1 . 选词填空

have an effect on　make use of　in such a way   on the edge of　be curious about　narrow escape pick up　fail to　on one’s way　at the moment

1. He _________ recognise the painting painted by his wife.
2. You might as well _________ the material given by the professor.
3. Your words _________ his decision to be a scientist.
4. I cannot bear to be treated _________.
5. When I woke up, I found my cat sleeping _________ the bed.
6. He experienced a _________ when the fire broke out last night.
7. I helped an old granny when I was _________ home.
8. The teacher is very busy _________ so please call him back later.
9. I have always _________ when the Earth was formed.
10. It is easy to _________ some phrases but difficult to be fluent in the language.

2 . 选词填空

keep in touch, pick up, at the moment, cheer sb.up, refer to, with the help of, what’s more, hear from, fall asleep, make use of

1. I hope we can do business together, and look forward to ______you soon.
2. Nowadays, it’s easy for a child to ______some basic knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.
3. Jack was in low spirits those days and his friends did all they could to ______.
4. After working and playing together for a week, many campers became friends and they ______since then.
5. —Do you fancy going to the cinema with me now?
—Sorry.I have to prepare for tomorrow’s lessons._________, it is freezing cold outside.
6. While reading, you should not always _________a dictionary to find the meaning of each new word.
7. If I had taken your advice, I wouldn’t make this mistake ________.
8. When I am tired, I will listen to some quiet music, which makes me _________very quickly.
9. We could see nothing at a distance of two meters in the thick fog, so we got lost.Luckily, _____ BDS, we finally found the way.
10. You must _______any opportunity to practise English.

3 . 语法填空

apply for     in shock     other than     refer to     be addicted to     make fun of

1. Once you have a taste of Hangzhou’s tea, you will ____________ it.
2. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to bold walls together ____________ the perfect fit of the stones.
3. It’s bad manners to ____________ a person with disabilities.
4. I ____________ several jobs and was offered one.
5. I’m still ____________ after bearing that bad news.
6. My teacher demands that we should ____________ a dictionary to check the spelling.

5 . 选择适当的短语并用其正确形式填空。

contribute to       make a difference       shoot up        at a loss          bring out make the most of       get into shape       take on       rise to                 let go of

1. Their kids _________________ since I last saw them. They are much taller now.
2. High thin clouds _________________ heating while low thick clouds cool Earth.
3. Following these tips, you’ll know what is worth seeing, so that you can _________________ your time at the museum.
4. For those who want to _________________, rock climbing is a fun and effective way.
5. Nearly all educators believe that a challenging situation often _________________ the best qualities of a person.
6. He was determined _________________ the challenge even though it was very tough.
7. Although we lived in the city, my father never _________________ his youth as an Irish farm boy.
8. Individual power is small, but you can do several things easily _________________ to your community.
9. Without my beloved beaches and endless blue-sky days, I felt _________________ and out of place.
10. Friendship has a double advantage—happiness _________________ a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. reminder B. partner C. non-fiction D. setting E. survival F. acknowledges G. tastes H. symbolic I. value J. meaning K. grasps

What makes the perfect winter read?

As the weather turns and the sky darkens, autumn and winter can often feel like the perfect time for curling up with a good book.

But I wonder if it’s just me who finds that my reading     1     seem to change along with the seasons? The books I might choose to read in some sunny garden are very different from the ones I want when the wind is blowing outside and a few precious hours of watery daylight are the best we can hope for.

I always     2     writing that evokes (唤起) time and place, and in the midst of the coldest, darkest part of the year, I want more than ever for a book to be “a ball of light” in my hands, as Ezra Pound famously once put it — a(n)     3     of life and love.

I also need a certain degree of comfortness in a winter read — something that will keep me warm when the weather won’t! Give me gothic (哥特式的) building in the snow, with heroines whose passions burn brightly. Or let me escape completely, into some fantasy     4     — but I’d still like my forests icy and pine smelling. Give me stories of     5     and re-birth. Remind me that this time of year has     6    , too.

Katherine May’s beautiful, poetic deep thought on the season, Wintering, does precisely this. Seemingly, it’s     7    , combining aspects of her life with more universal thoughts on how we might winter well. But there’s a lyrical (抒情的),     8     quality to the writing that confuses plain concepts like “genre”. She     9     that in winter we need different tools to get us through the season and it also offers one such tool, since Wintering itself is the perfect guide book and     10     to see you through until spring.

That’s why books that help me see the beauty of the season will always be high on my list of winter reads.

7 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. certainly          B. previously       C. survived     D. categorize   E. version     F. confirming G. specializing   H. count            I. posed          J. overstated   K. manuscripts

Rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold for almost $10 million Wednesday, becoming the most expensive work of literature ever to appear at auction, according to Christie’s.

The collection of 36 plays, published shortly after the playwright’s death, is one of only five complete copies still in private hands, the auction house said.

The First Folio is considered among the most important collections of literature in the English language. It contains 18 works that had not     1     appeared in print, and would otherwise have been lost to history, including “Macbeth” and “Twelfth Night.”

Published in 1623 by the actors John Heminge and Henry Condell, friends of the English playwright, the book is formally titled “Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,” based on the three genres the pair used to     2     the plays.

The     3     sold on Wednesday was the first complete copy to appear at auction since one went for $6.1 million in 2001. It was put up for sale by Mills College in Oakland, California, which had kept the item in its collection since 1977.

After a six-minute bidding battle between three telephone buyers, the item was purchased by book dealer and antiquarian Stephan Loewentheil for $9.98 million. In a phone interview following the sale, he described Shakespeare’s original folios as the “holy grail of books.”

“(The First Folio) is the greatest work in the English language,     4     the greatest work of theater, so it’s something that anyone who loves intellectualism has to consider a divine object,” said Loewentheil, who owns stores     5     in rare books and photography in New York and Maryland.

In a press statement, head of books and     6     at Christie’s, Margaret Ford, said it was “befitting” that Shakespeare’s work now holds the auction world record “given its tremendous significance and influence around the globe.”

Although around 750 copies of the First Folio were produced, just 235 are known to have     7     to the present day. Of these, only 56 are considered to be complete, with almost all of them now held by institutions in the US and UK, according to Christie’s, whose sale catalog said the item’s “extraordinary rarity ... cannot be     8    .”

Believing that the copies in private hands might “never to come to market again,” Loewentheil said that there may not be “too many more chances left” to obtain a copy.

The book came in a binding dating back to the early 19th century. It was sold alongside a letter by Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone from 1809     9     its authenticity.

The final sale price exceeded the auction house’s estimates, which had predicted top bids of $4 million to $6 million. A number of other items at Wednesday’s sale sold for seven-figure sums — including a Ming dynasty carpet that went under the hammer for over $1.7 million — providing further evidence that the top end of the auction market is weathering some the challenges     10     by the pandemic.

“For the great objects that really matter, the markets for art, literature and photographs have remained very strong,” Loewentheil said.

8 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. engagement B. specific C. observed   D. wandering   E. resembled F. follow G. implements H. finding I. improvements J. translate K. require

Brain Training through Virtual Reality

Scientists have long sought to prevent sharp memories from dulling with age, but the problem remains persistent. Now new research suggests virtual reality might help older people recall facts and events based on     1     details.

The study involved 42 healthy older adults from the San Francisco Bay Area. Half spent a dozen hours over four weeks playing a virtual-reality game called Labyrinth; they wore headsets and walked in place,     2     virtual neighbourhoods while completing tasks. The other half, in the control group, used electronic tablets to play games that didn’t     3     finding positions or recalling details. After 15 sessions, the latter performed roughly the same as before on a long-term memory test based on picking out objects they had seen about an hour earlier. But the Labyrinth players’ scores rose, and they were less frequently tricked by objects that     4     the ones they had viewed.

Those     5     “brought them back up to the level of another group of younger adults who did the same memory tests,” says Peter Wais, the researcher who designed the VR game. The game likely stimulates the hippocampus — a brain area important for long-term memory. What the Wais’s team is trying to do is uniquely suited to VR,” says Meredith Thompson, who studies learning through VR games but was not involved in the new study. “VR can provide greater     6     than other games,” she says, adding that after this proof-of-concept study, “it would be great to actually     7     people over time and see what this type of game does for long-term memory.” Wais’s team is now investigating how long the     8     effects last and which elements of the training have the most impact.

It remains unclear how test performance in a laboratory setting might     9     to real-world situations. The outcome, needs to be repeated, ideally with a much larger group, before it’s treated as a strong     10    .

9 . 根据所给10个英语单句的意思，从所给的15个词汇中挑选出10个合适的词或短语分别给每个句子填空。

educator       select       leaking       passive appeal to       scientific       occasions       saying ashamed       go off       astronaut       seek warning       widespread       run out

1. It is indeed an honour for China’s ________ research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.
2. If a water pipe starts ________, or if there is a short in the electrical wiring, your smart home will detect it and provide you with the relevant information.
3. Whichever and whatever you like, there is an incredible theme park that will ________ you!
4. As an ________, people often ask me how I know what is going on in the minds of my students.
5. Chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizers have been in ________use in farming since the middle of the 20^th century.
6. Festivals are ________ that allow us to relax and enjoy life, and forget about our work for a little while.
7. Many studies have shown that shy, ________ children tend to be socially rejected by their classmates.
8. Over 300,000 people came from all over the world to ________ their fortune, and San Francisco quickly became a big city.
9. It is necessary to find a new home for people in space, as the resources on Earth will ________.
10. The ________ “Don’t judge a book by its cover” means that we shouldn’t judge the value of something just based on its external appearance.

10 . 选词填空

by design, cheer…up, apology, do the trick, entertain, feel like, approach, concentrate on, be anxious to, in turn

1. I don’t know what it was that ______, but I am definitely feeling much better.
2. Few things are going to ______ a soldier ______ faster than hearing a friendly voice on the other end of the phone.
3. She ______ lying back in the soft chair and enjoying the richness of it.
4. It is up to him to ______ his studies and make something of himself.
5. There were cheers for each of the women as they spoke ______.
6. I would be glad if you could accept my______ .
7. ______the car, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window.
8. He ______ find a job so as to be independent.
9. Do you think he did it accidentally or ______？
10. This type of robot is intended only for ______.