1 . 语法填空

The Spanish flu     1    （start）on a small military（军事的）base in central Kansas in 1918，    2     one soldier came down with a fever. Within a few hours，about 100 soldiers were reported     3    （have）the same illness.

By 1919，the flu had spread around the world，    4    （kill）up to 50 million people. The flu caused over 600，000     5    （die）in the US，which included 195，000 just in the single month of October 1918.

The flu was     6    （particular）serious because most of the victims were young，healthy people. In fact，more adults     7     the ages of 20 and 50 got sick and died from the flu than any other group.

What made people especially     8    （terrify）was that the flu made people sick quickly. It was reported that many people who woke up with no flu symptoms got sick in the morning and were dead by nighttime. According to one story，four women played bridge late into the night，three of whom     9    （find）dead the next morning.

It was not until three "waves" of illness later     10     the flu eventually ended.

2 . 阅读下列短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Last week, I read an article about the terrible history of the Summer Palace. The Summer Palace, located in the western district of Beijing,     1     of three parks, including the Ming, Changchun and Wanchun,     2     covers an area of about 5,200 mu.

To build the famous royal garden, the Qing government invested lots of manpower and physical resources in it. In order for it to become the European-style palaces built of stone, Emperor Qianlong     3     (employ)western designers to design it and made many skillful craftsmen(工匠)work day after day on it. After 130 years of hard labor, their work finally     4     off. The Summer Palace took     5     its glorious beauty. In a word, its construction style is the     6    (combine)of landscape, painting and poetry.

However, due to the Qing governments being     7    , western invaders have begun to invade it

since 1860, resulting in it     8    ( damage) badly,     9     little remaining at that time. What's worse, the destruction didn’t stop until the end of the war. After liberation, the Chinese government     10     great importance to rebuilding the famous garden. Nowadays, everyone is likely to appreciate its beauty if he is free.

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 biggest house of cards, the longest tongue, and of course, the tallest man: these are among the thousands of records logged in the famous Guinness Book of Records. Created in 1955 after a debate     1     (concern) Europe's fastest game bird,     2     began as a marketing tool sold to pub landlords     3     (promote) Guinness, an Irish drink, became the bestselling copyright title of all time (a category that excludes books such as the Bible and the Koran). In time, the book would sell 120 million copies in over 100 countries— quite a leap from its humble beginnings.

In its early years, the book set its sights on     4     (satisfy) man's inborn curiosity about the natural world around him. Its two principal fact finders, twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, moved wildly around the globe to collect facts. It was their task to find and document aspects of life that can be sensed or observed, things that can be quantified or measured. But not just any things. They were only interested in superlatives: the biggest and the best. It was during this period     5     some of the remarkable Guinness Records were documented, answering such questions as "What is the brightest star?" and "What is the biggest spider?"

Once aware of the public's thirst for such knowledge, the book's authors began to branch out to cover increasingly doubtful, little-known facts. They started documenting human achievements as well. A forerunner for reality television, the Guinness Book gave people     6     chance to become famous for accomplishing odd, often pointless tasks. Records were set in 1955 for consuming 24 raw eggs in 14 minutes and in 1981 for the fastest solving of a Rubik's Cube (which took a mere 38 seconds). In 1979 a man yodeled(用真假嗓音交替唱) non-stop for ten and a quarter hours.

In its latest appearance, the book has found a new home on the internet. No longer     7     (restrict) to the limits of physical paper, the Guinness World Records website contains seemingly innumerable facts concerning such topics as the most powerful combustion(燃烧) engine, or the world's longest train. What is striking, however, is that such facts are found sharing a page with the record of the heaviest train to be pulled     8     a beard.

Originating as a simple bar book, the Guinness Book of Records     9     (evolve) over decades to provide insight into the full range of modern life. And although one may be     10     (likely) now to learn about the widest human mouth than the highest number of casualties in a single battle of the Civil War, the Guinness World Records website offers a telling glimpse into the future of fact-finding and record-recording.

4 . 语篇语法填空

Qing Ming     1    (associate) with Jie Zitui, who lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend goes that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord     2    (success) in becoming the ruler, he invited his     3    (faith) follower to join him. However, Jie turned down his invitation,     4    (prefer) to lead     5     simple life with his mother in the mountain.

Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his men to set the forest     6     fire. To    7     astonishment, Jie chose to remain     8     he was and was burnt to death.     9    (remember) Jie, the lord ordered all fires in every home to be put out on the anniversary of Jie's death. Thus began the "cold food feast", a day when no food could be cooked since no fire could     10    (light).

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。

The Amber Room was made of several tons of amber. The amber which    1    (select ) had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels,     2    took the country's best artists about ten years     3     (make).

The Amber Room was designed for the palace of Frederick I.     4    , the next King of Prussia Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave     5     to Peter the Great.     6     return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czars winter palace in St Petersburg.

Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room     7    (move )to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.    8    (lucky), although the Amber Room was considered one of the    9     (wonder)of the world, it is now    10    (miss).

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。

The Amber Room, an    1       (amaze) treasure, which was decorated with gold and jewels, was made of several tons of    2     (select) amber. It first    3     (belong) to the King of Prussia and was given to Peter the Great as a gift. The Czar sent Frederick William a troop of his best soldiers    4     return. Later it was moved to a palace outside St Petersburg    5     Catherine Π spent her summers.

During the Second World War, when Germany and Russia were at war, The Nazis stole the room    6     (secret). In less than two days 100,000peices were put into twenty-seven    7    (wood) boxes and put on a train for Künisberg. After that, what happened to the Amber Room    8     (remain)   a mystery and the room is now missing. Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room,    9     looks like the old one,    10     (celebrate) the 300^th birthday of the city of St Petersburg.

7 . 语法填空

The distance between ancient Rome and ancient China was about 4,000 miles by land. It was a very     1    (danger) trip with deserts and mountains. The Silk Road was a nickname for any route     2    any trader took from China to Rome.

For a very long time, the ancient Romans did not know who was making the wonderful cloth     3    (call) silk. They tried to find the traders as they came into villages to trade other goods for silk, but the traders     4    (hide) from the Romans. Therefore, they had to trade for     5    themselves. The trading along the Silk Road was a relay system. One trader would travel     6    a while, stop and trade, and return home. The next trader would continue.        And so it went. But     7    (actual) no trader made the whole trip. It was too risky.

As the years went by, a civilization of sorts grew up along the Silk Road. Temples appeared. There were even     8    (city) built on the rare oasis (绿洲). It was never easy    9    (travel) by land from China to Rome, but it was worth it. Romans traded gold for China’s silk and spices. But     10    (many) things traveled the Silk Road than traders and goods. Ideas that changed the world traveled along the Silk Road as well.

8 . 语法填空

Cholera was a deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure     1     (understand). So thousands of     2     (terrify) people died when there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to solve     3     problem. He knew that cholera would not be controlled     4     its cause was found.

He became interested in two theories     5     possibly explained how cholera killed people. The first suggested that cholera     6     (multiply) in the air. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease     7     their bodies with their meals.

John Snow suspected that the second theory was correct but he needed evidence. So when another outbreak hit London in 1854, he was ready    8     (begin) his enquiry. With all the evidence he gathered, John Snow was able to announce with     9     (certain) that polluted water carried the virus.     10     (final) “King Cholera” was defeated.

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。

When digging outside the city walls, researchers     1     (discover) thirty to forty bodies lying one on top of another. They had been murdered.

The men dug with great care, trying not to disturb the       2    (evident) of what had happened. Everyone was curious     3    why all these people had been killed at the same time. Was it just     4     coincidence?

Deep in the ground below the bodies, they found a tomb     5     was made of stone. It contained many valuable things,     6     (include) much gold and many jewels. Inside it lay the body of a man that was     7     (good) preserved. It was clear that the man had been a king,     8     explained why the other bodies were there. The workers who had built the tomb were killed shortly after the king     9     (die). That was because they wanted to keep the tomb a secret, and to make     10     (they) companions for him in death.

10 . The Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, took place in Virginia in the spring of 1863. For months, the two armies had been staying on opposite banks of a narrow river. The Confederate(南方联盟) troops were led by perhaps     1     (honored) military tactician(战略家) in American history, General Robert E. Lee. The Union (北方联盟)soldiers were led by “Fighting” Joe Hooker.

In appearance, personality, and lifestyle, these men were nearly perfect opposites. Lee, an older man in poor health with a gray beard, had a solemn, measured character. Hooker was a blond, broad-shouldered young man     2     pride over his appearance was but one aspect of his self-centeredness. Whereas Lee was loyal and principled, Hooker was known for his rollicking enjoyment of both women and whiskey.

Despite the fact that the Confederacy     3     (win) the last four major battles and the Union soldiers were starving,     4     (exhaust), and demoralized, Hooker proclaimed, “My plans are perfect. And when I start to carry them out,     5     God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.” Why was Hooker so confident?

Hooker had used spies, analysts, and even hot air balloons to compile a vast amount of intelligence about Lee’s army. He had already been aware, for example,     6     Lee had only 61,000 men to Hooker’s own 134,000. Supported by his superior numbers, Hooker secretly moved 70,000 of his men fifteen miles up and across the river, and then ordered them to sneak back down to position themselves     7     Lee’s army. In effect, Hooker had cut off the Confederate soldiers in front and behind. They were trapped. Satisfied with his advantage, Hooker became convinced that Lee’s only option was to retreat to Richmond, thus     8     (assure) a Union victory.

Yet Lee, despite his disadvantages of both numbers and position, did not retreat. Instead, he moved his troops into position to attack. Union soldiers who tried to warn Hooker that Lee was on the offensive     9     (dismiss) as cowards. Having become convinced that Lee had no choice but     10     (retreat), Hooker began to ignore reality. When Lee’s army attacked the Union soldiers at 5:00 p.m., they were eating supper, completely unprepared for battle. They abandoned their rifles and fled as Lee’s troops came shrieking out of the brush, bayonets drawn. Against all odds, Lee won the Battle of Chancellorsville, and Hooker’s forces withdrew in defeat.