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45分钟限时精练(八) 注意事项: 1. 答题前,考生务必将学校、班级、姓名写在密封线内。 2. 请将选择题的答案根据老师批改需要填写在试卷第2页所附的答题栏内。 一、 完形填空 　　Human beings enjoy challenges. Many of them like physical challenges. They ask themselves 　1　 like these: How fast can I run? How high can I climb? How deep can I dive? How far can I swim? How long can I hold my 　2　?How much can I lift? How high can I jump? Because people enjoy challenges, they like to play 　3　 and watch other people play sports. They like climbing, running, diving, lifting, jumping, and so on. Every four 　4　 millions of people all over the world enjoy the international sports 　5　 called Olympics. There are challenges that are not physical challenges. There are social and intellectual challenges, too. Leonardo da Vinci, who 　6　 in Italy during the 15th century, enjoyed every possible challenge. He was a(n) 　7　 and painted the well-known picture, the Mona Lisa. He was an engineer who made 　8　 for a city with roads under the street for traffic. He was an inventor who invented a device to let people 　9　 under water. He was a scientist, and he learnt a great deal about human structure. Another kind of challenge 　10　 the Egyptians between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago when they decided to build the Great Pyramid. They 　11　 six million tons of rock. That is enough to build a foot wall around all of France. Four hundred thousand men 　12　 for twenty years to build it. So, for thousands of years, people 　13　 challenges. Today we still have many challenges before us. Medical science faces the challenges of conquering many 　14　 which still attack human beings. Engineers and planners must build new cities and new kinds of 　15　. (　　)1. A. answers　 B. questions　 C. orders　 D. hates (　　)2. A. air　 B. below　 C. heat　 D. breath (　　)3. A. cards　 B. chesses　 C. sports　 D. exercises (　　)4. A. years　 B. weeks　 C. months　 D. decades (　　)5. A. quiz　 B. contest　 C. competition　 D. fight (　　)6. A. stayed　 B. studied　 C. worked　 D. lived (　　)7. A. carpenter　 B. artist　 C. actor　 D. ex