Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job these days. However, living and dealing with parents can be even _____. Since I became a junior high school student, I _____ that communication is very important. With any relationship, you need to let _____ people know your feelings. If you are not able to communicate, things will become bad. If you are mad at your parents and avoid _____ to them, it won’t help. If you look up the word “communication” in a dictionary, it will say “the exchange of ideas and information.” _____ a good relationship, you must improve communication skills. Let people know your feelings, even if it’s just by _____ a note. If you are trying to make your parents see something as you see it, tell them that you’ll listen to what they say, and ask them _____ to listen to you. Then they may understand you better. _____away only makes the situation worse.

Here is _____ example. One night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she ______ be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she felt ______ would be rude of her to leave first. As a result, she got home late. Her parents were angry at first, but when Sophie explained ______ she was late, they weren’t so mad. Communication is the key ______ a good relationship.

Problems can only ______ with communication. So just keep it in mind: ______ you get into a situation like Sophie’s, tell your parents how you feel.

1.

A．difficult

B．more difficult

C．most difficult

D．the most difficult

2.

A．have learnt

B．learnt

C．learn

D．will learn

3.

A．the others

B．another

C．other

D．others

4.

A．talk

B．talked

C．talking

D．to talk

5.

A．Kept

B．Keep

C．Keeps

D．To keep

6.

A．writing

B．to write

C．write

D．writes

7.

A．polite

B．more polite

C．politely

D．politeness

8.

A．Walk

B．Walks

C．Walked

D．Walking

9.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

10.

A．has to

B．have to

C．will have to

D．had to

11.

A．they

B．it

C．this

D．she

12.

A．when

B．why

C．where

D．what

13.

A．of

B．as

C．to

D．for

14.

A．be solved

B．be solving

C．solve

D．solved

15.

A．because

B．though

C．unless

D．if

It was the school’s Talent Show, and it was the first time for Abby to perform(表演)with the band The Racket. Abby no longer felt _______ at all when singing during practices because she had got used to it and really loved it. However, the idea of _______ on the stage was making her head hurt. They had spent the last month working hard to perfect the songs, so that they could _______ a pretty good show.

Abby sat backstage and saw her bandmates cheering and high-fiving each other, but she knew how she felt: _______. She kept imagining walking onstage, opening her mouth to sing, but nothing would come out.

As the band members headed out onstage, Abby’s legs moved and carried her over to the microphone, but her _______ seemed to be flying somewhere. And before she even knew it, the first song was half done. It all came _______. Since Abby knew the song so well, she really didn’t have to think much about what she was doing. Suddenly she realized that she was _______ the moment. She just carried on like the audience wasn’t really there, and she felt no different than being at practice.

The most exciting part of the performance came during the song—“Let’s make a racket!” In the end, the _______ off the stage jumped to their feet and sang along with the band happily.

As the band ran offstage, the headmaster smiled at them and said, “I have a feeling I know who’s going to win the _______ for Audience Favorite this year.”

Abby wasn’t too worried about the prize, though. She knew she had already got something even better: the __________ to perform on the stage.

16.

A．annoyed

B．impatient

C．nervous

D．tired

17.

A．dancing

B．singing

C．speaking

D．walking

18.

A．put off

B．put on

C．put out

D．put away

19.

A．interested

B．bored

C．frightened

D．excited

20.

A．dance

B．song

C．idea

D．mind

21.

A．naturally

B．slowly

C．directly

D．separately

22.

A．enjoying

B．celebrating

C．facing

D．missing

23.

A．singers

B．dancers

C．team

D．audience

24.

A．name

B．show

C．prize

D．turn

25.

A．task

B．chance

C．confidence

D．decision

Think of some great minds you like. You will probably find that their success didn’t come easily. As “Father of Hybrid Rice（杂交水稻）”, Yuan Longping got over great difficulties and spent his whole life working to increase rice production and helping to feed the country with the largest population.

Wu Mengchao, the “Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery（肝胆外科）”, focused on saving people’s lives for nearly eighty years. He did more than 16, 000 operations during his life. Holding the surgeon’s knife for such a long time deformed his fingers but he still kept doing operations. Wu once said, “It would be my greatest happiness if I could work at the operating table until the last moment of my life.”

In 1969, in order to solve the problem of treating malaria（疟疾）, Tu Youyou, worked as head of a research team. They did different kinds of experiments. However, the results were not satisfactory. Instead of giving up, they kept trying. Finally, in 1972, they made it! In 2015, at the age of 85, she received the Nobel Prize.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb believed that every failure was a step towards success. He once said, “If I find 10, 000 ways that won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong try is another step forward.”

Sometimes, their success was a surprise, even to themselves, even after a long time of their hard work. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said, “When l woke up just after daybreak on 28th September, 1928, I just began another busy day with my research as I did many days and nights before. And I certainly didn’t plan to make a great difference to all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic（抗生素）. But I guess that was exactly what I did.”

Some people only became successful after their deaths. The artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting all through his life and that was to a friend. But he kept painting and he painted more than 2000 artworks in the following ten years. Now his paintings are very popular and they sell for millions of pounds.

One thing all these people have in common is that they never give up and stick to their goals no matter what happens.

29. The underlined phrase deformed his fingers means ________.

A．changing the shape of his fingers	B．making his fingers stronger
C．making his fingers quicker	D．cutting off his fingers

30. Before Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, he ________.

A．felt so tired that he couldn’t stay awake	B．planned to study all kinds of medicine
C．knew exactly what his success meant	D．had no idea he was going to make it

31. What can we know about the great minds from the article?

A．Yuan Longping succeeded in feeding every country in the world.

B．Tu Youyou’s team spent about 3 years solving the malaria problem

C．Thomas Edison tried 10, 000 ways before inventing the light bulb.

D．Vincent Van Gogh painted 2, 001 artworks during his whole life.

32. What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A．Goals can’t be realized by everyone.

B．Difficulties can always lead to greatness.

C．Great success can be achieved naturally.

D．Following your dreams can result in success.

Today, most people in Western cultures expect to eat meals with their own set of tableware. People use plates to hold their food and drink only from their own glasses. But Europeans didn’t always eat this way.

In the 1500s, members of the royalty and nobility（皇室与贵族）used knives to cut meat. Since they hardly had their own plates and bowls, they would eat the slice of meat off the tip of the knife. They would use shared spoons to eat soup and would dip bread or their fingers into gravy（调味汁）. There were a few eating rules. For example, if you had a bone left in your hand after eating a chicken leg, you were expected to throw it politely under the table.

When some of the Europeans settled（定居）in the North America, they brought this eating style with them.

While the new settlers were sharing cups and dipping their fingers into bowls of food, royalty and nobility in Europe were starting to increase their tableware. They were also starting using a set of manners to go with their new knives, forks, spoons, plates, etc. They started to think that sharing cups or plates were unclean and even impolite. Their new manners made them feel higher than the lower classes.

By the 1700s, these new customs had spread to rich American settlers. As new landowners, they wanted to have a higher class than they would have had in Great Britain. They bought their own tableware and brought them to America.

By the late 1800s, mealtime manners had changed for everyone. As the American middle class grew, they needed more tableware to show that they were rich. There was also a new system of manners by this time. Though it was difficult to understand, it had a great effect on people’s everyday life.

33. Which of the following was considered impolite in the 1500s?

A．Getting gravy with one’s fingers.	B．Having soup with shared spoons.
C．Eating meat off a knife tip.	D．Keeping the bones in one’s hand.

34. Why did the rich American settles buy their own tableware by the 1700s? Because they ________.

A．wanted to feel higher than the royalty

B．hated to share cups and plates again

C．wanted to feel higher than the lower class

D．made more money in America than in Britain

35. What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The tableware.	B．The mealtime.
C．The American middle class.	D．The new manner system.

36. Which is the RIGHT order of the following events?
①The European royalty shared their spoons, plates and bowls at first.
②The American middle class grew and needed more tableware.
③Some Europeans moved to North America with their eating style.
④New American landowners bought more tableware.
⑤The European royalty started to increase tableware.

A．③①⑤②④

B．①⑤③④②

C．①③⑤④②

D．③⑤①②④

Durbeyfield sat down upon the grassy land by the roadside, putting his basket before him. In a few minutes, a boy from his village appeared in the distance. On seeing him, Durbeyfield held up his hand, and the boy quickened his steps and came near.

“Boy, take up that basket! I want you to do something for me.”

The skinny boy frowned (皱眉), “Who are you then, John Durbeyfield, to order me about and call me ‘boy’? You know my name as well as I know yours!”

“Do you, do you? That’s the secret — That’s the secret! Now obey my orders, and Fred, I don’t mind telling you that the secret is that I'm one of noble race (贵族) it has been just found out by me this present afternoon.”And as he made the announcement, he lay himself on the grass. The boy stood before Durbeyfield, and looked at him from head to foot.

“Sir, John D’Urberville — that’s who I am,” continued Durbeyfield. “Do you know such a place as Greenhill?”

“Yes. I have been there to Greenhill market.”

“Well, under the church of that city there lie my ancestors (祖先) — the richest family who lived a long time ago — in coats of shining jewellery. There is not a man here who’s got greater and nobler ancestors than I.”

“Oh?”

“Now take up that basket, and go on to the Pure Drop Inn, telling them to send a horse and carriage with a servant (仆人) here quickly, to carry me home. And when you’ve done that, on your way home, go past my house with the basket, and tell my wife to put away that washing, because she needn’t finish it, and wait till I come home, as I have news to tell her.”

As the boy kept still, feeling uncertain, Durbeyfield put his hand into his pocket and took out a shilling (a unit of money used in Britain until 1971).

“Here is for your work, son.” This made a difference. “Yes, Sir John. Thank you.”

37. What did Durbeyfield ask Fred to do?

A．To listen to his story.	B．To find out his secret.
C．To send messages for him.	D．To carry him home.

38. Which of the following about Durbeyfield is TRUE?

A．He did believe he was a noble.	B．He wanted to play a trick on Fred.
C．He was the richest man in the city.	D．He used to live in Greenhill.

39. What might be the relationship between Durbeyfeld and Fed?

A．Father and son.

B．Neighbors.

C．Close friends.

D．Master and servant.

40. What would most probably happen next in the story?

A．The boy did as Durbeyfield asked.	B．Durbeyfield went back home at once.
C．The boy told the secret to villagers	D．The boy went to the Greenhill fair.

阅读短文及文后A～E选项，选出可以填入各题空白处的最佳选项。

Welcome home! The Shenzhou XII manned spaceship returned to Earth on September 17, carrying three Chinese astronauts-Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo.

    41    Actually, during the return journey, Tang was even seen playing with a pen in the return capsule（太空舱）

However, there were dangerous and challenging parts that you might not know about the landing.    42    

While the return capsule entered the atmosphere, the temperature of its outside could be higher than 2, 000 degrees! More dangerously, the astronauts experienced a terrible period.    43    They couldn't communicate with engineers on Earth and they were totally on their own.

When the capsule was about 10 kilometers above the ground, it prepared to land. At that time, the capsule still traveled at 200 meters per second. It was too fast to directly land.    44    Even so, if a parachute（降落伞）is to big, it might turn over, just like an umbrella on windy days. So the capsule first opened a small parachute before pulling out its giant main parachute!    45    

September 17 was Liu Boming's 55th birthday. He said it was his most memorable birthday. Surely it was!

A．Therefore, parachutes are used to soften the landing

B．Here is what happened on that day.

C．They lost radio touch with Earth for several minutes.

D．The three astronauts were found in good health.

E．They let the capsule go down slowly.

51. 多么有用的一场讲座啊！
________ _________ __________ lecture it is!

52. Mark Twain 作为一名幽默的作家而被铭记。
Mark Twain ________ _________ __________ a humorous writer.

53. Jess因为没能取得好成绩而感到羞愧。
Jess ________ _________ __________ herself because she didn’t get good results.

54. 直到警察告诉他，他才知道真相。
He ________ _________ the truth __________ the police told him.

55. 我想知道你为什么对地理学科感兴趣。
I wonder ________ _________ __________ __________ in Geography.

56. 双减政策下，自主支配的时间多了，很多同学对合理安排课余时间存在困惑。因此校报开展了“自主管理我能行”的征文活动。请你根据下面提示写一篇短文，介绍如何有效安排课余时间。

注意∶
1. 词数80-120个左右（文章开头已给出，不计入词数，请根据要点提示适当发挥）
2. 不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否则不予评分。

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