閱讀短文并按每小題的要求答題。

In the past twenty years, riding bicycles has become more and more popular among people of all ages. (1) Bicycles have long played an important part in the lives of American young people.But today an even greater number of adults cycle along roadsides and bicycle paths.These new riders are often trying to become fit or lose weight. They have found that bicycling is a pleasant way to stay healthy.

    This is certainly good for health. But it has also brought some problems. With all these added people on the road, bicycle safety has become a matter of real importance.

    Bicycle safety is mostly a matter of common sense. People should ride only on bicycle paths where they will not be badly hurt. There are also a number of rules that riders should follow,especially when riding on streets or highways. Bicyclists should never ride against the traffic,nor should they carry other people on their bicycles. They are also supposed to ride in single line on busy streets and to walk bicycles across the busy intersections（交叉路口）．(2)By following these rules, bicycle riders will___ _____ stay healthy_____ ______be safe.

    In one recent year, the National Safety Council reported that 34 thousand bicycle riders were hurt in highway accidents. In the same year,another six hundred riders were killed. Since the introduction of crash helmets(頭盔)in 1980,the number of injuries(傷者)and deaths from bicycling accidents had gone down. Today, more and more riders realize the dangers of bicycling. They are wearing helmets and paying closer attention to cycling rules.

1.將畫線句子(1)譯成中文。

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2.在(2)句的空白處分別填入兩個適當的詞，使旬意完整、上下文通順。

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3.回答問題：According to the National Safety Council’s report,what’s the total number of injuries and deaths in one year?

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4.在文中找出與“Riders should follow a number of rules."意思相近的句子。

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5.在文中找出最能表達該短文主題的句子。

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根據所給的首字母填寫單詞

This story took place more than 2,000 years ago. There was a young farmer. His family had been farmers for generations（世代）. Year a 1. year and generation after generation,farmers used to plant in spring and h2.   in autumn, beginning to work at sunrise and finishing work at s 3.  . In good harvest years,they could only have enough food to eat and enough clothing to w 4.    .If there was a famine（饑荒） due to(由于) crop failure, they had to go hungry. This young farmer wanted to i 5.   his life. Being lazy and cowardly over everything,he often dreamed of having unexpected result. A strange thing t 6.   place at last. One day in late autumn, two groups of people were hunting nearby while he was ploughing in the field. As shoutings were rising one after a 7.    ,scared hares（野兔） were running desperately. Suddenly,a hare clashed(撞) itself against the stump of a dead tree in his field and died. That day, he ate his fill. From that day on,he no longer went in for farming a8.   . From morning till n 9.   ,he stayed by that stump, waiting for miracles(奇跡) to take place again.

   Later people often use the set phrase "staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and clash t  10.     against it to show trusting to chance and wind falls or dreaming to reap（收獲） without planting. It is also used to show adhering（依附，堅持） to narrow experiences and not being able to be flexible（靈活的）.

霧霾最近成為人們最常談論的話題，請根據你所了解的知識，寫一篇不少于80字的保護環(huán)境的短文。

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan, ______ famous Chinese writer. And he is ______ first Chinese to win the prize.

A. a, a                B. a, the           C. the, the            D. the, a

Last week, they held the charity show to raise money for the ______ of the earthquake.

A. witness          B. suspects                  C. criminals                 D. victims

Jack is a successful writer. He devotes all his energy ______ the novels.  

A. to writing                         B. to write                   C. write                        D. written

I wonder ______ he is a young teacher or a student. Could you tell me?

A. what                      B. that              C. whether              D. if

He was charged ______ robbing a bank. Also he was guilty ______ other crimes.

A. with, with            B. of, of         C. with, of         D. of, with

He took down the old map on the wall and ______ a new one instead.

A. put down        B. put on        C. put off             D. put up     

This programme takes ______ the Asian tigers.

A. a close look      B. close look                C. a close look at        D. close look at