1 . My memories of my father are divided into parts and shares. Alive, and then dead. Healthy, and then helpless. And further back in time, the first and most division: Present and then absent; loving, and then indifferent.

He used to be a good writer and loving father. When I was a 16-year-old girl, he was fired from his company, a public, gossip-based dismissal that he would spend decades refusing responsibility for. This was the first crack that divided my relationship with him into poles of before and after. To escape his shame, he pushed away those who reminded him of it, first divorcing my mother, then alienating my sister and I.

As an adult, my relationship with my father was one of low expectations and high boundaries. He spent most of his time travelling. But when he died of heart failure in August, I was knocked off balance by the weight of the blow. I thought, after years of setting up delicate fences around our relationship, that I had already begun letting go. His death delivered a realization: despite years of analyzing his complicated love for me, there were pieces of my father I never understood—until I found my father’s notebooks in his cupboard.

In the notebooks, he often collected documentation: train tickets from Rome or a photograph of San Francisco’s Prescott Hotel. But what he was also doing was offering fatherly guidance, the kind I could only receive after he died. His life, in which what he had was never quite enough, was eventually exposed. In his final decade, he realized he had built a castle for himself upon sand and regret. Now in his entries, I hear his voice. “Debaleh,” I hear him say, using his pet name for me, “learn from my mistakes.”

I read these pages among my dad’s clothes, and wept. I hadn’t known that my father, too, lived with that familiar ache for new horizons in his heart, the one that can only be comforted by traveling.

1. Why did the author’s father keep away from his family?

A．They weren’t responsible members.	B．He didn’t get on well with his wife.
C．Their presence recalled his sad experience.	D．They talked behind others’ backs everywhere.

2. What advice did the author’s father give her?

A．Writing a journal carefully.	B．Travelling more for relaxation.
C．Avoiding following in his footsteps.	D．Obeying father’s guidance thoroughly.

3. What made the author end up crying?

A．Finding her father’s clothes.	B．Getting to know her late father.
C．Failing to look for new horizons.	D．Knowing her father’s heart disease.

2 . Sports are important in our family. Both of our sons were high-school athletes. So, I shouldn’t have been _________ when Lauren announced she was going out for the girls’ basketball team. But I was, because she has Down syndrome(唐氏综合症). My wife and I never told Lauren that she was _________. We treated her like our other children. We didn’t want her to feel disabled.

“I’m gonna play basketball, Daddy.” Lauren ran to meet me when I came in from work. She flew into my arms and lingered long in my embrace. “That’s _________, honey,” I patted her shoulder and walked into the kitchen. My wife spoke slowly, her tone steady. “What Lauren’s trying to say is that she’s joining the girls’ high-school basketball team.” Her words _________ in. Everything that could happen flashed through my mind. But what could we do?

Mid-November, the season’s first basketball game arrived. It got off to a good start, but soon Verden, Lauren’s team, was behind. Lauren _________ followed the movement on the court and reacted to every shot. Even though she wasn’t playing, she looked as if she were having the time of her life.

Just less than two minutes were left, and Verden was down by seventeen points when Lauren was called in for the game! She _________ the others fairly well. From her agile movement and eager expression, I knew she was desperate to score for her team. Then they passed Lauren the ball. She _________ it. She shot. She scored! A few minutes later, Lauren joined us in the stands. “Did you see? I scored! I made a _________!”

For sixteen years, I’d tried hard to _________ Lauren from feeling like she was different. But watching Lauren in the game, I saw that she really was different—not physically or emotionally, but __________.

1.

A．disappointed

B．surprised

C．depressed

D．embarrassed

2.

A．normal

B．ordinary

C．different

D．typical

3.

A．awful

B．strange

C．hard

D．nice

4.

A．sank

B．poured

C．came

D．kicked

5.

A．frequently

B．carelessly

C．attentively

D．repeatedly

6.

A．kept pace with

B．gave way to

C．put up with

D．broke away from

7.

A．threw

B．missed

C．cast

D．caught

8.

A．mistake

B．record

C．mess

D．basket

9.

A．excuse

B．shelter

C．discourage

D．prohibit

10.

A．consciously

B．spiritually

C．literally

D．socially

4 . One summer night in a seaside cottage, a boy felt himself lifted from bed. Then, with the swiftness of a dream, he was held in his father’s arms out onto the nearby beach. Overhead the sky blazed with stars. “Watch!” Incredibly, as his father spoke, one of the stars moved. In a line of golden fire it flashed across the astonished heavens. And before the wonder of this could fade, another star leaped from its place, then another, plunging towards the restless sea.

“What’s this?” the child whispered.

“Shooting stars. They come every year on a certain August night. I thought you’d like to see the show.”

That was all: just an unexpected glimpse of something mysterious and beautiful. But, back in bed, the child stared for a long time into the dark, knowing that all around the quiet house, the night was full of the silent music of the falling stars.

Decades have passed, but I remember that night still, because I was the fortunate boy whose father believed that a new experience was more important for a small boy than an unbroken night’s sleep. No doubt I had all the usual childhood entertainment, but those are forgotten now. What I remember is the night of the shooting stars, and the day we rode in a caboose (列车末尾的职工车厢), the telegraph we made that really worked, and the “trophy table” in the dining room where we children were encouraged to exhibit things we had found — anything unusual or beautiful — snake skins, seashells, flowers, arrowheads... I remember the thought-provoking (引人深思的) books left by my bedside that pushed back my horizons and sometimes actually changed my life.

My father had, to a marvellous degree, the gift of opening doors for his children, of leading them into areas of splendid newness. This subtle art of adding dimensions to a child’s world doesn’t necessarily require a great deal of time. It simply involves doing things more often with our children instead of for them or to them.

1. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?

A．The child was still immersed in the beautiful scenery just now.

B．The child was too frightened to fall asleep because of darkness.

C．The child wanted to listen more to the music about falling stars.

D．The child felt grateful to his father for what he showed him.

2. All the things the author remember from his childhood are ________.

A．unusual and novel	B．dangerous and demanding
C．strange and uncommon	D．educational and thought-provoking

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Parents should interfere more with their children’s learning.

B．Parents should push their children to try to do everything on their own.

C．Parents should devote energy to exploring new things for their children.

D．Parents should encourage children to be curious and explore new things in life.

4. What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Limitless knowledge	B．Father, the hero of my life
C．Curiosity aroused that night	D．The unusual things in my life

5 . 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。最近你校正在开展“向榜样致敬向榜样学习”的活动，请你以“My Role Model”为题用英语写一篇短文向校刊《英语园地》投稿。
内容包括：
1. 榜样的事迹；
2. 对你的影响。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

My Role Model

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6 . My dad also taught me, by example, that a healthy lifestyle is important. He was _________ ever sick. I don’t think my dad ever even had a cup of coffee. He seldom touched alcohol.

He would say, “Bonnie，your _________ is a reflection of your overall physical well—being. So _________ you want to sing well，take better care of yourself.” If I became hoarse(嘶哑的)or caught a cold, he didn’t blame(责备) me directly, “Well, Bonnie, you know, if you get to sleep a little earlier, that would probably be a good _________.”

When I decided to get silent about 18 years ago, he told me, “See，Bonnie, it’s so great to see you in such a strong voice _________.”

He just did not complain(抱怨), even when he was uncomfortable towards the end, _________the cancer that eventually _________ his life. He simply made a _________ to be positive.

l am so glad that we had the _________ to perform together. I was touched that he tried singing my music, even though the bluesy style didn’t come ____________ to him. Then, when I had so much Grammy(格莱美奖)____________ with my album Nick of Time in 1990，I realized, hey, I had one of the greatest ____________ of all time in my family. I was very nervous about doing The Boston Pops Show on TV with my dad. To ____________ me, he said, “Bonnie, a beautiful song is a beautiful song. Just ____________ it.” I looked in my dad’s ____________, and there we were singing the Irving Berlin Song.

1.

A．possibly

B．hardly

C．nearly

D．almost

2.

A．voice

B．beauty

C．habit

D．health

3.

A．whether

B．when

C．if

D．though

4.

A．idea

B．question

C．decision

D．deed

5.

A．all in all

B．all over

C．all the time

D．all right

6.

A．from

B．by

C．in

D．at

7.

A．carried

B．took

C．changed

D．lost

8.

A．plan

B．living

C．choice

D．promise

9.

A．time

B．luck

C．energy

D．chance

10.

A．happily

B．fortunately

C．truly

D．naturally

11.

A．difficulty

B．success

C．difference

D．effort

12.

A．dancers

B．editors

C．listeners

D．singers

13.

A．teach

B．train.

C．calm

D．praise

14.

A．forget

B．believe

C．make

D．See

15.

A．mind

B．thought

C．heart

D．eyes

7 . I still remember the day I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy cleaning my car with a brush. I went over and patted (拍) him _________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to smile at me, so I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $100 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your car is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me home? It is only about 3 miles.” What the boy wanted to do was to show off to his friends and his family.

As soon as I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you _________ some day.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. What’s worse, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to _________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his family. Poor as they were, the boy once again refused my money, and said, “I can _________ money by myself, thank you.” Soon I told my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to work here the next day. No matter how poor we are, we would __________ give in (屈服) to ourselves.

1.

A．over

B．off

C．in

D．on

2.

A．switched on

B．needed

C．received

D．took up

3.

A．rich

B．poor

C．handsome

D．brave

4.

A．begged

B．suffered

C．allowed

D．refused

5.

A．bill

B．wheel

C．paper

D．box

6.

A．stressful

B．peaceful

C．excited

D．unfriendly

7.

A．one

B．it

C．this

D．that

8.

A．volunteer

B．graduate

C．climb

D．walk

9.

A．spend

B．stand

C．make

D．prefer

10.

A．always

B．often

C．never

D．ever

9 . My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, who is hesitant to try new things. When with close friends, she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants, “Girls rule, boys drool.” But when that comfort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous.

This has been challenging for me at times. “Shy” is not a word that I think has ever been used to describe me. But this has been a year of firsts for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of confidence. This year she moved to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she learned to ride a bike without training wheels. And this year she completed her first kids’ triathlon (三项全能).

On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son’s birthday party later in the day, we all went out in the dark of the morning for Kelly to participate in her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to bike to run with her. we got all the equipment she’d need, and we kept talking about the race. But as we waited the two hours for the older kids to finish before her turn, she held my leg a little harder and told me she loved me a few too many times. She was nervous but trying to keep it together.

And then it was her turn. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart soared. My daughter transformed into the most confident human being I had ever seen. She dominated that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to the finish with the biggest smile on her face.

I can honestly say that I never felt so proud of someone in my entire life. It wasn’t because she did a sport or anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and conquered that fear with confidence and a fire I hadn’t seen before.

All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I felt like I won that day. I won the chance to see my girl shine.

Shine on, sweet baby.

1. Kelly is nervous when ________.

A．boys are around her	B．she changes into a leader
C．she is away from her mom	D．situations are new to her

2. We can know from Paragraph 3 ________.

A．the race began in the early morning

B．the whole family gave Kelly support

C．Kelly was eager for her turn in the race

D．Kelly prepared for her brother’s birthday party

3. In Paragraph 5, the underlined word “conquered” probably means ________.

A．to defeat someone especially in a competition

B．to succeed in dealing with or control something

C．to become very popular or successful in a place

D．to take control of a country or a city and its people

10 . Katie Whetsell was interested in musicals and Disney movies from an early age. When her mother, Karen, was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer, the family made a _________ to go to Disney World, which had been a long-time dream vacation for Karen. They _________ and headed to Disney World for a trip that none of them would ever _________. Katie would remember forever the moment that _________ her life on that trip. After a long day at the parks, the Whetsells decided to _________ one of Disney World’s many nightly light shows. While watching, a performer _________ Karen and rested her hand on Karen’s shoulder. They exchanged smiles and, to this day, Katie remembers how _________ her mom looked. The whole family was _________ and moved to tears.

This was the day when Katie decided she wanted to _________ for Disney as a performer. Katie began to follow her dream after she received her ____________ in musical theater from Otterbein University. Her hard work finally ____________ when she got a job on Disney Cruise Line (邮轮) in 2009, and later as a ____________ in Disney on Classic (迪士尼音乐会) in Tokyo.

Katie has a strong message for everyone, ____________ people who may be experiencing a hard time. “Just like in your favorite Disney movie,” she says, “there is always some kind of ____________ or pressure. But remember to ____________ those moments, too, because they are taking you to your happy ending.”

1.

A．comment

B．summary

C．presentation

D．decision

2.

A．gave in

B．settled down

C．packed up

D．took over

3.

A．benefit

B．forget

C．finish

D．dislike

4.

A．saved

B．balanced

C．shortened

D．changed

5.

A．request

B．admire

C．introduce

D．organize

6.

A．approached

B．defended

C．persuaded

D．affected

7.

A．respectful

B．peaceful

C．cheerful

D．powerful

8.

A．touched

B．ashamed

C．distracted

D．anxious

9.

A．care

B．search

C．work

D．stand

10.

A．degree

B．job

C．blessing

D．reward

11.

A．broke out

B．paid off

C．showed up

D．came around

12.

A．director

B．writer

C．journalist

D．performer

13.

A．exactly

B．actually

C．especially

D．gradually

14.

A．violence

B．hardship

C．loneliness

D．doubt

15.

A．celebrate

B．recognize

C．spend

D．select