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stamp album back as he felt it would be much s____85____ with himself. But Kevin couldn’t go, so he decided to spend Max to get his album. Kevin gave Max the address of Allan’s and Max started. Max soon came back with the album and when Kevin checked it he found that it was not his album. It contained valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another house by mistake and he had knocked on the door but no one a____86____. He found the door unlocked, so he went in. He found an album which looked like Kevin’s and brought it back.
Kevin doubted that it might be the stolen album probably belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin made c____87____ with the police. A week later, Kevin and Max got reward for finding Dick Brown’s album.
‘I will never be angry at Max,’Kevin thought.
KEYS: 81. awful 82. completely 83. attention 84. liked
85. safer 86. answered 87. contact
Seven【20181奉贤区】 C.Fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（共14分）
Have you ever eaten at a restaurant that seizes Western food? If so, do you remember what the menu looked like? Western restaurant menus are quite different from Chinese restaurant menus. But how are they different?
Most Western restaurant menus do not have as many p___81____
as Chinese ones do. In some fancy Western restaurants, the menus might not have any pictures at all.
But most Western menus show a list of ingredients for each dish. If you order a burger, the menu might tell you that the burger has cheese, ketchup and mustard (芥末).The menu can also tell you how the food is cooked---for example, w____82_____it is fried or steamed.
Western restaurants use many different methods to design their menus and make them more a_____83_____. In fact, there is a whole industry called “menu engineering”, according to the BBC. Menu engineers are experts at designing menus. Their menus can i____84____sales and
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influence customers’ thoughts.
A well-designed menu can encourage customers to eat certain dishes. It can e____85____make them believe that your restaurant’s food is of higher quality, thought they might haven’t eaten the food.
For example, using descriptive (描述性的)words l____86____“juicy” or “cheesy” can help dishes sell better. Instead of just writing “steak” in their menu, a restaurant might write “sizzling steak”. This makes the steak sound more delicious.
Also, it is k_____87_____that people pay the most attention to items placed at the top of a page. This is the best place for dishes that you want to promote.
As you can see, menus are not just simple lists of food!
KEYS: 81. pictures 82. whether 83. attractive 84.increase
85. easily 86. like 87. known
Eight【20181静安区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）
AMAZING RESCUE ---THANKS TO CELL PHONE
Two teenagers capsized（倾覆）in the ocean off the east coast of the U.S. and called the west Coast on a cell phone to ask for help.
Brother and sister Ray and Susan Rivera were on a sailing vacation near Newport, Rhode Island. But because of huge w_____81_____ of the sea, their boat capsized, and they were thrown into the ocean.
Ray, 17, and Susan, 16, spent 30 minutes trying to right the capsized boat, but without success. They couldn’t get back into the boat, and they couldn’t a____82____ the attention of passing ships. After they had been in the water for about 40 minutes, the situation was getting s_____83_____, and they felt very cold. Then Susan remembered her cell phone in its watertight container in her pocket, and reached for it.
But she didn’t think of dialing 911, the emergency number. I ____84____, she called their
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father, who was 2500 miles away in Scattle, Washington on a business trip. Susan explained:“I thought it would be q____85____ to call someone I knew and tell them our position. I dialed Dad’s number and he contacted the Coast Guard.”
About ten minutes later, after they had held on to the boat for nearly an hour, they heard a helicopter. Next, everything happened very fast, and Ray and Susan were picked up and carried to s____86____.
Afterward. The Coast Guard said that the teenagers were lucky to be alive and very, very lucky that the cell phone had worked.“Anyone in trouble should contact the Coast Guard d____87____ by calling 911.”he added.
Keys: 81. waves 82. attract 83. serious 84. Instead
85. quick 86. shore /seaside 87.directly
Nine【20181崇明区】 C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）
If you are planning a trip to France in the future, you should be careful with the roads you take because some of them are very strange. Today we’re going to talk about the Passage du Gois（格
伊斯通道）.
The passage du Gois in France is natural. People didn’t notice the passage because it periodically（周期性的）flooded. It was f____81____ discovered by some local people in 1701. It connects the mainland France and a small island called Noirmoutier（努瓦尔穆捷
岛）. Now many people visit the passage every day. Some of them risk driving on it and others are just interested in watching it d____82____ under the water and come up from the water again. People can drive on the passage half an hour before and after low tide（潮汐）. The passage can also be reached only d____83____ low tide which lasts about one hour.
Driving on the passage can be dangerous. Some drivers are caught in the tide because they drive at the w____84____ time. Besides, as the passage is covered with water for most of the day, it is slippery all the time.
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To ensure the s____85____ of drivers and tourists, signs are put on both ends of the passage to tell people whether the passage is passable（可通过的）or not. There are also p____86____ which are set at intervals（每隔一段距离）along the passage for people to climb up when they get into trouble in the water. People are warned to drive slowly and make no stops on the passage. Also, they are not allowed to p____87____ their cars on the passage.
So are you also interested in the passage? Come to France and have a challenge!
Keys: 81. first 82. disappear 83. during 84. worst
85. safety 86. poles 87. park
Ten【20181普陀区】 C.Fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（共14分）
The inhaler（喷雾剂）was lying there on the table.Cassie froze. “Oh no!”she breathed.“Not again!”
She looked at the little green c____81____on the cooker-12:17. The train would leave at 12:34 and he grandpa had been gone around four minutes. Could she-f she ran like a racehorse-get to the station before he got on the train? There was no time to lose. She grabbed her jacket, her keys and her purse. Her fingers m____82____fast to tie her shoes, but too fast to be accurate.She opened the front door and shut it heavily behind her.
Her b____83____began to work fast“Which is the quickest way to find him?Should I g____84____which route he has taken and may be lucky enough to catch up with him?Or should I just get to the station the fastest possible way and hope to be there when he arrives? But there two entrances to the station. He might take e____85_____.What should I do?”
Cassie was worried about her grandfather. As she ran through the shopping centre, she pictured him sitting on the train,and then s____86_____his breath becoming difficult, and his face turning pale. He would search for the inhaler and it wouldn’t be in his pocket.
A man was setting out a table in the front of his cafe. There was no space between him and the table. She ran into him and knocked him down.“Sorry！”she tried to call out as she raced past him, but she had so little breath that she only made a very w____87____sound. She knew he didn’t hear her, but she couldn’t stop.
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At lest she was at the station.She looked at her watch.It was 12:30 and she still hadn’t seen her grandfather.
Keys: 81. clock 82. moved 83. brain 84. guess
85. either 86. suddenly 87. weak
Eleven【20181嘉定区】 C.Fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（共14分）
How do you feel when your teacher asks you to work on a group project with other students? Do you like to work together with others or work a_____81_____?
The Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, carried out survey of students’ ability to work together in groups. They found that students who do well on tests by themselves are also likely to be better at working with other people.
Students in Japan, South Korea, Finland and Canada, where test scores are h____82____ also did well in working together to solve problems. This finding was true for many countries.
But this was not true for every country. Chinese students, who also did well on tests, s____83____ just average collaborative(合作的) skills.
“One r____84_____might be that Chinese parents and teaches focus too much on grades,Zhao Zhongxin, former vice president of the Chinese Family Education Association. have a lot of exam pressure and they view school as a place for competition.”
“However, collaborative skills are very important for p____85_____students for today’s society,”he added.e importance of this and are thinking of ways to help students improve this skill.
Another interesting finding from the PISA survey was that girls tend(趋向于)to be better than boys at working together. They said girls show more active attitudes(态度) towards relationships, which means they are much e_____86_____to communicate with.
PISA also found that the classroom environment tends to e____87_____students to collaborate. In classes where there are a lot of activities that require communication, such as class debates, students tend to have better attitudes toward collaborating.
KEYS: 81. alone 82. high 83. showed 84. reason
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