1 . 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. accessible        B. beats       C. bridges       D. device       E. fundamentally       F. habitually G. kneels            H. partial        I. powerful       J. showcases        K. stage

Feeling the Dance

Lights move in time to the rhythmic beat issuing from a floor speaker as hip-hop performer Shaheem Sanchez gets ready. Sanchez, who is deaf,     1     beside the speaker and places his hand on top of it, allowing the sound waves to course through his body. His head nods as he counts the     2     , catching the rhythm. Then rising, his body moves in so perfect time to the music that dancer and music unite in a single artistic expression. In this moment, art     3     the gap between two worlds: the deaf and the hearing.

Sanchez is one of a growing number of professional dancers with full or     4     hearing loss, working to redefine what it means to experience music and, in a larger sense, communicate with others.

Antoine Hunter is another artist who is inspiring a new generation of dancers to take the     5     . As the director of the Urban Jazz Company in San Francisco, Hunter experienced the way that dance could help people better understand each other, which     6     altered his life.

But there were few opportunities for a black deaf dancer when Hunter was first finding his feet. He had to create a world in which he could perform. Now he’s sharing it with others, both in his studio and through the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival. The event     7     the talents of deaf and hard of hearing people from around the world.

To get more people moving, Hunter ensures that his dance company is fully     8     to students of all abilities. There are interpreters for deaf and blind students, and a(n)     9     that turns sound waves into vibrations (震动). These vibrations travel across the floor so dancers can feel the music in their feet.

All around the world, deaf dancers are turning in     10     performances. Digital media is not only making these performances more visible, but also providing deaf dancers more opportunities to show off their talents. Artists like Sanchez upload performances to online platforms, where they get thousands of views. This allows deaf artists to express themselves to a larger audience.

2 . 根据句意，选择单词并以其适当形式填空。

1. As a matter of fact, it is a __________ of picking and jogging, which means picking up trash while working out.
2. To start with, people, who are for the idea, believe that university libraries should be__________ to the public.
3. Deal with the most important assignments first, and one will feel a real sense of __________.
4. I’m greatly __________ that you will be impressed by the clothes rental stores.
5. But with the development of modernisation and globalisation, more and more intangible cultural heritages are at great risk of __________.
6. Reading enables readers to see farther because they are __________ to stand on the shoulders of giants.
7. At the same time, nature reserves should be set up to guarantee their living environment is safe and __________.
8. First, the increasingly __________ life has put a good number of people under huge pressure.
9. It is love that makes life __________ living.
10. So __________ were we in being with them that we didn’t realize it was time for departure.

3 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

release     threat     negotiate     assignment     access     objective barrier to     devote oneself to     pay off     stick it out

1. This unique and delicate place is now under ________ from pollution and climate change.
2. Justina’s mother told her to look at the situation ________ and be less emotional.
3. The team was happy because it was ________ to a rather easy group in the Olympics.
4. Not many people are able to ________ their career in their whole life.
5. The beach is easily ________ to visitors who travel by train.
6. The terms of this deal are ________, so it is possible that we can get this item changed.
7. Learning to play a musical instrument can be difficult, but if you ________ you will find success.
8. When an ant finds food, it ________ a chemical to mark the path so that it can find the food later.
9. All the effort of the team ________ when they won the championship.
10. Age should be no ________ living a rewarding life.

4 . 选词填空

A. accessible     B. dedicated     C. supervised     D. implemented       E. processed F. extensively   G. investigate     H. elastic       I. narrowly       J. alternative     K. appealing

1. The 10 groups with the highest scores will then be invited to the Cyber First competition final in London to ________ a complex cyber threat.
2. HandEnergy proved ________ successfully raising over $71,000 in one month from people hoping to get their hands on one.
3. Despite being based in non-English-speaking countries, Yokohma, Japan head quartered Nissan ________ an English-first strategy in the late 1990s.
4. Micro bags are a very canny move by fashion brands as they made designer label more ________ to a younger customer who might not be able to afford a full-size bag for more than $1,500, but could just save up and buy a mini one that’s a few hundred pounds.
5. Only Apple’s Siri offers a male voice as a(an) ________ to the female-dominated line-up.
6. This exercise was inspired by the work of Shelly Gable, a social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has ________ studied marriages and other close relationships.
7. Along with its parent organization, Robohand, these groups are ________ to making mechanical hands for people who may have been born without them, or who lost hands or fingers to accidents.
8. Meanwhile, he adds that the right side of the brain plays a crucial role in music. Language, such as English and Mandarin, are mostly ________ on the left side of the brain.
9. As a teenager, Wilma joined the girls’ basketball team at Burt High School. C. C. Gray was the coach who ________ the team.
10. It is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot air balloon or helicopter, with a(an) ________ rope tied to your ankles.

5 . 从方框中选择意思合适的词，并用其正确形式或包含这个单词的短语完成句子。

prefer             tend             humble       object             deadline        qualification access             apply            clarify       adaptation        intention        wander

1. After China’s implementing the Belt and Road Initiative, there is a great need for ______ teachers of Business English.
2. A journalist’s job is to inform people ______ about events, without any personal feelings.
3. There were over 1000 ______ for the job, so the competition must have been fierce.
4. The film, ______ the famous writer’s novel, enjoyed great success as soon as it hit the screen.
5. The remote desert area ______ only by helicopter, which makes the rescue work more difficult.
6. The boy have a ______ to talk too much when he has butterflies in his stomach.
7. It was midnight, but when I left work from my office, I still found some people ______ aimlessly on the streets.
8. Although the first proposal sounded more practical, many people expressed a strong ______ for the original one.
9. It was stupid of you not to understand the issue, because it ______ before.
10. He is working under great pressure ______ for handing in the report, or he will be fired.

6 . 选词填空

A. cautious   B. affordable   C. accessible   D. military   E. severe

1. Eating out once or twice a week may be _______, but doing this most days adds up.
2. Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more ____and preserve its history and culture.
3. We should not focus on how to fight each other, but how to prevent _______action.
4. The spokesman was very _______about expressing his opinions in public in case he might make mistakes.
5. Faced with the ___employment situation, many graduates are considering going to work in the rural area.