Robert Burns was born   1.   1759 in a poor family with many debts. Encouraged by his first love, Nelly Kirkpatrick, he began to write poems. Soon he achieved great fame after his first book of poetry was published. Famous   2.   he was, he had to earn   3. living by farming. Unfortunately, a hard life and weak health shortened his life. He died   4.  the age of 37 in 1796. In memory of him, people built  5.   statue of him in George Square in Glasgow, Scotland. Besides, his house in Alloway was opened as a museum of his life and work.

Burns was one of the Romantic poets. Influenced   6.    the Romantic Movement, their poetry is full of imagination and strong feelings. Freedom    7.    beauty are the frequent topics.

“A Red, Red Rose” is Burns’s popular poem. It was intended to be a song. He wrote in the same way  8.   which Scottish people spoke back then and was divided into four sections. In the poem symbols like a red rose and a song are used to describe his love.

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1.   If you have a p___________ for Impressionist paintings, you can go to Museum of Modern Art.

2.As they had no children of their own, they a________ an orphan.

3.The car accident has done p________ damage to his leg, and he will never be able to walk.

4.There is no c__________ evidence showing the relationship between H7N9 and the dead pigs in Huangpu River.

5.After 30 years’ struggle, China has been t_________ from an under-developed country to the second biggest economy in the world.

6.I am willing to do anything in e__________ for my freedom.

7.The woman waited for her husband at the mountaintop year after year and e_________ became stone.

8.We should not hold p_______ against homosexuals, for it is just a personal choice.

9.If you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it a_________________.

10.The human activities have seriously threatened the e__________ of many species.

11.Some environmental activists a___________ that nuclear energy should be massively developed to replace the traditional sources of energy.

12.Some scientists still believe that global warming is just a natural p__________.

13.The UN has already b____________ the use of nuclear weapons in the war.

14.Galileo put forward the heliocentric theory and made great c_________ to our understanding of the universe. 

       I was interested to read a newspaper article about a new concept in old people’s homes in France. The idea is simple,    1    revolutionary.——combining ,a residential home for the elderly with a nursery school in the same building. The children and the residents eat lunch together and    2   activities such as music ,painting, gardening, and    3   for the pets which the residents are encouraged to keep .In the afternoons ,the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children ,and    4   a child is feeling sad or tired ,there is always somebody attending to him. There are trips out and birthday parties ,too.

       The   5   are enormous for everyone concerned .The children are happy because they get a lot more individual   6   and respond well because someone has time for them. They also learn that old people are not “different” or frightening in    7   way. And of course ,they see illness and death and learn to   8  them. The residents are happy because they feel   9   and needed .They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance too. And the staff are happy because they see an improvement in the    10   and psychological health or the residents and have an army of assistants to help with the children.

1．A．or                         B．so                       C．nor                     D．but

2．A．share                    B．examine               C．control                D．engage

3．A．asking                   B．sending               C．caring                 D．looking

4．A．though                  B．because               C．unless                 D．if

5．A．advantages            B．actions                C．difficulties           D．comforts

6．A．thought                 B．attention              C．rest                     D．freedom

7．A．no                        B．any                     C．another               D．the

8．A．value                    B．admit                  C．accept                 D．overcome

9．A．useful                   B．faithful                C．powerful             D．skillful

10．A．normal               B．public                  C．economic           D．physical