根据句意使用恰当的词填空（注意：填入的单词数量不得多于3个）

1.Now many people are complaining _____________________the government about the high house prices.

Having spent two and a half years in China over several visits, I don't remember ever going through a phase we in the United States call "cultural shock". This period of difficulty in adjusting to a new culture would probably have set in during my semester at Pe?king University. Of course, this is not to say that I didn't notice any differences between the American and Chinese cultures upon my arrival at Peking University, I did notice the differences. Looking back, I remember one of the first differences I noticed: chinese universities are surrounded by walls.

To an American, this is one of the most striking as?pects of a Chinese university which immediately sets it apart from an American campus. Having grown up in the United States, I had never seen a university sur?rounded by high, cement(水泥)walls. My idea of a uni?versity, based on having seen scores of them in different states of the US, was a place of life and learning, an inseparable part of the community in which it was loca?ted, open not only to the students of the school itself, but also fully accessible to students from other schools and to the broader public.

My idea of a university was that it was a centre of cultural life, a resource for the entire community. In all my twenty-one years, it had never occurred to me that a school would have a wall around it. Walls enclose and separate； schools expand and integrate(合并).The very idea seemed fundamentally incompatible. I asked a Chi?nese friend if all Chinese universities have walls around them. "You know, I have never really thought about it. I guess so. I guess all Chinese schools have walls around them, not just universities. ""Why?"I asked. "What's the point?""I don't know. To protect us, I suppose.，， "From whom?""I don't know. Don't you have walls a-round your schools in the United States?"I thought care?fully before answering. "No, I've never seen or heard of a university encircled by a wall. ，， My Chinese friend seemed puzzled. Walls around schools came to strike me as more than just an architectural difference between the United States and China. As China continues to open up to the outside world, these walls seem increasingly out of place.

5.    The author felt strange about Chinese culture when he    .

A.    studied in Peking University

B.    talked with his friends about the walls

C.    experienced the "cultural shock" at his arrival

D.    spent two and a half years in China over several visits

6.    In the author's opinion,   a university is a place

A.    where only students can come to study

B.    which is similar everywhere in the world

C.    that should be surrounded by high cement walls

D.    that is an inseparable part of and a resource for the community

7.    What does the underlined sentence in the last para?graph probably mean?

A.    The two ideas are fundamental.

B.    The two ideas are basically different.

C.    The two ideas about "school" and "wall" are suit?able.

D.    The two ideas about "school" and "wall" are con?flicting.

8.    We can infer from the passage that the author thinks

A.    walls are really useful in the universities

B.    he can never really understand the Chinese culture

C.    Chinese universities should work as public scenic spots

D.    walls around the universities are inappropriate in an open China

10.The snow had__________________(melt) ， but the lake was still frozen solid.

9. The ________________________ (pollute) had destroyed ozone layer and caused many changes in weather.

Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate (授粉) flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. But, in recent years, honeybee colonies in the United States and Europe have been shrinking. Scientists have proposed different theories to explain what is known as colony collapse disorder.

New research suggests that a commonly used group of insecticide(杀虫剂)could cause bees to have a hard time finding their way back to their hive. The new re?search looks at the use of pesticides called neonicotin-oids. They were first used in the 1990s. They are now put on the seeds of many major crops around the world. 丁he seedlings absorb the chemicals as they grow. That means farmers do not need to spray a whole field. In?stead there is a little bit of insecticide inside each plant― including the pollen(花粉)and the nectar(花蜜)that the bees want. There is not enough pesticide to kill them. But the new research in the journal Science says it may harm them anyway.

Researchers stuck microchips to the backs of the bees. These chips recorded the bees' movements as they came and went from their hive. The scientists fed some bees sugar water with a low dose of a neonicotinoid. The study found that these bees were about twice as likely not to return as other bees.

Dave Goulson at the University of Stirling in Britain worked on another study published in Science. He says the pesticides could help explain why bumblebee popula?tions are also decreasing.

Bayer CropScience makes neonicotinoid pesticides. The company's spokesman Jack Boyne disputed the findings. He also notes that researchers are studying other factors that could affect the bees' population. These include parasites? diseases and stress caused by transporting beehives to farms. Some European countries have banned the pesti?cides. And there are growing calls to ban them in the Unit?ed States as well.

1.  The underlined word"shrinking"in Paragraph 1 most

probably means "  

A.  increasing       B. decreasing

C.  disappearing    D. continuing

2.    Why were microchips tied to the backs of the bees?

A.    To record how much honey the bees produce.

B.    To test how the bees react to the microchips.

C.    To find if the insecticide affects the bees' popula?tion.

D.    To keep track of the bees' movements.

3.    It can be inferred from the last paragraph that

A.    the pesticides have been forbidden to use in all European countries

B.    Bayer CropScience agrees that the pesticides af?fect the bees' population

C.    transporting beehives to farms can surely have an effect on bees

D.    the use of pesticides is likely to be banned in more countries

4.    What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.    The relationship between pesticides and bees.

B.    Honeybee colony collapse disorder.

C.    New findings about the reduction of bees.

D.    Pesticides that kill bees must be banned.

8. He has difficulty________________________(learn) English well.

7.―Did you enjoy yourself at the party?

―Yes,I've never been to a ____________________(exciting) one before.

For most seventh graders, life doesn't get much harder than a history test. But for Grant Reed of Beliville, Ohio, it's his own current events that are so painful. "Honestly, I don't want to die,"Grant says. Last year, doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus found a tumour(肿瘤)in Grant's brain. They cut it out, but the surgery left him with stroke-like symptoms. Plus, he had to go through months of radia?tion and chemotherapy to try to stop the spread of the disease.

Yet, through it all, Grant has shown remarkable determination, which he owes, partly, to Ohio State Football. His parents, Troy and Denise, were both in the OSU marching band and fell in love during half-time of the Michigan game. His cat is named after the team Buckeyes. His wardrobe is painted scarlet (the colour of the team's sportswear). The point is, almost nothing mattered more to Grant than Ohio State Football―until he got sick, of course.

"I didn't like the word cancer," Grant says. So he decided not to use the word. Instead, the kid named his cancer Michigan and insisted everyone in his life refer to it as such, because Ohio State always beats Michigan. That was something he could understand and make into a competition. He was going to beat this disease.

It's now been more than a year since Grant issued that announcement. "And if you look at his scans," Dr Randal Olshefski at Nationwide Children's Hospital says, "there's nothing there. There's a big space, but there's no tumour. w

"Grant is beating Michigan. And although much of it has to go to science, don't discount the semantics(语义学)，You have to do something to make it a disease you can fight. And for Grant, that was naming it Michi?gan ,"his parents say.

This weekend, Ohio State and Michigan will be battling like their lives depend on it. But in this house * the Reed family will be watching with a calm insight: it's just a game.

1.  What's the main idea of the first paragraph?

A.    The seventh grade is a hard time.

B.    Grant suffered a serious disease.

C.    The operation was successful.

D.    The tumour has spread all over.

2.    From the second paragraph, we can infer that .

A.    Grant was a born football fan

B.    football makes a true man

C.    interest is the best teacher

D.    God helps those who help themselves

3.    Why did Grant name his cancer Michigan?

A.    Because he dared not face the disease.

B.    Because he didn't want to die so young.

C.    Because Michigan was his favourite team.

D.    Because Michigan was always beaten by his favourite team.

4.    By saying that it's just a game, we can infer that the Reed family .

A.    have lost interest in the match between Ohio State and Michigan

B.    believe Michigan will surely beat Ohio State this weekend

C.    have had a clearer and better understanding of life

D.    view the match as a matter of life and death

6. When the children heard the frightening story, they were ________________(scare) half to death,

5. The next thing he saw was smoke ___________________ (rise) from behind the house.