Yesterday was my 18th birthday. As father and mother thought it was a big occasion for me, they suggested that I should (61) __________ (hold) a birthday party at home to celebrate it. For several days they had been busy (62) ________ (prepare) for this. By 4 o’clock I was pleased to see all my friends had come (63) ________ a lot of beautiful presents. Mother cooked us a big meal. We (64) ________ (spend) a wonderful night together, eating and talking (65) ___________ (happy). The most exciting moment was when mother put a big birthday cake on the table and all my friends began (66) ______ (sing) Happy Birthday. Seeing the 18 candle burning, I couldn’t keep back my (67)__  ___(tear). Without mother and father’s love, I would not lead such a happy life now. Mother asked me to make a wish (68) ___________ I blew out all the candles. After that, everyone enjoyed the sweet birthday cake and shared my happiness. I am 18 years old now, which means I’ve become an adult and have more responsibility. I’ll try (69)_____ (me) best to return my(70) ________(parent) love and live up to their expectation.
61._____
62._____
63._____
64._____
65._____
66._____
67._____
68._____
69._____
70._____​

　　More than half of all Chinese have a smartphone. They reach for it the moment they wake up， keeping it in hand all day. At    ​61        (party)， more people are on their smartphones than on their drinks. In addition， too many people are using smartphones while        62        (drive). And as a result， many car accidents happen everyday on the road. Drivers confirm that text messaging is their number one driving interruption. Smartphones are unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of        63        (them) and others. As many people take risks just        64       ​ (send) a text or check their messages， smartphones are        65        many ways very dangerous to people.

　　The smartphone        66        (affect) our desire　to communicate face to face with others. Besides， it is lowering people’s competence to communicate. In many cases， some people check or send text messages in the presence of a friend，        67        means that the person they are texting is more important. Most        68        (serious)， relying on smartphones to make friends does not give us        69        same advantage as making new friends in the real world. Face－to－face conversations will give us much        70        (strong) communication skills in the long run.

(在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式，注意：每空至多3个词)

  1   time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a   2  （calculate）machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums, I developed very slowly and it   3  （take）nearly two hundred years before I was built   4   an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was operated by an operator   5   used cards with holes, I could “think”   6  （logic）and produce an answer quicker   7   any person. In 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book about how I could be made   8  （work）as a “universal machine” to solve（解决）any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both ___9____size and in brainpower. By the 1949s I had grown as large as a room. However, this reality also worried my designers. As time went by,  I was made smaller. First as a PC and then as a laptop, I   10  （use）in offices and homes since the 1970s.

　　阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单向)或括号内单问的正确形式．将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置．

　　It is unfair for parents to blame schools for the ____1___ (fail) of their children's education. Many parents do not prepare their children for school， But I think it is up ____2____ the parents to take time to educate their children， beginning with teaching them the ABC， name， address， telephone number， and most ____3____ (important)， manners and respect for others.

　　Knowing how to read builds ____4____ (confident)， and a hunger to learn more， when you are a child. You can't wait until you get a letter from the child's teacher ， ____5____ (tell) you that your child is failing before you step in. You need to prepare that child as early as possible for school.

　　My daughter began reading at the age of three.　Receiving books in the mail ____6____ (strengthen) her desire to learn how to read then. Reading is the key. Once a child learns how to read， it will open up many ____7____ (chance) or self motivation to learn， and every－thing comes easy for that child ____8____ knows how to　read.

　　Just don't he ____9____ absentee(缺席的) parent. Once children get well ____10____ (educate)， that is something no one can ever take away from them.