1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Montana firefighter Ryan Benton recently showed a very different side of his profession when he was photographed calmly reading to a young girl after a car crash. The picture is particularly     1     (attract) as it shows a strong contrast to what we might expect from a frightening scene like that: a moment of calm.

The picture     2     (take) by a fellow firefighter,     3     also posted it on the Billings Fire Fighters Instagram page. While Benton avoided     4     (make) comments about the photo, fellow firefighter Cameron Abell told the Epoch Times about     5     touching scene, “That firefighter, Ryan, that day     6     (arrive) there to clean up the car accident, and he offered to take the time to make those kids feel clam. In fact, Ryan has devoted     7     (he) to doing that for years. ”

    8     (actual) , for the last few years, firefighters' trucks have come with book bags supplied by Rimrock Credit Union and Usborne Books to lend some comfort to kids in terrible situations.

For Benton, the moment     9     (share) calmly with this little girl was just part of his job. And while Benton shied away from any publicity, as Abell pointed out, “we all know when somebody does something like that they should get praised     10     it. It's good to recognize their good work.”

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。

I never knew how important life was until I almost lost my little brother. It all started when my brother got sick. I was nine, and he was just nine months. At that time, he kept touching his ear. The first doctor my mother took him to told her that it was an ear disease.

After a week, he was still touching his ear continually. My mother took him to a different doctor. The doctor ran blood tests on him and thought he should be in the hospital as soon as possible. At first, the doctors did not know what was wrong with him. A couple of days later, they found out he had a type of bone marrow (骨髓) cancer.

The doctors tried one round of treatment. It helped, but my brother lost his hair. Then he needed a bone marrow transplant (移植). They needed to find a bone marrow donor (捐赠者), so the doctors tested my family first.

I was so afraid to get a shot. My sisters and I were all crying. We got it over with quickly, and it did not hurt as much as I thought it would. A couple of weeks later, we found out that one of my sisters and I were both matches. My parents had to choose which one of us should be the donor. After thinking about it for a long time, they made their decision one Sunday.

That day, after having our lunch, my parents put me on the sofa. With tears filling their eyes, they told me that they wanted me to be the bone marrow donor because I was older. They asked me whether I’d like to be the donor. Hearing it, I was excited and nervous.

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。

I wondered whether to agree it or not.

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About 45 days later, my brother’s health improved a lot.

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4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Weiqi is a game which can best show the deep culture of China. About 4,000 years ago the Emperor Yao created     1     game to develop the intelligence of his son, Dan Zhu. Dan Zhu, who had been rude, was turned into a learned general     2     (final). Yao educated his son with success by     3     (teach) him to play weiqi, and thus the game has passed down through generations till today.

Weiqi is a game attracting many people. The charm of weiqi lies     4     its concept and strategy. The player shouldn’t care about the gain or loss of a city or a troop; instead, he should seek opportunities     5     (attack) the enemy and defend     6     (he) at the right time by sacrificing (牺牲) some pieces. Only when the player is not blinded by immediate success and short-term gains but looks for long-term     7     (benefit) can he win the battle in the end.

Playing weiqi is not only for recreation but also for developing one’s temperament (性情). For centuries, weiqi     8     (regard) as a good way to train one’s mind. It is said that people     9     enjoy playing weiqi can have “five gains”—friends, harmony,    10     (educate), wisdom and longevity (长寿). That is to say, weiqi can help them to make friends and get along well with others, and teach them how to understand the laws of life.

7 . I was fresh out of college and just started my career. I moved to a new place and my family _________ to congratulate me just before Christmas. However, I was out of luck right before my first _________ trip.

That morning, I said goodbye to my visiting family and left for the airport — or I _________ to reach the airport. My car battery was _________. I dropped my phone by accident. As a result, it _________ and wouldn’t work. Worse still, my _________ had already left my new place. I didn’t know anyone in the area and there were no taxis. It was my first real job. I was supposed to meet the managers at the airport and _________ the plane together.

Panicked, I started _________ the 3 miles to the office, wishing to find some help there. It was dark and _________. I must have been a __________: a suit walking along a snowy road at 5:30 a.m., __________ with my luggage and briefcase. Before long, a motorist stopped and __________ offered me a ride to the company.

Fortunately, I __________ it to the airport on time. Laughter replaced my fear of getting __________ when I shared the tale of my crazy morning with the happy __________, thanks to the kindness of a stranger.

1.

A．visited

B．called

C．planned

D．prepared

2.

A．family

B．business

C．study

D．field

3.

A．decided

B．asked

C．tried

D．managed

4.

A．bad

B．little

C．short

D．dead

5.

A．broke down

B．broke up

C．broke in

D．broke out

6.

A．friends

B．family

C．classmates

D．managers

7.

A．board

B．launch

C．fly

D．book

8.

A．skiing

B．driving

C．walking

D．wandering

9.

A．snowing

B．raining

C．fogging

D．blowing

10.

A．character

B．sight

C．memory

D．scenery

11.

A．doing

B．meeting

C．struggling

D．fighting

12.

A．gently

B．seriously

C．hesitantly

D．warmly

13.

A．made

B．led

C．showed

D．delivered

14.

A．paid

B．abused

C．fired

D．lost

15.

A．content

B．outcome

C．climax

D．flight

8 . As a garden designer and consultant, I see the amazing progress that can be made when gardeners get together and get things done. Here are some small stories about how something has been achieved through cooperation.

I was involved with one project earlier driven by two twelve-year-olds living in a small northern England town. To do something good for the environment, the two girls desired to grow their own food in some deserted land. So the pair spoke to their teacher about using a small abandoned space next to their school’s parking lot. The teacher reached out to me for advice and together we determined who owned the space. The owner agreed to rent the space and the kids were able to raise money to pay the rent and start growing food on the site.

Another inspiring story was about one enterprising gardener in Illinois who decided to speak with his neighbors about using their grass-filleld front yards to grow food. This gardener did have his own garden but he wanted to do more. So he offered to tend his neighbors’ front yards in return for the use of these underutilized spaces to grow food everyone would share. To his surprise, all of his neighbors adopted this front-yard farming idea, and even one neighbor joined him and helped grow the food to learn more about the process. Everyone gained a lot at last.

The final story was that of three women in a neighborhood in Vermont. Struggling to find the time to look after their kids and grow their own food, they found a solution. The mothers together raised children and plants, selling produce and young plants to other gardeners in the area to cover basic costs. They took turns on daycare duty for a handful of children and tended the garden around their part-time jobs.

These stories show just what can be achieved when people work together to make their own lives and the lives of those around them just a little bit better.

1. What are the two 12-year-old girls particularly interested in?

A．A balanced diet.

B．School education.

C．Voluntary work.

D．Eco-friendly living.

2. What was beyond the expectation of the gardener in Illinois?

A．His success in running a garden of his own.	B．The difficulty of getting land for gardening.
C．His neighbors’ positive response to his idea.	D．The good management of neighboring gardens.

3. What did the three women do to handle their problem?

A．They sold goods at a local daycare center.	B．They took turns to look after their children.
C．They did full-time jobs to cover basic costs.	D．They collected donations from other gardeners.

4. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A．To urge us to protect the current environment.	B．To praise the hard work of ordinary gardeners.
C．To prove the meaning of helping others in need.	D．To show the significance of cooperative work.

9 . Want to know the current population of India? The Internet is your best bet. But if you really need to learn something, you’re probably better off with print. Many studies have shown that when people read on-screen, they don’t understand what they’ve read as well as when they read in print.

The difference depends on what we assume about the text. Naomi Baron, a scientist who studies language and reading, says one way mindset works is in predicting how easy or hard we expect the reading to be. If we think it will be easy, we might not put in much effort.

Much of what we read on-screen tends to be text messages and social-media posts, which are usually easy to understand. “So we read fast. That fast reading can become a habit associated with reading on-screen,” says Baron. "But when reading fast, we may not absorb all the ideas as well.

Speed isn’t the only problem with reading on screens. There’s scrolling(滚动) of reading on-screen, too. When reading a printed page or even a whole book, we tend to know where we are. Not just where we are on some particular page, but which page out of many. We might, for instance, remember that the part in the story where the dog died was near the top of the page on the left side. We don’t have that sense of place when some long page just scrolls past us.

Why is a sense of place important? Researchers have shown that we tend to make mental maps when we learn something. Being able to “place” a fact somewhere on a mental map of the page helps us remember it.

It’s also a matter of mental effort. Scrolling down a page requires our eyes not to just focus on the words but to keep chasing the words as we scroll them down the page, which means our brain has to continually account for the placement of words in our view. And this can make it harder for us to simultaneously(同时) understand the ideas those words should convey.

1. Why do we tend to read fast on-screen?

A．We think the text is easy to understand.	B．We consider the message less important.
C．We have to do so to absorb more information.	D．We hate to put any mental effort into reading.

2. Why is a dog ’s death mentioned in the text?

A．To tell the role of the sense of place.	B．To draw a vivid mental map. .
C．To explain the concept of scrolling.	D．To point out the speed problem.

3. What can we mainly learn from the last paragraph?

A．Scrolling contributes to better concentration.

B．Reading requires less focus on the exact words.

C．The placement of words is simple to account for.

D．Scrolling is not beneficial to understanding the text.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．What Leads to Better Understanding When We Read On-screen

B．Online Reading Can Never Take the Place of Traditional Reading

C．Reading in Print Requires More Mental Effort Than Online Reading

D．Why We Can’t Learn From Reading On-screen As Well As on Paper

10 . Surrounded by a charming poplar forest in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a woman dressed in silk, dances under falling golden poplar leaves, looking like a “fairy” from myth(神话). This is a scene from a video that has caught the attention of Chinese netizens who have seen it as one of the most beautiful tourism promotions on social media.

This elegant lady is not an actress but the director of the Xayar County(县)Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism—Renaguli Reheman. Reheman recalled that the idea to introduce Xayar county’s plentiful tourism resources through short videos was inspired by another official in Zhaosu county in Xinjiang whose short video of him riding a horse in the snow successfully helped to promote local tourism.

Reheman said shooting the videos was not easy. Thinking that having her ride a camel would be a good fit for a desert tourism promotion, she decided to challenge herself by riding the tall animal even though she was afraid of falling off. While promoting a scenic(风景优美) highway near the poplar forest, Reheman spent two days learning to ride a motorcycle.

Reheman is just one of the many local officials who are promoting county tourism with fresh ideas and creative methods. This new tourism promotion model has brought local tourism industries to life and more officials are learning from it through the county.

1. What is the woman mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A．A local official.	B．An actress.
C．A photographer.	D．An environmentalist.

2. Which of the following can be used to describe Reheman?

A．Caring and generous.	B．Brave and confident.
C．Creative and hardworking.	D．Humorous and kind.

3. Where did Reheman get the inspiration for the video shooting?

A．From her friends.

B．From a tourist.

C．From a famous director.

D．From a video by another official.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Being a Star with the Short Video

B．Tourism Booming After the Promotion

C．A Great Idea Changing the Poplar Forest

D．A Xinjiang Local Official Promoting Local Tourism