1 . 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.

2 . 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。

Seven construction (建筑) workers were confirmed dead after going missing in extreme weather conditions in Altay city in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to a statement     1     (release) by local government at late night on Monday.

Starting from Nov. 20, the     2     (strong) cold air recorded in a decade has been sweeping the city, bringing in strong winds, snowstorms and freezing cold temperatures, the statement said.

At around 11 pm on Saturday, local police received     3     emergency call reporting eight staff members had gotten lost near the constructing highway     4     links Altay and Burqin county.

After receiving the report, local government     5     (immediate) set up a rescue team and successively found the eight workers as of 11:10 am on Sunday and sent them to the hospital.

Seven of them were dead and the other     6     is in stable condition, the statement said.

Due to the suspension (暂缓) of construction caused by extreme weather, 14 workers     7     the site began to be transported to nearby town on Saturday evening by two different     8     (vehicle). The first vehicle arrived at the town at 9 pm     9     the second vehicle carrying eight workers was trapped 500 meters from the construction station.     10     (fail) to pull the vehicle out from the thick snow, they decided to walk back to the station. But soon they went missing!

3 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Driving to Palm Springs two years ago, I met a snowstorm. A car suddenly changed the direction     1     (avoid) hitting mine and drifted (漂移) towards the side of the cliff. Meanwhile, some drivers     2    (sit) in different cars rushed out. They     3    (take) off the chains that had protected their own tyres and put them on that car’s tyres     4    (rapid). Just as the car was about to be lost off the cliff, those drivers stepped up, letting their kind hearts go beyond the snowstorm.

5 . 阅读下面短文, 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(每空不超过3个单词)。

At least 151 people were killed and 82 others were injured in a stampede (踩踏) accident on October 29th in Itaewon, a district of the Republic of Korea’s capital Seoul, during a Halloween gathering, local authorities said    1     the early morning of October 30th.

Many victims are largely in their    2    (twenty). About twenty-six foreign nationals     3    (be) among the dead. The incident is believed to have happened near a narrow alley in the district. Several Halloween gatherings took place in Itaewon, and the police estimated that     4    (rough) 100, 000 people had participated in the Halloween parties in the area,     5    is known for its nightclubs. More than 140 first-aid vehicles    6    (send) to rescue the injured.     7     (hold) two emergency meetings, the Republic of Korea’s President ordered officials    8    (arrange) enough hospital beds for the injured and establish an accident management headquarters, and properly deal with the aftermath (后果),    9    (include) identifying the dead and investigating the cause of the accident. According to some local media, the accident occurred when some people were rushing to a bar where an unidentified celebrity visited,     10    it is not confirmed yet. The exact cause of it is under investigation.

7 . 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 passenger plane crashed in southern China in March,     1     killed 132 people, and both black boxes from it are being analyzed by U. S. experts at a government lab in Washington, D. C.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it is helping its Chinese counterparts download information from the flight data recorder. Both boxes may have been damaged by the impact of the crash. If the information on them can     2     (recover), it could tell why the China Eastern Boeing 737-800 went into a sudden nosedive from about 8, 800 meters (29, 000 feet) over a     3     (mountain) region on March 21.

The crash left     4     20-meter-deep huge hole in a mountainside,     5     (destroy) the plane completely and set off a fire in the surrounding forest. More than 49, 000 pieces of plane debris were found. It took 2 days to find the CVR, which would pick up voices and other sounds from microphones     6     (wear) by the pilots. Another 4 days later searchers discovered the flight data recorder, which     7     (constant) records information of speed, altitude and the performance of key systems on the aircraft. And it was, buried 1.5 meters underground.

The 737-800 has an excellent safety record and the Chinese airline industry has had relatively few     8    (accident) in recent years. Before this accident, the last fatal crash of a Chinese airliner occurred     9     August 2010, when an Embraer ERJ 190-100 operated by Henan Airlines hit the ground short of the runway in the northeastern city of Yichun and caught fire,     10     (kill) 44 people. Investigators blamed pilot error.

9 . 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。

On 28 July 1976, the city’s one million people were asleep as usual. One of the most deadly earthquakes of the 20th century     1    (strike) the city. In less than one minute, the large city lay in ruins.     2     seemed as if the world were coming to an end. The number of people who were killed or badly     3     (injure) in the quake was more than 400,000. Nearly everything in the city    4     (destroy). But hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, a rescue team     5     (consist) of more than 10,000 doctors and nurses came to provide medical care. Soldiers were sent to Tangshan to dig out those     6     were trapped in the quakes. Water and food were brought into the city and     7     (shelter) were built for survivors. The city began     8     (breathe) again.

    9    the help of the government and the efforts of the city’s people, Tangshan started to revive itself and get back up on its feet. In times of disaster, people must unite and stay positive to rebuild for     10    brighter future.