1 . 请根据句意，用所给的短语完成句子，其中有两个多余项。

correspond with / contribute to / appeal to / be aware of carry out / have access to / let alone / on behalf of

1. We hold this activity aiming to ________ people to save water.
2. One reason for her preference for city life is that she can ________ places like museums and restaurants.
3. People around the world would ________ the real situation of water shortage.
4. She made a direct appeal to the board for vacations ________ her colleagues.
5. The child can hardly read Chinese, ________ English.
6. To be honest, I couldn’t ________ the plan. Could you give me a hand?

2 . 用方框中的单词或短语的适当形式填空。

even though     be opposed to     call off     as though     agree with care for     spare       spot     consist of     shut down

1. I’m always forgetting to________ my computer before I leave my office.
2. Your story doesn’t________ what the police have told us.
3. My grandma stared at me________ I were a complete stranger.
4. The game was________ because of the bad weather.
5. Most bosses ________ employees working overtime. They don’t think it’s a good idea.
6. It can be hard for even a trained doctor to________ the symptoms of lung cancer.
7. Jack went ahead with his experiment________ he knew it was dangerous.
8. The International Olympic Committee________ members from many countries.
9. Could you possibly________ me a few minutes? I want to have a talk with you.
10. He thanked the nurses who had________ him while he was sick.

3 . 选词填空

be at risk；are related to；be to blame；set out；do one’s part

1. If we all ________ we can live a healthier life on Earth.
2. At five in the morning, he ________ to do his work.
3. When a new flu infects one human being, all ________.
4. It is obvious that you ________ for the accident.
5. Some types of cancer ________ traffic pollution.

4 . Directions: In this section, there is one passages with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A. suburbs             B. ratio                      C. resign                    D. ageing                      E. grappling           F. inequity             G. mortgage          H. commutes        I. outlandishly        J. departure

On every side, Britain’s politicians are     1     with problems of immense scale and nightmarish complexity. How to manage the     2     from the European Union? How to help a crumbling health service cope with an     3    , weakening population? How to deal with persistent regional deprivation? Yet one national scourge that holds back the economy and poisons politics is readily solvable — politicians just need to be brave enough to act.

That scourge is the cost of housing. The     4     of median house prices to earnings in England hit 7.7 in 2016, its highest recorded level. In the past four decades house prices have grown by more in Britain than in any other G7 country. Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade, after rising for most of the past century. In London housing is     5     dear: before the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling, it was the priciest city in the world for renters. The cost of housing has knock-on effects across the economy. As people are forced out to the     6    , cities become less dynamic. Workers waste time on marathon, energy-sapping     7    . People from the regions cannot afford to move to cities where they might find work. Businesses cannot clear land to build. It is perhaps no coincidence that Britain’s growing housing mess has coincided with stagnant productivity. All this has fostered a growing sense of     8    . Britons over the age of 65, a fifth of the population, own over 40% of the housing wealth held by owner-occupiers. Youngsters with rich parents can buy their first house thanks to the “Bank of Mum and Dad”. Everyone else must     9     themselves to renting small properties for life, or to continuing to pay off their     10     long after retirement.