根据所给的中文提示完成句子。

1．没有人知道为什么这两个国家之间的战争持续了那么多年。

   Nobody knows why the          between the two countries has          for so many years.

2．当我们听说他被指控犯有故意杀人罪时，我们都不敢相信自己的耳朵。

When we heard that he was          of          , we couldn’t believe our ears.

3．警察在市里所有的电台广播说明了那个走失的孩子的模样。

The police          a description of the          child on all the city’s radio stations.

4．那家航空公司收了我额外的超重行李费。

  The airline          me extra for the          suitcase.

5．在有些国家，酒类及烟草的广告都是一概被禁止的。

  In some countries advertising          drinks or          is banned altogether.

阅读下面短文，根据上文及所给提示（首字母或汉语意思）填入符合文章意义、形式正确的单词。

The plants in our gardens look so  1  （熟悉的）that often we do not realize that many of them  2  （实际上）come from countries far away. Collecting   3  （异国的）plants, as they are called, d  4  back to the earliest times. It was not until the 18th and 19th c  5  that the exploration of the   6  （植物的）world began on a large s  7  .However, at that time, keeping plants alive was an enormous challenge. Later, a tightly  8  （密封的）portable glass c  9  was invented, thus completely   10  （改变）the world of plant exploration.

阅读下面一段文字，根据文中所表达的主题写成短文。

注意：

1．题目和短文的开头已给出；

2．不能照搬原句，但要包含原文所有信息，可举例加以说明；

3．必须突出主题，结构完整，语意连贯；

4．词数120到150。

In order to make effective advertisements, advertisers should decide which people they are going to reach. That will help them find out the likes and dislikes and some other information in the specific people. Then they should consider how to attract people, namely, how to make their advertisements appeal to their hopes and dreams or their emotions. They should also think about where to place their ads, or rather, which may be the right medium. Of course, they can’t choose a medium without worrying about the cost.

—I’m terribly sorry that I made your table cloth dirty!

—        .

A．Don’t mention it          B．Never mind          C. That’s right           D．That’s terrible

It is ________world of wonders,            world where anything can happen.

 A．a ;the          B．a; a             C．the ; a           D．不填；不填

The students wished _______ to be fewer examinations in their study.

A. it              B. one             C. that             D. there

You gave me the courage to _____ my reform to the end.

A. stick with       B. insist on         C. persist in         D. go on

Tom stepped inside the door with his eyes ______ upon Kate, there was _______ in them that she could not read and his hands _______.

A. fixed; an expression; trembled             B. fixed; expression; trembling

C. fixing; an expression; trembling            D. fixing; expression; trembled

John is the tallest boy in the class, _______ according to himself.

A. five feet eight as tall as                B. as tall as five feet eight

C. as five feet eight tall as                D. as tall five feet eight as

The World Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World Wide Wait because it _______  be very slow.

A. should               B. must               C. will               D. can