1 . 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。

Jenny was the only child in her family. She had a quarrel (吵架) with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn’t help weeping sorrowfully when she thought of the scolding from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat. She stood beside a stand (货摊) for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she gave a sigh and had to leave.

The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, “Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?”

“Oh, yes, but I don’t have money on me.” she replied.

“That’s nothing. I’ll treat you today,” said the man, “Come in.”

The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.

“What is it?” asked the man kindly.

“Nothing. Actually, I was just touched by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears. “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so merciless compared to a stranger!”

Hearing the words, the seller smiled, “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you remember the times she cooked for you? Have you expressed your gratitude to her?”

Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock: she remembered her mother’s familiar face and weathered hands. “Why didn’t I think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel grateful. Why haven’t I thanked my mum for what she has done for me?”

On the way home. Jenny made up her mind to make an apology to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Nearing the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath.

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At that time, her mother came back and touched her hair gently, which called her mind back.

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2 . Being a teenager can be hard, for you have to face a lot of difficult problems, but a new program called Nfusion is working hard to help teens with mental(精神的)health needs. Nfusion gives teenagers classes where they study or discuss some troubling subjects. Drugs and bullying(欺凌)are just a few of the topics discussed during the class on Saturday.

"I had a bad attitude, " said 17-year-old Titeana Davis. Davis went through the Nfusion Program last year. The teen, who once had trouble with her attitude towards others, says the program has changed her life. "They taught me a bad attitude is not going to get you anywhere, "said Davis.

Nfusion is a new program that meets teens mental health needs and provides help for their families. The program is designed to help teens aged 14—21 live through a difficult period.

"They're still growing, still developing and still there are a lot of things they don't know how to address. So this is a good program for them to be a part of, " said Lakicha Jemigan, who worked for the Nfusion Program.

Teens like Davis are just a few who have come through the program successfully. Now thanks to Nfusion, Davis says she's looking forward to a bright future. "After I graduate from college, I want to work at a primary school and I want to be a second grade teacher, " added Davis.

1. Why is it necessary to help teens?

A．Teens are in need of money.

B．They have to face a lot of problems.

C．Teens may face lots of problems in their study.

D．Teens are too weak to deal with lots of difficulties.

2. What's the purpose of Nfusion?

A．To provide teens with some programs.

B．To help teens fight for a better future.

C．To help teens receive a good education.

D．To meet the mental health needs of teens.

3. What does the underlined word "address" in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．look for

B．deal with

C．talk about

D．learn from

4. What happened to Davis after going through Nfusion?

A．She became a teacher.	B．She worked for Nfusion.
C．She went back to school.	D．She got along well with others.

3 . 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。

CHANGCHUN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua)-Chinese train maker CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. on Wednesday rolled out    1     new type of high-speed train    2     can run on different rail systems.

The train, with a standard speed of 400 km per hour, has been developed to cope    3     different rail systems on international routes,    4     (make) international rail travel more convenient.

The company said the train can operate in temperatures between minus 50 degrees Celsius    5     50 degrees Celsius, and can also operate under different traction power supply systems and railway transportation standards of different countries.

    6     (base) on the prototype and technology, the company is ready to take orders for customized high-speed trains and train products according to the technical standards and operational requirements of various regions of the world.

There are    7     (current) four main railway track standards around the world. When ordinary trains run between countries with different gauges, they need to replace their train bogies, which takes time and effort.

As the new CRRC train    8     (equip) with gauge-changing bogies, it can change    9     (it) rail mode during cross-border travel, greatly improving the    10     (efficient) of travel across rail systems.

4 . My mom used to say “Life is full of challenges. But a willingness to learn something new gives people the right attitude to overcoming difficulties.” This is now my attitude towards _______.

One life experience that helped me develop this _______ to try new things was learning to _______. You may have heard the expression, “You can’t teach an old _______ new tricks.” Now I’m not calling myself an “old dog” quite yet! But I certainly had my _______ about trying diving for the _______ time as a 30-year-old man. I thought, “_______ can I swim wearing all of the diving equipment? What if something goes _______ and I can’t breathe? How can I _______ to other divers if there’s a problem?” Worries like these caused me to ________.

To my surprise, the three-day training period proved to be anything but a disaster. Our lessons ________ three parts. First, an instructor ________ us to all of the equipment as well as the hand signals for communicating underwater. This part ended with a test to make sure we understood what we had just ________.

Next, we headed to a swimming pool where we practiced breathing techniques. We began at the pool’s surface. Each new technique we practiced allowed us to go ________ in the water. Eventually we ________ to the bottom of the pool.

On the third day, we took all of our ________ knowledge to the ocean! We made sure to follow each step of the process ________. Before I knew it, I was really diving.

I dived above the ocean floor as all kinds of fish swam by. I felt ________ for the opportunity to discover new depths. With my mom’s words still ________ in my ears, I knew the experience gave me a new ________ to life.

1.

A．dream

B．praise

C．life

D．failure

2.

A．willingness

B．disadvantage

C．purpose

D．suggestion

3.

A．swim

B．dive

C．run

D．climb

4.

A．cat

B．fish

C．dog

D．sheep

5.

A．belief

B．secrets

C．courage

D．doubts

6.

A．last

B．same

C．second

D．first

7.

A．When

B．Why

C．How

D．Where

8.

A．wrong

B．crazy

C．slow

D．well

9.

A．read

B．wave

C．signal

D．talk

10.

A．smile

B．panic

C．forgive

D．regret

11.

A．passed

B．involved

C．mixed

D．increased

12.

A．introduced

B．sent

C．persuaded

D．invited

13.

A．said

B．felt

C．learned

D．smelt

14.

A．longer

B．faster

C．higher

D．deeper

15.

A．made it

B．gave in

C．looked forward

D．paid attention

16.

A．boring

B．meaningful

C．local

D．new

17.

A．carefully

B．anxiously

C．rudely

D．quickly

18.

A．ashamed

B．glad

C．disappointed

D．active

19.

A．calling

B．ringing

C．informing

D．returning

20.

A．sight

B．habit

C．answer

D．attitude

5 . 阅读短文回答问题。

When I went off to college in the fall of 1991, I was an 18-year-old man whose favorite letters were the ones on the sports sweater. Four years later, I was crazy about the letters of the poet Keats, but one author’s penned letters stood out above the rest. You see, my father wrote me one letter per week from the time I left home.

In an age before email, these letters seemed too ordinary. But they arrived. Each week. One after another. Again and again. In snowstorms. On holidays. From foreign countries. They detailed what Dad referred to as “the week that was”—a day-by-day description of my father’s life.

In 1995, I graduated from college, like many 22-year olds, with plenty of uncertainty. Some of my questions were pretty typical: What was I going to do? Where was I going to live? When was I going to apply for graduate school? But one question was more vital than any other thing. What would happen to the weekly letters? Would they continue? To my surprise, the letters kept coming, more heartfelt and emotional than before and always on time. I mean the guy never missed.

As much as I enjoyed my father’s weekly letters, I didn’t fully appreciate them all those years when they arrived like clockwork. And I never fully understood why my dad would always ask if I’d received the letter when we spoke.

But now, as I pen my first official letters to my own sons Jackson and Cassius, it all seems clear. Although our boys have yet to leave for college, I have to accept that day will soon come. Just the idea of their leaving from our home makes me ache with sadness only a parent can know.

I am writing about “the week that was” with my daily details. With a box of over 500 of Dad’s letters nearby and his pen in hand, I write a letter, fighting back the tears I make it to the end and sign it just as he did. All my love, Dad.

1. What did the author’s father keep doing for years?
2. What does the sentence “the guy never missed” tell us about the author’s father?
3. When did the author come to realize the importance of his father’s letters?
4. Why would the author’s dad always ask if the author had received his letters?

6 . 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。答案写在题号 后的横线上。 .

Earth is setting heat records. It will be much hotter one day. But     1    hot could it get? As a heat wave     2     (roast) the western United States last week, temperatures in California's Death Valley rose to 130 degrees Fahrenheit,     3     (mark) the hottest temperature measured anywhere on Earth since 1931 and the third hottest day ever recorded on our planet. It's difficult     4     (forecast) how hot Earth might get if we keep jamming carbon into the atmosphere,     5     (expert) say. As Michael   Wehner, an extreme weather researcher, put it in an email, "    6     increase in temperatures of future heat waves     7     (depend) a lot on how far into the future and how much more carbon dioxide we send out. ” But a recent research     8     (exact) tells people what the heat waves of tomorrow could look like if we don't control our carbon emissions (排放)at all. By the end of the century, heat waves in California could top out at temperatures about 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit     9     (high) than they do today, "I would expect that an event of the same rarity (罕见)     10    Today’s 130°F would be about 140°F in that high-emission future,” Wehner says.

7 . 最近，你校组织了5公里的迷你马拉松（mini-marathon)比赛，请你向21世纪英文报投稿，介绍比赛的情况。内容包括：
1.时间、地点和参加人员；
2.比赛过程；
3.比赛的意义。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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8 . The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She _______ the driver and, using her hands to feel the _______ of the seats, walked down and found the _______ which the driver had told her was empty. Then she settled in.

It had been a year since Susan, 34, _______ a medical misdiagnosis (误诊), was suddenly thrown into a world of _______. Mark, her husband, was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. He _______ her how to rely on her other _______, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt herself to the new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could _______ for her, and save her a seat.

_______, Susan decided that she was ready to try the ________ on her own. Monday morning arriving, she said good-bye and for the first time, they went their ________ ways.

On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was ________ the bus, the driver said, “Lady, I sure ________ envy you.” Susan had no ________ what the driver was talking about, and asked, “What do you ________?”

The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the ________ week, a fine-looking gentleman ________ military (军事的) uniform has been standing across the corner ________ you as you get off the bus. He ________ you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building. You are one lucky lady.”

Tears of gratitude (感激) poured down Susan’s cheeks. He had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn’t need to see to ________— the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.

1.

A．thanked

B．asked

C．discovered

D．paid

2.

A．location

B．shape

C．size

D．cost

3.

A．ticket

B．bus

C．seat

D．bag

4.

A．according to

B．instead of

C．thanks to

D．due to

5.

A．anger

B．darkness

C．happiness

D．light

6.

A．asked

B．encouraged

C．taught

D．praised

7.

A．feelings

B．sights

C．senses

D．abilities

8.

A．make out

B．watch out

C．find out

D．work out

9.

A．Finally

B．Luckily

C．However

D．Besides

10.

A．visit

B．trip

C．bus

D．work

11.

A．opposite

B．separate

C．difficult

D．usual

12.

A．getting on

B．getting in

C．getting off

D．getting up

13.

A．must

B．may

C．will

D．do

14.

A．idea

B．opinion

C．way

D．thought

15.

A．want

B．mean

C．say

D．suggest

16.

A．next

B．old

C．past

D．following

17.

A．by

B．on

C．with

D．in

18.

A．searching

B．watching

C．calling

D．noticing

19.

A．looks out

B．takes up

C．believes in

D．makes sure

20.

A．believe

B．hope

C．contact

D．impress

9 . Gene therapy (基因治疗) is a revolutionary new technique for treating people with health problems. Up until very recently, the most commonly available methods for treating patients were either through drugs or operations. Gene therapy provides a third option for treatment by transforming or replacing cells with new genetic materials and instructions. Scientists can be very precise in the kinds of changes they make in patients.

Gene therapy works by using a delivery system, such as a virus, to enter a patient's body. Once inside the body, the virus combines with a host cell and delivers the new DNA. The proteins then begin to repair the affected cells. New techniques have focused on removing cells from the patients and transforming them outside the body before reintroducing them to the patients.

The two types of gene therapy are called somatic and germline. Somatic therapy refers to changing or replacing a body cell. In this case, the treatment is restricted to the patient only. This will not affect the patient's future children because the patient's germ (生殖) cells are unaffected. In germline therapy, the patient germ cells are treated, which may affect the patient's future generation.This is highly controversial (有争议的) because it is not clear exactly how this might affect them and further generations. For this reason, many countries have passed laws that prohibit this kind of treatment.

Despite the promise of gene therapy, there are still many barriers that need to be overcome before it comes into widespread use. One of the issues is that the use of viruses to deliver DNA may actually cause unexpected problems in patients if the virus grows and attacks the body. Another problem is the nature of many diseases is very complex and spread throughout multiple genes. The use of gene therapy to change a single gene in the body would probably not be sufficient as a cure. Finally, the costs of gene therapy are high. Some gene therapy procedures may cost over$1 million to undertake and require specialized doctors and equipment.

1. What does the underlined word ''them'' in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Techniques.

B．Cells.

C．Patients.

D．Proteins.

2. What can we learn about gene therapy?

A．Gene therapy has been put into practice widely.

B．The cells of patients are developed in healthy people.

C．Viruses entering the body can mix with host cells and form new DNA.

D．Both somatic and germline therapy have side effects on later generations.

3. What's the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The disadvantages of gene therapy.

B．The promising future of gene therapy.

C．The high costs of treatment procedures.

D．The issues related to viruses and complex genes.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Why Gene Therapy Procedures Are Extremely Expensive

B．Gene Therapy: A Dangerous New After-operation Treatment

C．Gene Therapy: A Contemporary Progressive Treating Method

D．Scientists Are Accurate in Performing the Categories of Surgery

10 . "Mum, can I invite my classmate Brett over to stay tomorrow night, please? It's Friday, and we don't have any _______.   Can I, please?" Mum was sitting at the kitchen table.   Dad was _______next to her, resting his head on his arms.   Mum could _______that James wanted so badly to have his friend over.

"I'm so sorry, James," she said.

"I'm never allowed to have friends come to the house? Why, Mum?" James asked sadly, almost in _______.

"I know it's _______for you," Mum said softly.   "But I'm just worried other people might think we're a little. . .   strange.   And then they would make fun of you. "

"No, they wouldn't, Mum," James protested.   "We're not _______at all.   We're just ordinary people. "

Mum sighed heavily.   "To tell you the truth, James, my neck has been so painful that it's given me a heavy _______.   And your poor father — he doesn't feel _______.   He really needs a rest. "

"I can help, Mum!" James said.   " _______I can make you and Dad feel better, can Brett come over? Please?"

"Well. . . " Mum began.

"Great! Thanks, Mum!" James almost shouted.   "Just sit there, don't move. " He rushed over to the kitchen drawer and ________what he needed — two spanners(扳手).   "Hang on, Mum," he said.   "This won't take a second. " After some ________, James was finished.   With a smile of ________on his face he said, "There! How does that feel?" "Oh, James," Mum said.   "That's much better! How did you do it?"

"Easy," James said ________.   "Dad had tightened your neck bolts(螺栓) too much! I just________them slightly! I learned that in robotic science at school. "

"What about your father? Can you ________him?" asked Mum.

"I'll try," James replied.   He ________up Dad's hair at the back of his neck, and plugged the electric wire into Dad's head.   Then he turned the ________on.   Dad opened his eyes and ________immediately.   "He just let his ________run too low, that's all," James said.   "Shall I tell Brett to come over straight after school tomorrow?"

"I guess so," replied Mum.   "Your friends will just have to ________that we are a very unusual family.   Thanks, son!"

1.

A．chance

B．message

C．homework

D．difficulty

2.

A．asleep

B．reading

C．alone

D．standing

3.

A．explain

B．see

C．agree

D．doubt

4.

A．terror

B．tears

C．surprise

D．silence

5.

A．fair

B．easy

C．good

D．hard

6.

A．strange

B．normal

C．popular

D．anxious

7.

A．headache

B．loss

C．task

D．day

8.

A．ill

B．funny

C．sorry

D．well

9.

A．As

B．If

C．Since

D．Before

10.

A．kept

B．controlled

C．found

D．returned

11.

A．requests

B．thoughts

C．repairs

D．instructions

12.

A．sympathy

B．satisfaction

C．bitterness

D．politeness

13.

A．embarrassedly

B．gratefully

C．impatiently

D．proudly

14.

A．adjusted

B．collected

C．produced

D．covered

15.

A．greet

B．accompany

C．help

D．ask

16.

A．lifted

B．caught

C．gave

D．filled

17.

A．television

B．power

C．light

D．gas

18.

A．grew up

B．lay down

C．broke down

D．sat up

19.

A．food

B．temperature

C．battery

D．blood

20.

A．prove

B．expect

C．suspect

D．accept