1 . This is ________ my father has taught me—to always face difficulties and hope for the best. (用适当的词填空)

2 . The reason ___________ I can’t put up with her is ___________ she’s interested in nothing but shopping.

3 . Jim fell asleep in the math class today. That is ___________ he stayed up until midnight doing his homework.

4 . The reason why he hasn’t come is ________ his mother is ill. (用适当的词填空)

5 . 语法填空
1. You speak English very ________(native)！How can you make it?
2. She has requested that the door to her room ________(leave) open.
3. John swims very well, but I don’t like the way ________ he always shows off in public.
4. Ten minutes has been made full use of ________(study) the problem.
5. The manager commanded that the work ________(finish) in advance.
6. She was ill and that was ________ she was helped upstairs last night.
7. The number of friends invited was fifty, and a number of them ________(be) present ahead of time.
8. He usually speaks ________ dialect, so it is hard for everyone here to understand him.
9. After 25 years the town center has changed beyond ________(recognize).
10. No pain, no gain; after all, there is no ________ thing as a free lunch in the world.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

The British have been drinking tea for over 350 years. But in fact, the history of tea goes much     1    (far) back.

The story of tea begins in China. According to the legend, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting     2    a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung,     3     expert in herbal medicine, decided to try the water his servant created. As a result, it tasted so good that later the drink was     4     we now call tea.

It is     5    (possible) to know whether there is any truth in this story.     6    , tea drinking certainly was established in China many centuries before it had even been heard of in the west. Containers of tea     7    (find) in tombs dating from the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD) before tea was firmly established as the national drink of China in the Tang dynasty (618-906AD). It became     8     a favorite thing that during the late eighth century, a writer     9    (call) Lu Yu wrote the first book entirely about tea, the Ch’a Ching, or Tea Classic. It was shortly after this that tea was first introduced to Japan, by Japanese Buddhist monks who had travelled to China to study before. Tea drinking has become a vital part of Japanese culture,     10    may be rooted in the sprit described in the Ch’a Ching.

7 . 用适当的连接词填空
1. The homeowner called to say ________ the parents had responded to the recordings.
2. What I’m hoping to accomplish is ________ my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand _________ jazz is not black and white anymore.
3. The Yellowstone wolf project has been a valuable experiment to help biologists decide _________ to reintroduce wolves to other parts of the country as well.
4. ______ could be more fun than a gift ______ keeps coming through the letterbox every month?
5. This painting is splendid, but ________ we actually need it is a different matter.
6. Part of the reason Charles Dickens loved his own novel, David Copperfield, was ________ it was rather closely modeled on his own life.
7. Cindy shut the door heavily and burst into tears. No one in the office knew ________ she was so angry.
8. —I prefer shutting myself in and listening to music all day on Sundays.
—That's ________ I don't agree. You should have a more active life.
9. —Have you finished the book?
—No. I've read up to ________ the children discover the secret cave.
10. He often thinks of ________ he can do more for the four modernizations.