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. confusion   B. delivered     C. reflection        D. offer   E. context    F. set       G. signaled       H. fluent     I. torn       J. culture     K. genuine

This is a story about how a foreigner got confused about a Mexican word even though she could speak     1     Spanish. It happened when she     2     foot on Mexican soil for the first time. She asked an ice-cream seller for an ice-cream, and he said “ahorita.” She thought it would be     3     immediately because the word can be directly translated to “right now.” But she waited for half an hour and still no ice-cream came. When she asked the seller about it, he said “ahorita” again, with his face showing     4    . She felt     5     between waiting and walking away. Finally, she had to go home, so she     6     to the seller that she could not wait any longer. Years later back in Mexico, she came to realise that the meaning of “ahorita” changes according to its     7    . It could mean “tomorrow,” “within five years,” “never,” or even “no, thanks” when one wants to refuse an     8    . “Ahorita Time” is a     9     of different cultural understandings of time. That is, understanding “ahorita” takes not a fluency in the language, but a fluency in the    10    .

2 . 根据句子意思，从下面方框中选择词或词组，并使用其正确形式完成句子。

memorize acquire as a result promote sharp grateful highlight sensitive practical context

1. According to Hermann Ebbinghaus, the ______ loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning.
2. I am ______ to my friend, Michael, because he helped me with my studies and it changed my life.
3. Try to use grammar rules in speaking and writing activities, and you will ______ the rules and use them without thinking.
4. My English teacher gives us specific feedback. For example, he often ______ our mistakes and says things like “You need to work on the past tenses some more”.
5. My science teacher made everything interesting. He used to explain things which seemed difficult with lots of   ______ examples and in simple language.
6. Some people find ______ new words very difficult while learning English.
7. Experts suggest that we should learn words in ______ and in chunks.
8. We retell interesting or funny stories from our childhood again and again ______ we remember the events in childhood better.
9. Teachers should do negative feedbacks in a less direct manner, especially to those who are shy or ______.
10. Asking questions is the easiest way to ______ active learning.

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

1. They tried to _________ her into staying with offers of promotion.
2. The soldiers had no alternative but to accept the _________realities that they had been surrounded by the enemies in the jungle.
3. Contrary to our _______, he was eliminated in the first round.
4. The Great Wall is such a well-known tourist _________that millions of people visit it every year.
5. Faced with two alternatives, most people find themselves _________between them.
6. In this exercise, a word is blanked out and you have to guess what it is by looking at the _________.
7. Your clothes might be a ________ of your personality.
8. In western cultures, ___________ eye contact in conversations is necessary. A westerner might, in fact, consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest.
9. We headed for the National Park, which is famous for its _________ scenery, by school bus at 8 a.m.
10. I don’t think we have met before. You must be __________ me with someone else.