1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

“Multiple measures have been taken to stop the illegal use of farmland,” an official of the Ministry of Natural Resources     1    (tell) a news conference on Monday. 

Together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the ministry released two notices in July. One banned the illegal use of farmland     2     real estate (房地产) projects and the other sought     3    (ensure) reasonable land use for housing construction in rural areas. 

Since the release of the two notices, several regions     4    (raise)public awareness of the legal use of farmland through short television     5    (program) or online films in local dialects. 

Inspections and law enforcement (执行) have also been strengthened in recent months,with satellite remote sensing being introduced.

“The central government has attached great     6    (important) to farmland protection,” the ministry said. Those involved in the illegal use,sale and transfer of permanent farmland covering more than 0.33 hectares or ordinary farmland covering more than 0.66 hectares will be sued. Farmland in China     7    (classify) as permanent when its use for nonagricultural purposes is banned. Ordinary farmland can be used for other purposes in certain circumstances. 

China established     8     national territorial (领土的) planning system by the end of 2020. It is guided by three “red lines”, one of     9     includes about 103 million hectares of permanent farmland with the aim of boosting safety, improving quality and     10    (prevent) nonagricultural use.

2 . 语法填空

Researchers have found that people who unplug their cellphones, TV, etc. over the weekend have     1     (great) satisfaction with life than people     2     spend their Saturdays stuck in their electronic equipment.

When social networking sites emerged, we     3     (believe) them to be only advantageous and not at all harmful, as they aimed to connect everyone around the world. But now we     4     (addict) to them. We have become a “connected” society     5     almost every way these days. Some people are so connected that even before brushing their teeth    6     making coffee, they will roll over to check    7     (they) phones.

    8     technology has certainly fostered (促进) more rapid and instant communication, the consequence from this has the potential     9     (be) catastrophic over the next several generations. The potential for addiction and loss of human interaction    10     (connect) with digital communication seems evident now more than ever in our current society.

4 . 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。

Why does one person get selected for a promotion while others with equal skills, education and experience get passed over? In my opinion, a person’s proven willingness to behave     1     (responsible) is one of the major     2     (reason). In fact, responsibility influences how the leader behaves with subordinates (下级), and it also influences the relationship with an immediate boss and with other departments in the organization. Much management    3     (guide) surprisingly overlooks this characteristic, yet it     4     (explain) many successes and failures, as well as a large portion of promotional decisions.

More than 40 years ago, Dale Miller conducted    5     examination on the promotion of his managers. Each manager received a group of 62 statements,     6     describe management behaviours, and was asked to make a forced choice, going from the most effective to the     7     (little) effective behaviour. The best managers’ choice was the statement, “Accepts full responsibility for the performance of the work unit.” This statement     8     (choose) far more frequently than statements about assignment, planning, staffing, time-management or technical skills. This choice also illustrated the sharpest distinction between the excellent managers and managers with     9     (disappoint) performance. In the end, the managers who hadn’t been promoted attached far less importance to responsible behaviours, because they were considered to be    10     (rely).

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

High school years are a large part in shaping    1    person you are going to become. A school often    2     (provide) education for you, and it can also be a place    3    you can develop relationships with many different people, join clubs, and take part in a variety of different sports. These years can make you become a high school student filled with many different     4     (emotion), including happiness, anger, sadness, admiration, loneliness, stress, and a large amount more. This is also a time when peer (同龄人) pressure is most commonly put upon a vast majority of teens.

Peer pressure is the influence from members of one’s peer group. This can include influencing another to drink, smoke, cheat on a test, lie, skip class, and etc. The list is    5     (end). Peer pressure at high school is both    6     (harm) and effective because it can lead to teen depression, high stress levels, negative behavior    7     (issue), and poor decision making and outcomes.

Despite the fact that peer pressure is most commonly seen as a very negative issue, it can    8     (see) positively in some situations. This can contain pressuring your peers to avoid drugs, be honest, avoid alcohol, respect others,work hard, exercise, be kind, be responsible, and more. Friends and peer    9     (actual) affect the choices you make. Choosing to have good friends can have a very strong effect     10    you.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Many families in the United States have a     1     (large) income now than ever before, but people are finding it difficult     2     (make) ends meet anyway. 

Why isn’t a dollar worth as much as it used to be? Economists say that the cost of living is the money that a family must pay     3     the necessities of life. For many years now, the cost of living has increased    4     (great), so the value of the dollar has decreased. 

No one fully understands why the cost of living keeps    5     (increase), but economists believe that workers and producers can make prices go up. As workers earn money, they have more money to spend,    6     they demand more goods. If there is     7     demand for certain goods, the prices of these goods go up. At the same time, if there’s a    8     (short) of goods, the prices also increase. 

Families need to know     9     happens to their money. They need to make their income meet the cost of living, so many people plan a family budget. Budgeting    10     (help) you spend your money wisely as the cost of living increases.

8 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
　　David will never forget what happened to him the day before yesterday. He was eating something at home when he     1    (receive) a strange phone call from a hospital. The caller said his son     2    (fall) to the ground unconscious on the way to school and that it was he    3    took him to hospital. David hung up and rushed to his son’s classroom, only to find him     4    (listen) to the teacher    5    (attentive). He suddenly realised that he had been cheated, but he felt relieved. Just at that time the phone rang again,     6     (say), “Your son is in great danger and he needs     7    immediate operation which costs 48,000 yuan. The doctors here say they will not operate     8    your son until they are paid.” When asked from where the caller had taken his son to hospital, the caller rang off. David gave a big smile and said, “What a pity it is!” 

The cheater might have thought he could get money from David. If so, he was wrong. Such phone calls are common these days, and many of David’s     9    (colleague) have received similar calls recently. Therefore, all parents should be sensitive to such tricks as not to    10    (cheat).

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China’s agriculture produces enough food     1    (feed) the country with a large population. With only about 7 percent of     2     world’s land, China has to feed about one     3     (five) of the world’s population. Therefore, China’s agriculture is always an important topic and draws wide attention of the world. Some foreigners once raised the question, “Who will feed China?” China’s leaders and agricultural specialists’ answer was, “We Chinese will feed     4    (we).” 

China is a     5    (develop) country and China’s agriculture has developed rapidly since reforms in the countryside began to be carried out in 1978. The main reform was the household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output (家庭联产承包责任制). It was believed     6     the system made farmers have the right to use land and deal     7     their output. Our country allowed farmers to develop different types of business in order that their enthusiasm for production could     8     (encourage). The reform developed the country’s productive forces, and improved the growth of agriculture,     9    (especial) in grain production. The     10    (achieve) have been outstanding so far.

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Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, was born in 1930.     1     (learn) that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat, he chose to study agriculture and graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.

Since his     2     (graduate), Yuan has devoted his life to finding ways     3     (produce) more rice. Through intense effort, he overcame enormous technical     4     (difficulty) to develop the first hybrid rice     5     could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their output     6     (great). Today, it is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China     7     (comprise) of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains. Yuan’s innovation has helped feed not just China,     8     many other countries that depend on rice as well.

Though Yuan’s hybrids have made him quite     9     (wealth), he doesn’t lead a life of leisure. Instead, he donates much money to support agricultural research.     10     his advanced years, he is still young at heart and full of vision, and everyone is waiting to see what he will dream up next.