1 . Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in the box.

argue          determine          independent        limited          muscle          orbit        otherwise          pattern            procedure        sufficient

1. Some satellites can go around Earth in 90 minutes. Others that are much further away can take a whole day to__________ Earth.
2. Crop circles first began appearing in England in 1975. Some people believe these mysterious__________ are created by aliens.
3. The musician hopes that he will have__________ time to make the new album
4. Before you begin exercising, you should spend five or ten minutes warming up your__________.
5. Please write down a list of the things you want to buy. You will forget them__________.
6. If you encourage students to express their thoughts and creative ideas, they will learn to become__________ thinkers.
7. You might be right, but don't try to convince people by__________. Because if they are angry, they will be unable to hear you.
8. The safety video shows the proper__________ for leaving the cinema in case of fire.
9. The direction in which education starts a man will__________ his future life.
—Plato
10. This training is designed for anyone who has__________ knowledge of outdoor survival.

2 . 选词填空

in comparison with, be devoted to, be capable of, be bound to, cut down, be connected with, turn to, the amount of, make up, be responsible for

1. We need to ___________the article to 1,000 words.
2. ___________money invested in health care is increasing.
3. When I am in trouble, I always___________ my friends for help.
4. Nowadays many young people think that love___________ houses, cars and money.
5. Rona is kind and helpful because much time___________ translating book into English as a volunteer.
6. The man is thought to ___________the attack.
7. Animals might___________ learning, but surely not of thinking and feeling.
8. If you work hard, you will___________ succeed.
9. The building in Dalian are small ___________the skyscrapers in New York.
10. Two carpenters and five clerks ended up___________ a volunteer group.

3 . 用所给短语的恰当形式填入下列句子，使其意义完整。有两个短语多余。

turn out；in hand；attend to；turn down；on behalf of；in response to；be made up of

1. Life________ ups and downs, so it is essential for us to put ourselves in a good mood.
2. Our monitor gave a speech________ all the athletes at the school sports meeting.
3. The university________ Albert Einstein due to his low scores in the general part of the entrance exam.
4. People donated food and money actively________ the appeal by the local government.
5. A great number of nurses spent much time________ the patients during the COVID-19 epidemic.

4 . 短语填空(用所给短语的适当形式填空，有两项多余)

give birth to; participate in; die out; realize one’s dream; recognize...as...; lead to; side by side; bring...back to life; be identical to; devote oneself to; come to one’s attention; make joint efforts

1. Dinosaurs could not survive in the present day even if it is possible to ________.
2. She always remembered the first time he ________ .
3. They enjoy ________ a wide variety of activities, both locally and further afield.
4. Only by ________ can parents and children bridge the generation gap between them.
5. Today landscape architecture ________ a branch of the fine arts.
6. Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating (变化), and sometimes they ________ new ones.
7. She gladly gave up her part­time job to ________ her art.
8. They walked ________ through the long gallery, discussing something.
9. With the development of modern industry, many of the traditional crafts (手艺) ________.
10. Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it ________ greater self­knowledge, is no bad thing.

5 . 根据句意，选择短语并以其适当形式填空。

1. My mother is coming back today. My father will ______________ her ______________at the airport.
2. The doctors think he’s going to ______________,which gives us a big relief.
3. ______________, I will go to the ceremony and say hello to them.
4. You’d better ______________hate and walk on in the path of your life.
5. Her son’s marriage was______________, which made her anxious.
6. The two have never met ______________ before—this is the first time.
7. The situation got worse and she was ______________ as to what to do next.
8. I waved goodbye to my mother till the train was ______________.
9. The boy likes ______________ with some naughty children after school.
10. From her expression, I could tell that she knew that she was ______________.

6 . 从下列短语中选择恰当的短语并用其正确的形式填空（每个短语只能用一次）。

refer to                 take it for granted          without equal fall apart               cry out for                    throw oneself into

1. Jessie’s skill in painting portraits is ________ in our class.
2. The company is________ fresh new talent.
3. Since she stopped working as an actress, she ________ charity work.
4. She gave the speech without________ her notes.
5. He________ that he would be given the job as a managing director.

7 . 用方框里短语的正确形式填空。

recover from   in person   get ahead   differ from   apply for   adapt oneself to due to     live up to     surf the Internet     come up with   suffer from

1. The town was cut off from the rest of the world ________ heavy snow.
2. Fill in the form and return it either ________ or by post.
3. He is an Internet addict. He spends a great deal of time ________ every day.
4. If you want to ________, you must work hard.
5. American English ________ British English in many small ways.
6. I am writing to________ the post of volunteer for our school’s English association.
7. Our class ________ the idea to make better use of used materials.
8. As time went by, I gradually ________ the school life.
9. He failed to ________ his parents’ expectations.
10. Most of the major cities of the world________ traffic jam.
11. Listening to the music and doing sports can help me ________ stress.

8 . 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.

9 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

call on, cast a shadow on, one’s heart in one’s mouth, set foot on, tune in, be accustomed to, reach for the stars, take off

1. You can watch aircraft ________ or land at close quarters.
2. It was the first time that I had ________ American soil.
3. An oak tree ________ a tiny round pool.
4. She always encouraged her students to ________.
5. The new members of the company have ________ the environment there.
6. People get their information by ________ to foreign radio stations.
7. With ________, Jim moved towards the dark.
8. The new era ________ us, saying that we should strive to achieve more and do better.

10 . 选词填空

date from, seal up, thanks to, ahead of, vary from, fade from, attract my attention, be testimony to, bring. . . to life, a stone’s throw

1. The reports _________ the many hours of research completed by this committee.
2. The present controversy _________ 1986.
3. The new teacher really _________ French _________ for us.
4. The hotel is within _________ of the beach.
5. All memory of her childhood _________ her mind.
6. He knocked on the window to _________.
7. _________ the angle at which he stood, he could just see the sunset.
8. The paper was used for _________ holes in walls and roofs.
9. Wishes _________ person to person.
10. She was always well _________ the rest of the class.