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Ⅰ. 根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成单词
1. I will go there. Nothing can prevent me from going there.
2. You helped me a lot. I don't know how to express my gratitude.
3. The brave general led the troops to victory (胜利).
4. The good news was that the enemy (敌军) was driven back.
5. The story happened during the period (时期) of the French Revolution.
Ⅱ. 单项选择
1. —Paul, when do you plan to start for the meeting tomorrow?
—Alex, didn't B tell you that the meeting had been put off?
A. somebody B. anybody
C. everybody D. nobody
2. —Wake me up at six tomorrow morning, Lily.
—Why that early? You'll feel tired and C during the day.
A. hungry B. bored
C. sleepy D. surprised
3. —You are always full of C . Can you tell me the secret?
—Taking plenty of exercise every day.
A. attention B. force
C. energy D. support
4. —Susan, D you were not in the office, I left a message for you on your desk.
—Oh, I saw it.
A. unless B. if
C. so D. as
5. —It is really noisy outside!
—Oh, there are always lots of people D cards at this time of the day.
A. are playing B. play
C. to play D. playing
Ⅲ. 选词填空
阅读下面短文,用方框内所给词的适当形式填空,使短文完整、通顺。
seem, success, but, they, wide, it, try, purpose, pound, express
Have you ever heard of Death Valley? It's a national park lying in the east of California, the USA. The park isn't scary as 1. its name sounds. You can enjoy the desert sunshine there. At the same time, you can find there's nothing out there but some special rocks called “sailing stones”.
Some of the rocks in Death Valley weigh hundreds of 2. pounds . And on the ground behind each rock is a mysterious trail(痕迹). It 3. seems that the rock has been pushed along in the sand.
It was nearly 100 years ago that the “sailing stones” were reported for the first time. People have been 4. trying to find out the stones' secret ever since. Until the 1990s, one 5. widely accepted opinion was that the rocks were stuck in sheets(片) of ice that were being blown across the desert. However, research later showed th