1 . 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。

James’ granddad wrote to help James quit smoking. He once became addicted to cigarettes in three ways. His body was accustomed to     1     (have) nicotine. He began to do it     2    (automatic) and became mentally addicted. But     3     realizing the harmful effects of smoking on the body, he finally managed to stop. He also told James smoking did damage to heart and lungs, and     4     it was more difficult for smoking couple to become pregnant. So he gave James some     5    (advise). Firstly, be well-prepared and be determined. Decide on a day to quit. Don’t choose a day that he knows is going to be     6    (stress). Once he decides, he should carry it out. Secondly, relax himself. When feeling nervous, do not reach     7     a cigarette. Instead try some deep breath and do some exercises. Thirdly, get help if he need     8    . If he feels desperate, don’t hesitate to ask for help from his friends or join a stop-smoking group. Finally, keep trying. Don’t be disappointed if he doesn’t see the immediate effects. Just try again and he     9    (succeed) in the end.

All these might help James to stop and     10    (strong) his resolve.

2 . My youngest brother, Andre, has an Autism Spectrum Disorder(自闭症). ________, in his last almost sixteen years, he has grown to be six-foot-two, has played just about every ________ sport, has entered high school, and has learned to ________ communicate verbally, an obstacle many children on the Autism Spectrum ________ overcome.

I remember the first time I realized he would not be able to speak until much later than the rest of us. I remember the ______ on my parents’ faces as they shuttled him around to all sorts of   ________ and doctors for treatment. I remember his preschool class photograph, where he looked so ________ of the other students that he was almost ________ the picture, being so far away from them; today he can stand right next to his teammates or classmates for _______ without any fear.   

I remember __________ him to ride a bicycle on our front lawn on a beautiful perfect day in May, and I remember the first time he sailed off from under my hands and didn’t ________ ; I don’t think he talked much then, but his smile ________ my world. I remember the keyboard he carried every day to school because he _________ the skill to write, and I remember the first card he ________ his name on for me. I remember my eighth-grade paper that won second prize at States where I talked about what a _________ from God he was. I remember the people who read it at the ceremony in Manhattan and who agreed that I was __________ .

All those memories, plus a million more, often bring me to __________ or to smiles or to both. I laugh and I cry at every moment I’ve had as his big sister. You would never know what efforts it has taken for him to ________ all these years, and that he has already progressed more than we ever dreamed it __________. He has never let his _______ define him.

1.

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Besides

D．Otherwise

2.

A．imaginable

B．expensive

C．boring

D．familiar

3.

A．hardly

B．urgently

C．rapidly

D．fully

4.

A．still

B．always

C．never

D．already

5.

A．wrinkles

B．smiles

C．feelings

D．expressions

6.

A．psychologists

B．teachers

C．photographers

D．coaches

7.

A．tired

B．content

C．terrified

D．ashamed

8.

A．inside of

B．out of

C．along with

D．in front of

9.

A．classes

B．sports

C．activities

D．photos

10.

A．instructing

B．forcing

C．promising

D．forbidding

11.

A．stay

B．wait

C．fall

D．move

12.

A．shut up

B．lit up

C．turned around

D．got through

13.

A．lost

B．developed

C．lacked

D．possessed

14.

A．clicked

B．stuck

C．printed

D．signed

15.

A．gift

B．pet

C．hero

D．burden

16.

A．innocent

B．right

C．misled

D．wrong

17.

A．worries

B．pleasures

C．tears

D．hopes

18.

A．struggle

B．prove

C．recover

D．begin

19.

A．easy

B．necessary

C．obvious

D．possible

20.

A．dream

B．talent

C．disability

D．silence

3 . 假定你是李华，你的加拿大朋友 Zack来邮件告诉你说，他未能通过 "朗诵唐诗"选拔赛。请你用英文给Zack写一封慰问邮件，主要内容包括：
1. 点明得知的情况；
2. 表达理解和安慰；
3. 鼓励对方。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加情节和连贯语。
参考词汇：   "朗诵唐诗"选拔赛 the tryout for “Tang Poetry Recital Contest”
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4 . I met him first on a summer day in 1989. I ______ into his ugly small shop to have my shoes repaired. It wasn’t much of a job，so I _____ while he did it. He greeted me with a ______ smile，“You are ______ in this place，aren’t you？”

I said I was. I had ______ into this street only a week before.

“This is a fine place，” he said. I ______ there with my shoes off，______ around as he got ready to make repairs. He looked ______ at the leather. It was worn through because I had ______ to have the repair job done. I grew ______ impatient，for I was eager to meet a friend，and I had to get there without delay.“Please hurry，” I begged.

He looked at me ______ his glasses，“We won’t be long. I must do a good job. You see，I have a tradition to live up to.”

A tradition？In this ugly small shop that wasn’t ______ from so many other shops on the streets of New York.

He must have felt my ______ for he smiled as he ______，“Yes，my father is a good shoemaker.” He always told me，“Son，do the best job on every shoe that ______ the shop，and be proud of your own work. Do that always，and you’ll have both happiness and money enough to live on.”

As he ______ me the finished shoes，he said，“These will last a long time.” I left ______，my friend would be waiting for me ______.

That evening I ______ the shop. There he was. When he saw me，he waved and smiled. This was the beginning of our _____ that came to mean more and more to me as time passed.

1.

A．looked

B．rushed

C．slipped

D．broke

2.

A．left

B．waited

C．worked

D．helped

3.

A．sweet

B．light

C．cold

D．forced

4.

A．fresh

B．young

C．familiar

D．new

5.

A．came

B．lived

C．moved

D．entered

6.

A．stood

B．lay

C．sat

D．talked

7.

A．thinking

B．moving

C．turning

D．looking

8.

A．nervously

B．sadly

C．gratefully

D．angrily

9.

A．failed

B．managed

C．wanted

D．intended

10.

A．hardly

B．less

C．greatly

D．a little

11.

A．under

B．over

C．in

D．with

12.

A．different

B．funny

C．abstract

D．ridiculous

13.

A．doubt

B．surprise

C．disappointment

D．joy

14.

A．said

B．agreed

C．continued

D．argued

15.

A．flies into

B．brings to

C．comes into

D．introduces to

16.

A．showed

B．handed

C．brought

D．took

17.

A．quietly

B．slowly

C．in time

D．in a hurry

18.

A．coldly

B．happily

C．anxiously

D．angrily

19.

A．ran

B．passed

C．bought

D．saw

20.

A．experience

B．love

C．friendship

D．struggle

5 . Aaron Fotheringham has been an amazing person with backflips(后空翻) and other skateboarding tricks throughout his teens. And his famous backflip has won worldwide notice in the form of Record. Why did his particular backflip earn such a reputation? Aaron was the first person to successfully perform a backflip in a wheelchair.

Aaron was born ill. He has been in a wheelchair since the age of 8. Since then, he has even developed a new extreme sport in which wheelchair-bound athletes use their chairs like skateboards or bikes to do tricks. Now Aaron's friends call him "Wheelz", and he says it's huge praise.

Though Aaron makes his stunts(特技表演) look easy, doing tricks in a wheelchair is very different from using a skateboard or bike. It's a completely different skill set.

If a skateboarder goes into a backflip like Aarons and doesn’t start out with enough rotation (旋转), he or she can bend his or her body to speed up. This allows a skateboarder to make complete rotation in time for a successful landing. But Aaron can't bend his body any more than it is already.

That means Aaron has to have everything perfect before going into a backflip. He needs to launch himself to just the right height. If he doesn't, he could fall on the ground completely. "My rotation is so quick that I don't have much time to think," says Aaron.

Aaron's stunts take a lot of practice. He tries to make it to the skate park every day to work on his backflip and try out new tricks. Even though he's an excellent athlete, Aaron doesn't always land his stunts perfectly. But Aaron says he doesn't let bad landings stop him. He gets right back up and goes for his backflip again.

1. What do we know about Aaron?

A．He can do backflips as a disabled person.

B．He is an excellent skating athlete.

C．He has had to sit in a wheelchair since birth.

D．He has developed a new game by using chairs.

2. Being called "Wheelz", Aaron felt________________.

A．disappointed

B．happy

C．angry

D．ashamed

3. What is the most important thing for Aaron to perform a backflip?   

A．Starting out with enough rotation.

B．Bending the body to speed up.

C．Reaching a suitable height.

D．Having enough time to think.

4. What would be the best title for this text?

A．A Disabled Teen Competes in Adventure Games

B．A Teen Performs Excellent Stunts

C．A Disabled Teen Wins Respect from Others

D．A Teen Performs a Backflip in a Wheelchair

6 . The day I received my letter of acceptance to New York University, I was extremely excited. It was my dream university, and my ______ were pleased for me. But they also hadn’t ______ me to get into such a competitive school. In fact, the best thing they ever did for me was to ______ me from doing things ______. When I was in elementary school, they offered to buy me a present ______ I got a C.

It ______ when I was in third grade. An only child in an Asian family, I had just ______ with my family from Taiwan to Los Angeles. Months into third grade, I developed a strong feeling of ______ about getting bad grades. Seeing my anxiety, Dad said, “Kate, tell you what. If you get a C or ______. I’ll buy you a present. If you score higher than that, I won’t buy you anything, because you won’t ______ it.”

Clearly dad wasn’t the ______ Asian tiger parent, pressuring me to work tirelessly for the best ______, and neither was my mom. They didn’t want to push. They wanted me to be ______ and healthy. Dad’s ______ of a “failing grade” gift amazingly ______ my worries and pressure. What’s more, I ______ getting A’s and B’s throughout high school, but without the added stress and fear of failing. I think it was my parents’ lack of stress on grades that gave me ______ to encourage my own desire for achievements.

I now realize I was ______ when I thought I didn’t receive a present from my dad that day. He gave me two invaluable (宝贵的) ______: the space to develop my own desire for excellence, and the healthy mind to ______ it.

1.

A．friends

B．classmates

C．parents

D．relatives

2.

A．convinced

B．pushed

C．made

D．helped

3.

A．discourage

B．keep

C．inspire

D．protect

4.

A．perfectly

B．positively

C．passively

D．proudly

5.

A．until

B．if

C．unless

D．before

6.

A．went

B．appeared

C．remained

D．happened

7.

A．travelled

B．moved

C．returned

D．left

8.

A．worry

B．embarrassment

C．guilt

D．anger

9.

A．higher

B．less

C．more

D．lower

10.

A．accept

B．receive

C．need

D．make

11.

A．normal

B．typical

C．general

D．common

12.

A．reputations

B．subjects

C．majors

D．grades

13.

A．energetic

B．smart

C．outstanding

D．happy

14.

A．offer

B．cruelty

C．purchase

D．persuasion

15.

A．piled on

B．removed

C．gave off

D．solved

16.

A．held on

B．turned out

C．ended up

D．set about

17.

A．courage

B．time

C．room

D．hope

18.

A．shocked

B．unfortunate

C．puzzled

D．wrong

19.

A．gifts

B．suggestions

C．tools

D．experiences

20.

A．track

B．catch

C．achieve

D．act

7 . LaShenda Williams was a woman who had been sleeping in a parking lot for a year. It was a pity that she had been battling alcohol addiction and had been spending the nights in her car at a Nashville Kroger after driving around different locations during the day. Williams was really poor, and she would lean her seat in the car all the way back so that no one would see her because she wasn’t supposed to be there.

At the end of last year, Jackie Vandal, a hiring manager at a Kroger grocery store, noticed Williams and encouraged her to attend an upcoming job fair. With some help from Vandal, Williams spent a few hours filling out the application. Once Vandal saw the message indicating she had successfully applied, Vandal hired her on the spot.

It became a great day! Williams was brimming with happiness and smiled from ear to ear. From then on,she loved her work and got excited every day to come in. She couldn’t wait to see the workers who she worked with. She couldn’t wait to see the customers. Her positive attitude had been a blessing to the staff, too.

Even Jackie Vandal thought that they were so lucky to have Williams as part of their team members. Her uplifting spirit was inspiring. She had made such a positive impact on her fellow team members, and so many customers as well.

Williams said it was easy to be enthusiastic after everything that had happened. She was sleeping in a parking lot and looking for something to eat last year.   However, now，all Williams’s colleagues there love her. No one laughs at her, and no one calls her dumb and stupid. For the first time in her life, she gets peace and happiness.

1. How was LaShenda Williams’s life last year?

A．Enthusiastic and happy.	B．Poor and hard.
C．Peaceful but boring.	D．Exciting but tough.

2. What happened to Williams at the end of last year?

A．She got a job with the help of Vandal.

B．She gained financial assistance from Vandal.

C．She helped Vandal work for Kroger grocery store.

D．She attended a job fair organized by a Kroger grocery store.

3. Which can take the place of the underlined word“brimming" in paragraph 3?

A．uncovered

B．filled

C．increasing

D．relieving

4. What can we know about Williams?

A．She made her family members enthusiastic.

B．She won back the customers with her inspiring story.

C．She loved her work and felt satisfied with her new life.

D．She was so lucky that she made a good impression on customers.

8 . I took a deep breath and walked through the front door, my arms full of groceries. A challenge lay ahead of me, someone who could hardly boil water: cooking the Easter Sunday dinner. What if I made everyone sick? It could truly be our family’s last super meal.

Making the holiday meal was my brother’s job, not mine. I could never fill his shoes. Peter had died in September at the age of 45 from a heart attack, but he’d been a natural in the kitchen all his life. He planned every course in detail, from the crescent rolls to the Dutch apple pie.

My family was lost without him, and we went out to dinner for Thanksgiving and ordered pizza for Christmas. By the time Easter rolled around, though, I couldn’t bear the idea of another holiday surrounded by takeout (外卖食品) boxes. Peter would have hated that. To him, there was nothing more important than a meal made with love. So I convinced Mom that we should cook Easter dinner together. But we were terrible cooks.

I had been thinking what to cook for Easter dinner. I’d bitten off more than I could chew. No one could do this half as well as Peter.

I stepped into the family room. Mom was still at church, but her newspaper was opened on the coffee table, to the sports section, as usual. She was a huge Notre Dame women’s basketball fan, and the featured story was about the forward Devereaux Peters. I read the headline and nearly dropped my grocery bags, Filling Peters’ Shoes.

That afternoon, cooking in the kitchen, I didn’t feel so alone. Mom and I pulled together and the Easter feast was not that bad. The ham may have been a little dry, but it was all made with love— just like Peter would have wanted.

1. What would Peter have preferred to do if holidays had come?

A．To go out to have dinner.	B．To order pizza.
C．To show off his cooking skills.	D．To cook a big dinner for his family.

2. The text tells us that ____________.

A．the Easter dinner was the family’s last dinner

B．Mom persuaded the author to cook the Easter dinner

C．Peter enjoyed cooking a dinner with love

D．their Easter dinner this year was a complete failure

3. By saying “I’d bitten off more than I could chew.” in Paragraph 4, the author means __________.

A．she wasn’t confident in cooking the Easter dinner

B．she was not able to eat a lot of food

C．the Easter dinner made her sick

D．she couldn’t cook the dinner alone

4. What might be the best title for the text ?

A．Cooking in the Kitchen	B．Filling Peter’s Shoes
C．Happy Easter Day	D．Terrible Cooks

9 . There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and wealth and other things, one becomes happy and the other becomes unhappy. This arises from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon their minds.

People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things: the pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine and the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society, hurt many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation (模仿）. It grows into a habit, unknown to its owners. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when they realize its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.

Although in fact it is mainly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they want to get some advantages in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak a word to favor their hopes. If they do something wrong, no one will excuse them, and many will join to criticize their wrongdoings. These should change this bad habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, without worrying needlessly about themselves and others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. Otherwise, it can be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when one becomes mixed up in their quarrels.

1. People who are unhappy _______.

A．always consider things differently from others

B．usually misunderstand what others think or say

C．always discover the unpleasant side of certain things

D．usually are affected by the results of certain things

2. The phrase “sour the pleasure of society” most nearly means “_______”.

A．make others unhappy	B．tend to scold others openly
C．have a good taste with social life	D．enjoy the pleasure of life

3. We can conclude from the passage that _______.

A．we should pity all such unhappy people

B．people can get rid of the habit of unhappiness

C．such unhappy people are dangerous to social life

D．unhappy people can’t understand happy persons

4. If people keep the unhappy habit, the author suggests we should ____.

A．prevent any communication with them

B．show no respect and politeness to them

C．persuade them to recognize the bad effects

D．quarrel with them until they realize the mistakes

10 . I must have looked deep in thought, or as deep in thought as an 11-year-old man could, when my grandmother glanced up from her weeding to ask, "You have something on your mind, don’t you?”

“Yes, I was thinking that someday I want to be an Olympic speed skating champion like my hero, Eric Heiden, I want to be a doctor like my parents and I want to help children in Africa.”

I immediately knew I had confided (吐露) in the right person when a knowing smile broke across her face. “Johann, of course! You can do anything you want to do!” she said simply. And with my grandmother’s support, I set out to pursue my passions.

14 years later, I was well ready to take hold of my first dream: becoming an Olympic champion. The Olympics in 1994 was in my home country, Norway. As I entered the Olympic stadium, I wasn’t the best athlete, and many had doubts about my ability to perform well. But I had something special working for me. I had a woman in the first row who believed in me following my passions just as much as I did. For the first time ever, my grandmother was going to see me skate.

It happened. Breaking a world record, I won the gold.

As I stood on the podium (领奖台) that I had dreamed about my entire life, a curious question popped into my head. Why me? Why did I win, given all the other incredible competitors out there? The reason had to be more than a grandmother who shared a belief in her grandson’s dream. The question led me to only one answer: because I wanted to make a difference in the world, and with all the media attention on my success, I could. I immediately knew what that difference had to be: hope in the lives of the children in Africa.

Six months earlier, I’d been invited to Eritrea as an ambassador(使者) for Olympic Aid.

1. When the author spoke out what was on his mind,his grandmother_________.

A．laughed at him	B．had little confidence in him
C．felt quite surprised	D．supported him

2. The author probably realized his first dream at the age of         .

A．20

B．22

C．25

D．28

3. What will the author tell us in the part following the passage?

A．His successes at other Olympic games.	B．His efforts in helping the African children.
C．His grandmother’s attitude towards him.	D．His hard training in preparing for the next Olympics.

4. What is the whole passage mainly about?

A．Many dreams of a young boy.	B．A sportsman who pursued his passions.
C．The encouragement from a grandmother.	D．An Olympic hero who made a difference in the world.