1 . 从方框中选择合适的单词并用其适当形式填空。

mean   equal   devote   determine        sentence     trouble     prefer     burst      schedule   rare     relative   violence     law     entrance   guidance

1. I didn’t________ to scare you.
2. He is ________ to running the company.
3. The thief was ________ to ten years in prison.
4. Many high school students have ________ in solving math problems.
5. I ________ to swim rather than cycle when I was young.
6. He________ himself to his career and achieved his goals.
7. Louise is________ to stop smoking for good and all.
8. With his ________,we finally got to our destination.
9. Everyone who heard it just________ out laughing.
10. Thanks to your help, we finished the work ahead of________.
11. My husband always works late, he________ comes to bed before 12 at midnight.
12. All the________ and friends have come to my party.
13. The earthquake was so________ that many buildings fall apart.
14. Nelson Mandela worked as a ________ when he was young.
15. The________ to the mine was closed.

2 . It is most likely that you have seen a train, it may have been passing through your town, or you might have even been     1     (luck) enough to ride on one. Trains are a cool way to travel.     2     (actual), the earliest trains were just a series of carts (老式马车) joined together,     3     ran along wooden tracks and were usually pulled by horses and even people.

Around 1775, steam was being experimented with as    4     source of power. And in the early 1800s, the steam engine was invented and used into the train. This made    5     (pull) goods easier and a lot faster. Thanks to the trains, people and products could    6     (carry) off to other locations. By around the 1860s, the idea of the train had spread to the United States. Here trains were being used to pull grain (粮食)    7     farms to factories. And soon wealthy people wanted to take the train all the way to the Pacific coast. Then two    8     (company), Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads,     9     (get) the right to take on this great task of laying the track. And it took over six years and many lives    10     (complete) the first transcontinental (横贯大陆的) railroad.

9 . There were signs that she struggled with the robber before she was r_________ (重复地) stabbed.