1 . Germans have a word “wanderlust” which translated into English would be “the desire to wander”. Nowadays the chance to travel is endless. Thanks to cheap air tickets, travelling abroad is very easy and sometimes it's even cheaper to fly out of the country than to travel within your own. So, yes, travelling is cheap but there have to be other reasons to travel and you're right. There are plenty of reasons!

I have always had this feeling of wanderlust. It started from me wanting to explore my local woods at the back of my garden as a young girl and as I have grown, so has my sense of adventure. And I found my local woods being replaced with the Brazil wetland, Pantanal, where I went last summer in search of jaguars, snakes and crocodiles.

The thing with travelling is that it's always different. Even if you went to the same country, to the same town and stayed in exactly the same hotel, it would be a completely different experience. The people you meet will be different, and they will tell you their own travelling stories: stories of holiday romances, holiday worries and stories that seem so outrageous that you can hardly believe them until something similar happens to you.

Or maybe the difference is you? Maybe you have changed since last time you were there? And that's the thing with travelling—it changes you. When you travel you are forced to experience a new culture. Whether it's eating a guinea pig, or staying with a family where neither of you speak a common language and you have to communicate through hand actions and smiles, the experience makes me always want to do it again.

1. What can we infer from the author’s Brazilian wetland experience in paragraph 2?

A．Brazilian wetland replaced the author’s local woods.

B．It’s a good place for travelling.

C．The author intends to share her nature.

D．The author likes wild animals.

2. According to Paragraph 3, what is the most important part of travelling?

A．Having different experiences.

B．Hearing many travelling stories.

C．Experiencing holiday romances.

D．Taking more adventures.

3. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Staying with a family without common languages.

B．Communicating through hand actions and smiles.

C．Eating a guinea pig with a family.

D．Experiencing a different culture.

4. The writer wrote the passage in order to ________.

A．give various reasons for travelling

B．encourage people to travel abroad

C．explain the German word “wanderlust”

D．share the writer's travelling experiences

3 . Our bachelor uncle lived with us, who loved hunting and fishing; and it was one of the pleasures of our young life to go fishing with him.

I remember my first fishing experience as if it happened yesterday. I was very excited when I received that first fishing pole from my uncle's hand, and went fishing with him. It was a still, sweet day of early summer; the leaves seemed greener, the flowers brighter, the birds merrier, than ever before.

My uncle considerately placed me at the most favorable point. I threw out my line as I had so often seen others, and waited anxiously for a bite, moving the bait (鱼饵) in rapid movement on the surface of the water just like the jumps of a frog. Nothing came of it. "Try again," said my uncle. Suddenly the bait sank out of sight. "Now for it," thought I, "here is a fish at last."

I made a strong pull, and brought up a tangle of weeds. Again and again I cast out my line with aching arms, and drew it back empty. "Try once more," he said, "we fishermen must have patience to catch a fish." "But remember, boy," he said, with his big smile, "never say you've caught a fish until it is on dry ground. It's no use showing off anything until it's done."

How often since I have been reminded of the fish that I did not catch! When I hear people boasting of a work as yet undone, I will remember the wise caution of my uncle in that particular instance takes the form of a proverb of universal application: "NEVER BOAST (吹嘘) OF YOUR FISH BEFORE YOU CATCH HIM."

1. From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2, we can infer that_____________.

A．the leaves and the flowers were not so beautiful before.

B．the birds ate lots of fish and felt far merrier than before.

C．that day the author was much happier than ever before.

D．that day the uncle was much happier than ever before.

2. What message can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A．Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

B．Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

C．One false step will make a great difference.

D．True friends have hearts that beat as one.

3. Which of the following can best describe the author’s uncle?

A．Strong and brave.	B．Wise and patient.
C．Patient and strong.	D．Lazy and talkative.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．A sweet day of summer	B．My first fishing pole
C．The way to catch a fish	D．The fish I didn’t catch

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。

One sentence from the news in Washington has remained in my mind since a trip last summer：“When you see people run against the crowd escaping     1    the danger, they are     2    （probable）firefighters, police or journalists.”

I think this is most true for the firefighters. Whenever and wherever     3    （disaster） happen, it is always the firefighters     4    take the lead to run to the very center, saving lives by     5    （risk） their own. I cried today near the explosion site, not because of the smoke from the ongoing fire     6    because of a short message a firefighter sent to a trusted friend that went viral online. It reads, “If I cannot make it, my father is     7    （you）; and please remember     8    （sweep） my mother’s tomb.” I was thrilled later to learn that he did make it. “Everyone knows it’s     9    （danger） to be a firefighter. But he has always liked it and has done it for 12 years, ” his father said. “He survived this time, but no one knows what     10    （happen） next time.”

5 . Before the race,he is fine.But________(后来) he is worn out. (根据汉语提示单词拼写）

6 . I was watching a TV series one night when I took in one scene. A man was seeking his community votes, and people mostly wanted to know why they should give him their_______. He took them to his house and on every mirror in his house was the word “Faith” pasted(粘贴). People raised lots of _______to find out why the word was pasted on his mirrors. He said, “My dad often_______me to believe that as long as you have_______, you should have faith. Every time you look into the mirror, you’re looking at yourself and see ‘Faith’. ”

The_______I learned from this is simple—faith is a living thing and in the same way we’re all_______given 24 hours a day and we’re all given the same measure of faith. Faith keeps us going when things get_______! Why is some people’s faith stronger than that of others? Exercise! If we choose to exercise our faith, it will grow; but if we choose not to, it remains weak. Some people might_______that they don’t have faith, but we all practice faith every day even if we don’t_______it was faith. Daily tasks, such as studying, investing or reaching for a dream, take faith.

Faith________hearing and doing. I made a decision yesterday—to stop reading the newspaper full of too much sad and________news. Why? Because I ________there was a drop of my mental state after reading the newspapers.

Faith, when it’s put to________, becomes a beautiful thing. It lifts your mental state to a higher place that________you to raise yourself up and declare, “Yes, I can. ” So make the decision today to strengthen your faith by________it.

1.

A．support

B．instruction

C．pity

D．information

2.

A．voices

B．questions

C．rules

D．standards

3.

A．teaches

B．permits

C．forces

D．promises

4.

A．friendship

B．breath

C．wealth

D．success

5.

A．lesson

B．view

C．choice

D．example

6.

A．extremely

B．freely

C．equally

D．frequently

7.

A．strange

B．different

C．funny

D．rough

8.

A．argue

B．realize

C．understand

D．predict

9.

A．agree

B．appreciate

C．admire

D．acknowledge

10.

A．dreams of

B．comes from

C．feels like

D．keeps on

11.

A．various

B．genuine

C．latest

D．negative

12.

A．heard

B．noticed

C．declared

D．explained

13.

A．check

B．list

C．work

D．sleep

14.

A．warns

B．causes

C．orders

D．forbids

15.

A．exercising

B．forming

C．obtaining

D．thinking

7 . Her father told her to be careful when _____ (cross) the street. （所给词的适当形式填空）

8 . One of the island’s chief _______(特色) was its beauty. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

9 . 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。

There was a country house in a beautiful valley. It was very big, beautiful, built with good taste, and full of details.

The owner was a well-off landowner called John. He was a person who had a good heart, loved animals, and he liked going hunting. He used to capture different living birds and put them into cages. He liked to see the animals closed up, to take care of them and to protect them. Before being captured, these wild animals lived in the valley.

John had a 15-year-old son called Josh. He also liked animals and birds, but unlike his father, he didn’t like the way his father kept them inside cages, without being able to fly around. Josh liked them to be free, in their natural environment. Sometimes, when his father wasn’t around, Josh freed some of the animals as he could not bear to see them suffering in the cages, even if they were quite comfortable.

His father used to capture gazelles, cats, zebras, leopards, eagles, owls and many others and he never noticed that some of the cages were open and empty. Then one day, he did.

As John knew his son’s wish was to see the animals freed, he knew that it was him. Josh decided to leave the country house without telling his dad.

After some days, his father became worried, because Josh wasn’t back. He even started to cry, thinking that his son had left him forever. Josh was his only child, and John loved him more than anything, more than the animals, as this was just a hobby to occupy himself.

John asked some of the workers in the house to go out and look for his son. They finally found him after a long time of searching. He was in another country house with a friend.

John’s workers told Josh his father’s desires, begging him to come back and saying that he could do what he wanted with the animals and the cages, if only he would come back home.

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。

This gave Josh the permission to free all the animals.

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And so that is what happened, the animals went in and out whenever they wanted.

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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。

Autumn celebrations around the world

Countries around the world have     1     (they) own special ways of celebrating autumn.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also     2     (know) as the Moon Festival, is one of the biggest and most widely celebrated harvest festivals in the world, with people from many Asian     3     (country) including China, Malaysia and the Philippines, marking the day with festive celebrations. It is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar,     4     typically lands in September. The festival     5     (celebrate) as a public holiday, with schools and offices closing their doors so that families can gather and give thanks for the harvest and full moon.

Oktoberfest (啤酒节) is another major autumn celebration that, while originating in Germany, has inspired local versions around the globe. The world’s largest folk festival     6     (begin) in September and runs for about two weeks, featuring traditional Bavarian food, music, clothing, and most importantly, lots of beer!

    7     (interesting), many other countries also enjoy foraging for seasonal treats during the autumn months. In France, for instance, the mushroom-picking season runs from mid-August     8     mid-September with thousands of people taking to the forests to participate. Not too dissimilar to how Americans pick pumpkins and Brits can be found collecting conkers, Germans often collect chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts throughout autumn. Keen to make     9     most of the season’s weather, Germans can also be found flying kites while enjoying the changing scenery and     10     (power) winds.