()3.—Are you good at physics now, Tom?
—Yes. Miss Li has given me ______ help, so I can make such great progress in it.

A.a little bit
B.a great deal
C.a number of
D.a great deal of

D 【点拨】由语境可知空处表示“大量的”，又因为此空修饰的是不可数名词 help，因此应用固定短语 a great deal of。故选 D。

()4.Why not ______ your teacher for advice when you don't know ______ the problem.
A.to ask; how to deal with
B.ask; what to do with
C.ask; what to deal with
D.to ask; how to do with

B

()5.It ______ five years since I last saw Mary in Britain.
A.was
B.will be
C.have been
D.has been

D

()6.—______?
—I'm not feeling very well.

A.What's outside
B.What's in your head
C.What's up
D.What's inside

C 【点拨】“What's up?”意为“怎么啦”。根据答语“我感觉不是很舒服”可知选 C。

四、阅读短文,在文中空白处填入1个适当的单词,或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
Miracles (奇迹) will happen if you don't give up (try). Even if you have failed one hundred times, you may (success) when you try for the 101st time.
When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my legs. She didn't believe what the doctor said and started to look other ways.
My mother kept (look) for other doctors for me, and finally she succeeded. The doctor and his team in the hospital did everything they could (help) me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some exercise to help me walk. Day by day, I could walk by (I).
I grew up, my mother always told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met difficulties, I could do (something) successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be very excellent person. I get best grades in school and I am a good dancer and (swim). What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is "Never give up."
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______

1. trying 2. succeed 3. for 4. looking 5. to help 6. myself 7. When 8. anything 9. a 10. swimmer

( )1. The passage starts with the story of Cervantes to show that ______.

( )2. What does the underlined part "run out of steam" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

( )3. What does the author want to tell us in Paragraph 5?

( )4. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

1. B 【点拨】根据第一段和第二段中的“And the story brings an interesting question: Why do some people find new energy and creativity to the end of their days, but others find them long before?”可知，这个故事表明塞万提斯年纪这么大了，还是有这样的成就，说明年龄不是实现目标的障碍。故选 B。2. D 【点拨】根据后文解释可知，画线短语和 D 选项“失去继续学习的兴趣”表述一致。故选 D。3. D 【点拨】根据第五段内容可知，作者想告诉我们应该学会适应生活。故选 D。4. B 【点拨】通读全文可知，本文从西班牙文学巨匠塞万提斯讲起，告诉我们不论属于哪个年龄段，想要成功就要不断学习，指导我们要过一种有意义的生活。故选 B。