8．One of the men suddenly ________ a hand and grabbed my arm.

　　9．Steps are being taken to ________ the city ________ attack.

　　10．The mother felt ________ after being informed that her children were safe.

　　答案1 put up 2 in general 3 lost face 4 in defence of

　　5 on the contrary 6 In most cases 7 at a distance

　　8 reached out 9 defend...against 10 at ease

　　III .完成句子

　　1．When Darlence Coulon from France ________________(匆忙走进门), she recognized Tony Garcia's smiling face. (dash)

　　2．These actions are not good or bad, but are simply ways ______________(文化发展的不同方式而已). (develop)

　　3．The most universal facial expression is，of course, the smile- its function is ________________(表示快乐，安人心境). (ease)

　　答案1 came dashing through the door

　　2 in which cultures have developed

　　3 to show happiness and put people at ease

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人). He knows that ninetynine percent of human conversation means no more than the_buzzing_of_a_fly,_but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像)．

　　The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening