一、词汇运用
1. You may find it boring to learn English ______ (), but it's important.
2. The visitors couldn't understand the seller because she spoke in Changzhou ______ ().
3. It's ______ () that it will rain in the afternoon, so you'd better bring an umbrella.
4. The more you practise, the better ______ () you will have.
5. Most readers are not patient enough to read such a long ______ ().
6. The first and the last ______ () in a speech are very important.
7. Could you please speak a little more ______ ()? I can't follow you.
8. After moving abroad (到国外) alone, he has to depend on ______ () for everything.

() 1.— What do you think of learning Chinese, David?
— In fact, I find hard to learn Chinese well in a short time.

A.that
B.one
C.it
D.this

() 2.Dance is not just a form of art, but also a language which tells stories ______ body.
A.towards
B.over
C.past
D.through

() 3.Please keep as ______ as possible while watching birds, as noise will make them afraid and fly away.
A.quiet
B.quieter
C.quietly
D.most quietly

() 4.— The weather was not good enough last weekend for our picnic.— Yes! But today it is a lot ______, so we can go now!
A.good
B.well
C.better
D.best

() 5.To keep students healthy and make sure they ______ their studies, our school makes some rules to limit (限制) mobile phone use.
A.work out
B.deal with
C.focus on
D.go with

() 6.The shop is open every day, so the shopkeeper works on weekends ______ weekdays.
A.beside
B.besides
C.above
D.towards

三、动词填空
1. The singer spent the whole last year ______ () his new songs.
2. In order ______ () the plane, they set off early in the morning.
3. The harder we work, the more we ______ () our study.
4. — Is Mr Lu at home?
— Sorry, you can't reach him now because he ______ () by the riverside.
5. — Who ______ () the first computer? — Not sure. Let's turn to the internet.
6. We are all looking forward to ______ () the writer's book.
7. We are thinking about finding a local man ______ () us in the hiking trip.
8. I ______ () the chicken on the farm in the vacation. It was so interesting.
9. — When can I see Mr He? — I will let you know if he ______ () his meeting.
10. How soon ______ you ______ (, ) these books?

四、还原信息
Do you speak a dialect in daily life? While many Chinese speak Putonghua, some local dialects are in danger of disappearing (消失). 1. ______ It started the Chinese Language Resources (资源) Protection Project (工程) a few years ago.
This project looks at how people talk in 1 712 places. Their languages include 103 dialects that are almost gone. 2. ______ In the online library, people can learn dialects.
Why is it important to protect the dialect culture? According to Harold Palmer, an expert (专家) who studies language, dialects are a key to protecting local culture. 3. ______
Scholar (学者) Zhang Hongming talked about these worries of the disappearance of dialects. Now in the Wu dialect areas, some children aged 6 to 15 can understand but can't speak the local dialect. 4. ______ If this keeps happening, the dialect might disappear.
So how did China make this big library? Over five years, more than 350 universities (大学) and research groups joined in, along with over 4 500 experts and more than 6 000 dialect speakers.
5. ______ This includes creating online tools like apps and mobile dictionaries (词典) to help people learn dialects.
A. This project hasn't been carried out.
B. The project is now entering its second part.
C. What do you think of the disappearance of dialects?
D. Dialects really show the history and the culture of an area.
E. What did the Chinese government(政府) do to save them?
F. Young people above 15 years old sometimes speak it, but not well.
G. The project has helped China build the largest language resource library in the world.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.