I. 单词拼写。

1. In the old society, thousands of people s_____ to death for lack of food.

2. I'm still in the b_____ that good luck will take place if you keep working hard.

3. -Mary is a gifted painter.

　-So she is. She won a national a_____ at the age of fifteen.

4. Since the i_____ from Britain, America has been developing very fast.

5. I admire her very much because she is always e_____.

6. It was getting darker and darker. And we waited anxiously for the ______(到达）of the next bus.

7. There are many old folk tales of unknown______(起源）.

8. It is the ______(风俗）for westerners to celebrate Christmas.

9. Although we are good friends, I don't share her _____(宗教的）beliefs.

10. As an old saying goes, a heavy snow promises a good _____(收获）.

II. 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。

dress up as, day and night, have fun with, in memory of, take place, play tricks on, look forward to, as though 1. The man concentrated on the business, so he had little time to ______ his little daughter.

2. He _____ a policeman and went onto the stage.

3. In order to finish the task on time, they worked _______.

4. He looked he had lost something, but he didn't.

5. A museum was built _____ the people who died in the war.

6. Don't take it seriously, she just wants to _____ you.

7. That year, the movement _____ in that small country.

8. We are really ______ the arrival of harvest time.

III. 单句写作。

1. He is always ____________________(对我们搞恶作剧）and find him _______________(