根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。
Look at this picture. He i___________ David. He loves sports.
H___________ likes basketball very much.
He is a m___________ of his school basketball team. He often
p___________ basketball with his friends after school. He is
g___________ at playing basketball. They often play
b___________ and watch basketball matches on TV.
David likes Yao Ming v___________ much.
B___________ Yao Ming is his hero. David wants
t___________ be a good basketball player like Yao Ming.
D___________ you like sports? Can you tell me about your favourite sport?
根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式．每空限填一词．
When I was 18，my family left China. And a year later, we made our way to New York. Unluckily, my father （失败）to find a job, so I had to help support my family. I looked through the want ads every morning and later had an
（面试）for a job at Waterbury Hospital Health Centre. There I was told my work would
（包括）sweeping floors. I smiled and remembered my father's advice.
"Take pride in what you do,”my lather said, "whether you're a （老板）or are sweeping floors.”
So even if my job was the lowest, I was（激动的）to do it. Each morning, I
（想象）all the patients not being able to eat if I wasn't there to clean the plates and bowls. Once
（早饭）was made, I cleaned toilets, swept floors and did some other dirty work. I wanted people to say "That young man sure does a nice job"，
（尽管）I was dead tired.
Through （十一）jobs I've ever held, my father's
（明智的）words have stayed with me. I've swept floors，and I've been the manager. I think Dad would be proud.
短文填空（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和首字母提示，在短文空白处填入适当的单词，使短文内容通顺、合理。并将完整的单词填写在答题卡的相应位置上。
Electricity is a type of energy that was discovered over 100 years ago. One of the most common w____ to make electricity is by changing other energy sources (来源), such as coal, and oil or solar, wind and falling water. You may not even realize that electricity is a huge part of your e__
___ life. Basically, it keeps your home and school w__
___ in winter and cool in summer. W___
___ it, you would never be able to watch your favourite TV show or listen to your MP3 player. Have you ever i_
__ a world in which you can’t turn on a light, a computer, or even use the phone? So electricity is important to us and we n__
___ electricity. That’s why it’s time to rethink our relationship with this v_
___ resource (资源) and think about h__
__ we can do our part to use it wisely.
There are many sporting heroes, such as hurdling, marathon heroes on sports yearbook.Many of them broke the r and were awarded prizes in tough matches.They represent their country to get m
in match season.Sometimes they are also invited to appear in advertisements.
As sportsmen and sportswomen, they all know there is no overnight success.They must train hard.First of all, their coaches always e them to train regularly.Their races were recorded and their coaches used the information to change their training m___
____.
We’ll never forget the scenes: An athlete got hurt in a r .He s
a lot from his leg problem, and went on running and reached the finishing line.The audience all left their seats and c
for him.An old man began to practice Taekwondo at the age of sixty and got a black belt in less than five years.
So, in some degree, all these athlete s up a good example for us in spirit.They s
for courage, fearlessness and strength.We take great p__
___ in them.
根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。
Language is a way to communicate with each other.We started to l language when we were born.However, people are used to speaking their native language, so immigrants (移民) are having many problems between the first generation (第一代) and the second generation because they don’t have the s
native language.Also, the second generation is losing their identity (身份).Especially in America, there are many immigrants that came from different c
to succeed in the States.Because they suffer in lots of areas such as getting a j
and trying to speak English, they want their children to speak English, not only at school, but also at home in order to be more s
.Because of this situation, their children are losing their identity, and even more, they are ignoring (忽视) their p
who don’t speak good English.
I think most immigrants are trying to keep their native language in their new country, but this doesn’t help very much in getting a good job.My aunt t Korean to her children not to help them succeed in the US; she did so, h
, to help them get a Korean identity.Though the second generation is born in the new country, they often get confused about their identity because they look different from o
.My cousins told me that when they visited Korea a few years ago, they felt different from other Koreans.
We must realize that language is important and v for many reasons.Immigrants should make an effort not to be ignored by their children and to make their children understand their background by teaching them the parents’ language.
单词拼写(共10小题,每小题1分,计10分)
根据句子意思,用括号中所给汉语提示或英语单词的适当形式填空.(每空一词)Edison was one of the most famous __________(科学家) in the world.
Expo 2010 Shanghai is the ________(骄傲) of the whole world.
Yesterday Uncle Wang fell off his motorbike, but _________ (幸运地) he wasn’t badly hurt.
It’s twenty ________(分钟) ride from my school to my home.
We can see _________ (千) of stars in the sky on a summer night.
I don’t think he is the murderer.It’s __________(possible).
Do you have any difficulty in __________(solve) the problem?
She devoted all her lifetime to _______ (care) for the poor.
Tomorrow is Lucy’s _________ (twenty) birthday.Let’s buy some presents for her.
There is less air _______(pollute) in this village than in the other areas of Beijing.