The Amber Room ______________(装饰) with gold and jewels took the countries best artists about 10 years.

The world-famous director，three of _________ movies won Oscar Awards，is reported to have retired.

In our class there are 46 students，__________whom half wear glasses.

（1） I am                (terrible)sorry about that.

（2） It is his positive attitude             life that makes me admire him.

（3）While        (recover) from his operation ,David developed an interest in paper-cutting.

（4）The restaurant             (base) on trust is working all right.

（5） We offer our            (congratulate ) to you on your passing the exam.

（6） Food             (transport) to the places since earthquakes happened there.

（7） They told us they           (prefer) to walk rather than ride bikes to school.

（8）The           (determine) look on her face suggested that he wouldn’t give up easily.

（9）Mary is an excellent photographer ,       pictures have appeared in many magazines.

（10） He has five children, two of           are doctors.

A：Did you watch the CCTV news yesterday?

B：No. Anything56 __________(interest)

A：Absolutely. At present, a new town named “ Silk Town”57 _______________(build) near our school.

B：Really? What for?

A: Well, silk has so long a history in Huzhou 58__________ it has a great effect on people’s life. However, silk        industry has fallen down in the past decades,59 ________ which people feel sorry. So the government decided to    build the town to develop this traditional industry.

B: It must be a great attraction. Wish I could see it earlier.

A: 60_________, there is a big park in the town.

B: Then why not pay a visit after class.

A：Good idea! And the tulips(郁金香) in Xishanyang Park 61_________(come) out already, and we can appreciate    62 _____________as well.

B：Sound nice, but do you know its exact location? It’s said that many visitors63 ____________(lose) last week.

A：Of course. I live nearby, so I’m familiar64 __________ every path here.

B：No wonder you walk to school65 ________ than take a bus.

Last weekend as I was riding in the bike lane alongside the truck, we reached a crossing and it turned to the right,   (1)  (hit) me and my bicycle. Even more upsetting was the fact   (2)   the driver didn’t stop afterward.   (3)  (luck), I was not injured and my bicycle was damaged, but still usable.

Even days after I reported the event to the police, they failed to   (4)  (proper) solve this situation or even return my calls. Eventually, I decided   (5)  (contact) University Student Legal Services for help about this matter. The small damage may not seem worth all   (6)   trouble, but what if I had been seriously   (7)  (injure)? Will anyone see punishment for breaking traffic laws and damaging my property?

Unfortunately, my experience is common, and   (8)  (accident) between bikes and cars occur far too often. A comprehensive study   (9)  (report) that of the nearly 3,000 cyclist-motorist crashes that occurred between 2000 and 2010, about 20 percent were hit-and-runs.

Bicycles are held to the same standards as motor vehicles in most cases,   70__   means that cyclists must obey all the traffic rules, and also have the right to get damages in the accidents. I urge both cyclists and motorists to become familiar with their rights and duties when sharing the roads.

  In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my __61__ (disappoint), it was the same score.

    Later that evening, I tearfully told Frank __62__ I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our son much __63__ (good) than the IQ test. We decided that Michael's score must have been a mistake and we should treat him naturally __64__ usual.

    We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got good __65__ (grade) in the school, especially __66__ biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.

    Michael entered Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him __67__ (take) more courses than require D. In 1968, he __68__ (accept) by the School of Medicine, Yale University.

    Interestingly, Michael then asked for another IQ test. We went to the same clinic, __69__ he had received __70__ test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be impossible.

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    Polar bears are suffering in a61.         (warm) world than ever before.

   Polar bears live in environments too cold for most animals.Formuch of the year,

they live on the62.            (freeze)Arctic sea ice. Nature has preparedthemfor the

cold conditions. But nothing has prepared the bears for the danger 63.           threats

the only home they know.

The polar bears’ world is melting. Studies show that the polar ice has reduced by 9.8% every 10 years 64.       1978. Now about 20000 to 25000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for65.        (them)survival.“The sea ice66.     (be)the onlyplatform that the bears walk over,”says Andrew Derocher,a scientist who studies North American polar bear populations.“67.________it, they can’t exist.”

Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural.Butin a warmer world, these

Mr. Brown was tired of living in the big city  (1)  he worked. He wanted to move to

    the country and live in a house from which he could get to his office in the city early every day. He   (2)   ( look ) for a house when he saw an advertisement in a newspaper one day. The advertisement said that a suitable house in a quiet area was up for sale at a   (3)  ( reason ) price, and the house was within a stone’s throw of a railway station from which there were frequent  (4)   ( train ) to the big city .

        “That’s exactly   (5)   I need,” Mr. Brown said to himself. So he called the house agency and arranged to go by train the next day   (6)   ( have ) a look at the house.

The house agency met him at the station and they started walking. It   (7)   ( take ) them at least 15 minutes to get to the house. When they finally arrived, Mr. Brown said   (8)  ( angry ), “I should be very   (9)   ( interest ) to meet the man who threw the stone you mentioned in     (10)   newspaper.