This is the best way I can think of _______you improve your spoken English.

A. help       B. helps        C. to help   D. helping

—Can you tell me _________ it is from here to the Summer Palace?

—Let me see. It's about 15 minutes' ride.

A. how far           B. how soon

C. how much         D. how long

—The population of China ________ 1.3 billion. And it is becoming _________.

A. is, more and more                 B. is, larger and larger

C. are, more and more                D. are, larger and larger

—Did you find your English dictionary yesterday?

—No, I didn’t find ________, but I’ve borrowed ______ from the school library.

A. it; it B. it; one C. one; it D. one;

The robot needs _______nce a month. And we will check it for you for free.

A. to check        B. be checked     C. checking      D. check

—_______ terrible mess you have made!

— Sorry. I will clear it up right now.

A. What       B. How       C. How a   D. What a

Christopher Columbus was ______ explorer from ______ European country.

A. a; an        B. an; an       C. a; a       D. an; a

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上周日我和Sandy去野生动物园参观，了解到很多动物的生存现状，想在School newsletter上发文呼吁同学们共同保护动物。请就下面表格提示内容写一篇80词左右的短文。

内容提示：

注意：

1.  短文须包括所有提示内容，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；

2. 第5个要点的内容须展开合理想象，适当发挥1-2句；

3. 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Last Sunday, Sandy and I went to the Wildlife Park. _______________________________

完成句子 根据所给汉语，用英文完成下列句子

1.由于洪水，当地政府给我们提供了食物和净水。

The local government _______ us _______ food and clean water because of the _______.

2.我想知道人们是否怜悯这些需要救助的动物。

I wonder if people _______ _______ _______ the animals in need.

3.每年这个时候厚厚的积雪笼罩万物，打雪仗真是欢乐无穷！

Everything _______ _______ in _______ snow and it’s fun to play snowball fights at this  time of year.

4.整日无休止的工作使他积劳成疾。

Working all day long without any rest _______ _______ his _______.

5.我们要尽可能勤加练习以使它日臻完美。

We should __________________________ to make it perfect day by day.

6.这台机器一开始就报废了。

The machine __________________________.

阅读填空 先通读下文，根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，每空限填一词。

What do you read when you are travelling by train or bus? What are other people reading? Perhaps a woman sitting near you is reading a love story. A man is reading a serious biography(自传) about a president. And there’s a student reading an English textbook.

What do their choices(选择) say about them? Do you think you can know them by what they are reading? I have got to tell you that your feelings of them may be quite wrong. The woman reading the love story could be a lawyer. She just wants a light read to take her mind off work. The man reading the biography wants you to think that he is very clever. The student reading the textbook isn’t a student at all. She’s an English teacher.

Publishers(出版商) know that some people care what they read on trains or buses and so they put out different types of covers. For example, books about Harry Potter have a cartoon cover for young readers and then another more serious cover for grown-ups.

So next time you are on a train, look around and see what other people are reading, but don’t jump to any conclusions(结论). You will be wrong maybe.

Here is a sentence that you could say, “Don’t judge(判断) a book by its cover”.