( ) 7. [2023·湖南郴州改编] — Oh, I'm nearly lost in this city.
— Yeah. The city ______ a lot since you left.
A. has changed
B. changed
C. changes
D. will change

A

( ) 8. — You look tired!
— My husband ______ football matches all night. That was too noisy!
A. watches
B. has watched
C. was watching
D. will watch

C

( ) 9. The Mid - Autumn Day usually ______ on 15th August in the lunar calendar (阴历) every year.
A. come
B. comes
C. is coming
D. will come

B

( ) 10. [2023·黑龙江绥化改编] — Where is your father, Kate?
— Look, Mum! He ______ a newspaper in the garden.
A. reads
B. read
C. is reading
D. was reading

C

Ⅱ. 根据句意用所给词的适当形式填空
1. Peter ______ (have) supper with his parents yesterday when the phone rang.
2. Look! The students ______ (answer) the questions carefully.
3. Chinese people ______ (follow) Confucianism for more than 2, 000 years and are deeply influenced by some of its important values.
4. Different areas have different coloured soil (土壤). The colour of soil ______ (depend) on many things.
5. Lin Tao ______ (brush) his teeth and then has breakfast before going to school.
6. Fan Jinshi ______ (plan) and worked on the largest protection programme in the history of the Mogao Caves (莫高窟).

1. was having 2. are answering 3. have followed 4. depends 5. brushes 6. planned

Ⅲ. 根据短文内容或所给提示填空
My children are growing up fast. My daughter is 16 and my boy is already in junior high school. As they get 1. ______ (big), our house seems to get smaller. So we want to sell some of our things 2. ______ a yard (院子) sale and give the money to a children's home.
We have already cleared out a lot of things from our bedrooms. We have 3. ______ (decide) to each sell five things that we no longer use. My son 4. ______ (be) quite sad at first. Although he has not played with his old toys for a long time, he still wanted to keep them. For example, he 5. ______ (own) a train and railway set since his fourth birthday, and he played with it almost every week 6. ______ he was about seven. And he did not want to lose his toy monkey either. He 7. ______ (睡觉) next to the monkey every night when he was a child. My daughter was more 8. ______ (understand), although she also felt sad to part with certain toys.
As for 9. ______ (I), I did not want to give up my football shirts, but, to be honest, I have not played for a while now. I 10. ______ (get) older too!

1. bigger 2. in 3. decided 4. was 5. has owned 6. until 7. slept 8. understanding 9. me 10. am getting