II. 根据课文内容填空（共16小题，每空0.5 分，满分8分）1. It was (1) as early as the 1700s that English would one

II. 根据课文内容填空（共16小题，每空0.5 分，满分8分）
1. It was (1)     as early as the 1700s that English would one day be the global language and that has proved to be the case in the last few (2)    .
2. What this means is that they make sure there is an adequate amount of input in English (3)     to the students through various (4)    .
3. Without the (5)     of these pioneers in science and technology, whether lucky or (6)    , the world as know it today would have been a (7)     different place.
4. These drugs are originally (8)     to help people with illness, but in the wrong hands, they create supreme athletes (9)     them faster and stronger than is normal for human beings.
5. Doping is not only a problem in athletics, it is part of every sport where athletes (10)     to achieve (11)     their natural limits and are (12)    to cheat to do so.
6. The Olympic spirit — the spirit of (13)     which emphasises taking part rather than (14)    — has been (15)      by the desire to succeed at all (16)    .1.predicted   2.decades    3.conveyed    4.mediums    5.breakthroughs   6.panned   7.pletely    8.developed   9.making   10.seek    11.beyond    12.prepared   13.petition   14.winning   15.violated    16.costs