1 . Last weekend, my husband and I drove a dog to her new home. Typically, when we have a new dog in the backseat, it’s a young dog. But this passenger was a much different story. Magdalen is a 13-year-old dog. Her owner gave her up temporarily when he was sick, but when he fully recovered several months later, he said he didn’t want her back. He had had the dog since she was young but now had no place for her.

The family who had given her a temporary home had children and other dogs and was unable to give her a forever home. When Speak St. Louis, the rescue team I worked with, was contacted about the dog, they offered to take her in. She went to a vet (兽医) for a basic health check. But the vet didn’t have great news. Her mouth was swollen with all sorts of problems. Two teeth fell out during cleaning and eleven more had to be pulled out.

Luckily, a good friend of mine, a dog trainer with a soft heart for seniors, had agreed to adopt Magdalen. On the trip to the trainer’s home, the sweet senior looked so relaxed in our backseat. I felt a great sense of relief and pleasure.

It’s understandable that her owner needed some temporary help when he was sick. But I can’t imagine why he wouldn’t have wanted her back now. I think of my own dog and dogs we lost to old age in the past. We’re family and we stay that way forever. She’d be able to live a good life, I hoped, in her new home!

1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The former owner of the dog.	B．Where the dog was treated.
C．Why the dog’s mouth was swollen.	D．The problems the dog met with.

2. What is the author’s job?

A．Training old dogs.	B．Looking for homes for dogs.
C．Treating sick dogs.	D．Searching for lost dogs’ owners.

3. How did the author feel on her way to her friend’s home?

A．Hopeful and proud.	B．Relieved and happy.
C．Nervous and grateful.	D．Surprised and curious.

4. What does the author think of Magdalen’s owner giving her up?

A．She was certain he would regret.	B．She believed it was painful for him.
C．She didn’t understand his behaviour.	D．She thought he made a wise decision.

2 . 读后续写

When I look back on my childhood, the first image that springs to my mind is the daisy (雏菊) kept in my dictionary, which always reminds me of my lunchtimes with my mother.

When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had practised my lines (台词) so hard with me. But no matter how easily I delivered them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s (旁白) part to the play, and asked me to switch roles.

I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain, and instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤蔓) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow daisies popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with a little bit of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the daisies. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, suddenly pulling a flower up by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like daisies,” I protested (抗议). “All flowers are beautiful——even daisies.” My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower has its own beauty, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, feeling pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too,” she added, “Not everyone can be a princess. Hence, there is no shame in that.”

Relieved that she had sensed my pain, I started to cry when I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled.

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“You will be a beautiful narrator,” she comforted.

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Backstage on the night of the performance, I still felt nervous.

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4 . It’s no secret that walking is good for you. Many of us are trying to get in those recommended 10,000 steps a day that our wearable fitness technology urges us to achieve. But how many calories are we actually burning, and how can we get the most out of those steps? Find answers in these ways.

Do you know the truth about calorie-burning? Walking is a moderate intensity form of exercise. To get the most calorie-burning benefits, then, it would seem that walking at a consistently light pace would make the most sense. Pay attention to your heart rate and how you feel. Wearable technologies can certainly provide an idea of progress toward your calorie-burning goals. Using a fitness tracker equipment to help you recognize when you reach your target heart rate zones can help you maximize the calorie-burning.

Walking is often considered as a great fat-burning exercise, and for good reason. You can’t really walk at higher intensities because of the nature of the exercise; therefore, you end up in low-intensity zones, where you tend to burn more fat. When you’re walking at a lighter intensity with your heart rate in the 57% to 63% range, you are more likely to be using fat for fuel. No matter what your speed is, form matters. When done with good form, walking is an incredibly beneficial form of exercise for total health and wellness beyond mere caloric burn. Moreover, walking is the most accessible form of exercise because it doesn’t require any special clothes, equipment or memberships.

Whether your goal is fat loss, increased fitness or simply enhancing your overall health and wellness, walking offers all these benefits and more.

1. What is the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To introduce the topic.

B．To compare walking with other exercise.

C．To explain the wearable fitness technology.

D．To show the importance of 10,000 steps a day.

2. What does the underlined word “intensity” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Depth.

B．Strength.

C．Height.

D．Distance.

3. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Walking at high intensities is recommended.

B．Your walking speed is the most important to calorie-burning.

C．Walking can burn calories better if you walk in a proper form.

D．It is more convenient to walk for those who have a gym membership.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．10,000 Steps a Day Matters

B．Walking Benefits Your Muscles

C．How to Best Burn Calories while Walking

D．How to Use Wearable Fitness Technologies while Walking

5 . The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is a national program of volunteers trained in disaster preparedness and emergency response. Through Teen CERT, you can serve your community and help take care of your school and home.

Why Join

Would you know what to do if an emergency comes? After a disaster, professional responders will be needed everywhere. During an emergency, who could help until professional responders arrive? Who could be the first person on-the-scene to step up? The answer: You.

In most emergencies, a bystander or even the victim, provides the first immediate assistance. Join Teen CERT, and you will learn how to respond when others look to you for help.

What You’ll Do

We all have a role to play in keeping our communities safe. What role will you play? Once you complete your CERT training, you can participate in or lead a variety of activities.

During an emergency, your Teen CERT could organize volunteers, give assistance to survivors, provide damage assessment information, provide shelter support and assist with crowd control.

Teen CERTs can also help in their schools all year round. Your Teen CERT could participate in disaster drills and exercises, present fire safety education, assist in preparedness outreach (外展服务), provide peer mentoring (指导) and address safety issues in the school.

What You’ll Learn

It takes about 20 hours to complete the CERT training. During the training, you will learn to put out small fires, conduct light search and rescue, assist those who are injured, set up medical treatment areas, assist emergency responders, identify possible dangers and help reduce survivors’ stress.

You can also take the Introduction to the CERT training. This independent web-based study is interactive and will introduce you to CERT skills before you take the classroom training.

1. How can Teen CERTs help in the school?

A．By organizing rescue teams.	B．By helping set teaching aims.
C．By raising money for survivors.	D．By sharing fire safety knowledge.

2. What does the training program teach?

A．How to detect potential dangers.	B．How to make medical devices.
C．Outdoor survival skills.	D．Communication skills.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce a program that focuses on medical treatments.

B．To raise money for disasters and emergencies.

C．To introduce a charity organization.

D．To call on teens to join in a program.

6 . 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。

Bus driver Charlie was out at 3 am to drive his bus around Torresdale Avenue near Cottman in the Tacony neighborhood when he saw a tiny girl waiting at the bus stop. It was Jill, a 4-year-old little girl.

It was the early hours of a rainy morning and Charlie was out to drive his SEPTA’s 56 bus on his regular route. As usual, he picked up his passengers one by one. Of course, he had no idea that he would pick up a special passenger at this time in the morning. Just as he was about to pass a stop near the Tacony neighborhood, a woman passenger told him about a little girl she had seen, all alone waiting at the bus stop. He stopped his bus and was amazed at what he had seen. Wearing her purple raincoat, sleeping clothes, and her boots, little Jill waspatiently waiting for the bus to stop so she could ride on it.

The bus driver could not believe his eyes. His passengers at the time were also surprised to see a tiny kid all alone in the rain at that moment. Seeing a child about the age of a preschooler at 3 am without any adult with her was surely a shock. Charlie was worried about her and then he had an idea. He had to do something to take the little girl safely back home.

He and the passengers on the bus tried to find out how this had happened. As it turned out, Jill even walked 5 blocks in the rain before she reached the bus stop where she was found. Without hesitation, Charlie called the local police and told them of the little girl.

As Jill sat on the bus, the passengers comforted her and made sure she was okay. As the little girl sat with the other passengers, she shared her mission (使命) that early morning. “All I want is a box of chocolates,” she said.

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Charlie drove the bus until it got to the stop which was not far from a police station.

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Jill’s parents hurried to the police station.

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8 . My car slid easily into the school lane. I turned around and glanced at the back seat as my ten year old daughter_______. My daughter’s words started to spill, “Momma, Jenny_______all the girls in the class to attend her birthday party except for Heather and me. I_______I was her friend, too.” The air was filled with her_______.

As tears ran down my little girl’s face, I felt_______. As an introvert (内向的人), I often breathe a sigh of _______when I am not invited to a large social gathering. I prefer_______with a few friends who get me. _______, I don’t extend my preferences to my daughter’s social life. Since the age of four, rather than_______just a few, I’ve invited all of her classmates to her birthday parties. That’s because I am________to the need for young girls and boys to feel________.

I understand that at some point all of us are excluded from something and that this is a________children will eventually learn. But why does it have to happen when they are so________?

As soon as we got home, I hugged my still upset daughter and wiped away her tears. As I________her, I thought of her own approaching birthday party. The invitation would go out to all of her________.

1.

A．got off

B．climbed in

C．passed by

D．fell down

2.

A．invited

B．taught

C．warned

D．forbade

3.

A．forgot

B．pretended

C．figured

D．feared

4.

A．sorrow

B．excitement

C．pride

D．humor

5.

A．fearless

B．careless

C．tireless

D．powerless

6.

A．disappointment

B．impatience

C．relief

D．sadness

7.

A．competing

B．bargaining

C．connecting

D．writing

8.

A．Stressfully

B．However

C．Extremely

D．Otherwise

9.

A．refusing

B．choosing

C．ignoring

D．training

10.

A．apologetic

B．frightened

C．blind

D．sensitive

11.

A．left out

B．held back

C．fulfilled

D．included

12.

A．lesson

B．role

C．skill

D．quality

13.

A．upset

B．young

C．naughty

D．lonely

14.

A．praised

B．blamed

C．rewarded

D．comforted

15.

A．classmates

B．neighbours

C．teachers

D．relatives

9 . “Second place is just the first loser” is a well-known saying from the legendary NASC ARchampion Dale Earnhardt. Or as my late father put it jokingly, “It’s not enough to win. Your friends have to lose, too.”

We may not want others to know our thoughts, but many of us think this way, because we are born to compete with each other. However, if left unmanaged, this can create conflicts between ourselves and others. Fortunately, there is a way to solve this problem: instead of always going for gold, aim for the bronze (铜牌).

To expand on the wisdom of Earnhardt, although second place may be the first loser, third place can be the real winner, at least when it comes to happiness and longevity. A 1995 study discovered that bronze winners appeared consistently happier on average than silver medalists, while another research in 2018 studied U.S. athletes in the Olympics from 1904 to1936 and found that those whose best performance was silver lived to 72 on average. Gold medalists beat this by living to 76. But the first prize went to the bronze winners, who lived to 78.

The social concepts of upward and down ward comparison help explain the difference. Silver medalists see themselves as the first loser because they compare themselves only with the champions. In contrast, the bronze winners compare downwards with those who have never made it onto the podium (领奖台) at all. Therefore, they feel better about themselves and thus, happier. The emotion shows up in improved health and lifespan. In fact, researchers have found that comparing ourselves with the unfortunate lot of others is a reliable technique for reducing a negative mood. The comparison is not from a feeling of ill will, but because rewards in life are relative.

The worldly happiness strategy of working for gold every day is foolish. Stop spending most of your time feeling like a silver medalist: always pursuing and relying your happiness on a single outcome. Rather, aim for healthy competitions in which you do your best without the expectation of being the absolute winner.

1. What does the joke from the author’s father imply?

A．Everyone has his or her secret.

B．Winning and losing are quite common.

C．Defeat is embarrassing in a competition.

D．A true friend always stands by your side.

2. What does the underlined word “longevity” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Long lifetime.	B．Enough pleasure.
C．Slow growth.	D．Constant pursuit.

3. What can we learn about downward comparison from paragraph 4?

A．It brings some shyness.	B．It prevents conflicts.
C．It improves well-being.	D．It reflects negative intentions.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．The Key to Being a Winner	B．The Path to Worldly Happiness
C．The Wisdom of Dale Earnhardt	D．The Victory of Coming in Third