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。

I'm not sure     1     is more frightened, me or the female gorilla(大猩猩）that suddenly appears out of nowhere. I'm walking on a path in the forest in the Central African Republic. Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at     2     top of her lungs. That makes her baby scream, and then a 400-pound male appears. He screams the

    3    (loud)of all. The noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid     4    (look) directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel    5    (challenge).

My name is Mireya Mayor. I'm a     6    (science)who studies animals such as apes and monkeys. I was searching     7     these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing. No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried.

When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find     8    (they) alive. True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal     9    (mean)me no real harm. He was just saying: "I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder!" Once his message was delivered, he allowed me     10     (stay)and watch.

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。

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he     1     (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much     2     too little.”

His son looked       3     (surprise). “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less,    4     not save a bit of money?”

“That would be a very     5     (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.

Nick’s guests,     6     had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell sale at a lower priced would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage     7     that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

“But such a small thing couldn’t     8     (possible) destroy a village.”

“In the beginning, there was only     9     very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little,     10     (think) that it was only small and not very important, and looked where we had ended up today.”

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。

In his book, Intentional Living, author John Maxwell shares that back in 1976, he received a gift from one of his     1     (assist). As he unwrapped the gift, he saw that it was a book     2     (name) The Greatest Story Ever Told. He couldn’t wait     3     (read) it.

But when he opened the book, he was     4     (astonish) to see that the pages were blank. Inside the book was     5     note that said, “John, your life is before you. Fill these pages with kind acts and good thoughts of your heart. Write a great story about your life.” The intention of writing the story of his life excited him. Then, he     6     (begin) to write his book.

Every day we live out our story through our words, actions and decisions. But we must remember to live with intention to focus on what     7     (matter) most in life and to regain that focus when we get changed. Without intention, we can become unfocused in things     8     needn’t add to a life of significance and difference in our world.

Life isn’t perfect and it’s always hard,     9     we need reminders in our life from a friend, author, blogger, pastor or our inner spirit to re-focus us on the things that matter and make us live     10     (positive).

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

Mr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People brought him     1     (break) umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They     2     (mend) there.

One day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He     3     (forget) to take an umbrella which needed mending with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella     4     (stand) beside the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr. Brown picked     5     the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train Just as he was getting off, he was stopped by the man. He said     6     (angry), “That’s     7     (I)!” Mr. Brown’s face turned red and gave     8     back to the man at once.

When Mr. Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six     9     (umbrella) mended. After a good look at each of them, he said, “Thank you, you have mended them very well.”

In the afternoon he got into the train again. The same man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr. Brown and his umbrellas, “You have had a     10     (luck) day,” he said.

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 was a normal boy, but he had been born deaf. He was well known to everyone in the town, and they were all very fond     1     him. Unfortunately, he always seemed to be treated     2    (different) from everyone else. 

David didn’t like this very much. But the person     3     disliked this the most was his friend Michael. Michael decided that things had to change. So he managed to persuade other people in town     4    (choose) one day as the festival for deaf people this year. During that whole day everyone in town would have to wear earplugs(耳塞). The day     5    (call) “The Day of Silence”. When it arrived everyone stuck plugs in their ears. As the hours passed, people began to realise     6     difficult life was for the deaf. Soon no one thought of David as a deaf person.    7    (use) his usual gestures, David was the one who could communicate best with everyone. They were     8    (surprise) at his ability to find solutions to almost any problem. They realised all David needed was a little     9    (much) time than others to communicate. That was the only difference. 

It was on this day that everyone realised they have to give people a chance to show how     10    (use) they are.

9 . 语法填空

A Thanksgiving Day story in the newspaper told of a school teacher who asked her class to draw a picture of something     1     they were thankful for. She     2     (think) over what these children were actually thankful for. And she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables full     3     food. The teacher was taken back with the picture Douglas handed in — a small childishly hand!

But whose hand? The class was     4     (puzzle) by the abstract drawing. “I think it must be the hand of God     5     brings us food,” said one child. “A farmer,” said another, “because he feeds turkeys.” Finally, when the others were at work, the teacher     6     (bend) (弯曲) over at Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher,” he said in a low voice.

She remembered that     7     (frequent) at break she had taken Douglas,     8    small lonely child, by the hand. She often did that with the     9     (child). But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanks-giving, not for the material things     10     (give) to us but for the chance to give something to others.