3 . 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, Henry,     1     (dress) in a worn coat, was walking along the street with a bank note in his hand. Suddenly, he caught sight of a tailor’s shop. On entering the shop, be received     2     cold welcome from a clerk. Henry was led to a room downstairs,     3     was filled with ready-made clothes. After     4     (select) some clothes, Henry told the clerk that he couldn’t pay for these clothes then, because he didn’t carry any small change. Hearing these words, the clerk said coldly, “I suppose a gentleman like you only carries very large bills.” “You shouldn’t judge people by     5     (they) clothes. I just don’t want to cause you trouble with a large note,” explained Henry. When Henry showed the note to the clerk, he     6     (shock), hardly believing his eyes. It was the big note     7     changed the attitude of the clerk     8     Henry. After that, all of them started to treat Henry     9     (polite), offering Henry many top     10     (suit) to choose from.

4 . 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.

My decision to leave England and travel around the world was the best decision I’ve made. I     1     (learn) so much from this journey so far, and if I could go back, I wouldn’t do it any differently.

When I lost my job     2     the economic crisis, I decided enough was enough. Within two weeks I had sold all of my furniture, given up the apartment and collected    3     much extra money together as I could from jobs, deposits and so on. With a one-way ticket out of England     4     (book), I took off and never looked back.

I contacted a friend    5     worked on a Greek island in the summer seasons, and as it turned out, it was a much     6     (easy) task to find jobs and accommodation out there. With the limited money I had left, I booked a one-way ticket to the island of Zakynthos (扎金索斯岛) in the hope of finding some time to figure out my next move while earning some money.

I had only been on the island for three days and I found my accommodation and had a job offer. From then on, I settled into a “normal routine” for holiday island workers. Every day I went to the beach or pool     7     (share) gossip with my fellow English workers. Then I would be home to change for work at 5 pm. After working from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. with no break, I would finish and head to the closest bar for cocktails and meet the rest of my friends.

To be honest, I find it hard to recall many stories or things I did during this time, but I know I had a fun time     8     (do) it. Zakynthos became a four-month-long party where I had the best and worst time of my life.

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。

We have three lovely dogs. On the National Day of one year, we drove to my mother’s home for     1     holiday. We brought all three dogs     2     us so that they wouldn’t be alone back home when neighbors’ fireworks (烟花) went off. They were all     3     (terrible) afraid of fireworks.

When night fell that day, we had the dogs     4     (lock) in the laundry room of my mother’s house, and we went to the lake to set off fireworks. My mother’s house was far away from the place     5     we would light the fireworks. So we thought the noise might not     6     (notice) by dogs.

After enjoying the fireworks, we went back to the house     7     (check) on the dogs. Try to imagine our     8     (shock) faces when we saw a huge mouse hole in the laundry-room door. The dogs were all lying there, looking very innocent (无辜的) .

Now all these years later, the three dogs are gone, and all we have are     9     (memory) of them. But none is as memorable as how they celebrated this holiday by     10     (cut) through that laundry-room door with their teeth.

7 . 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。

When     1    (travel) in a train, a gentleman felt thirsty and got down at a station in search of water. No sooner had he reached the water tap than the engine whistled and started, so he missed the train.

It was getting    2    (dark) and he decided to find a place for a day’s stay. So he went to a small hut and asked the villager. The villager     3    (glad) agreed. With the villager’s     4     (permit), he could stay in his house for a day. That day the villager served the gentleman food and gave him a room to rest. Surprisingly, the villager neither asked nor expected anything     5    return.

At night, the gentleman heard a knock at the door. When the villager opened the door, the gentleman saw that a man     6    (dress) in rich clothes entered the hut and demanded the villager pay    7    (he) debts. The gentleman realized that the villager was in need of money. The next morning, he put a pocket on the table and     8    (leave). When the villager came to know about    9    pocket, he saw there was a note addressed to him, it read, “You helped me but did not expect anything from me. Yesterday I heard the conversation between you and the stranger and came to know that you were in need of money. This is       10    you need ”.

8 . 语法填空

Financial freedom and early     1     (retire) may be a dream for most people, but Guo Yu, a former information technology engineer, achieved both at the age of 28. His resignation letter, posted in February on microblogging platform Sina Weibo,     2     (share) widely online and made a new trend in personal finance. To achieve this, the basic principle is     3     (save) enough money so you can quit your job early. Although the movement is new in China, it has gained     4     (follower) around the world. Guo’s story may represent a unique voice in that community, but sheds some light on its concept. In his letter, Guo writes that, after six years, he will quit his job at Beijing-based technology company ByteDance     5     explore new possibilities in life, such as “deciding to retire at 28 years old and live in Japan”. Guo has been a trending topic on Zhihu. The search phrase “how to look at Guo’s resignation” has been viewed more than 10 million times. Some Zhihu users     6     (question) Guo’s experience, while some were more concerned with how much he earned from ByteDance. Guo’s story is not just one of luck in     7     (embrace) the internet age at the right time, but also of his talent and endeavor to achieve financial freedom at     8     early age, according to a post by his friend of 10 years, Luo Lei, on Zhihu. In his eyes, Guo is changing     9     an unconventional man into an     10     (unconventional) rich man and his success cannot be duplicated.