1 . —You did a good job in the English speech competition!
—Thank you! ________ speak good English, I practiced a lot.

A．At first

B．Because of

C．In order to

D．Thanks to

2 . A bee uses a dance to tell the others where and how far away the food is ________ their place.

3 . Every class has at ________ (little) forty students.

4 . His father is ill, so he has to stay at home for four days at ________ (little) to look after him.

5 .
1. character名词，意为“人物，个性，文字”，如：The prince, Edward, and the poor boy, Tom, are the ______________________ in Mark Twain’s famous novels.“王子爱德华和那个可怜的男孩汤姆是马克·吐温那部著名小说中的两个角色”。
2. “in a+形容词+way”表示“___________________”，在句中作方式状语。
3. the average height表示“___________________”，“平均体重”则为____________________。
4. from…to…意为“____________________”，其后可跟表示时间或空间的词。
5. exchange即可作动词又可作名词，意为“交换”，常用短语：exchange…for…“____________________”；in exchange for“____________________”。
6. by accident意为“_____________”，常在句中作状语，同义短语为_________________，反义短语为on purpose“故意，有意地”。
7. expect动词，意为“预料，期待”，常用结构为：expect (sb.) to do sth.“________________”。
8. make a difference“_________________”，该短语中，difference前还可用big、great等词修饰，也可将a改为no、much等限定词。

6 . ________ (thank) to my parents, I was able to go to college.

7 . 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。每个短语限用一次。

in common   thanks to   make a mistake   a sense of   as...as

1. He ________ and the machine could not work.
2. ________ the high speed trains, our journey becomes much shorter now.
3. Mary and her parents have a lot ________
4. The climate here isn’t ________ warm ________ you think.
5. Simon doesn’t have ________ direction so he often gets lost in a new place.

8 . 这个教室能容纳多达60名学生。
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