阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

1.He stated that his lateness ________________(因车辆过多) on the motorway.(due)

2.She lost everything she owned as a direct ________________(这次时间的后果)．(consequence)

3.It tends to rain here a lot in summer ____________(而非) be dry.(rather)

4.Little Jim is unwilling to come here even if there is ________________(各种活动) for children.(range)

5.The population of the country is growing ________________(以稳定的速率) per year.(steady)

6.As I couldn’t ____________(忍受) the noise，I quit my job.(put)

7.The rain ________________(对比赛将没什么影响)，so long as you try your best.(difference)

8.It will take a lot of energy to get them ________________(支持这项政策)．(advocate)

9.________________(代表我的同事以及我自己) I thank you.(behalf)

10.We discussed everything —____________(去哪里，做什么等等)．(so)

Every Friday we have a fire alarm test at nine o'clock sharp, and even though the sound is very noisy, I am so happy because when I heard that it reminded me today is Friday and tomorrow is weekend, it is the last working day of the week and I have two days off, it’s so excited!Sometimes we have a fire drill, when you hear the fire alarm, everybody have to run out through the fire exit.
One Monday at nine o’clock, the alarm was sounded and I was working behind the fish house and didn’t hear it. The department manager and staff were looking for me thoroughly, finally they found me and asked me to stop my job and follow them went out.
"I am busy, No problem! You leave, I work." I said.
"No, this is the law, everybody has to leave." The manager said.
I understood that if I insisted not to leave, they must carry me out. I went out with them together finally, no choice.
One afternoon, when I was working outside, the fire alarm cropped up（突然出现） sounding wildly, nobody knew what’s happening, some were standing and looking around, some were asking questions, some were running, I knew this wasn’t a test or drill, must be a real one. At that moment, one lady called me from a distance:"Jinglebell: leave your job, go out quickly."I joined the crowded flow of customers and staff going out. I asked somebody what's happened? And they told me this is a real one as there was some smoke on the shop floor.Finally I found out, actually there was no problem, that it was an electrician who used the equipment for the carpet and made a little smoke.
After that I asked somebody how to deal with the customer’s food in the restaurant in that case, because they went out to leave because of the fire, but hadn't finished their food. They told me that the customers who had bought food or drinks there could get a new one.
I don't understand, if in China, under that situation, everybody must carry a bucket（桶） or some other water containers to the fire spot, to fight the flames.
I agree with the English emphasis the human right, but maybe a very small problem could become a big problem while everybody had withdrawn from the shop, because the fire fighters could not come at once.
I was just thinking.
【小题1】Despite the noise from the fire alarm, the author still feels happy because _____.

Could you please shut the door; the noise outside ______ the speaker’s voice.

A. drowns          B. chokes         C. buries         D. fills

根据句子结构的语法性，在下面空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词的适当形式填空。

1._________ (hear) their teacher's voice, the pupils stopped talking at once.

2.He _________ (bring) up in North Yorkshire by his grandmother .

3.It may be _________ (believe), but it's the truth.

4.She was so tired that she didn't even have the _________ (strong) to stand up.

5.She had her hair cut last night, now it is _________ (thin) and shorter.

6.Thousands of patients have benefited _________ the new medicine.

7.I find _________ strange that she doesn’t want to go.

8.Great changes _________ (take) place in China over the past few years.

9.Those _________ keep working hard will soon be successful.

10.We tried to save the building, _________ it was a hopeless task.

11.Please call me on your _________ (arrive) at the hotel.

12.She did not know _________ had happened.

13.With time _________ (go) by, my memory seemed to get worse.

14.I have borrowed _________ useful book from the library to prepare for my coming exam.

15.People began looking across to see_________ the noise was coming from.

It is not a secret that these are turbulent times that put everyone on edge all the time and it makes people angry with their families, co-workers, friends and relatives, frustrated (沮丧的)and highly annoyed just for the noise of the neighbors or the music coming from the opposite house. Anger and negative energy have a strong influence on everyone’s life, even when they don’t realize it.

Being in a calm state of mind is simply wonderful. Results of this can be seen when parents no longer shout at their children over any small thing and when one can keep him cool when bad things happen and doesn’t let the situation become worse by his negative influence.

Also results can be seen on a larger scale. In 1993 a very interesting scientific experiment called The US Transcendental Meditation experiment was conducted in Washington. A company called TM got 4,000 calm and relaxed people to simply sit and meditate (冥想) in a central Washington convention center. The results of this experiment showed that during those particular 8 weeks, violent crimes, such as murder, rape, assaults, clearly decreased by as much as 23%.

This is evident proof that meditation can change the state of mind, bring back peace of mind and collective meditation is contagious (蔓延的), just as anything done collectively is contagious. For example, a person has the urge to become aggressive (while in normal circumstances that person is very calm and normal), just because he is sitting at a stadium watching a football game and everyone around is shouting and is aggressive.

Isn’t increasing the quality of life worth spending 20 minutes of time on meditation? Yes, very few people follow through with a meditation method that should be a joy to do. Many start and leave it after only a few sessions.

So if collective meditation has proven that meditation works, that it calms people down and that it brings their levels of stress down, why not employ it in everyday life?

1.The underlined word “turbulent” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “     ”.

A．changeless        B．disorderly         C．perfect           D．expected

2.According to Paragraph 3, the scientific experiment      .

A．was to test whether meditation is useful

B．was conducted throughout America

C．asked the participants to do a lot of sports

D．had no particular requirements on the participants

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Violent crimes are closely related to aggressive characters.

B．People are sometimes easily annoyed by small things.

C．Many people fail to carry out a meditation method.

D．Meditation can cure people of many illnesses.