----How did he finish the work?----I hear that he did it __________

Katie Spotz is a 22-year-old girl form America. She wants to cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat. If she succeeds, she’ll be the youngest and the first American to finish the 2500-mile trip.

Spotz began sailing when she was at university, but she has never tried to sail such a long way before. It will be a great challenge for her. In recent years, she has swum all the way down the 325-mile Allegheny River and traveled by bike form Seattle to Washington.

Spotz knows that she may see some dangerous things during the trip. It will be very dangerous if she meets very bad weather in the middle of the sea. But she believes that she can deal with all the difficulties.

“I never thought I could run 26 miles,” she said. “But once I finished it, I realized that maybe I could do something even more difficult.”

Spotz wants to collect money by going on this trip. She wants to collect money for an organization called “Blue Planet run”. The organization offers free, safe drinking water to people who need it.

It’ll take her about three months to finish this trip. Good luck to this brave girl and best wishes to her!

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
【小题1】We all know there are lots of ______ (advantage) of living on Mars, so we won’t move out of Earth to Mars.
【小题2】______ (hope), we can finish the project before this weekend.
【小题3】Do you think it’s good for them to keep worries which were caused by others to _____ (they), guys?
【小题4】The ______ (strict) the parents are, the more stressed their children will become.

It          me half an hour to finish the work.

选词填空（共10小题；每题2分，满分20分）

从方框中选择恰当的词或短语并用正确的形式填空。

1.No country __________________such great progress as China in the past thirty years.

2.The woman ________________________you if you don’t agree with her.

3.He ________________________________from time to time in the past.

4.The farmers ________________________the trees when the policemen came.

5.The volunteers _______________________________to save the pandas in Sichuan because many of them have disappeared.  

6.It’s _____________for her to finish the task in such a short time.

7.In our society , the old ___________________________by the government.

8.I want to know where ______________________________to solve the problem.

9.If people want to live better, they must pay attention to ___________the pollution

10.He always listens to the teacher____________, so he often fails the exam.