先阅读（A）（B）（C）三篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列五项任务。
（A）

Every person needs friends. They always encourage (鼓励)us to try our ____ to do everything, and they even let us face challenges (挑战) bravely. ____ in touch with our friends is important to us all. In this way, we can know how everything is going on with our friends. Friends communicate with each other in ____ ways. Some make phone calls to their friends regularly. Some send postcards to their friends when they go on holidays. ____ prefer to send interesting stories and ____ along with their letters. Among the ways, there must be your favorite one. Anyway, let’s communicate with our friends as often as possible.
（B）
The famous saying “He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man”. It shows clearly that the Great Wall is really a wonderful place to visit. As the longest wall on the earth, also one of the wonders in the world, the Great Wall runs across North China like a huge dragon. It has a history of over 2,000 years and it has been rebuilt and repaired many times. Many people died while building the wall. The workers didn’t build the wall with machines but finished the work all by hand. As one of the few man—made objects on the Earth that can be seen on the moon, it’s visited by large numbers of people from all parts of the country and the world.
（C）
Juan Antonio Samaranch（萨马兰奇） was born on July 17^th, 1920 and died on April 21th, 2010. He was a Spanish sprots official who served as the 7^th President of the International Olympic Committee（奥委会） from 1980 to 2001. He loved sports, like shooting, boxing, football, horse—riding and other sports. He was especially fond of collecting stamps. On July 13^th, 2001, he announced（宣布） in Moscow Beijing was going to host（举办） the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. He came to China 17 times and he was very friendly to Chinese people. He praied（赞扬） the Beijing Olympic Games is the most successful Olympics ever.
The Chinese people cannot thank Samaranch enough because he helped realize their Olympic dream. Samaranch was loved by sports lovers across the world, and his death is a loss to the world’s sports. He was away from us quietly forever. But we will never forget his words and try to realize his expectations.（期盼）
任务一：用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理.
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任务二：根据英文释义及首字母提示，拼写单词
w_______________ really or unusually good
r________________ to mend or make something again
任务三：同义句转换，每空一词
The workers didn’t build the wall with machines but finished the work all by hand.
The workers finished the work all by hand___________________ building the wall with machines.
任务四：根据短文内容简答问题
What is really a wonderful place to visit?
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