1 . What does the man think about Susan?

A．She is like many other people.

B．She is tougher than men.

C．She always keeps her word.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What was the relationship between the woman and Jim in the past?

A．Relatives.

B．Classmates.

C．Colleagues.

2. What is the woman?

A．A film actress.

B．An art director.

C．A magazine editor.

3 . I sat down at my desk and started writing a letter of thankfulness, but when it came to actually putting the letter into the mailbox... I _______ ...I couldn’t do it. I suddenly felt a sense of ________ and insecurity (不安).

The letter was to an old teacher with whom I kept in _______ on Facebook. For months, I read about what she _______ on her Facebook page, which helped me to live my life differently. Her volunteer (志愿者) work wasn’t huge. _______ , she was doing small, local good deeds. ________ , she changed my views on the world and for some reason, I felt I should let her know how her example _______ influenced me.

I could have easily sent her an email but that seemed not enough for such an important thank-you. That’s why I ended up ________ the letter before. But now here I was, standing before the mailbox, unable to put the envelope inside. What was stopping me? It suddenly hit me that I was ________ of being too nice. I guess I felt strange _________ it wasn’t like she was my best friend or a relative. But I think my ________ was too heartfelt. Thinking this over, I put the envelope in the mailbox _________.

Weeks later I received a message from her. It turned out she was ________ a hard time and my note _________ a lot to her. She said she had no idea she was playing such a big _________ in others’ life.

Not only did this letter make her happier, but her response(反应) to it brightened my world and ________ my level of happiness as well. I was so _______ that it had such a great influence on her that I decided to write a(n) _______ letter to someone each month. Now it’s easier for me to _______ the goodness in others and be more _________ for this beautiful life I’m living.

1.

A．stopped

B．continued

C．swapped

D．paced

2.

A．excitement

B．concern

C．disappointment

D．power

3.

A．touch

B．mind

C．sight

D．order

4.

A．gave in

B．suffered from

C．packed up

D．set down

5.

A．So

B．However

C．Instead

D．But

6.

A．Gradually

B．Exactly

C．Fluently

D．Frequently

7.

A．widely

B．rapidly

C．loosely

D．greatly

8.

A．requesting

B．receiving

C．handwriting

D．reading

9.

A．confident

B．afraid

C．fond

D．sure

10.

A．because

B．although

C．while

D．until

11.

A．purpose

B．agreement

C．present

D．message

12.

A．sadly

B．officially

C．finally

D．entirely

13.

A．turning over

B．giving in to

C．going through

D．making use of

14.

A．ignored

B．meant

C．offered

D．recognized

15.

A．part

B．decision

C．usage

D．command

16.

A．forecast

B．increased

C．expressed

D．judged

17.

A．stubborn

B．lonely

C．upset

D．excited

18.

A．congratulation

B．thank-you

C．request

D．comfort

19.

A．give out

B．put out

C．set out

D．find out

20.

A．satisfied

B．sorry

C．grateful

D．careful

4 . What does the man think of Linda’s husband?

A．Clever.

B．Unfriendly.

C．Quiet.

5 . 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

6 . 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.

7 . 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

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Hi! Tom,

I'm glad to hear of you. Yes, I sometimes have a same problem. I think you'd better go to Peter's birthday party since he is my close friend. You can choose to play other games such as chess unless you don't like playing computer games. You don't need to worry too many about the science report. You can finish them on Sunday. I'm sure you can manage it. But if you don't go the party, I'm afraid you may lost the friend. Although it's true that sometimes people's needs is different, you should remember friends can always stand beside you. We must understand that each other.

9 . How to Make Friends

Having friends may keep you healthier and help you deal with difficulties better. It is not very hard to make friends. Continue reading to find out how to make friends.

    1    . There are many ways to do this—talking about the weather, asking for help or saying words of praise.

Introduce yourself at the end of the conversation. It can be as simple as saying “Oh, by the way, my name is ...”     2     Remember his or her name!

Join a sports team. As long as you enjoy the sport, you don’t have to be really good at playing a sport, just in order to make friends with others.     3     If you play the guitar or sing, try joining a band.

Be a good listener.     4     Ask questions about their interests, and just take time to learn more about them.

Encourage your friend. A very good friend encourages their friend.     5     Never make fun of or laugh at your friend in front of others. If someone is making fun of them, a good friend will come to save their friend.

A．Start a conversation.

B．Find out common interests.

C．But joining a sports team isn’t the only way.

D．The key to being a good friend is the ability to keep secrets.

E．They will remain with them in both good and bad times.

F．Once you introduce yourself, the other person will do the same.

G．Listen carefully to what people say, and remember important information about them.

10 . 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。

My Dad’s Best Flower

I remember my first home was a small apartment on the second floor with a lovely and spacious balcony. When my mom was busy in the kitchen, she let me stay on the balcony watching the kids playing in the street. On that balcony I played sometimes with my elder sister, Maria. She was seven years old and when my mom was absent, she was like a mother to me. The balcony was a great hobby place for my father. After his work he used to grow carnations (康乃馨) in flower boxes. His carnations were red, pink and white, and everyone appreciated them for their beauty.

He took care of them with so much love and devotion. He dealt carefully with his flowers like a mother taking care of her baby. Many times I sat on the floor of the balcony for hours observing him and his lovely flowers with patience. He was always doing something on that balcony. He was watering them every day, cleaning the balcony floor, changing the potting soil and when the stems were thick, strong and high enough, he started his improvement operation attentively like a doctor.

My dad took a tiny knife and with his left hand he held the stem of the carnation and measured the height. Then he made a small mark on the stem with his finger. Afterwards he made a sharp cut with the knife, just enough to fit in again of barley (插穗的芽). Then he bandaged the stem with a small bandage. His job was then to water the plants and to take care of them. “No one should touch them,” he said to Mom. Every day, when he came home from work he went straight to the balcony.

Mom used to tell us, “Do not touch Daddy’s flowers.” For us it was a fascinating experience to watch how the small stems were growing and making flowers. When the carnations had grown big enough, my dad enjoyed watching them every day. We the kids did too.

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。
Paragraph 1：

One day, my elder sister, who loved Dad very much, had a great idea.

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Paragraph 2：

When my dad arrived, he went as usual, straight to the balcony and saw his flowers lying on the floor like dead animals.

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