1 . 课文填空

First, I had to think very carefully about which     1     I wanted to take. The school adviser helped me choose the     2     ones: maths, English,     3    , world history, and Chinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, but I hope to be     4     when I graduated. My adviser recommended that I should sign up for     5     literature because I like English and I’m good at it. I had to choose extra-curricular     6    , too. I tried to join the school football team, but the coach told me that I didn’t play well enough.     7    , I was unhappy, but I won’t     8    . I’ll find a way to improve on my own so that I can make the team next year. I joined a     9     club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food to homeless people in the     10    .

2 . 阅读下面短文, 根据首字母或者中文提示或是上下文在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On Jan 26, 2020, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, together with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others was killed in a helicopter c    1     near Los Angeles. He was at the age of 41.

He entered the NBA directly when out of high school in 1996 and led the Los Angeles Lakers to win five NBA championships. He       2    (正式地) retired after the season in 2016. Bryant accomplished a lot of matches in his 20-year career with the Lakers. Undoubtedly, he made a d    3    in NBA history.

“Kobe Bryant was a giant (巨人), who inspired, amazed, and thrilled people everywhere with his incomparable skills on the court, and made an i    4    on us with his     5    (智慧) and optimism as a father, husband, creative genius, and an ambassador for the game he loved,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted (在推特上发微博).

“He will live forever in the hearts of Los Angeles,     6    he? This is a moment     7    leaves us     8     (struggle) to find words that express the shock and sorrow we are all feeling right now,” Garcetti said.

NBA     9    (运动员), officials and fans mourned (哀悼) the loss of Bryant. People     10    (视为) him as a legend.

3 . 按照短文的内容和首写字母填上适当的单词。
Dear Jin Jing,

Your problem is a c    1     one among middle school students. Maybe the following a    2     can help you. First of all, b    3     in yourself. Your greatest problem is that you lack self-confidence. The first thing you must do is to s    4     at your classmates. One smile speaks louder about your wish to make friends than any words. Your smile will s    5     that you are f    6     to them. Next, t    7     talking with a student who is as shy as you or who s    8     the same interest as you. You can discuss your studies with a classmate and you can talk about your h    9     as well. If anyone is in trouble, you should be ready to help him or her. Once you have confidence, you can make as many friends as p    10    .   

Yours

Lily

6 . 根据课文内容填空

    1    time I have been changed quite a lot from a     2    machine in 1642 to an analytical machine in 1800s. At first I could only     3    difficult sums but gradually I could be made to work as a “universal machine ” to solve any difficult    4     problems.

7 . 根据课文内容填空

Both the Winter and the Summer Olympic Games are held on a regular    1    . The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games. Every country wants to host the Olympic Games because they thought it not only a     2     but also an honor to be chosen.

8 . 根据课文内容填空

The Amber Room, made of several tons of amber and  decorated    1    gold and jewels, has a(n)     2     history. At first, it    3    for the palace of Frederick I. Then in 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great, and later, the Czar made it serve as a small    4    hall.

9 . The last thirty years have     1     the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage     2    we have almost no rights at all. It was the truth. Black people could not     3     or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were     4    by white people.（根据句意填空）

10 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，根据第一单元及第二单元课文内容，在空格处填入适当的单词或词组（每空不超过3个单词，注意大小等）

Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk    1    the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds    2    in their power, it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face.

So why has English changed over time?    3    all languages change and develop when cultures    4    with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very    5    the English spoken today.