1 . 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。

A few years ago, my wife Sue had some fairly serious health problems. She had suffered surgery after surgery and had also put on weight for several years. Diets had not helped her.

One day we sat down and drew up a “wish list” of the things we wanted most out of life. One of Sue’s items was to run in a marathon. Given her history and physical limitations, I thought her goal was completely unrealistic, but Sue became committed to it.

She began by running very slowly around. Every day she ran just a little farther than she had the day before just one driveway more. “When will I ever be able to run a mile?” Sue asked one day. Soon she was running three. Then five. “We can change ourselves for the better and cause ourselves to pursue our most precious desires with almost total success,” Sue said and registered to run in the St. George Marathon in southern Utah.

I drove the mountainous road from Cedar City to St. George. When the marathon began, I parked the car near the finish line and waited for Sue to come in. Five hours later, it was raining steadily and the wind was cold. Several cold and injured runners had been transported past me, and I began to panic. The image of Sue, alone and cold, off the road somewhere, made me sick with worry. The fast and strong competitors had finished long ago, and runners were becoming fewer and fewer. Now I could not see anyone in either direction.

Almost all of the cars along the marathon route had left, and some normal traffic was beginning. I was able to drive directly up the race route. There were still no runners in view after driving almost two miles. Then I went around a bend in the road and spotted two runners running up ahead.

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It was Sue in the company of a girl runner, struggling.

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At the finish line, the girl hugged Sue, “You made me believe we could do it.”

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3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did John Morrison leave the company?

A．He left for his medical condition.

B．He wanted to start his own business.

C．He accepted an offer from another company.

2. What does the woman have to do this week?

A．Read some résumés.

B．Reply to an ad.

C．Post a job ad.

5 . How many friends do you have? Not counting the hundreds on Facebook or the names gathering dust in your address book. But real friends, the ones cast in stone. The kind who would lend you $100 without asking why, or put you up if you were kicked out of your house.

Anthropologist Prof Robin Dunbar feels he can put a number on it: five. No matter how much of a social butterfly you are, you can count your real pals on one hand, he says. To that he says you can add an ideal number of 15 “good friends”, the kind of people you would see in a group and would join for a drink if you bumped into them in the pub, and up to 150 “meaningful contacts”.

Prof Dunbar’s latest research is an exact formula(公式) for friendship: new friendships take 34 hours of one-on-one time to form, in which you’d spend an ideal duration of three hours and four minutes per interaction together over the course of six months. Note that this is to turn an acquaintance into a friend, not one of the close friends that makes up your inner circle of five—to do that, you’d have to devote 90 hours, according to a 2018 University of Kansas study.

According to the experts, the pandemic years have changed the number and nature of our friendship. It gave people more grounds for disagreement: over adherence(遵守) to social-distancing rules, for example. Plenty of people lost relationships in the cracks. “We are always on the outlook for new and better friends, but lockdown has had a big effect in making people reevaluate,” says Dunbar. “Perhaps they’ve decided the time has come to part with some and therefore there’s an empty space to fill.”

The forecast for British friendship was already gloomy before the pandemic. Three million people said they feel lonely “often or always”, according to the Government’s 2019 community life survey. But the average British adult lost four friends over the course of the pandemic, according to the poll.

1. What does the underlined expression “cast in stone” probably mean?

A．Firmly connected.	B．Interested in stones.
C．Living nearby.	D．Extremely generous.

2. How long does it take to form close friendships according to the formula?

A．34 hours of one-on-one time.

B．90 hours of interaction.

C．Six months of one-on-one time.

D．Three hours and four minutes of interaction.

3. Which of the following might Prof Dunbar agree with?

A．The more sociable you are, the more real friends you can make.

B．It’s much easier for people to make friends online.

C．The more friends you make, the happier your life will be.

D．There is a limit to the number of real friends in your life.

4. What might people argue about during the pandemic?

A．Whether to part with some old friends.

B．How to make better friends.

C．Whether to obey social distancing.

D．How to limit the number of friends.

7 . How to Say Anything

Could you use some advice? Or has something big happened? Our tips can help you say anything to your parents.

Pick the right time. You need your parents’ full attention in order to have a good talk. Try not to bring up something when it’s past your bedtime or when your parent is in a rush.     1     Your parents want to know what’s on your mind, so ask them to make time for you.

Go slowly. What you need to say probably isn’t simple, so don’t try to get it all out in one breath. Give your parents the details they need to make a decision before you start trying to bargain with them. Besides, another thing is also of great importance.     2     Listen to them, and they’ll listen to you.

Be honest. Your parents will respond better if you believe that you’re telling the truth and not trying to avoid blame. Take responsibility for your part in getting into trouble or earning a bad grade.     3     Things get worse the longer you wait.

Try, try again. When you fly off the handle, your parents have a hard time seeing your point of view. If you’re angry or frustrated, take a break from the conversation. Excuse yourself, and go somewhere to cool off.     4    

Be brave.     5     But your parents almost always can help you solve a problem or answer a big question, and you’ll almost always feel better afterward. Talk to your parents. You’ll be glad you did.

A．If you’ve done something wrong, admit it.

B．After all, details determine success or failure.

C．Remember that conversation is about give and take.

D．If your parents are occupied, make an “appointment”.

E．Your conversation will be reduced to a terrible quarrel.

F．Gather your thoughts and try talking to your parents again.

G．You might have a question for long before you get up the courage to let it out.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What can we learn from the conversation?

A．All the classmates went to the reunion.

B．The woman sat in the wrong seat.

C．The speakers graduated last year.

2. Why did the man fail to attend the reunion?

A．He was going on a honeymoon.

B．He didn’t want to see David.

C．He was buried in work.

3. Where are the speakers?

A．At the cafe.

B．At the party.

C．On the plane.

4. What do the speakers plan to do?

A．Organize a party.

B．Visit a classmate.

C．Settle in France.

9 . A sunny afternoon before Christmas, a little girl was decorating a box with a gold wrapping paper to put it under the Christmas tree. Money was tight, so the girl’s father _________ her for wasting almost all roll of that _________ paper.

However, the next morning the girl _________ the gift to her father. “This is for you, Daddy.” she said. He opened the box and found it _________, so he became angry again. “Don’t you know, that when you give someone a _________ it is supposed that there would be something inside it.” he said _________. The little girl looked at her father with _________ in her eyes. “Daddy, this box is not empty, I _________ it with my kisses, all for you.”

The father was extremely _________. He felt so embarrassed that he could just put his __________ around his little daughter and beg for her __________. For many years of his life the man kept that golden box near his bed. Wherever he felt __________ and downhearted he opened the box and thought of __________ that the little child had put into it.

Each of us have been __________ a present of unconditional love from our children, family, friends and God. It is the most precious __________ that anyone could hold.

1.

A．praised

B．punished

C．admired

D．contacted

2.

A．expensive

B．common

C．cheap

D．lovely

3.

A．emailed

B．sent

C．brought

D．put

4.

A．beautiful

B．full

C．amazing

D．empty

5.

A．box

B．gift

C．paper

D．package

6.

A．anxiously

B．fluently

C．seriously

D．calmly

7.

A．excitement

B．tears

C．fire

D．stars

8.

A．designed

B．exchanged

C．filled

D．arranged

9.

A．surprised

B．proud

C．shy

D．annoyed

10.

A．ears

B．hands

C．eyes

D．arms

11.

A．forgiveness

B．carelessness

C．kindness

D．blindness

12.

A．alone

B．happy

C．sad

D．excited

13.

A．heart

B．love

C．anger

D．stress

14.

A．given

B．requested

C．attracted

D．impressed

15.

A．source

B．topic

C．confidence

D．treasure