四、词汇运用
A. 用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。
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Mark used to care little about sports. He 1. liked reading quietly in the library. But recently, he has become one of 2. basketball fans I've ever seen. He checks NBA news on his phone 3. he wakes up every morning. He also knows every player's stats(统计数据) and spends hours practising every afternoon. He even dreams 4. becoming an NBA player one day. His younger brother often 5. him as a "walking basketball encyclopedia(百科全书)".
B. 阅读下面短文，根据括号内所给的中文提示写出单词的正确形式(每空一词)。
Have you ever been to a history museum? If you visit the National Museum of China 6. (最近)，you might see a long line of 7. (游客) waiting to buy fridge magnets（冰箱贴）. They are quite 8. (激动) and come early in the morning.
The idea for the magnets came from a phoenix crown（凤冠）. It once belonged（属于）to Queen Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty.
The crown is 9. (特别的). There are nine phoenixes holding pearls（珍珠）in their mouths. Whenever the queen moved, the pearls moved with her, making her look pretty.
However, the queen's life was not as shining as her crown. She often felt 10. (生病). Also. She couldn't have her 11. (自己的) children. But she was kind to her people. She 12. (赢) many people's hearts. According to the 13. (历史的) research, she was the queen for 42 years.
The phoenix crown is one of the museum's most famous 14. (物品). 15. (因此), to make it safe, it can't be shown outside China. Many other countries have rules like this.

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