7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In 1949, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL) came together to form the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 1996 the NBA     1    (create) the WNBA, the Women’s National Basketball Association. And in 2001 the NBA set up a development league    2     (help) train future players.

The NBA is one of the four major professional sports     3     (league) in the US. It is made     4     of thirty teams in major cities in the United States and Canada.

In 1992, the United States Olympic men’s basketball team was called the “Dream Team”. For the first time there were players from the NBA. Among them were Michael Jordan and Larry Bird. There’s no doubt     5     the Americans brought home the gold medal that year from Barcelona. It was during the 1990s that the number of top NBA players from outside the US began to grow     6    (rapid), In 2002, Yao Ming was the first choice in the NBA draft (选秀). He    7    (pick) by the Houston Rockets.

Yao Ming became the first international player without college experience in the US     8    (choose) first overall (状元). He was a     9    (talent) player and proved     10    instant hit in the US.

Yao became the third Chinese national ever to play in the NBA. The first was Wang Zhizhi. He joined the Dallas Mavericks in 2001. The second was Mengke Bateer. He made his first NBA appearance in 2002.

8 . My daughter had been accepted into graduate school. After months of praying (祷告) for her as she________applications, travel, and interviews, I felt very easy and thankful. And I wanted to give back, to do something________in thanks for the fact that my prayers had been answered.

I ________ to reach out to a homeless person. Nearly every day I drove past a homeless man who stood at a crossroads. I wanted to give him some ________ and finish my task. When heading towards the crossroads, I ________the place where the man usually stood. But where was he today? In that moment, my simple ________ became a great challenge.

I drove up and down streets, hoping to ________ a person in need. After a while without________, I gave up and headed to a coffee shop. After ordering my coffee, I sat there waiting. ________, I felt a tap on my left shoulder.

“Excuse me, ma’am,” a stranger bent and whispered in my ear. “Can you ________ some money for a bowl of soup?” Speechless, I searched my wallet ________. Then I found a bill and placed it into the man’s hands.

“Thank you, ma’am. God bless you,” he said. I smiled widely.

When I had given up on the task I had planned, the ________surfaced. It came as a gift. That mysterious meeting ________only once in a single moment, when a man took a ________and tapped me on the shoulder. The ________stranger made a great difference to me.

1.

A．considered

B．provided

C．analyzed

D．completed

2.

A．familiar

B．special

C．creative

D．interesting

3.

A．determined

B．demanded

C．pretended

D．continued

4.

A．water

B．clothes

C．money

D．paper

5.

A．relied on

B．focused on

C．called on

D．took on

6.

A．question

B．reason

C．rule

D．task

7.

A．find

B．control

C．describe

D．instruct

8.

A．permission

B．consideration

C．success

D．failure

9.

A．Finally

B．Suddenly

C．Generally

D．Accidentally

10.

A．collect

B．exchange

C．charge

D．spare

11.

A．simply

B．secretly

C．carefully

D．properly

12.

A．solution

B．response

C．doubt

D．struggle

13.

A．found

B．happened

C．delayed

D．disappeared

14.

A．view

B．measure

C．decision

D．chance

15.

A．unusual

B．unfriendly

C．unexpected

D．unimportant

9 . The concept of showing movies outdoors isn’t novel. However, it let an auto-parts salesman such as Hollingshead find a way to give a car-loving society one more activity they could do in their cars.

He first imagined the drive-in as the answer to a problem. “His mother was rather fat for indoor theater seats,” says Jim Kopp of the United Drive-in Theatre Owners Association. “So he seated her in a car and put a 1928 projector (放映机) on top of the car, and tied two bed sheets to trees in his yard.”

Hollingshead experimented for a few years before he created a ramp (坡道) system for cars to park at different heights so everyone could see the screen. He opened the gates to his theater in 1933. A few others followed.

“Drive-ins started to take off in the 1950s,” Kopp says. “They offered family entertainment. People could sit in their cars and bring their babies... Drive-ins offered more comfort than indoor theaters.” The indoor theaters were easier about scheduling, and could show one film five or six times a day instead of only at night.

D. Vogel, owner of the Benjies Drive-In near Baltimore, Md, says the price of land is the real reason many drive-ins disappeared. “People would build on the outer areas of town, and the town would grow,” he says. “Many drive-ins were mom-and-pop businesses that few sons and daughers chose to continue running. The results were a decreasing (减少的) number of drive-ins throughout the country.” Today about 400 drive-ins remain in the United States and another 100 drive-ins exist mainly in Canada and Australia.

“The digital cinema will be both a threat and an opportunity for drive-in owners,” says Patrick Corcoran, the association’s director of media and research. “Digital will allow them to get new movies sooner than they do. But the digital cinemas will be expensive to manage, and some people may not be able to do it.”

Kopp of course bets on the drive-ins’ survival. He and his wife bought an outdoor theatre. He says they have invested about $300,000 to modernize the technology. Today the theatre can hold 265 cars and show movies on a 60-foot-by-80-foot screen.

1. Why did Hollingshead let his mother watch the movie in a car?

A．It was too noisy in the theater.

B．His mother loved staying in a car.

C．There would be more space for his mother.

D．It was difficult for his mother to see clearly in a theater.

2. What is the advantage of drive-ins over indoor theaters?

A．They can sell more tickets than indoor theaters.

B．They give people more freedom to do things.

C．They take less space than indoor theaters.

D．They are much cheaper than indoor theaters.

3. What especially made it difficult for drive-ins to survive?

A．The appearance of digital cinemas.

B．The decreasing number of first runs.

C．The competition from indoor theaters.

D．The high price of land that drive-ins took.

4. What is Kopp’s attitude towards drive-ins’ future?

A．Positive.	B．Concerned.
C．Critical.	D．Doubtful.

10 . Creators (创造者) say robot dolphins can swim happily in shopping mall display tanks and be watched closely, which would usually be harmful to real animals. And they could soon be coming to zoos in China.

A robot dolphin that can nod an answer to a child — thanks to the human operating from a distance — might not sound interesting. But as marine (海洋的) parks worldwide face increasing pressure to give up exhibitions with real whales and dolphins, the robot dolphins provide an interesting choice.

“The marine park industry has had a drop in income for over a decade due to the cost of live animals, but the public’s hunger to experience these animals is still as strong as ever,” said Roger Holzberg, former creative director at the Walt Disney Company. “We believe it’s time to reimagine this industry and that this can be kinder and earn more money.”

But with a price of about £20.8 million per dolphin, the biggest trouble to the creators is making sure that the robotic sea animals will be cheaper in the long run than the real thing. Li Wang, a business developer for Edge Innovation, the New Zealand-based company making out a case for the robots, said they did cost four times more than normal dolphins but would last longer.

Mike Wang, vice president at Red Star Macalline Group, said it had started the first step of the dolphins’ development, and was considering founding a “lab” for their business in China.

The prototype (原型) for the dolphin is over 270 kg and can’t be discerned from the real thing — the condition Red Star Macalline required for starting the project. The test audience had been unable to guess the dolphin wasn’t real.

Animal rights advocates (倡导者) also welcomed the change. Elisa Allen, the UK director for People for the Good Treatment of Animals, said she hoped robot dolphins would replace real ones so that people could experience nature without harming them.

1. What do we know about the robot dolphins according to the text?

A．They can find danger.	B．They look better than real ones.
C．They work under human control.	D．They make automatic replies.

2. What is Roger Holzberg trying to talk about in Paragraph 3?

A．The challenges marine parks are facing.	B．The possibility of creating robot dolphins.
C．A way to the problems with sea animals.	D．The importance of developing robot dolphins.

3. What does the underlined word “discerned” in the last but one paragraph mean?

A．Recognized.

B．Protected.

C．Separated.

D．Controlled.

4. Why did Elisa Allen support the robot dolphins?

A．It made more money for some organizations.	B．It served an environmentally valuable cause.
C．It helped make advances in robot technology.	D．It would replace real dolphins in the long run.