2 . Friends always ask why I, a middle-aged woman with no athletic (运动) talent (天赋), travel to perilous places — the jungles (丛林) of Thailand or Borneo, for example, where the water is often unsafe and the food risky; places with infectious diseases, poisonous snakes and the wildest animals.

I never know how to answer. Nine years ago I suffered a stroke (中风). To prevent another stroke, my doctors told me, I’d have to take dangerously high levels of blood thinner (血液稀释剂) for the rest of my life and any travel would be risky (冒险的).

I had to think about what was important to me: family, of course, and friends. But then what? No matter how many times I thought about it, I could not be happy without travel. Then I had to decide how I might manage the risk.

The first real test of my travel courage came nine months after my stroke when I joined my husband, Jack, on a business trip to China. After we’d toured the remains of a Tang dynasty temple on a high mountain, Jack wanted to ride down on a toboggan (长雪橇).

Before the stroke it would’ve seemed like fun. But now? I hesitated. My mental klaxon (高音喇叭) screamed warnings about the consequences of a cut, a fall, and a crash. Then, gaining confidence from who knew where, I lowered myself carefully into the toboggan, which marked my adventure (冒险) travel come back.

In the years since then, I’ve traveled about twenty-five percent of the time. Through it all, my lucks held out — no deadly falls, no car accidents or serious infections. For me, adventure travel is a risk worth taking. Travel broadens my world and keeps me connected to nature. What’s more, saying “yes” to travel keeps me connected to myself.

1. What does the underlined word “perilous” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Energetic.

B．Dangerous.

C．Romantic

D．Famous.

2. What did the doctors advise the author to do?

A．Do proper exercise.	B．Enjoy the rest of her life.
C．Spend more time with her family	D．Keep away (远离) from traveling

3. Why did the author mention her travel to China?

A．It was her last adventure.	B．She recovered (恢复) her courage (勇气) through it.
C．She liked the beautiful scenery in China.	D．It was the most dangerous experience in her life.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．A business trip to China	B．Stroke, a dangerous disease
C．How I overcame the fear of disease	D．Why I still travel to the wild

3 . Have you still remembered what happened when you went to school on the first day? I still remember my interesting first day of school. On that day, I hurried to my science class in the morning and found a seat in the back. I waited there for 15 minutes before the bell rang. The science teacher told us about some class rules. No one talked to me; nor did I talk to anyone else. I was one of those very shy girls. After the science class, I had an English class. I thought it would be boring but it turned out to be very funny. When the classes of the morning ended,   I went to lunch. I sat outside the dining room with no one to talk to and no food because I was too nervous to join the lunch line. I kept looking around hoping to see someone I knew but I never saw anyone.

Lunch ended and I went to have my art class. I was the first one there and not even my teacher was there yet. So I sat at my desk and started drawing some pictures. I didn’t notice the rest of the class walking in or the girl that was standing behind me till I was surprised by the voice, “So what are you drawing?” It was a girl who had really long hair. She ended up being my best friend and one of the kindest and liveliest girls I know.

In the next class meeting, the teacher asked us to talk about the past holiday. I was glad to make some new friends in the class. The first day of high school was hard for me but I got through it.

1. According to the writer, the English class was __________ .

A．boring

B．useful

C．hard

D．interesting

2. The writer had no lunch because she         .

A．wasn’t hungry	B．forgot the lunchtime
C．was afraid to stand in line	D．didn’t like the dining room

3. In the art class, the writer __________ .

A．got to know a lively girl	B．talked about her past holiday
C．met someone she knew before	D．drew some pictures about her class

4. What do we know about the writer’s science class?

A．She sat in the front row.	B．She made some new friends.
C．She learned some class rules.	D．She was 15 minutes late for it.

4 . 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 happened in a holiday when I was 18 years old. I     1     (be) to fly to Brussels. I set my alarm(闹钟)     2     (get) up early. There was one problem: I had never used an alarm before. I was uncertain whether the button on the top had to be up or down. I got little sleep as I worried about it all night.

I     3     (obvious) had made the wrong     4     (choose) because the next morning I woke only a short while before sunrise. I didn’t have time to shower and set off to the airport,     5     drove me mad.

Now I had less than an hour before my flight left. Not     6    (have) much experience on buses, I was made extremely     7     (anger)by the bus driver who pulled over and waited every few streets.   So I informed     8     ( he ) that I was late for my flight and so we needed to move on. He stared     9     me, but he continued his route at the same pace.   I finally got to the airport, but I missed my flight. The lady at the desk felt so sorry for me    10     she offered to change the flight at no extra cost.

7 . If you begin a new job, it is important for you to make the right impression from the very first day. You will face new people. You will be in a new place. It may be difficult to know what to do.     1    .

●First impressions can last forever.     2    . Before your first day, find out if your new job has a rule about what you can wear to work. If so, be sure to follow it. No matter what you wear, always be neat and clean.

●    3    . Give yourself an extra 15 minutes to make sure you arrive on time.

●Pay attention to introductions. One of the first things that your supervisor (主管) may do is to introduce you to co-workers.     4    . They are the ones who will answer your questions when the boss is not around.

●Never be the first one to leave. Observe what your co-workers do around quitting time (下班时间).     5    .

If you follow the suggestions above, you will make it through the first days at a new job.

A．Get to work on time

B．Here are four suggestions for you

C．You should keep your promise

D．Try to work harder to have a rise

E．Be sure to make a good impression

F．These co-workers will be important to you

G．It doesn’t look good for you to be eager to leave

8 . 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。

Grady and his family go camping every summer. As it was becoming hotter, here came the camping time.

Having planned the camp long, the family finally decided the destination --- the Great National Forest. With food, necessity and cookers loaded onto the car, the family squeezed into the car. The car door closed, heat was shut outside.

In the car, Jared, Grady's younger brother was playing with a toy dinosaur, making great noise. Grady's mother talked excitedly with his father. On settling in the car, Grady put on the earphone and turned on the music. He neither wanted to join his brother nor joined any talk. After what seemed to be hours, the car stopped where they headed. Grady threw down his backpack and slammed the car door.

“This will be a lengthy week,“ he said unhappily to no one in particular. He looked around the campground. Hundreds of tall and green fir trees, some as tall as church towers, covered the mountainside like a green carpet. The sun would be setting soon. Grady thought maybe the heat wouldn't be unbearable. But actually now in the mountain, the hot stickiness of July was closely attached to him.

Grady hated camping, but it was something his family stuck to every summer. His father liked cooking over an open air, telling stories about how to survive things like bear attacks and bites of bees. His mother and Jared liked to hike and take pictures of animals. Jared had a collection of bug pictures that he had pinned to the walls in his half of their room. Grady thought they were just scary and proof that Jared was a strange kid.

They set up camp - two tents, one for his parents and one for himself and Jared. While everyone else started preparing dinner, Grady, looking for some place to cool down, set off for the nearby stream, which was deep enough to swim in.

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。
As Grady got close to the stream, an adorable bear cub (幼崽)caught his eye.
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Turning around, he saw an angry bear moving swiftly towards him.
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9 . Brooke Ochoa was going to enter a restaurant for lunch when she saw an elderly lady approaching. The 30-year-old woman ________ to keep the door open for her. She thought she was just doing something ________. She didn’t know, however, that a —________— that the lady would make a few seconds later would produce a chain of events that would cause her to get countless likes on her Facebook post and ________ on social media suddenly... As Brooke entered the restaurant, she ________ the elderly lady ask for a “table for one.” Then she decided to do one more act of ________. Brooke walked up to the woman’s ________ and asked, “I also ________ alone, would you like to have lunch together?”

The lady, named Dolores, not only accepted Brooke’s ________, but she was very pleased to have ________. The two ________ up an instant friendship during their meal.

Dolores told Brooke that she’d been having a ________ time. “She spent the last decade living with her mom, who recently passed away,” Brooke wrote in a later Facebook post about the encounter. “She just kept smiling and saying ‘thank you for listening to me’, which made me ________ too!” Brooke and Dolores enjoyed their conversation so much that they ________ to have lunch with each other every Thursday from that point on. In a later ________, not long after their first meeting, Brooke ________ that Dolores had passed away.

If nothing else, this chance ________ is evidence that the smallest ________ of goodwill can quite exactly change a life. Neither of the two women knew that Dolores days on this Earth were ________, but they found ________ in each other, and that’s what matters.

1.

A．hesitated

B．waited

C．competed

D．pretended

2.

A．foolish

B．honest

C．wise

D．polite

3.

A．remark

B．report

C．promise

D．speech

4.

A．take off

B．set off

C．leave off

D．cut off

5.

A．realized

B．felt

C．insisted

D．overheard

6.

A．weakness

B．kindness

C．friendship

D．encouragement

7.

A．car

B．counter

C．door

D．table

8.

A．struggle

B．defend

C．post

D．eat

9.

A．bow

B．care

C．offer

D．effort

10.

A．company

B．friction

C．adjustment

D．permission

11.

A．turned

B．built

C．threw

D．Put

12.

A．pleasant

B．short

C．tough

D．lucky

13.

A．sob

B．panic

C．listen

D．smile

14.

A．agreed

B．refused

C．seemed

D．remained

15.

A．absence

B．purchase

C．update

D．praise

16.

A．approved

B．exposed

C．analyzed

D．committed

17.

A．complaint

B．argument

C．conversation

D．appointment

18.

A．strength

B．gesture

C．competence

D．fault

19.

A．ordered

B．debated

C．numbered

D．controlled

20.

A．comfort

B．reality

C．success

D．equality

10 . Dry ice is carbon dioxide in frozen form, with a temperature of about -78.3℃.     1     Instead, when dry ice melts, it turns into a gas. So when you see dry ice “smoking”, it’s frozen carbon dioxide melting into its gaseous state. Dry ice is a popular matter in science experiments and for a good reason. It creates projects that look cool.

Experiment: Healthy Dry Ice Yogurt Popsicles (冰棍)

This dry ice experiment is a simple project, but it’s certainly wonderful.     2     Even kids as young as five will at least appreciate the observations. It should take you about 10 minutes or less to have a frozen treat to enjoy.

Materials

One large block of dry ice

Large spoon or tube-shaped piece of metal

Four Popsicle sticks

One cup of your favorite juice

Tall glass filled with water

Directions

Use the large spoon, or tube-shaped piece of metal to make a Popsicle-shaped hole in the middle of the block of dry ice. You can set the ice on a towel on your counter to do this work.     3    

Add a Popsicle stick to the middle of the space so that when you pour in the liquid, it will freeze around the Popsicle stick.

    4     After several minutes, remove the Popsicle from the block of dry ice and dip it into a tall glass of water. Do this to warm up the Popsicle just a bit first.     5     You are sure to succeed!

A．Prepare all the necessary materials.

B．Otherwise, it will be too cold to enjoy.

C．It has appeal to a wide range of audiences.

D．Unlike regular ice, dry ice doesn’t melt into a liquid.

E．Keep in mind that it’s okay if it’s not exactly Popsicle-shaped.

F．The number of experiments you can perform using dry ice is endless.

G．Hold the Popsicle stick in place and wait a few minutes for your Popsicle to harden.