Instead of cruising in on a hoverboard, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has ________ to us.
Making predictions is tricky, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr joked. In science fiction, you can’t escape that ________ though. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have ________ imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pass. The biggest ________ are in travel—jet packs, hoverboards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using distinctly 20th-century technology: commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago.
________ is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been unpredicrable. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to ________, though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available—even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived—sort of—but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to ________ your look of boredom.
The truth is that we quickly ________ the astonishment of invention: our wonderment is soon replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of ________. It is astonishing that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these ________ are dependent on the emergence of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t ________ the dominance of the computer in running our lives.
But the real area where ________ far outstrips（超越）predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as“disease-free”but without going into detail.“Disease-free”humans are still absent, but the progress made in ________ life is breathtaking. With relative ease, we can sequence anyone’s genome（基因组），giving a read-out of our entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes.
Photosensitive implants now exist that can replace damaged cells in the retina（视网膜）and can, thus ________ sight to the blind. While the inventions of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing ________ the inventiveness of people in the real world.
1.A.turned B.lied C.objected D.talked
2.A.opportunity B.challenge C.imagination D.conflict
3.A.hesitantly B.critically C.temporarily D.tirelessly
4.A.disappointments B.advancements C.enjoyments D.experiments
5.A.Modernization B.Exploration C.Automation D.Transportation
6.A.materialise B.identify C.honour D.liberate
7.A.imagine B.feel C.see D.ignore
8.A.arouse B.discover C.forget D.evaluate
9.A.frustration B.amazement C.boredom D.limitation
10.A.modes B.worries C.potentials D.actions
11.A.predict B.overlook C.motivate D.prevent
12.A.quality B.obstacle C.passion D.reality
13.A.maintaining B.creating C.researching D.encountering
14.A.show B.lend C.restore D.label
15.A.guarantees B.overestimates C.releases D.outperforms
Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
On an otherwise ordinary afternoon in mid-December, the Hakata to Tokyo express pulled into Negoya and a thousand passengers were ordered 1. the train. The burning smell and unusual sound turned out to be cracks in the chassis（底盘）.
It was the first time that the Shinkansen（新干线），the country’s symbol of industrial power and“made in Japan”engineering quality, 2.（give）way to an officially called“serious incident”. Once upon a time, the cracks would have been unthinkable; the nation—3.the outside world—has long been conditioned to think of Japanese manufacturing as perfect. But after suffering a succession of different scandals. Japan’s problem is that imperfection is far less untbinkable than it 4. be.
The bullet train breakdown marks the peak of months of public admissions by some of Japan’s greatest names—including Nissan Motor. Subaru, Toray Industries, Kobe Steel and Mitsubishi Materials—5. they have either been cheating on quality tests or faking documents 6.（sell）products of a lower quality than stated. For an industrial economy that has built its global fame on its reputation for quality, these are nerve-racking times.
No one thought that Japanese companies were basically more honest than their competitors around the world, says one former Toshiba executive, 7. there was an assumption both inside and outside Japan that everyone on the factory floor was devoted to the perfection of monozukuri. 8. craftsmanship that represents what is arguably the proudest Japanese corporate boasts.“That assumption is 9. has taken the heaviest beating,”he said.
When Hiroya Kawasaki, the chief executive of Kobe Steel, first confessed that the company had been taking part in data falsification（伪造）10.（data）back to the 1970s, his statement was almost apocalyptic（预示灾难的）.“Trust in our company has fallen to zero,”he said.
阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
One day, my brother and I were alone in our apartment. The reason was that my parents had both gone for a ball party and had left me in charge of everything. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. All of a sudden, the doorbell rang. Ding-Dong! Ding-Dong! My younger brother had rushed to the door before I decided to answer the door. We both thought that our parents had come home. As a result, he unlocked the door and opened it.
Outside of the house stood a man who wore a black raincoat and black rubber boots. He looked no different from other people and he said that he was a salesman and asked politely if our mother or father was at home so he could talk with them.
Without any thinking, my brother said, “No.” He asked if we would like to buy some comic books, which he was selling. I quickly explained to him that we were not supposed to buy anything without our parents’ permission. However, it seemed that he was not willing to follow my advice and he had an intention to enter our house.
Then, I realized something terrible would happen. As I was about to close the door, he forced his way into our house. He took out a knife and forced me to tie up my brother’s hands with some rope which he took out from his pocket. I tied up his hands but I tied itin a special way so my brother could untie himself as we often did. The man then tied my hands up and locked both of us in the kitchen.
Soon, he went upstairs to search the bedroom for something valuable. I managed to teach my brother to untie the roop on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, but line was dead.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；
2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
The doors were all locked from the outside and what’s more, I did not have the keys.
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Paragraph 2:
Just at the same time our parents came back home.________________________________________________
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假如你是李华，你的英国笔友罗伊正在中国某城市作交换生，他因交不到朋友而苦恼，发来邮件想你求助。
请你用英文给他写封电子邮件，内容主要包括：1.表示安慰2. 你的建议。
Dear Roy,
I am sorry to hear that you are having some problems in China. _____________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Jack,
I’m sorry to hear that you feel lonely in the new school, because you find hard to make friends. Now, I’d like to offer you any advice.
Firstly, it’s normal for you to feel lonely because you were living in a new environment. Secondly, you should greet your classmates when met them on campus. Thirdly, it will be a good idea if you take an actively part in class activities, what can help them learn more about you. I believe you will be able to make new friends soon unless you’re friendly to the others.
I hope the suggestion above will be helpful to you and everything will be fine with you for the future.
Yours,
Li Hua
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
When I was in the primary school，I didn’t like going to school. I had 1. (difficult) in reading and writing and I always could not answer the teacher’s questions 2. (correct). I cried a lot because I 3. (laugh) at by my classmates. I felt very upset and didn’t have any interest 4. study.
But then one day, I decided 5. (change) my attitude towards study. So I ended up 6. (pay) more attention in class and I started to practice my vocabulary and spelling skills. Also，I always 7. (go) to my teachers to ask for help when I had any trouble. I started to do better in Grade 3. 8. I was in Grade 4, I was still improving. By Grade 5, I had become a top student in class.
Now I am 9. freshman in high school，I know it might be difficult at first. But I know if I keep working and don’t give up I will be 10. (success).
