阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：（1）括号内汉语提示；（2）该词首字母提示；（3） 上下文语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词使短文通顺，所填单词要求拼写正确、形式符合英语表达习惯。
Many people always wonder w__  some people can be so     76.____________
successful while ________(其他人) can’t.                      77 .____________
For those who are successful, they have a lot in c________.     78.____________
First, they are all hard-working and willing to d______ their    79.____________
time to something they like. They make f______ use of each day   80.____________
and never make ________(借口) for their laziness.              81.___________
Second, they are very creative and they are n_____ limited by   82.___________
fixed rules.
Finally, these people never ______ hope even if they live a     83.___________
poor life and they rarely spend time complaining about their     
lives. Instead, they try their ______ to arrive at a solution,         84.___________
_________(创造) the opportunity to turn something bad into       85.___________
good.
All the above characteristics contribute to their success. 

 Although the children _______ in age _______ seven to thirteen, they have a lot in common.

第II卷(共35分)

第一节：单词拼写（共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式（每空限写一词）。

1. 1. We mustn't judge a person by his a_____________.

2. She said she didn’t like it, but p__________ (in my opinion)I thought it was very good.

3. The band b______ up in about 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s.

4. Many rare animals are in d________, because they are being hunted for.

5. People killed the Tibetan antelope for fur b_______ the stomachs.

6. He was a_______ the first prize in the English competition.

7. We have a lot in c________, so we often have a lot to talk about.

8. You must a_______ to your sister for being so rude.

9. A m______ is a person who performs or writes music, especially as his/her job.

10. The girl looks so a___________ that everyone pays attention to her.

Once upon a time, on an isolated island in the Java sea, lived short people who dominated(支配, 占优势) the food chain. Standing no more than three and a half feet tall, these human ancestors hunted giant rats, lumbering lizards（笨拙的蜥蜴), and miniature elephants.  

   It sounds a bit like a fairy tale, but it's true. Unearthed relics on the island uncovered the remains of a race of tiny human ancestors. Homo floresiensis, as the newly discovered species has been named, apparently could date back to 13,000 years ago. This means they have a lot in common with modern humans.

  So how and why did these people get so small? Scientists suspect that it's due to the fact that this race lived on an isolated island with limited resources. Take the miniature elephants for example. When elephants first came to the island either by swimming or by some kind of natural land raft, they were probably close to full size. But since there wasn't much to eat, over time smaller elephants lived longer and better. The smaller the elephant was, the less it had to eat to stay strong and healthy.

  Scientists call this the "island role", and it can apply to humans as well as animals. Given the island's sparse(稀少) food supply, it makes sense that the early humans living there would have evolved (进化) a body size requiring less food to survive. So bigger isn't always better. In the floresiensis, at least, getting smaller was the way to go.

1.According to the passage, the fact Homo floresiensis are very small is based on________.

A. the islanders in the Java Sea B. the human ancestors

C. a newspaper report      D. the unearthed relics

2.The underlined word "miniature" in the first paragraph most probably means______.

A. tiny       B. active    C. rare       D. wild

3.People on the island got so small because____________.

A. they gradually developed for lack of food.

B. they did not have enough food to eat.

C. they shared less food with elephants.

D. they remained alive as the elephants.

4.What might be the most suitable title of the passage?

A. The history of short people   B. Short people on an isolated island

C. The proofs on short people   D. Short people from a fairy tale

5.According to the passage, getting smaller can make people and animals ____

A. run quickly   B. live weaker   C. live longer    D. run slowly

The word “death” is a word many Chinese friends tell me I should not say aloud. They advise me to avoid the word because only speaking of it may bring ill fortune. I deeply believe, however, that to know how to live, we must also know how to die. The problem is how we talk about death.      
Like everyone in Taiwan this week, I have had “Tomb Sweeping Day”. I am proud to be part of a people whose culture sends millions of families to cemeteries on this special day to share memories and endless love.
Today, eight days after the death of Pope John Paul II, millions of people of all backgrounds still grieve(悲痛) his passing away. He was a deeply human person who knew how to laugh and show emotions, a writer with a gift for words a leader who appealed to us by the sheer light of his love for life.
On the same day and only hours before the Holy Father left us, a friend of mine named Veronica McBride died of cancer in a small Wisconsin city. My friend Veronica was 52 years old. She was an attractive, humorous young woman who, as the saying goes, “never married”. She published several humor books with her mother, Mary McBride. She enjoyed traveling, and for years sent Christmas card photos of herself standing beside monuments or odd animals. She fought cancer for five years. She joked about her treatment keeping her pretty because it kept her thin, and told me she didn’t mind losing her hair because of chemo therapy. “I get to wear nice wigs!”
The last time I saw Veronica was when I visited her family on a sunny day in August in 2003. When she burst into the front door later and saw me in the living room, she ignored me completely in her hurry to hug her newest baby nephew, leaving me shaking my head in laughter at her.
As we look to the significance of the Holy Father and his life, surely we must also keep our eyes open to see the wonder and goodness in ordinary people who show us how to live and how to die.
【小题1】The purpose of the article is ___________.