阅读下面课文段落，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文的连贯要求，空格处各填入一个适当的单词，使短文通顺完整。请将答案写在二卷答题纸上。◣ A ◢(Book 8 Unit 1 Califo

阅读下面课文段落，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文的连贯要求，空格处各填入一个适当的单词，使短文通顺完整。请将答案写在二卷答题纸上。
◣ A ◢
(Book 8  Unit 1 California)
GOLD MINERS
In 1848, not long after the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. The dream of being     【小题1】     quickly attracted people from all over the world. The nearest, and therefore the first to arrive,     【小题2】 South Americans and people from the United States. Then adventurers from Europe and Asia soon followed. In fact, few achieved their     【小题3】     of being rich. Some died or returned home, but most remained in California to make a life for themselves despite great hardship. They     【小题4】 in the new towns or on farms. By the time California elected to bee the thirty-first federal     【小题5】 of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society.
◣ B ◢
(Book 8  Unit 3 The problem of the smakes)
When I called up my mother in the countryside on the telephone she was very upset. “There are some     【小题6】 in our courtyard,” she told me. “Snakes e near the house now and     【小题7】    , and they seem to have made their home here, not far from the walnut tree. Can you     【小题8】 rid of them please?” I felt very proud. Here was a chance for me to     【小题9】 myself by inventing something merciful that would     【小题10】     snakes but not harm them. I knew my parents would not like me to hurt these living creatures!rich