四、选用方框内的单词或短语并用其适当形式填空,有一个单词或短语是多余的。(每小题1分,共5分)
visit regret take up comfortable deal with excited
41. Mike got a lot from the speech on how stress.
42. Qingdao Aquarium is one of the most wonderful places .
43. Reading most of my free time, so I seldom go out at weekends.
44. Amy seemed to be that she had asked the question.
45. Ask your sister to stop watching short videos, or her eyes will be .

41. to deal with 42. to visit 43. takes up 44. regretting 45. uncomfortable

五、根据中文提示完成下列句子。(每小题1.5分,共7.5分)
46. 与现代的交流方式相比,写信的优点更多。
, writing letters has more advantages.
47. 我认为你们的文件没有达到标准。你们可以重新开始吗?
I don’t think your papers are . Can you start them ?
48. 你告诉我的事情可能会对我自己的立场产生很大的影响。
What you have told me may my own position.
49. 看来我爷爷对这个机器人很满意。(be satisfied with)

50. 当我妈妈看到她自己的房间一团糟时,她非常生气。(in a mess)

46. Compared with modern ways of communication 47. up to standard; all over again 48. make a great difference to 49. It seemed that my grandfather was very satisfied with this robot.
50. My mother was very angry when she saw her own room in a mess.

六、短文填空。(共15分)
(A) (2024·扬州)根据首字母提示补全短文。(每空1分,共10分)
Even though my grandfather was a farmer, my grandmother would iron his work clothes every day. Grandmother mixed up her own starch(淀粉浆) in a glass 51. b with a metal cap that had several holes. She sprinkled Grandfather’s jeans with the starch, hung them over a chair for a few minutes, and then 52. i them.
Because I watched her do this through my childhood, I thought every old woman did it. But as the years passed, I began to question this 53. p. Why did Grandfather’s work clothes need to be ironed? Most days, he never saw anyone 54. b me and maybe a few other farmers. The clothes became dirty in just a short time. Why did Grandmother 55. s devote time and effort to ironing Grandfather’s clothes that were rarely seen?
One day when I was about 13, I asked Grandmother about it. She told me Grandfather was the most handsome man in the world. Later that day, I looked 56. c at Grandfather. He sure didn’t look so handsome to me. He was short and fat with false teeth. Later I told her my 57. t.
She gave me a girlish smile and said, “You just aren’t looking in the right light, Cathy. I remember when he had 58. r teeth. He has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They are 59. e the same colour as the sky just before the sun goes down. I want him to feel beautiful. I iron his clothes every day because for all these years, he has made me feel beautiful.”
false adj. 人造的;假的;不真实的
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The years went on, and I watched Grandmother and Grandfather grow old together. I was probably 30 when I 60. u what beauty really was. It was Grandmother ironing Grandfather’s jeans with starch from a glass bottle.

51. bottle 52. ironed 53. practice 54. but 55. still 56. carefully 57. thought 58. real 59. exactly 60. understood