四、词汇运用(9 分)
1. The basketball team had a (成功的) season because all players worked together.
2. The park is open daily (除……之外) during storms for safety reasons.
3. Writing diaries helps me understand my own (情感) and thoughts better.
4. The snow fell (大量地) all day long and covered the whole playground in white.
5. The new app can check if you (发音) the sentences right or wrong.
6. S you’ve finished your homework, let’s go to play basketball in the gym.
7. The neighbours decided to take a together to clean up the park.
8. The little girl cried out when she saw her finger was b from the small cut.
9. My parents are strongly a me playing video games for hours every day.

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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This year, countries all over the world faced a lot of terrible weather events. In January, heavy 1. hit Canada, causing many problems. In July, 2. rain hit Germany hard, and there were heavy floods. In August, wildfire swept through America, burning across hundreds of square kilometres. In September, a volcano (火山) in Spain broke out and 3. damaged crops. The volcano ash (灰) completely covered many roads, fields, and houses. In December, a number of tornadoes (龙卷风) struck the US state of Kentucky, killing 92 4. people.
Some of these terrible weather events happened 5. because of climate change, said scientists.

六、短文填空(10 分)
Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special talents. I am only curious.” The greatest inventions in history would be 1. (possible) without curiosity.
Curiosity can bring new inventions. Benjamin Franklin is 2. great example. He wanted to understand electricity (电) 3. (correct), so he flew a kite during a storm. His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod (避雷针). It protected buildings from 4. (get) hit by lightning.
Curiosity can also make people brave. Just look at Wan Hu, the Ming Dynasty pioneer (先驱) of space exploration (探索). He invented a “flying chair”! While he was 5. (record) what happened, the flying chair with fireworks suddenly blew up. He lost his life, but thanks 6. him, future explorers got new ideas. People learnt from his example and created even 7. (safe) ways to explore space.
But curiosity is more than just taking risks. It also drives people towards certain goals. Zhang Heng, a Chinese scientist and 8. (invent), was curious about the world. He wondered 9. the way stars and planets move follows certain patterns. He spent years studying the sky and the earth. Finally, he invented the earthquake detector (地动仪).
As Jacques said, “What’s a scientist after all? It’s a curious man looking through the keyhole of nature, trying to find out the 10. (true).” Curiosity is the key.