3 . Last week, 84-year-old Janet Fein received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. Fein has had a full life. She has raised five children and then had a career as a secretary until she retired at age 77. But even then, she was not ready to take it easy and rest. She said she decided to major in sociology because she felt it was very important.

Fein grew up in the Bronx area of New York City. She just wanted to get a job in high school. After graduating at the age of 16, she went to work as a secretary. After getting married, she spent 18 years staying home with her children. She held several jobs throughout her life,including 20 years as a secretary at a hospital. She also worked for 20 years on earning an associate degree. But Fein also wanted to earn a bachelor’s degree “with all of my heart”. Even with all of her life experiences, she still enjoyed reading,writing papers and learning new things.

Health experts say continuing with education later in life is one way to keep fit. Carmel Dyer, director of the UTHealth Consortium on Aging at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,says keeping active and giving yourself something to look forward to “is just a really positive move”.

Fein kept going to class even as her health conditions worsened. During her studies,it became necessary for her to use a walker to get around and she required oxygen. She also developed knee problems. Therefore, Fein took online classes to finish the last part of her degree requirements. Her college advisor Sheila Rollerson said Fein never showed signs of giving up even with all of her difficulties. “She just kept plugging along,“ Rollerson said.

1. What was Janet Fein’s last work before she retired?

A．A teacher.

B．A secretary.

C．A nurse.

D．A doctor

2. What did Janet Fein want to do most after earning an associate degree?

A．Get a bachelor’s degree.

B．Keep fit by exercises.

C．Read all kinds of books.

D．Find a job at the hospital.

3. What can be inferred from paragraph 3?

A．Life should be full of adventures.

B．People should have their own views.

C．Further study benefits the old’s health.

D．Healthy lifestyle is just to keep active.

4 . My husband is more a kid at heart. He insists we find gifts for the grandkids while on a trip to Savannah.

I can be a kid at heart, too, but I also can be a mathematician — and even cheap, ugly gifts add up quickly when you have 11 grandkids.

Children like gifts and they want them. So we are digging through piles of cheap key fobs (钥匙链), plastic sun hats, chocolate treats that will melt in the heat, and funny T-shirts, finding nothing.

We go with two hats for the boys but are still empty-handed for the nine girls. Then I spot small bracelets (手链) in a rainbow of colors. He turns one over a couple of times and says, “Nice.”

The bracelets are made of small balls shaped like starfish and turtles. They all look like rock candy, which can be eaten and was popular when we were kids. We buy nine and make a mental note: tell the girls not to eat them.

As the clerk wraps the bracelets, I remember a gift I had as a girl. Once we could choose one thing in a shop to remember our trip. What I selected was a blue plastic soapbox with the lid (盖子) and topped with a pink flamingo (火烈鸟). It was cheap and tacky (俗气的) and I believed it was the loveliest thing a girl could own. It was too beautiful to put soap inside, so it sat in a dresser drawer year after year, slowly aging, yellowing, as a reminder of a family trip long ago.

The girls are married and have families of their own, and those gifts are still in the dresser drawers in their old bedrooms, but I have came to realize that every gift may have its worth and value, saying we are together even though we were apart. That’s always a good deal.

1. Why did the author say she was a mathematician?

A．Because their family was not rich enough to buy gifts.

B．Because she was good at choosing gifts for kids.

C．Because she ever studied mathematics in university.

D．Because she found it expensive to buy 11 gifts.

2. How are the gifts for the grandkids?

A．Shiny and costly.	B．Foreign and attractive.
C．Beautiful and ordinary.	D．Useful and cheap.

3. What did the gifts for the girls remind the author of?

A．The great family memories.	B．The experience in giving gifts.
C．The best gift she ever had.	D．The trip when she fell in love.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Good reminders of our life.	B．How to choose gifts for kids.
C．The meaning of a gift.	D．What to expect on a family trip.

5 . 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，并将答案转写到答题卡上。

“Traveling to China seems like traveling to another world. Its many famous scenic attractions impressed me     1     (great),”an American said. The following is     2     he wrote on his website.

My friends and I had a family visit in Xi’an,     3     old city with a long history in China. The hosts were retired or stayed at home without a job, and they were friendly to     4     (visit) from different countries coming their homes.

We     5     (taste) the true home-cooked dishes in the home of the family that we visited. For in-homing dinner, the host would prepare a list of menus in advance (提前). Our tour guide asked     6     (we) for advice about the food, so the host would try to cook what we wanted     7     (eat) at his home. We just enjoyed the locally cooked dishes. It was quite a different and exciting experience.

Many foreigners enjoy     8     (learn) how to make Chinese dumplings. We were also     9     (offer) a general cooking class in the local family. The host taught us to make dumplings step by step with lots of patience. And we didn’t need to pay any money     10     this. Travel China Guide offers this kind of service free of charge.

The family visit in Xi’an was a good chance for us to get to know Chinese people’s daily life.

7 . 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。

It’s almost a common belief that the best food you can find in a place is not in the fancy restaurants,     1     in the backstreets. These spots are usually away from popular tourist attractions, which means that to find them you’ll need the spirit of an explorer.

That’s     2     I came across roujiamo when I was exploring Beijing. I found     3     restaurant that sold dishes from Xi’an when I explored the area around     4     (I) office one day. I decided to try it out.

My roujiamo     5     (make) fresh, so the bread was still warm. It was soft when I bit into it, and the meat inside was delicious and tender. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I ordered more to take home with me. Though it’s just a snack, it’s still quite filling and can     6     (easy) satisfy your appetite.

There are a     7     (various) of things you can put inside the “mo”, as the bread is called. For example, in certain areas in Xi’an, the meat     8     (use) is usually beef, but in Gansu Province, lamb is more common. And the first roujiamo that I tried was made     9     pork. However it’s made, it’s still a tasty snack. And for an American like me who grew up     10     (eat) hamburgers, it’s a perfect combination of East and West.

10 . 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。

It’s funny that you can always tell when somebody’s laughing behind your back. Jodie hadn’t really heard anything, maybe a whisper, but when she turned around, the girls in the back row of the class were looking at her, trying to hide smiles and laughs. She looked back at her teacher. Mr Swales was talking about what people do all day. He also wanted to find out what his students wanted to be when they grew up.

He called on Billy Miter first. “My daddy works in a bank,” Billy Miter said. “I guess I want to work in a bank too. There’s lots of money in the bank.” My parents have a grocery store,” Emmy Disal said. “Papa’s behind the counter and Mama keeps the cash register. But I want to be an airline pilot.”

Jodie liked it when Mr Swales asked them questions like this. He was about to call on Jodie when the girls in the back row burst out laughing.

Shirley Danes yelled, “Jodie’s daddy is a garbage man!”

Everybody in the class laughed out loud. Everybody except Jodie, that is. She felt her face turn bright red. She looked around the whole classroom. Everyone was laughing. Some kids were even holding their noses.

Jodie looked at Mr Swales. He was angry. He almost never raised his voice, but now he did.

“Silence! I want everybody to quiet down this instant.”

The laughter stopped immediately. The sound of cars and people going by out on the street came through the windows.” You should be ashamed of yourselves,” Mr Swales said. “Being a garbage man… I mean, is a difficult and enormously useful job. We should all be grateful to Mr Harris. Where would we be without him? Up to our cars in garbage, that’s where. How would you like that?”

“It’s not funny,” Mr Swales went on. “Garbage is a serious matter. I think you all owe Jodie an apology. And after that, you’re all going to write Jodie’s father, Mr Harris, a nice letter to tell him how much you appreciate what he does for all of us. In other words, keeping our city clear.”

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。

Everyone said “Sorry, Jodie”, but Jodie could tell they didn’t really mean it.

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Jodie’s father came to walk her home from school as usual.

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