1 . “How is that a thirteen-year-old boy can raise more money than any of our board members?" asked the director of Camp One Step at a lime to open his board meeting. All of the board members were truly ________ al this opener. Did a thirteen year old really raise much money? Yes, he did. And that boy is my ________        Danny.

Several months before his 13th birthday, Danny ________ my family that he wanted to ________money for Camp One Step at a place for seriously ill kids to have a simple camp experience that many kids lake for granted. When Danny told me he was really going to follow through with this, of course I was proud of him, ________ didn’t think he would really be able to succeed. My immediate response was there was no way Danny could make this ________, But this would soon change.

All on his own, Danny wrote and sent out ________ to all of our family and friends. As people began to ________ them, our home phone did not stop ringing. Everyone was ________ to say how wonderfully encouraging Danny’s letters were, When the phone calls stopped. ________ started to come in. No matter how ________ or small these donations were. Danny ________ accepted all of them because he knew that every single donation would help to realize his goal.

On the day of his birthday, Danny said the words I’ll never ________. “With al! of your help, I’ll be able to send three ________ to camp this summer!" Everyone, especially me, was really in surprise. When I looked at him standing before us, I had never seen him so full of ________ in his whole life.

1.

A．excited

B．angry

C．amazed

D．embarrassed

2.

A．brother

B．friend

C．teacher

D．classmate

3.

A．supported

B．told

C．challenged

D．warned

4.

A．make

B．collect

C．save

D．borrow

5.

A．but

B．or

C．so

D．because

6.

A．survive

B．change

C．increase

D．happen

7.

A．invitation

B．postcards

C．pictures

D．letters

8.

A．remember

B．buy

C．receive

D．visit

9.

A．calling

B．writing

C．waiting

D．expecting

10.

A．e-mail

B．praises

C．respect

D．money

11.

A．different

B．attractive

C．big

D．expensive

12.

A．patiently

B．gratefully

C．bravely

D．fortunately

13.

A．repeat

B．miss

C．forget

D．avoid

14.

A．kids

B．gifts

C．parents

D．assistants

15.

A．freedom

B．nervous

C．honesty

D．pride

3 . There is no age limit to learn new things and be creative. That's what 102-year-old Alan R. Tripp and 88-year-old Marvin Weisbord _________ us after they released (发布) their first-ever music _________ called Senior Song Book. It just goes to show that anything is _________ even when you are very _________. You just need some willpower, a friend by your side, and a burning passion (热情) to keep on improving forever.

"_________ is that you would have loved it if you were alive back in 1940 and you can still love it today," Marvin says. The friends live in the same Pennsylvania _________ community after they didn't work any more and have been writing songs, together for the past 2 years. Their album _________ 8 songs and 2 pieces of pure music.

They are true music lovers at heart. Marvin _________ that he feels "so young" whenever he's together with Alan. After all, there's a 14-year _________ between being 88 and 102, even if it doesn't __________ it. Alan states that he "__________ getting old 10 years ago" with a naughty __________ on his face, which makes it even more funny.

"So we're writing songs that are recognizable, in all kinds that are recognizable, with lyrics telling stories about how we __________ our lives now," Marvin told Hannah Batanson of the Washington Post.

"Now we're giving people who are 64 years old a chance to be 14 again and get new songs in their heads,"__________ Alan, according to whom it was never the pair's __________ to turn a profit.

1.

A．taught

B．learned

C．abandoned

D．experienced

2.

A．film

B．album

C．concert

D．lesson

3.

A．easy

B．fashionable

C．possible

D．horrible

4.

A．rich

B．sick

C．weak

D．old

5.

A．Music

B．Performance

C．Dance

D．Song

6.

A．volunteer

B．school

C．retirement

D．youth

7.

A．makes

B．contains

C．takes

D．leaves

8.

A．wonders

B．believes

C．jokes

D．hopes

9.

A．difference

B．distance

C．shortage

D．practice

10.

A．look like

B．take over

C．set up

D．get on

11.

A．finished

B．stopped

C．enjoyed

D．refused

12.

A．nose

B．tear

C．look

D．wrinkles

13.

A．waste

B．face

C．support

D．spend

14.

A．apologized

B．guessed

C．imagined

D．explained

15.

A．result

B．invention

C．intention

D．knowledge

4 . We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Someone had been returning our garbage cans to the _______ each garbage day, and Jim and I had wondered who. Then one day we _______ him: an elderly man who lived across the street. I baked cookies and _______ them outside the garage with a thank-you note. Later that night, a typed letter had _______ the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained how he had _______ to walk the neighborhood, returning cans for people he _______ knew. Back when he’d been fighting a war, his wife, Gee, had found herself living _______ . Neighbors had taken the time to _______ her garbage cans, so she didn’t have to and he never _______ . Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us.

Years later, Tom died. We photocopied that letter and ________ it to one of our own for, Gee. We told her how ________ we were to have known Tom. She wrote back and invited us over to ________ Christmas ornaments(装饰品). My kids sat in Gee’s living room and ________ lifted antique ornaments out of a well-kept box. Gee quietly explained each ________ . She told me that she and Tom had built their ________ piece by piece during each year’s after-Christmas sale. I realized how ________ it must be to part with that box. Yet she smiled ________ we left with it and found it a new home.

Passed from one home to the next, the box of ornaments ________ our family of the bonds around us. This Christmas, we’ll ________ our tree with Gee’s ornaments. Maybe I’ll talk to him just as Gee till does. Thank you, I’ll say, for teaching us what it ________ to be a neighbor.

1.

A．yard

B．corner

C．kitchen

D．garage

2.

A．spotted

B．suspected

C．approached

D．remembered

3.

A．displayed

B．left

C．deserted

D．exposed

4.

A．covered

B．occupied

C．replaced

D．removed

5.

A．agreed

B．prepared

C．happened

D．come

6.

A．gradually

B．apparently

C．rarely

D．typically

7.

A．alone

B．away

C．aside

D．apart

8.

A．exchange

B．recycle

C．throw

D．handle

9.

A．forgave

B．forgot

C．admitted

D．approved

10.

A．preserved

B．posted

C．attached

D．addressed

11.

A．grateful

B．hopeful

C．pitiful

D．regretful

12.

A．put away

B．put out

C．look through

D．look into

13.

A．carefully

B．proudly

C．nervously

D．hurriedly’

14.

A．request

B．treasure

C．routine

D．trouble

15.

A．possession

B．connection

C．reputation

D．collection

16.

A．hard

B．absurd

C．generous

D．precious

17.

A．until

B．as

C．if

D．though

18.

A．convinces

B．reminds

C．informs

D．accuses

19.

A．furnish

B．combine

C．provide

D．decorate

20.

A．obtains

B．brings

C．means

D．contributes

5 . I wasn’t particularly great at school. And 1 wasn’t the _________ boy because was quiet and shy. Mrs Kerswell was my English teacher. It’s hard to _________ her exact age. When you’re a child, every adult is _________. She must be past middle age, with grey hair and a(n) _________ face. Her lessons were in a totally stress-free environment. However, I was really _________ because I went from a _________ school with 28 people up to the sort of bigger town junior high school.

I didn’t _________ anyone. No one from my _________ school went there because we all went to different schools. I really struggled in my first year to _________. Thanks to Mrs Kerswell she was really the sort of humorous teacher you could have chats with, who read materials that weren’t on the syllabus (教学大纲) just for ____________.

She managed to make Beowulf interesting to a number of ____________. She was key in keeping my love of reading going. It certainly wasn’t a ____________ thing for a boy of that age to love ____________ as an entertainment. Actually, I just treated it as a learning task. But she reminded me that books were fun and they weren’t just about learning or the ____________.

When I was 13, I wasn’t excellent at writing. But she allowed and ____________ me to write in a natural way. Unlike my other teachers, she told me not to use the fanciest ____________. “Writing is not about flowery language but about real communication. ____________, you’re having a conversation on a page,” she said. So it made me realize that I didn’t have to ____________ about it too much.

I saw her once, over 10 years ago. My writing career was going well, and she was proud of my achievements and ____________ as a writer, and I really ____________ her for keeping the fame on.

1.

A．fattest

B．quietest

C．naughtiest

D．loneliest

2.

A．leave out

B．work out

C．adapt to

D．amount to

3.

A．old

B．friendly

C．innocent

D．lively

4.

A．blue

B．honest

C．guilty

D．kind

5.

A．relaxed

B．disappointed

C．stressed

D．relax

6.

A．city

B．league

C．village

D．town

7.

A．assign

B．accept

C．acknowledge

D．know

8.

A．junior

B．primary

C．senior

D．social

9.

A．fit

B．give

C．break

D．check

10.

A．defense

B．fun

C．victory

D．fame

11.

A．writers

B．teenagers

C．celebrities

D．teachers

12.

A．cool

B．flexible

C．major

D．painful

13.

A．speaking

B．writing

C．reading

D．learning

14.

A．courses

B．progress

C．entertainment

D．hobbies

15.

A．commanded

B．forbade

C．warned

D．encouraged

16.

A．words

B．means

C．ways

D．ideas

17.

A．Gradually

B．Basically

C．Ridiculously

D．Awkwardly

18.

A．enquire

B．bring

C．doubt

D．worry

19.

A．habit

B．interest

C．privilege

D．reputation

20.

A．promoted

B．criticized

C．thanked

D．dismissed

6 . From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she ________ writing, but pursuing it ________ was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine was a fairly ________ choice,” Moira says, “and writing was a career where it wasn’t a ________ that you’d have high income.”

She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. However, being a doctor was so ________ that she didn’t take up writing until her thirties. She ________ a novel – a fictionalized version of her travel in China after university. She got excellent ________. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to ________ her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her ________ as an author.

“I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we ________ all possible areas that she thought needed ________. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything.” It wasn’t long ________ Moira found another agent who was ________ if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter: ‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested.’ It was really ________.”

A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time ________ for her own enjoyment. She ________ herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters ________ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just ________.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.

“________ it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the ________,” says Moira.

1.

A．avoided

B．enjoyed

C．intended

D．postponed

2.

A．actively

B．energetically

C．permanently

D．professionally

3.

A．influential

B．safe

C．tentative

D．tiresome

4.

A．certainty

B．dream

C．choice

D．purpose

5.

A．challenging

B．declining

C．demanding

D．promising

6.

A．bought

B．introduced

C．produced

D．received

7.

A．reviews

B．revision

C．rewards

D．reservation

8.

A．employ

B．guide

C．represent

D．trust

9.

A．business

B．feet

C．own

D．way

10.

A．came over

B．pulled down

C．took off

D．went through

11.

A．adapting

B．covering

C．deleting

D．polishing

12.

A．after

B．before

C．since

D．when

13.

A．interested

B．fascinated

C．restricted

D．tolerated

14.

A．absurd

B．common

C．disappointing

D．terrifying

15.

A．instantly

B．purely

C．sadly

D．wonderfully

16.

A．found

B．made

C．permitted

D．set

17.

A．got down

B．put up

C．took on

D．went over

18.

A．flew

B．flashed

C．floated

D．survived

19.

A．As if

B．Even if

C．Ever since

D．If only

20.

A．process

B．procedure

C．recreation

D．terminal