2 . 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。

It was eight o'clock on a May morning, and Micah, my 17-year-old daughter, was already in our spare room upstairs. It had been her temporary eleventh-grade classroom ever since schools had moved to remote learning due to the pandemic.

From the kitchen, I listened for the sound of her tapping on her laptop or her talking with her classmates in their discussion sessions. We’d barely left the house for 10 weeks straight.

“Mom, everyone is hanging out today!” Micah’s voice echoed from upstairs. “Why can’t I?” I stepped up the stairs. Micah was lying on the floor wearing her pajamas, her laptop, school iPad and cellphone in front of her.

“It’s not fair,” she said.“ I have no one I can be with. I can ‘t wait until I’m 18 and can do what I want.”

We’d had this conversation before. Still, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. I was sick of being alone too. Even though Micah and I were home together more than we had been in years, we might as well have been living in separate worlds.

“Wanna watch videos later?” I asked. “Bake some cookies?”

“No, thanks.” Micah shook her head, as if the idea of doing something together was impossible.

I closed the door. I was used to Micah’s rejection, but it still made me upset. Teenage independence is healthy, but I worried if I didn’t find a way to bond with my girl soon, I might never be close to her again. She’d be 18 in the fall and had already convinced herself she didn’t need me anymore. Maybe she was right. No matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to reach her.

That evening, I logged onto a social app and saw a friend’s children playing with their new kitten. My mind went back to when I was in high school and our family moved. It was hard making friends. Mom surprised me with an eight-week-old gray kitten that I named Miss Muffet. Having a kitten to love and train brightened my days and got me through that difficult, lonely time. Maybe Micah would like a kitten.

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。

I asked if she wanted a kitten.

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In the car, Micah put the kitten under her chin.

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3 . Tristin Stewart, 15, of Northern Ireland, has no right knee after undergoing an operation. Now, his right leg connects directly to a right foot backward, which fits more_______than a traditional amputation (截肢).

Tristin said he began experiencing_______in his right leg in 2014, but it was not until last year that doctors diagnosed it as a cancer. The diagnosis and_______operation made Tristin’s parents, Mandy and Shane so worried.

“Tristin was scared firstly before receiving the operation,” Mandy said. “When we went in to see him after the operation, you could_______see that something was not in the right place under the_______, and Shane and I got up the courage to uncover it. That was a very strange sight, but my boy’s life was saved so that’s all that_______.”

In spite of a_______disease, the first in Northern Ireland, the soccer-loving teen is already back on his_______ just months after the operation.

“At the start it was uncomfortable and I wasn’t used to it because of the weight and my foot — you know, it felt_______— but now I’ m accustomed to it,” Tristin told Caters News. “It feels close to normal.”

“I can________with it and I’ve just started a jog,” Tristin said. “Without it, I’d be in a________. I wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

Unexpectedly, many people are now________ money to buy Stewart professional aid equipment so he can________in sports and more physical activities.

“Friends have been just as________, and they haven’t treated me differently,” Tristin added. “And I believe no matter how________ the mountain, there will always be a climb for the people who do not fear the difficult.”

1.

A．comfortably

B．differently

C．dangerously

D．commonly

2.

A．sorrow

B．pain

C．surprise

D．strength

3.

A．expecting

B．leading

C．following

D．increasing

4.

A．gradually

B．sorely

C．obviously

D．fortunately

5.

A．beds

B．covers

C．clothes

D．knives

6.

A．damages

B．matters

C．keeps

D．memorizes

7.

A．successful

B．deadly

C．frustrating

D．rare

8.

A．feet

B．way

C．behalf

D．side

9.

A．great

B．ugly

C．amazing

D．strange

10.

A．study

B．walk

C．swim

D．run

11.

A．bed

B．car

C．wheelchair

D．field

12.

A．raising

B．making

C．stealing

D．printing

13.

A．take

B．give

C．break

D．participate

14.

A．healthy

B．smart

C．hard

D．usual

15.

A．smooth

B．magnificent

C．steep

D．difficult

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A Mother’s Love

My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the family.

There was one day during elementary school (小学) when my mom came over to say hello to me. I was so embarrassed.

How could she do this to me? I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school one of my classmates said, “Your mom only has one eye!”

I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted my mom to just disappear. I confronted (面对) her that day and said, “If you’re only going to make me a laughing stock, why don’t you just die?”

My mom did not respond. I didn’t even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I was full of anger. I took no notice of her feelings at all.

I wanted to be out of that house, and have nothing to do with her. So I studied really hard, and got a chance to go abroad for further education.

Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. I had kids of my own. I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts. Then one day, my mother came to visit me. She hadn’t seen me in years and she didn’t even meet her grandchildren.

When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I shouted at her for coming over uninvited. I screamed at her, “How dare you come to my house and scare my children! GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!”

And to this, my mother quietly answered, “Oh, I’m so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address.” and she was soon out of sight.

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion (同学聚会) came to my house. So I lied to my wife that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old house just out of curiosity.

My neighbors said that she died. I did not shed a single tear. They handed me a letter that she had wanted me to have.

注意:
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
My dearest son,

I think of you all the time and I’m sorry that

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Paragraph 2:

You see, when you were very little,

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With all my love to you.

Your mother

5 . The day was Thankful Thursday. It’s a weekly ___________ that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive ___________.

My girls shouted “McDonald’s, McDonald’s” as we ___________ along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I ___________ that almost every crossing I passed through was ___________ by a panhandler(乞丐). And then it hit me! All these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a (n) ___________ lunches and we set out to deliver them. We would pull alongside a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better. Then we’d say, “Oh, by the way … here’s lunch.”

We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately headed back in the opposite direction for home. ___________, the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this small woman stood. I was ___________ and didn’t know quite how to behave.

She made her way to our car, “No one has ever done ___________ like this for me before,” she said with ____________. Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, “So, ____________ do you think you’ll eat your lunch?”

She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, “Oh honey, I’m not going to eat this lunch.” I was ____________, but before I could say anything, she continued, “You see, I have a little girl and she just loves McDonald’s, but I don’t have the money. But you know ____________ ? Tonight she is going to have McDonald’s!”

I don’t know if the kids ____________ the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of kindness were too ____________ or insignificant to really effect change. Yet in that moment, I recognized the truth of Mother Teresa’s words: “We cannot do great things — only small things with great love.”

1.

A．tradition

B．ceremony

C．custom

D．habit

2.

A．decision

B．choice

C．contribution

D．plan

3.

A．walked

B．ran

C．wandered

D．drove

4.

A．reminded

B．realized

C．understood

D．thought

5.

A．crowded

B．occupied

C．discovered

D．laid

6.

A．additional

B．expensive

C．cheap

D．special

7.

A．Unfortunately

B．Luckily

C．Unexpectedly

D．Hopefully

8.

A．excited

B．embarrassed

C．frightened

D．annoyed

9.

A．something

B．everything

C．anything

D．nothing

10.

A．amazement

B．fear

C．sorrow

D．amusement

11.

A．what

B．how

C．where

D．when

12.

A．shocked

B．confused

C．pleased

D．worried

13.

A．whether

B．if

C．what

D．that

14.

A．realized

B．felt

C．noticed

D．recognized

15.

A．many

B．small

C．big

D．simple