短文填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词在答题卷上必须完整写出，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共5分，每格0.5分）
Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people e 【小题1】   try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names r 【小题2】   in the Guinness Book of Records.
Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled a bathtub 145 kilometres for 24 hours. This group had 13 m 【小题3】   . They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28^th and 29^th, 1983. A month l 【小题4】   , a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometres in j 【小题5】   minutes. However, the distance record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edingburg pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometres in 1979. It took the team 35 days to c 【小题6】   the distance.
Another group of record makers held the h 【小题7】   dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28^th , 1989. The climbers t 【小题8】   a dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top of the mountain, they had to c 【小题9】   warm clothes to have dinner.
People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be k 【小题10】  in the Guinness Book of Records.

The world has many beautiful sounds. We can hear the songs of birds and the laugh of people. We can listen to the cool music and news reports. And it’s all because of our ears! They bring us a world of sounds.
But some people can’t hear any sound at all. Some are born deaf. Others can hear well in their childhood, but too many loud sounds hurt their ears later on.
Many people in China can’t hear ordinary sounds clearly. A large number of them are children. Most of them are born with good hearing. But six children of every 1,000 have hearing problems when they are born. And if a child has hearing problems, he or she usually will also have some learning problems at school.
A lot of things can cause hearing problems. For example, too much earwax is not good for our hearing. And noise louder than 85 decibels (分贝) can hurt our ears and make us lose our hearing for a short time or even for ever.
Hearing is important for all of us. So we should do our best to give our ears special care. Don’t forget to do the following:
● Try to stay away from places with too much noise. If you have to go, wear earplugs. A pair of good earplugs can cut the noise by 30 decibels.
● When swimming, remember to put earplugs into your ears to stop water from getting in.
● Never put anything sharp into your ears. If you think you have too much earwax, ask your mum or dad to help you clean it out.
Keep these things in mind! Then you won’t be saying “WHAT? WHAT?” when you are older.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “earwax” mean in the passage?

More and more Chinese people go traveling abroad during these years. But not all tourists behave well in theplaces of    51   . Recently, a story about a 15-year-old Chinese tourist    52    a heated discussion online.

The 15-year-old teenager carved “Ding Jinhao was here”    53    Chinese in the 3,500-year-old Luxor Temple(卢克索神庙). A Chinese traveler took a    54    and shared it on Sina Weibo on May 24.

Many people were    55    about what Ding had done and decided to search the Internet for the boy. It    56    them just one day to find information about him in Nanjing.    57   , Ding’s parents quickly said sorry to the media. “We want to say sorry to the Egyptian people and to people   58    have paid attention to this matter across China,” Ding’s mother said.

Ding’s parents said they should    59    it and their son had learned his lesson.

According to Xinhua, local Egyptians had worked to try and    60    the sculpture(雕像). Although there was some improvement, the words could not be totally wiped off.

1.A. luck          B. interest       C. joy

2.A. has caused           B. has closed          C. has avoided

3.A. of                  B. with           C. in

4.A. photo           B. rest             C. look

5.A. strict            B. angry               C. happy

6.A. cost      B. took                 C. spent

7.A. After that             B. Just now          C. So far

8.A. whose          B. which              C. who

9.A. forget          B. face                 C. find

10.A. make        B. buy        C. clean

选词填空
(he,  the,  grow,  high,  until,  one,  fail,  loud,  speech,  when)
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he climbed and measured 【小题1】__________ highest mountain then known to man—29,000 feet straight up. He was spoken 【小题2】__________ of for his efforts when he came back. He even made advertisements for big companies. However, 【小题3】__________ we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.
You see, in 1952 he tried to climb Mount Everest, but【小题4】__________. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to give a 【小题5】__________ to its members. Hillary was given a warm welcome【小题6】__________ walking on stage. People there thought him as a hero, but Edmund Hillary saw 【小题7】__________ as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the side of the stage.
He lifted one hand and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a【小题8】__________voice, “Mount Everest, you beat me the 【小题9】__________ time, but I’ll beat you the next time because you’ve 【小题10】__________all you are going to grow, but I'm still growing!”

When you read an article you will understand and remember it better if you can work out how the writer has put the ideas together．Sometimes a writer puts ideas together by asking questions and then answering them．For example，if the article is about groundhogs（土拨鼠），the set of questions in the writer’s head might be：
What does a groundhog look like？
Where do groundhogs live？
What do they eat？…
In the article，the author might answer those questions．
Sometimes an author writes out her questions in the article．These questions give you signals．They tell you what the author is going to write next．Often an author has a question in her head but she doesn’t write it out for you．You have to work out her question for yourself．Here’s a sample reading for you to practice this method.
Earthworms
Do you know how many kinds of earthworms there are？There are about 1800 kinds in the world！ They can be brown，purple，green．They can be as small as 3 cm long and as large as 3 m long．
The best time to see earthworms is at night，especially a cool，damp night．That’s when they come up from their burrows（地洞）to hunt for food．Earthworms don’t like to be in the sun．That’s because they breathe through their skin，and they can’t breathe if their skin gets too dry．Earthworms must come out of the earth if it rains a lot，because they can't breathe in their flooded burrows．What a dangerous life！
Earthworms don't have eyes，so how can they tell when it's dark？ They have special places on their skin that are sensitive to light．These spots tell whether it’s light or dark．If you shine a flashlight on an earthworm at night，it will quickly disappear into the ground．
Earthworms don't have ears either，but they can hear by feeling movements in the earth．If you want to hear like an earthworm，lie on the ground with your fingers in your ears．Then have a friend stamp his or her feet near you．This is how earthworms feel birds and people walking，and moles digging，near them．
Earthworms are useful．Farmers and gardeners like having lots of earthworms in their land because the worms help to make better soil when they dig．That digging keeps the soil loose and airy（通风的）．In one year earthworms can pile up as much as 23,000 kg of castings in an area about the size of a football field．
【小题1】What’s the purpose of reading Earthworms?