1 . To tell the truth, you must make every effort to improve you____________ (speak) English．(所给词的适当形式填空）

2 . Easy Ways to Build Vocabulary

It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary. Like many things in life, it's     1    ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement,     2    means you'll just keep getting better and better. Of course you have to work at it. You wouldn't think that a few     3    (month) of exercise in your teens would be enough     4     the rest of your life, and that's also true for building your vocabulary--you have to keep at it daily, and pretty soon you will find that you have an excellent vocabulary.

One of the     5    (effect) ways to build vocabulary is to read good books. You need to     6    (real) read at least one good book a week, preferably a classic. This isn't as hard as it     7    (sound), and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while     8    (read) an interesting piece of literature. Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and     9    (they) use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words     10    (learn) this way in conversations almost automatically.

3 . 根据句意从方框中选出合适的动词或动词短语, 用其适当的形式完成句子。

take off set up base… on go through come up give in punish blow up

1. My grandfather ____________________ a long illness before he breathed his last.
2. The past two years have seen the app he developed really_______________ and made him a millionaire.
3. The research group produces two reports _______________ the survey, but neither contained any useful suggestions.
4. It is always the elder brother who __________________ first when a quarrel breaks out between the two brothers.
5. Whoever breaks the law won’t escape _____________________.
6. His name _____________whenever the problem of nuclear energy was discussed.
7. According to today’s newspaper, the escaped prisoner threatened to _____________ the police station in the near future.
8. It was requested that a fund ________________for the dead men’s families.

4 . —What do you think of the two students ________ to take part in the competition?
—They are hardworking as well as intelligent.

A．selecting	B．to select
C．selected	D．having selected

5 . In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message ________ within the work.

A．to hide	B．hidden
C．hiding	D．being hidden

6 . For breakfast he only drinks juice from fresh fruit________on his own farm.

A．grown	B．being grown
C．to ge grown	D．to grow