1 . 选词填空

be responsible to     be addicted to        set good examples   give way to    in harmony with     be in ruins            ups and downs               keep the balance                  be curious about     a herd of

1. I know I’ll study harder as a senior high school student and get used to ___________a lot more.
2. “Living legends of sports” must be athletes who are masters in their sports and also ________ for others.
3. when an earthquake happened, in less than one minute a large city __________.
4. Despite the many   ___________ in its history, China is widely known for its ancient civilization, which has continued all the way through into modern times.
5. Some students even ____________the internet and cannot concentrate on school and family life.
6. I often ask questions, so I ____________ everything.
7. There comes a time when the old must ____________ the new.
8. Finding and ____________   between process and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge.
9. On the plain in front of us , we can just make out ___________ graceful animals.
10. Only when we learn to exist ____________nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.

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

A. as          B. involve        C. filling        D. rapidly        E. major F. developed       G. all       H. by       I. along       J. needs        K. present

Throughout the 20th century, Japanese towns and cities grew     1    . Today about 80 percent of the Japanese people live in urban areas. The growth of towns and cities, called urbanization (城市化), happens in two ways. One way is     2     rural-urban migration, when people move to the city from the country. As cities prosper and grow, industries and services that     3     many people both as workers and consumers grow to meet the     4     of the increasing population. New industries and services emerge to support the growing business, and the region experiences an upward spiral of growth.

The urban areas on the Japanese island of Honshu (本州岛) continue to grow     5     they attract more people, industries and business. These urban areas contain nearly two-thirds of Japan’s population and manufacturing. City suburbs are     6     in the rural spaces between the towns and cities, and Japan’s efficient and fast transportation system links them all.

Four     7     cities on Honshu-Tokyo Kawasaki (川崎), Chiba (千叶), and Yokohama (横滨) have grown together into one of Japan’s largest urban areas. Two other large urban areas have     8     on Honshu. The area around the city of Nagoya (名古屋) forms one, and the cities of Osaka (大阪)，Kyoto and Kobe (神户) from the other. At the     9     time, these three areas are growing toward one another to form one long, enormous urban area. A single urban system this large is called a megalopolis. This Japanese megalopolis on Honshu, stretching from Tokyo in the east     10     the way to Kobe in the west, is called the Tokaido (东海道) megalopolis.

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

A.gratitude     B.conscience       C.foundation       D.jealous       E.feasible F.flexible       G.inherit        H.feedback        I.interaction     J.frustration

1. To some extent, what you came up with is _________.
2. I hope you have found this article helpful and I welcome all __________.
3. You have to be good but not an expert at everything you do, and you have to know when to be _________ and when to ask for help.
4. What is the __________ of their good relationships?
5. Trusted colleagues, friends, and family can provide you with an outlet for expressing _________ or worries.
6. If someone has done something against his __________,he may feel guilty.
7. Thanksgiving is a typical American holiday, when people give their _________ to what they are thankful for.
8. The fact that other people have something that we don’t have makes us _________ .
9. A successful class depends on the _________ between teachers and students and among students themselves.
10. The legacy duty will make it harder for young people to _________ property from their parents.

4 . 阅读下面小短文，根据上下文语境，选择最佳的选项填入空白处，每个单词只使用一次，每个方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A. networks   B. convenient   C. access   D. databases   E. updated     F. benefits

The Internet has made our lives more convenient. We can get the most     1    information from large     2    , downloading software, documents, and images whenever we need them. What’s more, people’s lives has been changed by online communities and social     3    . A 50-year-old English teacher, sticking at home with only her computer to keep her company because of a serious illness, joined an online group and realized the greatest     4     of the Internet. She believes that it is highly important to bridge the digital divide and make sure that everyone has     5     to the Internet and knows how to use new technology.

5 . 用所给短语的正确形式填空，将所给句子补充完整，有2个短语多余

concentrate on, look forward to, suitable for, sign up for be responsible for, other than, be addicted to

1. You can’t imagine how much I ___________________ studying with my new classmates!
2. He ______________ basketball recently. You can always see him on the basketball court.
3. I don’t know anyone __________________ Lily in this new class.
4. I wonder if there’re any free classes that I can _______________.
5. I can think of no one who’s more _________________ this position than you.

6 . 根据短文内容，在每个空格处填写一个适当的词，使文章意思完整且符合逻辑。(每空一词)

use   find   them   idea   an   have   on   when   real   but

I am fully convinced that you must have heard about Chinese paper-cutting, haven’t you? Paper-cutting is     1     important art form in China. Paper-cuts were used for many purposes, and everything can become the theme of paper-cuts, from people to the things that can be     2     in everyday life such as birds, flowers and animals.

Each paper-cut brings out the personal     3     of the writer. People express traditional culture or     4    own feelings with different styles of paper-cuts. For example,     5     someone marries, we put up some red paper-cuts     6     the wall, dressing table or other furniture to express our best wishes. It is easy to learn paper-cutting     7     very difficult to make it perfect. We need a long-time practice to learn how to     8     the scissors (剪刀) and how to paint. Moreover, we     9     need to learn some cutting skills.

From history until now, in many parts of China, paper-cutting skill     10     become necessary for women and a symbol of a clever mind.

7 . 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. critics     B. digital     C. instinct     D. lowered       E. marched     F. migrants G. options     H. potential   I. unease       J. withdrawn       K. worries

When El Salvador(萨尔瓦多)made bitcoin a legal currency on September 7, it became the first nation in the world to do so.

Bitcoin is decentralized,     1     money that can be sent from user to user on the bitcoin network. Its value is not supported by any country’s central bank.

President Nayib Bukele praised the use of bitcoin for its     2     to help Salvadorans living abroad to send money back home, while saying the U. S. dollar would continue as legal tender(法定货币). In practice, Salvador does not have its own currency.

In the capital, San Salvador, reactions were mixed, with some excited that the new currency could increase prosperity and financial     3    . Others were skeptical(怀疑的).

The government of Bukele placed one of 200 banking machines at the “Excuartel” market. They were supposed to permit bitcoins to be     4     or changed into U. S. dollars without paying extra costs. Sellers of goods were angry that officials didn’t explain how it would work. The feeling of     5     extended beyond San Salvador’s “Excuartel” market into the Central American country of 6.4 million people.

In July, three out of four Salvadorans were concerned about the bitcoin plan; public opinion research showed. Later, about 300 protesters     6     on El Salvador’s Congress to demand that the new bitcoin law be stopped.

Since El Salvador started using the U. S. dollar as its currency in 2001, inflation(通货膨胀) has been just two percent, one of the lowest in Latin America. Higher inflation,     7     argue, could come from the use of bitcoin because its value changed often and by large amounts.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have pointed to environmental and transparency(透明度)    8     over the use of bitcoin. After the bitcoin law passed, credit rating agency Moody’s     9     El Salvador’s credit rating.

Hanke, one protester, believed that Bukele’s ideas would end with economic problems. “For the United States, this would mean yet another wave of     10     from an unstable Central American failed state,” he said.

8 . Directions: Complete the following passages 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. account B. contented C. contested D. date E. feature F. previously G. believably H. pointed I. represented J. stretches K. winds

For centuries, two of the most intriguing question about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who?” and “When?” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 pretty much answered both. A note written in a manuscript in the library confirmed the     1     of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped     2     the masterpiece to between 1503 and 1506.

A third mystery—“Where?”—is still in dispute, But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a collaborator had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. Arguments had once been made for     3     of countryside in the Marche region and between Milan and Genoa. During a presentation in Vinci, near Florence, Mr. Cotte argued that the artist was more     4     depicting a part of his native Tuscany-one that much interested him at the time. According to this theory, da Vinci     5     the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealized scheme, he intended it to be.

Mr. Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre (where the “Mona Lisa” hangs) to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral (多光谱的) camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting, but also, where they exist, intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a     6     rock, that he found a preparatory sketch showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated(城堡形的) tower.

The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge steep cliff. That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress(堡垒)     7     by Pisa and Florence in the war that broke out between them in 1503 (around the time he was painting Gherardini). The fortress with the nearby cliff—and a tower, known as the Caprona tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also     8     in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr. Cotte, he became “obsessive”.

Mr. Cotte argues that a channel that     9     through desolate countryside at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, as some have speculated, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Armo as da Vinci pictured it once his plan had been adopted.

It never was. But if Mr. Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a     10    , if mysterious, smile.

9 . Directions: Complete the following passages 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. force B. mains C. intense D. spell E. respite F. fuelling G. urging H. severity I. underlying J. collapses K. forecast

People across the UK are set to sizzle on what could be the hottest day of the year so far. Temperatures are expected to reach 33℃ for four consecutive days,     1     concerns there could be hundreds of heat related deaths in the UK.

A Met Office amber weather warning for extreme heat comes into     2     today for almost all of England south of Manchester and parts of eastern Wales. It is expected to last until Sunday with temperatures     3     to climb to 36℃.

Temperatures are not expected to drop below the low 20℃ in some areas, even at night. Older people, young children and those with     4     health conditions are more likely to experience adverse health effects, the Met Office said.

“Compared to the July record-breaking heat, this event will be less     5    , but last longer, which could actually have a greater impact on people’s health,” Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reading, said.

Both countryside and urban areas are tinder dry,     6     people to take special care. Ten fire engines and about 70 firefighters were called to a grassfire in Rainham, east London, yesterday, the London Fire Brigade said.

The Met Office’s fire     7     index, an assessment of how severe a fire could become if one were to start, is very high for most of England and Wales. The village of Northend in Oxford shire became the first place in the UK to run dry in the hot     8    . Thames Water, which operates in the area, sent water tankers and handed out bottles. The company has said that as a severe drought has made ground conditions worse for water     9    , it will bring in a hosepipe ban for its 15 million customers across London, Surrey and Gloucestershire in the “coming weeks”.

Experts have also warned that cliff     10     could become more of a risk on south coast beaches. Vanessa Banks, of the British Geological Survey, said that clay-like sediments will shrink as soils experience large changes in volume due to changes in water content.

10 . 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. inevitable B. reversed C. complications D. fueled E. dramatically F. access G. devoted H. exports I. yield J. thrives K. organic

Quinoa, of which both the seeds and leaves can be edible, is a crop native to the Andes Mountains. It took off in richer countries in the 1990s after NASA researchers recommended it as part of a potential space-colony diet. Over the past decade, quinoa, one of the leading crops that     1     on Bolivia’s high plains, 13,000 ft. above sea level, has become a premier product for foodies, health nuts and fair-trade enthusiasts. The gluten-free staple — in Bolivia it is produced solely by small-scale farmers and 90% is     2     — often decorates plates from celebrity chefs like Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay and has inspired entire cookbooks     3     to Salads, soups and stuffing boasting its nutritional goodness. It’s an unaccustomed role for such a humble crop, which poorer Bolivians often grew and ate instead of buying rice. “It was always comida para los indios (food for Indians),” says Benjamin Huarachi, a member of the board of Bolivia’s largest quinoa growers’ association, “Today it’s food for the world’s richest.”

It also provides food for thought about the     4     that arise when rich nations try to support farmers in the developing world. The colorful tall tufts (丛生植物), which     5     one of the healthiest foods on the planet, have become Huarachi’s golden goose. As global food prices have risen, the price of quinoa has tripled in the past five years, to $1 per lb., a benefit to growers in the poorest region of South America’s poorest country. “Now we’ve got tractors for our fields and parabolic antennas (抛物面天线) for our homes,” he says.

And trouble with the neighbors. In an economy dependent on unsteady commodity     6    , quinoa has made farmers richer, but it has also become an out-of-reach luxury for many Bolivians and     7     violent conflict. In February hundreds of farmers clashed over prime quinoa-growing territory, and dozens were injured. The high price of quinoa has     8     cut domestic consumption, sparking concerns about malnutrition, with many farmers scrambling to export all their quinoa, even supplementing their diets with foods like pasta.

The series of problems raises concerns about whether the satisfying act of buying fair trade — which aims to help small farmers gain     9     to higher-end consumers abroad — can do more harm than good for the poor in developing countries. “When you transform a food into a commodity, there’s     10     breakdown in social relations and high environmental cost,” says Tanya Kerssen, a food-policy analyst for the food and development institute Food First, based in Oakland, Calif.