1 . 请根据上下文选择合适的单词或短语填入相应的空白处，注意：必要时要变换形式。

for instance,   do his part,   set him apart from,   in contrast to,   be committed to, academic,   ambitious,   career,     commitment,   contract,     decade, distract,     furniture,     fortune,     incredible,     conservation

When young, Jack was very     1    , who worked     2    hard on scientific research. He     3     his career and barely     4     his attention to other things. After a couple of     5    , he made a big     6     and won a good fame in the     7    field. However,     8     most successful people, he is leading a simple life.     9    , he still lives in a small room with little     10    now. Last week, he signed a     11     with a charity concerned about    12    . He gave away all his money to the charity to     13     in environmental protection. It is his     14     to our environment that     15     other ordinary people.

2 . 用所给短语的正确形式填空

lead to            the other day                 come across            engage in          apart from due to             in despite of                 pick out                  run out of          put out

1. I think they are admirable because they ________ fires and save people’s lives.
2. Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year―more than any disease ________ AIDS.
3. We’ve just ________ an old friend we haven’t seen for ages.
4. ________ the fact that he worked very hard, he didn’t manage to pass the exam.
5. Too much work and too little rest can ________ illness.
6. It was only ________ the ongoing support of his wife, parents and friends that he eventually found the will to live again.
7. When people grow up, they will ________ different job.
8. All the important sentences in the article ________ in red lines.
9. I want to use the book that I lent you ________.
10. The men were soon very tired and were ________ food.