1 . It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30. The nurse had him take a _______ in the waiting area,_______ him it would be at least 40 minutes_________someone would be able to see him. I saw him_______his watch and decided, since I was_______busy—my patient didn’t_______ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he_______to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_________. He told me that she had been_________for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be____________if he was a bit late. He replied that she __________ knew who he was, that she had not been able to __________ him for five years now. I was____________, and asked him, “And you__________go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is”. I had to hold back __________ as he left.            

Now I __________ that in marriages, true love is____________of all that is. The happiest people don’t__________have the best of everything, they just__________the best of everything they have. ____________isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

1.

A．breath

B．test

C．seat

D．break

2.

A．persuading

B．promising

C．understanding

D．telling

3.

A．if

B．before

C．since

D．after

4.

A．taking off

B．fixing

C．looking at

D．winding

5.

A．very

B．also

C．seldom

D．not

6.

A．turn up

B．show off

C．come on

D．go away

7.

A．needed

B．forgot

C．agreed

D．happened

8.

A．daughter

B．wife

C．mother

D．sister

9.

A．late

B．well

C．around

D．there

10.

A．lonely

B．worried

C．doubtful

D．hungry

11.

A．so far

B．neither

C．no longer

D．already

12.

A．recognize

B．answer

C．believe

D．expect

13.

A．moved

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．satisfied

14.

A．only

B．then

C．thus

D．still

15.

A．curiosity

B．tears

C．words

D．judgment

16.

A．realize

B．suggest

C．hope

D．prove

17.

A．agreement

B．expression

C．acceptance

D．exhibition

18.

A．necessarily

B．completely

C．naturally

D．frequently

19.

A．learn

B．make

C．favor

D．try

20.

A．Adventure

B．Beauty

C．Trust

D．Life

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3 .         Do you want to improve the way you study? Do you feel nervous before a test?

Many students say that a lack of concentration is their biggest problem. It seriously affects their ability to study, so do their test results. If so, use these tips to help you.

Study Techniques.

You should always study in the same place. You shouldn’t sit in a position that you use for another purpose. For example, when you sit on a sofa to study, your brain will think it is time to relax. Don’t watch TV while you are studying. Experts warn that your concentration may be reduced by 50 percent if you attempt to study in this way. Always try to have a white wall in front you, so there is nothing to distract you. Before sitting down to study, gather together all the equipment you need-apart from your textbooks, pens, pencils and knives, make sure you have a dictionary. If your study desk or table is needed when you are not studying, store all your equipment in a box beside it. Your eyes will become tired if you try to read a text which is on a flat surface. Position your book at an angle of 30 degrees. Be realistic and don’t try to complete too much in one study period. Finish one thing before beginning another. If you need a break, get up and walk around for a few minutes, but try not to telephone a friend or have something to eat.

Test-taking Skills.

All your hard work will be for nothing if you are too nervous to take your test. Getting plenty of rest is very important. This means “do not study all night before your test”! It is a better idea to have a long-term study plan. Try to make a timetable for your study which lasts for a few months. Exercise is a great way to reduce pressure. Doing some form of exercise every day will also improve your concentration. Eat healthy food too. When you arrive in the examination room, find your seat and sit down. Breathe slowly and deeply. Check the time on the clock during the test, but not too often. Above all, take no notice of everyone else and give the test paper your undivided attention.

1. What is the author’s purpose of the passage? (No more than 15 words)
2. Please explain the underlined word “distract” in English? (No more than 5 words)
3. What shouldn’t you do when you take a break? (No more than 10 words)
4. What is the most important tip when you take an exam? (No more than 15 words)
5. Which tip do you think is useful to you? Why? (No more than 20 words)

4 . Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and observing nature.

However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles when drawing people.

Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body by taking apart and examining dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on relatively new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective (透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painterly effect.

Leonardo’s first known portrait now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.

He soon received attention for his extraordinary artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．We can find Leonardo’s work in the National Gallery.

B．Leonardo thought his teacher’s advice was unreasonable.

C．“Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade.

D．“Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.

2. The underlined word “barred” in the second paragraph probably means ________.

A．prevented

B．protected

C．suffered

D．chosen

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?

A．Stubborn.

B．Creative.

C．Ambitious.

D．Determined.

4. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to Leonardo?
a. He finished the painting of Ginevra de’Benci.
b. He moved to Florence.
c. He finished drawing an angel in his teacher’s painting.
d. He began to learn art from Andrea del Verrocchio.
e. He began to study the dead body.

A．b, c, e, d, a

B．d, b, c, d, e

C．b, d, e, a, c

D．b, e, d, a, c

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Verrocchio didn’t like Leonardo’s work.

B．Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work terrible.

C．Verrocchio thought highly of Leonardo’s work.

D．Verrocchio didn’t believe Leonardo could paint well.

5 . The researchers who study jokes want to know ________ people from different nations and cultures find very funny.

A．why

B．that

C．what

D．whether

6 . --I feel so upset. I’m afraid I’ll be fired for the terrible economic crisis.
--________!Things are not so bad as they seem.

A．Go ahead

B．Good luck

C．No problem

D．Cheer up

7 . Her________(温和)of manner has left a deep impression on me. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

9 . When I was 24, I moved into an apartment and the couple next door were loud all the time. After putting up with it for a couple of weeks, I decided to ________ them and politely ask them to be ________ after noon, as I had to work at midnight, so I ________ went to bed around noon.

I went next door and knocked on the door and an old woman answered.I ________myself and she asked if I came over to complain about the ________, and I said yes. She________ both she and her husband were going ________ and that they needed to speak loudly to hear each other, She invited me in and ________ me a coffee and we started talking. ________, we heard a loud bang (巨响) in the kitchen. Then we found her husband had fallen onto the ground. Immediately, we ________ him to to hospital.

When I came home from work the next day, there was a ________ on the door from the lady asking me to come over. When I reached her ________, she asked if I'd drive her to the hospital, to which I said no ________. When we got to the hospital, I followed her to her husband's room, where he ________ me. Soon I ended up being friends with this couple ________ they moved away a year later.

One day after ten years, I got a ________ from a lawyer. I was ________ what was going on, so I went down and when I arrived at his office, the lawyer asked me knew a ________ by the couple's names and I said yes. He told me that the couple had died and he was employed by their children to find me. They wanted to thank me ________. I met the family and then we became friends! You can never know when, where or how you are next going to make new friends. Life is full of ________ . Whatever happens, try to treat others exactly as you would like to be treated.

1.

A．challenge

B．treat

C．punish

D．face

2.

A．quieter

B．calmer

C．kinder

D．slower

3.

A．seldom

B．already

C．always

D．still

4.

A．expressed

B．introduced

C．improved

D．examined

5.

A．stress

B．pain

C．alarm

D．noise

6.

A．explained

B．described

C．guessed

D．believed

7.

A．weak

B．blind

C．deaf

D．disabled

8.

A．brought

B．offered

C．bought

D．ordered

9.

A．Secretly

B．Unfortunately

C．Naturally

D．Suddenly

10.

A．invited

B．forced

C．rushed

D．led

11.

A．report

B．note

C．notice

D．bill

12.

A．home

B．car

C．office

D．door

13.

A．doubt

B．way

C．matter

D．problem

14.

A．punished

B．thanked

C．scolded

D．annoyed

15.

A．since

B．before

C．until

D．while

16.

A．call

B．visit

C．warning

D．question

17.

A．wondering

B．imagining

C．describing

D．recording

18.

A．team

B．patient

C．doctor

D．couple

19.

A．by mistake

B．on purpose

C．in person

D．in public

20.

A．dangers

B．surprises

C．choices

D．dreams

10 . Learn With Homer

Price: Free

Grade level: Pre-K, K

Skill: Comprehension, Phonics(拼读法)

Device: iPad

It’s a learn-to-read app for kids aged 3 to 6 that includes drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises.

This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production problems and language organization problems.

Inspiration Maps

Price: $ 9.99

Grade level: 4th and above

Skill: Comprehension, Writing

Device: iPad

Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually (视觉上) organize ideas. They can create maps, organizers, brainstorms, and text outlines. Outlines can be changed to maps, and maps can be changed to outlines. Users can share creations by emailing, printing, or saving to iTunes, Dropbox, Photos, or the app (as PDF or PNG files) . The Lite version (简化版本),which is free, lets kids create up to five mind maps with no sharing choices.

Aesop’s Quest

Price: $ 0.99

Skill: Comprehension

Grade level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Device: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Aesop’s Quest, based on Aesop’s Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember parts of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story level, the student is rewarded with tests. After solving the tests, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story.

Developed together with the Virginia Department of Education.

LightSail

Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and above

Price: Free

Skill: Comprehension

Device: iPad

LightSail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students’ independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out text from their schools’ online libraries and read the books directly on their iPad. As students progress through a book, questions appear to check their comprehension. As students complete these assessments (评定),they earn prizes.

1. What do the four apps have in common?

A．They try to improve kids’ comprehension ability.

B．They are developed for high-school students.

C．They can be downloaded onto iPhone.

D．They are free of charge.

2. The app Learn With Homer can help users who have difficulty in________.

A．singing songs

B．reading stories

C．making speeches

D．learning foreign languages

3. Which app inspires users’ visual imagination?

A．Learn With Homer

B．Aesop’s Quest

C．LightSail

D．Inspiration Maps

4. What should users do in order to read the next story on the Aesop’s Quest?

A．Finish reading the previous story.

B．Retell the previous story completely

C．Work out the tests of the previous story.

D．Remember every part of the previous story.

5. What do we know about the app LightSail?

A．It is developed only for teachers.

B．It is a platform to support students’ independent reading.

C．It helps users to finish their homework.

D．It develops users’ comprehension through games.