1 . 用所给短语的恰当形式填入下列句子，使其意义完整，有两个短语多余。

take advantage of;          range from…to…;     a great deal of ;          in spite of ;   tend to do;       in memory of;        in despair;

1. She cried loudly ________ because she lost a large sum of money.
2. The congress opened with a minute’s silence ________ those who died in the struggle.
3. The research on the effects of music lessons involves two groups of children, their ages ________ 4 to 10.
4. I’m going to ________ this opportunity to learn more about the history of America.
5. Mr. Brown refused to give up smoking ________ his lung disease.

2 . 根据短文，选出适当的单词或短语填入短文中的空格内(有多余选项)。

make an impression       lecture       senior high school       advanced courses take notes       on campus       make the team       adventure is addicted to       take control of       awkward       admired

Bob graduated from junior high school, and now he is a     1     student. Never frightened by difficulties, he is so anxious to explore new things     2    . He has signed up for     3     suitable for his taste. Now, he is focusing on ancient Chinese literature and       4     Tang poetry. He     5     the beautiful poetry so much that he could not     6     himself. Bob likes his school life which is full of     7     and challenge.

3 . 选择并使用所给单词的正确形式完成句子，有两个词为多余。

fortunately   contribute   flexible   apologize   shadow   enable       explode

1. After the disater, these people have been living for years under the________of fear.
2. Our plans need to be________ enough to meet the needs of everyone.
3. We should like to offer our ________ for the delay to your flight today.
4. Generslly,scenes requring GGI are filmed in front of a green screen in the studio and actors can be easily separated from the backgroud, ________ GGi effects to be added later.
5. ________, your parents do not always agree, and that makes you feel unhappy.

4 . 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。

distance     moreover     opportunity       relief       satisfy       impact

My name is Sarah. It is an honor for me to win the    1    to share my ideas and feeling about music with you. You never know how music has had an    2    on my life.

Music gives me hope and a sense of    3    . While listening to music, I feel so fortunate to have everything I get in my life. It speaks words of encouragement to the deepest part of my being.

    4    , music gives me strength and brings me    5    . When I listen to music, it makes me forget all the worries and pressure in my life. It is the rock I could lean on to become strong and get through those hard times.

5 . 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。

tough   identity   function     attack     charity       target

Jan went through    1    times after she developed a serious illness and quitted her job. Luckily, with the help of online surfers, she gained a better understanding of internet’s    2    . She could listen to music, watch games and explore the world when her computer is connected to the internet. Meanwhile, she realized that    3    theft may happen online and everyone may become a    4    of cyberbullies if they behave foolishly online. After taking    5    website to online classes, she learned more about how to use the internet and started to raise money for children in poor countries.

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. faith     B. support     C. instantly     D. establishments     E. available     F. thoroughly G. entitled     H. reflect     I. arise     J. represent     K. unrealistic

Zoos were originally created as places of entertainment, and their suggested involvement with conservation didn’t seriously     1     until about 30 years ago, when the Zoological Society of London held the first formal international meeting on the subject. Eight years later, a series of world conferences took place,     2     ‘The Breeding of Endangered Species’, and from this point onwards conservation became the zoo community’s buzzword. This commitment has now been clearly defined in The World Zoo Conservation Strategy (WZCS)，which –although an important and welcome document- does seem to be based on a/ an     3    optimism about the nature of the zoo industry.

The WZCS estimates that there are about 10000 zoos in the world, of which around 1000     4     a core of quality collections capable of participating in coordinated conservation programs. This is probably the document’s first failing, as I believe that 10000 is a serious reserve of the total number of places which claim to be zoological     5    . Of course it is difficult to get accurate data but, to put the issue into perspective, I have found that in a year of working in Eastern Europe, I discover fresh zoos on almost a weekly basis.

The second flaw in the reasoning of the WZCS document is its naive     6     in its 1000 core zoos. One would assume that the quality of these institutions would have been     7     examined, but it appears that the criterion for inclusion on this select list might merely be that the zoo is a member of a zoo federation or association. This might be a good starting point, working on the basis that members must meet certain standards, but again the facts don’t     8    the theory. The greatly respected American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) has had extremely dubious, and even notorious (臭名昭著的) members. As they were always a collection of bad reputation, one is obliged to     9    upon the standards that the Zoo Federation sets when granting membership. The situation is even worse in developing countries where little money is     10    for redevelopment.

7 . Directions: Complete the sentences with the words given in proper forms. Each word can only be used once. Note that there are two more expressions than you need.

cling to       distinctive       favor       mark       assure       alternative       boast bond       border       compliment       be about to       comprehensive

1. Story-telling, high voice and each character’s particular style of movement are ________of Kun Opera, which makes it exclusive to a limited crowd.
2. We’re learning that student success requires a more ________ approach, one that incorporates not only academic skills but also social, self-regulatory and attention skills.
3. The specialist ________on his ability to address the tough problem in an efficient way.
4. Throughout the trial she________ the belief that he was innocent.
5. New ways to treat arthritis may provide a/an ________ painkillers.
6. The trade agreement helped to strengthen the________ between the two countries.
7. China ________ the world’s earliest observatory, built in Nanking in 1385 in the Ming Dynasty, three centuries ahead of the Greenwich Observatory built in Britain in 1670.
8. The announcement is thought ________ the end of an extraordinary period in European history.
9. The employees in the company ________ of individual attention, as well as a good pay package.
10. The balance of maritime superiority has tipped in our ________.

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. waste       B. universal       C. emotional       D. endure       E. expose       F. inspired       G. prize       H. reality

The Blooms of the Blood Thorns

The master said You must write what you see.

But what I see does not move me.

The master answered Change what you see.

—Louise Gluck

The rosebush of life is inevitably threaded with far more thorns (荆棘) than it ever is of blooms. In order to grasp one of those blossoms we come upon on occasion in life, we have to     1     the pain of the pricks (刺伤).

Life is full of pricks. From the loss of loved ones, to the pain of one-sided love, to the hopes we held for our lives that ran up against the cold steel walls of     2    , these pricks have the power to draw oozing (慢慢渗出的) blood from our souls. But the story of our lives is actually not the way in which we suffered pain and injury — but rather how we have found strength to rise up stronger.

The newly-crowned Nobel-winning American poet-laureate (桂冠诗人) Louise Gluck realized, when she was young, the redemptive (救赎的) power that     3     pain can bring. She experienced the “absence” of a sister, whose death before Gluck was born     4     theme of grief and loss in much of the poet’s work. Her teenager years were dominated by a struggle with a severe eating disorder. She later suffered the painful loss of her father, and, after her literary success, saw her marriage fall apart.

The poet, however, used these experiences as a(n) base for her poems. She filled books with the painful lessons her traumas (创伤) taught her. She squeezed the blood drawn by these experiences into her inkwell. She exorcized (驱除) the everyday traumas of her life — loss, desire, sadness and isolation — with the steady scratch of her pen on the page.

The themes of loss are     5     to the human condition. They have shaped us, for better or worse, and made us the fully human beings we are today. While her poems     6     readers to the nerves of a traumatized soul, they are also a tribute to the strength of their creator. They reveal that even in the depths of the greatest suffering, she has found a way to rob the rosebush of its     7    . By doing so, she has drawn us a map by which we may plan our own journey through the thorny pricks of life. Let’s learn from her experiences so that her hard-fought life lessons will not be in waste. As she wrote in her famous poetry collection, The Wild Iris, “At the end of my suffering there was a door.”

9 . 根据所给的句子选择合适的短语并用适当的形式填入空白处,每个短语只使用一次。

make comments on;   compare with;   keep... in good order;   be curious about;   keep up with;   check in;     pack up;   apply for;   other than;   make sense;   rather than;   take control of

1. Steve________ ________ ________Chinese culture and customs, so he signed up for a course to learn more about them.
2. You must work hard, or you won’t________ ________ ________your classmates.
3. Please________ ________at least an hour before departure (起飞).
4. She is writing to________ ________a position as an accountant in a company.
5. It’s impolite to________ ________ ________other people’s appearance.
6. I know she has brown hair, but________ ________that I don’t remember much about her.
7. My cousin is well organized and she always________her things________ ________ ________.
8. ________ ________ our parents, we have greater opportunities to have a good time.
9. The sentence just doesn’t________ ________, no matter how you read it.
10. He insisted on staying outside________ ________going back home.
11. Our company________ ________ ________six factories throughout China.
12. She decided to________ ________a few things and take the kids to Beijing.

10 . Directions: Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the phrases given in the box. Note that each phrase can be only used once and there are two phrases more than you need.

be safe from          be caught in          belong to          drop out of go beyond        impose...on...          be far from

1. Time, so personal yet _____no one, is what of eternal thematic value to men of letters.
2. He laughs into Henry’s mouth, instantly_____his own dramatic mental portrait of the two of them painted in oils, young icons of their nations, shining wet in the lamplight.
3. Hardly surprisingly, given the size of the market, most of these texts have never _____their first editions.
4. His head was cut off, buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there, Britain _____ invasion.
5. The German Athletics Federation has recommended that a four-year ban _____double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe for failing a drugs test.