1 . 选词填空：announce/declare
1. The boy ________ that he was going to try out his toy plane that afternoon.
2. Ministers of the two countries ________ their support for the Vienna talks.

2 . 根据句意，选择短语并以其适当形式填空。

1. It was the sponsor who first put forward the idea of holding a concert to _________________for the homeless.
2. With time going by，plenty of customs and languages have _________________ in the world.
3. We _________________ every citizen to do his part to build a peaceful and harmonious society.
4. I think you should stop for a moment and _________________your successes and failures.
5. As we all know，presidential elections are held _________________ in America.
6. Because everyone longs for success，it is difficult for us to _________________failure_________________
7. Victory makes the amateur _________________while failure makes him lost in despair.
8. Everyday isn’t going to be smooth sailing and there will be times when you want to _________________.
9. Do you think it’s a bit_________________ what they’re doing?
10. Mother Nature _________________ last winter with recordbreaking amounts of snow.

3 . 选择合适的短语完成下列句子

1.break with sth. 2.set...aside 3.dig up 4.in the end 5. pay attention to 6.as long as 7.set up 8.set down 9.in reality 10.in reward for 11.make allowance for 12.familiarize oneself with 13.be rooted in 14.distinguish...from... 15.be regarded as 16.be characterized by 17.breathe vitality into 18.be inseparable from 19.be representative of 20.be fascinated by

1. ________we work together, we can make the impossible possible.
2. It was obvious that she wanted to make a clean ________the past.
3. John is always working hard. I believe he will succeed sooner or later ________ his efforts.
4. I try to ________ a few minutes each day to help my mother do the housework, though I am very busy.
5. They seemed to have a lot in common, but ________ they came from two totally different culture backgrounds.
6. We need an excellent staff to ________our team.
7. People will ________ the boy’s striking creativity in the world!
8. Language learning should ________reality, the world and the future.
9. When we’re planning for a trip, we should ________ the weather.
10. Till now Mary has not yet ________ the use of this new application.

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

A. advocate   B. commercially   C. diversify     D. analyst   E. projected     F. due G. accordingly   H. collective       I. sponsored       J. launches       K. contribute

Inspiration 4: Amateur astronauts set for orbital spaceflight

Four “amateur astronauts” are about to launch into orbit in another landmark mission for space tourism. It’s the latest flight to help open up access to space for paying customers, following on from       1     by Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.

The trip has been paid for by Us billionaire businessman Jared Isaac-man, who will travel with three crew-mates. A healthcare worker, a science educator and a data     2     will circle the Earth with Mr Isaac-man for three days.

They hope to inspire others with their adventure and to raise money for children’s cancer medicine. The mission has been named Inspiration 4     3    .

The crew’s Dragon vehicle, manufactured by Elon Musk’s company Space X, will ride atop a Falcon-9 rocket. It is     4     to launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 20:02 EDT on Wednesday (01:02 BST, Thursday), or very shortly after.

The mission follows hot on the heels of Sir Richard Branson’s flight aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane on 11 July, and fellow billionaire Jeff Bezo’s trip to space nine days later in the New Shepard vehicle.

Some commentators have voiced concern about the     5     impact on the Earth’s climate of spaceflights like this one.

Space X’s Falcon-9 rocket uses highly-refined kerosene(煤油)fuel which produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), along with nitrogen oxides, which also help     6     to warming. The emissions from rocket launches remain tiny compared with the aviation industry, though they are     7     to grow.

In the 60 years since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first went into space, fewer than 600 people have followed in his footsteps; and most of those have been military-trained personnel flying on government-     8     missions. Inspiration 4 is different. It’ll be a fully     9     purchased and operated orbital flight.

California-based Space X intends to sell many more orbital flights to interests beyond traditional space agencies. Nasa helped fund the development of a lot of the technology used by Elon Musk’s company, and did so to try to     10     the economy in low-Earth orbit. This approach is beginning to pay dividends(产生效益). Already, the Texas start-up Axiom Space has purchased four Dragon flights to take tourists to the ISS.

5 . 用suffer或suffer from的适当形式填空
1. They ________ a great loss in the earthquake.
2. They ________ all kinds of diseases in those years.

6 . 用decide/determine/resolve的适当形式填空
1. When we will go to Beijing hasn't been ___________yet.
2. The size of the chicken pieces will___________ the cooking time.
3. We must find a way to___________ these problems before it's too late.

7 . 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.diversifying       B.depressed        C.shifted       D.breaking       E.hammer   F.controversial G.initially     H.converting       I.wholly       J.dump          K.circulations

Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder

The cost of paper around the world is rising to record highs, pushing up expenses for newspapers from Mumbai to Sydney. When times were good, before ads     1     online, newspapers had a supportive partnership with paper mills. As ads departed and     2     fell, they are now at the shouting stage.

Paper mills had the worst of it for years as newspapers went     3     digital or shut for good. The papers were able to     4     down the cost of newsprint from firms fighting for business as demand declined. Many hesitated to shut massive machines costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

That hesitance has disappeared; mills are taking out newsprint capacity and     5    . Norske Skog, a Norwegian paper firm, said in June it would close its 66-year-old Tasman Mill in New Zealand, for example. Many mills are     6     machines to make packaging for e-commerce.UPM, a Finnish firm, announced this year the sale of its Shotton newsprint mill in Wales to a Turkish maker of container board and packaging. For JCS Volga, a Russian mill, newsprint used to account for 70% of production; now half of what it makes is packaging. The pandemic, with people working from home, meant even fewer newspaper purchases, which     7     demand for newsprint again and increased the pain for paper suppliers. In the past 24 months European mills have responded by shutting almost a fifth of their newsprint capacity, says a buyer for a large British newspaper group.

Then economies reopened. Newsprint demand shot up. That, combined with much reduced capacity and coupled with soaring energy prices, has resulted in a price shock. Particularly     8     are energy surcharges that some paper suppliers are seeking to pass on.

Newspaper firms reckon this amounts to     9    contracts. European newspapers will have to pay newsprint prices that are 50-70% higher in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the year before.

Germany’s print and media industry association has warned that mills are going to force newspapers to     10     paper editions, hurting each other in the process. “It’s about the famous branch that both of them are sitting on,” it said recently. But mills can sell packaging instead. “We’re not going to save the publishing industry by being unprofitable ourselves,”says a mill executive in North America.

8 . 选词填空

assess, bound, cite, cycle，client，horizon，demand，reckon

1. The housing company asks all its ________to pay for a case in advance.
2. Both traveling and reading can broaden your ________.
3. He ________ that he was qualified for the job.
4. This is our ________of the damage to your car. It was ________at 1,000 yuan.
5. The ________always ________in the park as a form of exercise.
6. It is ________ that you should balance the relationship between supplies and ________.
7. Her essay begins with a ________ from Lu Xun. She also________ a few lines from Li Bai's poems.
8. According to the professors, the price of houses was ________to rise in the next few months.

9 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

make sense / make sense of

1. Can you ________ what the foreigner said just now?
2. The sentence just doesn't ________, no matter how you read it.

10 . 用方框中短语的适当形式填空

take off             to some extent          above all else        at one's fingertips        bring about a huge amount of        no wonder        go on holiday       get in the way             as with

1. It is well known that science has __________ many changes in our lives.
2. Computer technology puts all the information in the world __________ .
3. It is hard to imagine a man who could steal __________ confidential (机密的) information.
4. __________ many young people, the old man likes pop music as well.
5. So long as you are determined, nothing in the world can __________ of your success.
6. He is so busy that he can't get time off work to __________.
7. __________ all children like going to Disneyland, where they can meet their favorite Disney Cartoon characters.
8. If you want to be popular, __________, join in our class activities and make a contribution to our class if possible.
9. __________, the driver should be responsible for the accident
10. Owing to the leading actors' good appearance and acting skills, the new movie __________ over night.