Read the passage and fill the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)
The Empire State Building(帝国大厦) has held a special place in the hearts of Americans since it was completed in 1931.It r___1__ more than 443 metres into the sky. For more than forty years , it was the tallest building in the world.
It has one hundred and three levels and six thousand five hundred windows. Visitors can ride in one of seventy-three elevators that take them from the b__2__ to very near the top of the building. Some of these elevators are very fast, reaching the eightieth floor in only forty-five seconds.
The heads of government of almost every n__3__ in the world have visited the Empire State Building. These important people are just a few of million who have ridden to the observation area near the top of the building each year. From there, visitors can see almost all of New York City. They can see the view a __4__ the Hudson River into the state of New Jersey. They can see ships in the East River.
Even if you have never visited New York, there is a good chance for you to see the Empire State Building. It has been photographed c __5__ times. It has even played parts in movies. One is about a huge ape(猿)that escapes and climbs to the top of the building. The movie is “King Kong”(金刚). It was made in 1933. The Empire State Building also appeared in the love story “An Affair to Remember”(金玉盟).Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play a man and a woman who meet and fall in love on a ship. They are looking at the New York City skyline from the ship when they plan a future meeting.
More recently, in “Sleepless in Seattle(西雅图未眠夜)”，two people in love agree to meet at the Observation Deck on Valentine’s Day(情人节). B__6__ do arrive, but one is a little later. They almost m __7___each other.
In the early nineteen seventies, the Empire State Building lost its place as the tallest building in New York. People in the city then had the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to look up to. Tragically that all changed on the morning of September 11,2001. Terrorists hijacked(劫持) passenger airplanes into the Twin Towers and destroyed them. The Empire State Building again has become the city’s tallest building.
Have you seen people around you running towards many pizza shops? You might be thinking why people are so c________ about pizza. Actually, there are many r_____
__ why so many people prefer pizza when there is a variety of fast food.
First , pizza has a lot of flavors. If you are a c_____ lover, you can have one with just a cheese topping(配料). You can have vegetables as well as meat. Pizza is also in different s____
___ ranging from the personal to the large party size. Pizza is now available at every corner from your house to your office. Just o____
____ the phone call you can have pizza at your doorstep. People like pizza during office lunch hours or when they don’t have enough time to prepare food t____
____. This is the main reason why pizza business is d____
____ so quickly these days.
You will be amazed to hear that pizza, u______ other fast food , is really a healthy diet. It is made f___
___ olive oil（橄榄油）, tomato sauce（酱）, vegetables and whole meat, if you often eat it , you are less l_____
__ to have a heart attack.
Ma Yun was born in October 15th,1964 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the founder of Alibaba Group.
At 10, Ma Yun became interested in English. He rode his bike for minutes each morning to go to Hangzhou Hotel and talk with f_____ In 1988, he became an English teacher. Ma Yun ______遇见
. Bill Aho, an American businessman, in Hangzhou. In 1995, he visited the United States for the first time. He stayed with Mr. Aho’s family. There, he was ________介绍
. to the World Wide Web. Then he returned home and set up one of China’s first web companies, China Yellowpages in the same year. Ma Yun is never afraid of _______梦想
.big. On February 21st ,1999, he founded Alibaba. He c______
. the name as Alibaba because everyone knows the story of Alibaba. Alibaba is a young man ,and he always helps others.
Just before the Christmas in 1997, a German girl called Juliana was flying over a big forest of America. The plane was flying high in the sky. Suddenly, there was a cloud noise. Juliana found herself falling through the a ______ . She closed her eyes. She b___
___ that she was going to die.
She fell 3,000 meters. When she opened her eyes again, she found she l______ in a tree in the middle of the forest. She was not dead! She was g___
___ surprised that she was not only alive, nut she wasn’t badly h__
___. She was sitting in her s___
___. She was holding a bag of sweets.
She managed to stand on a big branch of the tree and c_____ down. But she could see nobody else. She was alone except for a few dead b___
___ here and there.
She began to walk. At first she had nothing to eat except the sweets. Later she found a little fruit. She had never seen this kind of fruit before. She found the fruit was s______ after she saw some monkeys eating it.
After four days, she came to a deep river. She walked by the side of the river for six m______ days and at last arrived at an Indian village. She found people!
阅读理解填词（本题共10分，每小题1分）
先阅读短文，在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式，单词的第一个字母已给出。
As I was leaving to meet Lynne， my roommate told me that I’d better take some money， but I didn’t listen to him.I thought that Lynne would p_____because she had invited me.
I arrived at the restaurant exactly on time. I’d been told that Americans e____you to be on time. Lynne and I sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant and a waitress came and took our o______
.
The dinner was a good s_____. I talked a lot about Saudi Arabia and Lynne told me all about herself. After two hours the waitress finally came and asked if we wanted one check or two. Lynne said two. We went to the cashier and Lynne paid her check. I was e______
when the cashier gave me my bill. I had no money to pay for my meal. Then I had an idea. I p___
to look for something in my pockets and said， “Oh! I forgot my money! Can I call my roommate， please?” The cashier showed me where the phone was and I quickly called my roommate.
In a few minutes he arrived with some money ， but he couldn’t h____how he felt. He laughed all the way home.
Now， I think it’s funny too， but at the time I was t_____embarrassed. I thought that an invitation to have dinner m_____
the same thing in the United States as in my country. I guess you have to understand that your customs are only your customs. When you visit a f______
country， you have to learn about their customs， too.
完成句子（共9小题，每题1分，满分9分）
根据括号内的英（汉）语提示，完成句子。Our teachers are patient enough to spend a lot of time ______ (解释) things to us.
Get out of your cars. Choose bikes, buses or subways ______ (代替).
Please read the ________ (指示) on the bottle before taking medicine.
If someone does not show good manners to others, he is i______.
Did you use to get n________when you see the school report from your teacher?
Do you want a single room or a d________ one?
My family will have a party for my grandfather’s _______ ( eighty ) birthday .
Although tea is good for our health, some young people aren’t used to ______ (drink) it.
Our house is a little larger than ______ (they) and it has more furniture in it.