1 . Eugene O'Neill, who was born in 1888, in New York, was a leading American drama writer and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. His father was a successful touring actor. Because of that, Eugene spent his early childhood in hotels, on trains, and backstage. Although later in his life he grew to hate his father for not giving him security in his early years and a loving, comfortable family, he had the theater in his blood.

As a student, O'Neill went to boarding schools but spent the summers in a moderate house his family owned. He left Princeton University in 1907, only about one year after he entered it, to start what he later called his real education in "life experience". At the age of 24, he was hired as a reporter and poetry column writer for the New London Telegraph.

O'Neill didn't cut a figure in playwriting until the summer of 1916. Before that, he had written awkward plays that were hardly accepted by the mainstream of American theater. While O'Neill was only one of those whose plays were produced by the theater, he led the group to success because of his contribution within the next few years. Between 1916 and 1920, the theater produced all of O'Neill's one-act sea plays. By the time his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was produced on Broadway on February 2, 1920 at the Morosco Theater, the young playwright already had a small reputation.

Theater critics spoke highly of Beyond the Horizon for its tragic realism. The play brought O'Neill more public attention, as well as his first Pulitzer Prize, apart from which he won another three for Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey into Night. Over the next two decades, O'Neill continued to gain reputation nationally and globally. He became the most widely produced dramatist after Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw.

1. What might inspire O'Neill's passion for theater?

A．His father's career.	B．The support of his family
C．Hotel rooms he had lived in.	D．Stories he had heard on trains.

2. Why did O'Neill drop out of Princeton University?

A．He didn't want to study in a boarding school.

B．He wanted to receive real education from life.

C．He got a job from the New London Telegraph.

D．He was unsatisfied with the university education.

3. What does the underlined phrase “cut a figure" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Show interest.

B．Hold a degree.

C．Attract attention.

D．Receive an award.

4. What can we learn about O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon?

A．It drew theater critics attention to tragic realism.

B．It inspired him to compose another three dramas.

C．It increased his reputation in the field of theater.

D．It made him the most widely produced dramatist in history.

3 . No matter what life throws our way, having a positive attitude makes room for the future. Let’s read Hervey Bay teenager Mark Farrell’s ____ story. At the age of 14, he took a dive into a swimming pool, which would ____ his life forever.

“I jumped into the pool and broke my ____ ,” he says. “It’s a very unusual story because I jumped into the deep end, where most spinal (脊柱的) injuries   ____ .”

Mark has been in a wheelchair ever since and now, at 27, is very calm about any ____ life might throw at him. In fact, he finds it ____ to name any challenge. “I just live my life and ____ it day by day,” he says.

For the past few years, Mark has worked with the Spinal Education Awareness Team (SEAT) whose aim is to ____ students to prevent spinal injuries, telling his   ____ to young people in the Hervey Bay region. “If I can ____ one kid’s life, it makes my ____ worthwhile,” he says.

Mark stresses the importance of checking the ____ of water before diving in and being more ____ in general. He says that if his talks can prevent one spinal injury in a young person, he’s ____. Mark’s contribution to preventing spinal injuries was ____ in 2017, when he was named Young Australian of the Year.

1.

A．exciting

B．shocking

C．inspiring

D．worrying

2.

A．start

B．benefit

C．change

D．shorten

3.

A．neck

B．leg

C．arm

D．nose

4.

A．last

B．appear

C．recover

D．happen

5.

A．competition

B．responsibility

C．challenge

D．success

6.

A．necessary

B．hard

C．important

D．worthwhile

7.

A．realize

B．take

C．compared

D．explore

8.

A．educate

B．forgive

C．allow

D．beg

9.

A．prevention

B．expectation

C．protection

D．experience

10.

A．risk

B．control

C．save

D．confirm

11.

A．detail

B．expert

C．debate

D．effort

12.

A．width

B．depth

C．length

D．height

13.

A．nervous

B．curious

C．patient

D．careful

14.

A．creative

B．pleased

C．confident

D．awkward

15.

A．recognised

B．survived

C．rescued

D．limited

4 . I don’t talk with passengers on airplanes. My flight time is _________for turning the pages of a good book. That changed,_________, on a flight from Tampa to Newark when I sat next to her—the lady in Seat 26B.

After_________ my seat, I opened my book.

Then she turned to me. “And where are you travelling to? Home or on vacation?”

“Heading home,” I closed my book. “You?”

“Oh, home, too,” she began, “I come from a(n) _________family. Nine kids! I’m the oldest still alive—eighty-nine!” And then she laughed, joyfully, 1 wouldn’t have guessed she was nearly ninety, though.

“Good book?” she asked, pointing to my paperback.

“Yes. Do you read?”

“Oh, I don’t have_________to read,” she replied.

I’m sixty years younger than 26B, yet she’s the one who’s too busy to read? What on earth could she be doing with her_________?

“Well,” she began, “I work at Costco. There are really nice people. There are also the_________ones, but I enjoy them, too!” She laughed again, and I_________her ability to not let negative energies affect her_________. I wondered how I could__________that, too.

“What’s your secret,” I asked, “to sounding so__________and healthy?”

“My husband died ten years ago,” she said,__________. “I thought to myself, I’m not going to just__________! That’s when I got my Costco job. I believe in being active.”

“Life is so good,” she continued. “I’m just excited every day to live it!”

I wanted that plane ride to reroute to California so I would have more time to learn about her energy for life. I became more__________ with each mile we flew.

I told myself, if someone who is eighty-nine years old can choose to live her life with such desire and__________, I can, too. If you have the drive!

1.

A．reserved

B．adjusted

C．squeezed

D．limited

2.

A．thus

B．instead

C．though

D．rather

3.

A．slipping into

B．looking for

C．taking up

D．settling into

4.

A．complex

B．poor

C．rich

D．extended

5.

A．time

B．motivation

C．energy

D．discipline

6.

A．days

B．devotion

C．intention

D．interest

7.

A．innovative

B．strange

C．annoyed

D．innocent

8.

A．weighed

B．admired

C．impressed

D．identified

9.

A．affair

B．fate

C．taste

D．mood

10.

A．obtain

B．manage

C．control

D．defend

11.

A．committed

B．realistic

C．positive

D．informative

12.

A．desperately

B．coldly

C．ultimately

D．peacefully

13.

A．hang out

B．sit around

C．step back

D．work out

14.

A．astonished

B．satisfied

C．grateful

D．inspired

15.

A．passion

B．principle

C．courage

D．confidence

5 . 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。

In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment (任务) to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an “E” on it. The teacher told her it was a “fairy tale” (神话). Jean was heartbroken and ashamed.

As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement and negativity she encountered whenever she talked about her dream. “Girls can’t become airline pilots; never have, never will. You’re crazy. That’s impossible.” Finally Jean gave up.

In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a demanding (要求高的) teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question, “If you had unlimited finances (资金), unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?”

Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm (激情), and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream. But thinking of the questioning and ridicule (嘲讽) she had suffered before, she tore up (撕碎) the piece of paper full of “her Dream”. Jean finally wrote in his exercise book, “Sorry, teacher, I have nothing to do because I have no dream.”

The next day, after class, Mrs. Slaton stopped Jean and said, “Gene, come to my office.” She looked gently at Jean, “Jean, can you tell me why you say you don’t have a dream?” Gene said depressedly, “No one wants to believe that I can be a pilot. I have a dream. If I have the conditions you mentioned, I just want to try my best to be a female pilot.”

The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean’s life. The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, “I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don’t go for your dreams, no one will do it for you.”

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。
Paragraph 1:
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
Eventually, Jean made it.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7 . Justin Mutawassim was 5 years old the first time he took a flight. The Delta pilots onboard invited him to _________ the cockpit (驾驶舱), “I remember sitting there and being _________ by all the buttons,” he said. By age 6, he had _________: “I want to be a pilot.”

His road to becoming a pilot was harder than he had _________ as a child. His middle school teacher _________ informed him that perfect vision was a requirement to become a pilot. “When I heard that I was really _________,” said Mutawassim, who wears glasses.

In December 2014, about a year into his studies at a community college, Mutawassim decided to _________. He got a job as a ramp agent (机坪操作员) carrying _________ for Delta Air Lines. During this time, his _________ to pursue a career in aviation (航空) became stronger, but he didn’t have the __________ to make it happen.

That __________ when he met this mentor, Martin. Martin helped him __________ for written tests and eventually apply for ATP Flight School, where he was able to __________ the necessary licenses in 11 months.

In spring 2022, after he learned Delta dropped the college degree __________ for pilots, he __________ applied for a position. To his delight he was offered the job. “It was a fantastic __________.” Mutawassim said. He reflected on how far he had __________ in only six years, from carrying bags to __________ a Boeing 767. Now, he is working toward his next __________ of being a captain.

On a recent morning, a little boy noticed him and said:“ Look, there’s a(n)__________!” In that moment, it all came full circle.

1.

A．explore

B．examine

C．operate

D．invent

2.

A．trapped

B．conducted

C．fascinated

D．hired

3.

A．abandoned

B．decided

C．called

D．obtained

4.

A．continued

B．expected

C．remembered

D．hesitated

5.

A．hardly

B．angrily

C．happily

D．wrongly

6.

A．relaxed

B．vain

C．excited

D．defeated

7.

A．calm down

B．drop out

C．call up

D．adapt to

8.

A．wallets

B．clothes

C．bags

D．vegetables

9.

A．visa

B．literature

C．desire

D．memory

10.

A．burden

B．duty

C．file

D．confidence

11.

A．changed

B．hurl

C．interrupted

D．cut

12.

A．tap

B．prepare

C．search

D．wait

13.

A．buy

B．complete

C．refuse

D．sell

14.

A．requirement

B．transportation

C．description

D．imagination

15.

A．unluckily

B．casually

C．sadly

D．eagerly

16.

A．balance

B．caption

C．moment

D．purpose

17.

A．come

B．forgotten

C．failed

D．missed

18.

A．checking

B．catching

C．repairing

D．flying

19.

A．goal

B．spirit

C．associate

D．bakery

20.

A．ambassador

B．farmer

C．teacher

D．pilot

9 . Going to school can be a demanding obstacle for many, but some people are more than up for the challenge. For Dylan Kuehl, being a student has been a challenging joy. The 38-year-old has had a passion for studying, and believes that the more he learns, the more he learns to see the world differently. This open-minded approach and enthusiastic mindset is all the more inspiring as Kuehl has Down Syndrome (唐氏综合症). He knows the struggle of breaking new ground from a lifetime of experience of being different. He has sustained his ability to shine as a unique individual by graduating from The Evergreen State College in Washington state. Kuehl is the first person with Down syndrome in the college’s 51-year history to earn a four-year degree. Not only that, but this also makes him the first person with Down syndrome in Washington state to achieve this remarkable milestone.

Kuehl’s passion for creativity led him to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree. He enjoyed classes inpainting and dance as part of his curriculum (课程), but his primary focus was writing. Out of 900 graduates, he was one of three to be selected to give an address at the graduation ceremony.

“Celebrate your abilities,” Kuehl tells his fellow students in his speech. “Live your life with ambition and pride.” We can all take a leaf out of this inspiring man’s book which is bound, it seems, by enthusiasm, positivity, determination, and a whole lot of motivating hard work.

Aside from graduating college, Kuehl is also an entrepreneur (企业家). He started his own visual and performing arts company called DK Arts in 2005, where he sells his own artwork and glass jewelry. He plays the drums in a band called Living the Dream, advocating for inclusion through his music.

1. What does Kuehl think of his studying?

A．A must for his own business.	B．Ways of viewing the world.
C．Make-up for his great disability.	D．Approaches to show his gifts.

2. What can we know about Kuehl’s achievement in his study?

A．He achieved what others in his state didn’t achieve then.

B．He has gained more scores than his normal classmates.

C．He has studies in the college for more than four years.

D．His primary focus in college was inpainting and dance.

3. What can be inferred about Kuehl from the last paragraph?

A．He acts as the leader singer in Living the Dream.

B．His company produces products for the disabled.

C．He has a number of hobbies besides his business.

D．He thinks highly of determination through his music.

4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Ways to Live With Down Syndrome	B．The Reason for Working Hard
C．How is Down Syndrome Treated	D．A Successful Man With Down Syndrome.