Yours,

Li Hua

2 . 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。

Catherine was the coolest kid in her class. Whenever she went, she was in the spotlight, with a bunch of kids following her and doing everything she did.

Her deskmate, Landy, however, was not in the cool kids’ group. Being the tallest kid in her class, she was teased by her classmates, who were always chanting “Landy, Landy, long as spaghetti (意大利面 )”. Every time Landy heard those silly chants, she could feel her face burst into flames. God knew how she wished the ground to crack and swallow her!

Catherine didn’t really like it when the kids chanted “Landy, Landy, long as spaghetti”. But she never told them to stop either, and nor did she ever talk to her. She liked being popular.

One weekend, Catherine went over to her grandfather for Thanksgiving. Her grandfather lives on a farm at the opposite end of town, where he keeps chickens. While helping to feed the chickens, Catherine noticed a peculiar one. Curling in the corner, it looked smaller than the others and was almost half-bare!

“What’s the matter with it?” She asked her grandfather, with a puzzled frown on her face. Her grandfather told her how chickens could act. “They have a pecking (啄) order,” he explained, wrinkles of concern spreading around his forehead. “If one chicken is different, the others will push it away and keep pecking it. Sometimes they peck it so much that it dies.”

“Oh, what a poor little thing!” Catherine let out a sigh as she scooped the frightened chicken up in her arms, whose heart was beating fast in the bony little body. Suddenly, she thought of Landy, the girl being “pecked” by her classmates. “I’m going to take it home and take good care of it,” she said with a determined look.

Back in school, Catherine told the cool kids about the chicken. “It’s looking healthy,” she said proudly. “It’s fatter and its feathers are growing. Even the cat likes it. She carries it around the garden, and...” Everyone was entertained by Catherine’s story of her lovely chicken, laughter lingering around the classroom.

注意：1.续写词数应为 150 左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1. Then Catherine spotted Landy sitting by herself in a corner.

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Paragraph 2. But Catherine walked directly toward Landy, regardless of what they said.

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A comforting cup of tea is     1     essential part of the day for hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Worldwide, three cups of tea     2     (consume) for every cup of coffee. To fully appreciate the ancient roots of the herbal drink, a visit to the China National Tea Museum might be in order. The institution has a long history.

    3     (locate) in Hangzhou, the museum occupies a parklike setting. Inside, various halls demonstrate the story of tea, its ceremonies and its tools. Records of tea drinking date     4     far back as the tenth century B. C. in China.     5     (origin) the leaves were baked into a brick, a part of     6     could be broken off and made into a powder. Tea spread into northern China during the Tang Dynasty; by the Song Dynasty it     7     (acquire) a loose-leaf production as well as the ceremonies that made     8     (it) consumption an art form.

The art of tea extended to its fancy     9     (contain), which are on display at the museum. Gracefully rounded kettles date back 5,000 years; tea bowls from the Tang Dynasty have a beautiful simplicity. Today visitors can observe a tea ceremony that might be enough    10     (change) even the most passionate coffee drinker.

4 . I was getting ready to go to bed when the phone rang. This could not be good. My mind _______ through the list of family members who might need help, but the _______was hardly familiar.

“Lindy, this is Lesley.” I didn’t know Lesley well. We did _______ speak with each other, but to say we were friends was not appropriate. I asked what she needed. Perhaps something really awful caused her to _______ someone she barely knew. _______, she asked me, “Do you have room for a turkey? In your freezer?” We had lots of room in our freezer, and in fact, too much. “Sure,” I responded, “did your freezer_______ ?” “Not exactly,” Lesley replied, “but I will explain when I arrive.”

Minutes later came a huge freezer truck. Lesley stepped down and _______ the lease (租约) of the grocer store her husband serviced had _______ and that they had to empty all the freezers that very night. Thinking it was a shame to throw away all this good food, they decided to _______ off food to anyone she could think of. ________ our freezer was pretty empty, Lesley asked to fill it up. Our home was their ________ stop and anything left would have to be put in our freezer. An hour later, everything finished, I asked her, “When will you come back for all this?” Lesley ________ , “We don’t want it back. It is yours! Thanks for helping us out!” Then they waved goodbye and drove away.

“For helping them out?” We opened our freezer door. Inside were all expensive foods we never bought but often ________ to try. We were struggling to buy groceries, ________ it was not something we shared with anyone. However, our ________ were met in an unexpected way, by that “Do you have room for a turkey?”

5 . John von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children of a banker, and his speed of learning new ideas and loving problems stood out early. At 17, his father tried to persuade him not to become a mathematician because he might lead a poor life being a mathematician, so von Neumann agreed to study chemistry as well. In 1926, at 23, he received a degree in chemical engineering and a Ph. D. in mathematics. From then on, mathematics provided well enough for him, and he never had to turn to chemistry.

In 1930, von Neumann visited Princeton University for a year and then became a professor there. His first book was published in 1932. In 1933, the Institute for Advanced Study was formed, and he became one of the 6 full-time people in the School of Mathematics (Einstein was one of the others).

World War Ⅱ hugely changed von Neumann’s areas of interest. Until 1940 he had been a great pure mathematician. During and after the war, he became one of the best mathematicians who put mathematical theories into practice. During the last part of the war, he became interested in computing machines and made several fundamental contributions. After the war, von Neumann continued his work with computers, and was generally very active in government service. He received many awards, was president of the American Mathematical Society and was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. He died of cancer in 1957.

Von Neumann made several great contributions and any one of them would have been enough to earn him a firm place in history. He will be remembered as one of the greatest minds of the 20^th century.

Von Neumann really was a legend in his own time, and there are a number of stories about him. His driving abilities is a part of his legend. He reported one accident this way: “I was driving down the road. The trees on the right were passing me in an orderly fashion at 60 miles per hour. Suddenly one of them stepped in my path.”

Yours,

Li Hua

A recent study has showed that people look better when part of their face is covered with a face mask (口罩), especially if they     1    (be) medical masks.

This study was carried out through an experiment in which women were asked to rate (划分等级) from 1 to 10 the     2    (photo) of men whose faces were partially covered with a cloth mask, a blue medical face mask, a book     3     nothing to cover their faces.

In the experiment, researchers were surprised     4    (find) those with blue medical masks were the most attractive. They     5    (follow) by those who used a cloth mask and who had a book to cover their faces, while men who did not have a face covering were rated with the     6    (low) score.

    7     are faces considered more attractive when they are covered by medical masks?

There are some reasons. Ahead     8     the pandemic (疫情), the use of face masks was connected with diseases. But something seems to have changed almost two years after the pandemic. People are used to healthcare workers     9    (wear) blue masks.

Covering part of a face also makes people look better,     10    (possible) because the brain fills in the missing part and exaggerates (夸大) the whole effect, in addition to the fact that masks direct attention to the eyes.

10 . Cam’s grandfather’s 81st birthday was around the corner and he wanted to do something ________ for him. So, he ________ to make his grandfather’s dream come true.

Cam’s family had a 1957 Chevy Bel Air in his grandfather’s garage (车库). The old car ________ running in the 70’s, so it was left sitting there, waiting for someone to ________ it. He and his grandfather always talked about getting it running again, but they ________ really had the time to do it.

So Cam knew it would be the perfect ________ for his grandfather, his best friend, to have the car restored (修复). Cam saved up money for so many years and even sold parts of his own car to ________ what he needed to finish restoring the Chevy Bel Air. He still had a little bit more ________ to get it done, but by his grandfather’s 81st birthday, he would have had the car ________ enough to be able to surprise his grandfather with it.

The restorations ________ to a total of $20,000. But that did not matter. Cam said that it was worth every cent to see the ________ on his grandfather’s face when he showed the surprise.

Cam gathered the family around in a parking lot to present his grandfather with his ________ restored car. He covered his grandfather’s eyes with a blindfold (眼罩). And when Cam ________ the blindfold from his eyes, his grandfather was excited to see the restored car! He began to cry and ________ Cam for the birthday present.

Now Cam and his grandfather are ready to go on some road ________ together and travel in classic style.