1. They _______ (空运) her home for urgent medical treatment.

2. These drugs are for the t_____ of topical diseases.

3. _____(但愿)，we will get more news next week.

4. The young teacher invented a new m_______ of teaching.

5. Dad _______(低声说) a warning to us to keep quiet.

6. I was a______ as a new member of the club.

7. It will take a lot of ______(力量) to move this piano.

二 选词填空

1. 用way, method, means 填空

Try to finish it by all ______.

He had a strange _______ of making his lessons lively and interesting.

He worked out the maths problem with a different_______.

2. find, find out, discover

Have you________ the book you have been looking for?

Have you________ why the sports meeting was put off?

It was Columbus that ________ America.

3. would, hurt, injury

The soldier received two ________ in the battle.

What he said _______ her feelings deeply.

He got serious _______ to the legs at work.

Ten soldiers were killed and thirty _____.

He got _______ in the car accident.

三 根据汉语提示完成句子

1. Mary is __________(改进) in the art of cooking.

2. Is it August already? _________________(时间过得可真快)！

3. Time is limited. So we must_________________(抢时间完成).

4. ____________(顺便问一下)，where is the hospital?

5. That is Long Island _____________ (在远处)over there.

6. ---I would never come to this restaurant again. The food is terrible.

---_____________(我也不在去了).

7. They were ____________ (连续敲击)the door with their fists.

8. He ______________(制定出一个好计划) to solve the problem.

四 任务型阅读

　　The farm economy of the United States has changed a lot in the last seventy years. In the 1930s, twenty five percent of the nation's population lived on farms. Today less than one percent of Americans do.

Farm incomes have changed over the years too. For example, in 1933, people living and working on farms had much less money to spend than other Americans. At that time, farm families had about one-third the income of non-farmers after all necessary expenses had been paid. By the late 1970s, however, that difference had almost disappeared. In 2004, farmers had their best year ever. The average farm family earned about eighty-one thousand dollars. That is more than the