1 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。

Mo Li Hua is a popular Chinese folk song     1    dates back to the 18th century. It’s one of the most well-known Chinese songs both in China and abroad. It’s a nice song    2    beginners to learn due to its simple lyrics. The melody of this song has become well-known among Western listeners for several reasons. One is that it    3    (sing) by Giacomo Puccini in his opera called Turandot in 1926. It was also used in the Olympics opening ceremony in China.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and asks his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me     1       you see. “

“I see millions of stars. “ replies Watson.

“And what do you deduce from that?”

Watson thinks     2     (careful) for some time. “Well, according to the studies on astronomy, it tells me that there are potentially billions of planets. According to the scientific measurement of time, I deduce the time is probably a quarter past three. According to the current atmosphere, I forecast that we     3     (have) a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Holmes?”

Holmes is silent for a minute. “Watson,” he says, “someone     4     (steal) our tent!”

3 . 根据原文填入正确的单词或短语,答案可能是一词或多词。

Lesson 36: Debbie Hart is going to swim     1     the English Channel tomorrow. She is going to set out from the French coast at five o'clock in the morning. Debbie is only eleven years old and she hopes to     2     a new world record. She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to     3    .

Lesson 37: …     4     the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fantastic modern buildings     5     by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching anxiously     6     the new buildings go up.

Lesson 38: … After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a     7    . He acted

    8     he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was     9     he could bear. … The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had thought of everything     10     the weather.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。（根据所学的课文内容填空）

The full name of England is the     1           2     of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It     3     of four parts. They are England ,Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. People always think Wales is a part of England. The flag of the UK is called the Union Jack.   The four countries have different     4    and legal systems as well as different football teams. England is the largest of the four countries and it is     5     into   three parts. Most of the people settled in the South , but most of the large industrial cities are in the Midlands and the North.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。（根据所学的课文内容填空）

John Snow was a well-known doctor   in London in the 19^th century. He wanted to find the c    1     of cholera in order to control it. In 1854 when a cholera     2     out, he began to gather information. He marked on a map where all the dead people had lived and he found that many people who had     3     the dirty water from the     4     died. So he decided that the polluted water carried cholera. He suggested that the source of all water supply be examined and new methods of dealing with polluted water be found. Finally, “King Cholera” was    5    .

6 . 课本原文填空

After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live     1     a few hundred kilometers of the USA border, and    2     Canada’s population is only     3     over thirty million, but now they were     4     to see such an empty country. They went     5     a wheat-growing province and saw farms that     6     thousands of acres. After dinner, they were back in an     7     area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the     8     that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more    9     water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total fresh water, and much of     10     is in the Great Lakes.

7 . 根据课文内容，填入适当形式的单词。

At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people     1     ( speak) English. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because       2     that, English began to     3     (speak) in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before.

Native English speakers can understand each other even     4     they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this example:

British Betty: Would you like to see my     5    ?

American Amy: Yes, I’d like to come up to your apartment.

So why has English changed     6     time? Actually all languages change and develop     7     cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English     8    (speak) in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based more     9    German than the English we speak now.

Then gradually   between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those     10     ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary.

8 . 课文背诵

1)     1    with these physical changes,there come many psychological changes.Boys and girls     2    to be different in this     3    Many boys become risk-takers---they want to find their own limits and the limits of the world around them,but may not have the     4     to make good choices in their     5    .At the same time,girls often want someone-- anyone--to talk to,as they try to deal with their strong feelings.

2)Some people in Dover also say that they saw aliens that night."It's happened to me!'said Mrs.Mavis Wood."The aliens took me     6    the UFO so that they could do research on me. Luckily,they returned me home without any     7    The whole experience was terrible! I haven't been sleeping well since I returned home.I think Justin was taken away by them,too. When asked about the     8    that Justin was taken by aliens,Detective Sam Peterson, who has taken charge of the case,told joumnalists,'Sometimes people make up such amazing stories. There's really no hard     9    that aliens took him.So,     10    we have not dismissed the idea,we are looking into other......

9 . 根据课文内容完成以下空格，每空1到3词。

(1). The amber which    1     had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey. The design of the room was in the     2     popular in those days. It was also a treasure     3     gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.

(2). I have become very important in communication,     4     and trade. I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones     5     help with medical operations....Anyhow, my     6     is to provide humans with a life of high quality…

(3). “What are you doing?” asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself     7     mosquitoes,” it replied. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It     8     a powerful drug which     9     mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and     10     how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.”

10 . 原文填空（每空只写一词）

In Britain and the USA, the managing directors     1     presidents of big companies are often     2     of being ‘fat cats’, i.e. bosses     3     salaries are often twenty-five times more than the company’s     4     worker. When times are hard and workers are     5     off, they receive very little. Departing directors, on the other hand, get big golden    6    .     7     contrast, in Japan the ratio between the     8     and lowest paid is normally a more modest seven or eight to one. In     9    , large Japanese companies have the     10    of taking care of all their employees, and the concept of a ‘job for life’ is still, by and large, true.