3 . A long time ago, there was a farmer who had ten donkeys (驴). One evening, after a long day of hard work, the farmer returned home with the donkeys and began to tie them to the stakes(桩). When he finished nine donkeys, he found that the tenth rope was gone.

What now? He could not let the last donkey run around all night. It would surely run away. Suddenly, he saw that, under a tree, there was a monk(和尚). The farmer ran to the monk and asked for advice. The monk said, “The only thing you have to do to the tenth donkey is make the movements (动作) you would have made with a rope in your hands. Pretend (假装) to tie the donkey. That’s all.”

The farmer returned to the tenth donkey, pretended to fasten (拴紧)a rope around its neck and then to tie the rope to a stake. He then entered his little house, half trusting the monk’s advice, half worried that his donkey would run away in the middle of the night.

When he went outside very early the next morning, all the donkeys were still standing nicely next to their stakes, even the tenth one. The farmer untied the donkeys and wanted to take them to the field. But to his surprise, donkey number ten refused to move an inch. The farmer pulled and shouted, but the animal just didn’t move.

Suddenly, the farmer thought of what he had done to the donkey the night before. With a great “ah ha”, he returned to donkey number ten, and just after a simple movement the donkey happily walked with him to the field.

1. What was the farmer’s problem when he tied the donkeys?

A．The tenth stake was gone.	B．He needed one more rope.
C．The tenth donkey ran away.	D．He had left a rope in the field.

2. Following the monk’s advice, what did the farmer do?

A．He went to sleep straight.	B．He pretended to tie the tenth donkey.
C．He watched the tenth donkey all night.	D．He tied the tenth donkey to the ninth stake.

3. What did the farmer find in the next morning?

A．The donkeys went to the field by themselves.

B．Donkey number ten was running around.

C．The tenth donkey didn’t run away.

D．All the donkeys were gone.

4. What does the underlined part “a simple movement” refer to?

A．Taking away the tenth stake.	B．Pretending to untie the donkey.
C．Pretending to cut the tenth rope.	D．Tying the tenth donkey with a real rope.

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。

Lots of people online make bowls out of colored pencils. But Burls Art,     1     is a guitar lover, is different. He wants to make something     2     he can actually use and enjoy more than a bowl when it is finished.

"I love playing the guitar, so I want to make it cooler," said Burls. Then he decided to make a     3    （use）and good-looking electric guitar. That would be the first guitar he had ever built.

Burls Art bought     4     number of pencils to form the body of the guitar. It was surprisingly not as difficult as he had imagined. He first cut all the pencils into the same size and then     5    （start）out by filling a large box with the pencils and stuck them by using resin（树脂）.

Step by step, he     6    （final）made the unique guitar successfully. He couldn't put an exact number on the time it took him     7    （make）the guitar. "I worked on it for 4 to 5 weeks and spent 2~4 hours a day probably. It took a long time, but it was enjoyable. I think I could make one much     8    （fast）now because I've already known the way.

He was extremely satisfied with the final guitar because     9     its special and perfect look. Now he still has a lot more ideas about the project and he won't stop     10    （create）new things.

8 . Sitting here, I go through my mum's old journals, reading them very differently from the first time I found them.

It was a number of years ago, when I was twelve, I found ______ just lying around her ______ room. That day I read each line with growing ______ and horror. I couldn't believe that woman who fed me as a baby and read me fairy tales had written this. I will never forget the first line I read: “They all want to take me away and _______me！”

______ I thought of the other day, when she was ______ around the house. I was sitting at the dining room table with my grandmother, working on a five­thousand­piece puzzle   (拼图) that takes a ______ to solve. Suddenly, the front door was violently thrown open. My mother ran in screaming at the top of her lungs.

Then she ran into the room and shoved (推) our puzzle off the table, smashing it into the five thousand pieces we had ______. It scared me. ______, something was ______ my mother.

My ______ ended then, when the doctor told me she had hallucinations (幻想症).   I started to understand that her illness wasn't something I could ______. That was when I realized that other kids always ______ she was different when they came over to play.

I always wondered ______ I could do but there is no solution. But dealing with my mother has given me a different outlook on life. I try not to ______ my problems. If my mum starts making strange remarks, I leave the room and call someone. Just ______ is one of the best relax ways in the world. If there's no one to talk to, I ______ the violin or some other hobbies to forget about things for a time.

As I think about the past, I see that mum was ______ an entire life. Thankfully, I haven't been. To me, each day is just one piece of the ______, one piece among the thousands we spend our lives putting together, hoping it won't ______.

1.

A．them

B．those

C．it

D．myself

2.

A．empty

B．strange

C．clear

D．messy

3.

A．joy

B．astonishment

C．doubt

D．happiness

4.

A．protect

B．comfort

C．kill

D．confirm

5.

A．Yet

B．Then

C．However

D．Though

6.

A．nervous

B．relaxed

C．angry

D．surprised

7.

A．lifetime

B．day

C．minute

D．moment

8.

A．prepared

B．made

C．begun with

D．looked for

9.

A．Luckily

B．Even

C．Still

D．Obviously

10.

A．wrong with

B．connected with

C．cautious about

D．worried about

11.

A．hard time

B．childhood

C．bad luck

D．memories

12.

A．forgive

B．miss

C．ignore

D．overcome

13.

A．felt

B．heard

C．hoped

D．expected

14.

A．where

B．when

C．which

D．what

15.

A．depend on

B．face

C．concentrate on

D．calculate

16.

A．waiting

B．talking

C．singing

D．smiling

17.

A．buy

B．play

C．talk with

D．turn to

18.

A．devoted to

B．charged with

C．led to

D．robbed of

19.

A．toy

B．puzzle

C．page

D．journal

20.

A．fall apart

B．come up

C．come off

D．fall over

9 . 阅读下列材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式。

You are never too young to make a     1    ( different ). Since Joshua Williams was 5 years old, he has been winning achievements in ending hunger.

One day, five­-year-­old Joshua     2    (watch) TV in the sitting room with his grandma as usual，when     3     TV show reported about children who were suffering hunger around the world. Joshua was very sad to learn that.     4     he was just five years old, he decided to do something about it. He turned to his grandma and said，“Grandma, I want to help those children. Can you donate some money？”His grandma smiled     5     him and gave him 20 dollars. His grandma didn’t take it     6    (serious), but Joshua really did something with it.     7    (start) with the $20 donation from his grandma, he created a charity     8    (name) Joshua’s Heart. It has provided thousands of pounds of food for     9    (hunger) people in North Miami until now.Joshua’s long­term goal is to remove（消除） world hunger.“I cannot imagine having no food to eat when I need it.Can you? If we all work at this，world hunger can finally     10    (remove),” Joshua said.

Let’s join Joshua and help to end world hunger together.

10 . 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。

Freedom above snow

With the Tokyo Summer Olympics behind us, people are turning their eyes to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games,     1     will start in five months. Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, 18, looks to be one of the superstars of the event.

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu     2     (decide) to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Just two months later, she bagged her first gold medal for China at the Australia New Zealand Cup.     3     strength continued to grow as she won one bronze and two gold medals at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in March.

People say she is     4     (talent). But Gu says that talent counted for (占据) “only 1 percent” of her wins, adding that her hard work is     5     counts. While going to school in San Francisco, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours    6     (go) to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill     7     (practice) skiing.

Gu said she wants to encourage more girls in China to try skiing and other extreme sports , many of which have only been known there for 20 years, according to the Olympics website. She said skiing gives her “    8     (free) and creativity”, especially when she perfectly controls her body and does tricks that others cannot do.

Now she     9     (prepare) for the Winter Olympics as a full-time athlete. “Of course, I want to win medals and even golds,” Gu said. “But what’s     10     (important) is to bring out my own style, enjoy the game and love the sport.”