单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
【小题1】People are grateful because their food is gathered (聚集) for the winter and the agricultural work is over.
【小题2】The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the famous ancient poet (诗人), Qu Yuan.
【小题3】The hostess （女主人）, a very thin lady, came forward.
【小题4】She did not look happy but glared （怒目而视）at him.
【小题5】The fact is that I earned my passage （船费） by working as an unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance.
【小题6】Right, sir. I'm afraid it'll cost a large amount （数量）of money.
【小题7】However, according to a widely accepted theory （理论）, the universe began with a Big Bang.
【小题8】I cheered up immediately and floated （漂浮）weightlessly around in our spaceship cabin.
【小题9】Canada's population is only slightly （稍微） over thirty million.
【小题10】As they sat in a buffet restaurant looking over the broad （宽阔的）St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them.
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解析：
【小题1】gathered。考查语态。注意前面的is，故用其过去分词的形式。
【小题2】poet。考查名词。注意前面已经有定冠词the，故用单数形式。
【小题3】hostess。考查名词。注意前面已经有定冠词the，故用单数形式。
【小题4】glared。考查时态。注意前面的did not，故用一般过去时态。
【小题5】passage。考查名词。注意前面的代词my，故用其单数形式。
【小题6】amount。考查名词。这里考查固定短语a large amount of许多的，大量的。
【小题7】theory。考查名词。注意前面已经有定冠词a，故用单数形式。
【小题8】floated。考查时态。根据前面的cheered up，故用一般过去时。
【小题9】slightly。考查副词。注意用其副词形式。
【小题10】broad。考查形容词。注意用其形容词形式。