1 . Better starve free than be a fat slave. There is nothing worth so much as liberty.

There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the dogs of the village were so wide awake and _________. He was really nothing but skin and bones, which made him very_________ to think of it.

One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had _________ a little too far from home. The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked so_________. So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog,_________ him on his fine appearance.

“You can be as well﹣fed as I am if you want to,” suggested the Dog. “Leave the woods; there you will live miserably _________ you have to fight hard for every bite you get. Follow my _________ and you will live a beautiful life.” “What must I do?” asked the Wolf. “Chase people who carry walking sticks and _________ at beggars. _________ you will get delicious food of every kind — chicken bones, meat, sugar, cake and much more, besides, not to speak of kind words and care.”

The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he __________ wept. But just then he noticed that the hair on the Dog’s __________ was worn and the skin was red and sore.

“What’s wrong with your neck?” “Nothing at all,” replied the Dog. “What? Nothing?” “Oh, just a trifle!” the Dog added, “Perhaps you see the mark of the collar __________ which my chain is fastened.”

“What? A chain!” cried the Wolf. “Couldn’t you go wherever you want to go?” “Not always, but what’s the __________?”refuted the Dog.

“All the difference in the world! I don’t care about your feasts and I wouldn’t take all the tender young lambs in the world at that __________. ” insisted the Wolf. And __________ ran the Wolf to the woods.

1.

A．hungry

B．watchful

C．aggressive

D．fierce

2.

A．angry

B．anxious

C．downhearted

D．frightened

3.

A．wandered

B．run

C．fled

D．marched

4.

A．weak

B．small

C．light

D．strong

5.

A．praising

B．congratulating

C．complimenting

D．admiring

6.

A．as

B．while

C．when

D．unless

7.

A．instructions

B．suggestions

C．words

D．example

8.

A．bark

B．stare

C．glare

D．cough

9.

A．In brief

B．In return

C．In turn

D．In general

10.

A．suddenly

B．finally

C．almost

D．mostly

11.

A．neck

B．ankle

C．ear

D．tail

12.

A．with

B．on

C．at

D．to

13.

A．sense

B．difference

C．meaning

D．point

14.

A．situation

B．condition

C．price

D．case

15.

A．out

B．down

C．inside

D．off

2 . Mr. Robin (知更鸟) had his house in a tree.

His four baby robins lived in it. They grew very fast. Soon the house was too little for them.

“It is time for you to fly,” said Mr. Robin. “Oh, we can not fly,” said the baby robins.

“You can, if you try, ” said Mr. Robin. A robin tried. He flew into a tree.

“Oh, how interesting!” said the little robin. “I like to fly. See me go!”

Then the other robins tried. In a little while they could all fly.

The robins could fly, but they could not sing. “No, Dad, we can not sing.”

“You can, if you try. Hear the other birds sing. Look at the pretty flowers and the blue sky. Then you will want to sing. Hear me sing to you. Now sing for me.”

One little robin sang. Then they all sang.

A little girl came by. “Wow, hear the birds sing!” she said. “How happy they are!”

1. How many baby robins lived in the house?

A．3.

B．4.

C．6.

D．7.

2. What did Mr. Robin ask his babies to do first?

A．To fly.

B．To jump.

C．To look for food

D．To build houses.

3. How did the little robin feel when he flew into a tree?

A．Interested.

B．Bored.

C．Tired.

D．Worried.

4. What did the girl think of the birds?

A．They were poor.

B．They were rude.

C．They were happy.

D．They were sad.

3 . Two Chinese police officers were sitting in the car at Guilin Highway. Suddenly a cute dog appeared by their window, seemingly asking for help. According to the media, a cute golden retriever (寻回猎犬) sought the help of the two police officers. Obviously, the dog was lost and his owner was nowhere near the neighborhood.

One of the police officers said that it was already 1 a.m. when the dog approached them with his leash (狗链) in its mouth. The dog even followed them while they worked, but because people might get frightened and for the dog's own safety, the two decided to just take the dog to the police station. There, they gave him food and water to drink.

The dog stayed in the police station until the policemen came back at 8 in the morning. To their surprise, the dog quickly jumped inside the police car after they got ready to work that day. He just sat there as if asking the two officers to help him find his way back to his owner. Touched by the dog's friendly behavior, the officers decided to ask the public to help them find the owner.

A couple of hours later, the dog's owner was informed and quickly rushed to the police station. The owner said that his 2-year-old golden retriever had a habit of hunting for mice and must have wandered far from home and got lost. He said that his dog was trained for a short while at a Nanning police base.

1. What happened to the dog?

A．It couldn't find its owner.	B．It was driven away by its owner.
C．It escaped from hunters.	D．It was terribly frightened.

2. What finally caused the policemen to help the dog?

A．The trouble brought by the dog.	B．The pressure from the public.
C．The dog's friendly behavior.	D．The dog's strange behavior.

3. Which description about the dog is correct?

A．It stayed at the station for over a day.

B．It didn't want to go home.

C．It likes eating mice.

D．It was once trained by the police.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

My uncle was a forest officer of Pakhirrlay Island and this time he brought me there.

His house was in the forest. When we arrived, Sambhu saw us and rushed to open the garden gate. He was an elderly man who did my uncle’s cooking and other household work.

“How are you?” I called out.

“I’m all right.” he said, “but Payal isn’t.”

My uncle, who walked ahead of us, stopped.

“Why Sambhu, what is wrong with our friend?”

“From the day you left, she hasn’t been eating properly.”

My uncle looked worried.

“Who is Payal?” I asked Sambhu. “Why! Don’t you know? Here she is.”

I turned round. My heart skipped a beat. There was Payal, a well-trained dog, giving my uncle a warm welcome by licking (舔) his face.

Then she caught sight of me and came forward. I stood still while she sniffed my all over. Later I was told that Payal’s mother was killed when she was only ten days old. I felt sorry for her.

Soon my uncle left for work. I wondered how to pass my time. There was a small pond behind the house and I liked to sit beside it. I got up. Immediately Payal moved her tail to show she had seen me move. I could bear it no longer, this feeling of being constantly watched by two silent eyes. I walked off angrily and sat beside the pond.

WOOSH!!! I heard a splashing sound. I looked up. Payal had dived into the water and was swimming in the pond. Soon she came out of the pond and sat breathing behind me. Then Payal growled（咆哮）.

After a while, Payal growled again. This time there was a note of urgency in her growl. I could not help turning back and looking at her. She was staring at something. I looked in the same direction and broke into a cold sweat! There was a snake less than six feet away!

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:

The snake was ready to attack.

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Paragraph 2:

Realizing we were out of danger, I took Payal in my arms.

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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。

Wylie lived in Scotland, far up on the hills, and helped her master take care of his sheep.

Wylie watched over the sheep and the little lambs like a soldier, and never let anything hurt them. She drove them out to pasture when it was time, and brought them safely home when it was time for that. She loved her work, and was a wonderfully fine sheepdog.

At last her master grew too old to stay alone on the hills. Before he left, he gave Wylie to two kind young men who lived in the nearest town; he knew they would be good to her. They grew very fond of her, and so did their old grandmother and the little children; she was so gentle and handsome and well behaved.

But after a while, the family noticed something very strange indeed about their dog. Every single Tuesday night, about nine o'clock. Wylie disappeared. And she would be gone all night. But every Wednesday morning, she was at the door, waiting to be let in. Her silky coat was all sweaty and muddy and her feet heavy with weariness, but her bright eyes looked up at her masters as if she were trying to explain where she had been.

Week after week, the same thing happened. Nobody could imagine where Wylie went every Tuesday night. They tried to follow her to find out, but she always slipped away. It grew to be a real mystery. Where in the world did Wylie go?

In the city near the town where the kind young men lived was a big market. On Tuesday nights, the farmers used to come down from the hills, and drive their sheep through the city streets into the pens, ready to sell on Wednesday morning; that was the day they sold them. The sheep weren’t used to the city noises and sights, and they always grew afraid and wild, and gave the farmers and the sheepdogs a great deal of trouble. They broke away and ran about, in everybody’s way.

注意：
1、所续写短文的词数应为150以上；
2、请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

But just as the trouble was worst, about sunrise, the farmers would see a little silky dog come running.

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One day, Wylie went to walk with her two masters.

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6 . Viktor Usov has just been reunited with his cat Sasha after the cat was discovered wandering on the streets about 1,400 miles away from home. Usov said he had _______ let Sasha play outside one night five years ago, only to have him disappear. He once assumed the _______ result that he might have lost Sasha.

Last week, however, Sasha was taken in as a healthy pet in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Upon _______ his microchip, the staff at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter were _______ to find that his owner lived so far away. After they _______ to get in contact with Usov, he confirmed that the cat was his _______ cat. Usov told reporters, “When I got the _______, I was crazy, but not that surprised. I know this cat loves the _______.” Still, Usov was delighted to see his cat in Portland just _______ after he was found in Santa Fe. “When he ________, I’ll look after him better,” he said.

Sasha was ________ back earlier this week. “Our ________ is about caring for people on life’s journey and connecting them with their loved ones. We were honored to be in a ________ to get Sasha back to his family,” a spokesperson for American Airlines told the shelter.

Murad Kirdar at the shelter hoped Sasha’s story would be a great ________ for other pet owners to get their pets microchipped — an effective way to ________ identification. By doing so their hairy friends could always make their way home, no matter how far they are from home.

1.

A．recently

B．simply

C．especially

D．apparently

2.

A．best

B．worst

C．luckiest

D．easiest

3.

A．scanning

B．fixing

C．gaining

D．removing

4.

A．disappointed

B．delighted

C．shocked

D．anxious

5.

A．failed

B．arranged

C．managed

D．expected

6.

A．lost

B．energetic

C．poor

D．injured

7.

A．certificate

B．chance

C．call

D．request

8.

A．life

B．exercise

C．nature

D．adventure

9.

A．weeks

B．days

C．months

D．years

10.

A．disappears

B．recovers

C．returns

D．ages

11.

A．shipped

B．flown

C．driven

D．mailed

12.

A．duty

B．system

C．attitude

D．reaction

13.

A．hurry

B．scene

C．dilemma

D．position

14.

A．practice

B．strength

C．challenge

D．encouragement

15.

A．support

B．recognize

C．appreciate

D．destroy

7 . Snowy was a little cat. He lived with a little old lady who loved Snowy very much. Sometimes the old lady would sit in her rocking chair, rocking backwards and forwards until she fell asleep or sometimes she would play little tunes (曲子) on her piano.

One sunny day, Snowy jumped up on the window sill (窗台), Snowy wanted to go out and play with the pretty butterflies, but the window was shut and the old lady had fallen asleep in her rocking chair.

He ran to the door but that was shut, too. He sat down near the old lady’s feet and said, “Miaow?” That was his way of saying, “May I go out to play, please?” The old lady didn’t hear him but stayed fast asleep.

He rubbed his soft head against the old lady’s legs. Still the old lady slept. So Snowy sat down and thought hard. Then he had an idea. He would jump up on the piano and play a tune. That might wake her up. So Snowy jumped up onto the piano and was a little scared of the loud, big, deep drum sound he made as he landed.

He took another little step. It wasn't quite such a loud note (调子). Up and down the notes he walked until he reached the very high notes which sounded like lots of bells. But still the old lady slept. Snowy kept dancing about on them and made quite a pretty tune. At last the old lady woke up.

“What are you doing, Snowy?” She asked but she wasn’t angry. “Miaow,” said Snowy, running to the closed door. “How clever you are to wake me up!” said the old lady as she let Snowy out into the sunshine.

1. Why did Snowy jump up on the window sill?

A．To find the key to the door.	B．To see what is on the piano.
C．To ask someone to help the old lady.	D．To go out to play with someone else.

2. How did Snowy wake up the old lady?

A．By moving her legs.	B．By playing the piano.
C．By opening the door.	D．By catching the butterflies.

3. How did the old lady feel about Snowy after she woke up?

A．Worried.

B．Noisy.

C．Happy.

D．Angry.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．A Clever Cat

B．An Old Lady

C．A Loud Note

D．A Sunny Day