1.时间和地点;
2.事情经过和结果;
3.你的感受。
注意:1.不要逐字翻译,可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
2.100词左右。
September 18, 2022, Sunday Fine
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Nobody can live without friends. But when you’re making friends online,
Jack and I are both volunteers for a group
3 . I received 3 missed calls from a number I didn’t recognize today. I assumed it was something to do with an accident I had recently. I was ready to answer
It was a man called Darren who
I have just been to meet him to get my purse back, only to find out Darren is
I felt
The
A.gently | B.gratefully | C.humorously | D.eagerly |
A.explored | B.bought | C.lost | D.checked |
A.forgot | B.remembered | C.suspected | D.asked |
A.explained | B.requested | C.repeated | D.believed |
A.broke | B.failed | C.dropped | D.disappeared |
A.card | B.address | C.bill | D.number |
A.hopeful | B.helpful | C.homeless | D.speechless |
A.pictures | B.change | C.tickets | D.jewelry |
A.in spite of | B.in terms of | C.owing to | D.apart from |
A.untouched | B.unlimited | C.classified | D.consumed |
A.time | B.effort | C.money | D.energy |
A.embarrassed | B.surprised | C.worried | D.relaxed |
A.everything | B.something | C.anything | D.nothing |
A.familiar | B.polite | C.honest | D.wise |
A.shop | B.world | C.environment | D.street |
About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. He went directly to the waiting man.
“Is that you, Bob?” he asked, doubtfully.
“Is that you, Jimmy Wells?” cried the man in the door.
“Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the other’s hands with his own. “It’s Bob! I was certain I’d find you here if you were still alive. Well, well, well! —twenty years is a long time. How has the West treated you, old man?”
“It has given me everything I asked it for. You’ve changed lots, Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall by two or three inches (英寸).”
“Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty.”
“Doing well in New York, Jimmy?”
“Moderately. I have a position in one of the city departments. Come on, Bob; we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times.”
The two men started up the street, arm in arm. The man from the West, his egotism (自我) enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career. The other, submerged (埋) in his overcoat, listened with interest.
At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights. When they came into this glare each of them turned simultaneously (同时地) to gaze upon the other’s face.
The man from the West stopped suddenly and released his arm
“You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he snapped. “Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman (鹰钩鼻) to a pug (狮子鼻).”
“It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tall man. “You’ve been under arrest (被捕) for ten minutes, ‘Silky’ Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wants to have a chat with you. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. Now, before we go on to the police station here’s a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the the window. It’s from Patrolman (巡警) Wells.”
The man from the West unfolded the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. The note was rather short.
“Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted (被通缉的) in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. ——JIMMY.”
(Excerpts from “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry)
注意:1.续写词数为120左右
2.请按以下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
How time flew! Bob was released from jail. Stepping out of jail into the cold wind,
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He turned around and surprised to find a familiar-looking man.
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5 . When 45-year-old Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic(胰腺) cancer, he chose to focus on living rather than dying. As a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pausch was asked to deliver a “last lecture”. This well-known campus tradition allowed professors to share worldly wisdom with students as if they were dying and had one last lecture to give.
The only difference in Pausch’s case is that Pausch really was dying, but it only motivated him more. He delivered his last lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” on Sept. 18, 2007.
Pausch began by sharing several of his boyhood dreams, some of which he had achieved and the others he hadn’t. He described the importance of having dreams and how anyone can still learn a lot by reaching for those dreams, even if they don’t always succeed. He shared the values(价值观) learned through experience, which he hoped to pass on to others hard work, laughter and gratitude, honesty, character.
Pausch’s last lecture received a great deal of praise and attention. It became a crazy YouTube hit, and in October 2007, he presented an abridged (删节的) version on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. He turned the lecture into a book by the same name, which quickly became a best-seller. Readers were deeply moved by the book’s representation of Pausch’s lifelong philosophy and the way it revealed the biggest source of his motivation—his three young children.
Pausch passed away on July 25, 2008, but his voice lives on in the recorded lecture and his book. He continues to motivate us all by encouraging us to never give up our childhood dreams—a source of inspiration that can never run dry.
1. Why was Pausch asked to give his “last lecture”?A.To teach the students. | B.To make him have a better life. |
C.To cure his cancer. | D.To achieve his dream. |
A.His private life in boyhood. | B.Having dreams and good values. |
C.The reason for his success. | D.The experience learned from others. |
A.His dreams. | B.His children. | C.His work. | D.His students. |
A.keep on dreaming | B.know the meaning of life |
C.enjoy life | D.give the last lecture |
6 . In a certain village lived a farmer and his only son. The son was a thief who always went about stealing from people’s homes. He continued this bad lifestyle till the day his cup got filled. He stole heavy sum of money from the richest man in their village, but that day he didn’t escape successfully as he used to. The rich man contacted the police immediately when he found out that his money was missing and the police started investigating, and finally they found out that the boy stole the money so they sent him to prison.
After some months, it was time for farming and the farmer was already old and weak and can’t dig the ground anymore, so the old farmer wrote this letter to his son in prison. “Son, this year I will not plant cassava and yam because I can’t dig the field, I know if you were here you would have helped me”. The son was really touched by his father’s letter so he thought a plan, and replied his father “Dad, don’t even think of digging the field because that’s where I buried the money I stole”.
On reading this letter, the policeman went early in the morning and dug the whole field in search of the money but nothing was found. The next day the son wrote his father again “Dad, you can now plant your cassava and yam. This is the best I can do from here. ”
Dad replied “My son, you are too powerful indeed, even in prison you still command policemen to work for me. I was so surprised to see the policeman and his team holding hoes and shovels, digging my farm. Next time I will write to you when I want to harvest.
1. What happened to the boy after he got caught stealing?A.He was punished by the rich man. |
B.He was sentenced to imprisonment. |
C.He was arrested and questioned by the police. |
D.He returned the stolen money to its original owner. |
A.Think outside the box. |
B.Every bean has its black. |
C.Slow and steady wins the race. |
D.A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. |
A.The boy buried the stolen money in his father’s field. |
B.The police believed what the boy wrote in the letter to his father. |
C.The boy had the power to command the police to dig the field for his father. |
D.The police would come and dig the field again when his father want to harvest. |
A.favorable | B.indifferent | C.disapproving | D.ridiculous |
7 . The Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world’s most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator. The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On the four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.
Opening Hours: The Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10: 00—17: 00; Sundays 11: 00—17: 00. Last admission (允许进入) is 30 minutes before closing time.
Special opening times can be arranged for groups, who may wish to book a private view.
Admission Charges: Adults: £5.00; Students: £4.00; Seniors: £4.00; Children: £3.00; Families: £14.00 (2 adults & up to five children).
Group Rates: For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of £4.00 each applies. Children will still be admitted for £3.00 each.
Access: We are constantly working to improve access to the Museum. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp(活动坡道) for better access and an audio tour for visitors with impaired (受损的) vision. Our Handling Sessions (亲身体验活动) are also suitable for the visually impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.
Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, parties and many other social occasions.
Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the following buses: 7, 17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, please click here. The British Museum and the Foundling Museum are within walking distance.
1. Compared to going there separately, if a family with two adults and four children go to the Museum together they will save ________.A.£22.00 | B.£14.00 | C.£11.00 | D.£8.00 |
A.Anyone cannot hire the Museum for other uses. |
B.Visitors with poor vision cannot enjoy the Museum. |
C.The Museum is not very far from the British Museum. |
D.people can be allowed into the Museum at 17:00. |
A.magazine | B.Website | C.guidebook | D.Newspaper |
8 . Pay a visit to the Chicago River and you’ll find that it has a wonderful new addition to the local wildlife. Among the birds and fish, visitors may spot a small robot moving up and down the busy waterway. This is Trashbot, the creation of a startup called Urban Rivers, using cutting-edge technology to clean up trash in the area.
In some ways, Trashbot is like the vacuum cleaners (真空吸收器) found in American homes. But it isn’t. While its free movement and lack of onsite handlers may give the impression that this is a self-driving machine, this could not be further from the truth. At any point in time, Trashbot might be controlled by one of the Internet users.
Anyone with a web connection can get into Urban River’s website and take a two-minute turn at piloting Trashbot. The company’s goal is to use this time to direct Trashbot to pick up trash, and then carry this to a collection point on the river bank, where it can be later removed.
The idea for Trashbot started a few years ago when Urban Rivers’ project the “floating gardens” on the Chicago River got clogged up (被堵塞) with trash. To solve this, they started employing old-fashioned human litter pickers to collect trash from the river. However, this turned out to be ineffective.
The idea of a robot boat was born then, but the team wasn’t sure how to pilot it. Teaching a computer to understand what trash is isn’t easy, Trash is a somewhat abstract concept (概念) . We know it when we see it. At this point they decided to turn to the Internet for help.
“We figured that we could put out a call so that this boat could be controlled by people around the world,” says Nick Wesley, one of the brains behind the project. “Letting people take control of a robot to clean up trash makes for a really cool experience.”
1. What do we know about Trashbot?A.It is a vacuum cleaner | B.It is harmful to local wildlife. |
C.It is a trash clearing machine. | D.It has been widely used in homes. |
A.It is operated by Internet users. |
B.It works for two hours at a time. |
C.It is handled by human litter pickers. |
D.It recognizes trash and reports it to users. |
A.In Paragraph 3. | B.In Paragraph 4. | C.In Paragraph 5. | D.In Paragraph 6. |
A.It is a risky practice. |
B.It may cause a network crash. |
C.It fails to meet online users needs. |
D.It offers online users a special experience. |
9 . We’ve all heard people say “Oh, that person is so creative!” about someone who is great at art, but art is just one area where people can be creative. Any time you try something different to solve a problem, you’re being creative.
Explore and Imagine. Shigeru Miyamoto is the brains behind some of the world’s most popular video games: Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong. He spent hours exploring nature and going on adventures in his mind.
Tune into Music. “Music is important to me. It brings my creative juices,” says author Linda Trice. When she was writing about American hero Harriet Tubman, she started each day by listening to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
Don’t Give Up. Dr. Lonnie Johnson is the inventor of the Super Soaker. When he was in high school, he wanted to build a robot, but he failed many times.
A.Look for Details. |
B.Find Pictures in Patterns. |
C.Now he is an engineer and an inventor. |
D.Her characters are also moved by music. |
E.Are some people naturally more creative than others? |
F.As a game designer, he still finds joy in making up new worlds. |
G.She became famous for her huge paintings of small flowers and animals. |
10 . My name is Destiny, working at a Psychological Counselling Center. In my teens, there was nothing special about me. My older sister, Antia, is beautiful. My younger brother, Tye, is a talent at the age 13. He completely skipped the sixth grade. How do I compete with that?
My mom and I were home alone one day. I went into the room where she was watching television and I blurted out (脱口而出), “Mom, is there anything special about me?”
She thought about it for a moment and then turned down TV. She took a deep breath, took my hand and exhaled (呼气).
“You have the ability to say just the right thing at just the right time.”
“Really? Is that it, words?” I tried to keep my voice steady (稳定的) but I could hear the anger even as I fought to control it.
“It’s more than words, Destiny,” my mom said. I know my mother meant well but I felt worse than ever. I burst into tears.
The next day is when my whole life changed. I went to school earlier than before and noticed Darwin sitting across the room which was strange because no one ever noticed Darwin. Suddenly, Darwin stood up and threw away all his books, shouting loudly. I could hear screaming and crying but the sounds seemed distant as I focused my full attention on Darwin six feet in front of me. I felt the words swell up in me. “Darwin,” I heard myself say with a calm, steady voice. “I have family and friends with so much talent and potential and I have none. There is nothing special about me.” From the corner of my eye, I could see others staring at me in silence. I continued talking. “You are so smart. You can answer questions that the teacher hasn’t even asked yet. Do you know that everyone in this class is envious (嫉妒的) of you?” Hearing my words, he calmed down and gave me a big hug.
Then the teacher came. Learning about what happened, the teacher smiled, “That was a great job you did, young lady. Superman could not have done a better job than you did here today.” I couldn’t believe that she compared me to Super man. I work at Psychological Counselling Center now. There is a cork board over my desk filed with thank-you cards and letters from people who say they owe their lives, careers, or their families to my words. But tome, they are more than words. They are my super power!
1. Why does the author mention her sister and brother?A.She is envious of them. | B.She feels really proud of them. |
C.She wants to show family love. | D.She considers competing with them. |
A.She said more words to her mother. |
B.She could hardly believe her mother. |
C.She understood her mother’s white lie. |
D.She had doubt about her mother’s love. |
A.He quarreled with his classmates. | B.He lacked great talent and potential. |
C.He failed again in the examination. | D.He suddenly lost control for some reason. |
A.A Brave Superman | B.The Power of Words |
C.A Strange Classmate | D.The Future of a Career |