1 . Today I’ve been photographing a crocodile _________ (swim) close to our boat. (所给词的适当形式填空)

2 . Anger Is a Gift

“Mom, where are you? I’ve been waiting for 10 minutes.” I shouted into the phone.

“Honey, sorry. I left the office a bit late and the _____ caused really bad traffic, but I…”

I hung up. Conversations like this happen every week. Being a teen is _____ enough, and my parents often make me feel less important than their work.

In second grade, I broke my arm on the slide. When the school nurse called my mom, she was too _____ to answer. When the phone call reached my father, he sighed (叹息) and said, “I’m in the middle of research.” I sat in the nurse’s office for hours, before my parents finally _____ to take me to hospital.

I wished my parents could keep me company. To make my parents take me seriously, I screamed. I tried to establish my own authority by ignoring their schedule. My mom did everything possible to solve the problem, but nothing _____ until she met that adviser.

One day after I shut my door in her face, my mom didn’t complain or cry. Instead, she knocked and said, “I have something to tell you.” I opened the door. “Today I met a really good adviser. He said that every time your daughter is angry, she is just saying: I _____ you.”

It dawned on me that my anger was merely a mask for me to _____ my loneliness and disappointment. But facing one’s _____ need is the first step towards being happier. This concept not only helped things between my parents and me but also enabled me to handle conflicts and emotions. I started to pay attention to other people’s _____. When an angry customer approached me at my volunteering job, he was saying, “I need more service.” When a homeless person shouted to me in a parking lot, he was simply saying, “I need food and help.”

I am now able to see through the fog of anger and see the real face and heart of other people.

Five minutes after I hung up on her, my mom’s car finally appeared through the fog. She rolled down her window and said, “Let’s go to a hotpot place, shall we?” I ______, “OK, but promise me you won’t be late again.”

1.

A．rain

B．snow

C．fog

D．wind

2.

A．hard

B．unusual

C．interesting

D．exciting

3.

A．upset

B．scared

C．nervous

D．busy

4.

A．passed by

B．drove away

C．showed up

D．gave in

5.

A．appeared

B．mattered

C．happened

D．worked

6.

A．hate

B．need

C．believe

D．understand

7.

A．avoid

B．relieve

C．show

D．hide

8.

A．unsatisfied

B．typical

C．increasing

D．physical

9.

A．behavior

B．anger

C．reaction

D．satisfaction

10.

A．whispered

B．complained

C．smiled

D．hesitated

3 . 假设你是红星中学高一学生李华，你在端午节期间到我国南方游览。你的美国笔友Jim对此很感兴趣，请你根据他的邮件给他回信。
Dear Li Hua,

How is everything going?

I have heard that you went to the southern part of China during the Dragon Boat Festival and took part in various kinds of celebrations there. You know I am a big fan of traditional Chinese culture, so could you please write to me and tell me about your festival experience and your feelings about it?

Looking forward to your early reply!

Yours,

Jim

注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 她鼓舞人心的演讲对我产生了很大影响。（impact）(汉译英)
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7 . 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求回答问题。

You might not have heard of the “fresh start effect”, but if you’ve ever made a New Year’s resolution (决心), you’re familiar with it. It refers to the human tendency to take action towards achieving a goal after a special occasion or key date has passed.

The fresh start effect is simple. Most people want to improve themselves in some way. When we hit important milestones (里程碑), we’re often likely to reflect: was this year a successful year, or did we waste it? Annual landmarks like birthdays, or the start of a new year, signify a new time period and an opportunity to leave mistakes behind and to set new goals for better behavior.

Research shows that expectation of a new beginning is a key motivator for the fresh start effect. For example, people aged 29,39,49 etc. were 48% more likely to run a marathon for the first time. When they were approaching a new decade, they were more likely to search for meaning in their lives and try to improve themselves. The reason is simple. When we see our past self as separate from our current self, we feel it easier to introduce new goals and take action.

What’s interesting about the fresh start effect is that we don’t need to wait for big milestones to take advantage of this sudden motivation (动力). Studies show that the first day of each month and even each week can also inspire us. These days, known as “temporal landmarks”, encourage us to step back and think about our current situation. And when we do this, we gain the motivation to be better: we become more driven and more productive. That is why people are more likely to start diets or exercise plans on Monday, rather than the next day.

Fresh starts are exciting opportunities to learn from your mistakes and move forward. So, if you’re currently experiencing loss of motivation, questioning the meaning of your work, or just feel like you’re stuck in a rut (一成不变的生活), why don’t you use the fresh start effect in your own life?

1. According to the passage, what is “fresh start effect”?
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2. Why is expectation of a new beginning a key motivator for the fresh start effect?
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3. Besides the fresh start effect, in what other way(s) do you motivate yourself in your life? (In about 40 words)
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9 . 刚才我想出了一个好办法。（occur）(汉译英)
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10 . Awe is not an everyday emotion. You don’t wake up awestruck. A satisfying lunch doesn’t leave you filled with awe. Even a great day is unlikely to leave you in a state of breathtaking, all-knowing fear and trembling.

Then what is-awe? Psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt suggested that awe（typically includes feelings of grandness. That means awe is inspired by something larger than a person’s self or experience. And it usually helps expand the person s understanding of the world. For example, awe might come from seeing a mountain taller than you thought a mountain could be. Or it might come from listening to a symphony that contains both shockingly 4oud and touchingly quiet notes. People can be awe-inspiring, too: think of meeting a political leader whose power seems limitless.

In order to find out more about the mysterious feeling, the psychologists laid out a research plan. In the years since, they and other researchers have been testing awe. What is it? How does it work? What seems awesome, and why? For the first time, they’re starting to understand both what a we does to us and what it might do for us.

When psychologists first started studying awe, one of the unanswered questions was: What do we look like when we’re feeling it? Emotions come with facial expressions.

Keltner and two workmates guessed that an awe-filled person would widen her eyes and raise her head, eyes and eyebrows, just a bit. And they were on track. When they asked people to perform awe, they found that people indeed often raised their eyebrows and widened their eyes. They also opened their mouths and dropped their jaws.

Another question was the purpose of the emotion. “We developed emotions to help us deal with and survive certain dangers,” explains Craig Anderson, a student in Keltner’s lab, “When people are scared, they freeze or run away. People that behaved like that tended to survive long enough.” In the same way, awe should have some sort of reason for existing.

So far, it seems that the purpose of awe might draw people together. When people are awestruck, they feel like time has slowed. down somehow, and when they feel so, they are more willing to use it to help others. The study also shows that awe promotes generosity. It improves people’s moral decision making. A paper still under review indicates that a we can make people more modest, too.

“We actually experience awe a lot more often than we think,” says one of the researchers, Rudd, “We meet something in the big wide world, our minds open as we look for an explanation, and as a result we open up to connecting to other people. But if you are keeping yourself in your own small world, it’s going to be hard to experience that feeling. Just go out into newness and you’re going to be more likely to run into something that’s awe-inspiring.

1. According to Keltner and Haidt, which of the following can most likely inspire awe?

A．Eating Beijing duck at Quanjude Restaurant.

B．Listening to a pleasant flute solo in a famous bar.

C．Enjoying a sound sleep after an extremely tiring day.

D．Seeing a huge elephant up close in its natural setting.

2. What can we infer from the passage?

A．We should try to avoid awe because it can fill people with fear.

B．Awe is a complex feeling and no one can understand it.

C．Awe is socially beneficial and we should be open to it.

D．We should try to feel awe because it helps us survive.

3. What’s the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A．To move readers with touching stories about awe.

B．To explain what awe is and what it brings to people.

C．To show awe functions differently from other emotions.

D．To persuade readers to experience awe as much as possible.