1 . A couple of months before I started high school, my parents gave me the greatest gift any teenage boy could ask for: a cellphone. I lived on that phone all summer with my face buried in its screen. I ignored my family and my surroundings. Being connected was more important than being present.

So, you can imagine my displeasure when I learned what my dad had planned for our family vacation that year. “This year,” my dad said, “we’ll be doing something special. We’re going camping!” His excitement was met with a disappointed sigh. It wasn’t my dream vacation because mind was on my phone. I was so buried in the screen, in fact, that the first time I can remember truly looking up was when we drove across a bridge on the way to our campsite.

I stared out the window and saw redwoods towering above us, their branches threatening to pierce (刺破) the blue sky. I saw a roaring river, with slivers of silky black water appearing between crashing white rapids. The air blowing into the car from the open windows was hot. But none of that mattered to me. The reason I had looked up was for something far more serious: my phone no longer had service.

The last hour of the drive was increasingly tense. My dad announced that he had chosen a campsite that had no cell service, and that my phone would be useless until we returned home. I would be trapped in the forest for four days with no way to contact the outside world! I went through the full cycle of teenage emotions during the first day of the trip. I raged. I bargained. I begged. I flip-flopped (转变) from a depressive state to anger and back.

I went to bed angrily that night. But when I awoke in the morning, something had changed.

1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中，每词限用一次，有两词为多余选项

ignore   enjoy   teenager   present   prize   disappoint bury   surrounding   camp   serve   anger   use

The author, a ______ boy, shared a four-day family vacation in which he was separated from his cellphone.

PLOT	FEELING
Months before the author started high school, his parents gave him a cellphone as a ______.	The author was very happy.
With his face ______ in the screen, the author lived on the cellphone all summer.	He ______his family and his ______.
Dad planned to go _____ for their family vacation that year.	The author was very displeased and ______.
On the way to the campsite, the author was so absorbed in his cellphone that he didn’t raise his head until his phone was out of ______.	The scenery on the way didn’t matter at all to the author.
The last hour of the drive became even more tense when the author got to know that his phone would be ______ until they went back home.	The author was depressed and ______.

2. What problem did the author have after he got a cellphone?
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3. What would they do the next day?
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4. How would the author feel at the end of the vacation? Why?
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2 . 任务型阅读

It was summer, and my dad wanted to treat me to a vacation like never before. He decided to take me on a trip to the Wild West.

We took a plane to Albuquerque, a big city in the state of New Mexico. We reached Albuquerque in the late afternoon. Uncle Paul, my dad’s friend, picked us up from the airport and drove us up to his farm in Pecos.

His wife Tina cooked us a delicious dinner and we got to know his sons Ryan and Kyle. My dad and I spent the night in the guestroom of the farm house listening to the frogs and water rolling down the river nearby. Very early in the morning, Uncle Paul woke us up to have breakfast. “The day starts at dawn on my farm, “he said. After breakfast, I went to help Aunt Tina feed the chickens, while my dad went with Uncle Paul to take the sheep out to graze (吃草). I was impressed to see my dad and Uncle Paul riding horses. They looked really cool.

In the afternoon, I asked Uncle Paul if I could take a horse ride, and he said yes, as long as my dad went with me. I wasn’t going to take a horse ride by myself anyway. So, my dad and I put on our new cowboy hats, got on our horses, and headed slowly towards the mountains. “Don’t be late for supper, “Uncle Paul cried, “and keep to the track so that you don’t get lost!” “OK!” my dad cried back. After a while Uncle Paul and his farm house were out of sight. It was so peaceful and quiet and the colors of the brown rocks, the deep green pine trees, and the late afternoon sun mixed to create a magic scene. It looked like a beautiful woven (编织的) blanket spread out upon the ground just for us.

1. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
注意：
续写词数应为150左右；
请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Suddenly a little rabbit jumped out in front of my horse.
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We had no idea where we were and it got dark.
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2. Task one: put the correct forms of the following words into the blanks.

drive            comfort          out            permit            loss        dusks        noon            last               roll             delight            trip        next
time	event	feeling
One summer day	My dad decided to take me on a new _______	excited
In the late afternoon	Uncle Paul picked us up and ________us up to his farm in Pecos	Curious
The first night on the farm	We spend the night in the guestroom listening to the frog and water ________ down the river.	________
Early in the _______morning	I helped Tina feed the chickens. My dad and Uncle Paul took the sheep _______ to gaze.	admirable
In the afternoon	I got a _______ to ride a horse with my father’s company.	_______
At _______	We got ________	……

3. Task two: answer the following questions.
1) How did the writer or the horse react to the rabbit?
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2) How did the writer and his father get lost?
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3) What difficulties did they meet?
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4) How did they find their way back to Uncle Paul’s house?
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