2 . 阅读短文，用方框中所给词语或短语的正确形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空只能填一个单词或一个短语，每个单词或短语限用一次）

look back, decide, compete, one, scare, pride, sit, kid, quick, short

A group of boys stood around a tree. “What a tall tree!” they said to each other, “It would be exciting to climb to the top.”

The group of boys made a     1     to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree fastest. Their mothers were     2     not far away, looking at their kids as they played.

One of the     3     was David. He was the     4     boy in the group. Nobody thought he would win the     5    .

Then the game started. All of the boys tried to climb as high as they could. Although the others climbed faster than David at     6    , he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end.

His mother was     7     to see this. She asked, “David, how did you reach the top of the tree so     8    ?”

“It was easy.” David said. “The other kids kept looking down as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got     9     and were afraid of looking down. However, I looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top.

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without     10    , we are more likely to reach our goals.

4 . 选词填空

organise,   curious,   calm,   explore,   senior high,   pressure,   eagerness,   breathe

1. There are many differences between junior high school and __________ school,   so many students may feel nervous in the beginning.
2. I’m upset these days, because I’m not able to handle the __________ of life very well.
3. Tom is such a(n)__________ boy that he is always asking all kinds of strange questions.
4. I tried to __________ her down, but she just kept crying and said that she wanted to see her mother.
5. There are many new subjects in high school, so it’s important for students to learn how to __________ their work.
6. Please stop smoking. The meeting room is filled with smoke now, and we could hardly __________.

5 . 选词填空

1. He makes his pupils ____________ knowledge through various kinds of interesting activities.
2. Having lived abroad for many years, many Chinese still ____________ the Spring Festival every year.
3. If you want to visit the museum, I ____________ that you go there by taxi.
4. In this section, I’ll ____________ some of these differences.
5. It is your efforts, not your intelligence, that ____________ your future success.

6 . 选词填空

1. Could you help me look up this word in the dictionary when it is ____________ for you?
2. A great number of people have been killed in the accident but the ____________ number of victims hasn’t been announced yet.
3. We are doing our best although the resources we can get are very ____________.
4. To get more detailed information of the community, they decided to interview each ____________ member.
5. Luckily, people gradually become ____________ of the importance of education.

7 . 选词填空

1. You’d better make up a ____________ for your everyday homework.
2. He is in the library gathering ____________ for what he is writing.
3. Have you got any ____________ to make on the recent development?
4. For many nations, blue is a ____________ of protection and religious beliefs.
5. I’d like to make you a suit to your ____________.

8 . 从方框中选出合适的短语, 用其正确形式完成句子。短语中有两项为多余选项。

share with   graduate from   wash away   concentrate on   pass down   as much as sb. can    turn around   instead of   refer to…as…   leave behind   on Earth   in harmony with

1. You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place________.
2. ________, I saw a white-haired man.
3. The flat terraces catch the rainwater and prevent the soil from________.
4. Lisa ________ our school last June and is about to go to college in New York.
5. While I was ________ photographing this amazing scene, I suddenly had a feeling that I was being watched.
6. “World Trade Organization” can ________ WTO, and ASAP is short for “as soon as possible”.
7. Mum wouldn’t have been happy if I’d________ Jonny ________.
8. For example, ________saying “It’s raining heavily”, you could say “It’s raining cats and dogs”.
9. Alistair says that they encourage each other ________ when they train.
10. What is most significant is the way in which people have worked ________ nature to make these terraces and grow rice.

9 . 根据句意，选择单词填空。

1. Most students choose one ____________ area for research.
2. I am not joking. Those were his ____________ words.
3. They’re ____________ to get back to work as soon as possible.
4. He is a journalist with an extremely ____________ mind.
5. He was ____________ about how his daughter would react.

10 . 根据句意，选择单词填空。

1. As far as I’m ___________, nobody has done anything about it.
2. This job is so boring. I wish I could do something more ___________.
3. The issues being discussed here are not ___________ to the US.
4. My drinking was starting to have a ____________ effect on my work.
5. He decided to leave school for ____________ reasons.