A.Three years ago, I started an experiment. I stopped ___1___(read) all newspapers and ___2___(magazine). Televisions and radios __3____(reject). I deleted the news apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very hard! I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new understanding. The result after three years: ___4___(clear) thoughts, more valuable ideas, better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed anything important.
B.On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the___5___day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve ___6___twenty minutes' time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, ‘It's two minu tes past twelve! The clock has stopped!" I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody___7___ (begin) to laugh and sing.
C. China’s icebreaker Xue Long ___8__(set) sail from Shanghai to the Antarctic. Zhu Bing, ___9___ is the captain of the scientific research ship,said that the icebreaker would first travel to the to-be-built station before making a short stop at Zhongshan station. One of its main tasks is ___10___(build) another research station in the Antarctic. Once completed, the new station would be the country’s third year round station in the Antarctic and the first to be lying on the border of the Pacific Ocean. The other two stations,the Great Wall Station and the Zhongshan Station, were built in the 1980s.
答案1. reading 2. magazines 3. were rejected 4. clearer 5. last
6. in
7. began
8. will set
9. who 10. to build