1 . 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。

White flowers of mourning and condolence gifts lie near the narrow alleyways of Itaewon, the popular nightlife district of Seoul, where scores of Halloween revelers died in a stampede on Saturday evening.

As of Tuesday morning, the     1    (die) toll from the disaster was at least 156, according to South Korea’s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters. Most of the victims were     2     their 20s, with 12 of them as young as 10. A total of 151 people     3     (injure) in the stampede, 29 of them     4    (serious).

The tragedy was the deadliest such incident in South Korea’s history and the worst peacetime disaster the nation has seen since 2014, when 304 people died in a ferry accident.

Twenty-six foreigners from 14 countries were among the Itaewon victims, including five from Iran, four from China, four from Russia, two from the United States and two from Japan.

As many as 100,000 people dressed in     5    (costume) gathered in Itaewon to celebrate South Korea’s first public Halloween event since the government lifted COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing rules. The accident happened at around 10:30 pm,    6       people were trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a sloping alley less than 4 meters wide.

President Xi Jinping sent     7     message on Sunday to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol,     8    (express) deep condolences over the victims’ deaths and sincere sympathies to the injured and families of the bereaved.

Xi regretted that several Chinese nationals were killed or injured in the accident, and hoped that South Korea would spare no effort       9    (treat) the injured and deal with follow-up issues appropriately.

A week-long period of national mourning is being held in South Korea, with all state and government agencies flying flags at half-mast. The Chinese embassy in Seoul is among the diplomatic missions that have expressed condolences to victims of the disaster.

People across South Korea are paying       10    (they) respects to the victims at mourning altars laden with white chrysanthemums. Yoon and first lady Kim Keon-hee visited an altar in Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall.

2 . 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。

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been     1     (find) 45 miles south of London, they were not taken     2     (serious) by experts from the zoo until enough evidence     3     (be) collected. The     4     (describe) given by people claiming (声称) to have seen the puma were similar. A woman     5     (pick) blackberries said she saw “a large cat”. And a businessman     6     a fishing trip also said he saw the puma up a tree. The experts fully     7     (believe) that the animal was a puma     8     was probably owned by a private collector. The hunt went on for several     9     (week) but no one could catch it.     10     is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

3 . 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.

The Cause for Kobe’s Helicopter Crash

Federal officials announced in the press that the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others in 2020 occurred because the pilot likely got disoriented (失去方向) while flying into the clouds against federal rules.

“The pilot, Ara Zobayan, who also died     1    the Jan. 26, 2020, crash in Calabasas, California, was operating the helicopter under rules that prevented him from flying into clouds. However, he did not follow his training and continued into the clouds     2    the aircraft crashed into a hill,” investigators said.

The crash also killed Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, two other teenage girls with their family members, along with     3    basketball coach. The victims were on their way from Orange County to a girls’ basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy.

“While     4    (encounter) the foggy weather conditions, Zobayan notified air traffic controllers that he was climbing to 4, 000 feet to get above the cloud layer, when in fact, the helicopter was actually going down rapidly,” federal investigators said at a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing.

The NTSB     5    (determine) that Zobayan likely experienced “spatial disorientation”, a misleading sensation that confuses pilots into not knowing which way is up or down.

Investigators also said that given his very close friendship with Bryant, Zobayan     6    have experienced “self—induced pressure” to complete the flight so as not to disappoint Bryant. While the NTSB said there was no evidence to suggest that Bryant     7    placed any pressure on Zobayan to complete the flight, the self-induced pressure might have to a great extent affected pilot’s decision making and judgment. “While climbing into the clouds, Zobayan lost visual references,     8    could lead to a false sense of orientation owing to inner ear illusions,” investigators said. “This could cause the pilot to believe they were flying straight and level, while in reality they were flying in a steady left turn—this is     9    we call ‘the leans’. And that finally led to the tragedy.”

From 2010 to 2019, there were 184 fatal aircraft accidents related to spatial disorientation in America, 20 of which were fatal helicopter accidents. Experts say they are trying to work out better solutions to this problem to make future flights     10    (safe).

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。

Rescuers free elephant from a dangerous pit (深坑)

A wild Asian elephant accidentally fell into a deep mud hole in the ground on March 13 while playing with other members of a herd in a forest in Mengla county, Southwest China’s Yunnan province.

The police     1     arrived at the scene saw the elephant struggling to get out, with another elephant     2     (try) to pull it out using its trunk (象鼻) and legs.     3    , as the pit was deep and the surface was smooth and wet, the trapped elephant     4     (stick). After observing the surroundings and considering all of the     5    (possibility), rescuers determined the best chance of freeing the animal     6     (be) through the use of an excavator (挖掘机).

The driver of the excavator     7     (careful) operated the machine so as not to annoy the herd. After 10 minutes,     8     exit to get out was formed for the elephant to finally make     9     (it) escape. While walking away, the animal waved its trunk     10     the excavator as if to give thanks.

The 2.5-ton elephant then returned to the nature reserve with the rest of its herd.

5 . 语法填空

David had a car accident yesterday. He had made an appointment with his friend to see a     1    ( move ) film. After     2    ( finish ) his housework, he set off for the cinema by car. Since there was only 5 minutes     3    ( leave) before the movie started, he decided to give his friend a call. He drove so fast,     4     ( have) a chat with his friend on the phone, and a truck suddenly appeared from the side. Although     5     ( become) a driver for years, he could not avoid the truck in time and hit it. Luckily, he didn’t get hurt.

6 . 语法填空

Henry was an     1    (America), who worked for a mining company. One day he was sailing when he had     2     accident. He found himself     3    (carry) out to sea by a strong wind. He didn’t know whether he could survive the next morning.     4    (lucky), he was spotted by a ship and arrived in London by accident. He had no money. He was     5     (lose) in London and was wandering the streets. To     6     (he) surprise, an unbelievable thing happened. Two rich brothers invited him into their house.

When the two brothers learned that Henry had no money, one of the brothers said it was a lucky thing,     7     made Henry upset. He thought they     8     (make) fun of him. He wanted to leave the house,     9     the two brothers stopped him and gave him a letter. They asked him not     10     (open) it until two o’clock in the afternoon. Henry said he would keep his word and left the house.

7 . 语法填空。

Two boys were rescued by a brand new lifesaving drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use     1     device. The     2    (swim), aged 15-17, had got into difficulties off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW).

A man walking along the beach spotted the teenagers     3    (struggle) in heavy waves about 700 metres offshore. Lifesavers instantly sent the drone     4    (drop) an inflatable rescue pod (救援舱), and the boys made their way     5    (safe) to the shore. The rescue was considered to be historic, because it was the first time that a drone     6    (equip) with a flotation (漂浮) device had been used to rescue swimmers like that.

Lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan was piloting (领航) the device when the alarm     7    (raise). He described the experience as a(n)     8     (real) and unbelievable one.

“The drone certainly proved     9    (it) today. It is an amazingly efficient lifesaving device,” he told the local newspaper. It took just a minute     10     two to launch the drone, fly it to the rescue site, and drop the pod. However, before that, reaching the teenagers could easily have taken three times as long.

8 . 语法填空。

The shopping mall,     1     atmosphere many people enjoyed, was on fire last week because the gas pipes     2     were used too long cracked. Those     3     were shopping in it were trapped. It was such a big fire that it seemed as if the world came to an end. Many goods     4     were on sale were destroyed. This was the biggest fire     5     people had ever seen. Luckily, the firefighters     6     received the emergency call came at once. They did     7     they could to put out the fire. To our relief, no one was injured or dead.

9 . 语法填空

A man hiking in a     1     (heavy) wooded area of northern New Jersey was killed by     2     black bear during the weekend, police said on Monday, in     3     experts called an extremely rare attack.

Darsh Patel, 22, of Edison, New Jersey, and four friends encountered the bear     4     Sunday afternoon in the Apshawa Preserve, about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of New York City, according to the West Milford Township, New Jersey, police department.

The bear     5     (begin) to follow the hikers and they separated, police said in a statement. Four of them regrouped but Patel was     6     (miss) and they contacted police, who found Patel’s body about two hours     7     (late).

“Evidence at the scene showed that Patel had been attacked by a bear,” the statement said.

A bear     8     (find) at the scene and killed, police said.

Black bears are common in New Jersey and have been seen in all of the state’s 21 counties, but     9     (attack) on humans are unusual, according to experts.

“    10     is definitely rare,” said Lawrence Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

10 . 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。

Four Chinese nationals have been confirmed killed in a stampede     1    occurred Saturday night at Itaewon, a district in Seoul. At least 154 people were killed and 149 others injured in the stampede. It was the country’s     2     (deadly) disaster since a ferry sinking incident left 304 people dead     3     April 2014. The Chinese embassy said shortly after the stampede that it immediately activated an emergency response mechanism,     4    (contact) the South Korean side overnight,     5    paid close attention to the Internet and social media platforms     6    (see) if any Chinese nationals were seeking help. The Chinese embassy has offered condolences and will provide     7    (assist) to the families of the deceased.

An estimated 100,000 people     8    (gather) at Itaewon for the country’s biggest no-mask outdoor Halloween event since     9    outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Most of the victims were those in     10     late teens and 20s.