2 . Guy Bryant never intended to be a father figure. But over the past 12 years, he’s housed more than 50 foster kids in his Brooklyn apartment.

For decades, Bryant, 61, worked with teens aging out of New York’s child welfare system. His job was to find services that would make the transition (过渡) to living on their own easier. But he felt that what he could accomplish at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services office wasn’t enough. So in 2007, he decided to become a foster parent.

In an interview last month, Bryant told Romario Vassell, 21, one of his foster children, that agreeing to care for him was definitely one of the best decisions he made in foster care. Bryant told Vassell that he was nervous when he took in his first foster child. He said, “I lived alone at that point, and he was a kid that nobody wanted to take because of his behaviors. He got in a fight and he appeared at my house.” Bryant said his family thought he was out of his mind for making such a big lifestyle change and wondered how Bryant would adjust.

Bryant had been Vassell’s assigned case worker when they met. Bryart suggested that Vassell, then an untidy 18-year-old, consider foster care as an option to get out of the home lead shelter where he was staying.

At first, Vassell was hesitant. “I didn’t know how foster care was.” he said.

Since living with Bryant, Vassell now feels like he has a support network. “If I feel down and like I’m cornered, I have someone I can reach out to and talk to.” he said. “And that’s what I really love.”

Bryant told Vassell, “Whatever you’ve learned from me, I want you to teach it to someone else. Because that’s what’s important to me.”

1. What is the second paragraph mainly about ?

A．The shift of teens’ life.

B．An introduction of Bryant’s task.

C．Bryant’s challenge as a foster parent.

D．The reason for Bryant’s being a foster parent.

2. How did Bryant’s family feel about his decision?

A．Disappointed.

B．Ashamed.

C．Puzzled.

D．Embarrassed.

3. What can we know about Vassell from the text?

A．He is now living alone.

B．He was Bryant’s first foster kid.

C．He refused Bryant’s offer at first.

D．He was instructed to pay kindness forward.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text ?

A．To call for social care.	B．To praise Bryant’s deeds.
C．To tell the story of Vassell.	D．To comment on Bryant’s life.

8 . 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。续写的词数应为150左右。

Everyone wants a blue ribbon (丝带). Blue. First place. The best. In sports,1 was never a blue-ribbon girl. In a race, I was always last. In baseballl was as likely to get hit on the head as to drop the ball. Where I got my horrible sports ability, I don't know.

During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a field trip to a park. Looking back now, I don't remember much of that day. I'm sure we ate our sack lunches and played on the swings typical 6-year-old stuff. Then it was time for the races.

These were no ordinary races. Some parents had come up with the idea to have the picnic kind of races, like passing the potato under your neck and holding an egg on a spoon while you run to the other side. I don't remember too much about these, but there was one race that will forever be lodged (牢记) in my memory - the three-legged race.

The parents decided not to use potato sacks for this particular race. Instead, they tied our feet together. One lucky little boy got me for a partner. This little boy was the second most athletic boy in our class. I'm sure he knew he was in trouble the second they laced his foot to mine. As for me, I was embarrassed. This guy was a winner. He almost always won, and I knew that, with me, he didn't have a chance.

He laced his arm with mine, the gun sounded, and we were off to the other side. Couples were falling and stumbling (绊脚) all around us, but we stayed on our feet and made it to the other side. Unbelievably, when we turned around and headed back for home, we were in the lead! Only one other couple even had a chance, and they were a good several yards behind us.

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Then only feet from the finish line, disaster struck.

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After the race, we were awarded a red ribbon instead of the blue one.

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9 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Situated at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, the Shandan Horse Ranch(马场)station is located in Shandan county in the city of Zhangye along the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway line.

The expansion project of the station, where there were no passenger transport services before, started construction in March, 2021. A passenger terminal building covering an area of 1,080 square meters, two platforms and other facilities were built     1     part of the project.

Eight trains,       2     (head)for several cities including Lanzhou, Xi'an and Urumqi, will now stop over at the station     3     (pick)up passengers.

Yang Yifeng took the train eastward to Tianshui, Gansu, a trip of five and a half hours now.

“We used to take normal trains and then travel by bus from Tianshui to the horse ranch, with the journey lasting more than 10 hours. Now the trip is very     4     (convenience)," said Yang, one of the first batch of passengers.

Shandan Horse Ranch,       5     is under the foot of the Qilian Mountains, is one of the oldest horse ranches in the world. Horses     6     (raise)here since the Han Dynasty(202 B.C.-A.D. 220), and the tradition of horse breeding has continued for thousands of years. During the Tang Dynasty(618-907)reign,       7     number of horses in Shandan exceeded 70,000.

In recent years, with great     8     (achieve)in the ecological protection of the Qilian Mountains, Shandan Horse Ranch began to     9     (active)develop tourism.

Chen Jin, deputy head of Shandan county, said that with the opening of the station,     10     (tourist)from all over the country can come to visit the ranch more easily via the high-speed railway.