3 . There is an old Chinese proverb that states “One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade,” and this is how it should be with mothers and daughters. The relationship between a mother and a daughter is sometimes confusing. The relationship can be similar to friendship. However, the mother and daughter relationship has unique characteristics that distinguish it from a friendship. These characteristics include a hierarchy (等级) of responsibilities and unconditional love, which preclude mothers and daughters from being best friends.

Marina, 27 years old, said, “I love spending time with my mom, but I wouldn’t consider her my best friend. Best friends don’t pay for your wedding. Best friends don’t remind you how they carried you in their body and gave you life! Best friend: don’t tell you how wise they are because they have been alive at least 20 years longer than you.” This doesn’t mean that the mother and daughter relationship can’t be very close and satisfying.

While some adult relationships are still troubled, many find them to be extremely rewarding. This generation of mothers and adult daughters has a lot in common, which increases the likelihood of shared companionship. Mothers and daughters have always shared the common experience of being homemakers, responsible for maintaining and passing on family values and traditions. Today contemporary mothers and daughters also share the experience of the workforce and technology, which may bring them even closer together.

Best friends may or may not continue to be best friends, but for better or worse, the mother and daughter relationship is permanent, even if for some unfortunate reason they aren’t speaking. The mother and child relationship is closer than any other. There is not an equal relationship. Daughters should not feel responsible for their mother’s emotional well-being. It isn’t that they don’t care deeply about their mothers. It’s just that they shouldn’t be burdened with their mother’s well-being.

The mother and daughter relationship is a relationship that is not replaceable by any other. Mothers never stop being mothers, which includes frequently wanting to protect their daughters and often feeling responsible for their happiness. Mothers always “trump (胜过)” friends.

1. What does the underlined word “preclude” in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．differ

B．prevent

C．benefit

D．change

2. What do we know from the text?

A．The mother and daughter relationship can be replaced by a best friend.

B．A mother’s love brings her and her daughter a close friendship.

C．The mother and daughter relationship goes beyond best friends’ friendship.

D．Marina has a troubled relationship with her mother.

3. How does the author mainly prove his statements?

A．By listing data.	B．By giving explanations.
C．By quoting sayings.	D．By giving examples.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．How to Be a Good Mother and Daughter?	B．Who Is a Mother’s Best Friend?
C．Mothers or Friends?	D．Can a Mother Be a Daughter’s Best Friend?

4 . 假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Tom将来中国某中学进行交换学习，他来信告诉你他不知道如何和新同学相处，请你根据以下要点给他回信，给出相关建议。

1.多与同学交流；2. 对人友好，多交朋友；3. 多参加课外活动。

注意：1. 信件内容完整，首句已给出，记得补全；

2. 词数80词左右，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

I’m glad to know that you have come to study in China. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Yours,

Li Hua

5 . 观察下面的图片，根据图片内容，用英语写一个小故事。

注意：
1.可以适当添加细节，以使情节连贯；
2.词数100左右；
3.首句已经给出，不计入词数。

On the first day of school, Sally’s father promised that he would pick her up after school.

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6 . One day when I was 5, my mother scolded (责骂) me for not finishing my breakfast and I got angry. I wanted to play outside and not to be made to finish eating my breakfast. When angrily opening the screen door with my foot, I kicked back about a 12-inch part of the lower left hand corner of the new screen door. But I had no remorse, for I was happy to be playing in the backyard with my toys.

Today, I know if my child had done what I did, I would have scolded my child, and told him about how expensive this new screen door was, and I would have delivered a spanking (打屁股) for it. My parents never said a word. They left the corner of the screen door pushed out, creating an opening, a breach (裂缝) in the defense against unwanted insects.

For years, every time I saw that corner of the screen, it would constantly make me think about my mistake. For years, I knew that everyone in my family would see that hole and remember who did it. For years, every time I saw a fly buzzing (嗡嗡) in the kitchen, I would wonder if it came in through the hole that I had created with my angry foot. I would wonder if my family members were thinking the same thing, silently blaming me every time a flying insect entered our home, making life more terrible for us all. My parents taught me a valuable lesson, one that a spanking or stern (严厉的) words perhaps could not deliver. Their silent punishment for what I had done delivered a hundred stern messages to me. Above all, it has helped me become a more patient person and not burst out so easily.

1. When the author damaged the door, his parents ________.

A．gave him a spanking

B．left the door unrepaired

C．scolded him for what he had done

D．told him how expensive it was

2. The underlined word “remorse” in Paragraph 1 most probably means________.

A．regret

B．joy

C．anger

D．notice

3. The experience may cause the author ________.

A．to hide his anger away from others

B．not to go against his parents’ will

C．to have a better control of himself

D．not to make mistakes in the future

4. What is the main idea of this text?

A．Adults should ignore their children’s bad behavior.

B．Parents are the best teachers of their children.

C．Patience is the key to becoming a better person.

D．One learns most when shown the result of his/her action.

7 . Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone, not in features but in footsteps. As he grows you also age, and your dreams become more unachievable. You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably finish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren’t written until the deadline.

I’ve been a newspaperman all my adult life. My daughter is a university graduate working toward her master’s degree (硕士学位) in English. But Jody? When he entered the tenth grade he became a “vo-tech” student (技校学生). They’re called “motorheads” by the rest of the student body.

When a secretary in my office first called him “motorhead”, I was shocked. “Hey, he’s a good kid,” I wanted to say. “And smart, really.”

I learned later that motorheads are, indeed, different. They usually have dirty hands and wear dirty work clothes. And they don’t often make school honor rolls (光荣榜).

But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education. We who work in clean shirts in offices don’t have the abilities that motorheads have. I began to learn this when I had my car crashed. The cost to repair it was about $800. “Hey, I can fix it,” said Jody, I doubted it but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.

My son, with other motorheads, fixed the car. They got parts from a junk yard, and ability from vo-tech classes. The cost was $25 instead of $800.

Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed. Neighbors and co-workers trust their car repairs to him.

These kids are happiest when doing repairs. They joke and laugh and are living in their own relaxed world. And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.

I have learned a lot from my motorhead: publishers need printers, engineers need mechanies, and architects need builders. Most important, I have learned that fathers don’t need clones in footsteps or anywhere else.

My son may never make the school honor roll. But he made mine.

1. What can we learn about the author’s children?

A．His daughter does better in school

B．His daughter has got a master’s degree.

C．His son tried hard to finish homework

D．His son couldn’t write his book reports.

2. The author let his son repair the car because he believed that ______

A．His son had the ability to fix it

B．it would save him much time.

C．it wouldn’t cause him any more loss

D．other motorheads would come to help.

3. In which of the following sentence does the word “clone” have the same meaning as the one underlined in the first paragraph?

A．Mitalipov, senior author on the paper, laughs when asked if he wants to clone a person.

B．Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome brother.

C．Some scientists wish to create the world’s first human clone

D．To make a clone, you need to first take an egg and remove all of its genetic material.

4. What did the author realize in the end?

A．It is unwise to expect your child to follow your path.

B．It is important for one to make the honor roll.

C．Architects play a more important role than builders.

D．Motorheads have greater ability than office workers.

5. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The author’s son studied hard at school.

B．The author worked as a newspaper man.

C．The author was very proud of his son later.

D．The author learned to repair cars from his son.

8 . What made Tom, our son, different from others was that he was born with a serious brain disease. My wife and I often _________ him as he faced many challenges in his early years.

It was _________to see him regularly chosen last for baseball, but his most difficult time came when he began high school. One afternoon, Tom returned home in_________and shouted: “I’m never going to school again!” He was_________with food that other kids had_________him on the school bus on the way home. Tom later told us what had _________. A few days earlier, Tom had_________up for the school running team. That day, a few older students made fun of his performance on the track. I called the headmaster about the_________and it never happened again.

One day, as the other kids exercised in the gym, they_________one lonely runner — Tom, jogging around the snow-covered track. A few weeks later, Tom said to me, “Dad, I was ready for the worst.” He added that each month, each student chose an “__________ of the month” and voted (投票) for the winner. Tom’s name had never been__________. But that day, one student said: “Sir, I would like to propose (提名) Tom for athlete of the month.” The coach looked __________. “He works __________than any of us, Sir,” the student continued. “But we’ll have to have someone support the proposal,” the coach replied. Tears formed in Tom’s eyes as everyone in the class put their hands up. We, also in tears, looked on as he__________showed his certificate (证书).

Whenever I feel hopeless, I think of this story. I __________ myself that challenges are not overcome (战胜) by force, but by patience, determination, and faith.

1.

A．affected

B．comforted

C．changed

D．discouraged

2.

A．heartbreaking

B．excited

C．annoyed

D．hopeful

3.

A．trouble

B．surprise

C．shock

D．tears

4.

A．dealt

B．covered

C．attached

D．filled

5.

A．gave away

B．played with

C．thrown at

D．dropped out

6.

A．happened

B．explored

C．recorded

D．promised

7.

A．hung

B．signed

C．pulled

D．stayed

8.

A．crime

B．operation

C．movement

D．problem

9.

A．recognized

B．watched

C．noticed

D．realized

10.

A．reader

B．singer

C．adviser

D．athlete

11.

A．listed

B．accepted

C．stressed

D．agreed

12.

A．excited

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．satisfied

13.

A．better

B．harder

C．worse

D．faster

14.

A．proudly

B．quietly

C．frightenedly

D．confidently

15.

A．warned

B．taught

C．reminded

D．understood

9 . On Monday, I stopped my car in front of my daughter Juliet’s middle school. She jumped in the front seat, feeling down. She asked me to help her study for her science test.

“Dad, I need to memorize a unit about the Reproductive Cycle of Plants. And I can hardly make it.”

“You know memorizing seems like the best way to study, but in fact you can do better in tests if you work on trying to understand the material.”

Juliet was open to my advice. It was Monday afternoon and we had two nights to study before the test on Wednesday. I suggested a plan. “Tomorrow night, you are going to teach the material to me. Tonight, read the unit. Prepare to teach.”

Asking her to teach me was an unusual idea but I was determined to do it. Studies show teaching somebody else is a very useful way to learn. Even if you don’t do the teaching, the act of preparing to teach leads to more learning than just trying your best to memorize the material.

On Tuesday afternoon, Juliet sat down with her science book facing me and said, “Okay Dad, let’s study.” I wanted her to teach me. But false starts happened. I couldn’t be too hard on her. So instead we started with me asking her some simple questions. She knew some but not others. When she didn’t know the answers, I encouraged her to check the book.

She started checking things that didn’t make sense. And she was actively seeking to test her understanding. I was happy to see it. She wasn’t memorizing; she was trying to make sense of things, which was exactly what I had hoped she would do.

1. Why did Juliet feel down?

A．Because she failed her science test.

B．Because she couldn’t follow her teacher.

C．Because she knew nothing about planting.

D．Because she had trouble memorizing a unit.

2. In the writer’s opinion, which was the key to best learning?

A．Memorizing.

B．Understanding.

C．Questioning.

D．Testing.

3. What does Juliet think of the writer’s suggestion?

A．Useless.

B．Unique.

C．Helpful.

D．Unpractical.

4. Which can be the best title for the passage?

A．Learning from Teaching	B．An Unexpected Test
C．A Creative Father	D．Preparing for Teaching

10 . My 88-year-old grandfather and I are both starting 2022 as new college graduates. He was   ________ to continue school because he got married and started a ________ in the 1950s. Over the next few decades, he managed to balance his ________ as a husband, a father of seven, working at a local bank and taking a college class here and there.

Our higher ________ journey together at Palo Alto College began in 2016. I had just graduated from high school then and my grandfather, 82, was ________ to take classes to make his lifelong dream of earning his bachelor’s degree become a ________. In 2017, we were both ________ into the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Over the past year, his health has has continued to decline and he now has difficulty speaking. As graduation day ________ in December, my family and I persuaded university officials to ________ my grandfather having a degree of recognition. We had the expectation that he could have that memory before his ________.

My grandfather was ________ he would steal the show from my graduation moment when I told him we were graduating ________together. I told him this is our moment and that I want to ________  it with him. I’m so grateful and ________ that I was able to have this moment with him.

I appreciate my grandfather’s lifelong passion of learning and his strong ________.

1.

A．nervous

B．proud

C．unable

D．unhappy

2.

A．family

B．business

C．company

D．factory

3.

A．jobs

B．roles

C．feelings

D．classes

4.

A．survival

B．research

C．recovery

D．education

5.

A．shocked

B．determined

C．advised

D．forced

6.

A．memory

B．challenge

C．reality

D．question

7.

A．invited

B．checked

C．refused

D．admitted

8.

A．involved

B．approached

C．established

D．passed

9.

A．think of

B．speak of

C．approve of

D．know of

10.

A．death

B．graduation

C．birthday

D．class

11.

A．excited

B．shocked

C．surprised

D．worried

12.

A．sadly

B．happily

C．nervously

D．hardly

13.

A．control

B．regret

C．share

D．discuss

14.

A．proud

B．nervous

C．helpful

D．polite

15.

A．memories

B．interests

C．emotions

D．wills