4 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Lisa was running late. Lisa, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming for Thanksgiving rom her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started to feel uncomfortably warn. By the time she got to the platform. Lisa felt weak and tired—maybe it hadn't been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself     1     a post close to the tracks.

Several yards away, Frank, 43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot dose to     2     the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discsussion about they were thinking of buying.

Bur when he heard the scream,    3     (follow) by someone yelling. “Oh, my god, she fell in!” Frank didn't hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No! Not you!” his girlfriend screamed after him.

She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa, he     4     feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.

It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform     5     bystanders could hold her by the arms and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness, felt     6     being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.

Lisa thought she     7     (rob). A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood     8     (pour) from her head. Then she tried to talk but she could not, and that was the time when she realised how much pain the was in.

Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown—just as he had been seconds after the rescue,     9    made her think about her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was sure     10     (die),” she explained.

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。

When Jason Hoelscher was an undergraduate of fine art studies, there weren’t any professional development classes. So ambition and the timely realization     1     he would have to determine “what’s next” on his own urged Jason to engage his future self to find direction. It was 1996, and he was finishing his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) in Denver. He was faced with the choice of sitting back to wait for something    2     (happen), or pursuing a path into the unknown. He chose the latter.

Jason set up a plan that in five years he     3     (show) his work in the top gallery in that area of the country. This five-year goal gave him a starting point     4     which to work backwards.

By setting the goal, all of Jason’s efforts     5     (point) in the same direction. He showed up at different art show openings, and researched as best he could to make     6     familiar with the market environment.

As a result of showing up, Jason took opportunities     7     got him closer to his goal. He sent work to a student show and was accepted by Robin Rule, the owner of Rule Gallery.     8     (inspire), Jason spent the next month making new work.

In April of 1997, Jason went back to Rule Gallery with his new work.     9     scared to death, he looked confident at the gallery meeting. When he left, he left as the newest addition to the rule gallery roster (花名册). He had his first exhibition there one year later.

Jason could have stopped with the show selection, but what he really wanted was gallery representation. He struck while the iron was hot, and in     10     (do) so, shortened his five-year plan into a year-and-a-half.

6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

I met Kumkum at a children’s home in Delhi. It is a home where children    1    are sick are provided treatment and care before    2     (send) to some other orphanage. Kumkum was 7 years old, and    3    very brave soul.     4    suffering from tuberculosis（肺结核), I never saw her crying. She     5     (lose) her parents and was struggling herself through this terrible disease.

Upon meeting, we took an instant liking to each other. Every Saturday I would visit Kumkum and play with her. She would love to sit on my lap. It was one such moment that the child felt like kissing me....and I suddenly remembered that she    6     (suffer) from tuberculosis which is a communicable(传染性的) disease. I tried to stop her but she really wanted to show her affection    7    me, so I overcame my fear and let her place the most gentle and sweet kiss on my cheek that I ever had.

    8    I overcame my fear at that moment, I    9     (not forgive) myself ever since for refusing her initially. Although the child kissed me, I think she sensed my hesitation because she has never kissed me again. I will never forget that    10     (beautiful) thing in this world is a child’s kiss....so full of love and innocence.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Jack London wrote stories about working people and the hard time they had     1     (make) a living. He knew their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, farmer, railroad worker, and gold prospector,     2     (name) just a few of his many jobs.

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Tasting a Biker’s Life

For most of my life I knew nothing about motorcycles. I believed that motorcycle riders were tough and leather-wearing loners. They seemed     1     (look) for trouble all the time, using the roar of a motorcycle engine to frighten others off.

Then, on a warm May evening outside my house, my cousin came and showed me his new motorcycle. Never had a real motorcycle    2     (present) in front of me by a close family member. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he asked. But I didn’t really understand what I was looking at.

It wasn’t until August     3     I was able to actually ride on the motorcycle with him. I prepared     4     oversized leather jacket for myself.     5     (fill) with nervous energy, I held on tightly to my cousin. Soon the bike carried us onto the top of the hill,     6     we stopped to watch the sun set over the city below. I realized that was the most relaxing moment for me in months.

Since then, my prejudices about motorcycle bikers     7     (start) to shift. On the back of a motorcycle,     8     (place) all your trust in someone to get you safely home is a way to remind you of the love they have for you. Later, whenever my cousin was gone on a Saturday ride, I would try on his leathers and look in the mirror, wondering if I was     9     a biker myself.

Maybe the most important lesson, though, is that you really can’t judge a man by his appearance,     10     much leather he wears. Motorcycle bikers are not scary, or mean, or unapproachable. They’re adults who remember the freedom of riding their first bicycle, and are continuously seeking to recreate the experience.

9 . Directions : After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Time capsule is a container     1     (store) some objects chosen as being typical of the present time, buried for discovery in the future. But what was inside a 132-year-old time capsule? Just follow us to learn more.

A 132-year-old time capsule was found in Utah. It was first buried in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1887, after     2     (put) together by a school committee. When that school was pulled down in 1959, the time capsule was uncovered. Inside there was kind of a little bit of everything: photographs, a student autograph book, and newspapers.     3     the folded newspapers appeared to be in good condition, it was not possible to tell the dates. There were even small items like a button, ribbons and a pebble. “The capsule tells the story of early education in Utah, but it also goes     4     (deep), in showing the ways people want     5       and their work to be remembered. I think that's what time capsules are about. Those who buried the time capsule thought it     6     show their real life to people one day. It's a way of keeping the memory of     7     they felt really matters.” said Alan Barnett, the local government archivist who led the public unveiling.

The news     8    (report) throughout Utah now, and we will keep you updated.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Foreign Accent Syndrome(综合症)

31-year-old Emily’s life changed greatly in January, when a mysterious condition left her unable to speak for two months. She     1     (complain) about headaches for two weeks before one day her colleagues then noticed that her speech had become slow and unclear, both indicators of a stroke.    2       she was rushed to the hospital, Emily had lost her ability to speak completely. After running some tests, doctors ruled out the stroke, instead     3     (blame) her voice loss on some sort of brain injury.

After spending three weeks in the hospital, Emily was still unable to speak and relied solely on basic sign language she had picked up at work and a text-to-speech app on her phone     4    (communicate). Encouraged by her doctor, Emily went on a vacation in Thailand. A few days into the vacation, she started to speak again.

How     5     (shock) it was when Emily originally noticed her Eastern European accents, but even more so when she noticed that sometimes her accent would change out of the blue, to Polish, Italian and even French. Although she doesn’t know the reason     6     may help explain her condition, she has noticed that it has something to do with how tired she is. In March of 2020, she was officially diagnosed with     7     was commonly called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

“I was so excited when my voice started coming back but now I don’t even recognize the voice that comes out of my mouth, it doesn’t sound     8     me,” Emily told the reporters.

Now her voice is back, but unfortunately she has to deal with discrimination(歧视) from people who think she is an immigrant, and has taken time off work because stress     9     only make her condition worse.

Emily’s case sounds shockingly similar to     10     of Michelle Myers, an Arizona woman who never traveled outside of the United States, but woke up to speaking in multiple accents-British, Irish and Australian- after experiencing severe headaches. She too was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome.