4 . 选词填空

struck   conduct   regard   habitat   reserve   update   annoyed   failure   worthwhile     profit   ruined   despite

1. Her voice was shaking______all her efforts to control it.
2. She was tired from cleaning up the room, but the smile on her mother’s face made it______.
3. Jack was a determined boy, who never gives in to______
4. I have a high______for him and what he has received.
5. It suddenly______me that I had left my luggage at the airport when I arrived home.
6. The teacher was so______with the boy for turning up late every day.
7. Each week we______an experiment that explores an important scientific concept.
8. A nature______is a good place for wild animals to live in.
9. If you want to attract more people, you’d better______the information you send online.
10. Many people make a huge______by doing business.

5 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word or phrase chosen from the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once. Note that there is one word or phrase more than you need.

A. attempted B. promoted C. identical D. independent E. proposing F. account G. issue H. conduct I. signaling J. pressured K. functional

1. Venus and Earth are commonly regarded as twin planets but not ________ twins.
2. A key ________ for higher education in the 1990’s is the need for greater diversity of courses.
3. At the end, when the crowd began to break up, he raised his arms ________ for attention.
4. The firm ________ to maintain its profitability by reducing the proportion of revenue set aside to pay staff to 36.8% from 36.9%.
5. Doctors in Britain say a new code of ________ is urgently needed to protect the doctor-patient relationship.
6. He knew he was going crazy when he heard himself ________ marriage to her, when he begged her to take the diamond ring and be his companion for life.
7. In the United States, in comparison, parents regard the primary purpose of preschools as making children more ________ and self-reliant.
8. Enabling farmers to speed their products to the East, railroads increased the value of farmland and ________ additional settlement.
9. Every mother should have the right to decide where she gives birth, without feeling ________ one way or the other.
10. This highly ________ walking style allows penguins to save roughly eighty percent of the mechanical energy they use while walking.

6 . A 2020 study ____________ (conduct) by Common Sense Media found that people spend up to 9 hours a day in front of screens. (所给词的适当形式填空)

10 . You can ______ the small and unnoticeable device to your pet so that you can easily find it.

A．conduct

B．attach

C．press

D．draft