一、词汇运用
认真阅读下面短文,根据语篇内容,在空白处填入括号内单词的正确形式或时态,使短文通顺、连贯。
Zhang Guimei,principal of Huaping High School for Girls,has been given the honorary title(荣誉称号$)“Role Model of the Times” for ⁽^1⁾______$(help) girls from poor families.
$The school was the first high school in the country ⁽^2⁾______$$(provide) free education for girls who would otherwise have been ⁽^3⁾______$(able) to continue their studies after completing their nine years of education.
$Zhang ⁽^4⁾______$$(move) to Lijiang at 17 to teach in the middle school in Huaping. Once,she got ⁽^5⁾______$$(bad) ill but had no money for the treatment. With the help of the people there,she got the necessary treatment. “From then on,I told ⁽^6⁾______$(I) that I must do something for those people who helped me,” Zhang said.
$⁽^7⁾______$$(slow),Zhang had a dream of setting up a free high school for girls in Huaping. From the year of 2002,she ⁽^8⁾______$(begin) a six-year journey to look for funds(资金). In 2008,Zhang finally set up Huaping High School for Girls at the foot of the Shizi Mountain.
$Thanks to her hard work,⁽^9⁾______$$(many) than 1,800 girls from poor families have entered university. Influenced by her,many of her students have ⁽^10⁾______$(choose) to teach in poor areas. Now,with Zhang having got the title,education for girls from poor areas will receive more attention.

1. helping
2. to provide
3. unable
4. moved
5. badly
6. myself
7. Slowly
8. began
9. more
10. chosen

二、短文填空
Parker Liautaud,a 19-year-old boy from Yale University,had an expedition to walk 640 km from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and do scientific research.
$Parker trained for at ⁽^1^1⁾l______ 12 hours a week for months in order to ⁽^1^2⁾d______ with the difficulties. But it wasn't easy—the terrible weather made him suffer from backache,cramps($痛性痉挛) and painful rashes(皮疹$). The temperature of the South Pole usually went ⁽^1^3⁾b______ zero$：$-50℃. The snow made it really difficult to ⁽^1^4⁾p______ sleds($雪橇$)through. Every step was hard and the most ⁽^1^5⁾i______ thing for him was to stay positive.$
$“I felt extremely cold and ⁽^1^6⁾h______ during the expedition,” Parker said. Yet he ⁽^1^7⁾m______ it. He became the youngest person who could reach the North and South Poles on foot ⁽^1^8⁾b______ he ventured to the North Pole when he was only 15 years old.$
$Now his story has been ⁽^1^9⁾w______ into American textbooks,and many people would like to ⁽^2⁰⁾l______ from his courage.$

11. least 12. deal 13. below 14. pull 15. important 16. hungry 17. made 18. because 19. written 20. learn

11. 根据上下文“trained for...12 hours a week”及首字母“l”，可知是“at least”（至少），填least。
12. “deal with the difficulties”（应对困难）是固定搭配，填deal。
13. 由“-50℃”可知温度低于零度，“below zero”（零度以下），填below。
14. “pull sleds”（拉雪橇）符合语境，填pull。
15. “stay positive”（保持积极）是重要的事，“important”（重要的），填important。
16. 南极探险会又冷又饿，“hungry”（饥饿的），填hungry。
17. “made it”（成功做到）是固定短语，填made。
18. 前后句是因果关系，“because”（因为），填because。
19. “be written into textbooks”（被写入教科书），被动语态，填written。
20. “learn from”（向……学习），填learn。