先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在答题卷标有题号的横线上完整写出。 (本大题共5分，每格0.5分)
Success comes from good habits. The most important reason that helps you succeed is what you do every day. Your habits are so important that they will decide whether you are successful or not. If you have strong and healthy habits, it does not matter whether or not you f_________ 1.today because you are sure to succeed in the long run. Having positive habits does not mean that you will succeed every time. However, in the long term, there is no d_________ 2.that you will achieve your goals and be successful f_________3.
A positive action will not change your life, but the same action r_________ 4.one thousand times will have an important effect on your life. For example, if you listen to English only one time, you will not see a big d___________5.in your English study. However, if you listen to English one thousand times o________6.five years’ time, you’ll find you’ve made progress in English. The same applies to适用于health, relationships, work and school.
Everybody can change. A_________7.it takes is courage and persistence毅力.
Decide right now to improve your life by c__________ 8.your habits. Take actions right now! Don’t be afraid. You will probably make mistakes a__________ 9.the way, but never forget that success is there for you if you have good habits in your life. And if you r__________ 10.to give up, success will be yours.
动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。(本大题共8分，每小题1分)
1.He has more difficulty than Bruce __________ (control) his actions.
2.Someone broke into Granny Li’s home yesterday. 
Luckily, she __________(walk) her dog nearby.
3.Lily works 10 hours a day and she ________(pay) 1,000 yuan a week.
4.Our teacher is happy because the rest of her students __________(pass) the exam as well.
5.Finally, he had no choice but _________ (accept) the fact that he failed the maths exam.
6.When he got there, he found the bad living environment they were used to ___________
(improve) a lot in the past two years.
7.Children, be quiet.. Mr Lee _______________(disturb) if you talk so noisily.
8.The teacher told me I ___________ (be) better at English if I tried my best.
根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。
1.Everybody knows people and animals need clean air to ___________(呼吸).
2.Have you heard of the early ___________(移居者)problems on Mars.
3.There are __________ (各种各样的) designs of shoes for shoppers to choose from.
4.One of the __________(缺点) of living in Singapore is that we are not used to the food there.
根据句意，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.Whenever Bill thinks of his pet’s ____________ ( die ), he feels very sad.
2.The scientist died in his ____________(forty). What a pity! He should be taken good care of.
3.Among the four drama series, actors in Special Holiday perform ____________ (badly).
4.Some patients waited ___________(hope)for their turns to see the famous doctor..
When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, at the same time they usually talk about a lot of subjects, including children, men, careers and what’s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen---they can’t do both---and they don’t understand that women can. Besides(此外), women think that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships--not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring (盯着) at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot (the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.) and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the small body language signals that show how the characters are feeling emotionally(情绪上). Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully because they want to keep relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to connect to the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a way of keeping relationship. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing(令人信服的)evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls’ mothers talked them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents reply to the brain differences of their children. Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we talk to them more. As a result, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually pointed to receive only short complaints in reply.
1.While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they ___________.
A. are afraid of silence with their families and friends
B. can both talk and watch the screen at the same time
C. think they can have a good time and develop relationships
D. have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands
2.After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to ___________.
A. experience the happy time again
B. keep a close tie with her
C. recommend her a new wonderful place
D. remind her of something forgotten
3.What does the writer want to tell us most?
A. Women’s brains are better organized for language and communication.
B. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.
C. Men do not like talking because they believe more in facts.
D. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.
4.Which of the following would be the BEST title for the passage?
A. Women Are Socially Trained to Talk
B. Talking Keeps Relationships
C. Women Love to Talk
D. Men Talk Differently from Women
“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment(失望),my mother would say this to me.
After I left college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went 
to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire(雇佣) a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete(运动员)to work for it. I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated(沮丧). “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the lift, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”
1.Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?
A. Because he never graduated from college.
B. Because he didn’t work hard in college.
C. Because he didn’t have much experience.
D. Because he didn’t know about sports.
2.Which of the following is the correct order of events?
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.
A. c b d a B. c b a d C. b c d a D. b c a d
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The writer’s parents didn’t want him to be a sports announcer.
B. There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown.
C. The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer.
D. The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last.
