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。

During my school years, I had only close friend. We spent years together, and we were inseparable, in or out of school. But the Greg moved away, and I never thought it would take more than 40 years to bring us together again.

As children, Greg and I dove into everything with passion. At that time, we were pure (纯真的) and kind, full of curiosity and expectation for life. We raced our bikes and illustrated (给书加插图) our own comic books. We even became attracted to the same girl from around the corner, a sixth -grader named Joanne who barely (几乎不) knew we existed.

The last times a Greg was sometime in 1966. It was so short a meeting that I couldn’t recall saying goodbye before he moved. Since then, we lost touch.

But then, a few summers ago, I saw a familiar woman. “Excuse me. Would your name happen to be Joanne?”

“Uh, yes...” She didn’t recognise me until I explained who I was. We hadn’t exchanged more than a few dozen words in our entire lifetime. “Have you stayed in touch with Greg?” she asked. I was surprised she even knew of our friendship.

“No. I haven’t,” I admitted. “I wish I had.”

Back at the office I checked my messages. I received one email, and then read it from start to finish. The email was from Greg.

Greg had tracked me down through social media. He was now married, had two children and had become a musician and entrepreneur (企业家) . We exchanged several emails before connecting by phone. A month later, my wife and I drove to meet Greg and his family in person.

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。

Standing in front of his house, I began to get nervous.

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Seeing the photo, Greg handed me a small, old card.

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3 . My brother is exactly one year older than me. We look like twins, but we are completely________.By the time we got to middle school it was clear that my older brother________meditation (冥想)，while I was a born________who liked the stage. I took his relative silence to be unfriendly. We simply didn’t________.

I didn’t________having a bad relationship with my brother because I was busy at school.________,I threw myself into the world of music. I practised singing in the bedroom every day to remain at my best and be________for roles; my brother would meditate on a window seat. He might feel high school was already hard enough________my noisy singing. So space to practise became a(n)________between us because we shared a room.

At the start of the term, I practiced “Circle of Life” for a musical play. This was the first time I________to learn a song, because my voice cracked (破音) when I changed to a head voice. I was annoyed in that period and________practising, announcing I had reached the ceiling of my singing career. For the first time in years my brother________quiet when I got home.

After two days of this, my brother asked me to________him in meditation. Feeling my anger at my failure to sing this song________, I accepted. My brother said, “When your mind calms down, you simply come back. Don’t blame yourself." I got the message, and it soon became my new________.I kept trying at the song, no longer getting________at myself. And just in time for the trial (选拔) performance, I was able to________power in my singing despite the change to a head voice. It was important for me to learn that you don’t have to always get everything________the first time and that good things come with________.I now understand why my brother prefers the________.

1.

A．capable

B．unusual

C．different

D．normal

2.

A．preferred

B．disliked

C．replaced

D．adapted

3.

A．writer

B．performer

C．painter

D．leader

4.

A．get along

B．stir up

C．show off

D．check in

5.

A．try

B．mean

C．enjoy

D．mind

6.

A．In case

B．In particular

C．In return

D．In contrast

7.

A．humorous

B．ordinary

C．competitive

D．grateful

8.

A．above

B．below

C．near

D．without

9.

A．opportunity

B．problem

C．agreement

D．balance

10.

A．struggled

B．expected

C．promised

D．decided

11.

A．began

B．allowed

C．continued

D．stopped

12.

A．hated

B．experienced

C．accepted

D．wanted

13.

A．help

B．invite

C．join

D．admire

14.

A．gradually

B．suddenly

C．gracefully

D．carefully

15.

A．limit

B．sentence

C．mistake

D．philosophy

16.

A．rude

B．surprised

C．angry

D．excited

17.

A．maintain

B．remove

C．reduce

D．lose

18.

A．right

B．wrong

C．back

D．down

19.

A．luck

B．talent

C．fear

D．effort

20.

A．noise

B．quiet

C．fight

D．safety

4 . 假定你是李华，希望通过外籍老师Hanna找一位英语笔友。请写一封信，描述一下你理想中笔友的条件，并说明为什么选这样的笔友。具体条件包括：
1.年龄；2.性别；3.爱好（旅游、运动、养宠物等）。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；3.适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear Hanna,

I’m writing to ask whether you are able to do me a favour.

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Yours,

Li Hua

5 . About five years ago I started at a new school when my family moved to Iowa. I was just a little excited, but I worried I would never fit in with (适应) the other sixth graders.

Lucy, a girl in my class, who I thought was not ready for change, didn’t like me from the start. In fact, I was sure she hated me. I could tell she thought I was a fool.

My teacher made us sit by each other for the last term. Lucy was surprised that I didn’t wear make­up (化妆). I didn’t exactly look like the coolest girl. But, I kept smiling at her, though she rolled her eyes, and I kept telling her she looked beautiful, even when she was angry.

Finally, Lucy let me talk to her, even in sight of her “cool” friends. She started telling me how beautiful I looked. I still remember that first time when she smiled at me saying that, and I smiled right back, telling her thanks. Lucy invited me over to her house for a party, and talked to me all the time instead of her other friends.

I may move to Arizona after that, but I will never forget Lucy. She was a great friend. I still smiled at Lucy when she made fun of me. I’m not stupid, I didn’t think she was right in doing those things, but I still put up with (忍受) it. And we became great friends.

About two weeks ago, I read a sentence by Abraham Lincoln: “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Immediately, I smiled, thinking of Lucy.

1. When the author started at a new school in Iowa, she worried ________.

A．she couldn’t get along well with her classmates

B．she looked stupid when asking questions

C．she didn’t look like the coolest girl in her class

D．she was not ready for change at all

2. How did the author change Lucy’s attitude towards her?

A．By wearing make­up.	B．By wearing beautiful clothes.
C．By keeping smiling at Lucy.	D．By sitting beside Lucy in class.

3. From Paragraph 5, we know the author thought ________.

A．it was a waste of time to make friends with Lucy

B．it was right of her to suffer when making friends

C．it was foolish of her to smile at Lucy all the time

D．it was a shameful thing to put up with what Lucy did

4. What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Making friends means losing enemies.	B．Friendship needs to be cared for.
C．Kindness can beat any enemy.	D．Patience is important in making friends.

7 . I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, _____ showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to ______ and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the ____ of one box.   

“What is this?” I asked.

“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.” 

I _____ the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together;   irregular

designs,   childish pictures, a winding line on the right.

“Grandmother made this?” I said, ______. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This _____ didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.

“Yes, right before she died. I _____ it home with me last year and made some   changes ,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”

I looked at it more ___. At the center of the quilt, she had sewn a piece of _____with these words:  “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines _____. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it ______. Her last quilt.” 

“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It ______ to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own _____. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family

____. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and ______ with the loving hands of another.

1.

A．proudly

B．frankly

C．politely

D．generously

2.

A．push

B．lift

C．cover

D．fold

3.

A．top

B．bottom

C．back

D．front

4.

A．pressed

B．spread

C．packed

D．raised

5.

A．excited

B．depressed

C．surprised

D．delighted

6.

A．almost

B．certainly

C．partly

D．probably

7.

A．robbed

B．bought

C．dropped

D．brought

8.

A．disappointingly

B．closely

C．nervously

D．gratefully

9.

A．paper

B．bread

C．wood

D．cloth

10.

A．strong

B．hidden

C．straight

D．bent

11.

A．finished

B．removed

C．produced

D．prepared

12.

A．happened

B．appeared

C．occurred

D．struck

13.

A．skill

B．mother

C．show

D．quilt

14.

A．shame

B．responsibility

C．desire

D．treasure

15.

A．continued

B．stopped

C．declined

D．disappeared

8 . Kids love to go online. There is so much to explore and learn.     1     The answer to the question is as difficult as determining at what age a child can be left at home by themselves, since all children are different. Here are some questions to ask yourself to determine what is right for your child.

    2    

Of course when you are trying to determine if you can let him or her go online, your child has probably already said, “I’m ready; I can handle it.” But are they?     3     How would they handle the material if they ran across it by accident?

    4    

Does your child question other people’s actions? Do they easily believe anything that is presented to them? It is an important question to ask to determine if your child is ready to go online alone.

Have you taught them what the dangers are?

    5    . Have you explained to them that there are people out there that might want to do them harm? It is a dangerous world out there. If you are going to let them wander around in the online world, they need to be prepared for what they might see or run into.

A．You may be thinking this is a strange question to ask yourself.

B．Is your child easy to cheat?

C．There are a lot of dangers online.

D．Are they ready to go online by themselves?

E．Is your child skilled in using a computer?

F．Unfortunately there is a lot of unpleasant material online.

G．At what age should you allow your child to go online alone?

9 . One day, when I was working as a psychologist(心理学家) in England，a boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. “This boy has lost his family,” he wrote. “He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm

very worried about him. Can you help?”

I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.

The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon -- in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?

"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.” Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.

"It’s your turn," he said.

After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.

Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one -- without any words -- can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.Ziyuanku.com

1. When he first met the author, David _________ .

A．felt a little excited	B．walked energetically
C．looked a little nervous	D．showed up with his teacher

2. Which statement about the passage is NOT TRUE?.

A．David enjoyed being with the author.

B．What David really needs is to play chess with someone.

C．David didn't say a word the first two times they met.

D．The author knows how to treat David's problem.

3. What can be inferred about David?

A．He recovered after months of treatment.

B．He liked biking before he lost his family.

C．He went into university soon after starting to talk.

D．He got friends in school before he met the author.

4. What made David change?

A．His teacher’s help.

B．The author’s friendship.

C．His exchange of letters with the author.

D．The author’s silent communication and company with him.

10 . Years ago, I was on a long flight, during which a voice from the speaker said, “We won’t _____ drinks or the meal because we are facing a storm ahead. Please make your seat belts fastened. ”Many passengers became _____, talking about it with each other. At once it became _____ in the plane.

Soon, lightening _____ the darkening skies, and within moments the _____ was like a boat on waves in the storm. One moment it was _____ up by the storm；the next,it was thrown as if it were to _____ onto the ground. All the passengers were _____. Some cried. Some prayed (祈祷). The _____ seemed hopeless. I wondered if we could ______ it through the storm.

Then I noticed the little girl next to me. Surprisingly, the storm seemed to mean ______ to her. She was ______, looking through a picture book. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would ______ again, but she never showed a(n) ______ of worry or fear. The little girl wasn’t afraid at all ______ all the adults were scared to death. Finding me watching her,the girl smiled at me and said,“Don’t worry. My father is the pilot. He is taking me home. Take it easy. He will take us home safely.”

When the plane was out of ______, I smiled at the girl and she gave me a big smile in ______. “I said my father would take us home safely.”

Many kinds of storms may ______ us: diseases, difficulties... They can easily darken our skies and ______ our planes into hard times. Let us ______： Love is the pilot. It will help us out of trouble. So take it easy.

1.

A．serve

B．take

C．get

D．sell

2.

A．excited

B．comfortable

C．happy

D．nervous

3.

A．noisy

B．quiet

C．warm

D．cold

4.

A．broke out

B．came about

C．lit up

D．gave off

5.

A．ship

B．plane

C．train

D．seat

6.

A．lifted

B．cut

C．turned

D．shut

7.

A．jump

B．fly

C．land

D．drop

8.

A．surprised

B．afraid

C．glad

D．interested

9.

A．weather

B．question

C．future

D．action

10.

A．make

B．reach

C．win

D．finish

11.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

12.

A．funny

B．frustrated

C．sad

D．calm

13.

A．talk

B．read

C．play

D．sleep

14.

A．book

B．story

C．expression

D．impression

15.

A．and

B．when

C．so

D．since

16.

A．order

B．date

C．fashion

D．danger

17.

A．turn

B．time

C．return

D．front

18.

A．trouble

B．help

C．encourage

D．stop

19.

A．introduce

B．invite

C．throw

D．change

20.

A．ask

B．remember

C．explain

D．wonder