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。

In the field of sports there are some famous living legends, such as Lang Ping, and Michael Jordan.

As a player, Lang Ping brought not only honour but also glory to     1     (she) country. As     2     coach, she led the China Women’s volleyball team to medals at world championships as well as the Olympic Games. As a person, she is     3     (love) by fans at home and abroad. Before the 2015 World Cup, she     4     (face) a great challenge — two important     5     (player) had to leave because of health problems. However, Lang Ping didn’t lose heart and she led her volleyball team     6     (win) the championship.

Known as “Air Jordan”, Michael Jordan changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. Jordan’s skills were impressive but the mental strength     7     (make) him unique. The secret to his success is learning     8     his failures. In life, Jordan has learnt to share his     9     (succeed) with others. The Boys and Girls Club     10     he started in Chicago has been helping young people since 1996.

2 . I grew up in suburban Pittsburgh with my mother and 3 younger siblings. My mom was a single mother and ________ a minimum wage job, so we never had much, but that was OK, we made ________ meet.

In High School, I got a job at a local baker and started saving money for college. I was ________ into the University of Pittsburgh and received some scholarships that ________ my tuition. I couldn't afford the ________ because it was much to expensive for me. I put a mattress（床垫）on the floor of the old van（旅行拖车）from my home and slept there for the next 2 years.

The weather in Pittsburgh was ________ . Super hot and humid in summer and freezing cold and snowy in winter. Being homeless forced me to take ________ of everything the campus had to offer since I wanted to ________ as little time in my van as possible. I ________ spending most of my time throughout the week at the ________ studying and reviewing classroom material. The time I spent on study was more than I would have if I had the ________ in going home and switching on the TV or ________ asleep for hours in my room. This really helped me ________ in the classroom.

I also made a lot of new friends by meeting people ________ , attending speeches, plays and charities. Before college I would have considered myself ________ , I didn't really speak much ________ spoken to. But I moved out of my comfort ________ and did new things. I really developed a(n) ________ personality.

I really think that having to deal with all the ________ that I had to go through really made me into a better person. Now I have got a really good job and I've ________ been able to help my mother out a little bit. I just feels good!

1.

A．worked

B．sought

C．offered

D．refused

2.

A．points

B．days

C．wages

D．ends

3.

A．entered

B．recommended

C．admitted

D．recognized

4.

A．paid

B．covered

C．earned

D．assisted

5.

A．meal

B．transport

C．housing

D．clothing

6.

A．pleasant

B．awful

C．mild

D．changeable

7.

A．note

B．use

C．charge

D．advantage

8.

A．fold

B．handle

C．spend

D．conclude

9.

A．gave up

B．ended up

C．got up

D．took up

10.

A．library

B．van

C．dormitory

D．park

11.

A．comfort

B．luck

C．abuse

D．effect

12.

A．putting

B．taking

C．turning

D．falling

13.

A．come to

B．fade away

C．stand out

D．break down

14.

A．personally

B．economically

C．socially

D．academically

15.

A．shy

B．easy-going

C．aggressive

D．talkative

16.

A．since

B．once

C．if

D．unless

17.

A．zone

B．home

C．space

D．circle

18.

A．common

B．strange

C．gentle

D．outgoing

19.

A．glories

B．struggles

C．aims

D．cycles

20.

A．even

B．still

C．almost

D．never

3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Six-year-old Ismail Zulfic was born without arms and used to be scary of going into the water after a incident in a pool. So that changed when the little boy met Amel Kapo. He sets up a local swimming club after noticing how disabled kids struggled to swim in pools for lack of special equipments for them. Kapo taught Zulfic swim. Zulfic was able to swim well after a little months of practice. He even won a gold medal in a local swimming competition for disabled people, finish well ahead of other swimmers. This butterfly without wings shows up that desire, will and perseverance are things that real pay off.

5 . 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.

6 . Follow Every Rainbow

Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her _______ was to become a concert pianist or blues singer.

Everything _______ when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors _______ was typhoid fever (伤寒) and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine _______ her to become totally _______. She could no longer hear the music which she had always _______ Shirley would never give up playing the piano, _______ she did decide to change her career. She went to Gallaudet University and _______ English. In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for a(n) _______. She wanted to be ________ and work full-time.

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington D. C. ________, in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor (宿舍监管员). Shirley supervised young women who ________ in the university during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to ________ graduate school at Howard University in Washington DC. In 1972, Shirley received her MA degree.

Always ________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which ________ deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training. This ________ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her PhD. She made ________ in 1992, ________ she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

Dr. Shirley Jeanne Allen has traveled many roads and ________ many rainbows searching for her dream. With courage and ________, she never gave up.

1.

A．job

B．interest

C．duty

D．dream

2.

A．changed

B．disappeared

C．started

D．made

3.

A．provided

B．agreed

C．argued

D．thought

4.

A．allowed

B．caused

C．encouraged

D．enabled

5.

A．blind

B．deaf

C．poor

D．weak

6.

A．feared

B．imagined

C．loved

D．remembered

7.

A．and

B．or

C．but

D．though

8.

A．studied

B．spoke

C．practiced

D．wrote

9.

A．plan

B．help

C．job

D．assistant

10.

A．intelligent

B．independent

C．different

D．strict

11.

A．Yet

B．Still

C．Then

D．Just

12.

A．worked

B．left

C．lived

D．played

13.

A．attend

B．observe

C．describe

D．advertise

14.

A．pay for

B．look for

C．account for

D．ready for

15.

A．receives

B．promises

C．pays

D．offers

16.

A．amazing

B．strict

C．wealthy

D．beautiful

17.

A．progress

B．history

C．suggestions

D．excuses

18.

A．since

B．although

C．until

D．when

19.

A．found

B．watched

C．followed

D．appreciated

20.

A．determination

B．education

C．strength

D．pride

7 . When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didn’t ____. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could ____ a full­time music school.They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister ____ talent.

I was better at my ____. My teacher had told my parents that I had great ____. So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to ____ me. But the only time he was ____ was Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m.. Back then, I was ____ about the British TV show The Avengers, which was ____ every Saturday at 3 p.m.. I let nothing take up my The Avengers hour. So I ____ this amazing opportunity.Today, I don’t even have a ____ in my house.

My sister became an engineer, but she ____ stopped making music. When she was in her 40s, she switched her ____. She went back to college, got a(n) ____ in music education, and became a music teacher. She started kids off on their first instrument and gave them all the encouragement and support she never ____.

Recently, she and a pianist pal (朋友) put on a recital. A big crowd of friends and family ____ for her. As she played, I looked around at the ____. Everyone was ____ enjoying the music. It occurred to me that I was the only person that remembered that a 7 ­year-­old kid making those perfectly ____sounds and knew how far she had come, despite ____.

Talent is important. But enthusiasm is even more important.

1.

A．advance

B．quit

C．reflect

D．listen

2.

A．inspect

B．open

C．attend

D．visit

3.

A．lacked

B．spotted

C．possessed

D．admired

4.

A．major

B．project

C．composition

D．instrument

5.

A．patience

B．enthusiasm

C．potential

D．ambition

6.

A．train

B．examine

C．correct

D．challenge

7.

A．punctual

B．skillful

C．occupied

D．available

8.

A．sensitive

B．crazy

C．serious

D．particular

9.

A．filmed

B．designed

C．aired

D．commented

10.

A．jumped at

B．turned down

C．waited for

D．opened up

11.

A．tutor

B．violin

C．musician

D．piano

12.

A．never

B．once

C．already

D．even

13.

A．attitude

B．career

C．plan

D．position

14.

A．scholarship

B．sponsor

C．degree

D．assistant

15.

A．provided

B．imagined

C．received

D．expected

16.

A．voted

B．feared

C．stayed up

D．turned up

17.

A．students

B．audience

C．spotlights

D．platform

18.

A．obviously

B．desperately

C．appropriately

D．anxiously

19.

A．booming

B．pleasing

C．awful

D．powerful

20.

A．everything

B．something

C．everybody

D．somebody

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

When I was in the third grade, my teacher told us to write a report on our dream. I poured my whole heart into my report,     1    (drive) by a dream to be an airline pilot.    2    my paper came back with an “F” on it. The teacher said that it was a “fairy tale”,     3     made me crushed and disappointed.

Too many people said,” Girls can’t become pilots; never have, never will.”     4    (final), I gave up.

In my senior year of high school, my English teacher, Ms Dorothy, one day gave the class     5    same task. I     6    (think) about the report I had written before. Pilot? No way. Waitress? That felt safe, so I wrote it down.

Two days later, the teacher handed back the task, saying sincerely, “If you don’t go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want!” I felt very     7    (delight) as well as a little scared. I stayed after the class and went up to my teacher. I told her my dream    8     becoming a pilot. “Then do it” she said.

So I did. It took me 10 years of hard work    9    (achieve) my ambition. Now I’m one of the Boeing 737    10    (captain) for the United Airelines. I prove to all that it is not a fairy tale.

9 . With his leg lame and his teeth uneven, the boy thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world. He ______ played with his classmates, and when he was asked to answer questions, he always ______his head without a word.

One spring, his father brought home some saplings (树苗). ______of his children would plant a sapling and he promised, “Whoever ______his sapling best shall get a gift.” The boy certainly wanted to get the gift. ______seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, he ______an idea: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never______it.

Several days later, he was ______ to find it not only didn’t die, but also grew so many fresh ______. Compared with those of his brothers and sisters,his appeared greener. His father kept his______, bought the boy a gift and said he would become an outstanding______after growing up.

From then on, the boy slowly became ______and confident. One evening, he suddenly ______his biology teacher once said that plants ______grow at night. Why not go to see the tree?

When he came to the courtyard,he found his father working near the tree! Immediately he ______: Father had been secretly ______his tree! He returned to his room, tears in his eyes.

Decades passed. The boy didn’t become a botanist. ______, he became the U. S. ______. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

______is the best nourishment(滋养品)of life. ______it is just a bucket of water, it can make the tree of life grow well!

1.

A．ever

B．seldom

C．still

D．often

2.

A．held

B．raised

C．lowered

D．covered

3.

A．Both

B．None

C．One

D．Each

4.

A．likes

B．protects

C．grows

D．watches

5.

A．And

B．So

C．Or

D．But

6.

A．cared for

B．got rid of

C．came up with

D．put forward

7.

A．contributed to

B．attended to

C．got used to

D．turned to

8.

A．surprised

B．frightened

C．disappointed

D．amused

9.

A．films

B．leaves

C．clothes

D．books

10.

A．word

B．balance

C．agreement

D．opinion

11.

A．teacher

B．gardener

C．president

D．botanist

12.

A．satisfied

B．upset

C．optimistic

D．independent

13.

A．believed

B．remembered

C．repeated

D．knew

14.

A．generally

B．hardly

C．recently

D．probably

15.

A．doubted

B．understood

C．wondered

D．admitted

16.

A．cutting

B．decorating

C．watering

D．fertilizing

17.

A．Therefore

B．Besides

C．Moreover

D．Instead

18.

A．lawyer

B．doctor

C．president

D．teacher

19.

A．Love

B．Water

C．Disability

D．Money

20.

A．So long as

B．If only

C．Now that

D．Even though