1. bend(v.)               ( 过去式)   2.cycle(v.)       (n.骑自行车的人)

3. possible (adj.)→         (adv.)    4. 词汇，词汇量 →           (n.)                                                                                                                      5. express (n.)→                   (n.)      6. 本身，身份(n.)→            

7. 流利的→           (adj.)      8. important (adj.)→           (n.)                                

9. different(adj.)→          (n.)       10. dust (n.) →               (adj.)

11.当权，上台                   12.故意                            

13.与…相处，进展              14.走进，上来，提出                                                                                                                                                                  15.自从,自…以后               16.改变主意                           

17.两者中的后者          18.信不信由你                     

19.说服某人做某事                          20.照常            

At the end of the 16^th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages              __21__conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to__22__ (speak) in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than__23__before. Native English speakers can understand each other__24__they don’t speak the same kind of English. So why has English changed over__25__?  __26__ (actual) all languages change and develop when cultures meet and__27__with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450__28__1150 was very different__29__the English spoken today. It was based more__30__German than the English we speak at present.

Do you know Australia? Australia is the largest island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. __46__The population of Australia is nearly as large as that of Shanghai. __47__The cities in Australia have got little air or water pollution. The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very well.

Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, and went to a wild flowers’ exhibition. __48__We had a wonderful time. Perth is famous for its beautiful wild flowers. In spring every year Perth has the wild flowers’ exhibition.

After visiting Perth, we spent the day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill. It was quiet and we enjoyed ourselves. Suddenly we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. __49__    There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us down the path.   __50__ 

After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep.

A. The government has made enough laws to fight pollution.

B. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world.

C. Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos.

D. Australia is big, but its population is not large.

E. What we saw made us pick up all our things and run back to the car as

quickly as we could.

F. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before.

G. The people of Australia are very hard-working.

    In my opinion, we should try our best    71    (realize) our goals even though    72   is little hope. The efforts seem to be the lights in the darkness, leading the way to hope and success.
    I used to be    73   shy girl in my primary school. I was weak in English at that time, especially for   74    (speak) English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s questions during English classes. After I entered my dream middle school, something    75    (change). I started to read many    76    (interest) English stories and my English teacher was patient to help me a lot. I studied hard in class and practiced by watching English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little    77   little, I found   78   more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates    79    (fluent) in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had    80    ( confident) to do it better in the future.