1 . 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.

2 . 选词填空

adjust to， be concerned with，compare.… to，engage in，in any case, in pursuit of，regardless of，sentence... to death, take on，out of mercy

1. After a thorough cleaning before the New Year Eve，my house ________ a new look.
2. I wonder how you could have ________ college life abroad.
3. Either he escaped, or he ended up being killed. ________ he was never seen again.
4. It is the environment protection that we should ________.
5. She was ________ independence and knowledge when she was very young.
6. Whoever has killed someone else on purpose shall ________ as a result.
7. We will continue the match, ________ the terrible weather.
8. He has been looking forward to ________ some social activities，adding to experience.
9. ________ British English, American English is easier to master.
10. He didn't expect such a cruel master would spare him ________.

3 . 选词填空

accent，comprehend，express，grace，motive，repay，resemble，utter

1. The eager for being promoted ________ her to spare no efforts to work.
2. She was so young that she couldn’t understand the story which was quite beyond her ________.
3. His strong ________ suggests that he is from the South.
4. We should________ the medical teams for their assistance in attending to the seriously infected patients?
5. The young girl danced ________ to the music.
6. The little girl’s ________ suggested that she had much difficulty ________ herself in her own words.
7. The girl ________ her twin sister so much that I can hardly tell the difference between them.
8. She stared at me without ________ a word, so I had no idea what she meant.