1 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

switch over,   can’t stand ,   wake up,   take up,   go off,   complain… about, get bored,

1. I normally ________ at six o'clock every morning.
2. The gun   ________ and the murder was killed.
3. I really don’t like the program, would you ________ the TV?
4. I play basketball every weekend though it _______ much of my spare time.
5. We students _______ sitting in classroom all day without any exercise.
6. I like my life to be full of challenges. If I have nothing to do, I will _______ and feel uneasy.
7. He often ________ to me ________ his parents.

2 . 阅读下面短文，请根据短文内容从方框中所给的12个词中选用10个词并用其正确形式填空。每个词只能选用一次。

leg     eat     on     fast     stop     and     I     because     to     possible     check     if

It was very sunny when I woke up. I looked at the alarm clock. It said 3:50! It had    1     !What time was it? I climbed out of bed     2     went downstairs to the kitchen. The kitchen clock said 8:30-I was late! My parents had gone to work without     3    if I was up. The school bus went at 8:00. I had missed it.

I called my friend Tony at once."Tell the teacher I'll be in as soon as       4    ！”I said.

“Come on your rollerblades,” Tony said. “It will be     5     than the bus.”

I washed and got dressed in a hurry. I grabbed an apple to    6    on the way.That was my breakfast today! Then I put on     7     rollerblades and set off for school. I took all the shortcuts I knew. When I got    8    school, I was very hot and my     9     ached. I had missed math, our first lesson of the morning. But I made it just in time for history, our second lesson. I was very happy     10     history is my favorite subject.

3 . 阅读下面短文，请根据短文内容从方框中所给的12个词中选用10个词并用其正确形式填空。每个词只能选用一次。

Look     find     from     place     much     way     that     you     to     go     poor     who

There is an old Chinese tale about a woman whose only son died. The sad woman     1     to a clever man and asked for some     2    out of her sadness.

Instead of sending her away, the clever man said to her,"Fetch me a seed    3    a home that has never known sadness. We will use it to drive the sadness out of     4    life."The woman went off at once in search of that magical seed.

She came first to a beautiful house, knocked at the door, and said,“I am    5    for a home that has néver known sadness. Is,this such a place? It is very important to me.”

The couple told her,“You've certainly come to the wrong     6    ，”and began to describe all the sad things that had recently happened to them.

The woman said to herself,“Who can help these people who have suffered     7     sadness than I?”

She went on in search of a home that had never known sadness. But she    8    one sad story after another whether in the homes of the     9     or the rich. She became so busy helping other people that she forgot about the seed     10     would magically end her own sadness. She never even realized that her helping others had, in fact,driven the sadness out of her life.

4 . Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl     1    (name) Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of    2    (recover) appeared to be a blood transfusion（输血）from her 5-year-old brother,     3     had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to fight the     4    (ill).

The doctor    5    (explain) the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it     6     it can save Liz.”

As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister    7    smiled, as we all did,     8    (see) the color returning to her cheeks. Then    9    (he) face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”

Being young, the boy had    10    (understand) the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood.

5 . It was a sunny day. A little boy’s father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer, while     1     (watch) a basket match. Seeing this, the boy rushed to his father and shouted, “Daddy, Daddy, show me how to play catch!” The father,  staring      2      the television screen, replied, “Let me finish watching     3     match. Play outside and come back in five minutes.”

“Okay, Daddy!” said the boy, running out of the room. Five minutes later, the boy returned, screaming , “Daddy, let’s go. Let’s play catch now !”

By this time, the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning.     4      (patient) with the boy’s interruption, the dad brought a magazine to his son. On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the world. The father, who     5     (bother) and angry, began tearing the magazine cover into small     6    . Then, the father turned to his boy and said, “Son, once you put this picture back together, we can play catch,  but do not interrupt me again     7     you finish.”

A few minutes later, the boy returned and said, “I     8     (finish),  Daddy! Can  we play catch now?” Surprised, the father glanced towards his child, and there lay the magazine with the world together. The dad asked his child     9     he put the world together so quickly.

“    10     was  simple,” said the boy. “On the back of the world was the picture of a person, and once I put the person together, that’s when the world came together. ”

6 . There are a few different stories behind the origin of the modern-day Christmas tree, although not all     1     (root) in fact. Evergreen trees were     2     (actual) used by people in winter festivals for thousands of years. During the winter solstice (冬至), evergreens signified the coming of spring. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, the trees began to be used as a symbol for Christmas. In mystery plays in Germany, they were often used as props (支柱),     3     (decorate) with apples to represent the Garden of Eden.

One legend credits 16th century Protestant reformer Martin Luther for     4     (bring) the Christmas tree into homes. Luther was supposedly walking through the forest on the night before Christmas when he looked up to see stars shine through the tree     5     (branch). He was so dazzled by the     6     (beauty) sight that he told his children it reminded him of Jesus and then put up     7     tree in his own home.

But it wasn’t until the mid-19th century           8     the Christmas tree as we now know it became custom. England’s Queen Victoria encouraged her husband to decorate a tree as he had back at home in     9     is now Germany. When a drawing of the royal family with their beautiful Christmas tree     10     (appear) in a London newspaper, the tradition also became popular throughout the UK and US.