根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

1., fewer and fewer people will buy books and newspapers. Why read an article in the newspaper, when the TV news can bring you the information in a few minutes and with pictures? Why read the life story of a famous man, when a short television program can tell you all that you want to know?

2.. Today, newspapers sell in very large numbers. And books of every kind are sold more than ever before. 3.. Although some books with hard covers are expensive, many books are printed today as paperbooks (平装本), which are quite cheap. A paperback collection of short stories, for example, is always cheaper than an evening at the cinema or the theater,4..

Books are a wonderful provider of knowledge and pleasure and some types of books should be in every home. 5..A good encyclopedia (百科全书), though expensive, is useful, too, because you can find information on any subject. Besides, you can have such books as history books, science textbook, cookbooks, and collections of stories and poems. Then from time to time you can take a book of poems off your shelves and read the thoughts and feelings of your favorite poets.

E. and you can keep a book for ever and read it many times.

F. Fewer and fewer people will buy books.

G.TV programs are a chief provider of knowledge

单词拼写。根据汉语或首字母的提示写出单词，使句子完整与正确。1. C__________ （好奇心）can drive children to know more about the world around them.

2. People with good ____________(礼貌) will be welcome everywhere.　　

3. Mr. Green a___________ to Mrs. Brown yesterday for destroying some flowers in her garden.

4. As they had been ____________(包围）by our army for a week, the enemy had no choice but to surrender (投降).

5. Millions of people in Africa are still s_________to death at present because of hunger.

6. Why should I say sorry when it’s not my f_________.

7. A new computer s__________(系统) was introduced into our school last year.

8. It was the first time that he had lived ___________（独立地）.

9. It is o________ that foods, such as rice, sugar, butter, oils and so on can give us energy.

10. We ____________ (寻找) for somewhere to live but failed.

单句改错。 下列句子中，每句有一个错误，请予以改正。（共10小题，计10分）

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：必须严格按以上要求做题，否则无效。

1. The letter he looked forward to arriving surprisingly.

2. She has a gift of learning languages.

3. He rather than I have the chance to go abroad.

4. Towards nightfall I found myself carrying out to sea by a strong wind.

5. Don’t you think it would be better if you are a bit thinner?

6.The reason why he was late was because he missed the train by one minute this morning.

7.We must make this clear that anyone who breaks the law will be punished.

8.The weather turned out to be fine yesterday. I mustn’t have taken the trouble to carry my umbrella with me.

9. He said he has worked for nearly ten years and he wanted to go home.

10. The thought what they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

课文填空。以下是两篇课文选段，请任意选择一篇，并根据课文，在文中划线处填上适当单词，每空一词， (共10小题，计10分) 

1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to ___1_____ the ancestors, who might return _____2__ to help or to do ____3____. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in ____4____ of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will __5_____ the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6____ this important feast day, people eat food in the _7____ of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its ___8______in old _____9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a __10____ on them.

2)       According to a widely ____1___ theory, the universe began _____2__ a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all _____3____. After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust. ___4____ it was to become was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust _____5___ into a solid _____6__. The earth became so _____7___ that it was not clear ____8_____ the shape would last or not. It ____9______ loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s ___10______.

根据提示翻译。（共5小题，计10分, 每小题2分）

1.      父母们总是不允许他们的孩子晚上外出。(permit …to)

2.      他不可能在这出现的，我刚才在电影院还看见他呢。(情态动词)

3.      既然我们已经完成了设计，就该有公司来进行建设了。( now that; in one’s turn)

4.      我向他许诺说我一到北京就给他写信。（用同位语从句）

5.      他已经负债很久了，如何谋生成了大问题。(in debt; earn one’s living)

 We are sparing no efforts to create ______ more peaceful and more advanced world, ______ place where everyone enjoy his life and freedom.

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

  —I wonder if you could go to the movie with me.

—Oh, just leave me alone. I _______ a composition all the morning and haven’t finished yet.

A. write                            B. was writing        C. have written               D. have been writing

—What shall I do with the medicine?

—The instructions _______ that you should take three pills a day.

A. speak                         B. write            C. say                           D. tell

 The opening province which ______ thirteen counties and three coastal cities will quicken its paces of economic development.

A. consists of         B. makes up of        C. is included                 D. is contained

 It was evening ______ they reached Haikou City.

A. that                      B. until             C. since                   D. before