(   ) 7. Thanks to the barking dog,the thief was       and we didn't lose anything.

A. got away    B. broken away    C. scared away    D. taken away

(   ) 6. The school should spend some time training students to        in any emergency, especially with all in the buildings.

A. test out    B. bring out    C. squeeze out    D. help out

(   ) 5. His        description of his adventure in the forest made us want to have a try ourselves.

A. magic    B. vivid    C. relevant    D. awesome

(   ) 4. The final score of the basketball match was 93 ： 94. We were only       beaten.

A. nearly    B. slightly    C. narrowly    D. lightly

(   ) 3. Cutting grass for her pigs，Mrs. Zhang        someone killing the little trees on the

side of the hills and called the police.

A. witnessed    B. threw    C. urged    D. sucked

(   ) 2,1 don' t want any reward for my help;I gave it        out of friendship.

A. properly    B. purely    C. strictly    D. conversely

(   ) 1. The steel output of the company has reached a( an)        figure of one million tons， that is to say，the company has been able to produce one million tons of steel per year.

A. opposite    B. neat      C. sharp    D. annual

当今社会，老年人的看护问题越来越引起人们的关注。假设你是某电器公司的职员，你的公司顺应社会需求，适时推出了一款家用机器人。该机器人的主要功能有：

1. 在固定的时间做饭，时间可按需调整；

2. 陪老人聊天、下棋、做运动等；

3. 及时处理突发事件，如老人病时，拨呼救电话等。

请根据以上内容写一份发言稿，在新闻发布会上向大家推荐公司的这一新产品。注意:①词数为120左右;

②内容可适当发挥，注意行文连贯；

③短文开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。参考词汇：突出的，显著的prominent

Ladies and gentlemen，thank you for attending our company' s news conference. As you know,

Charlie was a rich boy who had more toys than you could imagine. His family had a lot of money， and 1    he liked something,they would buy it for him. Then,he had no idea what things cost,and wouldn，t 2    to take care of what he had. Nor did he realise how difficult it was for other children to get toys like the ones he had.

A time came,though, when he was 3    used to all his toys and various stuff that he began

to want something 4   . One of his uncles found a fine horse and he gave it to Charlie. Charlie was very 5   at having a horse. He had never got something like that before.

However, he 6   the horse just as badly as he did all his other toys,and it soon started looking 7   . For the first time in his life Charlie became truly 8   . He loved the horse，and the fact that his family had offered to exchange it for a new one meant nothing to him. One day,while in the countryside，he saw a girl with a horse. The girl looked very poor，but the horse seemed happy and looked great.

Wondering how she had 9   this,Charlie secretly followed her,watching everything she did. First he followed them through the forest，where he saw that she never used the whip，and never 10   the horse. Then they came to the stable, and 11   they arrived the girl fed and watered the horse. Then she carefully groomed (梳理毛发) it. Charlie was surprised. This was the 12    of what Charlie had done to his horse.

Charlie wanted to 13    and become like the girl. As no one had shown him how to do this,he 14    to her and asked her to teach him how to look after his horse. After her initial surprise，she happily 15    . With her he learned how to 16    care and effort into things. He learned that he could be much 17    with only a few special things that you truly 18    ，than with thousands of toys that were only good for a short time and were then 19    aside. When the horse finally 20    all its strength and health, Charlie was happy that his effort had been worthwhile.

(   ) 1. A. whichever    B. whenever   C. whatever    D. however

(   ) 2. A. refuse    B. bother    C. obey    D. hesitate

(   ) 3. A. so    B. as    C. quite    D. very

(   ) 4. A. usual    B. different    C. right    D. expensive

(   ) 5. A. excited    B. interested    C. annoyed    D. hopeful

(   ) 6. A. operated    B. commanded    C. trained    D. treated

(   ) 7. A. tired    B. puzzled    C. grateflil    D. sick

(   ) 8. A. worried    B. patient    C. ashamed    D. doubtful

(   ) 9. A. controlled    B. learned    C. managed    D. prepared

(   ) 10. A. scratched    B. hit    C. broke    D. damaged

(   ) 11. A. even if    B. every time    C. now that    D. soon after

(   ) 12. A. glory    B. devotion    C. opposite    D. assumption

(   ) 13. A. change    B. continue    C. inspect    D. overcome

(   ) 14. A. got over    B. turned over    C. took over    D. went over

(   ) 15. A. agreed    B. received    C. adopted    D. responded

(   ) 16. A. give    B. put    C. spend    D. take

(   ) 17. A. stronger    B. higher    C. happier    D. smarter

(   ) 18. A. cared for    B. cut down    C. poured into    D. looked up

(   ) 19. A. picked    B. dropped    C. passed    D. thrown

(   ) 20. A. relieved    B. recovered    C. lost    D. grasped

10. With so many different forms of poetry        ， students may eventually write poems of their own. (choose)

有这么多不同形式的诗供选择，学生们最后可以写出他们自己的诗。