The time has come — I’m graduating, and I thank you both for all your help throughout these 15 years. I still remember when you used to say, “You can be whatever you want.” I’m so glad you are my parents, especially when I hear other kids say they don’t get on well with theirs. I’m glad that you support me when I decide to do anything. You always try to help, and that’s important to me.
Dad, I remember when you first took me fishing. I loved going even though I never caught anything. I also remember when you would get angry with me. I realize you were only trying to show me the right way. When I cried, you would always be there to try to cheer me up. That’s what I call a good, loving and caring dad. Sometimes you and Mom don’t agree with me, but you are there on my side in anything that I do, and that’s why I love you so much.
Mom, I enjoy going out with you and having our happy time every Friday night, and I hope that that never changes. I love telling you everything and the best part of you is that you listen. I’m glad we have a lot of fun together. You always give me your opinion and I listen. Thank you for bringing me up.
There may be many frustrations and setbacks on the road to the future, but the thought of your support and help fills my heart with strength. Dear Mom and Dad, I love you and I love our family. I hope and believe that we will be happy all the time.
Love always,
Alison
1. Alison writes the letter to show to her parents.| A．wishes | B．support | C．help | D．thanks |
| A．have problems with | B．get on well with |
| C．like to have a chat with | D．like to listen to |
| A．When she didn’t accept him. | B．When she didn’t catch any fish. |
| C．When she didn’t do things in the right way. | D．When she didn’t agree with her parents. |
| A．Cheering up each other. | B．Listening to each other and having fun together. |
| C．Encouraging each other. | D．Going out together. |
2 . I am Lucy, a 15-year-old girl from India and I think believing is a great power that can change anything in your life.
When I was 13, almost everyone just thought I was a kid so I did not have to worry about anything. But that was not true because I was bored with everything I was learning. Besides, my mother didn’t understand me.
When I was 14, things changed. My friend encouraged me to learn music and I just found out that I had a strong interest in music so I started spending much time on it. Soon I wanted to be a part of it. So I researched it and then I wanted to be a part of an academy(专科院校) that trains musicians. But the problem was that it was in a different country. Although my parents might not be on my side, I never gave up my dream.
During the next year, I practised my skills in dancing, singing and flexibility. I was in senior high school and had to be a boarder(寄宿生). My mother made me focus on my study. But I was busy preparing for auditions(试镜) of that academy and I was doing everything I could to prove it. To get what I wanted, I had that academy’s photos all over my room and that city’s main monument on my phone’s wallpaper.
After a year in 2022, I finally gave my best audition of that academy on the Internet and I got in! I was happy but sometimes I wondered whether my parents were going to agree to it or not, Fortunately, my parents agreed and I flew to that country to give the last phase of an interview to join that academy. I passed and later was sent there for training.
It was not surprising that I finally got the chance to live in the city of my dream and train in the academy of my dream, as I believed everything was going to work out as long as I held on to my dream.
1. What can we infer about the 13-year-old Lucy?| A．She had fun every day. | B．Everyone supported her. |
| C．She was unhappy with her life. | D．A dream started in her heart. |
| A．Her teacher. | B．Her mother. | C．Her friend. | D．Her father. |
| A．Her effort and determination. | B．Her family background. |
| C．Her curiosity about new things | D．Her talent for performance. |
| A．It was a stage to make her famous. | B．It was within her expectation after hard work. |
| C．It made her love her mother more. | D．It was a new way to make friends. |
Tom’s family was a small family on the coastal line of a small village. Tom was 11 years old. He was tall, dark and handsome and had a lot of dreams. He had always dreamt of living in a city. He was always his dad’s charm, as he was not quite happy to spend time with his mom. All he could remember about his mom was her scars, red and white scars on her face, neck and hands. He always felt unpleasant to see his mom’s face. But what he did not know was that his mom scratched her beauty to save him from a fire when he was one year old. Not wanting to burden him with it, Tom’s parents kept it a secret.
His mom Maria used to drop him to school and pick him up every day. He felt awkward to see his mom with that scarred face standing in front of the school gate. As he was laughing and chatting with his fellow schoolmates, all of them became silent and started staring at the gate. So, Tom turned towards the gate with a lot of curiosity. He froze when seeing his mom, face covered with a piece of cloth. Tom felt ashamed and rushed out of the school with lots of anger.
With days passing by, Tom started to dislike his mom more. He did not like to get picked up or dropped by his mom. He felt that she was ugly and so abnormal. As he grew old, he stopped going out with her to the market or anywhere outside. Kamala tried her best to make her son happy, got him everything that he wanted and gave him his space. She understood what her son was going through and felt pity for herself and sad for her son, as she was helpless.
When Tom turned 16, he was sent to a city high school 80 kilometers away from his coastal village. The very thought of not being with his ugly mother made him very happy.
Three years later, then came Tom’s graduation ceremony. His parents didn’t want to be absent from such an important occasion, so they managed to be there without informing Tom.
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Tom was shocked when he saw his parents appear at the ceremony hall.
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“We haven’t seen each other for half a year, and I have got a special present for him!” Davey said to himself. “How I wish he could get here!” Davey turned away from the window with a sigh (叹气).
In the afternoon, Davey and his parents drove to the town to buy a Christmas tree. When they finished shopping and were about to leave the store, Davey saw a crowd of people outside. He ran to get a closer look. It was Santa Claus (圣诞老人)! Children were waiting in line to express their wishes to him. “Can I get in line, please Dad?” asked Davey. “Well, we’re kind of in a hurry,” said his dad. “But since this is Santa Claus, I guess we can spare the time.”
Davey gave his dad a big thank-you hug and ran to the line. When it was finally his turn, Davey climbed up on Santa’s lap. Santa asked, “Well, what would you like for Christmas?”
“I wish my cousin Josh could get home for Christmas,” Davey said. “But the snow is so deep that Mom and Dad don’t think he can make it.” Having known from the weather forecast(预报) that it would clear up with the snow stopping in the late afternoon, Santa Claus said, “I don’t usually deliver people on Christmas Eve, but I’ll tell you what to do. Tonight, before you go to sleep, make your wish on the biggest, brightest star in the sky. That’s the Wishing Star and it might hear your heart.”
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When it finally came to the bedtime, Davey rushed to the window.
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Just then, they heard the doorbell.
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Adam lived with his parents in one city while his grandparents lived far away in another city. Adam’s parents usually took their son to his grandparents’ house during summer holiday every year and stayed there for around 20 days. Adam’s grandfather loved him very much and spent a lot of time playing with him. His grandmother always cooked delicious food for him. Adam loved his stay there. This continued for years. The boy grew up over time.
One day Adam said to his parents, “Now, I am old enough to go to grandparents’ house alone. So, please let me go by myself.”
His parents didn’t agree at first but Adam insisted(坚持). They finally agreed. But they were worried about his safety. So, they taught him everything he needed to know to travel alone.
The day came when Adam was to leave for his grandparents’ house. And his parents came to see him off at the train station. When the boy was comfortably seated on the train, his parents got off and waited for the train to leave.
While waiting, the father went to the window and kept talking to his son. He handed his son an envelope(信封) from the window and said, “Son, if you feel afraid on the way, open this and read it. It will help you to calm down.”
The boy kept that envelope in his pocket carefully and said goodbye to his parents. When the train was ready to leave, the boy smiled and told his father, “I remember everything. Don’t worry.”
At every station where the train stopped, people kept coming and going. The boy started feeling a little lonely.
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At one station, a big man with cuts on his face got on the train.
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Another thing she taught me was punctuality (守时). She set a good example with her own behaviour. She was always on time, so we students tried our best to be on time. She surprised us
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7 . I live in New York city and my neighbours are people I don’t know. My city, neighborhood and block are filled with people who don’t know me, don’t care to know me, and don’t talk to me. I find that it’s pretty hard to love people you don’t even know. And sometimes, we all, myself included, use that as an excuse not to try. I read Brendan’s story recently and was moved.
One day, Brendan, a young man in New York was on the way back to his Brooklyn apartment when a homeless woman called Jackie asked him for money. He said that he had no money. By the end of the week, she asked two more times, and each time he answered “No”. The woman looked sad, so Brendan said, “I am on my way to a job interview. If I get the job, I’ll take you out for lunch.”
Brendan got the job. He took Jackie out for lunch. That was when their friendship began. They built a strong friendship by supporting each other and spending their birthdays, holidays and difficult times together, over a period of eight years. When Brendan’s heater broke, Jackie made a blanket for him. Two days later when he told her that he had lost his job, she left and returned minutes later, bring him food to eat. She continued to do that during the whole winter. Even with so little, she often gave back.
Over these years, Jackie moved from the streets and subway stations into a halfway house, and is now moving into an apartment. To celebrate it, Brendan wanted to do something special for Jackie. He went with her and helped her to pick out everything she would need for her new apartment.
May Brendan’s story encourage us to find a new way to honour, serve and love the people around us.
1. What can we learn about the author from paragraph 1?| A．He often stays indoors. | B．He cares about his neighbours. |
| C．He is good at making friends. | D．He hardly talk to his neighbours |
| A．He was angry with her. | B．He didn’t give her any. |
| C．He offered her some food. | D．He gave her some spare change. |
| A．They developed a new friendship. | B．They helped each other to find work. |
| C．They fell in love with each other. | D．They discovered they were classmates. |
| A．Jackie’s finding work. | B．Jackie’s moving from the streets. |
| C．Jackie’s moving into an apartment. | D．Jackie’s moving into a halfway house. |
8 . “Dad,” I sai one day, “Let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly out and meet me?”
My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father saw me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wanted me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agreed to travel with me through some national parks. We met four weeks later in Rapid City.
“What is our first stop?” asked my father.
“What time is it?”
“Still don’t have a watch?”
Less than an hour away was Mount Rushmore. As he stared up at the four Presidents carved in rocks, his mouth and eyes opened slowly, like those of a little boy. “Unbelievable,” he said, “how was this done?”
Sculptor Gutzon devoted 14 years to this sculpture and then left the final touches to his son. We stared up and I asked myself, “Would I ever devote my life to anything?”No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we were at Yellowstone National Park, where we had a picnic. “Did you ever travel with your dad?” I asked. “Only once” he said. “I never spoke much to my father. We loved each other-but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”
The last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father—is what I would want my child to say about me.
In Glacier National Park, my father said, “I have never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.
Weeks after our trip, I called my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he said. “We have got to take another trip like that sometime.” I told him I had decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.
1. What can we learn about the father from paragraph 2 and 3?| A．He followed the fashion. |
| B．He got bored with his job. |
| C．He was unhappy with the author’s lifestyle. |
| D．He liked the author’s collection of stamps. |
| A．He wants his children to learn from their grandfather. |
| B．He comes to understand what parental love means. |
| C．He learns how to communicate with his father. |
| D．He hopes to give whatever he can to his father. |
| A．The call solved their disagreements. |
| B．The Swiss Watch has drawn them closer. |
| C．They decided to learn photography together. |
| D．They began to change their attitudes to life. |
| A．Love nature, love life. | B．A son lost in adventure. |
| C．A journey with dad. | D．The art of travel. |
In your daily life，there are many examples where your parents control hundreds
10 . “MOTHER” is a beautiful word. We are
An old woman was
For the
She then sat next to him and
That boy is Rahul who now is well educated with a
| A．annoyed | B．frightened | C．lucky | D．nervous |
| A．tough | B．more | C．unique | D．specific |
| A．importance | B．concern | C．arrangement | D．personality |
| A．standing | B．sitting | C．packing | D．crying |
| A．busy | B．happy | C．bored | D．careful |
| A．thought | B．hoped | C．advised | D．replied |
| A．ago | B．before | C．later | D．early |
| A．third | B．last | C．next | D．second |
| A．weak | B．soft | C．gentle | D．loud |
| A．argue | B．suggest | C．doubt | D．understand |
| A．filled with | B．free from | C．afraid of | D．used to |
| A．goodbye | B．hello | C．thanks | D．sorry |
| A．break down | B．calm down | C．check out | D．give up |
| A．wrote | B．read | C．told | D．brought |
| A．chatted | B．recovered | C．rested | D．surfed |
| A．seconds | B．times | C．moments | D．years |
| A．patiently | B．fluently | C．quickly | D．amazingly |
| A．worker | B．son | C．pet | D．mother |
| A．low-grade | B．second-hand | C．high-priced | D．well-paid |
| A．miss | B．help | C．treat | D．admire |
