2 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The factory     1     I worked caught fire last winter. All of us were    2     (shock) to find we     3     (trap) in a workshop. The walls cracked and bricks    4     (fall) down frequently. The    5     (electrical) was also cut off. The thick smoke was hard     6    (breathe) . It seemed as if everything were    7     (destroy). We were about to give up     8     a good idea suddenly     9     (strike) me. I told others to wet their coats and covered their heads to protect themselves from heavy smoke and fire. We ran out of the workshop before it lay in    10     (ruin). It was my wisdom that saved our lives.

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.

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.

4 . 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.

6 . 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 Kentucky pizza driver, Ralph Letner, is a hero after he helped to evacuate people from a home    1    was on fire when he arrived at a home in Somerset to make a delivery. He saw the house burning, so he ran inside, shut off the breaker, and got on his knees to move through the smoke and find the occupants. Once Ralph located homeowner lesse Decker tying to battle the flames, he escorted (护送) him out the front door. Jesse says Ralph is a hero for saving his life.But,like all great    2     (hero), Ralph    3    (simple) says he was raised to help others in need.

7 . 根据文中上下文及所给的首字母，写出各单词的正确、完全形式。

A cruise ship     1     (carry) 456 people capsized(翻) on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. Officials say so far only 15 people     2     (survive).     3     is reported that the ship sank within a few     4     (minute), while many people were asleep. Most of those     5     board were tourists aged between 50 and 80 travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing. There is no doubt     6     for some of those on the Eastern Star it would have been the trip of a lifetime. One survivor,     7     tour guide said the ship began to shake     8     (violent) and capsized all of a sudden. A 65-year-old woman was among those     9     (save) from the ship by brave divers. She said she tried to hold on to     10     she could find to keep her head above water in the darkness until divers came to her rescue.

8 . 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。

California is burning.In recent weeks, hundreds of fires    1    (destroy) structures, torched thousands of acres and blackened the sky with smoke.Fear of the blazes has also led to strategic blackouts that have left millions    2    power.

Fire has always been a part of life California.     3    a series of    4    (factor) have combined to make recent blazes more damaging.Ten of the most destructive fires in the state’s history have happened in the past decade.Things hit new extremes last year with the Camp Fire,     5    caused 85 deaths and burned more than 150,000 acres.

The forces working in concert to spark and spread wildfires pose    6    incredible challenge for California.Climate change is bringing    7     (high) temperatures and more powerful winds that spread the flames.The state’s electrical system is    8     (age), and equipment has been    9     (link) to causing some of the wildfires.There are more than 100 million dead trees in the state’s forests that act    10    material for the blazes.Meanwhile, a statewide housing crisis has pushed more residents to build homes in dangerous fire zones.

10 . 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 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon, after which the Apollo 11 mission landed back to Earth     1     (safe) and successfully. With the development of space travel, people got used to     2     idea of the space shuttle flights and treated them like airplane flights, never     3     (expect) a problem. So, when the Challenger space shuttle took off on 28th January 1986, the world seemed to have lost     4     (it) wonder at the astronauts involved. But it was special because there was a teacher, called Christa McAuliffe,     5     wanted to give two 15-minute lessons from orbit to the students to inspire a new generation of astronauts and space     6     (scientist). Unfortunately, the shuttle exploded just over a minute after taking off in Florida, and all seven astronauts     7     board were killed. The whole world was shocked and it brought home the reality of how complex space flight really was. Space shuttle flights didn’t make any progress for nearly three years until the cause of the disaster     8     (investigate). The space shuttle programme resumed with the successful launch of Discovery on 29th September 1988.

We’ll never forget the     9     (lose) of the Challenger and the seven astronauts. The memory of them will inspire us     10     (join) them in humanity’s greatest journey of exploration and discovery.