize along     8     Zhang Qifa and Li Jiayang for their pioneering work in breeding (培育) new rice    9     (vary) with high produce and better quality.

Touted (誉为) as “China’s Nobel Prize”, as both are privately funded, the Future Science Prize was instituted by a group of entrepreneurs (企业家) and scientists in 2016    10     (honor) top Chinese scientists in life science, physical science, mathematics and computer science.

3 . 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。

Koalas, the furry creatures appear so adorable and friendly. It’s no wonder people are     1     (concern) about the future of the species after the disastrous bushfires that     2     (destroy) parts of Australia earlier this year.

Australia’s native and unique wildlife are     3     constant threat from human activities and natural disasters. Recently, new technologies     4     (use) to track their movements to help them keep safe. Protecting the species is important because there are now possibly as few as 43, 000 koalas in the wild.

So, what makes them so ‘special’? Maybe we envy their ability to sleep for up to 22 hours a day! Or could it be their laid-back(悠闲的)    5     (appear) due to the fact that they mainly feed on juicy leaves,    6    take a lot of time and energy to digest.

    7     is amazing is that they drink very little water. So, how do they survive? Scientists have discovered that these wild mammals lick(藤)    8     (run) water from a tree trunk when it is raining. As the lead author of the research told the BBC, behavioural observations in the wild are important     9     (establish) what is normal or unusual, and to     10     (true) understand what animals need.

Despite the word ‘koala’ meaning ‘no water’ in the Aboriginal language, these sleepy creatures do need a drink sometimes. If we’re to encourage them to flourish, we need to conserve their habitat.

5 . 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。

Su Bingtian, 32, set a new Asian record by clocking 9.83 seconds in the     1     (men) 100m semi-final in the Tokyo Olympics,     2     (become) the first Asian in the new era to qualify for the Olympic 100m final.

With regards to his success, Su believes Scientific training is     3    (extreme) important. “Scientific training requires you to do it right instead of doing it a lot. In that way, athletes can save more strength in training and recover     4     (fast),” said Su.

According to Su, he did not understand some of the moves coaches asked him to do at the beginning. It took him years     5     (realize) how to do stamina allocation (体力分配) on the field. Since 2017, Su     6     (practice) under the guidance of his American coach Randy,     7     analyzed (分析) Su’s condition based on “champion model” from the start before making arrangements     8     Su to work on. Su said that played     9     key role in the process of his making breakthrough.

When asked if there would be another “Su Bingtian” in the future, Su answered with     10     (confident), “People in the future can definitely do what I can do. I’m looking forward to seeing it. All records are to be broken.”

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。

Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the last lunar month, referring     1     the start of celebrations for the Chinese New Year. It is a     2     (tradition) Chinese festival, a time for the ancient Chinese     3     (pray) to heaven and earth that there would be a bountiful harvest. Since the festival was held on the eighth day of the last month, people later used the number eight (“ba” in Chinese),     4     (give) us today’s Laba.

The Laba rice porridge is     5     most important part of the festival.     6     (general), the porridge     7     (contain) eight ingredients which can include glutinous rice, red beans, millet, Chinese sorghum, peas, dried lotus seeds and some other     8     (thing). The porridge must     9     (boil) for many hours and then offered as a sacrifice to the ancestors. This must be done before noontime. Also, it is a tradition     10     family members cat the porridge together. Then they leave some as a symbol of hope for a good harvest in the coming year.

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。

Pandas are not only a national treasure, but are loved around the world. The furry black-and-white animals have played     1     important role in the country's diplomacy (外交).

According to the Japanese Royal Annual, the practice dates back to the Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian sent a pair of pandas     2     the Japanese emperor. China renewed panda diplomacy in the 1950s when China sent two pandas to the Moscow Zoo. By 1982, China     3     (give) 23 pandas to nine different countries. However, most of them have died. China stopped     4     (give) away pandas in the early 1980s. Instead, the animals are loaned to other countries. In general, they are to be returned to China after 10     5     (year).

But these cute Pandas are much     6    （difficult）to survive in other countries than in China. Why? According to Xinhua, their eating habit is one main reason. Their nutrition     7    (most) comes from bamboo shoots. Adult giant pandas consume about 40 kilograms of bamboo daily . However,     8     takes 10 years for a new crop of bamboo to mature（成熟）, and many countries do not have an environment     9     is suitable for bamboo to grow.

Based on the idea of a community with a shared future for mankind （人类命运共同体）, countries are trying their best to protect them. "We don't own the pandas,     10     the whole world wants to help save the panda, and we do that through our knowledge exchange, " Steven Mon fort, director of the Smithsonian's National Zoo said.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

My decision to leave England and travel around the world was the best decision I’ve made. I     1     (learn) so much from this journey so far, and if I could go back, I wouldn’t do it any differently.

When I lost my job     2     the economic crisis, I decided enough was enough. Within two weeks I had sold all of my furniture, given up the apartment and collected    3     much extra money together as I could from jobs, deposits and so on. With a one-way ticket out of England     4     (book), I took off and never looked back.

I contacted a friend    5     worked on a Greek island in the summer seasons, and as it turned out, it was a much     6     (easy) task to find jobs and accommodation out there. With the limited money I had left, I booked a one-way ticket to the island of Zakynthos (扎金索斯岛) in the hope of finding some time to figure out my next move while earning some money.

I had only been on the island for three days and I found my accommodation and had a job offer. From then on, I settled into a “normal routine” for holiday island workers. Every day I went to the beach or pool     7     (share) gossip with my fellow English workers. Then I would be home to change for work at 5 pm. After working from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. with no break, I would finish and head to the closest bar for cocktails and meet the rest of my friends.

To be honest, I find it hard to recall many stories or things I did during this time, but I know I had a fun time     8     (do) it. Zakynthos became a four-month-long party where I had the best and worst time of my life.

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。

Zhao Wenying, a 65-year-old woman from Zhejiang Province, recently became the world’s oldest person     1     (pass) the professional Rubik’s Cube (魔方) B-level exam. She also holds the world record for a person over the age of 60 to solve the Rubik’s Cube blindfolded (蒙上眼睛的).

Before retirements Zhao was a math teacher. After she stopped working, she began to solve the Rubik’s Cube as     2     hobby. As a green hand，Zhao learned a little     3     (slow) at first. Yet she was determined to get good     4     it. She found some online courses and spent more than four years     5     (learn) to solve the Rubik’s Cube by herself.

Later, she learned how to do it blindfolded. “When I first learned to solve it blindfolded, I was     6     (curiosity) about how other people did it. I just thought if they could do it, I could too,” Zhao said. Then she found a professional to teach her. Though it is difficult for people in     7     (they) 60s to learn to solve the Rubik’s Cube blindfolded, Zhao did her best to learn the     8     (skill). During her learning process, she used up four notebooks in all.

“Everyone     9     (have) a dream and you must realize your dreams through hard work. While realizing dreams is a moment, following dreams is a process     10     happiness truly lies,” Zhao said.