1 . 用所给单词或词组的正确形式填空。

put forward,     contribute to,     instruct,     confuse,     strike，invent,     reject,     make up,     apart from,     determine

1. The boy should have been punished for using an ______________ name.
2. Eating too much sugar can___________________ health problem.
3. The applicant was rather upset for being ____________________by the firm.
4. _________________ being too big, the color of the skirt doesn’t suit me either.
5. The suggestion __________________at the meeting is under discussion.
6. The boy is always _______________________excuses for being late.
7. The man left the office angrily, and he______________________ never to return.
8. A storm is likely to __________________ our city tomorrow.
9. A group of soldiers were __________________________to keep order at the station.
10. As we get old, we can easily get ____________________________.

2 . 选词填空

flowing     found     refer     invent     achieve

1. Alexander Graham Bell______the telephone in 1876.
2. _____in 1935 in Ohio, Alcoholics Anonymous is now a world-wide organization.
3. I’ve been working all day, but I feel as if I’ve________________ nothing.
4. Although she didn’t mention any names, everyone knew who she was _____to.
5. These gates control the amount of water _____into the canal.

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

A. value B. invented C. founded D. specifically E. acknowledged F. match G. shaped H. offered I. comprehensively J. element K. aid

Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's, Chicago.     1     in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department stores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, 'the customer is always right, ' which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have     2     the phrase 'Only Shopping Days until Christmas'.

When he visited London on holiday in 1906, he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no     3     for their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges - a department store named after him at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team     4     an ambitious classical palace building with a wall of plate glass windows.

Opened in 1909, Selfridges     5     customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first     6     room and most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being    7     instructed in the art of making a sale.

Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and     8     stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key     9     of the 20th century culture, and Chaplin     10     the growing trend for shopping in the -department store in his film The Floorwalker.