The giant vending machine (自动售货机) is a new village shop
Villagers have long been used to facing a drive when they run out of basic supplies. However, help is now nearer at hand in form of the country’s first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire Village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.
Peter Fox, who is______electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine
______ (equip) with securing cameras and alarms and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.
Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, _____ is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.
He said:“ I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn’t find a manufacture who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by _____. The result is what amounts to huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term “automatic shop” is far
______ (appropriate)
In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains______ force village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed,
______ (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new communities stores.
Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their won volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution______these villages without a local shop.
语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
Exercise is good for you, but most people really know very little about __31___ to exercise properly. So when you try, you __32___ run into trouble.
Many people believe that when specific muscles are exercised, the fat in the neighbouring area is “burned up”. Yet the truth is __33___ exercise burns fat from all over the body.
Studies show muscles which are not exercised lose their strength very quickly. To regain it __34___ (need) 48-72 hours and exercise every other day will keep a normal level of physical strength.
To lose weight you should always “work up a good sweat” when __35___ (exercise). Sweating only reduces body temperature to prevent heating. This is nothing __36___ water loss.
Walking is the best and easy-to-do exercise. ___37__ helps the circulation of blood throughout the body, and has a direct effect ___38__ your overall feeling of health. Experience says that 20 minutes’ exercise __39___ day is minimum amount. But if your breathing doesn’t return to normal state within minutes __40___ you finish exercising, you’ve done too much.
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life. 31these proverbs, there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop 32(help) it grow”, is based on the following story.
It is said that a short-tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960 — 1279) was very anxious to help 33rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about 34 day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.
One day, he came up with an idea 35he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day.
He was very tired 36doing this for a whole day, 37he felt very happy since the crop did “grow” 38(high).
His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their 39(nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often 40(result) in the contrary to our intention.
第二节：语法填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空和词形变化。（每格填1~2个单词）
Several days before July 28, 1976, many strange things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the earthquake.31 (副词), people in the city of Tangshan thought32 of these. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to shake,33 destroyed the city. Steam（蒸汽）34 (burst) from holes in the ground. It gave35 smelly gas. Many buildings fell into bricks all of a sudden like pieces of dominos. Many people,36 (include) workers and doctors, came to rescue those37 (trap) under the ruins. Later that afternoon,38 (限定词) big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings fell down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. Teams39 (organize) to dig out those under the ruins and bury the dead.40 number of the miners who were rescued from coal mines reached almost 10,000. With the help from all over the country, Tangshan began to recover slowly.
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I have never been able to make sense of my idea 31 money. I can walk into a store and spend $ 700 on suit, 32 go home and squeeze(挤)three cups of tea out of a single teabag. Am I a spendthrift or a miser or both?
A spendthrift is a person 33 likes to spend money. He always buys things 34 regard to cost. All of his spending gives him 35 (please), so he enjoys 36. with shopping spending. He is both warmhearted and free - handed. He has a lot of friends 37 he often treats everybody to drinks and meals. He would even give or lend money to his 38 (bad) enemy! Some people can accept a spendthrift's habits very easily. They consider such a person inexperienced, 39they enjoy being with him.
Are you a little like the person just 40 (write) about? If you are one of the big spenders of the world, you will always have debts, but you may have a lot of fun, too.
第二节语法填空 (共20小题，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为26～45的相应位置上。
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The most energetic and important festivals are the 21that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. 22 the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give 23(child) lucky money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, 24families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals,25take place forty days before Easter, usually in February, These carnivals might include parades,26(dance) in the streets day and night, loud music and colorful clothing of all kinds. Easter is 27important religious and social festival for Christians around the world. It celebrates the return of Jesus 28 the dead and the coming of spring and new life. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later. The country, 29(cover) with cherry tree flowers, looks as though 30 is covered with pink snow.