根据句意及提示写出所缺单词的正确形式

1. After a long day's hard work, feeling e________，he dropped down into an armchair.

2. They were forced to a________ plan because it was not practical.

3．I have to pick up my daughter from the k______after work.

4．It is a long d______from Hainan to Beijing.If you take a train，you will feel very tired.

5. Three men were lifted from the burning ship by a h________.

6．They stopped at the top of the hill to enjoy the beautiful ________(风景)．

7. After Mike was ________(面试)，the personal manager decided to hire him to work in their company.

8．My friend Mike is a(n) ________(专家) on the population problem.

9．He is choosing a(n) ________(钻石) ring for his wife's birthday.

10. We have helped them build 36 ________(体育场). And we will continue to do so in the future.

选择短语，并用其适当形式完成下列句子

get off    be out of  date   know about   shoot  at   be short for   take off

1．The plane ________ from the airport and headed north towards Zhengzhou.

2. He ________the target but missed it.

3．Cassette tape recorders ________now. Fewer and fewer people are using them.

4．NATO ________ North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

5．How much do you ________ Singapore? And why do you want to work here?

6．Not until I ________ the bus did I realize that I had left my bag with my laptop on the bus.

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Hiring a self­drive car really adds to the enjoyment of your holiday.There are so many places of interest to visit，and if you enjoy seeing more than just the city center there's no better way to explore than by car.

Condition of Hire

The shortest rental period at these specially low prices is three days.For prices for periods of one or two days you only see our representative at the hotel.

Car hire must be booked six weeks or more before arrival in London to guarantee a car.But if you have been unable to make a booking in advance，please see our representative at the hotel who may still be able to help you.

The car types on the sheet are examples of the types cars in each price range，but a particular car cannot be guaranteed.

Upon delivery the driver(s) will be asked to sign the car hire company's Conditions of Hire.

If you decide to hire a car，just fill in the Booking From and return it to us.A booking fee of ￡12 as part of the car hire cost is required.

Should you be forced to cancel your car hire booking after payment in full (two weeks before date of hire)，a cancellation charge of ￡12 will be made.

1．From the advertisement we can see a car hirer will pay________.

A．insurance against damage to the car

B．insurance against injury to the driver

C．the cost of maintenance of the car

D．the cost of repairs to the car

2．Which of the following is NOT true judging from the advertisement?

A．Such an advertisement most likely appears in a newspaper.

B．You are required to fill in a form before you hire a car.

C．You are pretty certain to hire a particular car if you'd like to.

D．You have to pay a booking fee when you hire a car from the company.

3．If car hirers change their minds after paying the whole cost of hiring，the ￡12 booking fee is________.

A．partly returned

B．doubly paid

C．not returned at all

D．returned within two weeks

What a father had done now has been redone by his son. US video game magnate(大亨) Richard Garriott headed into space aboard a Russian rocket watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.

The Russian Soyuz TMA­13 spacecraft lifted off in clear weather from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe(大草原)  just after 1 pm local time.

A video game developer from Texas, Garriott paid $ 30 million to fly into space alongside US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov.

Garriott's father, Owen, watched the launch through telescopes on an observation platform and Garriott's girlfriend, Kelly Miller, burst into tears. “I am very happy for him. It is one of the things he really wanted to do，” Miller said as others opened  champagne to celebrate the successful launch.

 “I can see he is really enjoying it like a little kid in the candy shop , ”  Miller said.

  Space officials said the Soyuz rocket had reached orbit (轨道)  safely  and  would  dock  with  the International Space Station (ISS) in about two days.

“He made it; he made it into orbit. It is marvelous，” said Owen Garriott, a physicist who was selected as an astronaut by NASA for his scientific background. He spent 60 days in space in 1973 and another 10 days in 1983.

     After 12 days in space Garriott will return to earth with the ISS's former crew on Soyuz ,  a three­person re­entry capsule(返回舱) which has broken down on its last two flights back to earth.

1. Who are the passengers except Richard Garriott in the spacecraft?

①Owen Garriott　②Michael Fincke

③Yury Lonchakov　④Kelly Miller

A．①②　　　　　　　　B．②③

C．③④  D．①④

2. What was the reason for Richard Garriott's space travel?

A. His father used to be an excellent astronaut.

B. He planned to explore a game about the space.

C. He wanted to make his dream come true.

D. He got too much expectation from his father.

3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word  “dock” ?

A. join together  B. fly together

C. explore together  D. run together

4. Which of the following about the Soyuz spacecraft is TRUE?

A. It has been launched into space with Richard Garriott successfully.

B. Owen Garriott once was brought into the space by this spacecraft.

C. The Soyuz re­entry capsule has not made a mistake until this flight.

D. Garriott made a second attempt to fly back to earth on Soyuz.

5. In which part of the newspaper will you probably find this passage?

A. Travel.  B. Education.

C. Science.  D. Business.