Many people ________ the accident, so it was not difficult to investigate（调查）.

第II卷 (共 50 分)

词汇：第一节：默写。（共30个空格，每空格0.5分，满分15分）

I am going to tell you an ________ story. This afternoon a ________ ________ gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew who he was and where he came from.   ... When he was asked to pay the bill, the gentleman asked whether we would mind waiting just a few minutes... ________, we could not change the bank note as it was too large. So I gave this strange but very rich man a free dinner, ________ _________ ________ that he might come to my restaurant again.

What it was to become was ________ until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust ________ ________ ________ ________ ________. The earth became so ________ that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not. It ________ loudly with fire and rock.

“Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and _________ _________ _________ __________ make Vancouver one of the most popular cities to live in. Its population is __________ _________. …. It is so wet there that the trees are ________ tall, some ________ over 90 metres.”

The tunnel would be ________ if tall chimneys were built above sea level… If, at that time, the British ________ not ________ ________, it would ________ ________ ________.

单词拼写（每空一词，共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1.The young children f_______ ill because the water and food here disagreed with them.

2.After the prince started dancing with a lady, more people j__________ in.

3.It was not until midnight that they r____________ an agreement.

4.Laws on pollution d__________ widely from one country to another .

5.J___________ from your accent, you must be from the north.

6.As we all know, air is a m___________ of gases

7.Many people won’t feel c____________when laughed at.

8.We just learned that Mr White had got b_________ injured in the accident.

9.Luckily the two pilots s__________the aircrash while the plane broke into pieces.

10.When they were trapped on the island, the police came to their r__________ very soon.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号 (∧) , 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处, 多者 (从第11处起) 不计分。

I always wanted to be great scientist. I had a dream of discovering a new drug that would save hundreds of people’s life. Unfortunately, I was never very well at chemistry at school and the teacher was used to get angry with me. I decided to becoming an inventor and designed an amazing new product. My parents were encouraging, but told me to be a few more realistic. A few weeks late, I had an idea of designing a pen to write in water. In my disappointment, a friend of me pointed out that it was not a new invention. 

33．It was not until one night_____we were doing our cleaning-up           I got curious and wanted to see what was on the top floor．