【题目】Directions : After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with, a given wordfill in each blank with the proper form of the given word for the other blanksuse one word that best fits each blank.

What is an insect? Insects of all kinds have existed on earth for millions of years. Sometimes we think of all insects as pests. Human life, however, would have a difficult time continuing without insects, 1 they pollinate plants and are a food source for many animals. Besides, insects, especially the social 2are fascinating.

One very interesting and useful social insect is the honey bee. Bees 3 (consider) social insects because they live and work together. The bee lives in a beehive with other worker bees, and with the queen, who can lay thousands of eggs a day. The worker bees make wax used 4 (create) new cells inside the hive. Humans use this valuable beeswax 5 candlescosmetics, expensive furniture polish, and other products. They also produce honey, a valuable food for humans (as well as for bees).

Another fascinating social insect is 6 ant. Many types of ants live in colonies underground. There thousands of them build and maintain their “city”. They also cooperate to provide food, sometimes in a manner that looks like human. For example, some ants actually raise their own food. One type of ant “farmer” keeps and cares for tiny insects that suck sweet sap (汁液)from plants. Ant farmers milk them from the sap, just like actual farmers milk cows. The sap is then given as food to young ants and to the queen, 7 main duty is to lay eggs. Another type of ant that produces its own food does so by gardening. These farmer ants take pieces of leaves into the colony and chew them up. The soft 8 (chew) up leaves then sprout (涌出)a fungus that the worker ants use to feed the queen and young ants. There are many other ways that ants cooperate to maintain and protect their colonies.

There are also many other kinds of social insects. 9 makes them all so fascinating is their organization. 10 each insect has certain tasks to perform, the entire hive or colony appears to function as one living organism.

【题目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. imbalance B. cultivating C. motivation D. criticize E. quality F. fully

G. definite H. significantly I. genetic J. lacked K. strengthen

Some personal characteristics play a vital role in the development of one’s intelligence. After a 30-year follow-up study of 8, 000 males, American psychologists found out that the main cause of disparities in intelligence is not intelligence itself, but non-intelligence factors. The so-called “non-intelligence factors” include one’s feelings, will, 1, interests and habits.

Though people all know that one should have 2 objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don’t pay much attention to 3 these factors.

Some parents are greatly worried when their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either 4 factors, malnutrition, or laziness, but they never take into consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachers don’t inquire into these as reasons why students do poorly. They simply give them more courses and exercises, or even 5 or laugh at them. After all, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and give themselves up as hopeless. Others may go astray because they are sick of learning. An investigation of more than 1000 middle school students in Shanghai showed that 46. 5 percent of them were afraid of learning because of examination and 36. 4 percent 6 persistence, initiative and conscientiousness.

It is clear that the lack of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main obstacle to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes a(n) 7 between physiological and psychological development among a few students.

If we don't start now to 8 the cultivation of non-intelligence factors, it will not only obstruct the development of the intelligence of teenagers, but also affect the 9 of a whole generation. Some experts have put forward suggestions about how to cultivate students’ non-intelligence factors.

First, parents and teachers should 10 understand teenage psychology. On this basic, they can help them to pursue the objectives of learning, exciting their interests and toughening their willpower.

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