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Ⅰ.单词拼写
1.The band played many songs, including (包括) some of my favourites.
2.The river has several branches (支流).
3.The complete equipment (设备) of the new hospital will take a year.
4.These bricks are in all different shapes (形状).
5.He always comforts (安慰) me when I'm in trouble.
Ⅱ.单句语法填空
1.Wealth made him live a (comfort) life.
解析:句意:财富使他能够过舒适的生活。comfort的形容词形式为comfortable。
答案:comfortable
2.The lab is with a lot of modern for medical experiments.(equipment)
解析:句意:这个实验室配备有许多供医学实验使用的现代化仪器。be equipped with 配备有,equipment为不可数名词。
答案:equipped equipment
3.The roads were icy but she stopped the car (expert).
解析:句意:道路结了冰,可她却非常熟练地把车停了下来。expert的副词形式为expertly。
答案:expertly
Ⅲ.阅读填空
Mary is digging in the ground for a potato, when along comes John.Seeing that there is no one in sight, John starts to scream.John's angry mother rushes over and drives Mary away.Once his mum has gone, John helps himself to Mary's potato.
We've all experienced similar annoying tricks when we were young—the brother who stole your ball and then got you into trouble by telling your parents you had hit him.But Mary and John are not humans.They're African baboons(狒狒). 1
John's scream and his mother's attack on Mary could have been a matter of chance, but John was later seen playing the same tricks on others. 2
Studying behavior like this is complicated but scientists discovered apes(猿) clearly showed that they intended to cheat and knew when they themselves had been cheated. 3 An ape was annoying him, so he tricked her into going away by pretending he had seen something interesting.When she found nothing, she “walked back, hit me over the head with her hand and ignored me for the rest of the day.”
Another way to decide whether an animal's behavior is deliberate is to look for actions that are not normal for that animal.A zoo worker describes how an ape dealt with an enemy.“He slowly stole up behind the other ape, walking on tiptoe.When he got close to his