1 . 根据提示用本部分所学词汇的正确形式完成下列短文（每空一词）

Are you a “glass-half-empty” or a “glass-half-full” type of person? A study showed that optimists (乐观主义者) are more likely to live longer than those who have a(n)     1     (愁眉苦脸) in life. The theory goes that optimists may find it easier to control their emotions. Here are some people’s opinions about how to stay positive.

Vicki Siska has been through some stressful times but has managed to remain optimistic. “Music    2     (使我高兴起来), a sense of humour keeps me seeing the bright side of things, and I have good friends who love and care for me,” she said.

Humour also helped Pippa Kennedy stay positive. She watched a TV show named Dad’s Army to help her get through a bad     3     (心情). “I also think being grateful for what you have and lots of chocolate help,” she added.

Sue Oakley Dunn says she remains positive and healthy because she does “what makes my soul sing”. She has plenty of hobbies to do for     4     (娱乐). “It works for me,” says Sue.

As well as the benefits of friendship and laughter, Robyn Black, who does yoga and has better access to    5     (医疗保健), recommends that staying fit and healthy is quite     6     (必不可少的).

2 . 根据提示用本部分所学词汇的正确形式完成下列短文（每空一词）

Sports like American football and ice hockey get most of the attention when it comes to concussions (脑震荡) and other forms of brain injury. But soccer is a(n)     1     (激烈的) sport for which the head can be as important as the foot.

Heading the ball is a key soccer skill. But a new study finds that players who head the ball frequently are more likely to suffer     2     (长久的) brain injury and damage their memory than players who are less likely to use their heads.

“For many people, it’s beyond belief that a slight injury could be a problem,” said Dr. Michael Lipton, an expert of neuroradiology (神经放射学) in New York City.

Lipton and his team interviewed 37 adult soccer players from New York City and took high-tech scans (扫描) to     3     (检查) their brains. They also asked the players how often they played soccer and how often they headed the ball, and they gave the players some neurocognitive tests.

The     4     (结果) was that the researchers found no link between small amounts of heading and players’ attention, ability to control their       5     (速度) when they move, or ability to manage complex thinking tasks. However, Lipton warned players not to ignore the possible risks of heading the ball too many times. Players could safely head the ball 885 to 1,550 times a year. It took almost 1,800 times a year for players to have trouble with their memory.

3 . 根据提示用本部分所学词汇的正确形式完成下列短文。

Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot (吉祥物) of the Beijing Winter Olympics, is a cute panda whose     1     (外形) is full-body “shell” made out of ice. It has     2     (使留下深刻印象) people with its wonderfully     3     (生动的) appearance and become popular in China.

Have you ever wondered why it is called Bing Dwen Dwen? In Mandarin (普通话) bing has several meanings, though the most common is “ice”. The character also symbolizes purity (纯洁) and strength, while dwen dwen means “strong and lively”.

Do you know why the mascot wasn’t named Bing Dundun in English? To read Bing Dundun correctly, you would have to be familiar with the pinyin system, which is       4     (难懂的) for foreigners, or the resulting pronunciation would be       5     (与……大不相同) the Chinese pronunciation. Moreover, “dun” is a word in English meaning “to ask someone to pay what they owe you again and again”. It also means “a dull greyish-brown color”. Both meanings don’t show goodwill. So, the Chinese Olympic Committee decided to change the name in an entirely new way.

There are some immediate advantages. The biggest is that the tone has been mixed into the spelling of each syllable (音节). The transliteration (音译) of Bing Dwen Dwen this time does work and is     6     (值得做的). It     7     (确保) foreign athletes and fans call Dwen Dwen “d-when d-when”, which is as close to the original “doon-doon” as an average English speaker can get.

4 . 根据提示用本部分所学词汇的正确形式完成下列短文。

The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American film. It tells how an African-American single parent and his five-year-old son struggle to survive and fulfill the American dream in San Francisco. The screenplay is based on the best-selling     1     (经典作品) — the 2006 book of the same name written by Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe.

The Pursuit of Happyness is based on the true story of Chris Gardner. In the film, Chris Gardner is trying to make a living by selling medical equipment. His wife Linda is working two jobs to help pay his    2     (债务). Their five-year-old son, Christopher, goes to a daycare center. On the outside of the building, the term “the pursuit of happiness” is misspelled. The father has a(n)     3     (观念) that little details like this make all the difference in life. The pressure is too much for Linda to handle so she decides to take a job in New York and leaves Christopher and Chris.

Chris’s persistence     4     (取得成功) when he is chosen for an internship (实习) program. The     5     (雇主) does not pay any salary and only one of the 20 interns will eventually be hired. Meanwhile, a few of his machines are stolen, and he and his son are not allowed to live in their apartment anymore. Chris makes a brave move to land a new account by visiting a CEO at home.     6     (不过), the CEO tells him that he won’t allow him to handle his account because he is so new to the business. But the CEO’s       7     (拒绝) doesn’t destroy the intern’s hope and Chris achieves his dream at last.

The film does score some emotional points in its portrait of an African-American male who turns out to be a(n)     8     (非凡的) single parent. He takes care of his son with       9     (和蔼) and love, which is     10     (值得……) respect.

5 . 根据汉语提示完成对话。
(Situation: Danny and May are high school students. Danny is an exchange student from the United States. He wants to learn more about traditional Chinese culture, so May brings him to the Hall of Ancient China.)
Danny: May, is this the Hall of Ancient China?
May: Yes.     1     (看看这些历史文物) here, amazing!
Danny: Why are they all in glass boxes?
May: For protection. Some relics will turn to dust     2     (如果暴露在空气中).
Danny: So there isn’t air in the glass boxes?
May:    3    (没有). They are all vacuumed.
Danny: I wonder how old these things are, thousands of years?
May: Yeah,     4     (它们都是来自古代).
Danny: Hey, look at the three­leg cup. I’ve seen it on TV.
May: The bronze cup was made 4,000 years ago.    5     (这可是无价之物)!
Danny: Yeah, it has no value at all. Who will use this cup today?
May: Danny, priceless means so valuable that you can’t put a price on it.
Danny: Oh, it does?

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Rabindranath Tagore, born on May 7, 1861 in India, was a Bengali     1    , short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the     2     of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional     3     based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing Indian     4     to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for     5    .

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William Shakespeare, also     1     as “Bard of Avon”, lived from about 1564, up to 1616 in England. He is     2     as the greatest of all English writers of all times. His extant works     3     of 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems, and a few other shorter verses. However he is     4     mostly for his dramas that have transcended time in the truest sense. The plays of Shakespeare have been     5     into almost all languages of the world, and are the inspirations behind a whole gamut of performing arts.

9 . 阅读下面短文, 根据篇章语境, 以及首字母或中文提示, 填入最佳单词, 并注意使用其正确形式, 使短文内容完整.

Agriculture is a fundamental     1     (概念) that     2     (占据) a central role in our lives. People e     3     a variety of methods to plant crops and raise livestock, assuming that nature is a r     4     partner. However, when     5     (极为恶劣的) weather conditions strike, such as droughts or storms, these a     6     can be called into question. Crop yields may d     7     and farmers     8     (怀疑) their thoughts. To adapt and thrive, farmers are c     9     that they must continually learn and apply new techniques and practices. Learning to     10     (消化) this knowledge is essential for green agriculture. By doing so, they not only improve their own livelihoods but also contribute to the global food supply.

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Lifestyles differ from person to person. Some people, known as     1     natives, do a wide     2     of things online, such as     3     with friends, watching misreading updated news and interesting articles and so on. Take shopping as an example--it’s so     4     to compare quality and prices before buying. Some other people live their lives as go-getters. They tend to     5     goals when setting out to do something. Then they make a schedule and try hard to achieve it. As for life choices, in the case of Zhang Tian, he chose to be a     6     teacher in Guizhou province instead of going to big cities. Despite the poor facilities and unstable supplies of power and water, he has improved the learning lives for the students by introducing more attractive subjects like music, art and PE to the school.

    7     made him feel satisfied was that his students were able to read, speak and write in English and became more     8     in learning. Besides all these, he contacted charity organizations to set up a library and help sell local products online. As a result of the     9     he made, he became very popular among the villagers and was treated as one of them. Zhang Tian intended to stay for another year. He feels so happy that he     10     his heart, even though it may not be what others expected of him.