四、词汇运用（9分）
1. Don't (使……失望) your parents. They are hoping for your success.
2. Many old people often feel uncomfortable in their (膝盖) on cold rainy days.
3. The (舞蹈演员) spends hours practising basic movements every single day.
4. My sister improves her writing skills by keeping (日记) every day.
5. “ (干杯)!” all of us lifted our cups and shouted to one another.
6. All your hard work will pay off at last because life is f to everyone.
7. W difficulties you face in the future, your dad and I will always be behind you, Son.
8. It's not easy to change habits, but with a strong w and self-control, it's possible.
9. The f exam is coming. All the students are busy preparing for it.

五、从方框中选择适当的单词或短语，在横线上填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次（5分）
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Forrest Gump（《阿甘正传》）, a famous American movie, first came out in 1994. It is 1. praised and has won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The main character Gump is born with a learning 2. and a physical problem. As a child, Forrest lives with his mother in Greenbow. He is bullied by other kids. 3. with his mother's encouragement, he grows into a warm and hard-working man.
I have watched the film many times. Its warm stories and 4. spirit always touch my heart deeply. As Gump says in the movie, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." From the movie, I learn that if we 5. our goals, we will surely make it and live a meaningful life.

六、短文填空（10分）
Wang Zhenyi was a famous female scientist from the Qing Dynasty. Most women of her time had few chances to study, but she made great 1. (achieve) in astronomy (天文学), mathematics and poetry. She was 2. (recognize) as “an extraordinary (非凡的) woman of 18th-century China”.
Wang Zhenyi was born into 3. well-educated family in Jiangning in 1768. She liked reading very much and she was very clever. 4. (short) after her grandfather passed away, her whole family moved to Jiling, where she read plenty of books and learned many new skills. When she turned eighteen, she decided to study astronomy and maths all by 5. (she).
In the following years, she wrote several books to explain difficult 6. (science) ideas in simple ways. At that time, people believed that lunar eclipses (月食) were caused by gods. Wang 7. (explain) the truth by making a model with a lamp, a table and a mirror. She showed that eclipses are natural events with the model. She spent lots of effort on all these studies. 8. she met many difficulties, she never gave up.
Wang Zhenyi passed away at the age of 29 and had no children. Her 9. (die) was a great loss to the world. In 1994, a large hole on Venus was named after her. Her courage keeps 10. (inspire) us to take on new challenges bravely.