1 . 请用方框中单词或短语的正确形式填空，词数不限。每个单词或短语只用一次，其中有两项是多余的。

grip, dignity, random, guilt, pace, declare, dismiss, divide, take over, conflict with

1. To be honest, it’s so difficult to preserve your ______ when you have no job and no home.
2. I feel ______ every time I tell a white lie, although I do it just to make somebody feel better.
3. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of employees have ______ from their posts.
4. More and more jobs are being ______ by machines.
5. “Please don’t go,” he said, ______ her arm.
6. We received several questions, we picked one at ______ and answered it.
7. The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was ______ between night and day.
8. Germany ______ war on France on 1 August 1914.

2 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only   be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. launch     B. virtue               C. process          D.shelter     E.   dignity F. abandon       G. assume       H.compose       I. identify       J.   exceptionally           K. structure

1. I was so confused that I could hardly ___________ my thoughts.
2. They carried themselves with great pride and __________.
3. Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing __________.
4. Disney’s other great __________ was the fact that his company—unlike other big corporations—had human face.
5. The Navy is to ________ a new warship today.
6. The door enables us to shut the birds in the _________ in bad weather.
7. The restaurant was built on a wooden ___________ above the sea water.
8. It is reasonable to _________ that the economy will continue to improve.
9. He’s an __________ talented dancer and needs to practise several hours every day.
10. She felt she was needed and decided to _________ her plan of studying abroad.

3 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper expression chosen from the box. Each expression can be used only once.

A. increase productivity       B. was buried in       C. hanging around       D. got stuck in      E. with dignity       F. under construction       G. came to my rescue       H. is familiar to I. make a difference       J. learn…by heart

1. We hope everyone can lead a happy life _________.
2. The smell ________ everyone who lives near a bakery.
3. Technology-based innovation can indeed __________.
4. The studio is still ________ and won't open until mid-March.
5. This English essay is well-organized, so I hope you will __ it_______.
6. She is crazy about Chinese classical architecture and spends all her free time ________ that historic city.
7. Because the weather was exceptionally bad, the ship ________ ice and unable to move.
8. I didn’t know anybody at the party, but the hostess _________ by introducing me to a few people.
9. The little boy ________ his book that he took no notice of my coming.
10. Even a small act of kindness can __________ to those who need help.

4 . Directions: After reading the passage below, 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.

A. dignity B. favored C. endanger D. striking E. peered F. distinctive G. adapted H. wonder I. commitment J. expense K. share

1. Tan Dun ______ music from the original Kun opera and added his own work to these traditional pieces.
2. For a long time, my mother had not understood my ______ to the struggle.
3. It’s difficult to preserve your ______ when you have no job and no home.
4. In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the ______ of his own family.
5. In the 1800s, Beijing opera slowly replaced Kun opera as the ______ form of opera.
6. Families worry that sending children away to study in higher education could ______ the Yupik language and culture.
7. When one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be ______.
8. The ______ features of Kun opera are spoken story-telling, singing and dancing, and each character has their own particular style of movement on stage.
9. When a whale is killed, the houses and school empty as everyone races to the beach to take a ______ of the meat.
10. They ______ out the window fearfully at the ivy vine, and then looked at each other for a moment without speaking.