1 . Two years ago, I set foot in Tanzania for the first time as a volunteer. And now, I’m writing this at my home in the middle of a village in Tanzania. I never thought that a six-week volunteer program could change my life so greatly, but it did!

My volunteer task was in Moshi.Of course I was nervous when I got my task, but on my first day, I quickly fell in love with my students. They were some of the sweetest and most hard-working kids I had ever met. Each day, I’d have them write in their journals on a new topic. One of my favorite days was when I asked the kids to write about their own life stories. Some of them shared theirs with everyone, and it was great. They had all been through so many difficult times, but no one had ever asked them to tell their stories before. To be able to offer these wonderful kids a safe environment to share such personal stories was amazing. And I couldn’t have created that environment without what I had learned from Cross-Cultural Solutions(CCS)．

I completely fell in love with Tanzania during my time with CCS.I loved it so much that when I left in 2014, I knew that I had to return. So after I left college in 2015, I moved back to Tanzania and have been working at a school for Maasai children for almost one year now.

The experience that I had with CCS changed my career goals and my life greatly. I now plan to go into public health so that I can continue to help people around the world for the rest of my life.

1. The writer went to Tanzania for the first time to        .

A．do research with CCS

B．completely change her lifestyle

C．take part in a volunteer program

D．write something about the country

2. What did the writer think of her students?

A．Sweet but lazy.

B．Nervous but sweet.

C．Sweet and hard-working.

D．Hard-working and perfect.

3. What did the writer like doing when she was teaching there?

A．Telling stories to her students.

B．Writing about her personal stories.

C．Helping kids make up interesting stories.

D．Asking kids to write their personal stories.

4. The writer most probably found her time in Tanzania with CCS         .

A．wonderful	B．difficult
C．relaxing	D．boring

2 . I like to bargain when I buy goods. It isn’t _______ I don’t have money. It feels good when I get goods _______ than other people.

Last winter vacation, I went to “Dong-Dae-Moon”, an open _______ market in Seoul. At that market, you can buy a lot of clothes at really _______ prices. I tried to buy a warm jacket to wear in Michigan this winter.

I got a _______ idea of putting only half of my money — sixty dollars — in my wallet to trick the seller. Since the market is really _______, I had to walk a lot to find a jacket that really _______ me. _______, I found the jacket I wanted. I asked the price and the vendor shouted, “eighty dollars, sir.” From my experience, I knew the price was _______ for it. I made a counter offer (还价) of sixty dollars; ________, he refused my offer. He said I had to pay ________ sixty-five dollars.

At that time, I realized ________ I really could get that jacket for sixty dollars, so I made a ________ face and told him that I really wanted it, but I had only sixty dollars ________ in my wallet. I showed him my wallet to ________ it.

After he had a quick look at my ________ and saw I had only sixty dollars in it, he agreed to sell me the jacket for that ________. I felt really good, but also ________ for him, because he worked really hard to make a living. ________ I have a chance one day, I will go shopping there again and purchase more goods. I’ll bargain of course, but I won’t bargain as ________ as the last time since the seller was really kind to me.

1.

A．why

B．because

C．since

D．what

2.

A．dearer

B．more

C．better

D．cheaper

3.

A．furniture

B．food

C．clothing

D．wood

4.

A．normal

B．high

C．bad

D．good

5.

A．wonderful

B．terrible

C．strange

D．complex

6.

A．cool

B．huge

C．tiny

D．modern

7.

A．fitted in

B．belonged to

C．liked

D．suited

8.

A．Immediately

B．Quickly

C．Finally

D．Gradually

9.

A．too much

B．too high

C．too low

D．too little

10.

A．however

B．therefore

C．otherwise

D．besides

11.

A．at most

B．at least

C．in total

D．on average

12.

A．whether

B．that

C．when

D．if

13.

A．relaxed

B．pleased

C．disappointed

D．delighted

14.

A．left

B．leaving

C．remain

D．putting

15.

A．count

B．see

C．prove

D．believe

16.

A．face

B．hand

C．head

D．wallet

17.

A．money

B．price

C．prize

D．value

18.

A．sorry

B．happy

C．angry

D．curious

19.

A．While

B．As

C．If

D．Unless

20.

A．little

B．hard

C．many

D．bad

3 . Fifteen years earlier, I was a single mom with two children, a _______ job and a long commute. So I had to shop for groceries and plan for the next week on weekends. _______, I went shopping on Sunday. When I _______ to the cashier that the store was really quiet that day, she replied, “It’s always _______ on Mother’s Day. You must be the only _______ out there shopping.” I know she was _______ telling the truth and she did not mean to _______ me. Needless to say, all I could do was finish paying and get to my car. I hadn’t _______ realized it was Mother’s Day. My children were too young to know it. How _______ I really was!

I was excited to see my ________ soon. I decided to treat myself to an ice tea and ________ to the sandwich shop next door. It was ________ except for a mom and her son ahead of me.________ this was a single mom, celebrating Mother’s Day with her son in the sandwich shop. When she finished ________, I handed the cashier a $20 bill and said, “This is my treat. Happy Mother’s Day!” The cashier and the woman were confused for a moment.

Wayne Dyer once talked about the power of kindness. He said studies showed that not only do the giver and receiver of an act of kindness ________, but an observer benefits in exactly the same way.

1.

A．routine

B．demanding

C．well-paid

D．miserable

2.

A．As usual

B．Seldom

C．Occasionally

D．For once

3.

A．reported

B．explained

C．commented

D．suggested

4.

A．classic

B．crowded

C．special

D．quiet

5.

A．customer

B．mother

C．parent

D．driver

6.

A．simply

B．deliberately

C．proudly

D．politely

7.

A．warn

B．discourage

C．hurt

D．remind

8.

A．just

B．still

C．ever

D．even

9.

A．defeated

B．alone

C．stubborn

D．warm-hearted

10.

A．children

B．husband

C．friends

D．neighbors

11.

A．rode

B．drove

C．walked

D．escaped

12.

A．clean

B．excellent

C．elegant

D．empty

13.

A．Luckily

B．Obviously

C．Fortunately

D．Sadly

14.

A．ordering

B．parking

C．eating

D．packing

15.

A．benefit

B．interest

C．understand

D．learn

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。

It was one busy morning in those rush hours when I hopped into the bus heading town to run some errands.

I sat next to some guy     1     name was Musa. He said hi and I replied     2     a smile and our conversation began from there. We talked about a lot of things     3     (particular) about life and work and he just started complementing(称赞)my natural look. He said he     4     (impress) with how natural I was, for he had merely met a girl     5     (wear) no makeup at all.   

Musa said those words genuinely and like any girl, I     6     (feel) good and appreciated it even though it was from a     7     (strange). In the back of my mind I thought he would then ask for my number as most guys did but,     8     (surprise), he said goodbye to me at the terminal and left. I have never seen him since then.   

    9     I am trying to say here is that sometimes people are different from what they are thought of by the society, so keep     10     (see)the best in people instead of assuming they do things with bad purposes.

5 . Growing up in Conway, South Carolina, I was always athletic and competitive. One afternoon, my brother grabbed me in the yard, and I felt some kind of pop. About an hour later, I couldn’t get up from a chair. Over the weekend, my joints (关节) swelled up. My mother took me to the hospital. It took nearly six months to check what was wrong with me. Then I was put on treatment. But I had so much joint damage that I couldn’t run like I used to.

My dad was a serious golfer. One day he said, “Let’s try golf.” He carried me onto the course. Seeing him hit those good shots made me want to do it too.

It wasn’t easy at first, because I had a lot of pain in my hands. I’d played golf, but it had never really caught my interest — it was too quiet for me. But I was happy to be outside, to have a chance of competing again, and I fell in love with it.

Later I made the high school team, but I got frustrated when I didn’t win, so I worked harder. Golf was the most challenging game I’d ever played.

I got a golf scholarship to the University of South Carolina and turned professional after I graduated. I still take medication, and I’m stiff and in pain sometimes. But I’ve got used to that.

I probably wouldn’t be a professional athlete if I hadn’t got sick. The experience taught me patience, and I learned to take nothing for granted. I know how happy I am to do what I do.

1. What do we know about the author from Paragraph 1?

A．He was born with swelled joints.

B．His joints healed very quickly.

C．He completely recovered after the treatment.

D．The cause of his disease was found out six months later.

2. What inspired the author to play golf at the beginning?

A．His love for golf.	B．His interest in sports.
C．His father’s good performance.	D．His unwillingness to stay indoors.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It was the author’s brother who first became aware that he had a disease.

B．Suffering a lot of pain in his hands, the author wasn’t interested in playing golf at first.

C．After founding a high school team, the author played harder and became professional.

D．The author thought he should cherish everything he had, even his disease.

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Playing through pain	B．The burden lifted
C．A bitter fight	D．Standing tall

6 . 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。续写的词数应为150左右。

I was ready for bed one night. As I planned to turn off the lamp on my bedside table, my eyes fell on the card my brother had given me on our dad’s sixty-eightli birthday. It was a musical card with a photo of Dad smiling inside. When you opened it, a recording of Dad’s songs would play. The card just stood beside my bed.

My dad was a joyful man with a big heart. He always went above and beyond. When my house was on fire a few years ago, it burned down. Luckily, all the family members were safe. Dad took it upon himself to make things right. He called everyone he knew to raise the money for rebuilding the house. In the meantime, I, my husband and our four kids moved into his house.

There was one thing that I loved most about Dad: his singing voice. When I was growing up, he was always singing us songs like the ones recorded in the card. It always made us laugh. Part of the fun for us kids was that, despite his wonderfully deep voice, Dad sang songs to share joy. I could always pick out his voice from the crowd.

With those in my mind, I turned off the light and quickly fell asleep. I was awoken a few hours later by a loud sound. Dad’s voice was filling the room. It was from the card! I jumped out of bed, closing the card before the whole house woke up. How did that card start playing? I thought. I checked the windows in my bedroom. I found a window was left open. It must be the wind that blew the card open.

Then I heard a little noise. It seemed that the noise came from the laundry room (洗衣房). We lived on a farm and raised a dozen baby chicks. Too young to be outside, the chicks were in a plastic bin in our laundry room, under the warnith of a heat lamp. I opened the door to the laundry room and was hit with the smell of smoke.

Paragraph 1:

The heat lamp had fallen, hitting into the bin!

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Paragraph 2:

Fortunately, the fire was put out at last.

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7 . Around a year ago, I was eager to be friends with people around me. I thought that the more _______ I had, the happier I’d be. I had a few people who I _______ to hang out with, but they sometimes showed unwillingness. It was evident that my friendship wasn’t _______ to them at all, very one-sided. I realized I had to _______ myself.

So I decided to hug the “_______” of having no one around. I _______ everyone whom I didn’t like and was left with around four people. I also gave people chances to be my friends so that I didn’t _______ shut myself off. But I would no longer _______ friendships anxiously.

At first it was _______ and I was afraid to spend a second alone, but now I love being alone. I enjoy the feeling of not having to worry about ________. I also don’t have to think about whether people like me and who is saying what. Everything feels quiet and ________ now.

I feel like I’ve ________ my life again. People who have hurt me were previously given unlimited chances ________ my “must keep as many people as possible” thinking pattern, but now they won’t have the privilege (特权) anymore. Doing this has allowed me to give myself much more ________ and in turn has raised my confidence. We can’t push things to be what they shouldn’t be and if the world keeps ________ you, you can find out what it actually wants from you.

1.

A．teachers

B．friends

C．families

D．classmates

2.

A．loved

B．missed

C．promised

D．pretended

3.

A．helpful

B．positive

C．practical

D．valuable

4.

A．doubt

B．check

C．change

D．protect

5.

A．excitement

B．patience

C．loneliness

D．curiosity

6.

A．lost

B．refused

C．observed

D．remembered

7.

A．possibly

B．generally

C．fully

D．rapidly

8.

A．search for

B．wait for

C．prepare for

D．answer for

9.

A．useful

B．funny

C．dangerous

D．terrible

10.

A．relationships

B．separations

C．challenges

D．differences

11.

A．boring

B．peaceful

C．normal

D．new

12.

A．risked

B．ignored

C．ruined

D．controlled

13.

A．due to

B．in spite of

C．instead of

D．in case of

14.

A．guidance

B．memory

C．respect

D．fame

15.

A．amusing

B．surprising

C．moving

D．upsetting

8 . Ten years ago when I suffered from anorexia nervosa (神经性食欲缺乏), I was depressed. It wasn’t until I was well enough to _______ that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my anorexia.

Today, I am _______ for the struggles I endured. The day I realized this I was sitting in a small _______ that I had just started attending with my boyfriend at the time. The preacher (牧师) came up to me to see how I was. He asked me how school was, and I said I didn’t like it that much. He then _______, “Well, if you hadn’t gone there, you wouldn’t have met him，” and pointed at my _______ who later became my husband.

This really _______ my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life through this perspective. At first I didn’t see how having anorexia could have ever been a(n) _______ thing. But when I looked at it as a(n) _______ for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be thankful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I learned how to take care of my wants and ________ in a way that made me happy.

I found doing sports, which allows me to ________ my body and move through my life with more ________. I also found my purpose, which is to help others in some ways with their own struggle with food and ________. There is something in your pain or struggle that is helpful to you.

Challenge yourself to look for the light rather than the ________. I promise you can find it. And if not, you can create it.

1.

A．go through

B．deal with

C．help out

D．look back

2.

A．split

B．ruined

C．murdered

D．shaped

3.

A．desperate

B．delightful

C．thankful

D．astonished

4.

A．library

B．clinic

C．church

D．school

5.

A．responded

B．cheered

C．welcomed

D．comforted

6.

A．illness

B．mother

C．life

D．boyfriend

7.

A．cured

B．opened

C．harmed

D．helped

8.

A．unlucky

B．true

C．good

D．funny

9.

A．experience

B．unique

C．ambition

D．influence

10.

A．reflecting

B．training

C．transforming

D．recovering

11.

A．needs

B．remains

C．sorrows

D．thrills

12.

A．grasp

B．accept

C．exercise

D．suspect

13.

A．kindness

B．faith

C．strength

D．hardship

14.

A．water

B．figure

C．weight

D．anger

15.

A．darkness

B．troubles

C．worries

D．weakness

9 . Capturing a moment in time isn’t just about securing a memory- it can help us appreciate our life more every day.

As a student，my campus has been my whole world. While it may seem limiting，studying with the same classmates and the same teachers in the same classroom every day has given me many opportunities to make great memories. I love the jokes told by my teachers in class，the songs my roommates and I sing together and cheerleaders’ loud cries at basketball games. Even the glow of the sunset with the mixture of purple and vivid red over the playground is mesmerizing.

And that is why I began to record my school life，and I’ve kept this habit for three years up until now. The first attempt, in the form of a diary, fell through as soon as my actual experiences became far more exciting than my words. So I bought a camera, with which I recorded every fascinating moment in my school life. Every weekend I transferred those photos to my phone and posted them on my social media. Without fail, I would find how joyful my school life was and how much progress I made, which in turn instilled(注入) more passion and purpose into the coming weeks.

As I progressed to senior high school, that camera gave way to camcorder(便携式摄像机) More and more videos drove me to learn video editing. Those valuable videos witnessed me joining the school choir(合唱团), training for sports meets, complaining about the burden of studying and having fun in the dormitory. They have become a labor of love and naturally my source of happiness.

When I look back on my diaries, photos and videos during this winter vacation, those fond memories came flooding back. Recording my school life lets me not only capture every precious moment in the course of my growth but also gives me the ability to observe and appreciate my surroundings and create joy in my life. It creates positive impact on my friends, showing them how wonderful life is and how it all depends on how much enthusiasm you show. So imagine how amazed I was when people said they felt youth and vitality through my work!

1. What is the purpose of the author capturing the moment by camera? (no more than 10 words)
___________________________________________________________________________
2. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 may have a similar meaning as ______. (no more than 5 words)
___________________________________________________________________________
3. Why did the author buy the first camera? (no more than 12 words)
___________________________________________________________________________
4. What is the title of the passage? (no more than 10 words)
___________________________________________________________________________
5. How do you capture the unforgettable moment in your school life? Please explain it. (no more than 20 words)
___________________________________________________________________________

10 . When my family officially dropped me off at my new apartment in Galway, I felt a wave of different emotions. I was really nervous about what the next two weeks would bring. However, my roommates turned out to be overly welcoming and energetic, which made the transition very easy. Little did I know how close we would all become by the end of the two weeks!

For the next two weeks we attended classes and had field trips. It actually killed me because I was a terrible hiker. One day our teacher rented a bus and led us to go hiking to different spots. We arrived at a river to eat lunch and sit on the bridge. I sat up onto the bridge looking down at the water below me. My phone was in my lap while I ate my food. Suddenly I heard the actual worst sound — a splash (溅落声). Without even looking down, I knew that my phone had dropped into the river.

I was used to keeping my ID and bank cards in the back of my phone case. I stared down in disbelief at the flowing water. I stood up to jump off the bridge into the river, but Corina pulled me back. I started to scream because what else you could do when you were in a different country and your phone, ID and bank cards were about to disappear. Hope, one of my roommates, was along the bank and dove into the water to retrieve my things. With her help in time, I didn’t suffer any loss.

The best tiling that came out of my study experience abroad was my roommates who became my close friends. Corina, Hope and Emily made my study experience abroad so memorable. We had so many truly memorable experiences during our time in Galway. I was amazed at how close we became in such a short time. One thing I have learned this year is that you have to hold the moment now! If I had waited to study abroad until this summer, which I once considered, all of these friendships and memories wouldn’t exist.

1. What are the author’s roommates like according to Paragraph 1?

A．Talkative.	B．Talented.
C．Easy-going.	D．Intelligent.

2. What happened to the author when she was on the bridge?

A．Her phone and cards dropped into the river.

B．Her good friends got drowned in the river.

C．She got lost in the hiking activity.

D．She lost a lot of money.

3. The underlined word “retrieve” in the third paragraph probably means “_________”.

A．cleaning something out

B．getting something back

C．checking something

D．hiding something

4. What did the author learn from her experience of studying abroad?

A．Waiting is sometimes necessary.

B．Choosing roommates is very difficult.

C．It is important to make friends in a foreign country.

D．Once you decide to do something, take action at once.