1 . It is reported that many a new house _____ at present in the flood-stricken area.

A．are being built	B．have been built
C．will be built	D．is being built

2 . Time, ________(use)correctly, is money in the bank. （所给词的适当形式填空）

3 . —Could you please tell us about the culture of China right now?

—All right. I ________ to that.

A．come

B．have come

C．am coming

D．came

4 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当内容(1个单词)或填入括号内单词的正确形式。

I felt butterflies in my stomach when I started calligraphy class ten years ago. I wondered what I was doing there. At that moment, I couldn't have known that I'd just made one of the best     1    (choose) of my life.

I sat down and listened to the teacher introducing the tools of the craft. Then     2     was the first time for me that I had tried my hand. I took up the brush, using the correct gesture,     3    (dip) it in the ink, and carefully wrote "one"     4     Chinese.

Over     5     past five years, I have learned to make versions of well-known poems. Calligraphy seemed like a bridge,     6     connected me to authors from centuries past. Stroke(笔画) by stroke, word by word, I could feel their emotions, cherished my own peace and learned     7     (appreciate) my daily life.

Now, calligraphy is not just a hobby,     8    a way to remove myself from the worries of life. Rolling out the paper, I can write for a whole day. Calligraphy     9     (able) me to balance my busy schedule and live     10     (peace).

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。

The Water Splashing Festival of the Dai ethnic minority (少数民族),     1     falls in April, is the most important festival for the Dai people in the Dehong area of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province. It is the New Year for the Dai, a festival to send off the old and greet the new.

During the festival which lasts for three or four days, people     2    (dress) in their best clothes and take part in a     3    (various) of rich and colorful activities. Dragon boat racing, fireworks displays and other     4    (performance) such as peacock dance are held on the first day. And the most popular event is water-splashing on the second day. People splash water on each other,     5    (hope) to take away sickness and disasters. The wetter you get, the     6    (lucky) you will be. The last day is usually for the young people to play games as a way     7    (express) their love for each other.

The Water Splashing Festival     8    (vivid) exhibits the Dai’s respect     9     water and the culture of music and dance, food, and costumes. It is also a cultural bridge between Xishuangbanna and Southeast Asian countries that share     10     same festival culture of water-splashing.

6 . Can you imagine her________(cook) the dinner？(所给词的适当形式填空)

7 . 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。

A girl who has a gift for drawing

I went to an exhibition last month,     1     I admired a lot of wonderful paintings. Mary,     2    drawings were shown at the exhibition, is a model student     3    is often praised for her good work at school. As soon as we got into the exhibition hall     4     the paintings were on show, our eyes were caught by a very large picture     5    was hung on the wall in front of us. The horse     6    was drawn in the picture was exactly like a real horse. The man     7    was riding on it looked like a living man. It was the best picture     8     I had ever seen, and I should say Mary is the best young painter     9    I have ever heard of. However, you will be quite mistaken if you think that Mary was born a good painter. One of her teachers told me that it had taken Mary thousands of hours to learn and practise drawing before she became the best young painter     10    has ever been heard of in her hometown. But if you say that she has learned to be so good at drawing only by working hard at it, I will certainly agree with you.

8 . The government may need to ________________(修订) its policy in the light of this report. （根据汉语意思单词拼写）

9 . Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

1. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A．Go shopping	B．Find a house
C．Join his family	D．Take a vacation

2. The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_________.

A．a friend of his family	B．a Sydney policeman
C．a letter in his papers	D．a stranger in Sydney

3. What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Showed	B．Sent out
C．Delivered	D．Gave back

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．From India to Australia.	B．Living in a New Country
C．Turning Trash to Treasure.	D．In Search of New Friends.

10 . All her time _________ experiments, she has no time for entertainment.

A．devoted to doing	B．devoted to do
C．devoting to do	D．is devoted to doing