I had to wait for them to call number 63 before I could get my food.     1     (give) a plate by a lady, I felt ashamed, embarrassed. I wondered if she thought that I was worse than her.   However, before I knew it, I received my food: a little container with a meal and some pudding. I did not have to look at the woman any more.     2     feeling of shame slowly disappeared.

Ivon suggested that we walk to Bayside. When we arrived, Ivon told me     3     desperately had to use the bathroom. He began to take     4     from his pocket that he wanted to leave with me. I thought it was a phone,     5     it was a knife. “You never know when you have to use this,” he said.

After about twenty minutes, Ivon came back. He suggested     6     we move nearer to the Miami River where it was cooler. I walked down the street,     7     (hold) the plastic bag with my food. We settled down under some coconut trees. He pointed out some police officers     8     (stand) in an area where the     9     (home) used to sleep next to a hotel.

“I guess they didn’t want us next to the hotel. You can’t have people looking     10     of their windows and seeing us,” he said.

Mi Fu, also known as Mi Fei, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher born in Taiyuan, Shanxi during the Song dynasty. In painting he gained     1     (recognize) for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style was considered as the “Mi Fu” style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink     2     (apply) with a flat brush. His poetry followed the style of Li Bai and his calligraphy that of Wang Xizhi.

He is best known for his calligraphy,     3     he is regarded as one of the four     4     (great) calligraphers in the Song dynasty. His style arises from that of calligraphers in earlier dynasties, but with a unique mark     5     his own.

As     6     famous calligrapher, Mi Fu was also noted as an eccentric (怪人). At times he    7     (call) “Madman Mi” because he was     8     (true) crazy about collecting stones. He even declared one stone to be his brother. He would bow to his “brother” rock     9     (show) the devotion given to older brothers. His son, Mi Youren, was also a famous painter in his father’s artistic style. Unlike his father, Mi Youren lived to be quite elderly,     10     (die) at the age of 79.

Scientists are utilizing (利用) new technology that allows them     1     (study) millions of small earthquakes in the hope    2     being able to predict (预测) the next big one.

The study comes out of the Los Alamous National Laboratory. It shows how advancing computer technology is now able to read 10 times the number of earthquakes previously       3     (record), as local experts of geology, Patrick Abbott explained.

“We     4     (know) since the 1800s that earthquakes come in swarms (群) — you get smaller ones, and a lot of aftershocks as well; but we have never been able to tell the difference between a foreshock     5     a big shock until afterwards, you look back over it,” explained Abbott. “you start with: here is the shaking from one earthquake, here is the shaking from another one, and try to sort     6     (they) all out and it turns out there is almost     7     (exact) 10 times as many earthquakes as we had thought.” The new technology showed some small earthquakes     8     had never been picked up before; like a magnitude (震级) of negative 2.0. Those earthquakes are considered invisible (看不见的) but by     9     (see) them collectively now, scientists can see where those happened before a 4.0 magnitude quake.

He said the study does not solve the problem of predicting earthquakes, but seeing when smaller ones are shaking gives     10     (researcher) a better shot at predicting a bigger one.

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How will geography affect your future? For some children around the world, the environment they grow up     1     has a huge impact on their lives. For example, children in Madagascar now stand to benefit from the large amount of sunlight their country receives. One non-governmental organization (NGO) is building 3D-printed schools     2     run on solar power.

Maggie Grout was just 15 years old when she founded her NGO-Thinking Huts. Now 22, she is celebrating the     3     (complete) of her NGO’s first 3D-printed school in Madagascar.

She     4     (lead) the entire process from start to finish, working with a professor from the university supporting her NGO. First, they scouted (搜寻) several locations and ultimately decided on Madagascar due to     5     need for schools and ability to provide     6     renewable energy source. Then Grout drew a design layout for the school considering many elements.

Next, Grout had to find the right architect and 3D printing firm for the job. Using an architecture-scale 3D printer, the school was built layer by layer form the ground up. This method of construction decreases the need for concrete (混凝土)     7     up to 50 percent and emits less CO₂,     8     (mean) the school can be completed with in a week.     9     (increase) sustainability, the process included sourcing local materials to build doors, windows and roof.

What’s more, the NGO employed a local labor force and trained them to use a 3D printer so that they can build more schools on their own in the future. She plans to print another school in a     10     (remote) part of the country where one in five children don’t have the chance to attend primary school.

6 . 阅读以下短文，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 Travels of Xu Xiake is a travel note     1     (create) by Xu Xiake,     2     geographer in the Ming Dynasty. After 34 years of travel, Xu Xiake left more than 600,000 Chinese words of travel notes. After his death, the materials were collected into Xu Xiake’s Travels by others.

This book is the first work to systematically investigate China’s geomorphology (水文地质学) and geology (地理学). In addition, the beautiful words also make it a masterpiece of literature,     3     is of great value in geography and literature.

The fresh and beautiful writing style used to describe things in The Travels of Xu Xiake     4     (make) readers love it. The     5     (describe) of the scenery is not only close to reality, but also very accurate. Modern science and technology has also confirmed the accuracy of Xu Xiake’s records of geological landform and rock landscape.

The historical value of The Travels of Xu Xiake covers a wide range     6     levels. Apart from the observation of mountain landform, he also has     7     (detail) records on hydrological (水文学) distribution, river source exploration and the experience of the relationship between landscape and climate.

From these rich     8     (content), this travel note can leave a name in history. It is considered to be a work     9     (cover) literature and Science in the late Ming Dynasty.

The day of the first chapter of The Travels of Xu Xiake (May 19) is     10     (official) named as China’s Tourism Day.

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

Science is humanity’s ongoing attempt to understand     1     the Universe works. Whether in the form     2     meticulous research, ingenious insight, or unexpected discoveries, the search for truth continues to challenge, often     3     (lead) to more questions than answers.

Throughout history, humans have always been driven to understand the workings of the world. In their quest for knowledge, philosophers in ancient Greece were the first     4     (try) to explain what they observed. However, many of their ideas were     5    (accurate), as their philosophical method lacked any experimental evidence.

Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BCE, for example, proposed that water is the primary substance of the cosmos, as he     6    (realize) that water is essential for life and that it exists on land, sea, and in the air. Two centuries later, Aristotle wrote widely on scientific subjects, from physics and biology to astronomy, laying the foundations for much of the work that has followed. However, he     7     made fundamental errors, such as arguing that     8    (heavy) objects fall faster than lighter ones, because he relied on thought and argument rather than empirical proof.

Despite being some distance from a reliable scientific method --- in     9     a hypothesis is proposed, systematically tested, and evaluated on the strength of the results ---     10     early thinkers made vital findings, Halley’s comet was observed in China in 240 BCE. and some 300years later, Zhang Heng explained eclipses and drew up an extensive catalog of stars.