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。

Become What You Want to Be

On September 7th, 1960, in Rome, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics. She won the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and ran the anchor (最后一棒) on the 400-meter relay team. The achievement led her to become one of the most famous athletes of all time.

Wilma was born into a large family and she was the 20th of 22 children! Her parents were honest, hardworking, but were very poor. Wilma was born prematurely (早产地) and weighed only 4. 5 pounds. They couldn’t afford to take her to hospital, so Wilma’s mother spent the next several years nursing Wilma through one illness after another. When she was four, her mother found that her left leg and foot were becoming weak and not normal. Mrs. Rudolph was told she had polio (小儿麻痹症), a disease that had no cure. The doctor told Mrs. Rudolph that Wilma would never walk. But Mrs. Rudolph wouldn’t give up. She found out that she could be treated at Meharry Hospital. Though it was 50 miles away, Wilma’s mother took her twice a week for two years, until she was able to walk with the help of a metal leg brace. All of her brothers and sisters helped, too. They did everything to encourage her to be strong and work hard at getting well. Finally, by age 12, she could walk normally. It was then that she decided to become an athlete.

At age 13, she entered a race. She came in last. She entered every race in high school, and in every race she came in last. Everyone begged her to give up! However, one day, she came in next to last. And then there came a day when she won a race.

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。

Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a coach named Ed Temple.     

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Wilma took part in the Olympic Games on September 7th, 1960, in Rome.        

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3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has their dreams. Some people want to be rich, dreaming of becoming millionaires overnight. Others want to be famous, dreaming of suddenly jumping to great fame. I have a dream, too. When I was     1     young girl, I dreamed of becoming a scientist like Hua Luogeng,     2     was a great Chinese mathematician.

However, I knew that I could not     3    (success) without great efforts. So I studied hard in middle school and college in order to realize my dream.

After graduating from college, I    4    (find) a job as a teacher. Although I was very busy     5     (teach), I never gave up my goal. I read a lot of books     6    (get) more knowledge. I made   many     7    (experiment) to practise and apply what I had learned from books. Sometimes, I was so     8     (deep) indulged (沉迷) in my research that I forgot my meals and time.

Now I have made great progress. Several of my research papers have been published. The methods mentioned in my papers have been proven to be valuable for the     9    (solve) to some problems. I am very happy. The ladder of becoming a scientist is still far ahead,     10    I have climbed the first step anyway.

4 . Sarah Ramadan had always been a perfectionist to draw more attention from others. “It’s hard to say if I ever did things for myself,” she said. Her drive for perfectionism even influenced her body. “I thought I would be a better person if I lost weight since that meant I cared for my figure,” she said.

Ramadan started to make changes, slowly by cutting food intake (摄入).However, things began to get worse and she developed anorexia (厌食症). “Gradually, I was having greater food fears. I related weight increase with shame,” she said. The extreme weight loss seriously affected her health. She was always freezing, had dry skin and thinning hair, and developed an irregular heartbeat and low blood sugar.

To hide her weight loss, Ramadan wore thick clothes. Then one day her mother walked in her room while she was only in a T-shirt. Her mother began to cry. Only then did them other know her poor condition. Realizing the trouble, her parents placed her in a treatment center. Ramadan’s weight increased, and she looked recovered, but mentally she was still fighting with anorexia. After half a year, her weight went to the lowest again and she could no longer walk without her mother’s support. She left university for that.

Ramadan finally realized she had a choice to make: To beat her anorexia or to die. She turned to her brother, Aladdin, a bodybuilder for help, who set up a meal plan to increase her food intake. “I knew I needed to eat to gain weight, but eating is actually physically exhausting when you’re not used to it. I had to learn how to enjoy food again,” said Ramadan. She started to feel a difference and was motivated to continue. In addition, Ramadan also hit the gym to build herself up physically. She said, “Where there is a will, there is a way. I eventually make it. Not only did I get weight, but most importantly, I got life.”

1. Why did Ramadan want to lose weight?

A．To present herself better.	B．To get a healthy body.
C．To help recover from diseases.	D．To satisfy her parents.

2. How was Ramadan doing after losing weight?

A．She felt ashamed of her weight.	B．She failed to get dressed on her own.
C．She was suffering from anorexia.	D．She was disappointed with her diet.

3. What plays a key role in Ramadan’s final recovery?

A．Her determination.	B．Doctors’ advice.
C．Aladdin’s encouragement.	D．Her mother’s attention.

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

A．A girl’s advice on how to battle anorexia	B．A girl’s fear of suffering from anorexia
C．A girl’s journey to becoming a bodybuilder	D．A girl’s choice between life and death

7 . As a young girl in rural Zimbabwe, Tererai Trent lived without running water and electricity and had no hope for her future. “I __________ my father pointing to my brothers and the other boys in the village and saying: These are the breadwinners of tomorrow. We need to __________ them. We need to send them to school. The girls will get married,” she says. “And that was just a (n) __________ experience for me.”

__________ to learn, this little girl with big dreams __________ did her brother homework. “I learned to read and write from my brother’s books,” she says. Soon, Tererai’s secret was __________, and the teacher begged her father to let her learn.

Tererai attended only two terms before she was forced to __________ at age 11. By age 18, she was the mother of three. “When my husband realized that I wanted to have a (n) ___________, he would beat me,” she says. “I have nightmares of that time of my life.”

In 1991, a visitor ___________ Tererai’s life forever. Jo Luck, from Heifer International, asked every woman about her greatest __________ — something many of them didn’t know they were allowed to have. “I remember very clearly saying: ‘My name is Tererai, and I want to go to America to __________,’” she says. “And she just looked at me and said, ‘If you desire, it is __________.’ I was definitely inspired by what she said. I determined to fight for my dream.”

Hoping her daughter could break the cycle of poverty, Tererai’s mother __________ her to write her dreams on a piece of paper. The 20-year-old placed them in a small tin and buried them under a rock on the __________ where she used to herd (放牧) cattle. “As a woman without an education, life will continue to be a burden,” she wrote. “I _______these dreams, and I firmly hope one day to work for the causes of women and girls in __________ like me.”

Tererai not only broke the __________ — she ended it for herself and her children. In 1998, Tererai moved to Oklahoma with her husband and now five children. Just three years later, she earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education. In 2003, Tererai obtained her master’s degree __________.

After every __________, Tererai returned home to Zimbabwe, __________ her tin of dreams and checked off each goal she accomplished, one by one.

1.

A．remember

B．imagine

C．suggest

D．resist

2.

A．sponsor

B．educate

C．train

D．protect

3.

A．remarkable

B．awkward

C．thrilling

D．painful

4.

A．Ready

B．Confident

C．Desperate

D．Content

5.

A．publicly

B．secretly

C．casually

D．carefully

6.

A．exposed

B．hidden

C．ignored

D．mentioned

7.

A．work

B．learn

C．marry

D．flee

8.

A．break

B．operation

C．raise

D．education

9.

A．claimed

B．saved

C．ruined

D．changed

10.

A．hobby

B．request

C．dream

D．gift

11.

A．make a fortune

B．have a degree

C．take a chance

D．start a business

12.

A．achieveable

B．impossible

C．incredible

D．awful

13.

A．encouraged

B．ordered

C．forbade

D．forced

14.

A．roof

B．path

C．field

D．court

15.

A．set aside

B．give up

C．believe in

D．account for

16.

A．delight

B．danger

C．demand

D．poverty

17.

A．silence

B．cycle

C．pattern

D．record

18.

A．eventually

B．regularly

C．actually

D．certainly

19.

A．challenge

B．achievement

C．choice

D．decision

20.

A．buried

B．polished

C．locked

D．unearthed

10 . 阅读下短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Gail Devers, an American athlete and also a three-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field, got her first one in 1992.     1     made Devers’ win so special was not just the nature of the race but also the journey she had taken     2     (get) there.

In the years leading up to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Devers experienced a series of     3     (extreme) unpleasant health complications (并发症) which brought her close to retirement before her athletics career had even begun. It was not until she visited many health experts     4     Devers finally learned she had Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder (自身免疫紊乱). She cried the moment she knew it. Luckily, somebody appeared and had a     5     (solve) for her.

Thirty years went by. Today, Devers wants to raise awareness for the disease and     6     (it) symptoms (症状). “If there are 10 million people who could have Graves’ disease, then our job is to make sure that 10 million people can     7     (treat),” says Devers.

She also says, “My Graves’ disease has made me who I am. Therefore, I always tell people that if I had my life to live over, I would ask for this disease again,” she says. “I believe I’m stronger at     8     (have) to go through what I went through. Everybody is faced     9     challenges. We all feel like sometimes walls are closing in on us     10     there’s no way out. What do you do? You remember that strength and resilience that you have when you step on the line.