1 . The most frequent arguments for travel broadening the mind are that you get to interact with many different ______, ways of life and new experiences. In general this should be the case.__ ___, how much it broadens your mind depends as much on how you travel as where.______ you go to Thailand and spend most of your time in a hotel, what you’re seeing isn’t ______ Thai culture. But if you take time to _____ its temples or stay with a family and immerse yourself in their ______, you might begin to get a good ______ of it. If you ______ anything out of your comfort zone, then you won’t make the most of your _____, wherever you go. Of course travel ______ the mind if you’re open to it and equip yourself with the knowledge you need for where you’re headed; and after all, expanding our horizons is ______ to our growth and progress as human beings.
We’re told that broadening the mind comes from challenging yourself, ______, learning and that this can in part be achieved by travelling. But is broadening the mind the only ______ reason tor travelling? What if you _____ want to enjoy some much needed rest and ______?
How much distance you cover doesn’t show how adventurous you are. You can go halfway round the world, but if you just spend all your time _____ shopping malls, you can ______ experience the real workings of the culture you’ve landed in. It’s up to you whether or not you come back from another country with a ______ perspective on things. Travel doesn’t automatically broaden the mind. If you’re a narrow-minded bore at home, the _____ are that travel just makes you a narrow-minded bore ______ a plane ticket. And what of those who don’t, can’t or won’t travel? Are they forever doomed to an “unbroadened” view on life? I’m sure they would beg to differ.1.

A．experts

B．cultures

C．objects

D．situations

2.

A．For example

B．Above all

C．At times

D．Of course

3.

A．If

B．Although

C．Since

D．Because

4.

A．correctly

B．generally

C．really

D．seriously

5.

A．construct

B．paint

C．introduce

D．visit

6.

A．work

B．life

C．conversation

D．concept

7.

A．idea

B．command

C．result

D．photo

8.

A．attempt

B．challenge

C．avoid

D．overcome

9.

A．journey

B．freedom

C．advantage

D．break

10.

A．occupies

B．crosses

C．amazes

D．broadens

11.

A．suitable

B．vital

C．similar

D．harmless

12.

A．determining

B．planning

C．exploring

D．preparing

13.

A．worthwhile

B．private

C．normal

D．obvious

14.

A．eventually

B．slightly

C．exactly

D．simply

15.

A．health

B．relaxation

C．sport

D．thinking

16.

A．picking out

B．finding out

C．wandering round

D．passing by

17.

A．hardly

B．undoubtedly

C．expectedly

D．possibly

18.

A．narrow

B．social

C．different

D．common

19.

A．problems

B．occasions

C．facts

D．chances

20.

A．for

B．with

C．beyond

D．except

2 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

There’s no doubt that when it comes to friendship，you want positive people in your life and not negatives ones．    1     ．Support when you need it. With positive friends，you don’t need to beg for help when you need it because chances are they will be there for you without asking．    2         ．Health benefits of being positive．The more positive friends you have，the better you will be at remaining optimistic yourself．    3     . For example，it helps people to deal with stress and illness better．Health benefits may include lower rates of depression，a greater ability to throw off colds，and a reduced risk of developing disease．Bring out the best in you．    4     . This means trying new things，achieving goals，and having the kind of life you dreamed of for yourself．With positive people in your life，you’11 feel more comfortable sharing your goals because your friends will give you the emotional push you need to go after what you want in life．Attracting More Positive FriendsYou naturally attract the kinds of friends who are most like you．So if you’re a downer，you’11 probably find that negative people flock to you．    5     . The more you are able to maintain a positive attitude，the more likeminded people you’11 attract in return．

A．Here are some benefits of spending time with positive friends．

B．That’s why you’d better surround yourself with positive friends．

C．In most cases，they will go out of their way to help you when you’re in trouble．

D．The same is true for being positive．

E．As we all know，there are many benefits of being optimistic．

F．Your positive friends will inspire you to be the best you can be．

G．Most of the time，you have to ask them to help you when in trouble．

3 . Dad was lying in the hospital weakly, but his smile was as sure as ever . It was another attack of lung illness. My husband and I stayed with him for the weekend but had to return to our jobs on Monday. Local relatives would help Dad get home from hospital and look after him. But I longed to be able to let him know that we cared about him too, even when we weren't with him.
Then I remembered a family tradition when our children were small. When leaving our grandparents’ home after a visit, each child would write a love note to their grandparents. We hid notes in a box, under a hairbrush or next to the phone or even in the microwave oven. For days, our grandparents would smile as they discovered these reminders of our love.
So as I tidied Dad’s kitchen and made up a bed for him downstairs in the living room, I wrote some notes. Some were practical, "Dad, I put the food in the fridge so it wouldn't spoil". Some expressed my love, “Dad, I hope you will sleep well in your new bed.” Most notes were downstairs where he would stay for several weeks until he recovered strength, but one note I hid upstairs under his pillow, "Dad, if you have found this note, you must be feeling better. We are so glad!"
Just like his medicine strengthened him physically, these "emotional vitamins" would improve his spiritual health. Several weeks later, in one of our regular phone calls, I asked Dad how he was doing. He said, "Pretty good. I just found your note under my pillow upstairs!"
1. We can infer from the text that the writer's father_______.

A．had suffered from the same illness before.

B．lived with his relatives

C．asked her to return to work

D．got home from hospital alone

2. The children hid notes in their grandparents' home in order to_______

A．follow a family tradition

B．play jokes on their grandparents

C．show their gifts to their grandparents

D．make their grandparents feel pleasantly surprised

3. Follow the family tradition, the author                 .

A．She called her father regularly.

B．She wrote some notes to her father .

C．She bought all kinds of vitamins to her father.

D．She hid some notes upstairs under her father's pillow.

4. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．The writer believed that a family tradition was not good.

B．The writer enjoyed talking with her father.

C．The writer tried to comfort her father with love.

D．The writer thanked her children for looking after her father.

4 . At a gathering，we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments．It came around to Frank．
Frank began to tell us of his childhood． "I _______ in San Pedro．My dad was a fisherman，and he loved the sea． He had his own boat，but it was _______ making a living on the sea． He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to _______ the family．"
He looked at us and said，"I _______ you could have met my dad． He was a big man，and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for the _______ ．When you got close to him，he _______ like the ocean．He would wear his old coat and his overalls．No matter how much my mother _______ them，they would still smell of the sea and of fish．"
Frank's voice dropped a bit．"When the weather was bad he would _______ me to school．He had this old truck that was older than he was. _______ he would drive toward the school，I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear．He would ________ right in front of the school gate，and it seemed like everybody ________ be standing around and watching．Then he would ________ over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy．It was so ________ for me．I was twelve years old，and my dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!"
He ________ and then went on，"I remember the day when I said 'No' ”
It was the first time I had ever talked to him that ________ ，and he had this surprised look on his face．
I said，'Dad，I'm too ________ for a goodbye kiss．'
My Dad looked at me for the longest time，and his eyes started to tear up．I had never seen him ________ ．He turned and looked out the windshield(挡风玻璃)．'You're right，' he said． 'You are a big boy．．．．a man．I won't kiss you anymore．'”
Frank got a sad look on his face，and the tears began to ________ in his eyes，as he spoke．"It wasn't long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back．”
Tears were running down Frank’s cheeks．He spoke again．"Guys，you don't know what would ________ to have my dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek． to feel his rough old face．to smell the ocean on him． to feel his arm around my neck．
I wish I had been a man then．If I had been a ________ ，I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss．"1.

A．kept up

B．grew up

C．came up

D．started up

2.

A．hard

B．absurd

C．easy

D．necessary

3.

A．remove

B．reach

C．feed

D．urge

4.

A．prefer

B．request

C．suggest

D．wish

5.

A．fish

B．favorite

C．benefit

D．glory

6.

A．sounded

B．looked

C．smelled

D．felt

7.

A．processed

B．washed

C．handled

D．managed

8.

A．drive

B．limit

C．adapt

D．devote

9.

A．Before

B．After

C．Since

D．As

10.

A．back up

B．pick up

C．pull up

D．speed up

11.

A．could

B．would

C．should

D．might

12.

A．lean

B．hold

C．run

D．watch

13.

A．frightening

B．challenging

C．embarrassing

D．entertaining

14.

A．recovered

B．paused

C．requested

D．admitted

15.

A．day

B．time

C．aspect

D．way

16.

A．old

B．delighted

C．anxious

D．proud

17.

A．sigh

B．shout

C．cry

D．yell

18.

A．break down

B．hold back

C．well up

D．start off

19.

A．demand

B．give

C．rush

D．infer

20.

A．boy

B．seaman

C．backbone

D．man

5 . 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项。
The Parking-Lot Sweeper
Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.
Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how ____ we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They ____ us with the ideas of family, faith and love.
I got my first ____ job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He ____ space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure. The owner of the shopping center ____ my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three ____ a week, which ____ getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped ____ dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I ____ sleep in the car on the way home.I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have ____ a lifetime. I obtained discipline（自律）and the importance of work, and learned at a(n) ____ age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my ____, school, homework and a job. This ____ helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full ____ of college preparation courses.
The hard work ____ off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to ____graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard. ____, I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly（州议会）. In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have ____ forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to ____ for themselves and their families, that is ____ we should honor.1.

A．important

B．different

C．competitive

D．fortunate

2.

A．mixed

B．filled

C．piled

D．left

3.

A．true

B．new

C．real

D．Good

4.

A．hired

B．bought

C．cleaned

D．created

5.

A．reduced

B．afforded

C．collected

D．charged

6.

A．mornings

B．evenings

C．dawns

D．nights

7.

A．meant

B．overcame

C．admitted

D．allowed

8.

A．lift

B．empty

C．throw

D．hold

9.

A．must

B．need

C．would

D．should

10.

A．existed

B．lasted

C．kept

D．stayed

11.

A．small

B．exact

C．early

D．golden

12.

A．mind

B．way

C．part

D．case

13.

A．really

B．nearly

C．simply

D．merely

14.

A．piece

B．length

C．mass

D．load

15.

A．made

B．took

C．paid

D．started

16.

A．receive

B．offer

C．require

D．study

17.

A．Thus

B．Later

C．Again

D．Instead

18.

A．seldom

B．Just

C．even

D．never

19.

A．account

B．enter

C．provide

D．call

20.

A．everything

B．something

C．nothing

D．Anything

6 . B
When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing oneperson. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, "Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business."
Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans' corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
1. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show ______.

A．the strength of family unity

B．the difficulty of growing up

C．the advantage of chopsticks

D．the best way of giving a lesson

2. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the Helene An family ______.

A．started a business in 1975

B．left Vietnam without much money

C．bought a restaurant in San Francisco

D．opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles

3. What can we infer about the five daughters?

A．They did not finish their college education.

B．They could not bear to work in the family business.

C．They were influenced by what Helene taught them.

D．They were troubled by disagreement among family members.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Run a Corporation

B．Strength Comes from Peace

C．How to Achieve a Big Dream

D．Family Unity Builds Success

7 . 假设你正在参加全省中学生英语演讲比赛，请你针对有些父母经常翻看孩子日记或书包这一现象写一篇演讲稿，陈述你的观点。
演讲稿的主要内容应包括：
1． 认为同学们不必为此苦恼；
2． 希望能够体谅父母的苦衷；
3． 建议与父母进行交流和沟通。
注意：1. 词数：120词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Some of us are having problems with our parents, as they often look into our school bags or read our diaries.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you！

8 . Dear daughter,
As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
I want to tell you how proud we are. Getting into Columbia is a real testament of what a great well-rounded student you are. Your academic, artistic, and social skills have truly blossomed in the last few years. You have become a talented and accomplished young woman.
College will be the most important years in your life. It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about. You often question "what good is this course". I encourage you to be inquisitive, but I also want to tell you: "Education is what you have left after all that is taught is forgotten." What I mean by that is the materials taught isn't as important as you gaining the ability to learn a new subject, and the ability to analyze a new problem. That is really what learning in college is about – this will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired, after which you must become self-learner. So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn isn't critical for your life, the skills of learning will be something you cherish forever.
Follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy. Don't be trapped in what others think or say. Steve Jobs says when you are in college, your passion will create many dots, and later in your life you will connect them. In his great speech given at Stanford commencement, he gave the great example where he took calligraphy, and a decade later, it became the basis of the beautiful Macintosh fonts, which later ignited desktop publishing, and brought wonderful tools like Microsoft Word to our lives. His expedition into calligraphy was a dot, and the Macintosh became the connecting line. Enjoy picking your dots, and be assured one day you will find your calling, and connect a beautiful curve through the dots of yourself .
Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life, because during college you are closer to them physically than to your family. Also, going through independence and adulthood is a natural bonding experience.
So please treasure your college years – make the best of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny, evolve yourself into a bi-cultural talent, be bold to experiment, learn and grow through your successes and challenges.
When I faced the greatest challenge and opportunity in my life in 2005, you gave me a big hug and said "bonne chance", which means "good luck" and "good courage". Now I do the same for you. Bonne chance, my angel and princess. May Columbia become the happiest four years in your life, and may you blossom into just what you dream to be.
Love,
Dad (& Mom)
1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The daughter is a well-rounded college student.

B．The father faced the greatest challenge in 2006.

C．The daughter is a freshman in college.

D．Steve Jobs gave the great example where he took calligraphy at Columbia commencement.

2. The father may agree that _____.

A．you will be well-educated if you forget all is taught

B．there are only master-inspired students in college

C．the daughter will be thinner if she goes on a diet

D．the skills of learning is very important for his daughter’s life

3. The example of Steve Jobs in Paragraph 4 is to show _____.

A．how Steve Jobs invented the basis of the Macintosh fonts

B．it is important for the daughter to follow her passion in college

C．Steve Jobs made great contributions to Microsoft Word

D．the father wishes his daughter to be as successful as Steve Jobs

4. College friends are often the best to you because_____.

A．your family are far away while college friends are around you within an easy reach

B．they are closer to you psychologically than to your family

C．they are better than your family

D．going through independence and adulthood is unusual bonding experience

9 . 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string ____ players in our town. He could not read music, but if he heard a ____ a few times, he could play it.
Occasionally, Dad ____ get out his mandolin and play for the family. We three children would often sing along.
Dad loved to play the mandolin for his family. He knew we enjoyed singing and hearing him play. He was like that. If he could give pleasure to others, he would, ____ his family. He was always there, _____ his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to ____ into a man and have children of my own ____ I realized how much he had sacrificed.
I joined the United States Air Force in January of 1962. Whenever I came home ____ leave, I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. Nobody played the mandolin like my father. He could ____ your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to ____ when he was playing. You could see his ____ in his ability to play so well for his family.
In August of 1993 my father was ____ with inoperable lung cancer. He chose not to receive chemotherapy treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life in _____ About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He ____ but said "okay”. He knew it would probably be the last time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few notes. When I looked around, there was not a ____ eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet humble man with a (n) ____ strength that comes from knowing God, and _____ with him in one's life. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. We felt at the time that he wouldn't have enough strength to play, and that makes the ____ of that day even stronger. Dad was doing _____ he had done all his life, giving. Sick ____ he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!1.

A．performance

B．instrument

C．tool

D．tube

2.

A．music

B．note

C．tune

D．rhythm

3.

A．might

B．would

C．could

D．should

4.

A．eventually

B．especially

C．specifically

D．occasionally

5.

A．spending

B．contributing

C．sacrificing

D．wasting

6.

A．change

B．get

C．bring

D．mature

7.

A．until

B．after

C．before

D．while

8.

A．off

B．for

C．at

D．on

9.

A．touch

B．knock

C．hit

D．grasp

10.

A．fade

B．wake

C．improve

D．shine

11.

A．pride

B．appreciation

C．gratitude

D．satisfaction

12.

A．suspected

B．confirmed

C．labeled

D．diagnosed

13.

A．comfort

B．relief

C．dignity

D．peace

14.

A．sprang

B．rose

C．decided

D．hesitated

15.

A．dry

B．bright

C．wet

D．gloomy

16.

A．outer

B．inner

C．outside

D．inside

17.

A．working

B．contacting

C．living

D．communicating

18.

A．memory

B．impression

C．phenomenon

D．reminder

19.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

20.

A．although

B．as

C．when

D．while

10 . In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.

We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom’s vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn’t care much about my bedtime.

Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little fire going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel(桶) of paint but couldn’t really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when 1 made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me home.

Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. I hadn’t turned 5 yet.

As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school?

As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder, I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn’t realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped (包裹) heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather.

In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d’Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.

1. What can be inferred about the author’s family?

A．His father was a cruel man.	B．His parents didn’t love him.
C．His parents used to be very busy.	D．His mother didn’t have any jobs.

2. What happened when the author was 4?

A．He learned to smoke.	B．He was locked in a basement.
C．He was arrested by the police.	D．He nearly caused a fire accident.

3. Which of the following is true?

A．Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.

B．The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska.

C．Leonhard often visited the author’s family after 1950.

D．The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska.

4. What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A．To look back on his childhood with adventures.

B．To describe the extreme weather of Alaska.

C．To express how much he misses Leonhard.

D．To show off his pride in making trouble.