一、根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。
1. What a mess! Who has left so many dirty m______ all over the kitchen floor?
2. Mr Liu often e______ us to communicate with others in English.
3. Though she has a g______ of drawing, she never shows off.
4. Don’t you know p______ children is a good way to make them confident?
5. The thieves took some clothes and a few books, but nothing of any v______.

1. marks 2. encourages 3. gift 4. praising 5. value

二、选用方框内的单词或词组的正确形式填空。
direct mix think highly of last try
1. — Mum, I don’t know how to make the fruit salad.
— It’s easy. Just ______ the fruit together.
2. Sandy blew hard to make the paint run in all ______ and made a wonderful picture.
3. Keep ______, and you will be successful in the end.
4. If you want to have a ______ change in your life, you need to change your mind first.
5. His classmates all ______ him for his help with their studies.

1. mix 2. directions 3. trying 4. lasting 5. think highly of

( )1. — Look! Mike does so well in his speech.
— Yes, he has a(n) ______ for public speaking.
A. eye
B. gift
C. answer
D. attention

B

( )2. My teacher encouraged ______ a summer course to improve my writing skills.
A. for me taking
B. me taking
C. for me take care
D. me to take

D

( )3. ______ can make people happy and want to make greater progress.
A. Fear
B. Praise
C. Doubt
D. Regret

B

( )4. Sometimes you have to stop ______ too much and just go where your heart takes you.
A. think
B. to think
C. thinking
D. to thinking

C

( )5. — I think art should be about creating beautiful objects.
— ______. That’s a very old-fashioned way of looking at art.
A. My pleasure
B. It doesn’t matter
C. Take it easy
D. I don’t agree

D

四、根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的词,使短文意思完整。
Peking opera is one of China’s major traditional art forms and it is considered as one of the
n______ treasures of China. It was formed in the late 18th century and became completely
d______ in the mid-19th century.
Why is Perking opera so popular in China? The reason why Peking opera is h______ respected in China is that it shows rich Chinese culture, including (京剧脸谱图片) wonderful stories, paintings and clothes. It includes four main 4. t______ of performers called sheng, dan, jing, and chou. Sheng is the 5. m______ male role. For example, young male characters are 6. k______ as Xiaosheng. Laosheng is an older role. Dan is the female role. Jing is the face-painted role and chou is a male clown role.
Peking opera tells interesting stories 7. t______ movement, singing and dancing. Some of them are from history books, but most of them are from famous novels. The performance 8. i______ tells stories that have been passed down for thousands of years in Chinese history.
Peking opera has become an important opera 9. f______ for Chinese audiences(观众). It has even drawn 10. a______ from Western audiences. Nowadays more and more Western fans begin to learn the art.

1. national 2. developed 3. highly 4. types 5. main 6. known 7. through 8. itself 9. form 10. attention