一、根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。
1. People in town all r______ her because she has devoted most of her time to her work.
2. Because of his c______ , he crashed into a tree.
3. My uncle is very busy. He is a g______ manager of a big company.
4. Li Hong came first in the 100-metre r______ in the sports meeting last week.
5. Sometimes to take the l______ is easy, but to keep it is hard.

1. respect 2. carelessness 3. general 4. race 5. lead

二、根据句意，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. — My parents are crazy about Keep Running. How about your parents?
— Neither my Dad nor my Mum __________ it. But they prefer The Readers. (like)
2. He is a quiet artist and doesn’t like to talk much, but his work __________. (shout)
3. The teacher told us to pay attention to __________ English words. (spell)
4. The high-speed railway __________ Beijing with Shanghai has been in service since June 26, 2017. (connect)
5. My father works in the __________ department in the shopping mall. (sell)

1. likes 2. shouts 3. spelling 4. connecting 5. sales

( )1. The cute panda drew the little girl’s __________.
A. attention
B. condition
C. instruction
D. production

A

( )2. In the past 63 years, the doctor had saved thousands and thousands of lives. We __________ praise him too much.
A. must
B. mustn’t
C. can
D. can’t

D

( )3. — Do you watch Peppa Pig on TV? It’s so funny!
— Well, to be __________, I think it’s quite silly.
A. curious
B. brave
C. gentle
D. honest

D

( )4. The artist received high __________ from the art community for these sculptures.
A. praise
B. prize
C. price
D. pride

A

( )5. Liu Cixin, a science fiction writer, has __________ the world with his imaginative works, such as The Wandering Earth series and Three Bodies.
A. expressed
B. impressed
C. succeeded
D. presented

B

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。
A man had a garden. He planted a rose and watered it 1. c______. Before the rose blossomed(盛开), he noticed many thorns(刺) around the bud(花蕾) and he thought, 2. “H______ can any beautiful flower come from a plant with so many sharp thorns?” Because of this 3. i______, he lost interest in this kind of plant, then he gave up watering the rose. And just 4. b______ it was ready to blossom, it died.
Good qualities are just like roses. There is a rose in 5. e______ spirit. The good qualities planted in us at birth, grow among the thorns—our weaknesses. Many of us look at 6. o______ and we only see our weaknesses. We lose heart, thinking that 7. n______ good can possibly come from us. We give up watering the roses in us, and slowly they die. We never realize the 8. g______ of being able to find out our good qualities.
Someone may not see the rose in himself or herself, so we need to help him or her 9. d______ the rose. With love, we can accept a person into our life, even though we know his or her true weaknesses. At the same time, we should 10. e______ him or her to face his or her weaknesses bravely and correct them. Then he or she will blossom many times.

1. carefully 2. How 3. idea 4. before 5. every/each/everyone's/everybody's 6. ourselves 7. nothing 8. gift(s) 9. discover 10. encourage