阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示；2)首字母提示；3)语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。

A lot of hiking holidays sound e_____________, 1.___________

but the r___________(现实)is often very different. 2.__________

Hiking trips can be _________(不舒适的)and even  3.___________

dangerous.However,at A________2000 we feel that we 4.__________

understand the n______of hikers.All our guides have5.___________

several years of __________(经验) in       6.__________

__________(带领)hiking trips in the Himalayas.   7.___________

They know all the best_________(路线)and the best   8.___________

places to camp.We also realize that hiking can be hard

work and believe that hikers need our help.As well as

the group guide,all teams have cooks and porters.While

on the hiking trip,our cooks prepare__________(可口的) 9.___________

meals.And our porters carry your_________(行李),which10.___________

means that you can simply enjoy the hiking action.

 单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）
【小题1】The ________(大多数) of lone parents are divorced or separated women.            
【小题2】We enjoyed the beautiful sceneries and spent a(n)________(难忘的) day.     
【小题3】In this tourist ________(指南) to Italy, the best time to go there is June.
【小题4】 The garden was large, _______ (包围)by a high wall and shaded by thick trees.
【小题5】 I’m _______(极度) sorry to have troubled you.    
【小题6】It’s very _______(泄气) that every time I try to ride a bicycle I fall off.
【小题7】 He told his father ________(诚实地) the whole story which happened to him yesterday.
【小题8】I sent Alex to bed early as a _______(惩罚) for breaking the window.
【小题9】The novelist is also a ________(有天赋的) pianist. 
【小题10】He was afraid to meet many ________(失败) on his way to success. 

 Dae Jang Geum 《大长今》 is a hot new Korean TV series. Because of this series, my personal status (地位) and living standard have been greatly     . My girlfriend used to cook every evening. Well, now she does nothing but        in front of the TV when she’s not       , and orders me, “You --- go and make some instant noodles. Come and watch the play and just imagine we are enjoying Korean        .”

         She once swore (发誓) to        all Korean dishes in Dae Jang Geum. So she ordered me to        the TV and record any details of Jang Geum’s cooking. But when she presented her version of Korean food, it was like the dog-meal. “You can        get things done if you find the right tool,” my girlfriend blamed her terrible kitchen performances on        . So I decided to       her a new kitchen knife. In a store, she became unusually         when making her selection. She finally picked one that was        Jang Geum’s. To prove that her slow knife skill was because of the blunt (钝的) knife, she         her cutting. As a result, she hurt her fingers three times. Fortunately the knife was not         the salesman boasted (吹嘘).

         My girlfriend is a fan of Jang Geum’s Korean        . Not only did she talk about the dress every day, she also threatened to change my tie into a  butterfly knot(蝴蝶结) like the one on Jang Geum’s dress. Finally, I lost my patience and took her to a maternity (孕妇装) shop where I recommended one suit to her, “Do you think it looks like a(n)       dress?”  Coincidently(巧合地)   , her parents just happened to be shopping at the time. They were         when they saw what we were doing.

         The Dae Jang Geum series         encouraging the youth to realize their ambition(雄心,抱负). However, it fails to realize my girlfriend’s.         being engaged in her work or study, she simply sits on the sofa every night, staring at       , a bag of chips in her hand. This situation has          even though the series is now over.

1.A. increased                    B. degraded                         C. risen                                 D. raised

2.A. stand                    B. lay                                     C. seat                                   D. sit

3.A. at work                         B. at table                    C. on leave                           D. on business

4.A. fruits                    B. vegetables                       C. dishes                               D. cakes

5.A. eat                                 B. learn                                 C. cook                                  D. perform

6.A. stand for             B. go by                                 C. pass by                    D. stand by

7.A. easily                   B. hardly                               C. difficultly                          D. carefully

8.A. her fork                        B. her spoon                        C. her knife                          D. her pan

9.A. buy                       B. borrow                    C. lend                                  D. fetch

10.A. careless                      B. angry                                C. patient                              D. modest(谦虚)

11.A. better than                B. the closest shape of       C. sharper than          D. taken from

12.A. speeded up               B. slowed down                   C. brought down                 D. improved

13.A. as fast as           B. as dull as                          C. as slow as                         D. as sharp as

14.A. diet style           B. dish flavor                        C. dressing style                  D. cooking style

15.A. Chinese        B. Korean            C. English            D. American

16.A. quite encouraged    B. pretty satisfied                C. very pleased          D. pretty shocked

17.A. shoots at           B. aims at                     C. directs at                          D. works at

18.A. In spite of                   B. Because of                       C. Instead of                         D. In case of

19.A. me            B. herself            C. the TV             D. nothing

20.A. changed little   B. turned a lot                     C. developed a little          D. improved a lot

填空

1.Paris is the capital and largest city of France,________ (坐落在)on the River Seine.

2.Fires caused by the California Earthquake did the most___________(损失).

3.F__________(幸运地), we put all the fires out quite quickly.

4.Confucius is the philosopher whose_______(影响) is the greatest.

5.Mencius was a thinker whose teachings were very________ (类似；相似) to those of Confucius.

6.Our teacher often stresses the___________ (重要性) of studying English.

7.You are___________(绝对地；完全地) right.

8.The earthquake in 1956 a________(影响) eight provinces.

9.The_________(以前的) owner of the flat is an old man.

10.Many people were made____________(无家可归的) after the earthquake.

11.The flood hit the city yesterday , __________(造成) three deaths.

12.We must protect____________(环境).

13.We___________ (经历) a lot of difficulty in selling our house the other day.

14.s.

15.This river is one of the most p___________ (受到污染的) areas in that region.