1 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

In 1989, fresh out of high school, I had the difficult task of choosing a career path before college started in three months. In those days in Pakistan, there were limited choices: becoming a doctor or an engineer, or entering the financial world after getting a business degree. I wasn’t interested in engineering, so that I was left with medicine or business. I couldn’t decide.

My uncle suggested that I do a work placement(实习) to experience it for a month in an international company followed by a month in a hospital. After that, I could make a decision. It seemed like a good idea.

I was accepted for a month’s placement at a foreign bank in Karachi. I got a feel of how the world of finance functioned, made new friends, and generally enjoyed the mostly easy­going work surroundings.

The month passed rapidly, and soon I began working at a leading hospital in Karachi. The experience couldn’t have been more different. The hospital had a stressful environment. The days started early (at 7 am, compared to 9 am at the bank), and were filled with endless duties. And the night calls! This was crazy, working all day, through the night, and again the next day.

I began thinking about my two experiences. The bank had offered a more relaxing atmosphere, better working hours and less stress. The hospital was full of excitement, but studying and training were difficult. It seemed that the business choice was going to win out.

Near the end of my month at the hospital, I was driving home after an especially busy night call. In front of me was a public bus, with college students sitting on the top. As the driver weaved through (穿梭) traffic, I could see the boys shaking from side to side.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2．至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3．续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4．续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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Suddenly, a boy fell off the back of the bus.

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The next day, when I went to the hospital to see the boy, all his family got up, with grateful smiles on their faces.

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2 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

One day, my brother and I were in our apartment. My parents had both gone for a party and had left me in charge of everything. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. All of a sudden, the doorbell rang. Ding­dong! Ding­dong! My younger brother had rushed to the door before I decided to answer the door. We both thought that our parents had come home. As a result, he unlocked the door and opened it.

Outside of the house stood a man who wore a black raincoat and black rubber boots. He looked no different from other people and said that he was a salesman and asked politely if our mother or father was at home so he could talk with them.

Without thinking, my brother said，“No.” He asked if we would like to buy some comic books (漫画书), which he was selling. I quickly explained to him that we were not supposed to buy anything without our parents’ permission. However, it seemed that he was not willing to follow my advice and he had an intention to enter our house.

Then, I realized something terrible would happen. As I was about to close the door, he forced his way into our house. He forced me to tie up my brother’s hands with the rope which he took out from his pocket. I tied up his hands but tied it in a special way so my brother could untie (解开) it himself as we often did. The man then tied my hands up and locked both of us in the kitchen.

Soon, he went upstairs to search the bedroom for something valuable. I managed to teach my brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied it for me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, but the line was dead.

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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The doors were all locked from the outside and what’s more, I did not have the keys.

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Just at the same time our parents came back home.

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4 . “Meet me in the conference room with the contracts and a cup of coffee,” my boss barked at me. “Ten minutes.”

I didn’t respond. I stood still as if my shoes had been glued to the floor. I had no intention of taking a cup of anything to anyone, supervisor or not.

I had seen with my own eyes what such behavior did to a woman. It happened to Mrs. Wilson next door. Old Mr. Wilson wouldn’t put in his own false teeth without his wife’s assistance, let alone make himself lunch. It was a miserable union. I vowed by age eight that I would never live like her. I adopted the motto: Don’t help those who won’t help themselves.

I rushed to the file room and pulled my phone. I explained to my father what had happened and asked his advice on what to do, only to be asked back. He must have forgotten the unwritten rule between us about not answering a question with a question. Fortunately, I came up with an idea that would have the best of both worlds.

I took up the files and headed for the coffee pot. I took two cups and made two cups of coffee. Then I walked into the boss’ office with a cup of coffee in each hand. I handed my boss a cup of coffee and drank at the same time as him.

“Let’s take a break,” partway through the meeting, my boss stood, saying, “I need more coffee.” I picked up my empty cup. “I do, too,” I said, and handed it to him across the table. “Thanks,” I added, looking at him expectantly. The boss was staggered for a moment, and then took the cup from me.

When I finally left my boss’ office, I hid in the bathroom and called my dad. My father’s laughter on the phone made me feel even prouder.

1. Why does the author mention the Wilsons?

A．To explain her unwillingness to serve the coffee.

B．To picture what she will be like when she ages.

C．To stress her opposition to inequality in society.

D．To show how the couple grew old together.

2. What did the author mean by bringing two cups of coffee to meet the boss?

A．She intended to play a trick on her mean boss.

B．She planned to have the boss serve her later.

C．She meant to share instead of serving.

D．She wanted to save the trouble of doing it again.

3. What does the underlined word “staggered” mean in the sixth paragraph?

A．Moved.

B．Scared.

C．Excited.

D．Shocked.

4. What can we learn about the author from the text?

A．She figured out how to show respect for her superior.

B．She took a wise approach to stand up for herself.

C．She found it practical to seek solutions from her father.

D．She considered it significant to fight against men bravely.

5 . 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。

It was in the chilly midwinter, and the wandering couple walked through the freezing night with heavy steps, seeking shelter. The father-to-be scanned the roadside for some home, some inn where his tired companion might rest safely for the night. He looked over at her frequently. She labored along, her way made heavier by the new life growing inside her. They needed a warm, dry place safe from the bitter wind. When her time came, it must not be out here along the roadway.

Their names were not Mary and Joseph, but Pepper and Cooper. Nor were they man and wife, but rather a pair of dogs, and the place was on a rural highway outside of town.

Night fell. Gus Kiebel, a county wildlife officer, was driving home from work when he spotted the pair in the flash of his headlights. It was snowing so hard that it was difficult to see, but he could tell the dogs were wearing collars and tags. What were they doing out here on this road?

He parked his truck and approached the animals. Gus bent down and stretched out his hands to the dogs, which made no effort to escape. Gus read their tags by his truck’s headlights. He pulled out his phone to call the number listed, but it was snowing so hard that his screen blurred (模糊不清的). He placed the dogs in his truck, on the floor of the passenger side. By the time he came around the driver’s side, he found that they had climbed onto the passenger seat and were snuggled (依偎) together there. Gus dried his phone, snapped a picture of the pair and sent it to his wife, Katie Kiebel.

Then he dialed the number from the dog’s tags. A man answered and immediately sounds defensive when Gus told him why he was calling.

“I gave those dogs away,” the man said. “They’re not mine anymore.”

“Well, do you want them back?”

“No. I can’t take care of them.”

The man hung up.

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: Not knowing what to do, Gus looked over at them.   
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Paragraph 2: “You cannot put them back in the snow,” Katie said.
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7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Lin Qiaozhi,    1    (know) as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime and made great     2    (contribute) to the birth of children in China.

When young, she didn’t follow the traditional path like most girls and made up her mind to study medicine    3    her brother’s complaint for the high tuition fees. After graduating from Peking Union Medical College    4    the Wenhai Scholarship, the highest prize given to graduates, she became the first woman ever     5    (hire) as resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. After a few years, she went to Europe and America for further education. During her stay there,    6    she impressed her colleges and was given an offer to stay in America, she rejected without any hesitation and went to China to serve the women and children. As a doctor, not only was she appointed the first woman director of the OB-GYN department of PUMC Hospital, but she also opened     7    private clinic to cure all the people in need of help.

After the People’s Republic    8    (found), Lin Qiaozhi became busier and played an    9    (increase) important role as she held many important positions. However, she was more keen on tending patients,    10    (publish) medical research on care for women and children and training new doctors. She didn’t retire until the days he died.

8 . 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。

On Dec. 20, Mello called his mother on FaceTime, which he does every day after school. That afternoon, Mello broke down in tears the moment his mother, Anita James, answered the phone. “Mello, what happened?” James asked her son on the phone.

“I’m getting tired of them bullying (欺凌) my friend about his shoes. It’s making me so upset,” he answered in a serious voice, explaining that his classmates made fun of his friend Melvin for having worn-out (穿破的) muddy sneakers.

James listened to Mello’s narration with a thoughtful expression. Then, Mello earnestly asked, “Can we go buy him some shoes?”

James told her son they would talk about it when she got home from work. During their in-person conversation a few hours later, James found her son still upset. At last, Mello decided to buy his friend a fresh pair of sneakers to get rid of bullies and remind him that he has people who care about him.

“Can I use my pocket money, or you can take something away that I would get for Christmas?” Mello asked his mother.

The sincere request from her son hit James for many reasons, including that when she was growing up, her older brother used to buy her sneakers when her parents couldn’t afford them. Now, in their adult lives, James buys her brother a pair of sneakers for his birthday every year to show her appreciation. James was so touched by her little boy’s genuine care for his friend and she knew how it would matter to the poor kid, Melvin.

That evening, they went to a sneaker store and bought a pair of black-and-white Nike shoes for Melvin. Mello used savings from his pocket money to pay for the $85 shoes. This way, Mello thought, “nobody could laugh at him or say anything about him anymore.” Mello was so excited to give Melvin the gift that he woke up nearly an hour early for school.

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。
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Before class began, Mello handed his friend the orange Nike box in private.

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Bryant Brown, the school’s social studies teacher, found the shoe box on Melvin’s desk.

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9 . Discoveries in science and technology are thought by “untaught minds” to come in blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents. Sir Alexander Fleming did not, as legend would have it, look at the mold (霉) on a piece of cheese and get the idea for penicillin there and then. He experimented with antibacterial substances for nine years before he made his discovery. Inventions and innovations almost always come out of tough trial and error. Innovation is like soccer; even the best players miss the goal and have their shots blocked much more frequently than they score.

The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take most shots at the goal—and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity. The prime difference between innovation and others is one of approach. Everybody gets ideas, but innovators work consciously on theirs, and they follow them through until they prove practicable or otherwise. What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions, professional innovators see as solid possibilities.

“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular goodness in doing things the way they have always been done.” Wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language authority. This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient: “How come nobody thought of that before?”

The creative approach begins with the proposal that nothing be as it appears. Innovators will not accept that there is only one way to do anything. Faced with getting from A to B, the average person will automatically set out on the best-known and apparently simplest route. The innovator will search for alternate courses, which may prove easier in the long run and are sure to be more interesting and challenging even if they lead to dead ends. Highly creative individuals really do march to a different drummer.

1. “Untaught mind” in the first paragraph refers to __________.

A．an individual who often comes up with new ideas by accident

B．a person who has had no education

C．a citizen of a society that restricts personal creativity

D．a person ignorant of the hard work involved in experimentation

2. According to the author, what differs innovators from non-innovators?

A．The way they present their findings.	B．The intelligence they possess.
C．The way they deal with problems.	D．The variety of ideas they have.

3. The phrase “march to a different drummer” (the last line of the passage) suggests that highly creative individuals are ________.

A．devoted to the progress of science

B．diligent in pursuing their goals

C．concerned about the advance of society

D．unwilling to follow common ways of doing things

4. The most suitable title for this passage might be ________.

A．What Are So Special about Creative Individuals

B．The Relation Between Creation and Diligence

C．Discoveries and Innovation

D．To Be a Creative Expert in the Study of Human Creativity