2 . 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.

Black Mamba a Legend That Will Never Die

It’s hard to believe Kobe is gone.

The NBA superstar,     1     great talent and win-at-all-costs spirit made him one of the most distinguished athletes in history, was the rare celebrity who didn’t need a last name.

Still youthful at 41, Bryant—who died in a helicopter crash on January 26 in California—looked     2     he could suit up any minute and drop 30 points on a rival(竞争对手)NBA team. It doesn’t seem that long ago that he was scoring 60 points in his final NBA game.

With a higyly decorated career spanning 20 years - all with the Lakers - Bryant is all but     3     (assure) of being a first-ballot inductee(第一候选人)into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, later this year.

Bryant,     4     18-time All-Star, was famous for his astonishing scoring ability and his championship pedigree(总冠军血统). He teamed up with fellow All-Star Shaquille O’Neal     5     (win) three consecutive NBA titles from 2000 to 2002, and later won two more rings, in 2009 and 2010.

Known as the “Black Mamba”, Bryant finished his career with 33,643 points in the regular season, which put him at No. 3 among NBA’s scoring leaders, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928)     6     LeBron James surpassed him just one day before Bryant’s untimely death.

“Kobe was so much more than an athlete. He was a family man, which was     7     we had most in common. Whenever we got together, I would hug his kids and he would embrace     8    .” O’Neal wrote on Twitter.

“Kobe was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are truly legendary(传奇般的),” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “But he     9     (remember) most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete     10     the very best of their ability.”

4 . 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.

Black Mamba a Legend That Will Never Die

It’s hard to believe Kobe is gone.

The NBA superstar,     1     great talent and win-at-all-costs spirit made him one of the most distinguished athletes in history, was the rare celebrity who didn’t need a last name.

Still youthful at 41, Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash on January 26 in California — looked     2     he could suit up any minute and drop 30 points on a rival(竞争对手) NBA team. It doesn’t seem that long ago that he was scoring 60 points in his final NBA game.

With a highly decorated career spanning 20 years — all with the Lakers — Bryant is all but     3     (assure) of being a first-ballot inductee (第一候选人) into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, later this year.

Bryant,     4     18-time All-Star, was famous for his astonishing scoring ability and his championship pedigree (总冠军血统). He teamed up with fellow All-Star Shaquille O’Neal     5     (win) three consecutive NBA titles from 2000 to 2002, and later won two more rings, in 2009 and 2010.

Known as the “Black Mamba”, Bryant finished his career with 33,643 points in the regular season, which put him at No. 3 among NBA’s scoring leaders, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928)     6     LeBron James surpassed him just one day before Bryant’s untimely death.

“Kobe was so much more than an athlete. He was a family man, which was     7     we had most in common. Whenever we got together, I would hug his kids and he would embrace     8    .” O’Neal wrote on Twitter.

“Kobe was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are truly legendary(传奇般的),” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “But he     9     (remember) most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete     10     the very best of their ability.”

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。

Success Stories

Mercy Cherono is one of many very successful young athletes from Kenya. She was born in 1991 in the village of Kipajit. She is the oldest of six children, and some of the other children in her family are also athletes. Her father, John Koech, runs a training camp in the village. During the school holidays, the camp     1    attract over 50 trainees.

Cherono started running in primary school and continued when she went to secondary school in the nearby town of Sotik. At the age of 16, she participated in the 2007 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships     2    (hold) in Mombasa, Kenya. It was her first international event.     3    the fact that she finished 23rd in the junior race, she had launched herself into international athletics. In the same year, at the World Youth Championships at Ostrava in the Czech Republic, she won a gold medal in the 3,000-meter race,     4    she ran in the championship record time of 8:53:94.

In the coming years, she continued to win gold medals at famous international championships. She is a two-time World Junior Champion in the 3,000-meter race,     5    (win) in Poland in 2008, and again in Canada in 2010. She also came in first in the 3,000-meter race at the 2009 Africa Junior Championships. However, Cherono is not just a middle-distance runner     6    she tried to sprint too early to the finishing line. After the race, Cherono claimed, “I     7    ( not repeat) that mistake again.”

The following year, at the same cross country race, Cherono proved     8    when she won a gold medal. Incredibly, all of the three runners-up were from Kenya, too. She and the Kenyan team came home to a hero's welcome. Her coach was excited and owed the success     9    she won the gold medal for the Kenya team to hard training and determination.”And her father said, “our child is a disciplined girl and the best     10    (take) instructions.” Perhaps one day Mercy Cherono will instruct future champions.

6 . 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 proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Learning Quickly from Mistakes

Mercy Cherono is one of many very successful young athletes from Kenya. She was born in 1991 in the village of Kipajit. She is     1     (old) of six children, and some of the other children in her family are also athletes. Her father, John Koech, runs a training camp in the village. During the school holidays, the camp    2     attract over 50 trainees.

Cherono started running in primary school and continued when she went to secondary school in the nearby town of Sotik. At the age of 16, she participated in the 2007 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships,     3    (hold) in Mombasa. Kenya. It was her first international event. Despite the fact     4     she finished 23rd in the junior race, she had launched herself into international athletics. In the same year, at the World Youth Championships at Ostrava in the Czech Republic, she won a gold medal in the 3,000-meter race,     5    she ran in the championship record time of 8: 53:94.

In the coming years, she continued to win gold medals at famous international championships. She is a two-time World Junior Champion in the 3,000-meter race,     6    (win) in Poland in 2008, and again in Canada in 2010. She also came in first in the 3,000-meter race at the 2009 Africa Junior Championships. However, Cherono is not just a middle-distance runner. At the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Jordan, she won a silver medal in the junior race. She lost to the Ethiopian long-distance runner Genzebe Dibaba     7     she tried to jump too early to the finishing line. After the race, Cherono claimed, "I will not repeat that mistake again.”

The following year, at the same cross-country race, Cherono proved herself when she won a gold medal. Incredibly,     8     of the three runners-up were from Kenya, too. She and the Kenyan team came home to a hero's welcome. Her coach was excited and owed the success of the Kenyan team    9     hard training and determination." And her father said, "our child is a disciplined girl who has always taken instructions." Perhaps one day Mercy Cherono     10     (instruct) future champions.

7 . 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 from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(1) Mr. Mancinelli emigrated from Italy to America with his family when he was eight and began working at a local barbershop when he was 11. He now still     1     (do) his job full time, cutting hair five days a week from noon to 8 p.m. In the past five years, he     2     (work) at Fantastic Cuts, a hair salon     3     (locate) in a small shopping center in New York City.

(2) The Rocket     4     (be) arguably the most popular NBA franchise in China since the team     5     (draft) Chinese superstar Yao Ming. Yao played his entire NBA career in Houston.

(3) Though it’s not mainstream, if you walk through major cities you may see a fan     6     (dress) in the sweeping robes and wide sleeves of Hanfu, which literally translates to “Han clothing.” This kind of clothing     7     (sell) well among certain young people.

(4) But the central issue     8     (remain): who is     9     (blame) for the unsustainable imbalance in the world economy --- and how can it     10     (tackle)?

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In 1915,Maurice E. McLoughlin, a well-known tennis player, published an instructional autobiography     1     (call) Tennis as I Played It. Two years earlier, McLoughlin had become the first American finalist at the Wimbledon tournament in England and tennis fans were excited to uncover the secrets of his success. Anticipation for McLoughlin’s story grew even more in 1914.Winning a number of major tournaments that year, he     2     (declare) the Number 1 tennis player in the world. When Tennis as I Play It     3     come out in 1915,no one had any reason to suspect that it might have been written by     4     else. However, the author of Tennis as I Play was not McLoughlin at all, but the as-yet unknown novelist Sinclair, his ghostwriter. Why, then, is Tennis as I Play It considered the tennis player’s book?

A ghostwriter is an author who writes a text that is officially credited to another author, and the history of such practices is     5     (long) than we might expect. In other words, Tennis as I Play It was not the first famous ghostwritten book, and it won’t be the last. Ghostwriter can happen for a number of reasons, and     6     its merits are debatable, it remains an acceptable practice in the publishing world. Some in the industry suggest that as many as half of non-fiction books are written with the help from ghostwriter.

Today, ghostwriting     7     take a number of different forms. It is perhaps most prominent in the autobiographies and memories of celebrities. Is the practice restricted     8     celebrity autobiographies and memories? No, ghostwriting is equally prominent in lesser-known spheres as well. Political speeches, for example, are often credited to the politician who delivers them, and then that politician just reads the speech from a teleprompter. In addition, many popular songs claim a popular singer or performer as songwriter; therefore they have been shaped more by a producer than by any of the credited songwriters.

Ghostwriting--whether we approve of or not--is here     9     (stay).Sometimes as in the case of Sinclair Lewis, the ghostwriters will eventually become famous authors in their own right. Much more often, we are moved by the writing of authors     10     names we will never learn.