1 . 根据所给的10个英语单句的意思，从所给的15个词汇中挑选出10个合适的词或短语分别给每个句子填空。

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1. When the Chinese team was preparing for the 2015 World Cup, her___________ was tested.
2. I know I’ll have to study harder as a senior high school student and get used to being ________ a lot more.
3. My adviser recommended that I should ___________ advanced literature because I like English and I’m good at it.
4. __________, I like acting better,but my friends go to the Ballet Club and I want to be with them.
5. One of the best players had been __________ , and the team captain had to leave because of heart problems.
6. Spain ________ Peru in the 16^th century and ruled until 1821.
7. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together ________ the perfect fit of the stones.
8. Some students even became addicted to the Internet and cannot ________ school and family life.
9. Rather than ____________ the foods I enjoyed, I added healthy foods to my meals.
10. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, __________ the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.

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.