1 . I _______ to open my eyes in the morning. Why didn’t the alarm on my cellphone go off?

Soon, I realize today is the day for my _______: “A day without technology.”

I didn’t realize what I had gotten myself into until I was driving to school in my car in _______, no radio broadcasting my favorite songs.

As soon as I got to school, I went to print out my English project. “Uh­oh,” I thought, “this isn’t allowed.”

The school day went on and I finally grew _______ the rule. This wasn’t so _______ ! I could do this every day.

I drove home after school, and my _______ eventually went into afterschool mode, _______ on what I would eat for supper. The _______ thing I knew was chatting with my friends on Facebook and checking email, all at the same time!

“What happened to no _______?” my mom asked me. I forced myself to go back to reality. I had ________.

This experiment was actually ________ to me. Even though my attempt at going about my day without technology was a failure, I realized that I would be completely ________ without my addiction to technology.

These devices certainly make my life ________, and I definitely wouldn’t ________ getting rid of them altogether, but I do believe the lives of today’s teenagers would be obviously ________ without our technology dependence.

1.

A．try

B．pretend

C．refuse

D．decide

2.

A．expectation

B．exploration

C．experience

D．experiment

3.

A．doubt

B．silence

C．surprise

D．excitement

4.

A．interested in

B．annoyed with

C．impatient with

D．used to

5.

A．hard

B．easy

C．strange

D．comfortable

6.

A．rule

B．plan

C．mind

D．role

7.

A．agreeing

B．concentrating

C．counting

D．depending

8.

A．one

B．first

C．last

D．next

9.

A．homework

B．control

C．pressure

D．technology

10.

A．improved

B．started

C．failed

D．finished

11.

A．available

B．convenient

C．beneficial

D．avoidable

12.

A．fine

B．terrible

C．creative

D．successful

13.

A．troublesome

B．easier

C．difficult

D．complex

14.

A．suggest

B．mind

C．practice

D．prevent

15.

A．boring

B．complicated

C．difficult

D．different

2 . 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
It would be my first Thanksgiving since my father moved to heaven, and it would also be my first Thanksgiving being away from my family. Holidays are ____when you can’t be with family, and I was mourning （哀悼）the ____of my dad and feeling sad about being ____from my family in Indiana. But, that sadness turned into ____when it hit me: I was going to have to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving ____myself!
That night at Dubya’s Restaurant, which was our favorite place to ____, I began discussing the dilemma (困境)with Jeff.“It’s too bad that this place won’t be ____on Thanksgiving, or we could just come here,”I said.
Dubya, the owner of the restaurant, happened to be ____by our table when I said those words.“You mean you expect me to ____for you on Thanksgiving, too?”he teased （取笑）“ Well, I guess you’ll just have to come to our ____since the restaurant will be closed then.”.
We’d become ____with Dubya and his wife, as we ate at Dubya’s twice a week; however, I didn’t think we were close enough to ____Thanksgiving dinner with his family. I was sure he was ____ But as we headed toward the door, Dubya handed Jeff a note with directions to their house and their phone number. “You’re ____?” I asked “Of course,” he said.
And, two days later, we reached Dubya’s house. Everyone ____us. As expected, the food was marvelous but the company was even better. We truly felt that we ____there.
Of course, I wrote them a thank-you note the next week, but I couldn’t really ____into words what that Thanksgiving dinner ____had meant to us. I’ve never forgotten their kindness and that very ____Thanksgiving.
So, here’s my suggestion to you this year. If you know someone who will be dining alone on Thanksgiving, why not invite that person over to ____your family?1.

A．happy

B．interesting

C．tough

D．noisy

2.

A．loss

B．pressure

C．change

D．success

3.

A．missed

B．separated

C．passed

D．gone

4.

A．anger

B．peace

C．panic

D．love

5.

A．decoration

B．ceremony

C．clothes

D．dinner

6.

A．dance

B．walk

C．dine

D．sing

7.

A．open

B．clean

C．warm

D．dry

8.

A．cheering

B．taking

C．leading

D．passing

9.

A．wait

B．cook

C．care

D．look

10.

A．house

B．school

C．theatre

D．factory

11.

A．similar

B．ordinary

C．different

D．familiar

12.

A．share

B．prepare

C．give

D．argue

13.

A．joking

B．doubting

C．blaming

D．praising

14.

A．silly

B．kind

C．selfish

D．serious

15.

A．knew

B．welcomed

C．pushed

D．called

16.

A．refused

B．belonged

C．turned

D．referred

17.

A．put

B．get

C．make

D．break

18.

A．communication

B．notice

C．plan

D．invitation

19.

A．expensive

B．special

C．same

D．valuable

20.

A．stop

B．pay

C．join

D．follow

3 . I lost my sight when I was four years old when falling off a train to Atlantic City．But I was ____．My parents and my teachers saw something in me -a potential to live, you might call it -which I didn't see, and they encouraged me to blindness．____The hardest lesson I had to ____ was to believe in myself．If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have walked with a stick for the rest of my life．When I say belief in myself I am not ____ talking about the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an ____staircase alone．That is part Although imperfect in some aspect, I place where I can make myself fit．of it．But I mean something bigger than that．am a real! positive person．There is a special It took me years to discover and ____ this self-confidence．It had to start with the most basic things．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．I thought he was making fun of me and I was ____ ．
“I can't use this," I responded．“Take it with you," he urged me, and roll it around．" The words stuck in my head．“Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went． This gave me an____ how to achieve a goal I playing baseball．At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the kind of baseball．We called it ground ball．
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to____ one by one．I also knew my limitations．It was no good trying something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only____the bitterness of failure．I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made ____ ．1.

A．unfortunate

B．disappointed

C．lucky

D．ashamed

2.

A．share with

B．play with

C．toy with

D．fight with

3.

A．meet

B．learn

C．avoid

D．prepare

4.

A．simply

B．slightly

C．frequently

D．directly

5.

A．unusual

B．unfair

C．unfamiliar

D．uncomfortable

6.

A．lengthen

B．strengthen

C．deepen

D．widen

7.

A．hurt

B．amused

C．greeted

D．praised

8.

A．find

B．see

C．smell

D．hear

9.

A．event

B．offer

C．idea

D．excuse

10.

A．receive

B．achieve

C．classify

D．follow

11.

A．refused

B．removed

C．caused

D．replaced

12.

A．sense

B．mistakes

C．friends

D．Progress

4 . It was a terribly cold Christmas Eve with heavy snow outside. I stayed in bed, feeling upset because there wasn’t enough money to buy me the____that I’d wanted that year.
Mum came back with some snow in her hair. “Come on, Matt!” she said. “Dress____! It’s freezing cold out tonight.”
____, I went out in the cold with Mum and climbed up the sled beside her. She pulled it around the house and then stopped in front of the woodshed(柴房). She went in and ____ with an armload of wood.
“I rode by Jensen’s today,” said Mum, “Little Jakey was out digging around in the snow. They’re out of wood, Matt.”
Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband died 3 months ago,____three children, Jakey being only 8 years old.
We loaded the sled high with ____ Then we went to the store and my mother took down some meat, a sack of flour and a smaller sack of shoes.
We rode the two miles to Jensen’s in ____ All the way I wondered why Mum bought them some shoes and candy as we didn’t have much money. Jensen had closer neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our ____
We got to Jensen’s house and unloaded the wood as quietly as possible. Then we took the meat, flour and shoes to the door.
We____ Jensen opened the door and let us in. “We brought you a few things, Jensen,” Mum said,____ the sack of flour and the meat on the table. Then Mum handed her the sack of shoes. Jensen bit her lower lip to keep it from trembling, tears welling out and down her cheeks.
“We also____a load of wood, Jensen,” Mum added. She turned to me and said: “Matt, go and bring some in.”
I wasn’t the same person when I went back out to get the wood. Just then the scarf didn’t seem____ The look on Jensen’s face and the smiles of her three children was the best Christmas gift of my life.1.

A．scarf

B．overcoat

C．shoes

D．handbag

2.

A．fashionably

B．casually

C．comfortably

D．warmly

3.

A．Unsteadily

B．Unhurriedly

C．Unwillingly

D．Uncomplainingly

4.

A．stepped away

B．came out

C．broke down

D．fell over

5.

A．adopting

B．taking

C．overlooking

D．leaving

6.

A．wood

B．meat

C．flour

D．grass

7.

A．surprise

B．danger

C．silence

D．harmony

8.

A．custom

B．concern

C．comment

D．courage

9.

A．signed

B．chased

C．knocked

D．hesitated

10.

A．taking away

B．getting back

C．giving out

D．putting down

11.

A．prepared

B．bought

C．borrowed

D．required

12.

A．expensive

B．important

C．ordinary

D．available