()6.—Where are you going, Lily?
—I am going to the bookshop the bank.

A.as good as
B.as well as
C.as long as
D.as far as

6. B 【点拨】句意：——你要去哪里，莉莉？——我要去书店和银行。故选 B。

()7.The surface of Mars is like the surface of the Earth than that of planet in our solar system.

A.much; the other
B.much; any other
C.more; the other
D.more; any other

7. D 【点拨】根据句中的 than 确定第一空要用比较级；后面的 planet 为单数，确定要用“any other”。故选 D。

()8.The number of the elderly increasing in China, and with the development of China’s economy, they better care of in the future.

A.is; will take
B.are; are taken
C.is; will be taken
D.are; will take

8. C 【点拨】the number of 表示“……的数量”，跟复数名词连用作主语时，be 动词要用第三人称单数形式；第二个空提到在将来他们会被照顾得更好，要用一般将来时的被动语态。故选 C。

()9.—You look worried. You’d better your problem with others.
—Oh, yes. a problem is like cutting it in half.

A.share; Sharing
B.sharing; To share
C.to share; To share
D.share; Shared

9. A 【点拨】had better do sth. 意为“最好做某事”；第二个空是动名词作主语。故选 A。

()10.(2024·江苏南通启东调研)—One cannot achieve anything by sitting around and talking about it.
—. That’s why Johnson failed to get into college.

A.I agree
B.Not exactly
C.Nothing much
D.It all depends

10. A 【点拨】I agree 我同意；Not exactly 并非如此；Nothing much 没什么；It all depends 看情况而定。根据“That's why Johnson failed to get into college.”可知，后者同意前者的说法，空处填“I agree”符合语境。故选 A。

四、根据汉语提示完成句子。
1. 重力阻止我们飘浮在空中。
Gravity in the air.
2. 奶奶年纪太大了，不能移居到另一个星球上。
Grandma is another planet.
3. 与传统学习相比，网上学习为我们打开了一个全新的世界。
, online study .
4. 政府的记者招待会通常是以问答的形式现场直播的。
The news conferences of the government asking and answering questions.
5. 他能以每小时 12 千米的速度奔跑。

四、1. prevents us from floating
2. too old to move to
3. Compared with traditional study；opens up a whole new world to us
4. are usually covered live in the form of
5. He can run at a speed of twelve kilometres per hour.

五、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空限一词。
It seems to us that the Earth stands quite still(静止的). But it is really m1 all the time. It rotates(旋转)around a make-believe(虚构)line t2 its centre. We call this make-believe line the Earth’s axis(地轴). The two e3 of the Earth’s axis are called its poles(极). The Earth travels around its axis o4 every twenty-four hours.
We look at the Sun and say it “travels” a5 the sky, but the Sun doesn’t really do s6. The rotation of the Earth makes us f7 as if the Sun were moving across the sky. We can’t see that the Earth is moving because everything e8 on the Earth is moving with us. As the Earth turns around every twenty-four hours, one half of the Earth f9 the Sun and then the other half. When our half is facing the Sun, we say it is “day”. When our half is a10 from the Sun, we say it is “night”. It is the rotation of the Earth that tells us when to go to bed and when to get up.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

五、1. moving 2. through 3. ends 4. once 5. across 6. so 7. feel 8. else 9. faces 10. away