课文填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）Thereis-优题课

语法填空。请仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请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的词语的正确形式填空。（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）。
Where will you choose to live, in the city ____ the countryside? People have different ideas ___ the question. Some of my friends would like to live in the city. They can enjoy TV films, entertainment and delicious food. Everything____ (be) convenient in the city. ____ people are thirsty, they can have boiled or bottled water at once. When a child is ill, he____ (send) to hospital in just a few minutes. _____, people have to suffer heavy traffic and air pollution anyway.
On the ____ hand, others will choose the countryside. The reasons are simple. Nothing is better ____ to live in fresh air, drink clean water, and enjoy free natural beauty. Of course the most important is a longer and a_____ (happy) life. Which will be your____ (choose), my friend?

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
This is a most incredible tale. In the summer of 1903, an American businessman named Henry had some bad luck. He was carried out to sea by ____strong wind and was ______ (spot) by a ship before giving up. Then he landed in Britain _____ chance. He earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand, ___ accounted for his ___ (appear). He was lost in London and had no money on him. ___ knows who he was.
Then ____ (expect) he was invited to a large and beautiful house by two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver. Henry told his experience to them. He asked if they _____ (can) offer him some kind of work there. To his surprise, they gave him a letter with money in it. He couldn’t open it until two o’clock. Henry thought this was silly. In fact, Henry didn’t want charity but an honest job. He was ____ (puzzle) at what he did and ____ (promise) to open it until two o’clock.

A group of robbers dug their way into to basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes. They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building ____ (equip) to dig holes and destroy walls ____ Saturday night. They tied up a security guard and spent the next nine hours____ (rob) the bank.
One investigator described the robbery___ a “professional job”. The robbers came in at about 22:00 on Saturday and ___ (leave) at 7:00 on Sunday. They entered through the basements of the neighboring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80cm thick to get into the bank, ____ was having building works at the time.
When they left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, ____ (switch) on the anti-fire system and flooding the building. ____ (fortune), the guard escaped unharmed. ___ is difficult to estimate the total value of what ___ (steal) as only the bank’s clients know the content of their private safes.

Old age may not sound_______ (excite).But recent findings provide good news for older people and for people _______ (worry) about getting older.
The findings came from ______ survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned ______ by telephone in 2008.At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, ________(sad) and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. The research team found that levels of stress were ________ (high) among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped_______ (sharp) after people reached their fifties.
Happiness_______ highest among the youngest adults and those_______ their early seventies. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. ______ , woman at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
With the(develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because of air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the (follow) reasons. It is (main) caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads and they give off (poison) gases. About 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smoking,not only does harm to smokers’ health but also to others’. these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures ( fight) against pollution. New fuel can be used to takeplace of gas. We can plant more trees. If everyone realizes the importance of environmentdoes something to stop pollution, the problem will (solve).