Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that fits the context．
Visit the Edinburgh Festival
Every year, thousands of people come to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival．For three weeks every August and September the city is filled with actors and artists from 1. over the world．They come to Edinburgh 2. the biggest arts festival in Britain．During this time the streets of the city are alive with music and dance from 3. morning till late at night．You can even see artists painting pictures on the streets．One of the best parts of the Festival is the "Fringe", 4. students do comedy shows in small halls and cafés．
5. of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music performed by famous musicians．This year, you can see over five hundred performances 6. actors from more than forty countries．
The tickets for these performances are quite cheap and it is usually easier to see your favorite stars in Edinburgh 7. it is in London．Come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember it can be difficult to find a room, 8. why not book your hotel now?
Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans．With each passing day everyone became more anxious, waiting for the final school bell．Upon its 36 everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David
David was a small boy in ragged clothes．I had often wondered what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so 37 for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves．But something made David 38 ．I can still remember he was always 39 a smile and willing to help．He always stayed after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor．We never talked much．He 40 just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly head for home
Weeks passed and the 41 over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of school before the holiday break．I smiled in 42 as the last of them hurried out of the door．Turning around I saw David quietly standing by my desk．
"I have something for you．" he said and 43 from behind his back a small box． 44 it to me, he said anxiously, "Open it．" I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it．I lifted the lid and to my surprise saw nothing．I looked at David's smiling face and back into the box and said, "The box is nice, David, but it's 45 ．"
"Oh no it isn't" said David．"It's full of love．My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn't see or touch unless you know it's there．"
Tears filled my eyes 46 I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given attention to．After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning 47 the little empty box set on my desk．
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--- An explosion at a coal mine killed at least 62 workers and left another 13 missing．
--- Yes, _________ news came as ________ shock to us all．
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As a young man , he'd rather have a room of his own, however small it is, than __ a room with someone else．
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Write an English letter according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假定你所在的城市面临严重的交通问题。请从现象、原因及措施方面着手，以Traffic In Our City Needs Improvement 为题，写一篇不少120词的文章。
Traffic In Our City Needs Improvement
Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（购物手推车）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地携带） groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的） customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
81. What do the underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to?（No more than 3 words）
82. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （No more than 8 words）
83. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （No more than 8 words）
84. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （No more than 10 words）
