单词拼写（根据首字母或提示，一空一词，一词一分，满分10分）

1.Did she _________(投票) for the matter?

2.The new comer is d____________ the house with flowers.

3.In my o________, he should have done it better .

4.Trying to ___________（营救）the little boy from drowning(淹死), the young man himself was drowned.

5.They ________(惊吓）the white birds away by rising to their feet suddenly.

6.He was the most _______(慷慨大方的) one in our city.

7.His parents died and left him many v_______ things.

8.The bridge wasn’t ________(设计) for such heavy traffic.

9.The professor d________ all his life to ________(教育）his students.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母或汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）
【小题1】She g_____________ from the university two years ago.
【小题2】He is a r__________ boy. So you can trust him.
【小题3】After the terrible flood, all the villages and towns were in r___________.
【小题4】In my o__________, the sports meeting should be put off because of the bad weather.
【小题5】He took a friendly a____________ to me ,which made me happy.
【小题6】Qian Xueshen ___________ (奉献) himself to science before he died.
【小题7】Ten fishermen were saved in a sea ____________(营救)。
【小题8】They helped the child ___________(埋葬) his father。
【小题9】The young man went on working hard and __________ (最后) he succeed.
【小题10】John is very __________(活跃的) in the English class.

One of the first foreign expeditions _______ Mount Qomolangma arrived in Tibet in 1921.

Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers tried to conquer Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally, in 1921, the British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland, in the north, is part of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland, in the south, is an independent country.
In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes, was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of hunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work , forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.
For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.
The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly. Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”. Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different areas have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.
【小题1】What does the author tell us in paragraph 1?

第II卷　（共35分）

第一节：短文填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Recently, there has been a heated debate over whether to send old

people to nursing homes or not. People differ in their                         

o          . Here list the ideas of supporters.                                76.                 

L          in nursing homes, as they say, old people                    77.               

can enjoy more benefits             staying at home.                    78.                  

For one aspect, they can have more opportunities to

(交流) with each other, as they have                           79.                

c         topics and similar hobbies. Therefore,                        80.                

they can do many things together and don’t feel

(孤独). On the other hand, if they live at                      81.                

home, they may quarrel          their children because                   82.                

of the generation gap between them. Another aspect ,    is                    83.                

highly valued by the supporters, is that old people can

have               (定期) medical check-ups and                        84.                 

r           immediate medical care from professional                    85.                  

doctors.