1 . 选词填空

A. in order to               B. even if        C. set down               D. was in love with        E. was concerned about F. came up with        G. came up        H. plays a part in        I. fell in love with               J. make good use of

1. She listened carefully and ________ every word he said.
2. We should ________ our time to study.
3. ________ get a better score, she has been studying hard all day.
4. It is said that everyone ________ very ________ the safety of the missing boy.
5. With Mary's help, John ________ English and got along well with it.
6. When the question was under discussion Gloria ________ an idea that the price of cars should be reduced.
7. He came to school as usual, ________ he was ill.
8. Every farmer knows that weather ________ farming.

2 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

explore   impression       feel confident senior   experiment   concentrate on

Tian Hua is a new student at a school in America. She is studying at an American high school for one year. In China, Tian Hua was in Grade 1 at     1     high school, but in America, she is in Grade 10. She did not     2    at all when she arrived. Her first     3    was that English was difficult and people spoke too quickly, but soon she found that if she     4     the ideas, not the single words, she could understand! She also made friends and began to     5    the city with them. Her new friends were happy to explain things to her after class. Her favourite class is chemistry because the teacher lets the students do cool     6    ! Tian Hua is not sure how well she will do at school this year, but she is not nervous any more. She is excited!

3 . 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. stretch；B. expectancy；C. fund；D. highlight；E. appealed；F. set G. package；H. send；I. vehicle；J. blow；K. beaten

On her return to England, 22-year- old Amy and her boy friend Neal decided to take “the road less travelled”. They drove across Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in Africa, but it wasn’t exactly a holiday. Mozambique had two qualities which     1     to them: great attraction as a travel destination and local people who badly needed help. Once there, the couple got off the     2     track and headed for Quirimbas National Park, where they found a tiny     3     of white sand close to a village. Life in the village was hard: there was little clean water and not enough food. Health care was poor and people in the village had a life     4     of 38 years. Amy and Neal had no qualifications in tourism or health care but they had common sense, enthusiasm and determination. The couple     5     to work on a beach lodge, building beach huts from local materials and employing people from the area. Once the lodge was complete, they set up a charitable foundation called NEMA, which received 5% of the money made. This money was used to create clean water points,     6     health care projects, build two primary schools and support conservation projects-it helped to improve the lives of thousands of people. “We wanted 40 to show the world the power of tourism, that it could be a     7     for change, says Amy.

It isn’t easy to get to this village. It’s not a typical     8     holiday with airport pick-ups and drop-offs. There’s no public transport, either. The nearest city is about 260 kilometers away and once there, you have to take a boat or go on a three-hour car journey along badly maintained roads. But the village lodge is worth the effort. Today the lodge as has nine beach huts, with beautiful sea views. There are no overpriced gift rip shops and other tourist traps, It’s the perfect place to take time out, escape the crowds and soak up the sun. Visitors can see the sights- explore the island nearby with a tour guide, go scuba-diving or observe African wildlife. But the     9     for many is getting to know people in the village, taking part in festivals and learning about NEMA’s work.” People who stay with us often come for the diving or the beach,” says Amy,” but it’s the communities that really       10     them away.”

4 . 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. overwhelmed；B. stood；C. worth；D. paling；E. consciously F. resulting；G. averaged；H. relief；I. swarmed；J. crashed；K. prematurely

Chinese sportswear brand Erke announced Thursday that its internal computer system had     1     under the rush of orders it has received since becoming a social media darling as a result of its generous Henan floods     2     donations.

Erke also said in a live-stream that its supply chain is     3     by the sudden demand, with its warehouses emptied out and its production sites working at full capacity. “We are out of stock for over 40 products,” a company representative said.

The brand has been struggling financially but nevertheless pledged last week to donate 50 million yuan ($7.75 million)    4     of funds and goods to disaster areas in Henan province, where heavy rain and flooding continue to necessitate evacuations. The death toll     5     at 99 people as of Thursday.

In response, Chinese customers have bought any Erke product they could find. The brand’s live-stream on e-commerce platform Taobao     6     fewer than 6,000 viewers last week Wednesday and Thursday, figures show. But on Saturday, after the donation announcement, its viewership skyrocketed to nearly 20 million people.

Lacking sufficient staff to process all the     7     orders, Erke’s store on Taobao’s Tmall warns users that current purchases will take longer than two weeks to ship — an unusually long wait for Chinese online shopping standards.

Founded in the southeastern city Xiamen in 2000, Erke employs about 30,000 people and last year had around 2.8 billion yuan in revenue,     8     in comparison to domestic competitor Anta’s 35.5 billion yuan. Erke’s 2020 financial report shows it suffered 220 million yuan in losses, financial outlet Wall Street CN reported.

Erke went public on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2005, but it was suspended six years later for accounting irregularities.” The company was delisted last year.

“I thought you were going bankrupt, but you still donated so much,” reads the top-voted comment under Erke’s donation announcement from July 21, which garnered over 800,000 likes. “It’s so rare for brick-and-mortar businesses to donate 50 million yuan,” another user wrote. “It’s hard to imagine how many shoes you’d have to sell.”

Erke CEO Wu Rongzhao has since repeatedly asked the public to think twice before opening their wallets. “I want to extend my sincere gratitude to everyone’s support,” he said in a video message on Sunday. “And I’d also like to use this opportunity to ask you to spend     9    .”

But few customers seem to have heeded his words. Across the country, media reported that people have     10     to Erke stores in shows of support. In Nanjing, a city in eastern China, a customer paid1,000 yuan for goods priced at 500 yuan and ran away before a shop assistant could hand him his change. Another customer was filmed having shaved the Erke logo — not previously seen as the summit of cool — into his hair.

The sudden attention has also brought scrutiny. A blogger who had sifted through public records discovered that Erke had, by Saturday, only given about 200,000 yuan. A day later, the two recipients of Erke’s donation, One Foundation and Zhengzhou Charity Federation, said that the company’s contributions would arrive in batches.

“We will fulfill our donation pledge based on the needs of these two institution.” Erke CEO Wu said in his video message.

5 . 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. spoiled       B. inheritance       C. assumed       D. undisturbed       E. economically F. guardians       G. instability       H. longing       I. practically       J. coincidence       K. fascinated

In the British Museum on a Sunday afternoon, ancient faces look back at children and adults alike. Inside their glass cases, pharaohs (法老) and priests are     1     by the crowds. And crowds there always are, for these are painted coffins and carved masks of ancient Egyptians, relics (文物) of a culture that has     2     the world for thousands of years.

Ancient civilization is part of the world's heritage, and in recent times it seemed nothing could seriously threaten that     3    .Tourists visited such sites as Giza in Egypt and Olympia in Greece safe in the     4     knowledge that we were seeing wonders that would always be available to admire.

Yet the     5     of the world in 2012 is a threat to the apparently peaceful monuments of antiquity (古董) . In Greece, anxiety and alienation (疏远) as the weakest economy on the euro-zone faces terrible pressure to transform its way of life and a troubling reflection at Olympia last week, where a museum of the ancient Greek games was attacked by thieves. Perhaps this was     6    , but it is the second recent museum robbery in Greece.

Meanwhile in Egypt, tourism levels have decreased since the revolution, and hotels are half-empty.

This is where the word “tourism” becomes in itself harmful. People who visit Egypt to see ancient art are certainly tourists, in the country that was at the heart of the very idea of modern tourism. But this word has unfairly come to imply a selfish, shallow form of consumer spending,     7     valuable to poor countries but irrelevant to the higher concerns of national self-determination and democratic change.

To reduce the problems of the Egyptian tourists industry to these cold terms is wrong. Many people visit Egypt with a passionate     8     to gaze on the eyes of Tutankhamun and stand at the foot of the Great Pyramid. More     9    , the money from tourism helps keep Egyptian sites and museums going. To say these places are only of interest to “tourism” would be tragic and miserable.

Both Greece and Egypt are     10     of sites and objects of the highest importance to the entire world, if we shrug and write off (注销、报废) antiquity as the stuff of tourism and scholarship, “irrelevant” to these extraordinary times, we are already well on the way to barbarism (野蛮).

6 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

A. prevent... from... B. A variety of C. relate to D. lay in ruins E. nothing but F. of great importance G. suffer from H. turn to I. Keeping the right balance   J. make sure

1. In less than one minute, the city of Tangshan ________.
2. The police have been trying to ________ workers ________ carrying weapons.
3. Everywhere survivors looked, there was ________ ruins.
4. He looked in the bathroom to ________ that he was alone.
5. To solve the problem, the Egyptian government had to ________ the UN for help.
6. If you can’t keep healthy, you will often ________your weak body.
7. ________ between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge.
8. That writing system was ________ in uniting the Chinese people and culture.
9. His remarks didn’t ________ the topic under discussion.
10. ________ after-class activities will be held in our school next week.

7 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

A. have a talent for B. as well as C. get through D. a feast for E. a large amount of F. referred to G. make himself understood H. surrounded by I. set up J.in addition

1. He shared in my sorrows ________ in my joys.
2. Next week's film festival will be ________ cinema-goers.
3. He is proud that both his children ________ for art.
4. You need skills to do the work well ________ , you need patience.
5. I will ________ the machine today so that you can work tomorrow.
6. Focusing on that goal helps me ________ tough times.
7. The hero sat there telling stories, ________ a lot of students.
8. He has ________ mail to answer every day.
9. People from the UK are called “British”, which means the UK is also often ________ Britain or Great Britain.
10. Mr. White can always ________ by giving examples.

8 . 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. association B. contribution C. effectively D. evolutionarily E. grasp F. immature G. joyous H. logged I. selected J. skilled K. treat

Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age

We like to think our puppies can follow what we're telling them. Well, to some degree they can, even when they're     1    . We have known for a long time that adult dogs are especially     2     in understanding cooperative communication from humans. They can spontaneously follow a human pointing gesture. They're even better at it than apes, which are much more closely related to us,    3     speaking.

But is it a skill dogs pick up simply by spending time with people? Or is it a trait that was     4     for when dogs first became domesticated?

To find out, Bray and her colleagues     5     time with 375 puppies that were going to be trained to be service dogs. By working with pups that had spent most of their young lives with their owners, Bray could figure out whether dogs had to learn to     6     human communications -or if it's something they were born with.

The pups participated in tests designed to assess dogs1 social smarts. In one experiment, a researcher would hide food under one of two cups - and then call to the puppy and point toward the cup that held the     7    . They found puppies were able to use this social signal     8     to choose the correct location.

In another experiment, a researcher would talk to a puppy. “Hi pup. Are you a good puppy? Yes, you are! What a good puppy! ”This goes on for about 30 seconds. During this interaction, the researcher would record how much time the pup spent gazing at her with     9     sight.

They found that puppies would respond to human social gaze and could successfully use information given by a human in social context from a very young age. “It seems likely that puppies really are starting the (ask with the communicative ability necessary to be successful rather than just quickly learning a(n)    10     over the course of the task.” Bray added. All these findings suggest that dogs are biologically prepared for communication with humans.

9 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

with an average of,        make an impression on,        side by side,        come out, no sooner....than....,       be devoted to,        a huge amount of,

1. He has been writing for five years and his first book will ________ tomorrow.
2. In most big cities, cyclists are not allowed to ride ________ on public roads in order to reduce the risk of an accident.
3. We have invested ________ time and money in order to get a satisfactory result.
4. ________ had she seen her father at the airport ________ she rushed to him and gave him a hug.
5. The first group had the highest score ________ 118.

10 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

1. in detail 2. dozens of 3. for instance 4. in peace 5. die out 6. side by side 7. devote oneself to 8. walk in air 9. be committed to 10. keep in perspective

1. The president ________perfecting the existing system of medical care so it can be made good use of.
2. We are able to live a green life.________, we can get something repaired rather than buy a new one.
3. After graduation, due to her high quality, she was picked from________applicants for the job.
4. Thankfully, after I explained my plan to them________, they said yes.
5. When our first home-made aircraft carrier Shandong ship was delivered to the Navy, all the Chinese people were________.
6. When asked why the experiment failed, he________the issue________.
7. We must try to live________and harmony with ourselves and those around us.
8. We are hoping to see the day when all people live________.
9. Many endangered species will soon ________if we don't take action.
10. After finishing the proposed study, I will ________the development of computer science.