1 . Our “Mommy and Me” time began two years ago. My next-door neighbor and fellow mother, Christie, and I were out in our front yards, watching seven children of age 6 and under ride their bikes up and down. “I wish I could take one of my children out alone,” said Christie.
Then we worked out a plan: When Christie takes one of her children out, I’ll watch her other three. And when she watches two of mine, I’ll take someone out.
The children were extremely quick to accept the idea of “Mommy and Me” time. Christie’s daughter, McKenzie, went first. When she returned, the other children showered her with tons of questions. McKenzie was smiling broadly. Christie looked refreshed and happy. “She’s like a different child when there’s no one else around,” Christie shared with me quickly. With her mother all to herself, McKenzie didn’t have to make an effort to gain attention.
Just as Christie had noticed changes in McKenzie, I also discovered something different in each of my children during our alone times. For example, I am always surprised when my daughter, who is seldom close to me, holds my hand frequently. My stuttering（口吃的）son, Tom, doesn’t stutter once during our activities since he doesn’t have to struggle for a chance to speak. And the other son, Sam, who’s always a follower when around other children shines as a leader during our times together.
The “Mommy and Me” time allows us to be simply alone and away with each child ---talking, sharing, and laughing, which has been the biggest gain. Every child deserves（应得到）to be an only child at least once in a while.
1. What is the text mainly about?

A．The experience of the only child being with mother.

B．The advantage of spending time with one child at a time.

C．The happy life of two families.

D．The basic needs of children.

2. Right after McKenzie came back, the other children were _____________.

A．happy

B．curious

C．regretful

D．friendly

3. What is one of the changes the author finds in her children?

A．The daughter acts like a leader.	B．Sam holds her hand more often.
C．The boys become better followers.	D．Tom has less difficulty in speaking.

4. The author seems to believe that ___________.

A．having brothers and sisters is fun

B．it’s tiring to look after three children

C．every child needs parents’ full attention

D．parents should watch others’ children

2 . How to Make Friends, According to Science

Friendship is one of life’s most important features, and one too often taken for granted.

The human desire for companionship may feel boundless, but research suggests that our social capital is finite—we can only handle a certain number of relationships at one time. Social scientists have used some creative approaches to measure the size of people’s social networks; these have returned estimates ranging from about 250 to about 5,500 people. Looking more specifically at friendship, a study using the exchange of Christmas cards to test closeness put the average person’s friend group at about 121 people. However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1998 to 2017, the average number of trusted friends decreased from three to two. This is both sad and of important consequence, because people who have strong social relationships tend to live longer than those who don’t.

So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Here the research is instructive. To begin with, don’t refuse to consider the humble acquaintance（交情）. Even interacting with people with whom one has weak social ties has a meaningful influence on well-being. Beyond that, building deeper friendships may be largely a matter of putting in time. A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.

If that sounds like too much effort, renewing inactive social ties can be especially rewarding. Reconnected friends can quickly recapture the trust they previously built, while offering each other a dash of novelty（新奇）drawn from whatever they’ve been up to in the meantime. And if all else fails, you could start randomly to tell secrets to people you don’t know that well. Self-disclosure makes us more likable, and as a bonus, we are more likely to favor those to whom we have revealed our soul.

Longing for closeness and connection is common and everywhere, which suggests that most of us are stumbling（跌跌撞撞）through the world, expecting companionship that could be easily provided by the lonesome stumblers all around us. So set aside this article, turn to someone nearby, and try to make a friend.

1. From Paragraph 2, we can know that             .

A．a strong social relationship can guarantee a long life

B．real friendships are based on the exchange of presents

C．people’s inner circle is decreasing despite large social networks

D．people’s social networks depend on their desire for companionship

2. What does the author suggest to improve one’s social life?

A．Sharing secrets with close friends.

B．Choosing likable people as friends.

C．Avoiding the humble acquaintance.

D．Spending time for deeper friendships.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The tips on how to develop friendship.

B．The reasons for seeking companionship.

C．The benefits brought by a good social life.

D．The relationship between friendship and happiness.

4. The author helps readers better understand his idea mainly by             .

A．using research results

B．making comparisons

C．giving some examples

D．telling personal stories

3 . It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade, or so we thought. We bought the latest rage, Baby Sitter's Club dolls, and a doll house. Then, much to our surprise, on December 23^rd, she said that she "really wanted a bike more than anything else." It was just too late, with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last minute gifts, to take the time to select the "right bike" for our little girl. It was Christmas Eve around 9:00 p.m.. Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, lay comfortably in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child. "What if I make a little bicycle out of clay (黏土) and write a note that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?" her dad asked. "This is an expensive item and she is 'such a big girl,' it would be much better for her to pick it out." So he spent the next four hours painstakingly (尽心地) working with clay to make a tiny bike. On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud. "Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?" Beaming, I said, "Yes." Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, "I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. I'd rather keep this than get a real bike." At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!

1. Choose the right time order of the following events.
a. The girl asked for a new bike.
b. The girl opened the little heart-shaped package.
c. The parents bought the girl a modern and popular doll.
d. The father made the girl a bike with clay.
e. The girl would rather keep the clay bike than get a real one.

A．a, b, c, e, d	B．a, c, d, b, e
C．a, c, b, d, e	D．a, b, d, c, e

2. Why did Dad make the clay bicycle?

A．He wanted his daughter to buy a real one.

B．He didn't want to disappoint his daughter.

C．He thought his daughter would like it.

D．He wanted to give his daughter a surprise.

3. What can be inferred from the last sentence?

A．The parents were happy and encouraged.

B．The parents felt comfortable and relaxed.

C．The parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.

D．The parents felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.

4. Which do you think is the best title for the story?

A．A Lovely Little Girl

B．A Great and Serious Father

C．A Clay Bike

D．Christmas Shopping

4 . 假设你是红星中学高一(1)班学生李华。你准备参加学校举办的“我心目中的英雄”演讲比赛，请围绕下面内容，写一篇演讲稿：
1. 我心目中的英雄；
2. 我选择他/她作为心目中的英雄的原因；
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5 . Summer is slipping away from me. Some days, it makes me want to cry. Other days, I feel a sense of expectation within me just thinking about fall that makes me want to burst. Tonight, all five of us were in the family room doing our own things.

At this moment, my littlest kid is my number one trouble and my number one joy. He has a tooth on the way and although it’s such a tiny thing, it’s causing so much grief. I’m holding him a lot and I’m not going to lie. I live for his afternoon nap (小睡) so I’m able to actually get dressed and use the restroom.

The big E is starting school soon. The other day, I found myself a bit depressed about the end of summer and the beginning of another school year. I looked out of our front window with eyes that were heavy and a bit teary. Then, I suddenly realized just how silly this end of summer depression of mine is. I can’t change time. But, I can change my emotions and my thoughts. I decided not to spend my final days of summer vacation walking around with a sad face. I decided to hug the last few days of summer and remind myself that before I know it, we will be back in our school routine and all will go well.

This week we plan on meeting teachers. I'm taking my girl to have her nails done before her first day of kindergarten. We want to bake a few dozen cookies. We'll take our evening walks as usual and stay up late. And last but not least, I’ll get school clothes ready, I’ll pack lunches and write lunch notes, we’ll read “The Kissing Hand,” like we normally do, and I’ll tuck (掖好被子) my third grader and kindergartener in their little beds before the big first day.

Thank you summer, you’ve been warm and wonderful, you’ve been sweet and sticky, you’ve been refreshing and exactly what we need. And your sunsets have been amazing, so thank you.

1. According to Paragraph 1, the author ___________.

A．feels excited	B．has bad feelings
C．feels worried	D．has mixed feelings

2. How will the author spend the final days of the summer vacation?

A．Live a simple life.	B．Stay at home and relax herself.
C．Treasure the vacation.	D．Walk around with a depressed face.

3. From the passage, we can learn that the author ___________.

A．is fond of reading novels	B．often takes evening walks
C．has two annoying children	D．has no time to get dressed

6 . As a young man, Al was a skilled artist. He had a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some ______ intestinal(肠内的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously. But the boy ______ suddenly that night.

Knowing the death could have been ______ if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, Al's emotional health became worse under the huge burden of his ______. To make matters worse, his wife ______ him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two ______ were more than Al could handle, and he ______ to alcohol. In time Al became an alcoholic.

____ the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he ______ —his home, his land, his art objects, everything. ______ Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room.

When I heard of Al’s death, I thought that Al’s life was a complete _______.

As time went by, I began to re-evaluate (重新评价) my earlier judgment. I knew Al's now ______ son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known. I ______ Ernie with his children and saw the free flow of love between them. I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere.

I hadn’t heard Ernie talk much about his ______. One day I worked up my ______ to ask him. “I’m really ______ by something,” I said. “I know your father was ______ the only one to raise you. What on earth did he do to make you become such a special person?”

Ernie sat quietly and ______ for a few moments. Then he said, “From my earliest ______ as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ‘I love you, son.’”

Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to ______ Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever known.

1.

A．certain

B．rare

C．common

D．basic

2.

A．choked

B．died

C．starved

D．worsened

3.

A．cured

B．saved

C．forbidden

D．prevented

4.

A．guilt

B．debt

C．disease

D．duty

5.

A．quarreled

B．scolded

C．left

D．forgave

6.

A．conditions

B．situations

C．conflicts

D．adventures

7.

A．turned

B．drank

C．got

D．sank

8.

A．Because

B．Though

C．As

D．If

9.

A．needed

B．shared

C．benefited

D．possessed

10.

A．Gradually

B．Eventually

C．Therefore

D．Meanwhile

11.

A．failure

B．hardship

C．trouble

D．waste

12.

A．teen

B．adolescent

C．aged

D．adult

13.

A．identified

B．watched

C．catered

D．treated

14.

A．mother

B．brother

C．father

D．child

15.

A．belief

B．confidence

C．courage

D．faith

16.

A．puzzled

B．worried

C．interested

D．attracted

17.

A．especially

B．basically

C．merely

D．specially

18.

A．argued

B．searched

C．reflected

D．analyzed

19.

A．thoughts

B．ideas

C．minds

D．memories

20.

A．treat

B．call

C．judge

D．feel

7 . 你的英国朋友Tom将来你家共度除夕，你打算当天下午去地铁站接他。请你用英文写一封电子邮件，告知他相关信息。
1. 你们全家都欢迎他；
2. 接他的地点和时间：地铁四号线中关村站西北出口，2月18日下午4点；
3. 晚上的主要安排：……
注意:1. 词数100左右；

2. 所有要点必须包括在内；

3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

How is everything going?   __________________________________________________________________

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Best wishes

Li Hua

8 . When going through major life changes, like changing careers, I would change the people with whom I spent the most time. We’ve all gone through periods when the people in our lives have changed—graduation, moving to a new city, getting a new job, joining a new club, etc. I don’t think I need to convince you just how much influence other people can have over your identity. If you’ve ever experienced a major switch in your people environment, then you know that you change as well.

Most people don’t make these choices consciously though. You might consciously decide to spend more time with a certain friend, or you may ask someone out on a date to begin a new relationship. But few people choose their existing friendships deliberately.

There’s no “getting rid of people”. People are always dropping into and out of each other’s lives. Associations grow into friendships, and friendships fade into associations. You don’t get rid of anyone. The truth is that in order to make room for new people and new experiences, you may need to loosen up some of your existing connections.

What about loyalty? Shouldn’t you always be loyal to your friends? Once you have a close friend, even if their influence on you is slightly harmful, shouldn’t you stick by them?

Loyalty to a friend sometimes means having to let go. It means being loyal to their highest and best as well. If someone is destroying his health by smoking, for example, you aren’t showing loyalty by smoking right along with him. True loyally sometimes requires that you break damaging connections, get yourself back on solid ground, and then decide what you can really do to help your friend.

It can take a lot of courage to tell someone, “I’m sorry, but I can’t have you in my life anymore." But even though this might seem like a selfish act at times, it’s often the best thing for the other person too. If a relationship is holding you back in some way, understand that it is also hurting the other person. For example, if you work for a violent boss, your acceptance of that situation is considered to be silent approval, encouraging your boss to continue to behave violently.

1. When experiencing major life changes, people may ________.

A．join a new social community	B．influence their friends around
C．choose their friendships purposely	D．have their people environment changed

2. What can be concluded from Paragraph 3 in the passage?

A．Everyone has at least one friend.

B．Friendship still exists though there’s less connection.

C．It is unnecessary to make new friends.

D．You ought to treat your old and new friend equally.

3. What is the author’s opinion on the loyalty to friends?

A．Never betray your close friends whatever happens.

B．Correct their mistakes while you guard their goodness.

C．Stick by your friends even though they do harm lo you.

D．Break up with your friends immediately if they smoke.

4. How should we behave when employed by a violent boss?

A．We should accept what we are told to do.

B．We should stay silent and be in favor of it.

C．We should bravely disobey him if he is wrong.

D．We should give our boss courage to continue.

9 . Sarah came running in. “Look what I found.” Over the top of the paper I was reading came a crispy long object that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin that had been shed by one of our many garden snakes.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” said my wide-eyed seven-year-old.

I stared at the organic wrapper and thought to myself that it really wasn’t that beautiful, but I have learned never to appear uninterested with children. They see only good quality and excellence in the world until educated otherwise.

“Why does it do this?” Sarah asked.

“Snakes shed their skin because they need to renew themselves,” I explained. “Why do they need to renew themselves?” Sarah asked.

I suddenly remembered an article on this page many years ago where the writer was expressing her concept of renewal. She used layers of paper over a wall to describe how we hide our original selves, and said that by peeling away those layers one by one, we see the original beneath. “We often need to shed our skins and those coatings that we cover ourselves with,” I said to my now absorbed daughter. “We outgrow some things and find other ones unwanted or unnecessary. This snake no longer needs this skin. It is probably too crinkly（起皱的）for him, and he probably doesn’t think he looks as smart in it as he once did.”

Sarah was getting the point. As we talked, I knew that she began to understand, although slightly, that renewal is part of progress; that we need to take a good look at ourselves, our rooms, schoolwork and creativity, and see what we need to keep and what we need to cast off. I was careful to point out that this is a natural consequence of their growth.

“I see, Dad,” said Sarah and jumped off my lap and ran off.

I hoped she would remember this. That often, in order to find our real selves underneath the layers of community and culture with which we cover ourselves year after year, we need to start examining these layers. We need to gently peel some away, as we recognize them to be worthless or unnecessary; or at best, store the ones thrown away as mementoes（念想）of our promotion to a better vitality or spirit.

1. At the first sight of the snake skin, the author was        .

A．scared	B．puzzled
C．uninterested	D．excited

2. Sarah learned from her father that renewal is        .

A．to recover the layers inside

B．to review what has been done

C．a natural part of getting mature

D．the process of finding the unwanted

3. It can be inferred from the passage that the author ________.

A．dislikes the snake skin at all

B．shows concern for nature and culture

C．can grasp the chance to educate children

D．often encourages his daughter to raise questions

4. The author mainly tells the reader that ________.

A．snakes cast off the layers to look smarter

B．we should renew ourselves to get improved

C．snakes shed their skins to renew themselves

D．we should explore our original nature underneath

10 . On a foggy evening, Steven took his old father to a restaurant for dinner. His father was very old and weak. While eating, he_______dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Other_______watched him in disgust while his son was _______.

The whole restaurant fell _______. All the diners turned away from the father and son one after another while Steven _______his father in a soft voice of a man, “Eat as _______ as you can, father. It will be weeks before I _______back from my business trip.”

At that moment, the old father nodded with_______, tears full of his eyes.

After he finished eating, Steven, his son, who was not at all_______, quietly took him to the wash room,________the food particles(饭粒), removed the stains, combed his hair and________ his glasses firmly.

When they came out, the entire restaurant was________ them in dead silence, not able to understand ________someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that. The son________ the bill and started walking out with his father.

At that time, an old man among the diners called out to the ________ and asked him, “Don’t you think you have ________ something behind?”.

The son replied, "No sir, I haven't".

The old man insisted, “Yes, you have! You left a(n) ________ for every son and hope for every ________”.

The restaurant went silent. All behind looked at Steven with regret and then, with great respect at both father and son, who were________ into the fog.

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the________ honors. We all know how our parents cared for us for every little thing. Love them, respect them, and care for them.

1.

A．freely

B．constantly

C．regularly

D．silently

2.

A．waiters

B．waitresses

C．diners

D．men

3.

A．angry

B．calm

C．anxious

D．fearful

4.

A．lucky

B．happy

C．hopeless

D．speechless

5.

A．encouraged

B．urged

C．begged

D．mentioned

6.

A．quickly

B．slowly

C．less

D．much

7.

A．run

B．write

C．come

D．phone

8.

A．unhappiness

B．difficulty

C．thanks

D．surprise

9.

A．worried

B．tired

C．regretful

D．embarrassed

10.

A．wiped

B．threw

C．washed

D．ate

11.

A．pull

B．removed

C．fitted

D．picked

12.

A．watching

B．holding

C．commenting

D．studying

13.

A．when

B．how

C．what

D．where

14.

A．forgot

B．counted

C．refused

D．paid

15.

A．father

B．son

C．dinners

D．waiter

16.

A．took

B．ignored

C．left

D．deserted

17.

A．lesson

B．story

C．encouragement

D．experience

18.

A．diner

B．one

C．son

D．father

19.

A．moving

B．going

C．driving

D．running

20.

A．respected

B．best

C．highest

D．extraordinary