2 . 从方框中选择恰当的单词填入句子中，注意使用其正确形式。

establish       pick out       breathe       award       strike       admire       opportunity       shelter be curious about       apart from       make preparations for       fight for       be regarded as

1. Yesterday we went to the park, where we ________ the fresh air and enjoyed ourselves.
2. The mid-exam is coming. All the students are ________ it.
3. I think they are ________ because they’re brave to put out fires and save people’s lives.
4. Beethoven ________ one of the most famous musicians in the world.
5. Children always like to ask their parents questions because they ________ everything around them.
6. In 1969, Tu Youyou ________ a team to find a cure for malaria.
7. Mo Yan ________ a Nobel Prize the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012, which made one of the Chinese people’s long-held dreams come true.
8. A terrible hurricane ________ the small town last week.
9. There will be more ________ for you to improve yourself by taking the job.
10. All of a sudden, it began to rain heavily and we hurried to seek ________.
11. ________ the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take.
12. There were so many cars in the parking lot that I had difficulty in ________ mine.
13. Once we set a goal, we should try our best to ________ it.

3 . 用方框中短语的适当形式填空。有一个短语是多余的。

sum up        used to        set out            in contrast to       take up             do one’s part    be to blame   drop out     wipe out          boil down to       for the first time

1. We hope to make the garden as beautiful as it ________be.
2. I’ll never forget hearing this piece of music________.
3. They________to discover a cure for cancer.
4. I’m sorry to________your time, but I really need your help.
5. Last year, the number of students who________of school reduced by 20% compared to the number of the year before.
6. The whole village________by the floods and many people lost their lives.
7. According to the investigation, the bus driver________for the accident.
8. To________, our efforts will contribute to the improvement of the environment.
9. ________his wife, Bush has little appetite for foreign travel.
10. I’m glad to________for the environmental protection.

4 . 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. disorder              B. influencing              C. escalates               D. reset                    E. satisfaction F. fruitless              G. refreshed              H. coincidence              I. functions              J. powerful K. recommended

The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well

Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you remember the last time you woke up without an alarm clock, feeling     1    , not needing caffeine? If the answer to any of these questions is “no,” you are not alone. Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the     2     eight hours of nightly sleep.

Insufficient sleep is now one of the most significant lifestyle factors     3     whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease. During sleep, a remarkable sewage system in the brain, called the glymphatic system,     4     at its peak. As you enter deep sleep, this sanitization system clears the brain of a sticky, poisonous protein linked to Alzheimer’s, known as beta amyloid(淀粉样蛋白). Without sufficient sleep, you fail to get that power clean. With each passing night of insufficient sleep, that Alzheimer’s disease risk     5    , like compounding interest on a loan.

Perhaps you have also noticed a desire to eat more when you’re tired? This is no     6    . Too little sleep swells concentrations of a hormone that makes you feel hungry while checking a companion hormone that otherwise signals food     7    . Full as you are, you will still want to eat more. It’s a recipe linked to weight gain in sleep-deficient adults and children alike.

Worse, should you try to diet but don’t get enough sleep while doing so, it is     8    , since up to 70% of the weight you lose will come from lean body mass, not fat. Turn these facts around and you realize that plentiful sleep is a     9     tool for controlling your appetite, your weight and keeping your body in shape.

Put simply: sleep – a consistent seven- to nine-hour opportunity each night – is the single most effective thing we can do to     10     our brain and body health each day, and the reason why I strongly suggest and respect sleep scientifically and personally.

5 . 从方框中选择适当的短语，并用其适当的形式填空，有两个多余项。

on the move   commit oneself to   daily routine   insist on     upside down   appeal to     the instant

1. I recognized her ________ she entered the room.
2. A talented scientist well known for his contribution to his country, Huang Danian ________ his research in geophysics.
3. My ________ includes going to the gym for a workout, which creates an exciting mood for me every morning.
4. Taxi drivers in Taipei refused to transport passengers who ignored the sign and ________ lighting up inside the taxi.
5. Jack never wanted to stay in one place for very long, so he always found himself ________.

6 . 根据课文内容，从方框中选择适当的单词或短语并用正确的形式填入空白处，使短文意义连贯。

furniture, fortune, measure, drop out of, dormitory, guilty, turn one’s back on, be regarded as, charity, make little sense

Sixteen years ago, Jason was a college professor with a huge six-bed room house and a     1     of two million dollars. But he     2     his millions a few years ago. He gave almost all of his money to     3     . When he had two thousand dollars left, he gave away small bank notes in the streets of local poor areas because he worried a lot and felt     4     . Many people think he must be mad. However, living in a small     5     room with second-hand     6     , Jason has finally found happiness. According to Jason, he was tired of     7     a person who had everything in a world where many people had nothing. And he has discovered that having a lot of money     8     . What he wants is to live simply and be helpful to others. In that way, he has got a kind of satisfaction and is pleased to     9     the successful lifestyle people commonly expect, Jason believes that success is not     10     by now much money you have but by how you understand the true meaning of life.

7 . Directions: Complete the sentences with the words or phrases in the box.Each word or phrase can only be used once.There is one extra that you do not need.

A. attach       B. provoke       C. renovate D. wander       E. switch       F. decline G. initiate       H. symbolize       I. capture

1. Indeed, crude oil   (原油) prices rose after Biden’s announcement, in anticipation that he may__________
the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to push oil prices as high as   $100   per barrel.
2. In all of 2020, global large-scale companies had the capacity to__________40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2)—less than half the volume of carbon produced worldwide in a single week.
3. Along the way, passengers have the chance to__________through whitewashed   villages,   feel   the   sea   breeze in picturesque harbors, and explore ancient ruins.
4. The two things he is sure to__________most importance to are the freedom of the individual and the sovereignty (主权) of his country.
5. The survey predicted that the quality of the educational provision and standards pupils achieve might
__________significantly due to lack of funds.
6. The report proposed that the authority__________a new project to enable anyone to put forward any technologies for disease control.
7. The options, one to build an entirely new facility and a second to__________ the existing facility and add a
new part, both come with price tags of several hundred million dollars.
8. Temperatures will remain mild   until winds__________to the northwest after midnight.

10 . 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.definitely；B.suffering；C.acceptance；D.discouraged；E. supposedly F.terms；G.optimism；H.sustained；I. punishing；J.favored；K.obstacle

Happiness is not natural.It is a here human construct. A state of contentment(let alone happiness) is     1     by our genetic design because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival.

Chasing happiness is like chasing an elusive ghost, but the positive thinking industry claims to know its secrets.Self-help was popularized by Norman Vincent Peale, a colorful American pastor,       2    by several Republican presidents, including Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. He invented “positive thinking'", a concept now deeply embedded in our culture and steadily growing in influence.The global personal development industry was valued at S38.28 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a rate of 5.1%.

Popular films and books are full of     3     inspirational statements about how all you need to do is believe in yourself and then you'll be able to achieve anything in life. This is simply, and obviously, not true. I don't think there is a need to explain that many obstacles and misfortunes in life are inevitable, or unsurmountable. Our ancestors knew this, and many philosophical and religious traditions are based on the     4     that being alive is a very challenging task,which comes with significant amounts of suffering. It goes without saying that we should do all we can to maximize our sense of well-being and minimize our suffering, but the end result cannot be a state of     5     happiness.We are not designed that way.

The self-help genre is not a homegeneous beast, however. It is,in fact, ironie how self-help books on happiness and those on how to make it big in life are lumped together in the same bookshop shelves, given that many of the former tell us that caring too much about the latter is the main     6     to happiness.

The inevitable clash between mandatory     7     and the realities of our existence comes with a heavy psychological price. It could be argued that positive psychology blames those who are suffering for their     8     ,as it is based on the misconception that unhappiness is entirely avoidable.It follows therefore that an unhappy person must be inadequate and incompetent.Positive psychology encourages people who are struggling with a particular goal to persevere in the face of unfavorable odds, which is much more     9     psychologically in the long run than accepting defeat.

I believe that coming to     10    with life as it is,and not the happiness industry tells us it could be, will make us happier, and we will feel more at peace with ourselves and with the world. Unfortunately, the devil always has the best tunes.