| A．in memory of | B．in return for | C．in front of | D．in line with |
| A．Initiative | B．Leadership | C．Reconstruction | D．Component |
| A．was being criticized | B．would be criticized |
| C．was criticized | D．is being criticized |
When my father was celebrating a milestone (里程碑), birthday, I pulled together a surprised gift that he would never forget.
On his 60th birthday, I had a fun idea: What if I could get the memories people had of him, put each one into an envelope (信封) — 60 in total — and have him open them, one by one, on his birthday? So I wrote an e-mail to family and friends, explaining my idea.
I sent the e-mail and waited. And then the replies started coming in and I was very, very astonished. There were so many memories, and they were all so lovely. They came from the ′50s, ′60s, ′70s, from every decade (十年) between now and the day my dad was born. They came from my mother, my siblings, my grandma, my dad’s friends from high school, his sister, my dad’s first boss, a colleague at his first job, from people who hadn’t seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn’t even informed. They typed them and hand-wrote them. They mailed them and e-mailed them.
The night before Dad’s birthday, my sister and I stayed up late, putting the mails into envelopes.
The next morning, after breakfast and presents and cake, we gave the pile of envelopes to him. “Just one more thing for you,” we said.
It took him along time to open them and read. Each one was a brief ticket to another time, a leap (跳跃) backward over years and decades. There was a lot of laughter and a few tears in his face.
I was kind of sad when the project of the memories about my .father was over because it was, great fun to collect these memories.
1. When did the author give her father a surprised gift? (no more than 5 words)2. What does the underlined word “astonished” in paragraph 3 probably mean? ( no more than 10 words)
3. Why did the author and her sister stay up late the night before their father’s birthday? (no more than 10 words)
4. How did the author’s father most probably feel when he read the mails? (no more than 2 words)
5. What was the surprised gift? (no more than 6 words)
She had to pack up her bedroom in Virginia Beach, where she lived with her mother, two sisters and brother. She had to say goodbye to her two dogs, who used to sleep in her bed, and to the beach, where she loved to ride waves on her boogie board.
But it was time to take the leap, however heartbreaking and awkward it would be. Even at 14, Douglas knew that.
So off she went about 1,200 miles to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with a coach from China and live with a white family she had never been met. When she arrived, Douglas thought that she must be the only black person in the state. When she woke up, she always said, “This isn’t my bed set. Where am I?”
Liang Chow, who had coached the Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson, transformed Douglas into one of the best gymnasts in the world, helping her skyrocket from an average member of the national team to the top of the sport. And a couple with four young daughters became her second family, nurturing her in Iowan while her real family supported her from afar.
That move also was important in Douglas’s making history. By winning the Olympic all-round title, she became the first black woman to do so. She also became the fourth American woman to win the all-round, following Mary Lou Retton in 1984, Carly Patterson in 2004 and Nastia Liukin in 2008.
Douglas won, scoring 62.232 points, and led the competition from beginning to the end. Viktoria Komova, who sobbed into her coach’s chest when she learned she had lost, won the silver, with 61.973 points. Aliya Mustafina, the 2010 world all-round champion, won the bronze with 59.566 points. The other American in the competition, Aly Raisman finished fourth after losing a tiebreaker (决胜局) to Mustafina.
Douglas said she had felt confident all along that she would win. “It was just an amazing feeling.” she said, giggling (咯咯笑). “I was just like, believe, don’t fear, believe.” After sacrificing so much, she had no other choice but to push forward, she said.
1. Why did Douglas leave her home at 14? (no more than 10 words2. How did she feel when Douglas first arrived at the new home? (no more than 5 words)
3. What does the underlined word “skyrocket” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean? (no more than 3 words)
4. According to Para. 5, what achievement did Douglas make? (no more than 15 words)
5. What do you think of Douglas from the story? Give your reasons. (no more than 20 words)
| A．conclusion | B．commitment | C．household | D．evidence |
| A．available | B．considerable | C．appropriate | D．approximate |
—________. I can manage it very easily.
| A．That’s right | B．It’s a piece of cake |
| C．Forget it | D．It really isn’t worth mentioning |
要点提示：1. 城市垃圾的危害。
2. 建议：垃圾分类、报纸和玻璃的再利用、有害垃圾的处理等。
参考词汇：城市化urbanization;加速acceleration;将……分类sort；回收recycle
注意：
1. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数不少于100，信的格式已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,
With the acceleration of urbanization, city waste problem is getting worse.
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Yours,
Li Hua
| A．assistance | B．leadership | C．consequence | D．milestone |
