3 . 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。

Birthdays were a huge deal at my workplace. Co-workers went above and beyond to shower the person of honor with food, decorations, affirmations, love and, yes, embarrassment on their special day. As one who preferred to go unnoticed and felt embarrassed at being the center of attention, I was horrified to walk in on my birthday to see my desk decorated with glittery streamers, and a hot pink sash (饰带) with the words, “Kneel! I’m the Birthday Princess”. I was forced to wear for the duration of the day.

Although embarrassed by the display, I felt extremely loved. I thoroughly enjoyed the pleasant flowers and delicious chocolate cake my co-workers gave me.

Several months after my birthday celebration, our office welcomed Laura, a new member, to the team. Hired as our office manager’s assistant, Laura was also tasked with establishing a human resources department. Possessing an ambitious vision and receiving trust from our manager, she immediately made major changes — which were not well received. Gradually, Laura became the centre of gossip (闲言碎语).

When Laura’s spring birthday neared, it was evident that no one wanted to celebrate. I understood why no one wanted to go all-out in celebrating Laura’s birthday, but it bothered me nevertheless. As an extremely shy and introverted (内向的) individual, being left out or ignored was nothing foreign to me, and it pained me to think of the deliberate effort to ignore her birthday. Although she drove me crazy, too, I knew her time in our office had not been easy.

Stopping by our local grocery store, I selected some rosy-pink tulips and a birthday card in which I wrote a heartfelt note highlighting some of Laura’s qualities I admired, such as her ambitious spirit, creativity, and strong inner drive. Arriving an hour early to work the morning of her birthday, I transformed her corner of the office just like what my co-workers did for my birthday.

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1.续写词数应为150左右；
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I watched Laura spot her decorated work area when she arrived.

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The friendship between Laura and me began since the lunch and continued to grow over the years.

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4 . Snuggling (偎依) up with your little one from an early age and diving into a book together is always a great way to spend time.     1     They will give your little one a flying start in life.

Firstly, it’s a great introduction to reading, writing and vocabulary. Seeing an adult reading out the words and linking them to the shapes on the page begins to build literary building blocks that the children will use for the rest of their life.     2     It helps them build up their understanding of language as well as the wider world.

    3     It boosts children’s minds and develops their social awareness and skills. At a time when they are perhaps stuck indoors more than ever before, reading is the best way to spark children’s imagination. You can travel to the moon, meet the Gruffalo and pop into a chocolate factory! This means children will have a solid creative base and develop their own story-telling skills while enjoying adventurous days at home. Fantastic lands, stories and characters can inspire play ideas for children too. However, you’ll find books fit for children are limited on your bookshelf. Don’t worry!     4    .

Reading time is a brilliant bonding tool with parents or carers, which builds up confidence and a sense of security for little ones.     5     It can even help them sleep better. Now is the perfect time to build up a library of remarkable reads ready for children to enjoy now and in the future.

A．Turning to the Internet is a good idea.

B．These stories can encourage future leaders and thinkers.

C．Reading to your children from day one has a lot of benefits.

D．Secondly, there are many brilliant effects of hearing stories.

E．It can also make them get difficult feelings, like loss or sadness.

F．Reading aloud introduces children to new words they might not hear daily.

G．A regular bedtime story create s routine which small children especially love.

6 . When I was in high school, my history teacher tried an experiment with a classmate known for her enthusiastic and expressive communication style. The girl had raised her hand to answer a question, and the teacher challenged her to reply while keeping her hands folded in her lap. I’ve never forgotten the sight of her struggling to get her words out while her hands were restrained (限制) .

We all, to some extent or another, talk with our hands. It’s part of how we communicate. But as Susan Goldin-Meadow, a professor and psychologist at the University of Chicago, explains in her newest book, that’s just the beginning.

What she discovered are an astonishing number of ways in which our hands not only help us to emphasize(or sometimes contradict) our spoken words, but they also play a vital role in how we form our ideas. As Goldin-Meadow shows, even people blind from birth use gestures.

People who don’t have arms will experience a phantom (幻觉) feeling they are gesturing. We gesture when someone we’re talking to can’t see us, such as on the phone. We gesture when we’re all alone, trying to compose an email. We need to gesture to make sense of the world.

“Gestures and language really are a single integrated system. It’s not just a system that linguists study,” said Goldin-Meadow. “There’s so much information that isn’t captured by our words, and by all of the conventional things that we learn from language. For that purpose, certainly as a psychologist, I think it’s very important to take these kinds of things seriously.”

There’s a huge literature on body language. It really does convey lots of things-attitude perspective, sense of self, and more. Most of them are about how we feel, and our perception of our interaction. What the hands contribute—and the face can do this, too-is not just our attitudes to the conversation, but the content of the conversation.

1. What is the author’s purpose of writing paragraph 1?

A．To introduce the topic.	B．To share an experiment.
C．To tell an interesting story.	D．To introduce a phenomenon.

2. How do gestures have an impact on communication?

A．Limiting oral words	B．Stressing oral words.
C．Directing oral words.	D．Interrupting oral words.

3. What is mostly conveyed in a speaker’s gestures?

A．His habits.

B．His character.

C．His feelings.

D．His contribution.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Hand Gestures: A Way We Need To Do Everyday

B．Hand Gestures: A Language We Struggle To Understand

C．Hand Gestures: An Easy Language Learning From Childhood

D．Hand Gestures: An Important And Silent Communication Method

7 . As for Hallie Barnard, who was born with a rare blood disorder, a song, whose main idea is about a good friendship turning bad like the bad blood, meant a lot to her. The song represents her inborn struggle with a unique blood condition and the impact it has on her life.

At just 15 months old, Hallie was diagnosed (诊断) with Diamond-Blackfan anemia(DBA) , and she spent most of her life in and out of the hospital. Hallie said she relied on the singer to bring her joy. The only way to survive DBA is with a bone marrow transplant (骨髓移植) and Hallie was eager for one. But she knew thousands of other patients were, too.

So, a few years ago, she decided to do something about it, creating her own foundation, Hallie’s Heroes. “It started selfishly as just trying to save my life, but then we realized there’s so many other children out there that needed a bone marrow transplant.” she said. “So, so far we’ve tested over 8,000 people and we found over 300 matches.” After a 9-year wait, Hallie got her own match through her own foundation. The recovery was hard, but Hallie said she stayed hopeful. “I would just kind of daydream. And sometimes I would listen to her music and I would daydream about the singer and meeting her and seeing her in person,” Hallie said in her social media.

When the singer’s assistant heard about Hallie’s Heroes and knew about her wish, he was inspired to help the selfless little girl who turned her own health battle into a way to help others and decided to give Hallie the surprise of a lifetime. He offered two tickets to the singer’s concert in Houston. When Hallie received a call offering her the tickets, she was shocked and enthusiastically accepted and attended the concert with her mother in the front row.

Now Hallie has recovered. She no longer has “bad blood”. Thanks to her foundation, hundreds of others can say the same.

1. Why did the author mention the main idea of a song?

A．To introduce the heroine of the text.

B．To show the author’s love for the song.

C．To explain how harmful the bad blood was.

D．To highlight the impact of the song on the author.

2. What do we know about Hallie’s life before the operation?

A．She felt sorrow for herself.	B．She often went to the concert.
C．She sought for a bone marrow match.	D．She prepared for her own foundation.

3. What was Hallie’s initial purpose of setting up Hallie’s Heroes?

A．To save herself	B．To be known by others.
C．To see her favorite singer.	D．To help patients with DBA,

4. Which of the following can best describe Hallie?

A．Inactive but lucky.	B．Selfish but capable,
C．Helpful and wealthy.	D．Caring and determined.

8 . 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。

Mountains are important sources of water supply to humans. Among the ecosystem services     1     (provide) by mountains, water supply is     2     most important because of the large quantity of free-flowing water. Mountain water resources are affected by glacier melt, snowmelt run-off or rainfall run-off.

Sustainable (可持续的) use of mountain water resources is important for both humans and global mountain biodiversity in the economic and     3     (society) context of human progress. Particular attention should be given in the water resources     4     (come) from the mountain areas. Sustainability has been     5     (previous) used as a term to describe a concern related to preservation of natural resources for future. The relation between human development and the need     6     (manage) resources forms a principle to design a dialogue regarding environmental needs. So far, a limited number of studies     7     (publish) on mountain water uses and sustainability. Most studies are focused     8     examining prevention, diversions, and mountain water storage during floods or droughts.

However, insights into water use, as well as employing state-of-the-art technologies, are very important from both a technological standpoint and as elements of practical sustainable     9     (solution) . The interplay between academics, policy makers, and decision makers is important in expanding the scientific knowledge of mountain regions and the ways in     10     water resources could be used in a more sustainable way.

9 . Paul Durietz is a social studies teacher from Illinois. Social studies explores various aspects of human ________ and its interactions. Mr. Durietz made up his mind to be a social studies teacher when he was just 11 years old, mainly because of his ________ and love for history.

Mr. Durietz ________ his teaching job at Woodland Middle School in 1970. Ever since then, he’s been ________ social studies at the same school. He loves sharing his knowledge of history with students. “Teaching is ________,” he said. “Every day is different.”

Things have ________ a lot since he began teaching. These days, he and the students use ________ and digital whiteboards instead of chalk and paper textbooks. With or without technology, Mr. Durietz has used ________ activities to teach his students. For example, he has ________ virtual field trips and even mock elections to help students learn about politics. These ________ are the ones that he and his students enjoy most.

Being ________ the social studies program at Woodland Middle School, Mr. Durietz is ________ proud that his students tell him that they want to be history teachers because of him. He ________ a point that people who want to be teachers should ________ they are patient with their students. He also encourages them to choose ________ that they care deeply about. “Keep working on what you love to do in life,” he said.

1.

A．consumption

B．society

C．virtue

D．psychology

2.

A．digest

B．tendency

C．ambition

D．appetite

3.

A．attained

B．entrusted

C．involved

D．employed

4.

A．making using of

B．taking into account

C．applying himself to

D．keeping away from

5.

A．upsetting

B．interesting

C．boring

D．shocking

6.

A．showed

B．damaged

C．tackled

D．changed

7.

A．headphones

B．computers

C．diagrams

D．recorders

8.

A．creative

B．conventional

C．abstract

D．severe

9.

A．refused

B．participated

C．organized

D．taken

10.

A．games

B．activities

C．incidents

D．awards

11.

A．in need of

B．in search of

C．in honour of

D．in charge of

12.

A．extremely

B．fortunately

C．slightly

D．instantly

13.

A．forgets

B．predicts

C．prohibits

D．demonstrates

14.

A．reflect

B．complain

C．ensure

D．explain

15.

A．subjects

B．properties

C．drafts

D．barriers

10 . Here are some national parks where visitors can enjoy varieties of wildlife.

Acadia National Park, Maine

The Atlantic Ocean meets the cliff-lined Maine coast at this popular park, providing habitat for wildlife with feet and flippers. From the shore, scan the water for marine life like sharks or gray seals(海豹). On land, you might spot beavers, snowshoe hares, or bobcats. In between, in the intertidal zone, tide pools hold translucent anemones, sea urchins, snails, and sea stars.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio

The park is a mixed ecosystem of oak-hickory forest, meadows, and wetlands sheltering a variety of animals. You can see water-loving mammals or snapping turtles. More than 200 species of bird live or migrate through the park, including nesting peregrine falcons and bald eagles.

Pinnacles National Park, California

Nearly being in extinction in the 1980s, the number of mighty California condors(兀鹫)now increases again over volcanic peaks. Intense recovery efforts, including a captive breeding(圈养繁殖)program, have brought a significant increase of the population, which was just 22in 1982. If you have binoculars, you’ll have a good chance of seeing condors flying in the mornings and evenings. Others include golden eagles, peregrine falcons and bees.

Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

Contrary to its name, water makes up 99 percent of this park. Visitors can see five species of endangered sea turtles nest on the beaches or swimming. Book a snorkeling to explore the reefs, where green sea turtles, nurse sharks, and decorator crabs live am id corals. Divers can also access the Windjammer Wreck site, where a ship that sank(沉没) in 1907 provides a home for marine life.

1. When introducing wildlife, the author divides the Acadia National Park into __________.

A．two areas

B．three areas

C．four areas

D．five areas

2. How does the California condor increase its population?

A．With another country’s technical support.

B．By hunting for food on volcanic peaks.

C．With the assistance of human beings.

D．By competing with new species.

3. In which park can visitors see a sunk ship?

A．Acadia National Park.	B．Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
C．Pinnacles National Park.	D．Dry Tortugas National Park.