Wearing wristbands with the names of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant
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However, in a bid to ensure equal access
I was sitting at my desk surrounded by New Year gifts, feeling happy that I had managed to buy some hard — to — find items. These were for Kids Need More, a charitable organization offering services to socially disadvantaged children. One of its most popular events is the Holiday Cheer Bus. The organization always fills the buses with donated gifts for the families on the Cheer Bus routes. Each bus is manned by a team of volunteers. My family had been volunteers for years. I had a list of the families on our route.
Just as I was packing up the items with my husband and my son, I received a call from the director of the organization. She asked if I could add a family to my route— here was a young mother, Leanne, and her son.
I called Leanne and told her that a Holiday Cheer Bus would be visiting her family. Leanne seemed really excited and began to cry. I comforted her, “The Holiday Cheer Bus is really going to come. Is there something special that your child would like?”
“My son is three. All he wants is a pair of Spider-Man snow boots so that he can play outside in the snow. ”
I asked about her son's shoe size. She told me the size and I promised I would have Spider-Man snow boots in size 9 for her son.
After I said goodbye and ended the call, panic set in. It was two days before the Holiday Cheer Bus was going on its run, less than a week before New Year. I was going to need a holiday miracle to find Spider-Man snow boots in size 9.
“We have to go shopping!" I called out to my husband and son. They were surprised but still we set off. We went to a few department stores and the shoe departments, without success. We were tired and hungry. We were becoming disheartened. My son suggested giving Leanne a gift card so she could get the boots herself. But I didn't want to give up. I promised we would bring boots.
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。
At our final stop, expecting defeat, we entered the shoe department.
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Two days later, we arrived at the young mom's home.
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“Mom！” I screamed as I looked through the window, “Why is my Ink Spot sitting in Mrs. Cleary’s window？”
Mom pushed past me to confirm it. Sure enough, across the street was Ink Spot cleaning himself in the window of Mrs. Cleary’s sitting room. I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was my cat, not Mrs. Cleary’s. She had already adopted twelve cats. Why must she keep my cat？I could feel anger boiling up inside me. Meanwhile, Ink Spot’s leaving without any signs upset me. A sense of being left out hit me hard.
Ink Spot was special for me. After my baby sister’s birth, “my” parents’ time was taken by her. It seemed no one in the family cared about or even noticed me. Worse still, I was packed off to a kindergarten. I hated being left out from the bottom of my heart.
It was when mom noticed me weeping in a corner one night that things began to change. After that, Ink Spot came into my life. Every night, he curled（卷曲）up beside me in bed and he was there for me after school when I raced home just to be with him.
I fell in love with Ink Spot the first time I saw its tiny black and white kitten, for which I called him Ink Spot. Mom and daddy beamed with pleasure as my eyes danced with joy again. It was the first time that I had smiled since my little baby sister came into the family. As for me, he was more than a cat. Actually, he was my life.
But today when I came home, Ink Spot was in Mrs. Cleary’s window. I wanted him back. But mom insisted that if Ink Spot stayed at Mrs. Cleary’s, that meant it was where he wanted to be. “No！Mom, Ink Spot is my cat”, I protested wildly but I had to admit the truth of mom’s words. Standing on the sidewalk, I was at a loss as to what to do. Staring at Ink Spot for a while, I couldn’t stand the anger any longer.
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I walked towards Mrs. Cleary’s house hurriedly and knocked at the door angrily.
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Upon seeing me, Ink Spot jumped off the window, running towards me in a flash.
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I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.
My life improved remarkably when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language. I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.
I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.
Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Every day I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate.
Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.
1. What made the author’s school days difficult? (No more than 5 words)
2. Why did art give the author confidence? (No more than 10 words)
3. What lesson did the author learn from rock climbing? (No more than 15 words)
4. What is the meaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4? (No more than 5 words)
5. How does the author’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life? Put it in your own words. (No more than 20 words)
Whenever anyone asks me where my favorite place in China is, I say Dali without hesitation. Dali,
Last year I met a couple of young students I’d known
In about 20 minutes we witnessed in
The day finished with a brilliant sunset,
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Some international students visited our school in last week. To help them better understand our tea-drinking culture, I take them to the tea room in our school but introduced the history of tea-making and tea culture to them. All the international students was quite interested in my introduction. Then I showed them what to make tea. I sat at a table, slowly explain every step of the process while making tea. All of them were so amazing that they couldn’t wait have a try themselves. Soon the atmosphere in the tea room became lively and we had a lot of funs practising making tea. In the end, we took a group photo to memorize this forgettable moment.
7 . I spent time with some elders during my grandmother's five-year stay in the nursing home. I knew what it was like for them without any
One day, I saw a man
I asked if they would like me to push Jean. Jean said with
Now, this same man was on his own and as I got
We didn't
| A．doctors | B．teachers | C．strangers | D．visitors |
| A．asleep | B．alone | C．awake | D．alive |
| A．smile | B．move | C．talk | D．feel |
| A．struggle | B．surprise | C．reward | D．puzzle |
| A．disappointment | B．curiosity | C．delight | D．embarrassment |
| A．advice | B．help | C．plan | D．idea |
| A．higher | B．faster | C．better | D．closer |
| A．leg | B．ear | C．hand | D．eye |
| A．absorbing | B．burning | C．painting | D．putting |
| A．painful | B．disgusting | C．natural | D．controversial |
| A．wiped | B．caught | C．stored | D．covered |
| A．amuse | B．comfort | C．change | D．ignore |
| A．admire | B．know | C．hate | D．judge |
| A．hobby | B．language | C．connection | D．lifestyle |
| A．shrinking | B．suffering | C．fading | D．expanding |
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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9 . One evening, Catherine was at home as usual. As her
With a deep
Catherine and Davey
Being at the right place at the right time became almost normal, and they realized that much of what they
| A．thoughts | B．balance | C．hands | D．position |
| A．blamed | B．interrupted | C．frightened | D．moved |
| A．found | B．cheered | C．dropped | D．taught |
| A．abandoning | B．raising | C．shaking | D．hiding |
| A．pride | B．trust | C．love | D．fear |
| A．plan | B．promise | C．mistake | D．difference |
| A．corrected | B．repeated | C．described | D．discovered |
| A．driving | B．fixing | C．riding | D．covering |
| A．slowly | B．secretly | C．helplessly | D．frequently |
| A．heard | B．shared | C．wrote | D．read |
| A．problems | B．costs | C．efforts | D．choices |
| A．depending on | B．replying to | C．worrying about | D．meeting with |
| A．money | B．food | C．time | D．room |
| A．equipped | B．supplied | C．decorated | D．filled |
| A．set off | B．broke down | C．headed for | D．held on |
| A．rest | B．help | C．understanding | D．practice |
| A．volunteers | B．members | C．tourists | D．reporters |
| A．purpose | B．question | C．decision | D．lesson |
| A．introduced | B．expected | C．experienced | D．examined |
| A．turn | B．limit | C．compare | D．devote |
10 . Why don’t we have eyes in the back of our heads? There are at least two reasons. Eyes are biologically expensive things to make and rear view (后视) eyes don't fit well into the human evolution (进化).
Even animals, such as rabbits, whose main survival advantage is rear vision, have only the side eyes. Rear vision is not so important. There are other species that have evolved this ability by moving the position of their eyes relative to the rest of their head. Many birds have their eyes positioned towards the side of their head, allowing them a very wide angle of vision and, in the case of some birds such as the woodcock, they are positioned so they can actually achieve 360- degree vision. It is also obvious that spiders, which tend to have many eyes, only have them facing forwards.
Humans, and probably some other animals, do have another adapted sense to make it up. Many experiments showed that sounds behind the head were noticed by a listener more than sounds to the front, especially if a listener was in a dark room. So, our ears can make up for the lack of rear-facing vision. You can look at it another way. Rear vision is useful only if the potential threat is visible. During human evolution, that was most often not the case.
Finally, there is often more than one potential “solution” to a given problem. In many species, the answer to maintaining 360 degree awareness of surrounding danger is to rely on many eyes. Social behavior is common in the animal kingdom and one reason for this is that there is safety in numbers. You might be looking the wrong way when a tiger approaches, but if your teammates raise the alarm this is as effective as having eyes in the back of your head.
1. Why do humans have no rear view eyes?| A．They are bad for human survival. |
| B．They are replaced by other organs. |
| C．They are less likely to spot the danger. |
| D．They are abandoned by natural selection. |
| A．To explain why animals have other functions. |
| B．To state rear-view eyes aren’t a must for survival. |
| C．To prove rabbits, birds and spiders are very special. |
| D．To show rear view eyes are against the natural selection. |
| A．The visible threat behind the head. | B．Sensitive hearing. |
| C．The sounds behind the head. | D．Rear vision. |
| A．A travel brochure. | B．A fiction. |
| C．A science magazine. | D．A book review. |
