根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的短语填空，使对话内容完整正确。
| laughed at, too shy to, tried my best, sure, could hardly |
Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself!”. When I was a young boy, I was speak to anyone. My classmates often
me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to take part in it. What a terrible idea!
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself! You are to win.” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last, I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I
to remember all the speech and practised it over 100 times. With my mother’s great love, I did well in the contest. I
believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students.
选择方框中适当填空短语
too much look up think of far from be late forJim’s home is _______ school so he has to take a bus to school.
_________housework made Jane feel very unhappy.
If you don’t understand the word, you can _____________ the dictionary.
Tom got late this morning, so he _________ school.
I always very happy when I _______ her.
阅读短文，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。有两个词多余。
There was a small village near a mountain. People there loved their village very much and they grew many on the mountain. Water in the rivers was very clear and the
was clean. People lived a poor life, but they were very
. After a few years, some people in the village started to cut down trees to
for money. There were some people from cities
to visit the village. People began to kill some wild animals as
to treat (招待) the visitors. Of course, they made lots of money. But
knew what the village would be like in the future.
As time went on, there were fewer plants and animals and the water became . The visitors became fewer and fewer. Several years later, people there knew they must stop destroying (破坏)
. They would like to live a happy life as before, so they began to
new plants. They hoped the village would become as beautiful as before.
从方框中选择恰当的短语并用其正确的形式填空：
| there be; mistake; go shopping; pay attention to; they; be good for; live; show off; get tired; sleep; more than; explain; different; someone; patient |
---- You need to spend ____________________ two hours on your work after school.
| A. responsibleB. later C. actually D. shocked E. amazing |
One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this.
The American trick in 2006 was a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn’t find out who was
, and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years
that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick.
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)
| A. strange B. tradition C. allowed D. turned over E. turned out |
A good trick doesn’t leave lasting damage and always makes people laugh. It can even amaze them with its creativity. Some schools and universities have a long of students playing good tricks. These tricks sometimes include school buildings and cars.
The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which students are to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took apart a car, moved the parts into a student’s room and then put the car back together next to the bed.
It was a quiet evening at an American high school. Going home, the headmaster got into his car and started the engine. It’s quite that the wheels turned, but the car didn’t move! It _
that some students had found a way to lift the car up so that its tires were just above the ground.