五、短文填空
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阅读下面的短文,根据首字母提示在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
AJ Iredell is a 14-year-old boy from California, the USA. Iredell loves surfing and he is really 1. g at the sport.
Iredell is also interested in 2. t others about the sport. "It's cool to be good at surfing, but it's even better to 3. s it with others," he says. Now he is a volunteer in an organization. The organization helps children learn surfing 4. f free.
Iredell is a good teacher in the organization. As one of the five children in his family, Iredell knows how to 5. w with others. He loves talking to his students and 6. l about their lives. He really likes seeing the smile on their face when they 7. t surfing and succeed. His students like him too. Some of them come 8. b to see Iredell every year. They all think Iredell is 9. f and kind.
In his free time, Iredell also 10. e snowboarding and spending time with his family.
——文章选自 CBS News

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阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的单词或短语并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整,每个单词或短语限用一次。
special from keep become in fact
What do you get when you put dogs and cross-country running together? You get canicross(人
英语嗨吧
犬越野赛). It comes 1. Europe. And before it 2. a sport, it was a way to train sled dogs in the summer.
When people do canicross, they don't just run with their dogs. 3. , the dogs are in front of them. So, the dogs help pull them along.
The dogs wear a 4. harness(系带). People join that to their belt with a bungee cord(弹力绳). That 5. them and their dogs safe.
behind health energy team be good for
In canicross, people and dogs run together as a 6. . The dogs lead the way, but people are the drivers. They call out directions from 7. .
Canicross is a great kind of exercise. It 8. people and dogs. Also, anyone can do it. You just have to be 9. and able to run.
Any dog can do canicross, too. However, medium-sized(中等体型的) dogs and dogs with lots of 10. are better for the sport. Canicross can make life better for people and their dogs.
——文章选自 Canistores

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本文主要介绍了来自美国加利福尼亚州的14岁男孩艾尔德。他热爱冲浪且技艺精湛，同时热衷于教他人冲浪，他在一个帮助儿童免费学习冲浪的机构担任志愿者，因其善于与人合作、关爱学生，深受学生喜爱。
1. good 此处指非常擅长运动，故用固定搭配 be good at。
2. teaching be interested in doing sth. 表示“对做某事感兴趣”，结合下文他在机构教孩子们冲浪可知，此处填teaching。
3. share share sth. with sb. 是固定短语，意为“和某人分享某物”，根据语境可知，他认为擅长冲浪很酷，但和别人分享这项运动更好。
4. for for free 为固定短语，意为“免费地”，该机构帮助孩子们免费学习冲浪。
5. work work with others 表示“与他人合作”，艾尔德作为家里五个孩子之一，知道如何与他人合作。
6. learning love doing sth. 表示“喜欢做某事”，and 连接两个并列的动名词短语，learn about 意为“了解”，他喜欢和学生交谈并了解他们的生活，所以用 learning。
7. try try doing sth. 表示“尝试做某事”，他喜欢看到学生们尝试冲浪并成功时脸上的笑容。
8. back come back 意为“回来”，一些学生每年都会回来看他。
9. friendly 根据 and kind 可知，此处应填与 kind 并列且意思相近的形容词，描述他的性格，friendly 意为“友好的”，符合语境。
10. enjoys enjoy doing sth. 表示“喜欢做某事”，主语Iredell 是第三人称单数，句子时态是一般现在时，所以用enjoy 的第三人称单数形式 enjoys。
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人犬越野赛源自欧洲，最初是夏季训练雪橇犬的方式。比赛时狗在前牵引，人与狗通过专业装备相连，协同配合，这项运动老少皆宜，对人和狗都有益，中型且精力充沛的狗更适合参与此项运动。
1. from 根据句意理解可知，此处指人犬越野赛来自欧洲。come from 意为“来自”。
2. became 根据上下文理解可知，起先它是夏季训练雪橇犬的一种方式，后来才成为一种运动；此句时态为一般过去时，故填 became。
3. In fact 根据后句理解可知，狗拉着他们前行，说明事实上狗在他们的前面。in fact 意为“确切地说；事实上”。句首单词首字母要大写。
4. special 根据上下文理解可知，由于狗拉着人们前行，所以该比赛中的系带应该是特制的，故填形容词 special。
5. keeps 根据前句可知，人们用弹力绳将它系在腰带上，所以能够保证两者的安全，本句主语是 That，谓语动词需要用第三人称单数形式，动词短语 keep sb. safe 是“保护某人安全”的意思，故填 keeps。
6. team 根据上文和本句句意理解可知，狗拖着人们前行，人与狗作为一个团队一起奔跑。
7. behind 根据前句理解可知，狗领路，但人是司机，人在狗后面叫喊方向。
8. is good for 根据前句理解可知，人犬越野赛是一种很好的锻炼方式，对人和狗有益。be good for 是“对……有益”的意思，本句主语 It 是单数，其后谓语动词 be 要用 is，故填 is good for。
9. healthy 根据前句和本句句意理解可知，任何人都可以做到，你只需要身体健康且能够跑步，故填形容词healthy。
10. energy 句意：不过，中等体型的狗和精力充沛的狗更适合这项运动。