注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Dear Michael,
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Yours,
Li Hua
I sat in the breakfast corner with my four-year-old son, Matthew, trying to ignore the ache in my stomach. I was still recovering from a surgery. I hoped for strength and happiness. But the future seemed so hopeless.
Matthew jumped up from his spot on the kitchen floor. “Bird!” he shouted, rushing to the sliding door. Sure enough, there was a white dove seated on a rubber tree. It sat there a few moments, and then flew away. I’d never seen one in our neighborhood before.
When I dragged myself to the kitchen the next morning, the dove was back. This time it was with a mate carrying twigs (嫩枝), “Look, Matthew,” I said, pointing to the tree. “They’re going to make a nest.” The doves flew in and out of the courtyard all week, building on the top of the rubber tree. Matthew could hardly contain his excitement. Every morning, he’d run into the kitchen and take his spot by the sliding glass door, talking to the birds while they worked. As much as I was grieving (感到悲伤), I couldn’t help but look forward to the doves’ visits too. We watched their progress as if it were a real-life soap opera unfolding before us. Gradually, my pain disappeared, replaced by joy.
Then it all went wrong. The courtyard was a safe enough spot for a nest, but the rubber tree’s broad, thin leaves were far from stable. One night, a strong wind blew through, throwing the doves’ nest to the ground. I heard the twigs break apart. Nothing good ever lasts. I wouldn’t blame the doves if they never came back. But they returned. And they paid no attention to the pi le of sticks that had once been their nest. They started again from scratch, though the wind destroyed all their hard work. The next day, and the next, they renewed their efforts, as if nothing had happened.
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: I knew I had to do something for the poor creatures.
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2. 你的祝愿。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear fellow students,
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Yours,
Li Hua
Jiangsu, known for its unique blend of innovation and preservation, is a true treasure. I was
My first stop was Suzhou.
Actually, the mindset of modernization with deep respect for the past isn’t only unique to Suzhou
1. What are the speakers?
| A．A player and a coach. | B．Football fans. | C．TV sports reporters. |
| A．Bad defense. | B．Poor passing. | C．Certain players. |
| A．The visiting team will win. |
| B．The game will end in a draw. |
| C．The home team will win by two goals. |
1. What is the main topic of the conversation?
| A．The working life. | B．College experience. | C．Hobbies. |
| A．About four months. | B．About six months. | C．About eight months. |
| A．The stress of exams. | B．The shortage of money. | C．The loads of assignments. |
| A．On weekends. | B．Right after exams. | C．During the nights after work. |
1. What is the woman doing?
| A．Conducting an interview. | B．Reporting some news. | C．Organizing an event. |
| A．That his health condition will become worse. |
| B．That his duties at home and school will be affected. |
| C．That his efforts in the community won’t be recognized. |
| A．By talking to his teacher. |
| B．By quitting the community project. |
| C．By involving his family in community work. |
8 . It was late November. Most of the leaves had fallen off the trees, leaving only
The older I got, the less it seemed I liked the winter months. When I was a boy, they meant playing in the snow, making snowmen, having snowball fights, and then curling up with my dog by the
I sighed and lay down on my bed. A feeling of
The little dog
| A．rough | B．bare | C．dead | D．thick |
| A．throwing | B．going | C．falling | D．breaking |
| A．influenced | B．attacked | C．matched | D．lifted |
| A．wall | B．river | C．snow | D．stove |
| A．darker | B．longer | C．shorter | D．colder |
| A．over | B．against | C．beneath | D．towards |
| A．happiness | B．panic | C．curiosity | D．depression |
| A．jumped up | B．held up | C．took up | D．lifted up |
| A．exhausted | B．doubtful | C．disappointed | D．miserable |
| A．disapproved | B．challenged | C．complained | D．acknowledged |
| A．while | B．unless | C．until | D．after |
| A．reminded | B．persuaded | C．warned | D．stimulated |
| A．temperature | B．reflection | C．recovery | D．shape |
| A．hope | B．mood | C．anger | D．joy |
| A．rarely | B．possibly | C．partially | D．truly |
9 . Antarctica has not always been a land of ice and snow. Earth’s southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests full of life. Researchers are using satellites to look deep under the ice in Antarctica, finding a large ancient landscape buried under the continent’s ice sheet. The landscape is located in East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land area bordering the Indian Ocean, covering an area about the size of Belgium. The researchers said the landscape is estimated to have been buried beneath the ice shelf for between 14 million to 34 million years, when Antarctica entered its deep freeze.
“The landscape is like a snapshot of the past,” said Stewart Jamieson, a professor of glaciology at Durham University in England and co-leader of the study published in the journal Nature Communications, “It is difficult to know what this lost world might have looked like before the ice came along, but it was certainly warmer back then. Ancient palm tree pollen has been discovered from Antarctica, not far from our study site.”
Some earlier studies have uncovered ancient landscapes beneath Antarctica’s ice including mountains. But the landscape discovered in the new study was the first of its kind. It is estimated that such an environment would likely have been populated by wildlife. But the area’s fossil record is too incomplete to know which animals may have lived there. The ice above the ancient landscape measures about 2.2 kilometers to 3 kilometers thick.
The researchers said one way to learn more would be to drill through the ice and take a piece of the earth below. This could uncover evidence showing ancient life, as was done with samples taken in Greenland dating back two million years ago.
Right before 34 million years ago, Antarctica’s landscape and wildlife was likely similar to today’s cold temperate rainforests. That includes places like Tasmania, New Zealand and South America’s Patagonia area. When the climate cooled even more, an ice sheet grew which covered the whole continent.
1. How long ago was the landscape not buried at the latest?| A．14 million years ago. | B．34 million years ago. |
| C．20 million years ago. | D．48 million years ago. |
| A．To show it is hard to explore this lost world. |
| B．To indicate there exist some vivid remains. |
| C．To present the influence of terrible weather. |
| D．To explain the landscape was too warm to live in. |
| A．The landscape contains many hills and mountains. |
| B．Animal skeletons have been uncovered in the landscape. |
| C．There seems to have existed a mass of wild animals. |
| D．The ice above the landscape is too thick to measure. |
| A．Antarctica Once Witnessed Kinds of Wildlife. |
| B．Areas of Rainforests Found in Antarctica. |
| C．Many Landscapes under Antarctica Discovered. |
| D．Ancient Landscape Found Buried in Antarctic Ice. |
10 . The solution to any despair might be hope, experts say. It’s believing in a brighter future and acting towards it.
Brainstorm solutions. If you’ve set a goal that’s meaningful to you, but you can’t figure out a way to achieve it, you’ll probably feel pretty hopeless. People who are high in hope, meanwhile, tend to generate lots of ways.
Seek out success stories. It’s said that people cultivate hope by seeking support from their parents and specific teachers. But they also got a lot out of learning about other people who have done well for themselves. Hellman says, “
Tap into your imagination. Hellman thinks of imagination as “the instrument of hope”. Let’s say you set a goal for the week. Spend a few minutes reflecting on or talking about what would happen if you achieved it. “How does it impact you, or how would it benefit others?” he says. “
| A．Do something meaningful. |
| B．It can be taught and nurtured. |
| C．Think in a goal-oriented way. |
| D．With these good examples, people are bound to be successful. |
| E．So, if one doesn’t work out, they have an alternative at the ready. |
| F．By seeing other people succeed, they feel like they could succeed. |
| G．You and I have this wonderful capacity to play a movie in our head. |
