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。

Lon was chasing his runaway horse when a goose went under his feet. And he fell into a thornbush (荆棘丛). “Why do I have such bad luck?”

Things never seemed to go Lon’s way. If there was a bee about, he was stung.

And if his horse ran away, it would run straight through a thornbush. Still, even bad luck might turn good if he could catch that goose for dinner.

He scanned the bushes, and found a nest with an egg. Just an egg, but even one egg might make a small meal.

He picked it up, but dropped it in surprise. The egg was unusually heavy, and it gleamed (发光) in the sunlight. It was made of gold!

Lon sighed. He’d nearly stepped on a goose that lays golden eggs. If he had captured the goose, he would have had golden egg after golden egg.

Then a thought exploded in his mind.

Perhaps he could take the egg and get it to hatch, and the new goose would lay golden eggs just as its mother did.

Lon smiled. His luck seemed to be changing.

Once home, Lon placed the egg into a bed of cotton next to the hearth. He turned it every hour for several days.

One morning, he heard a faint chk-chk-chk. A small golden beak poked its way through the shell.

It was an ugly little thing, but Lon didn’t care. All that mattered was the golden eggs it would soon lay.

The gosling demanded food. Lon happily kept its beak filled. He named the bird Goly and became fond of it, even though it was soon better fed than he was. Lon talked to his goose and taught it to play checkers (国际跳棋).

Time passed as Lon waited for the first golden egg. Goldy had grown quite fat, but there were no eggs. Lon finally took the goose to a farmer to see what the problem was.

The farmer took a closer look and laughed. “You’ll never get eggs from this goose. It’s a boy goose!

I might as well roast you for dinner,” Lon said. “At least then I’ll get a meal for all my work!”

注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Alarmed，Goldy popped out of Lon’s arm and escaped into the forest.

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One morning, Lon awoke to Goldy’s familiar honking outside.

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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。

A rock is as big as a house. That’s how the guide book described Giant Rock. Dad said it was carried here by a glacier millions of years ago.

I was finally going to see it, on-snowshoes, with my three older cousins, my dad, and my uncle Don. I’d been snowshoeing before, and I liked the adventure of hiking through deep snow alongside wild-animal tracks. At the parking area, after putting on our snowshoes, we studied the map in the information kiosk(亭子). “We start here”, Dad said, “on the red path. Then we turn left onto the purple circle. That’s where Giant Rock is.” “Remember to stick together, guys,” Uncle Don said.

The path ran uphill alongside a stone wall. It was easy to follow because red markers were nailed to the trees and the snow had been packed down by other hikers. At the top of the hill, we turned onto the purple path, which wound back and forth, travelling through the hills and gullies. We settled into a rhythm, with Dad and everyone else in front and me in the back, crunch-crunch-crunching through the snow. My cousins were faster than I was, but I managed to keep up.

Finally, we reached a hill and saw the massive rock sitting alone in the forest. “It really is as big as a house” my cousin Josh said, gazing up. My cousins and I high-fived(举手击掌)each other and jogged down the slope until we stood at the base, breathless. Standing in the rock's giant shadow, I noticed the sun had dipped even lower. “Let’s head back,” Dad said after a few minutes.

Soon we were crunch-crunch-crunching our way home. I was a little behind the group when I noticed a set of animal tracks I didn’t recognize. I followed them off the path for a closer look. There were no claw marks, which meant they didn’t belong to a dog or a fox. Instead, they looked like tiny handprints and footprints. Must be a raccoon(小熊), I thought.

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上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。
Para l:

I looked around when I suddenly realized I was totally alone.

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Para 2:

Reaching a crossroads, I tried to calm myself down, picturing the map again.

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3 . We all experience “oh crap” moments. Running into the person you canceled a date with — while you’re on another date. Realizing you hit “reply all”on an e-mail that you’d do anything to have back. Whatever the situation, the first thing you probably do is freak out. Everybody does.

While many of us think that we’re cool in a crisis, science tells us that we seldom are. At the moment we need to be keenly aware of our surroundings, our attention can tunnel in on the scariest thing in the scene, leaving us unaware of the other sights, sounds, and even smells around us. Armed robbers go unidentified because witnesses remember little more than the guns. Our ability to remember the things we do notice also becomes compromised; we can be told something, and two seconds later we’ll forget. And we jump to conclusions. When we’re freaked out, we’re anything but at our best.

These normal human reactions can be reversed. Once you calm down, you’ll face the most routinely ignored challenge of any crisis situation — identifying what the crisis is really about. We tend to misdiagnose problems because we don’t practice for them. Do the thinking ahead of time so you can just find the solution when it’s showtime. This is why flight attendants suggest you find the closest exit before you depart — so you don’t have to go exit shopping after the plane has caught fire or is sinking into a river.     

Performing in a crisis is becoming more important for all of us, for two reasons. Back in the good old days, the reliability of most anything we used or did was far less than it is today. Now think about what happens to our preparedness as the possibility of something bad happening shrinks. Unless we practice what hardly ever happens, our ability to respond when it does happen tends to slip away. Reliability can kill you. Also, the systems we use today are more complex. There are seldom moving parts in plain view that allow us to see when things are about to go wrong. When complex systems lack transparency (透明度,显而易见), serious situations can “come out of nowhere.” We should all learn to breathe, recognize the situation, and carry out the plan that we were smart enough to prepare well in advance.

1. What does the underlined phrase “freak out” mean?

A．Be at one’s best.	B．Calm down gradually.
C．Run away immediately.	D．Panic or be scared.

2. Why do armed robbers go unidentified?

A．Because the witnesses jump to conclusions.

B．Because the witnesses focus on their scariest thing.

C．Because the witnesses forget what they have been told.

D．Because the witnesses are keenly aware of the surroundings.

3. Why is it more important for us to perform in a crisis today?

A．Because of less reliability and less complexity.

B．Because of more reliability and more complexity.

C．Because of worse transparency and less preparedness.

D．Because of better transparency and more preparedness.

4. What would the passage suggest doing in case a fire breaks out?

A．Taking a deep breath and dialing 119.

B．Staying cool and ignoring the challenge.

C．Calming down and remembering the situation.

D．Performing escaping and rescuing beforehand.

4 . Dogs are often said to look like their owners, but the breed someone chooses could also reveal key aspects of their personality, psychologists claim.

They found that people _______ different types of dog depending on their lifestyle and character, though they typically don’t realize it.

Corgi owners, such as the Queen, tend to be extroverted, _______ Sir Isaac Newton’s Pomeranian could have signaled that he was creative and intelligent, the study suggested. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s choice of a cocker spaniel puppy, Lupo, may _______ that they are agreeable and conscientious, while owners of greyhounds and beagles are more likely to be emotionally stable.

This could be because, like in a romantic relationship, we tend to _______ ourselves with pets that we feel we share something in common with, researchers from Bath Spa University found.

It could also _______ our lifestyle, with active dogs like retrievers and greyhounds appealing more to people who enjoy spending time _______, they added.

Dr. Lance Workman and Jo Fearon surveyed 1,000 dog owners via an online questionnaire on behalf of the Kennel Club.

The questions were designed to test the so-called “Big Five” traits that _______ our personality: extroversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness and intelligence.   

Dr. Workman said there was a definite link between a dog’s _______ and their owner’s personality. “I think when you look for a dog at some level, largely _______, you look for something that is a bit like you,” he said. “It’s a bit like a romantic partner. If they ________ they will probably last, and contrary to popular opinion, with romantic partners opposites don’t attract—you need to have a lot ________ if it’s going to last.”

But it also has to suit your lifestyle, he added. If you’re going to get a(n) ________ breed, you need to be an outdoor type person.

Someone’s choice of dog could also reveal ________ personality traits that do not immediately come across from watching them or listening to them speak.

The Queen’s ________ for corgis, for example, may signal that she is more extroverted than she appears to be, Dr. Workman explained.

He said, “It takes a lot to get up and stand up in front of the number of people she does as often as she does, and give a good talk, and at the same time she has to be controlled as the head of state. ________ the minor royals can party, she’s never been able to do that, so I think the personality that we see appears less extroverted than she actually is.”

1.

A．are aware of

B．are drawn towards

C．are compared to

D．are disrespectful to

2.

A．if

B．while

C．as if

D．because

3.

A．confess

B．propose

C．reflect

D．announce

4.

A．match

B．contrast

C．confuse

D．provide

5.

A．change

B．result in

C．be down to

D．interact with

6.

A．working

B．planning

C．indoors

D．outdoors

7.

A．combine

B．govern

C．outweigh

D．examine

8.

A．size

B．breed

C．temperament

D．origin

9.

A．subconsciously

B．knowingly

C．indifferently

D．distinctively

10.

A．figure out

B．team up

C．break down

D．fit in

11.

A．in common

B．to offer

C．at hand

D．on hold

12.

A．fashionable

B．luxurious

C．energetic

D．glamorous

13.

A．hidden

B．positive

C．negative

D．evident

14.

A．tolerance

B．capacity

C．talent

D．fondness

15.

A．Since

B．Whereas

C．For

D．As long as

5 . Lazer loves running, and although he experiences a series of potentially fatal heart problems, he always cherishes a new finish line to inspire his _______.

By 2008, Lazer had undergone six heart _______, and the last one left him _______. In an attempt to feel_______, he decided to_______ his diet and, at the suggestion of a friend, started drinking more nutrient-packed juices._______, he began to feel good enough to _______ his sneakers and hit the_______again.

“After _______ the hospital, my goal was not to ________. I wanted to live my life as I desired, and that meant to ________ running and be in the best shape that I can,” he says. “I wasn’t going to be sedentary and sit on a sofa and ________ the remote. The big thing for me was that I wanted my own life. I was going to do everything I could to get my life back.”

To Lazer, that meant running, since it was such a big part of that life. ________, just months after that sixth surgery in 2008, he was back________ the starting line of the Las Vegas 26.2. And this past November, he crossed the finish line of his 18^th ________ race.

Lazer ________ running as one of the main reasons he’s lived well beyond that one-year prognosis he got back in 2004. “I believe I started running ________ knowing that if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be living too ________,” he says. “Running is a part of who I am—I am ________ to be the best that I possibly can be. It’s such a huge part of my life that my life seems out of order if I’m injured or I can’t run. It’s kind of my ________.”

1.

A．recovery

B．champion

C．competition

D．growing

2.

A．hurts

B．broken

C．surgeries

D．rehabilitation

3.

A．devastated

B．debilitated

C．strove

D．hesitated

4.

A．brighter

B．higher

C．happier

D．stronger

5.

A．pick up

B．add up

C．switch up

D．turn up

6.

A．Eventually

B．Normally

C．Quickly

D．Strangely

7.

A．put up

B．lace up

C．take on

D．control with

8.

A．master

B．disease

C．competitor

D．road

9.

A．getting out of

B．returning to

C．running out of

D．dropping out

10.

A．achieve

B．compromise

C．change

D．promote

11.

A．train

B．find

C．continue

D．start

12.

A．switch

B．play

C．fiddle

D．press

13.

A．Besides

B．However

C．But

D．So

14.

A．from

B．at

C．on

D．about

15.

A．consecutive

B．successful

C．ordinary

D．special

16.

A．doubts

B．credits

C．hopes

D．ponders

17.

A．somehow

B．anyone

C．somebody

D．anyhow

18.

A．late

B．long

C．painful

D．relaxed

19.

A．thinking

B．struggling

C．braving

D．striving

20.

A．drug

B．life

C．anchor

D．entire

6 . Many small-business owners watched recent revelations about Facebook with mixed emotions. Like most Americans, they were surprised to discover how much information the social media giant collected on its users. But when it comes to small business, Facebook is a transformative advertising platform for small businesses, not easy to replace.

Let's say you own a small seafood restaurant, and Tuesday nights are $1 oyster （牡蛎）nights. Traditional advertising methods cost a lot and must be planned long in advance, and ifs hit-or-miss as to whether you actually get in front of oyster eaters. With Facebook, on Tuesday morning, with a few clicks, you can target Facebook users in your Zip code who love oysters and eating out （and are over age 21, so they can buy drinks, which is why you have $1 oyster nights）. And you can do this for as little as S20.

In my work with small businesses for more than 25 years, I've never seen a more effective method of micro-targeting prospects. Though Facebook is an effective tool for small-business, advertising does not justify （证明合理）the company's collecting vast amounts of data or allowing users' data to be invaded.

"Our primary concern was people's experience on Facebook," said Dan Levy, Facebook's Vice President. "Our teams have also been speaking to small businesses, and they want to make sure we're addressing the situation, and we are."

One concern small businesses want Facebook to address is protecting their uploaded lists. No one wants their customers' information misused or accessed by others, especially competitors.

Small-business owners are rightfully concerned about privacy. They don't want Facebook to know everything about them, and they don't want their customer lists to be let out to others.

But small businesses don't want to lose this effective advertising medium, either. Most Facebook ads are not invasive or offensive. And many receivers may actually benefit from receiving highly targeted ads—after all, those oyster lovers like learning about Tuesday night— $1 oyster night.

1. How does the author explain Facebook's function in Paragraph 2?

A．By performing an experiment.	B．By leading a survey・
C．By analyzing the data・	D．By giving an example.

2. What is the author's attitude towards Facebook mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．Objective.	B．Supportive.
C．Doubtful	D．Respectful.

3. What makes small businesses concerned about Facebook according to the text?

A．What people experience on Facebook.

B．That Facebook updates the lists constantly.

C．That their competitors benefit more from Facebook.

D．That Facebook will give away their customer lists.

4. What can be the best title of the text?

A．Facebook is benefiting small businesses

B．Facebook, a mixed bag for small businesses

C．Facebook is protecting customers5 privacy

D．Facebook, a powerful advertisement tool

7 . Since 1960, considerable scientific researches have been done on chimps in their natural habitats. Astonishingly, scientists have found out that the social______of Chimps are very similar to humans. Chimps will______in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct to______one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly______to share food with their children. who are able from a young age to gather their own food?

In the laboratory, chimps don't______share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull   ____—he just doesn't care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.

Human children,______, are extremely cooperative From the earliest ages, they decide to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this____   in a series of experiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see a worried adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally______in young children. One is that these______appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train their children to behave______. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that social intelligence______in children before their general cognitive skills, at least when compared with chimps In tests conducted by Tomasello, the human children did no better than the chimps on the______world tests but were considerably better at understanding the social world.

The core of what children's minds have and chimps' don't is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality. Part of this ability is that they can______what others know or are thinking. But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a "we", a group that intends to work toward a(n)______goal.

1.

A．structures

B．policies

C．behaviors

D．responsibilities

2.

A．conflict

B．cooperate

C．offend

D．negotiate

3.

A．trust

B．contact

C．isolate

D．help

4.

A．decline

B．manage

C．attempt

D．oblige

5.

A．curiously

B．reluctantly

C．naturally

D．carelessly

6.

A．in turn

B．at random

C．with care

D．in advance

7.

A．all in all

B．as a result

C．in no case

D．on the other hand

8.

A．cooperativeness

B．availability

C．interrelationship

D．attractiveness

9.

A．cultivated

B．motivated

C．possessed

D．stimulated

10.

A．attitudes

B．instincts

C．experiences

D．coincidences

11.

A．creatively

B．formally

C．socially

D．competitively

12.

A．develops

B．decreases

C．changes

D．disappears

13.

A．abstract

B．invisible

C．imaginary

D．physical

14.

A．infer

B．adapt

C．absorb

D．balance

15.

A．realistic

B．shared

C．specific

D．ambitious

8 . A true reality of retirement planning is that your future is riding on the quality of your assumptions. Humble ______ can be dangerous.

For example, eight years into this bull market, expecting stocks to deliver as strong returns over the next decade is an uncertain proposition many are nonetheless ______.

Another potential ______ assumption is that you will be able to keep working past 65. Yet the recently released 2017 Retirement Confidence Survey by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that more than half of workers say they expect to still be on the clock past age 65. ______, less than 15 percent of today's retirees kept working that long.

"If you plan on working longer as a way to get by in retirement, you are going to be in trouble," says Craig Copeland, senior research associate at EBRI. "It should be a ______ to a solid savings and spending plan, not the foundation."

It's simply too ______ to assume you will indeed be able to work longer. A survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that nearly two-thirds of retirees left the workforce earlier than expected because they were laid off, reorganized out of a position, or due to general unhappiness with a job. Only 16 percent of retirees who ______ the work force earlier than they expected did so because they felt they could ______ afford to.

______, a new report from Prudential puts a dollar value on why your current employer may not be inclined (倾向于) to do back flips to keep an older you happy and engaged. The estimated one-year cost to a firm when an employee ______ retirement: $50,000.

Prudential estimates that on a company-wide level, delayed retirement can ______   overall workforce costs by 1 percent to 1.5 percent. That's not nothing. And it goes a long way in explaining why employers may be more inclined to focus on "financial wellness" strategies to get workers ready to retire ______ than programs to help workers delay retirement.

Fewer than one-third of employees surveyed by TCRS report their employer has some sort of "transition" program such as flexible work schedules, reduced hours or ______ to a different role.

"Workers' vision of retirement is changing faster than employers' business ______," said Catherine Collinson, president of TCRS. That makes it ever more crucial for pre-retirees to take the steps today that will increase the ______ they can continue to work longer, if that's part of the plan.

1.

A．pessimism

B．optimism

C．concern

D．consideration

2.

A．relying on

B．holding back

C．accounting for

D．turning down

3.

A．reliable

B．possible

C．flawed

D．firm

4.

A．As a result

B．In addition

C．Needless to say

D．By comparison

5.

A．complement

B．composition

C．compliment

D．comprehension

6.

A．ridiculous

B．sensible

C．risky

D．logical

7.

A．extended

B．exited

C．existed

D．remained

8.

A．economically

B．mentally

C．financially

D．physically

9.

A．However

B．Therefore

C．Instead

D．Moreover

10.

A．delays

B．expects

C．gets

D．decides

11.

A．influence

B．decrease

C．increase

D．transform

12.

A．later

B．sooner

C．faster

D．slower

13.

A．shifting

B．altering

C．ranging

D．functioning

14.

A．deals

B．practices

C．customs

D．operations

15.

A．prospect

B．capabilities

C．odds

D．outputs

9 . It wasn’t that I was embarrassed my husband was out of work. It’s just that we were ________ people and didn’t share our ________ much with others. So when he lost his job, we just acted like nothing had changed and no one seemed to ________.

It didn’t take long before my friends found out that my husband ________ a lot more. When asked about it, I told my good friend and neighbour Tammy the ________ and I said we were still looking. She then told me that her husband had also been hunting for ________ all over town because his company was closing down. I was ________. We constantly did things together, yet I hadn’t found any sign of their ________.

After knowing what they were ________, I wanted to help them even though we didn’t have much ourselves. So, I became a ________ shopper. I looked for discount offers everywhere, and when I finished my ________, I would offer to buy things for Tammy at the ________ price. It seems like our money goes even further because we are willing to ________.

It goes the other way too. Tammy and her husband have given us enough wood to ________ our house this winter. It has been a huge ________, reducing our gas bill to almost nothing. There are other ________ of helping each other. I teach Tammy how to make bread; she ________ my kids when I go to job interviews... and the ________ goes on.

I don’t have much to give, but I can give of myself. I can have ________, love and hope, and the more I give these away, the more I ________.

1.

A．strange

B．selfish

C．mature

D．private

2.

A．duties

B．problems

C．opinions

D．plans

3.

A．mind

B．care

C．notice

D．sympathize

4.

A．went hunting

B．visited neighbors

C．stayed home

D．dined out

5.

A．difference

B．truth

C．result

D．message

6.

A．jobs

B．friends

C．promotion

D．comfort

7.

A．relieved

B．disappointed

C．confused

D．shocked

8.

A．starving

B．hesitating

C．struggling

D．quarrelling

9.

A．going through

B．preparing for

C．looking for

D．looking forward to

10.

A．professional

B．personal

C．modem

D．secret

11.

A．housework

B．project

C．search

D．conversation

12.

A．earlier

B．lower

C．average

D．suggested

13.

A．shop

B．bargain

C．compromise

D．share

14.

A．decorate

B．support

C．build

D．heat

15.

A．help

B．victory

C．burden

D．profit

16.

A．difficulties

B．examples

C．expenses

D．traditions

17.

A．watches

B．praises

C．adopts

D．raises

18.

A．interview

B．negotiation

C．list

D．party

19.

A．curiosity

B．ambition

C．freedom

D．kindness

20.

A．hunt for

B．get back

C．believe in

D．come across

10 . In a recent series of experiments at the University of California, researchers studied toddlers’ thinking about winners and losers, bullies (欺凌) and victims.

In the first experiment, toddlers (学步儿童) watched a scene in which two puppets (木偶) had conflicting goals: One was crossing a stage from right to left, and the other from left to right. The puppets met in the middle and stopped. Eventually one puppet bowed down and moved aside, letting the other one pass by. Then researchers asked the toddlers which puppet they liked. The result: 20 out of 23 toddlers picked the higher-status puppet — the one that did not bow or move aside. It seems that individuals can gain status for being dominant (占优势的) and toddlers like winners better than losers.

But then researchers had another question: Do toddlers like winners no matter how they win? So, researchers did another experiment very similar to the one described above. But this time, the conflict ended because one puppet knocked the other down and out of the way. Now when the toddlers were asked who they liked, the results were different: Only 4 out of 23 children liked the winner.

These data suggest that children already love a winner by the age of 21-31 months. This does not necessarily mean that the preference is inborn: 21 months is enough time to learn a lot of things. But if a preference for winners is something we learn, we appear to learn it quite early.

Even more interesting, the preference for winners is not absolute. Children in our study did not like a winner who knocked a competitor down. This suggests that already by the age of 21-31 months, children’s liking for winners is balanced with other social concerns, including perhaps a general preference for nice or helpful people over aggressive ones.

In a time when the news is full of stories of public figures who celebrate winning at all costs, these results give us much confidence. Humans understand dominance, but we also expect strong individuals to guide, protect and help others. This feels like good news.

1. One of the purposes of the experiments is to ________.

A．teach toddlers how to gain higher status

B．offer toddlers a chance to watch a scene

C．observe the process of toddlers’ solving a conflict

D．find out toddlers’ attitude toward winners and losers

2. The toddlers regarded bowing and moving aside as a sign of ________.

A．obeying rules

B．gaining status

C．giving in to the other

D．showing good manners

3. What does the second experiment tell us about toddlers?

A．They are excellent learners.

B．They are always changeable.

C．They show mercy to the loser.

D．They value kindness over winning.

4. What does the author think of the results of the series of experiments?

A．Disappointing.	B．Encouraging.
C．Unexpected.	D．Controversial.