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s 41. (long)crosssea 42. (connect)Hong Kong and Macao to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai.The bridge is 55 kilometres long and is expected to be in use for about one hundred 43. (year).The building of the bridge began in December 2009 and it took nine years 44. (plete).About 50,000 workers, engineers and designers from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong and Macao played 45. part in the building of the bridge.The Yshaped bridge, 46. (start)from Lantau Island in Hong Kong and branching (分岔)out to Zhuhai and Macao, cuts the travel time between Hong Kong and Zhuhai to thirty minutes .“It used to take more than four hours to go to Zhuhai on wheels, 47. now it is just half an hour39。d just made one of the best 31. (choose) of my life.I sat down and listened to the teacher introducing the tools of the craft. Then 32. was the first time for me that I had tried my hand. I took up the brush, using the correct gesture, 33. (dip) it in the ink, and carefully wrote one 34. Chinese.Over 35. past five years, I have learned to make versions of wellknown poems. Calligraphy seemed like a bridge, 36. connected me to authors from centuries past. Stroke(筆畫) by stroke, word by word, I could feel their emotions, cherished my own peace and learned 37. (appreciate) my daily life.Now, calligraphy is not just a hobby, 38. a way to remove myself from the worries of life. Rolling out the paper, I can write for a whole day. Calligraphy 39. (able) me to balance my busy schedule and live 40. (peace).2閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入1個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。I felt butterflies in my stomach when I started calligraphy class ten years ago. I wondered what I was doing there. At that moment, I couldn39。ll hold the meeting _______ not been decided.16. Don39。 / D. was。 / B. /。 were delivered D. had hardly spread。 was delivered B. was hardly spread。 keeping D. were sent。 to keep B. were sent。 are5. She was the only one of the girls in our class ____ accepted as candidate (候選人) for the president of our Students39。 are C. are。ll feel a real sense of achievement. Leaving the less important things until tomorrow ________ (be) often acceptable.【 能力】一、單項(xiàng)選擇1. How nice the music __________! I have never heard a better piece.A. sounded B. i