六、选词填空( 共 7 小题, 计 7 分)
阅读短文,根据短文内容从方框中选择适当的单词填空。每空 1 词,有两个多余。

There was once a cave( 洞穴) near a town. It was called "Cave of Fear". Anyone who entered it didn't return. It's said that there might be a monster in the cave. In order to 1 the monster from getting out of the cave, people often 2 gifts at the mouth of the cave, and these valuable things always disappeared soon.
One day, a young man came to the town. When he heard about the cave, he 3 to enter the cave and found out whether there was a monster. As he went deep into the cave, he heard some strange 4 . So he followed the sounds. Suddenly, he felt something was pushing him into a large cave. When he arrived at the cave, he was very 5 to see lots of people were having a party. They were the people who had never returned to the town.
Then he was told that this was the idea of a leader in the town. The leader wanted to show that if someone wanted to make a change, he should be 6 . So the leader created the story of the monster. Only those brave people could 7 the parties in the cave.
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prevent placed decided sounds surprised brave attend

1. 结合“from getting out”及语境，“阻止怪物出来”用“prevent...from”，填prevent。
2. “在洞口放置礼物”，过去时态，“放置”用place的过去式placed。
3. “决定进入洞穴”，“决定”用decide的过去式decided。
4. “听到奇怪的声音”，“声音”sound用复数sounds。
5. “惊讶地看到”，“惊讶的”用surprised。
6. 由后文“brave people”可知，此处填brave。
7. “参加聚会”用attend，情态动词后用原形attend。

七、阅读表达( 共 5 小题, 计 10 分)
阅读下面的短文,按要求完成后面各题。
I am John. Last Friday a strange thing happened in my life. Every night I heard a strange sound outside the window. I was nervous and didn't know what to do. I thought there might be a thief standing outside the window. I asked my parents to see what it was. But they could find nothing. That lasted for a few days. I couldn't sleep well. Sometimes I even couldn't fall asleep. One day, I bought a flashlight ( 手电筒) in a market. At midnight, as soon as I heard the strange sound, I jumped out of my bed. With the help of the flashlight, I found a black cat jumping up and down at the window fence. It wan- ted to make friends with my white cat. So it had to appear on the window fence every night. Do you think it is strange? Have you ever seen such kind of strange thing?
1. How did John feel when he hear the strange sound?( 不多于 4 个单词。)

2. What was the strange thing?( 不多于 6 个单词。)

3. Why did the cat jump up and down at my window fence?( 不多于 11 个单词。)

4. 将画线句子译成汉语。

5. 给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。

1. He felt nervous.
2. A black cat jumping at window fence.
3. It wanted to make friends with his white cat.
4. 在手电筒的帮助下，我发现一只黑猫在窗栏上蹿下跳。
5. A Strange Thing in John's Life

1. 定位文中“I was nervous and didn't know what to do.”，提炼情感为“nervous”。
2. 定位文中“With the help of the flashlight, I found a black cat jumping up and down at the window fence.”，核心事件是黑猫在窗栏跳跃，简化为“A black cat jumping at window fence.”。
3. 定位文中“It wanted to make friends with my white cat.”，直接提取原因。
4. “With the help of...”译为“在……的帮助下”，“jumping up and down”译为“上蹿下跳”，“window fence”译为“窗栏”。
5. 全文围绕约翰经历的怪事展开，标题需概括核心事件，“A Strange Thing in John's Life”符合要求。