【1】Turn off the water supply before ______ repairs.

【2】All doubts had been ______.

【3】There’s a list of repairs ______ your arm.

【4】Darren has decided to ______ football at the end of this season.

【5】She couldn’t ______ at her critics.

【6】The report ______ figures from six different European cities.

【7】When the police arrived, the crowd scattered (分散) ______.

【8】______ your hand ______ if you need more paper.

A．a(chǎn); the B．不填; the

C．the; a D．a(chǎn); the

A. a; the B. 不填；不填

C. a; 不填 D. a; a

注意：1. 詞數(shù)不少于60；

2. 短文的開頭已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

The new term began and the school clubs were looking for new members.

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Chinatown CNY Celebrations

Immerse yourself in the rich culture and tradition of the Lunar New Year at the Chinatown CNY Celebrations. The seven-week long festivities include a slew of activities for the young and old alike, with nightly street shows, a festive bazaar (街市), and an international Lion Dance competition.

For two months, the streets of Chinatown will be decorated with lanterns and interesting motifs (圖案), from gold coins to the mythical zodiac animals of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Date: 2 Jan - 22 Feb Venue: Chinatown

Dahlia Dreams

Inspired by the Lunar New Year, this enchanting floral showcase tells the mythological story of the Chinese zodiac animals. Weave your way through the Flower Dome’s elaborate topiary like sculptures, amidst more than 70 dahlia cultivars (品種) and indulge in an unforgettable visual feast. Date: 17 Jan - 23 Feb

Venue: Gardens by the Bay, Flower Dome

Have a Squeaky New Year!

Animal lovers can take a walk on the wild side at this Chinese New Year-themed event, happening across the Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Bark and Night Safari.

Keeping in theme with this year’s Chinese zodiac animal, visitors can check out the gambian pouched rat, clouded rat, speckled mousebird and more.

The event will be accompanied by lion dance performances, themed mascots and a special Zoo-diac trail to reveal your fortune forecast.

Date: 25 Jan - 8 Feb

Venue: Singapore Zoo, River Safari, Jurong Bird Bark and Night Safari

Chingay Parade Singapore 2020

Join Singaporeans as they celebrate the largest street performance and float parade in Asia. An annual celebration of Singapore’s multicultural tapestry (織錦), this year’s entertainment is themed ‘Colours in Harmony’, and will feature a mix of dazzling spectacle and dynamic performances.

Grab some street food and participate in games at the carnival along the parade route, and don’t forget to drop by NS Square for River Hongbao to marvel at the lanterns and fireworks.

Date: 31 Jan – 1 Feb Venue: F1 Pit Building

【1】At the Chinatown CNY Celebrations, people could ______.

A.buy the lanterns and interesting motifs

B.enjoy an international Lion Dance competition

C.hear the mythological story of the Chinese zodiac animals

D.check out the gambian pouched rat and speckled mousebird

【2】Where can visitors see the street performance and float parade?

A.Chinatown.B.Singapore Zoo.

C.Flower Dome.D.F1 Pit Building.

【3】What is the main purpose of the writing?

A.To attract visitors.

B.To describe events.

C.To compare festivals.

D.To evaluate activities.

Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one's knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation (匱乏) labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation.” Loewenstein's theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: it's not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.

Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that we do not devote enough time to developing the question.” Yet it's the question that stimulates (刺激) curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going.

In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. We're not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incomplete information.

Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the student's partner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others' information gaps.

【1】When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he .

A.desires to fill it

B.tends to be afraid

C.might get tired and sad

D.will become focused on his learning

【2】What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article?

A.Answers are more important than questions.

B.Teachers should be eager to get to the answer.

C.Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity.

D.Teachers are partly to blame for students’ hating school.

【3】According to George Loewenstein’s paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you .

A.have read a lot of booksB.know little about something

C.have some related informationD.are given incomplete information

【4】What is the article mainly about?

A.Why students hate school.

B.Why curiosity is important.

C.How to stimulate curiosity.

D.What makes people hungry for knowledge.

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刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（﹨）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下面劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出改正后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞;

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

My family took an amazed trip to the northwest last summer. At the first ,we flew to Lanzhou but then visited the famous Iron Bridge there.We also tasted Lanzhou beef noodles, which were the most delicious noodles I had never had. Two days late， we went to the Mogao caves on the Silk Road. That impressed me most was the fantastic wall paintings. Finally，we reach our final destination，the Qinghai Lake，surrounded by mountains. The scenery was unbelievable beautiful. We found volunteers collecting rubbishes along the bank and we joined them too. Only then I realize we could make a difference to our environment.

Tributes（致哀）poured in last week to the world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose insights 【1】 modern cosmology（宇宙學(xué)）and inspired global audiences in the millions. He died at the age of 76 on March 14.

Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with ALS（肌萎縮性脊髓側(cè)索硬化癥）at the age of 21. The illness left him in a wheelchair and largely 【2】 to speak expect through a voice synthesizer（合成器）. Nevertheless, Hawking completed his doctorate（博士學(xué)位）on the origins of the universe three years later and became a research fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Caius College.

Hawking’s first major 【3】 came in 1970. With mathematician Roger Penrose, Hawking used Einstein’s theory of relativity（相對論）to 【4】 the origins of time and space to singularity（奇點），a single point of zero size and infinite density（無限大的密度）where all the laws of physics would have broken down. Their work gave mathematical expression to the Big Bang theory（創(chuàng)世大爆炸理論）. Hawking was the first to try to 【5】 relativity with quantum mechanics（量子力學(xué)）. In 1974, he put forward that black holes leaked radiation, now known as“Hawking radiation,”and would eventually disappear with a tremendous explosion. The proposal 【6】 to one of the most passionate debates in modern cosmology—before Hawking, it was widely accepted that black holes were completely black and would 【7】 forever.

In 1982, Hawking was among the first to show how tiny changes in the distribution（分布）of matter might give rise to the 【8】 of galaxies（銀河系）in the universe and lay the seeds of stars, planets and life as we know it.

For 30 years, Hawking was Cambridge’s Lucasian professor of mathematics（盧卡斯數(shù)學(xué)教授席位），arguably Britain’s most distinguished chair（席位）and a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton. He received 12 honorary degrees and was awarded a Companion of Honor（英國榮譽(yù)勛位）by Queen Elizabeth in 1989. The 1988 publication of A Brief History of Time won Hawking international 【9】. The book, through which the professor brought complex science to a【10】 audience, has sold at least ten million books in 40 languages.

（1）Whose ancestors do some scientists believe were Egyptians?
A.Gypsies and Maya.
B.Maya and Sumerians.
C.Gypsies and Sumerians.
D.Europeans and Sumerians.
（2）The Maya are thought to .
A.exist on the earth now
B.have 10 million people
C.have no writing system
D.be creative in some fields
（3）What can we learn from the text?
A.The origion of the Maya has been discovered by scientists.
B.The ancestors of the Gypsies left the land of India in the middle ages.
C.The Europeans were thought to be the most mysterious people in the ancient world.
D.The Sumerians were the first to use a wheel in the irrigation system in the Near East.

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刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

We should know how to avoid illnesses. Keeping hands clean are one of the most basic ways to prevent illnesses, especial when COVID-19 is widely spreading. Yesterday I taught my 3-year-old sister what to wash hands properly. Firstly, I made her to wet her hands under running water and apply soap to them. After she rubbed her hands well with soap to at least twenty second, I told her to wash off all of the soap. Lastly, I gave him a clean towel to dry her hands. She was very glad but showed me her clean hands. Look at her smiling face, I felt so happy that I gave her new storybook.