四、词汇运用（共8小题，计8分）
根据句意及括号内所给提示，填入单词的适当形式。
1. The story (take) place in 2015.
2. I'd like to read some (music) magazines.
3. The book (translate) into many languages so far.
4. Henry watched the milk until it (boil) and then turned off the gas.
5. After the big earthquake, the ancient house (remain) safe. It was amazing.
6. He is a basketball player and he started to play for the (nation) team at 19.
7. The pyramids were built to protect the tombs of (rule) or other important persons.
8. Last night we didn't have supper my father came back home.

五、综合语法填空（共10小题，计10分） 阅读下面的短文，按照句子的语法结构和上下文连贯的要求，在空白处填入适当的单词或用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。 A You've heard of 3D printing from newspapers and TV programs. It was not 1 (wide) used until the early 2010s. The first working 3D printer 2 (create) in 1984 by Chuck Hull. 3D printers use many different types of technologies, but they all share one thing 3 common: they create a three-dimensional（三维的）object by building it layer（层）by 4 (continue) layer, until the whole object is completed. 3D printings can be used for making many kinds of things such as model parts, daily life objects, even organs（器官）. B Nowadays WeChat is more and more popular. I often talk to my English friends 5 WeChat. And I can read lots of information. However, WeChat brings me some trouble 6 well. Some friends use photos of the real things 7 (tell) what they may sell is really good, but I am 8 (real) angry about those advertisements. Because some of them may be not true. As an old saying goes, “ 9 (see) is believing.” I know people 10 (cheat) by some news easily. So I am thinking about never using WeChat on my phone again. Every coin has two sides. What's your idea about WeChat?

六、选词填空（共7小题，计7分） 阅读短文，根据短文内容从方框中选择适当的单词填空。每空1词，有两个多余。 important falling When asked What used believed how different Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor named James Naismith, who was born in 1861. 1 he was at college, his class was once 2 to invent a new game that could be played indoors during the long winters. Dr. Naismith created a game to be played on a hard wooden floor, so the safety of the players was 3. Knocking into players and 4 down would be dangerous. Dr. Naismith divided the men in his class into two teams, and taught them 5 to play his new game. The aim of basketball is for players to try to get a ball into the “basket”. A net hangs from a metal hoop. Players shoot from below the basket, and sometimes the “backboard” is 6 for guiding the ball into the basket. Players move towards one end of the court while throwing the ball to each other. It is 7 that on December 21st, 1891, the first basketball game in history was played. Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became an event.