1 . 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。

Odysseus is a literary figure in Odyssey written by Homer. He rejected the comfortable life of a Greek king and made a promise to help another Greek leader, Menelaus, in the war     1     the Trojans. But the war dragged on and on and he     2     (be) away from his family for ten years. During this period the fortunes of the war were so     3     (change) that no one could predict which side would win.

Odysseus became tired of the war and the delay in Troy. He     4     (desperate) wanted to return home. Hence, on the occasion     5     the Greek kings had their regular weekly meeting, he suggested     6     (trick) the Trojans.

The Greeks built a giant wooden horse so that their soldiers could hide inside     7    . The Greeks then pretended to set out home as if     8     (discourage) by the long-lasting war, leaving the wooden horse behind. The Trojans blessed their God for their good fortune, dragged the horse into the city and prepared to celebrate. That night the Greek soldiers climbed out of the wooden horse and opened the city gates for the Greek army. Then came the sound of the warning bell     9     (announce) a Greek victory. The war ended, but the     10     (punish) of the Trojan people was only just beginning.

2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内的正确形式。

Those who make great discoveries must often overcome many challenges along the way — as was the case with the explorer Christopher Columbus.

Columbus insisted     1    searching for a direct sea route to the East Indies by sailing across the Atlantic ocean. After continuous attempts, he received    2    (finance) support from the King and Queen of Spain. On 3 August 1492, he departed from Spain with three ships    3    (carry) about 90 crewmen. The journey was full of challenges: it took longer than expected, they faced a    4    (short) of food, and one of the ships was leaking badly,     5     put everyone on this ship in grave danger. The men on board were in panic. Regardless of all the challenges, Columbus managed    6    (keep) everyone out of danger with his knowledge and bravery across the ocean.     7    (Final), on 12 October, the crew spotted land in    8    distance. Columbus called the natives living on the islands Indians because he    9     (convince) that he was in the East Indies. However, the shores they     10    (reach) were of the Caribbean, not the East Indies.

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

How Dolly was born

Professor Wilmut's experiment involved three adult female sheep. He first     1     (take) a cell from sheep A, He then implanted (植入) the genetic information into     2     (it) nucleus (细胞核) with an egg cell from sheep B, whose nucleus had been removed. Tiny electric shocks     3     (use) to stimulate ( 激 发 ) this new “combination” egg cell to divide.     4     (final), the new embryo was implanted into the body of sheep C, where it developed just like any other sheep embryo.

In 1996, his determination and     5     (patient) paid off. Dolly became the first sheep to be born without a father and was also the first genetically     6     (identity) copy of an adult. As the egg cell gradually splits, its millions     7     offspring cells specialize into muscle cells or skin cells, for example,     8     (mouse) and cattle have now also been cloned from an adult. These clones have also been cloned, producing three generations of healthy clones.

    9     was thought that a specialized cell could never become a different cell, with all the genetic instructions     10     (form) the entire creature.

8 . 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.

LAS VEGAS - A gunman in a high-rise hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip opened fire on a country music festival late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The gunman,     1     (identify) by police as Stephen Paddock, was later found dead by officers on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said during a news briefing Monday.

The massacre marked the nation’s    2     (late)   outbreak of gunfire and bloodshed to erupt in a public place, again    3     (spread)   terror in an American city transformed into a war zone. The carnage in Las Vegas surpassed the 49 people slain in June 2016 when a gunman   in   Orlando,     4     later said he was inspired by the Islamic State, opened fire inside a crowded nightclub.

Lombardo said investigators    5     not immediately identify a motive, leaving no clear answer as to     6    a gunman gunned down dozens of people. He also said    7     additional 527 people were injured,     8     he did not specify how many were wounded by gunfire or injured in the chaos that followed. Clark County Fire Chief Greg Cassell said officials were seeing a “wide range” of injuries including gunshot victims as well as people injured by shrapnel, trampling or getting hurt jumping fences attempting     9     (escape).

Paddock, 64,     10     (find) dead in his hotel room by Las Vegas SWAT officers, police said. They believe Paddock, who had checked in on Thursday and brought a cache of guns, took his own life in Room 135 before officers entered.

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。

Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon back on 21st July, 1969,     1     was one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind, people have become accustomed     2     the idea of space travel. Millions of people watched that first moon landing on television, aware of     3     difficult and dangerous an adventure it was. It was a success and all three astronauts made it safely back to Earth.

10 . 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。

A great    1    (achieve) was made in 1953. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest    2    (successful) at 11: 30 am, on May 29. They became the first people    3    (reach)the peak of Mount Everest.

Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, and Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Both of them were part of the    4    (nine) British expedition(探险)to Everest    5    (lead) by John Hunt in 1953. For this expedition, Hunt selected a group of people who were    6    (experience) in climbing mountains. In the group, Edmund Hillary    7    (select) from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay was actually from India where he lived. Before climbing, the expedition had been organized and planned for months. They made 9 camps on their way up, some of    8    have been still used by climbers up to now The first team made    9    to the place which was just 300 feet below the peak, and they left on May 26. They actually had already reached the point that no man had reached before. They were forced to leave because of the bad weather and besides, there were problems    10    their oxygen tank, too.