用所给动词的正确形式填空。

　　Matt Groening is the man who invented the world's most popular cartoon. People in almost 100 countries (1) ________ (watch) The Simpsons every week. Groening was born in Portland, Oregon in 1954. When he was twentysix he (2) ________ (start) drawing cartoons for The Los Angeles Reader, a weekly newspaper. In 1986 Matt invented the Simpson family for the popular Tracey Ullman Show. He gave them the names of his family：Matt's father's name is Homer, his mother is Margaret, and he (3) ________ (have) two sisters, Lisa and Maggie.

　　Groening and his artists, musicians and actors (4) ________ (make) twelve series of programmes up to now. People of all ages, from seven to seventy all (5) ________ (love) it!

在下面短文空白处填入一个适当的词，形式不下确不得分。(答案写在答题纸上)

Simon wrote his question on a piece of paper before he went to sleep. And he found his father's answer when he woke up.

Question:

　　The most popular girl in school, Andrea, invited (1) ________ to a party, but she didn't invite my best friend Barbara. I didn't even tell Barbara (2) ________ the party because I don't want to hurt her feelings.

　　Today Barbara invited me to go to Disney World with her family on the same weekend as the (3). I didn't really (4) ________ yes or no, and I think that hurt her. I would love to go to Disndy World, but I don't want to miss the party, and I don't want to lose Barbara as a friend.

　　I have to give her an (5) ________ soon. What can I say?

Answer:

　　Do you really like Andrea? Or do you just want to be with the popular kids? And what about Barbara? Do you really (6) ________ about her? Or do you just want to go to Disney World?

　　I don't know the answers to these questions, but you (7) ________ them. You have no idea because you want to have everything, and that' s not (8) ________. You need to find out what's really important to you and make a choice.

阅读下面短文，根据上下从所给的10个单词中选择7个并用其适当形式填入空中。

along, away, busy, first, get, goodbye, last, quiet, stand, without

Mr and Mrs Smith were having an argument(争吵) on the boat deck. Mrs Smith was refusing to get into a lifeboat (1) ________ her husband. Then Mrs Smith had an idea. She saw Captain Smith (2) ________ nearby with a megaphone. She went up to him and explained she was all alone in the world and asked if her husband could get into the lifeboat with her. The old captain turned (3) ________ and shouted into the megaphone, “Women and children (4)” At this point Mr Smith came over. He spoke to his wife seriously and (5) ________, “You really must get in now. This (6) ________with women and children first is just a matter of form. The ship is fully equipped and everyone will be saved.” Mrs Smith asked her husband if he was being completely truthful. Mr Smith replied firmly, “Yes.” So they kissed (7) ________ and she got into the lifeboat. As the boat dropped into the water, Mr Smith called out from the deck, “Keep your hands in your pockets; it is very cold weather.”

阅读理解(Reading comprehension)

　　Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 and died in France in 1973. He was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

　　Picasso's early paintings were realistic, but later he began to look at things in new ways. He experimented with shapes and colors. Soon the shapes and colors. became more important to him than the real things in his pictures.

　　Picasso painted many important pictures, but his most famous is a very large painting called Guernica. Guernica is a small town in Spain. It was bombed(attacked with bombs) and ruined(毁灭) in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. Many people died.

　　Picasso was angry. He wanted to show that war is terrible. The painting has only three colors－black, white, and gray. It is abstract(expressing the artist's ideas and feelings about certain things), but you can see some real things in it. On the left side are a mother and her dead baby, a bull and a horse, and a dead man with a broken sword(剑) and a flower. On the right are three people. One of them has a lamp. They are sad and helpless.

　　Along with the realistic things, there are many symbols in the painting. Symbols are things that represent(describe) ideas. No one knows what all the symbols mean. They mean different things to different people. But everyone agrees that this painting shows the horror(sth. that makes people very afraid) of war.

　　Guernica is in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

　　Complete the sentences about Picasso with the correct words.

1．Picasso was born in ________ in 1881 and died in France in________.

2. When he was young, Picasso painted realistic paintings, but he is famous for his ________ paintings.

Write down four things that the reading mentions in the painting.(except the sword)

3．________and ________

4．________and________

5．The broken sword is a symbol of________.

Fill in the blanks with the given words in proper forms(字数不限)

　　1．As a natural resource, air 1 (find) in nature. It 2 (be) in the atmosphere. In fact, the atmosphere 3 (consist) of air, and the Earth 4 (surround) by it.

　　2．Recent studies have provided additional evidence (证据) that 5 (inhale) smoke from other people's cigarettes, 6 (call) passive smoke, may be harmful to a young person.… Over a period of time, a fatty substance may build up in arteries (动脉), 7 (slow) the flow of blood．When an artery 8 (lead) to the heart suddenly 9 (become) completely blocked, a heart attack may 10 (occur).

　　3．Scientists 11 (become) aware of the substance 12 (know) as vitamins around the year 1910. Until that time, it 13 (not understand) that certain harmful body conditions could 14 (cause) by something which 15 (not eat).

Read the Passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词)

　　There has been a revolution in the world of newspapers. Not many years 　(1)　, newspapers were still being produced using techniques unchanged for a hundred years.

　　The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an editor who passed them on 　(2)　 the printer. The printer, who was a 　(3)　 skilled man, set up the type. This was then collected to make the pages. When the pages were complete, the printing machines could be started.

　　Nowadays what 　(4)　? The journalists type their stories into a computer. The computer checks their spelling, plans the page, shapes the articles. When the pages are ready, another 　(5)　 may control the printing.

　　　(6)　 can be no doubt about it, producing a newspaper is an entirely different business now.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词)

　　The Moon Trap is a new film made by a young Canadian director called Melvin Strang. The main parts in the film are played by Sid Cheung and Julie Plein who last appeared in Music For Ever.

　　In this new film 　(1)　 star as a young married couple who buy an old house in the country. After living there 　(2)　 a few weeks strange things begin to happen.

　　Some of the furniture in the house disappears and can't be 　(3)　; windows break and pictures fall off walls. At night they 　(4)　 crying noises, and when the moon is up loud screams can be heard from the woods nearby.

　　As you might expect, the young couple try to discover the reason for all these strange events and this leads them into some very frightening situations. 　(5)　 you are easily scared don't go and see this film! But if you enjoy films with 　(6)　 of adventure and murder then this is the film for you.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词)

　　During the past hundred years, the railway, the car, the radio, the cinema, and now the TV, have produced very great changes in the amusements with which people pass their free time.

　　A hundred years ago, people were in the 　(1)　 of making their own amusements. When a group of people got together, they talked, played cards or other games, read aloud to each other, or went out riding, shooting or walking. Most people could sing a little, or play the piano; so at a party the guests amused each other. Above all, conversation was an art; amusing conversation could keep people happy for hours.

　　As for games such as football and tennis, people were also in the habit of playing them themselves. Most of them did not play very well, 　(2)　 they amused themselves and their friends.

　　Nowadays, we are amused by professional singers or players. 　(3)　 listen to your friends singing when you can hear the great singers of the world by the radio or on TV? Why play football with players who 　(4)　 very good at it when you can see some of the best players playing an important match? You may just sit comfortably at a cinema and watch the game without the trouble of going outside.

　　The art of conversation and the habit of playing and singing are growing, more people are becoming lookers and listeners, and more become doers and talkers. This change 　(5)　 people neither good nor harm; it is 　(6)　 to do something not very well oneself than always to sit watch others doing it.

Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　In 1908, six cars began a race from New York to Paris. The men in them really had a hard time. They drove through deserts and mountain, storms and cold weather. Many times they had to stop and fix their cars. The roads were very poor. Most roads were only mud(泥).

　　The German Team pushed their car, the huge Protos, up the hill. “It has not been easy, but it will be better now, men. We will soon come to the top and we can roll it down,” said their captain. But the car was so heavy and the mud so thick that they had to push the car down the hill, too.

　　The Americans, in the Thomas, hurried to cross the river. “Oh, good! The boat hasn't gone yet!” they said. They drove the Thomas onto the boat. The boat quickly went down in the water. The Thomas also went down. It took all day to get the car out.

　　Hans Hanson was on the French Team. “We have chosen you because you know the north country,” said Sanshefe, the leader. Later they discovered that Hanson knew the north country, but he didn't know how to drive.

　　Scotfolio, leader of the Italian Team, woke up. “Wake up, men!” he shouted, “We've been here three hours.” The driver opened his eyes and saw the wheels. “I think we will be here longer, my friend. Somebody had stolen our tires.”

　　Only three of the cars reached Paris to finish the race. The race took them across the United States, by boat to Japan, across Japan to Russia, through Asia to Europe and Paris. The Thomas was the winner. It reached Paris after the Protos. But the German Team sometimes used trains and then discovered this was against the rules. All three teams were really winners. They won a long and hard race against weather, robbers, bad roads, animals, and floods. They were brave men who believed in themselves and their cars.

Questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题，不超过五个单词)

1．Can you write down the names of the four teams which entered the car race in 1908?

________ Team, ________Team, ________ Team, and ________ Team.

2．Which team broke the rule?

________ ________ ________.

3．Whose tires were stolen?

________ ________ ________.

4．Whose car sank into the river?

________ ________ ________.

5．Who was the winner?

________ ________ ________.

6．What was forbidden during the race?

It was forbidden ________ ________ ________ during the race.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)

　　Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn't have modern machines. There was no medicine, either.

　　Life today has brought new (1)p　　. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and affects(影响) our (2)d　　 water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and became angry more (3)e　　. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It affects every living thing in the world.

　　Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the pollution is so thick that it is like a quilt over the city. This kind of quilt is called smog. Many countries are making new (4)l　　 to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, they mustn't blow dirty smoke into the air.

　　We need to do many other things. We can put (5)w　　 things in the dustbin and not throw it on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are (6)f　　 people driving, there will be less pollution.

　　Laws are not enough. Every person must do something to fight against pollution.