单词拼写

1.They saw a penniless young man         （徘徊）on the pavement outside their house.

2.I’d just about given myself up when I was       (发现)by a ship.

3.The earth became so_____ (激烈动荡)that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not.

4.Why they suddenly appeared still remains a ______(谜).

5.They are putting too much carbon dioxide into the _____(大气层).

6.What ____(使迷惑) me is why he looks so old.

7.We should try our best to apply ____(理论) to practice.

8.The rise of the sea water is due to the ____(全球) warming.

9.The birds were flying in all______(方向) at the gun.

10.He ____(测量)the length of the room and went out.

单词拼写 （共5小题，每题1分，共5分）

根据下列各句句意和空白后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空一词。

1.He was not going to hold his breath for her to _________（ 道歉 ）.

2._________（ 好奇心 ）drove Wang Peng inside the restaurant.

3. Oliver asked Henry to listen to him _________（ 耐心地 ）.

4.The earth became so _________（ 猛烈的 ）that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not.

5.On the way to the station, he _________（ 闲聊 ）about their trip yesterday.

默写。（共30个空格，每空格0.5分，满分15分）

I am going to tell you an ________ story. This afternoon a ________ ________ gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew who he was and where he came from.   ... When he was asked to pay the bill, the gentleman asked whether we would mind waiting just a few minutes... ________, we could not change the bank note as it was too large. So I gave this strange but very rich man a free dinner, ________ _________ ________ that he might come to my restaurant again.

What it was to become was ________ until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust ________ ________ ________ ________ ________. The earth became so ________ that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not. It ________ loudly with fire and rock.

“Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and _________ _________ _________ __________ make Vancouver one of the most popular cities to live in. Its population is __________ _________. …. It is so wet there that the trees are ________ tall, some ________ over 90 metres.”

The tunnel would be ________ if tall chimneys were built above sea level… If, at that time, the British ________ not ________ ________, it would ________ ________ ________.

Between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago, the earth became so ______ that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not.

A. genuine      B. slight        C. solid          D. violent

III. 课文填空。以下是两篇课文选段，请任意选择一篇，并根据课文，在文中划线处填上适当单词，每空一词， (共10小题，计10分) 

1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to ___1_____ the ancestors, who might return _____2__ to help or to do ____3____. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in ____4____ of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will __5_____ the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6____ this important feast day, people eat food in the _7____ of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its ___8______in old _____9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a __10____ on them.

According to a widely ____1___ theory, the universe began _____2__ a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all _____3____. After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust. ___4____ it was to become was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust _____5___ into a solid _____6__. The earth became so _____7___ that it was not clear ____8_____ the shape would last or not. It ____9______ loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s ___10______.