1 . 选词填空

A. looking forward to                  B. addicted to                  C. graduating from D. be responsible for                    E. on schedule                 F. in advance

1. In order to get good grades in the middle exam, you’d better prepare ________ .
2. After _________college, he found it hard to find a suitable job.
3. As students, we should hand in our online homework ________.
4. We are________ the victory of the epidemic.
5. The driver drank too much, he should ________ the accident.
6. Once you are _________smoking, it’s hard to quit.

2 . 根据语境，选择下框中的单词或短语，必要时用正确的形式填空。框中有两个多余的单词或短语。

curious       pretend       statue          recommend          challenge event        admire        confuse       take control of       make an impression

1. Alice introduced herself confidently on the first of school, which________on me.
2. Pisa in Italy is a fine old city where the beautiful leaning tower can be _______ .
3. I usually go hiking for vacation, but I want to try something more ________ this year.
4. The instructions on the package are clear but________.
5. The older teenagers say that they ________ that freshmen wait until the second term before they join a team or club.
6. We are looking forward to seeing the Terracotta Army that is filled with_______.
7. Tom, a clever boy who is ________ about everything, likes to ask questions all the time.
8. He may get a yellow card if a footballer ________ to fall down during a match.

3 . 根据句意，选择短语并以其适当形式填空。

in particular                    live up to            due to             (be)fed up with            sign up be responsible for            pay off               in case of        (be) capable of            keep fit

1. If you fall asleep easily but awaken several hours later, it may be__________ low blood sugar.
2. The other two local teachers __________maths and Chinese.
3. The players failed to __________ their coach’s expectations.
4. All the extra hours that he’d spent practising alone __________.
5. __________ can ensure you to do everything well.
6. So where do I __________for the Time Machine Game?
7. You can count on me to help __________ difficulty.
8. I am really __________the constant rain.
9. He loves science fiction __________.
10. I’m perfectly __________ looking after myself, thank you!

4 . 用方框内短语的适当形式填空

be used to (doing)   get out of hand   come across   regardless of   contribute to

1. If you drive too fast, the car will ________.
2. The other day I ________ an old friend of mine in the street.
3. People threw a lot of waste into the river, which ________ the pollution.
4. ________ whether you have an excuse or not, you can’t sleep at class.
5. Many old people ________ washing their feet before they go to bed.

5 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. alternative             B. capacity             C. characteristic             D. extinct             E. exclude             F. identity G. increasingly       H. interacting             I. measuring                    J. narrative             K. restore

The earliest storytellers

A stunning cave painting discovered in Indonesia may be the earliest evidence of storytelling. The artwork is at least 43,900 years old, and shows that humans were depicting scenes tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

The painting is a 4.5-metre-wide hunting scene, discovered by Maxime Aubert of Griffith University, Australia and his colleagues. It depicts at least eight small human-like figures hunting two pigs and four dwarf buffaloes with spears or ropes. “It’s a(n)    1    scene,” says Aubert. He and his colleagues calculated the painting’s age by    2    the levels of uranium (铀) in stone layers that cover the images. At 43,900 years old, it could be the oldest figurative cave painting that has yet been found although we don't know what type of human made them. Until this discovery, the oldest known artworks depicting visual “stories”, with humans and animals    3    in a recognizable scene, dated from around 20,000 years ago and was found in Europe, such as the famous Lascaux paintings in France. “Now we show that at least 44,000 years ago, in South-East Asia, humans were telling stories and they were depicting them in rock art,” says Aubert.

“It’s really an exciting discovery,” says Genevieve von Petzinger at the University of Victoria, Canada, “It shows a (n)    4    timeline of how art developed. When you get a scene like this one, it opens the door a little further." The human-like figures appear to have animal    5    .” They are half human, half animal. The oldest previously known example was the Lion Man statue. Carved around 40,000 years ago, it combines a lion's head and human body. Until now, it was the earliest evidence of the ability of humans to depict things that don’t exist in nature-a(n)    6    linked to imagination and spirituality. “Now it seems the same thing was happening in South-East Asia, but even earlier,” says Aubert.

The cave painting gives us a glimpse into the minds of the people who created the Indonesian art, but we don’t yet know whether they were modern humans or one of our    7    cousins. The team hasn't found human remains in the Sulawesi cave, says Aubert, so it isn't possible to be sure of the    8    of the artists.

One possible group is the Denisovans, who may also have lived in Asia at this time. Earlier this year, while studying a site in China thought to have been home to Denisovans, a team of researchers revealed artistic engravings on a piece of bone.

“We can’t completely    9    Denisovans or another species,” says Aubert of the Indonesian cave art, “There were probably at least two other species that lived in this region at the same time as modern humans.”

The discovery comes as archaeologists    10    turn their attentions towards Asia. “People should stay tuned to Asia,” says von Petzinger, “In the next decade there will be many exciting announcements coming from this part of the world.”

6 . 从词汇框中选择合适的单词完成句子。

influential        discipline        stimulate        abandon        bitter        absorb reward             refreshed        submitted        complicated       guarantee        blank

1. The police are offering a big ________ for information about the robbery.
2. The car is still under ________, so you should be able to get it repaired free of charge.
3. Teachers should ask questions that ________ students to think.
4. Through repeated failures one learns to keep trying to achieve worthy goals and to ________ unworthy ones.
5. His reminder of her failure left a ________ taste to her mouth.
6. Reality is more ________, not as simple as you think.
7. My mind went completely ________ and I forgot what I was supposed to be doing.
8. Students should understand ________ and what is appropriate.
9. Most people need to read something more than once to ________ all the ideas.
10. The following morning she awoke ________, feeling energetic again.

7 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. struggle	B. roughly	C. major	D. causes	AB.charged	AC.feature
AD.significantly	BC.motives	BD.identify	CD.potential	ABC.ruled

The Science Behind Why People Give Money to Charity

This question has fascinated behavioral scientists for decades: why do we give money to charity?

The explanations for charitable giving fall into three broad categories, from the purely altruistic(利他的). The “impurely” altruistic — I donate because I obtain value from knowing I contribute to the social good for the charity. And the the not-at-all altruistic — I donate because I want to show off to     1     mates how rich I am.

But are these     2     strong enough to enable people to donate as much as they would want to? Most people support charities in one way or another, but often we     3    to make donations as often as we think we should. Although many people would like to leave a gift to charity in their will, they forget about it when the time comes. Our research shows that if the will-writer just asks someone if they would like to donate, they are more likely to consider it and the rate of donation     4     doubles.

Many people are also aware that they should donate to the     5     that have the highest impact, but facts and figures are less attractive than narratives. In a series of experiments, it was found that people are much more responsive to charitable requests that     6     a single, identifiable beneficiary(受益者), than they are to statistical information about the scale of the problem being faced. When it comes to charitable giving, we are often     7     by our hearts and not our heads.

Another of the     8     findings from the research in this area is that giving is fundamentally a social act. One study shows that people give     9     more to their university if the person calling and asking for their donation is their former roommate. Researchers found that when JustGiving donors see that the donor before them has made a large donation, they make a larger donation themselves.

In summary, behavioural scientists     10     a range of factors that influence our donations, and can help us to keep giving in the longer term. This is great news not just for charities, but also for donors.

8 . 阅读下面小短文，根据上下文语境，选择合适的单词填入空白处，每个单词只使用一次，每个方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A. unbelievable   B. statues   C. amazing   D. admire   E. hike

My time here in China is going well. Over the October holiday, my parents and I are planning to go to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Army and     1     the ancient civilization of Qin Dynasty. I’ve heard that it is an     2     sight, and I can’t wait to go. To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is almost     3    . It’s said that there are more than 8,000     4    , and no one in modern times knew about them until the 1970s.

9 . 阅读下面小短文，根据上下文语境，从所给的A、B、C、D、E、F六个选项中，选出最佳选项填入空白处，每个单词只使用一次，每个方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A.grateful        B.faiths       C.reflect        D. spite        E. fade          F. horrible

Festivals can    1    people’s wishes, beliefs and    2    . They are celebrated all around the world. In    3    of different forms of celebrations, they have a lot in common. For example, every country celebrates harvest festival, when people show that they are    4    for the year’s supply of food. However, with the development of modern society, some traditions may    5    away. Some believe festivals should not be commercialized. Others think it’s good for economy and public happiness. We hope people will take our festival seriously.

10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. counting        B. create            C. loss            D. Luckily            E. offer        F. preferred G. supports        H. transfer            I. type             J. Unfortunately     K. video

The digital revolution has had a huge impact on every aspect of our society. For content creators, life looks nothing like it did just a couple of decades ago. Back then, all you had to do is to take the tape off the camera and put it on your     1     player. At most, you had to read an article to understand the difference between HS and Betamax. Video was only consumed in two ways: television or cinema. Nowadays, you’ll probably run out of fingers     2     how many video formats (格式) there are out there, let alone the number of platforms and devices on which video is played.

Understanding what each video format is and does is no child’s play. In fact, it is a “must” if you want your work to look the best regardless of where and how it is played. If, for example, you want to     3     a video website, the type of file you’ll need to use will most likely to be different from the one you’ll have to create for your social media accounts. In order to make this whole process a lot easier, we have put together a list of the most common video formats and which ones you should use for each purpose.

So what’s the best video format?

    4    , there isn’t a cure-all when it comes to video sharing. The good thing is that it’s actually really easy to     5     between video formats. If you do so, be sure to always save the original file in order to avoid     6     of image quality due to file compression(压缩).

Here are three of the most common video uses and the     7     formats for each of them:

Social media: MP4 is supported by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, IGTV, and YouTube. Facebook also    8     MOV, while YouTube accepts most video formats.

TV and computers: AVI, MOV, and MKV     9     the highest quality image which makes them great options for big screen streaming.

Website: WEBM and HTML5 are the video formats meant for your account. However, using tools such as Wix Video will allow you to work with almost any file     10    , as well as offer you much more control over your work.