Ⅳ. 语法填空。
When Jenny looked up, she saw thick black clouds rolling and forming quickly in the sky. The wind blew hard, and soon the rain started beating 1. (heavy) against their roof, making a loud and scary noise. Everything seemed so quiet a moment ago, but now the world was filled 2. strong wind and sudden rain.
“Quick, this way,” Dad shouted loudly. He sounded very serious, so everyone knew something bad was happening. Mom held Jenny’s hand and asked her not 3. (be) afraid.
The family 4. (run) to the safe room at once. It was a small, strong room under the house, used just for bad weather like this. 5. they were waiting, Jenny’s little sister started to cry loudly, because she was very afraid. Dad gave her some chocolate to eat and told her that they were just hiding from an angry lion that was passing by. Soon, she stopped 6. (cry) and was laughing again, playing with a small toy. Jenny felt warm and safe, staying with her family in 7. little room.
At last, the storm passed. When they stepped outside, they found the sun shining brightly again. People 8. (walk) around, asking one another if they were safe and some workers were starting to clear the broken trees and rubbish from the streets. Neighbors shared food and water with each other, and no one felt lonely or 9. (scare) anymore.
Jenny smiled. The tornado was really scary, but it also brought everyone in the town closer together, as they helped each other clean up and check on their neighbors. She learned that love and care from family and neighbors could make any 10. (difficult) easier to face.

1. heavily
2. with
3. to be
4. ran
5. While/When
6. crying
7. the
8. were walking
9. scared
10. difficulty

1. 此处修饰动词beating，需使用副词形式，形容词heavy的副词形式为heavily，用来描述雨猛烈敲打的状态。
2. 考查固定搭配be filled with，意为“充满……”，故填介词with。
3. 考查固定结构ask sb. not to do sth.，意为“要求某人不要做某事”，此处填不定式to be。
4. 全文为过去时态的叙事，动词run的过去式为ran，描述一家人立刻跑向安全屋的动作。
5. 此处引导时间状语从句，表达“当他们正在等待的时候”，可用While/When，句首首字母需大写。
6. 考查固定搭配stop doing sth.，意为“停止正在做的事”，此处指小女孩停止哭泣，填crying。
7. 此处特指前文已经提到过的地下小安全屋，需用定冠词the表特指。
8. 此处和后文的were starting并列，使用过去进行时，主语People是复数，故填were walking，描述风暴过后人们正四处走动的场景。
9. 此处和形容词lonely并列，作系动词felt的表语，需用形容词scared，意为“感到害怕的”。
10. 形容词any后接名词，形容词difficult的名词形式是difficulty，意为“困难”。

Ⅰ. 完形填空。
My name is Daniel. I live in Tennessee. When I was 7, I found some plastic bottles on a riverbank. I felt worried because I knew plastic bottles and other rubbish could be 1 to animals in rivers. I even saw a small fish stuck in a plastic bag that day, which made me more determined to protect the river. Now I'm 13, and I work to keep rubbish out of rivers.
The Tennessee River is 2 polluted with plastics and other rubbish. And I want to do something to help stop more 3. Many local people also care about the river, so they often join our team. I do some 4 cleanups with others. We go along the riverbanks. Sometimes we go to places that we can only reach by boat. We often find plenty of 5, such as broken toys and plastic bags.
Doing cleanups makes me really 6. I know I'm making a difference and 7 lives—
not just animal lives, but human lives as well, because it continues up the food chain. What hap- pens to them happens to us. Every time we finish a cleanup, the riverbank looks much cleaner, and that gives me a strong sense of pride.
Last year, I set up the Cleanup Kids with my friends to call on kids all around the world to 8 rubbish. People take pictures of the rubbish 9 send them to us, so we can know how many pieces they found. We will 10 our goal of 1,000,000 pieces at the end of this month.
We're never too young to change the world. Kids are a small part of the population, but we are 100% of the future.
()1. A. good B. helpful C. harmful
()2. A. badly B. hardly C. carefully
()3. A. invention B. pollution C. attention
()4. A. sea B. lake C. river
()5. A. rubbish B. fruit C. fish
()6. A. nervous B. bored C. happy
()7. A. studying B. saving C. creating
()8. A. pick up B. look after C. throw away
()9. A. or B. and C. but
()10. A. find B. set C. hit

1-5 CABCA 6-10 CBABC

我们逐题结合语境和词汇用法分析：
1. 前文提到作者看到河岸的塑料瓶感到担忧，结合常识塑料垃圾对水生动物有害，固定搭配be harmful to表示“对……有害”，选C。
2. 后文提到河里有大量塑料和其他垃圾，说明河流被严重污染，badly polluted表示“被严重污染”，hardly几乎不、carefully仔细地均不符合语境，选A。
3. 作者想要行动的目的是阻止更多污染，invention发明、attention注意力都不符合上下文保护河流的主题，选B。
4. 全文围绕保护河流、清理河岸垃圾展开，这里指开展河流清理活动，river cleanups符合语境，选C。
5. 后文举例的破玩具、塑料袋都属于垃圾，rubbish符合描述，选A。
6. 后文提到清理后河岸更干净，作者有强烈的自豪感，说明做清理活动让作者很开心，nervous紧张的、bored无聊的都不符合情绪，选C。
7. 固定搭配save lives表示“拯救生命”，这里指清理垃圾不仅拯救动物的生命也关乎人类的生命，选B。
8. 这个环保组织号召孩子们捡拾垃圾，pick up捡起符合语境，look after照顾、throw away扔掉都不符合活动目的，选A。
9. “给垃圾拍照”和“把照片发给我们”是顺承的动作关系，用并列连词and，选B。
10. 固定搭配hit the goal表示“达成目标”，这里指月底就会完成收集100万件垃圾的目标，选C。