2 . 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. highlighting   B. total     C. enriched     D. urgent E. relief     F. perspective   G. ignoring     H. altered I. filling     J. separate   K. downgraded

Chinese Women Bridging Gap

Zhang Jianli used to employ only male workers on his construction sites throughout Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. Now with large quantities of work but inadequate manpower, Mr. Zhang has     1    his mind. He offers daily wages of roughly 160 yuan for women workers to do such routine work as moving wood and bricks, and up to 200 yuan a day for     2    or complicated jobs.

A labor shortage is pushing employers to hire more women to build high-rises, maintain rail tracks and drive trucks, among other roles. Chinese women are     3     the labor shortage. They are increasingly taking on heavy-labor jobs long dominated by men in construction or transportation,     4     traditional gender roles.

Women’s presence on construction sites has grown a lot. As a consequence, employers have set up     5     living spaces and bathrooms for them. About one-third of the workers on some construction sites in major cities are women, according to estimates by researchers who study China’s labor and gender issues. Just eight years ago, women accounted for just over one-tenth of the     6     , according to a survey of over 6,000 construction workers in nine cities. Over time, the types of jobs performed by women have been     7     —truck driving and machine handling added to their working list.

State media, in recent years, have praised the roles of women working as truck drivers and construction workers,     8    their contribution to the economy. In July, Xinhua News Agency featured Xu Yingying, a kind-hearted woman truck driver, who delivered     9    materials to the virus-stricken Hubei province three times within nine days last year. “Having lived through so much, I feel that the best status of a woman is being self-independent, living to become a beam of light and warming others,” she shared her     10    in the video.

4 . 从方框内所给短语选择最佳选项

A. is obsessed with        B. highlight the importance of          C. barrier to D. put aside             E. vary from             F. is of great value G. wander around        H. at a glance        I. at hand        J. at some point

1. She wants to ________ her pocket money for holidays.
2. A lack of education is a ________ many good jobs.
3. Weddings may be a universal celebration, but wedding traditions ________ one country to another.
4. He________ so ________ the football game that he can’t focus on what his father is saying.
5. The government has made various attempts lately to ________ protecting the environment.
6. I don’t want to ________ downtown at this time of night.
7. It is very convenient to have a dictionary ________ when reading.
8. The policeman saw ________ what had happened.

5 . 除了欣赏壮丽的山峰和森林，旅程的亮点之一是能看到很多不同的生物。(汉译英)

8 . One of the h________(the best, most interesting or most exciting part of sth) of our trip to Tibet was seeing the graceful Tibetan antelopes. （根据首字母单词拼写）

10 . 用以下词的正确形式填空

wrap       highlight       influential       distraction       sensitive feedback       ashamed       swallow       extinct       occasional

1. She was deeply ________of her rude behaviour at the party.
2. To ________means to make food or drink go down your throat into your stomach.
3. Her skin is very ________ to the sun. So hats and sunscreen cream are very necessary.
4. Jack feels that the constant noise is getting to be a ________from what he is doing now.
5. When you _________ something, you fold paper or cloth tightly around it to cover it completely.
6. As the father of hybrid rice, Yuan Longping is one of the most________ scientists in agriculture.
7. If you say you __________meet your friend, you mean you sometimes meet each other, but not often.
8. When you are reading, it is important to ________the key points with a marker so that it will be helpful for you to review what you have learnt.
9. If you get ________on your work or progress, it means someone tells you how well or badly you are doing, and how you could improve.
10. If you say a species of animal or plant is _________, you mean it no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place.