短文填空（每空一分，共10分）根据短文内容，从方框中选择适当-优题课

选择方框中所给词语的适当形式填空, 使短文正确，通顺，连贯。每词限用一次。(每空1分，共10分)

There is nothing more【小题1】 than the sun. Without the sun, all【小题2】things on the earth will【小题3】.
The sun is a star. In the sky there【小题4】 thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars,【小题5】 in the daytime you can only see one star, the sun.
The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. This is【小题6】 it looks biggest and __ of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the earth is as much as 150【小题8】__kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years（光年）away from the earth.
Do you know the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It ____at 300, 000a second. And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year.

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章完整、通顺。（每词限用一次）

answer, alone, oldest, start, until, fortieth,own, teach, money, later

In Britain you are allowed to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a special two—year driving license before you can . When you are learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren't allowed to drive the car on the road . You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can_you. The person with you isn't allowed to take the_for the lesson unless he's got a teacher's license.
Before you are allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your
car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then a few questions. If you don't pass the test, you are allowed to take it again a few weeks
if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her test after 212 driving lessons. When you've passed your test, you don't have to take it again, and you are allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain'sdriver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn't have to take a test1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren't allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word 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。）:（共8分）

A. believedB. situation C. close toD. technology E. search for

Two teenage girls are missing after they failed to return to their school camp in a Victorian National Park _____ the New South Wales border last night.
The police began to ____ the girls, aged 14 and 15. They are students at Melbourne School and were in the area as part of a school camp.The girls were last seen at about 4:30 pm yesterday and did not return for dinner at 6 pm.
“They were ______ to be wearing lightweight clothing. It has rained in the area for three days and the police are worried about their ____. Search and Rescue police will arrive in the area immediately to coordinate(协调）a full-scale search,” said the spokeswoman.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容用方框内所给词语的适当形式填空，使短文语义完整。(请你一定要注意词语的形式变化！)

good, come, dress, parent, hold, something, how, necessary, feed, they

Now lots of parents will buy everything that their children want to have. If they go on with the habit, their children won't know the money from hard work.
Some parents like birthday parties for their children. If they keep on doing this, their children will think it for them to enjoy birthday parties every year. Year after year, maybe they will forget their birthdays and only remember their own. It is against traditional habits.
Many parents don't let the children do housework. They think children have only one thing to do. They should study hard and do in their lessons. If parents go on doing this, the children will only learn to open their mouths to be and stretch out (伸出) their arms to be every day. When the children grow up, they will be able to do , and they won't even find a job. Parents should teach the children to do housework because it can help them start good habits of working by .

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯 (每个单词限用一次)。

then; do; ; right; show; different; who; late; easy; memory

Did your parents make you take music lessons? Recent research has that people who studied music as a child are able to remember words much better than people musical training. One experiment was with sixty female American college students. A similar study was carried out with ninety boys in Hongkong of China. In both cases, students had to words and pictures. they were asked how many they remembered. Scientists found that students studied music were better at remembering words, but both groups remembered the pictures equally well. Perhaps it is to use your imagination to associate(联想) pictures with things in your life. Also, you can make up stories for pictures.
Scientists explain the by saying that both musical memory and verbal (written or spoken words) memory are located in the left side of the brain. Visual memory, the kind needed for pictures, is located in half of the brain. Since verbal memory is very important for success at school, researchers now think that taking music lessons can give you a real academic advantage. In fact, when the students were tested a year , the students who had stopped taking lessons still did well on verbal memory. Maybe it’s time to give music lessons a try.