阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Esias Bedingar always knew he wanted to study medicine. After 1. (decide) to experience a new culture, he came from Africa to the USA. There was one challenge: He 2. (speak) no English. But within just four months, he completed the ESL program. Three years later, he finished his undergraduate degree and was accepted to Harvard University, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in public health. He said it was 3. (he) dream that got him to Harvard.
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使其构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
Anthony Ant had hundreds of friends, but sometimes he still felt alone. Anthony lived in an anthill in the crack of a sidewalk. All of his friends looked just like Anthony: small, and brown, with six legs and two wiggling antennas (触角). Every day, Anthony and his ant friends lined up to march out of the anthill and across the sidewalk to the tall grass. There they looked for crumbs and seeds to bring back to the anthill for supper.
“Why do we always have to stay in line?”Anthony asked. “I want to go into the grass on my own and see what there is to see.”
“I don’t know,” said Abby, a friend of Anthony. “This is the way we’ve always done it.”
“That doesn’t seem like a very good reason,” Anthony said. “I’m going to turn left up here at the maple root.”
And he did.
None of the other ants came with Anthony, because they always did what they were told.
On his own, Anthony had a much nicer view of the maple root. He could see all the way to a distant flower bed, where colorful blossoms towered over the grassy space.
Anthony decided to walk to the flowers, but after an hour of walking, they seemed just as far away as ever. He had never been so tired. He decided to turn around.
When he did, Anthony couldn’t see the path home. The grass had closed in around him，and he was lost. Usually he just followed the ant line in front of him to find the way, but now he was all alone.
Anthony walked in the direction he thought was home, but he was starting to feel scared. A bird flew overhead. Should he ask the bird for help, or should he hide? Anthony knew that some birds ate ants, but he couldn’t remember which ones were nice and which ones were hungry.
注意：续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Para 1: He hesitated, wondering what to do.
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假如你是英语课代表李华。你们班每节英语课都轮流由一位同学做“One-minute Class Report”，活动坚持了一年。学期末，英语老师要求你作一个报告，总结此活动。请你用英语写一篇稿子，内容包括：
1. 活动情况；
2. 对英语学习的帮助；
3. 你的建议。
注意：可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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阅读下面材料，在题后空白处填入适当的内容(每空一词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
On 31 October 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai. She had just laid 1. (she)on the surfboard with her left arm in the water when suddenly a tiger shark attacked and had her left arm 2. (bite)off just below the shoulder. By the time she was transported to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, she 3. (lose) 60 percent of her blood and felt numb.
Initially the doctors told her parents that her chances of survival were very slim. Luckily, she bravely fought on and survived. She stayed in the hospital for a week to recover 4. eventually being released.
Within weeks of the shark attack, she made her comeback to surfing with a custom—made board that was longer, 5. (thick), and equipped with a handle for her right arm. But with time she learned to use standard 6. (equip).
Determined not to let her disability get in the way of her professional ambitions, Bethany entered her first major competition on 10 January, 2004 since 7. shark attack. Later in 2004 she wrote her autobiography ‘Soul Surfer’,8. soon became a best-seller. In 2011, a film based on her autobiography 9. (release) and was well received by the audience.
Today, as well as 10. (spend) time with her family, Hamilton works with World Vision to help raise money for disabled children. Bethany has also become an inspirational speaker.
As night approached, we sat around the campfire laughing and teasing one another. Suddenly there came a strange sound. We _______ beyond the fire, into the darkness. My heart began to pound _______. Maybe the cougar(美洲狮)spotted a few days earlier had returned.
Silence took over as we were _______ to see anything beyond the edge of firelight. There was a plopping sound, then a grey _______ moved across the gravel(碎石), just beyond the light.
What was it?We held our breath as the thing again dropped onto the gravel and moved quickly out of _______ .
“Maybe it’s a flying squirrel.” someone said.
There was another plop and _______ near our car. Something seemed odd. What was it?
A friend _______ his camera and waited for the creature to return. It landed again and just as quickly vanished. “It seemed to be _______ too fast,” said our camera fan, “and I was unable to get a _______ of the strange animal.”
He moved to the edge of the firelight, ________ himself for a better shot, then began to laugh. There was a crunching of gravel and from ________ the car’s darkened end emerged Rogers, who camped with us every summer. He carried a fishing rod. On the end of the fishing line was a grey sock, giving it a head and ________. We had all been ________ by a flying grey sock.
All the people burst into laughter. We sat long into the evening ________ past years and other funny stories. Yes, the camping ________ differed every summer but the friendship remained the same as a chosen summer family.
1.A.fell B.rushed C.stared D.jumped
2.A.deeply B.secretly C.lightly D.wildly
3.A.desperate B.critical C.cautious D.accurate
4.A.sock B.creature C.squirrel D.wood
5.A.reach B.date C.sight D.curiosity
6.A.disappearance B.excitement C.birth D.shock
7.A.charged B.grabbed C.examined D.fixed
8.A.growing B.moving C.changing D.sweeping
9.A.greeting B.signal C.picture D.meeting
10.A.catching B.pushing C.positioning D.relieving
11.A.across B.beyond C.through D.over
12.A.fish B.end C.cut D.body
13.A.touched B.attracted C.controlled D.tricked
14.A.regretting B.recommending C.recalling D.interpreting
15.A.experiences B.instructions C.situations D.results
Every year, groups of tourists travel to central US states like Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska for their summer vacation. 1. They’re going to chase storms.
Once an activity only for scientists and adventurous types, storm chasing has now become an increasingly popular pastime for people from all over the world. 2. Storm chasers analyze weather reports and maps to locate an incoming storm before driving hundreds of miles toward it to witness a tornado in action.
The people going on these tours vary from curious first-time chasers looking for something different to storm chasing “addicts” like Nicholas Lee, a weather forecaster from the UK. 3. Now he saves up his vacation days to go storm chasing for three weeks every summer in the center of the US. It is the place well known for producing massive storms.
4. Since then the activity has continued to grow in popularity. Considering its potential dangers, it possesses, it is obviously not for everybody. And yet, more and more people are coming out doing the storm-chasing tours.
The real dangers of storm chasing are not just being swept up by a tornado. When a large tornado is predicted for the day, a number of storm chasers will drive to that high-risk area, causing serious traffic jams, which makes it harder to access the perfect spot to witness a tornado. The escape routes will be too congested as well. 5. Take the tornado that touched down near El Reno, Oklahoma in 2013. More than 150 people were injured, and 20 killed in it, including Tim Samaras, an experienced storm chaser plus his son and another partner.
Despite the increasing interest in storm chasing, it is still a very non-mainstream hobby.
A.Sometimes it can be life-threatening.
B.He went on his first storm-chasing tour in 2015.
C.But these people are not looking for sunshine or sightseeing.
D.He cannot wait to see that happening at any time soon.
E.Storm chasing was first popularized by the 1996 film Twister.
F.It means going to“high risk areas”where severe weather occurs.
G.How did potentially deadly weather become a popular tourist attraction?
