阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文生各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

At the present time, more and more people love travelling. It’s a very good     of getting to know new people and cultures and acquiring (获得) experiences. It helps travelers     a lot. Travel can make our minds become     .

But travel does more than all that. It can also make us more creative. In recent years, some professors have been doing research on what many people have already learned from travel experiences. They believe that spending time abroad has the        to affect (影响) people’s mind. For example, they found that the students who lived abroad for a longer period were better at       problems creatively than those who did not. If you stay in the same place, you can’t experience new sights, new smells, new sounds and new cultures. All these can     your mind and make it more active.

      , that doesn’t mean the more places you’ve been, the more creative you’ll become. Another group of professors have been doing     research. They found the people who often travelled from one place to another didn’t have enough     to immerse（使……沉浸）themselves in a new place and a new culture. They weren’t as creative as the people who spent the time     getting to know a place. You have to interact（相互影响）with the places you go to and then you can benefit（得益）from it.

If you go travelling. which do you prefer, staying in a place for a certain period or rushing all the way ?

1.A. way                B. area                C. sign            D. state

2.A. present            B. produce             C. get            D. check

3.A. thicker           B. smoother            C. wider          D. healthier

4.A. ability           B. possibility         C. personality    D. difficulty

5.A. solving           B. causing             C. controlling     D. spreading

6.A. set up            B. wake up             C. turn up         D. clean up

7.A. Instead           B. Otherwise           C. Moreover        D. However

8.A. secret            B. rapid             C. common        D. similar

9.A. interest          B. money              C. time            D. quality

10.A. nearly            B. probably          C. hardly          D. really

—Never give up. If you keep practicing speaking English every day. you’ll make great progress.

---Thanks for encouraging me. I know       .

A. practice makes perfect

B. it never rains but it pours

C. many hands make light work

D. the grass is always greener on the other side

– Mum, the visit to the science museum is so wonderful.

-- Really? Could you tell me       ?

A. that you did and saw there

B. when you come back

C. how did you get there

D. if you saw models of spacecraft there

– The radio says there will be a rainstorm this weekend, so we have to cancel the hiking to Nanshan.

--     I’m looking forward to it.

A. Never mind.          B. What a pity!

C. My pleasure.         D. No problem.

—Hi, I didn’t see you at the party in the company yesterday evening.

-- Oh, all my family      my son’s birthday at home.

A. celebrated        B. have celebrated

C. was celebrating   D. were celebrating

The young firemen were so brave that they       the fire and saved the children in that house.

A. put in               B. put on               C. put out       D. put up

—Will you watch the program Running Man in Zhejiang Star-TV tonight?

-- Yes, of course. It      one of the most popular shows since last October.

A. was           B.became

C. has been      D.has became

The new film The Left Ear      by Su Youpeng a few months ago, who is also a famous singer.

A. is directed    B. was directed

C. directed       D.directs

—Does your school hold the raising of the national flag every Monday morning?

---Yes,       it rains heavily.

A. if                B. since

C. because           D. unless

– Does your aunt only have a piece of bread for supper?

--Yes. She eats a little      . She looks slimmer than before.

A. to save money      B. to lose weight

C. saving money       D. losing weight