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.

Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out. So    1    a chilly January evening last year, the two friends ventured onto the frozen pond near their homes in Frankfort, Illinois,     2    (get) a better look. First they cast a rock onto the ice to test it, Cruz told NBC5 Chicago, “Then we stepped on it.”     3    (convince) the ice would hold their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then...FOOMP. He crashed through the seemingly frozen surface. “There was no sound, no crack,” he told ABC 7 Chicago. “I just fell through instantly. ”

Cruz rushed to help his    4    (panic) friend. FOOMP — the pond swallowed him too. Cruz managed to lift himself out of the frigid water and onto a more solid section. He then carefully worked his way toward Anthony. But the ice didn’t hold, and in he    5    (fall) again. This time, he couldn’t get out.

The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. Any chance of their    6    (free) themselves was slipping away. Cruz was sure he was going to die. Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and started screaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbour driving nearby on his way to the grocery store,     7    (hear) her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy,     8    (kick) off his shoes, and ran into the slushy water,     9    (chop) his way through the ice with his free fist.

Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and dragged them back to land. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water    10    (lower) their body temperature nearly ten degrees.

Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, though they are still kind of awestruck by their fearless neighbour. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “if he wasn’t there, I could have died.”

2 . 语法填空

People love the view of old buildings in Paris, especially the Notre-Dame Cathedral (巴黎母院).     1    (fortunate), on April 15, a fire destroyed the spire (尖顶) of the cathedral, and two-thirds of the roof. Flames could be seen     2    (rise) through the top of the monument. The citizens in Paris gathered around the cathedral, praying for the hundreds of     3    (firefighter) who fought the flames.     4     was no wonder that people felt sad. The church itself after all, is a historical and artistic treasure.     5    (build) in 1163, it is one of the world’s most famous tourist sites, attracting about 12 million     6    (visit) every year.

Notre-Dame Cathedral is home to many     7    (religion) artworks, paintings and sculptures. Despite its long history and many treasures, the cathedral     8    (need) the help of a writer to become truly famous. Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, presented the building to     9     wide range of readers. He wrote the book to remind people of it, with the hope     10     they would protect the beautiful old buildings of Paris.

5 . Oil is essential for modern life. About 64 percent of the world’s oil is located in the Middle East, but the heaviest consumers of oil are Europe, America, and Japan. The problem lies in getting the oil from the countries that produce it to the countries that consume it. This is mainly done using oil tankers. Usually the oil is shipped safely and with no problems, but occasionally there is a disaster.

Every year millions of tons of oil are spilled into the ocean. Although this is only a small percentage of the total amount shipped around the world each year, this spilled oil can have terrible effects on ocean life, including the coastlines where the oil washes up onto shore.

One of the worst oil spills in history occurred along the Alaskan coastline in 1989, when the Exxon Valdez tanker got stuck off the coast of Alaska, spilling 42 million liters of oil. Although it wasn’t the largest oil spill, the disaster was terrible because it occurred in such a sensitive natural area. In this spill, the tanker’s captain, who was tired from overwork and drinking alcohol, had gone to take a rest. He gave control of the ship to another sailor, who was unfamiliar with the route. The ship ran onto Bligh Reef. Damaged by the reef, the ship leaked oil out into the ocean. More than 1,600 kilometers of coastline were affected by the oil spill. Many birds and otters died as a result of the oil covering their skin, and many other sea creatures and the animals that fed on them were also severely affected.

1. Which country is NOT among the largest consumers of oil?

A．Japan	B．Iraq
C．America	D．Germany

2. What does the underlined “them” refer to?

A．The birds.	B．The otters.
C．The sea creatures.	D．The birds and the otters.

3. Which of the following statement is true?

A．The oil leak of Alaska is because the captain was unfamiliar with the route.

B．Many birds and otters died from eating the spilled oil.

C．Alaska spill was the most serious spill of all time.

D．Although some oil leak is not serious, it will affect ocean life.

6 . They had to get as many people out of the burning building as quickly as they could. So they told them to jump out of the window.

The first one out of the window was a man, who was followed by his two children. Next, a baby and then the baby’s mother _______the third-story window. All of them did this in _______. At that moment the smoke was billowing (涌出) from the apartment in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Smith and Corey Boykin tried their best to _______them.

It happened last November at around 4 am, when a _______ started on the second floor. “I got my family out, ”said Smith. “Then I started knocking on doors on the first floor but no one answered. I tried _______ the second floor, _______ the smoke was too black. I couldn’t _______; nor could I breathe. So I _______ and came outside. That’s when I saw people outside the _______.”

Boykin was at his ________ Melanie Nunemaker’s house, across the street from the apartment. He knew something was ________, saying, “I saw a baby drop out of the window, and Smith was ________ the child below.”

Boykin ran to a nearby house to get a ladder and ________ to help. He found Smith outstretched (伸开) his arms, shouting, “________! I’ll get you.” He caught several people.

Boykin ________ the ladder to ask those on the third floor to turn around and go toward him ________ they couldn’t see through the smoke.

“I ________ walking out through the front door, but a big cloud hit me. The smoke was getting to me so ________ that I couldn’t breathe,” a man called Chase Ray told 10TV. “He ________ my life, for sure.”

And it didn’t ________. When Boykin saw his burned-out neighbors, he took 20 or so of them back to his friend Nunemaker’s house. “We gave them clothes, shoes, whatever we had,” Boykin said.

1.

A．came out of

B．looked out of

C．knocked on

D．pointed to

2.

A．peace

B．fear

C．silence

D．secret

3.

A．free

B．find

C．help

D．surprise

4.

A．game

B．party

C．fight

D．fire

5.

A．reaching

B．blocking

C．kicking

D．covering

6.

A．so

B．and

C．for

D．but

7.

A．see

B．talk

C．shout

D．listen

8.

A．got off

B．went by

C．carried on

D．turned around

9.

A．car

B．window

C．school

D．company

10.

A．neighbor

B．friend

C．teacher

D．student

11.

A．important

B．necessary

C．special

D．wrong

12.

A．praising

B．treating

C．catching

D．teaching

13.

A．rushed

B．promised

C．agreed

D．learned

14.

A．Run

B．Jump

C．Help

D．Quick

15.

A．left

B．ignored

C．climbed

D．moved

16.

A．because

B．unless

C．though

D．until

17.

A．avoided

B．hated

C．tried

D．continued

18.

A．early

B．softly

C．fully

D．badly

19.

A．risked

B．saved

C．changed

D．admired

20.

A．disappear

B．burst

C．finish

D．settle

9 . A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding — undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism — if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott’s last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

1. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?

A．Frank Hurley.

B．Ernest Shackleton.

C．Robert Falcon Scott.

D．Caroline Alexander.

2. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?

A．Artistic creation.	B．Scientific research.
C．Money making.	D．Treasure hunting.

3. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?

A．They were made last week.

B．They showed undersea scenery.

C．They were found by a cameraman.

D．They recorded a disastrous adventure.