一、词汇运用
1. We need to find a hotel ______ (附近的). It's too late to drive home.
2. Could you ______ (重复) what you said just now? I didn't hear you clearly.
3. The 17-year-old student is trying to ______ (发明) a robot that can think like a human.
4. ______ (游客) can always get help when they ask for directions (方向) in Wuxi.
5. Many English learners have trouble ______ (发音) "th".
6. Some parents are ______ (反对) children using smartphones at an early age.
7. The couple gave a short ______ (speak) at the wedding, thanking everyone for coming.
8. Can you check if the ______ (spell) of this word is right?
9. — M-e-g-a-n, did I write your name ______ (correct)? — No. It's M-e-g-h-a-n.
10. Our English teacher always encourages us to read ______ (loud) every morning.

nearby
; repeat
; invent
; Tourists
; pronouncing
; against
; speech
; spelling
; correctly
; aloud

( ) 1. — ______ , the lazy boy passed such a hard test!
— Good luck is going to run out some day. Remember hard work is everything.
A. In the end
B. To my surprise
C. For example
D. In fact

B

( ) 2. — Mom, can I go out to play with my friends?
— No, you should read books for ______ minutes.
A. another twenty
B. twenty another
C. more twenty
D. other twenty

A

( ) 3. — You are driving so fast. Safety should come first. — Sorry, I'll drive ______.
A. more slowly
B. much slowly
C. more slowlier
D. most slowly

A

( ) 4. — The questions were difficult, but the girl answered them ______.
— How smart she is!
A. quietly
B. suddenly
C. correctly
D. badly

C

( ) 5. — History repeats! Lucy won another first prize（奖）in the skating competition.
— It came as no surprise. ______. She skated day and night, thousands of times.
A. The early bird catches the worm
B. Practice makes perfect
C. Every dog has its day
D. Many hands make light work

B

三、完成句子
1. 如果你烫到了手，你应该尽快把手放进流水中。
You should put your hand in running water ________________________ if you burn it.
2. 我们应该整体考虑这个问题，不是只看局部。
We should think about the problem ________________________, not just the small parts.
3. 让所有人惊讶的是，孔融选择了最小的梨。
________________________, Kong Rong chose the smallest pear.
4. 李华选择学习日语而不是意大利语。
Li Hua chose to study Japanese ________________________.
5. 如果你语法学得很好，你就会发现要理解长句子并不难。
If you learn grammar well, you ________________________.

as soon/quickly as possible
; as a whole
; To everyone's surprise
; rather than Italian
; will find it not hard to understand long sentences

四、完形填空
Mezzofanti was an Italian. He lived between 1774 and 1849. He was the best language learner ever. He 1 hours every day practising pronunciation and grammar. He never left Italy, but could speak more than 30 foreign languages well. People from all over the world came to 2 him in their mother tongue (母语). How could Mezzofanti do that? All of them were 3.
At the age of 12, Mezzofanti spoke German, Greek, Latin, and at least five other languages as well as his native Italian. His teachers couldn't 4 that he could master (掌握) every new language so fast. Then he learned Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Old English, Maltese and Chinese. Chinese was the 5 language for him to study: it took him four months.
Mezzofanti's special 6 made him famous and his stories spread widely. According to (根据) one of them, he also spoke 30 other languages very well and he could understand another 20 languages. Visitors would 7 him by suddenly changing between different languages.
According to another story, he heard there were two foreigners in a prison (监狱) in Rome. A guard (警卫) told him they spoke a dialect no one else understood. He studied their language in one night and had 8 with them the next morning! It's hard to know 9 all these stories are true. Some people, for example, ask, "How did he learn Old English without meeting anyone who spoke it?" or "Did he really learn a language just in a few 10 or in one night?" We don't know for sure, but we are sure that he was a language-learning legend (传奇人物).
( ) 1. A. spent B. took C. cost D. managed
( ) 2. A. look up B. take away C. depend on D. talk with
( ) 3. A. surprised B. tired C. worried D. bored
( ) 4. A. mean B. believe C. check D. support
( ) 5. A. worst B. easiest C. hardest D. cheapest
( ) 6. A. secret B. character C. drive D. talent
( ) 7. A. trust B. attack C. test D. invite
( ) 8. A. chances B. problems C. conversations D. stories
( ) 9. A. when B. how C. if D. where
( )10. A. centuries B. weeks C. years D. seasons

A
; D
; A
; B
; C
; D
; C
; C
; C
; B