考点演练
一、根据首字母和句意写出所缺单词。
1. — Are you sure that you won’t attend our tomorrow’s charity walk?
— All right then，if you i________.
2. Jim prefers w________ to romantic films because they tell the life of cowboys.
3. Yuan Longping，a scientist，passed away in 2021，and this should be considered as a great l________ to humans.
4. The beach party tonight m________ the end of our summer vacation. Tomorrow we are all going back home and will get ready for school.
5. — What you said goes far b________ my understanding，Miss Lee.
— Sorry，I will explain it again with simple words.
6. Because of the rainstorm，the flight to New York has been c________.
7. For most of us，learning new things requires great e________.

1. insist 2. westerns 3. loss 4. marks 5. beyond 6. cancelled 7. effort

二、用方框中所给词的适当形式完成句子。

1. June ________ the beginning of the rainy season in some parts of China.
2. Our first project was a teacher training programme in rural ________ China.
3. Though all the members tried their best，they ________ the basketball final in the end.
4. The boss insists on ________ everything himself to make sure everything is ready.
5. He had an accident yesterday. Luckily，he was not badly hurt，but his car is ________ repair now.
6. What a pity! The trip I looked forward to ________ because of the bad weather yesterday.

1. marks 2. western 3. lost 4. checking 5. beyond 6. was cancelled

三、首字母填空。
After only two weeks in theatres，a movie，The Wandering Earth，earned over four billion yuan. It has set many records for the Chinese movie 1. i________. What a big surprise! Many agree that this movie will bring a 2. n________ age for Chinese science fiction.
This movie is 3. b________ on a novel by Liu Cixin，the world-famous science fiction writer. Liu made an 4. e________ to set a great background for the movie.
However，what really makes the movie excellent is its “Chinese elements”. Just think about the idea of the wandering Earth. Many modern science fiction works discuss human moving to 5. o________ planets. Very few have touched on moving the Earth. The idea of “home” as a piece of land is very 6. s________ to China. In Western cultures，“home” is often connected with just people.
These “Chinese elements” naturally draw 7. a________ of the Chinese. Westerners like them too，because they appear fresh. From the 8. s________ of The Wandering Earth，we 9. i________ the way for us to achieve our dream isn't to copy a popular 10. W________ work. Instead，we should try to be creative and tell a good Chinese story.

1. industry 2. new 3. based 4. effort 5. other 6. special 7. attention 8. success 9. insist 10. Western