1 . 选词填空

A. looking forward to                  B. addicted to                  C. graduating from D. be responsible for                    E. on schedule                 F. in advance

1. In order to get good grades in the middle exam, you’d better prepare ________ .
2. After _________college, he found it hard to find a suitable job.
3. As students, we should hand in our online homework ________.
4. We are________ the victory of the epidemic.
5. The driver drank too much, he should ________ the accident.
6. Once you are _________smoking, it’s hard to quit.

2 . 选词组并用适当形式填空，词组有多余。

live up to                         go for                           trial and error                 be in stitches not by any means               convince sb of               end the deadlock            step in stick by                            get away with                 go to great lengths          expose to

1. The famous stand-up comedian Pong Bo is expert at telling jokes. So hilarious was one told by him that everyone ________________.
2. The residents in Ohio ________________ a potentially deadly situation when the Norfolk Southern Railway train derailed(脱轨) and caused 20 railcars carrying hazardous materials to burst into flames.
3. The two political parties have been in negotiations for weeks, but the appointment of a skilled mediator(调停者) has increased hopes of ________________ and reaching a mutually agreeable solution.
4. As the youngest Bennet sister, Lydia fails ________________ the social standards of her time after running off with a man who does not value her, causing scandal and embarrassment for her family in Pride and Prejudice.
5. Recently, people in both China and the USA ________________ to raise people’s awareness of the critical conditions giant panda Yaya is in, and they are appealing to the Memphis Zoo to send Yaya back to China as soon as possible.
6. John Wilkes Booth, the man responsible for killing Abraham Lincoln, fled the scene of the crime but was finally found and killed by Union troops, not ________________ the murder in the end.
7. Zhang Jike, a multiple-time world champion, has been involved in controversy as some netizens claimed he owed several million yuan in debt due to gambling. China’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission ________________ and has urged the department concerned to investigate the issue and make the results public as soon as possible.
8. Harry Potter, a boy wizard, is forced on multiple occasions to battle Voldemort, an evil wizard, but with Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and those who love him and believe in him ________________ him, Harry is able to defeat the evil.
9. If you want to become “senior” fans of Star Trek, why not ________________Klingon. It’s simply a fun way to immerse yourself in the Star Trek universe. Besides, you will enjoy talking to one another using this complexly constructed language.
10. The process of scientific discovery is often characterized by years of ________________, with researchers tirelessly experimenting on their hypotheses until they finally arrive at breakthrough findings, which drive innovation in fields ranging from medicine and technology to renewable energy and space exploration.

3 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

have trouble with, refer to, live a happy life, out of gratitude, carry out, sweep away, run...to safety

1. ________, everyone wants to have good health and a long life.
2. ________, he told me that he would invite me to dinner in the evening.
3. He feels unhappy because he is ________his classmates at the moment.
4. I should give my own opinion and explain it by ________other authors.
5. They are going to have a meeting to determine who will ________the plan.
6. When fire broke out in the house, she ________as fast as she could ________.
7. We haven’t cleaned the house for a few days, because we don’t want to ________good luck.

4 . 从方框中选择适当的单词并用其正确形式将句子补充完整。

accompany     attach     opportunity     race     reject     represent     wave     wrap

1. Just as the saying goes: ________ are only for the prepared minds.
2. Granny sat by the window, watching the children ________ around in the garden.
3. ________ goodbye to them on the platform, I felt happy for them and wished them a safe journey.
4. I am so sorry to inform you that your application for this job is ________ due to lack of related information.
5. Zongzi is a kind of traditional Chinese food which is usually ________ in bamboo leaves.
6. Experts suggest that parents should spend much time ________ the children for the sake of their healthy growth.
7. In ancient Egypt, green ________ hope and spring, which was the time when things in nature started to grow after a long winter.
8. China ________ great importance to African countries’ worries about climate change, and is willing to strengthen dialogue and work together with Africa.

5 . 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.

6 . 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 ______________.

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 . 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.

9 . 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.

10 . 选择方框中的短语并用其正确形式填空

in addition, on average, as a result, compared to,   adapt to, make the best of, focus on, take it easy

1. The only way to succeed is to ________ and step by step, so don't be so nervous.
2. You are very smart, but if you expect to make great progress, you should try to________ your talents.
3. Time is limited. ________, it is important that you have to read as quickly as possible.
4. You should have a little patience because the newcomers are usually very slow to________ the rules of the company.
5. ________, we should not forget that everyone wants a friendly and peaceful society.
6. －How much do you spend on beauty products________ every month?
－It depends on my extra pay.
7. We are bus drivers. When we are on the way, we are used to________ our job.
8. I was at a disadvantage________ the younger members of the team.