请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给的词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写到答题卷的相应位置。每个单词限用一次。（每小题1分）
| hold walk invent easy water shoulder free smart hand if |
Umbrellas are common in our life. On rainy days, many people hold them to prevent . But it’s not easy to hold an umbrella
there is heavy rain and strong wind. And it’s harder to make a phone call or ride a bike with an umbrella in the
. An American named Alan Kaufman and his company spent six years
a hand-free umbrella. At last they made it.
They called it Nubrella. Just touch a button(按钮),and the Nubrella will open .With the help of its “shoulder support(支撑物)”，the umbrella can rest on the user’s
. So the user needn’t
the umbrella any more. He can walk with hands
even in the strong wind.
The hand-free umbrella is ＄59.94 each. People all around the world like it very much. Because of this invention, they can use their phones to talk and send short messages in the rain now.
in the rain under a Mubrella is really cool, isn’t it?
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）.
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School is where we learn, make friends and grow up. But _______ happen daily in schools across the world. We hear reports of students falling down ____
___ buildings while cleaning windows. Other students are hit by football on the playground. Three years ago, some students fell down on the stairs and were stepped on by __
____, with tragic results.
We feel _______ sorry for the loss of lives. There is ___
____ we can do to bring the students back, but we can try to prevent (防止) such things from ____
____ again. You should do the following things to prevent a stampede (踩踏)。
After class or school, don’t rush out at the same time. Wait until there are _______ people trying to leave.
When you walk with a crowd of people, stay alert (警惕的) and ________ your steps. Don’t play around.
Be familiar with your _____ and learn where the safety exits are.
When there’s pushing and squeezing (挤)， don’t move and try to hold on to something. _____ stay in a corner until the crowd leaves.
用方框中词语的适当形式填空，使短文正确、连贯、通顺，每个词限用一次。
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Dear Sam,
How are you? I’m happy to hear ________ you. Let me tell you what I usually do at
________. On Saturday morning, I
________ do my homework at home. I
________ about three hours in finishing my homework. In the afternoon, I usually
________ my emails and search for some
________ on the Internet. I
________ play computer games on it because I think it’s
________ for my eyes. Sometimes I watch movies with my mother. She likes
________ movies too. I also
________ English on it. In the evening my parents and I
________ at home. We listen to music together. On Sunday I often go to the
________ to see animals with my sister. My favourite animals are
_______. They are very tall. They like eating
________ as well as plants. But my sister
________ to see pandas because she thinks they are very cute.
Yours,
Yang Mei
选择方框中的词并用其适当形式填空
| speak, need, patient, achieve, help |
This book will be very ________________ for you to do the medical research.
We must be _______________ with the children.
You can talk with foreigners to practice your ____________ skills.
Everyone ______________ to have at least eight hours’ sleep a night.
If you work hard, you’ll _____________ your dream.
用下列所给词的适当形式填空，每个字仅用一次。（每题1分，共10分） 
Dear Sally,
Thanks for your photo. It is a nice one. Here a photo of my
. You
see four people in the photo.
are my parents, my sister and I. My father is
English teacher. My mother works in a
, too, but she isn’t a teacher. The girl beside me is my sister.
name is Alice. We are students. Alice is in Class One and I’m in Class
. We have a pet dog. Coco is the
of our dog.
is it? It is in front of my mother.
Yours
Jenny
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）
Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of ________? It’s a
________ that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That________ it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is
________ in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that ________ being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as ________ as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used
________ often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely by building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting
________ a book. It’s a living thing and you
________ use it or lose it.
If people ________ using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.