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。

A young man seemed to take an     1     (unusual) long time to place his order at the flower shop. When the clerk asked how she could help, he     2     (explain) that his girlfriend was turning 19 and he couldn’t decide     3    to give her a dozen roses or 19 roses, one     4       each year of her life.

The woman advised, “She may be your 19-year-old girlfriend now,     5     someday she could be your 50-year-old wife.”     6     young man bought a dozen roses. He made his decision from both his head and his heart.

Too many people get it the other way around. They have hot heads and cold hearts. They react in the heat of anger or passion. They are cold. And they always make comparatively much     7    (poor) decisions.

A cool head asks the hard questions and thinks them through.     8     fairly weighs the choices and asks, “What is the logical thing to do?” A warm heart considers feelings and relationships. It asks, “What is my spirit telling me to do?”

Some decisions     9     (make) with our heads. Others with our hearts. But I think it takes both     10    (get) it right.

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 from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The fairest woman in the world was Helen.     1     was the fame of her beauty that there was not a single young prince in all of Greece that didn’t wish to marry her. When her suitors assembled in her home to make a formal proposal for her hand there were so many from such powerful families that her reputed father King Tyndareus, was afraid to select one from amongst them, fearing that the others would unite against him. He therefore demanded first a solemn path from all     2     they would stand up for the cause of Helen’s husband, whoever he might be, if any wrong was done to him through his marriage. Then Tyndareus chose Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, and made him King of Sparta as well.

So matters stood when Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite. The Goddess of Love and Beauty knew very well where the most beautiful woman on earth was     3     (find). She led the young shepherd straight to Sparta, where Menelaus and Helen received him graciously as their guest. The ties between guest and host were strong. But Paris broke that sacred bond. Menelaus, trusting completely to it, left Paris in his home and went off to Crete.

Menelaus returned to find Helen gone, and he called upon all of Greece to help recover her. The chieftains responded     4     they were obliged to do. They eagerly arrived for the great expedition,    5     (cross) the sea and lay mighty Troy in ashes. Two of the first rank, however, were missing: Odysseus. King of the Island of Ithaca, and Achilles, the son of Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. Odysseus, who was one of     6     (shrewd) men in Greece, did not want to leave his house and family to embark on a romantic adventure overseas for the sake of a faithless woman. He pretended, therefore, that he had gone mad, and when a messenger from the Greek

Army had arrived, the King was plowing a field and sowing it with salt     7     seed. But the messenger seized Odysseus’ little son and put him directly in the way of the plow. Instantly the father turned the plow aside, thus     8     (prove) that he had all his wits about him. However reluctant, he had to join the Army.

Achilles was kept back by his mother. She sent him to the court of Lycomedes and made him wear women’s clothing, hiding him among the maidens. Odysseus was dispatched by the chieftains to bring him out. Disguised as a peddler he went to the court     9     Achilles was said to be, with gay ornaments in his pack such as women love, and also some fine weapons. While the girls flocked around the trinkets, Achilles fingered each of the swords and daggers. Odysseus knew him then, and he had no trouble at all in making him disregard what his mother had said and     10     (go) to the Greek camp with him.

So the great fleet made ready.

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。

Many people have experienced negative consequences as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions. This includes small business owners     1     were forced to close. However, there has also been a chance for some people to show kindness and shine a ray of hope.

One of my friends     2     (own) a bakery. Because of the lockdowns (封城), he ran into a     3     (finance) crisis. He had to shut his shop for months,     4     (cause) his debts to increase.

My friend had     5     (previous) rented his apartment to a tailor, but this man also struggled to earn a living due to the impact of COVID. Even after the restrictions were removed, his business was not doing any     6     (well). Somehow the tailor managed to arrange for the rent to     7     (pay) to my friend after months. However, my friend refused to take the money. He discovered that the tailor     8     (sell) one of his machines to pay it. He advised the tailor to buy back his machine     9     not to worry until the situation had improved.

My friend is now out of debt as the bakery is allowed to do some business through online sales. Though there are some restrictions, he is able to manage his     10     (earn).   

I feel his kindness gives us all a ray of hope and helps him to clear his debts.

6 . 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.

Lost at sea

Two men from the Solomon Islands have been rescued after spending 29 days lost at sea.

The men     1     (travel) to another island when heavy rain and wind took them out to sea. The two men survived on oranges they had packed, coconuts they found in the sea and by gathering rainwater.

“I look forward to going back home     2     I guess it was a nice break from everything,” one of the men, Livae Nanjikana, told The Guardian.

Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni took off from Mono Island on Sept. 3 in a motorboat to travel 200 km to Noro on New Georgia Island. However, soon after they set out, their boat was hit by heavy winds and rain, which made unclear the coastline they were following     3     a guide. 

“When the bad weather came, it was bad, but it was     4     (bad) and became scary when the GPS died,” he said. “We couldn’t see where we were going and so we just decided to stop the engine and wait,     5     (save) fuel.”

When the rain had finally passed, Nanjikana and Qoloni had already drifted far out to sea. They spent the next 29 days     6     (live) off of limited supplies and by gathering rainwater with     7     they could make use of to keep themselves alive.

A fisherman found and rescued the two men on Oct. 2 off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, about 400 km from     8     they had started.

Nanjikana and Qoloni     9     (bring) to a local health clinic for treatment and are staying temporarily with a local man, Joe Kolealo, until they     10     return home.

7 . 语法填空

Due to a medical error, 44-year-old Safiya became blind. She felt    1    （help）. And all she had to depend    2     was her husband Meraj. Meraj wanted to help Safiya gain her confidence again.

Finally, Safiya felt ready to return to her job,    3    now would she get there? She used to take the bus, but now too frightened to get around the city by herself. Meraj promised    4    （ride）the bus with her.

For two weeks, they made the journey together each morning and Meraj    5    （take）a taxi back to his office. Finally, Safiya decided to try the trip    6    . Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday…Each day she went on her own. It went perfectly.

On Friday morning, Safiya took the bus to work as usual. When she got off the bus, the driver said; "Lady, I sure envy you. You know, every morning for the past week, a gentleman stood across the corner    7    （watch）you. He makes sure you cross the street    8    （safe）, and he won't leave until you enter your office building."

Tears of    9    （happy）poured down Safiya's cheeks. Her husband had given her a gift    10    （powerful）than sight—the gift of love that can bring light.

10 . 在空格处填入适当的单词或用所给单词的适当形式填空。

Terry was going to give his girlfriend Anna, a very special gift for their first-year anniversary. He was going to make something    1     (him). Even though he wasn't    2     (particular) handy, he still wanted to give it a shot, because he knew that    3     he wanted to give her could not    4     (buy) in a store.

Terry    5     (decide) to make Anna a necklace. It took a good amount of time for Terry    6     (design) the necklace and glue everything together. On the day of their anniversary, Terry took Anna out to dinner,     7     he was going to reveal his big surprise.

After finishing the dinner, Terry finally revealed his surprise to Anna. He took out his, hand-made necklace and gave it to her. Anna's    8     (respond) to the gift was far from what Terry expected. Anna was on cloud nine after    9     (receive) the necklace. Her reaction to the gift made Terry very relieved.

The fact that Terry had made the necklace himself made it much more special to Anna. She wore her boyfriend's gift as soon as he gave it to her and never took it    10     again.