1 . Years ago, I was on a long flight, during which a voice from the speaker said, “We won’t _____ drinks or the meal because we are facing a storm ahead. Please make your seat belts fastened. ”Many passengers became _____, talking about it with each other. At once it became _____ in the plane.

Soon, lightening _____ the darkening skies, and within moments the _____ was like a boat on waves in the storm. One moment it was _____ up by the storm；the next,it was thrown as if it were to _____ onto the ground. All the passengers were _____. Some cried. Some prayed (祈祷). The _____ seemed hopeless. I wondered if we could ______ it through the storm.

Then I noticed the little girl next to me. Surprisingly, the storm seemed to mean ______ to her. She was ______, looking through a picture book. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would ______ again, but she never showed a(n) ______ of worry or fear. The little girl wasn’t afraid at all ______ all the adults were scared to death. Finding me watching her,the girl smiled at me and said,“Don’t worry. My father is the pilot. He is taking me home. Take it easy. He will take us home safely.”

When the plane was out of ______, I smiled at the girl and she gave me a big smile in ______. “I said my father would take us home safely.”

Many kinds of storms may ______ us: diseases, difficulties... They can easily darken our skies and ______ our planes into hard times. Let us ______： Love is the pilot. It will help us out of trouble. So take it easy.

1.

A．serve

B．take

C．get

D．sell

2.

A．excited

B．comfortable

C．happy

D．nervous

3.

A．noisy

B．quiet

C．warm

D．cold

4.

A．broke out

B．came about

C．lit up

D．gave off

5.

A．ship

B．plane

C．train

D．seat

6.

A．lifted

B．cut

C．turned

D．shut

7.

A．jump

B．fly

C．land

D．drop

8.

A．surprised

B．afraid

C．glad

D．interested

9.

A．weather

B．question

C．future

D．action

10.

A．make

B．reach

C．win

D．finish

11.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

12.

A．funny

B．frustrated

C．sad

D．calm

13.

A．talk

B．read

C．play

D．sleep

14.

A．book

B．story

C．expression

D．impression

15.

A．and

B．when

C．so

D．since

16.

A．order

B．date

C．fashion

D．danger

17.

A．turn

B．time

C．return

D．front

18.

A．trouble

B．help

C．encourage

D．stop

19.

A．introduce

B．invite

C．throw

D．change

20.

A．ask

B．remember

C．explain

D．wonder

2 . First Lady Michelle Obama is a big fan of volunteering. Volunteering means working for free to help someone else. Mrs. Obama says volunteering is very important. “It should be part of everyone’s life,” she says.
Many teens agree. They say that helping others feels great and makes a difference. These days, more teens volunteer than work for pay. Teens clean up parks, walk dogs at animal shelters, visit the elderly and more.
Some cities ---- including Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. ----require high school students to volunteer. Students must volunteer in order to graduate. The student volunteers learn new skills and help their communities.
Many parents are in favor of the idea ---- they say volunteering helps teens build job skills. But most teens don’t want to be forced to volunteer. They say they are busy. And they say volunteering is only fun if it’s a choice.
Read both sides of the debate and decide.
YES
Volunteering can help teens get into college or get a job.
Many cities and towns need help. Volunteers can help keep important programs going.
Not all teens will volunteer if it isn’ t required. Schools should require students to do all they can to get ready for adult life.
NO
Most teens are already very busy with classes, homework, jobs and sports. Forcing them to do more isn’t fair.
It should be up to each person. Helping out doesn’t feel as good if you have to do it.
Finding a volunteer job isn’t always easy. Students shouldn’t be kept from graduating because of something they can’t control.
1. The writer mentions Michelle Obama in order to___________.

A．introduce the topic of the text

B．explain what volunteering is

C．tell what she does for the US

D．show she enjoys volunteering

2. According to the text, in Chicago, .

A．finding a volunteer job is quite easy

B．more people would rather work for pay

C．volunteering is a must for high school students

D．college students have to volunteer before graduation

3. The underlined part “are in favor of” in the text means”.

A．drop

B．develop

C．catch

D．like

4. Which question does the text mainly discuss?

A．Is volunteering good for students?

B．Should students be required to volunteer?

C．What is the best time to volunteer?

D．Which volunteer jobs should students do?

3 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Going to college is a new experience full of excitement of the unknown. Socialization is a big thing for college students and it is common to feel a little uncomfortable going into a situation where everyone is a stranger. You may probably miss your friends from high school.    1    College is a great opportunity to make new lifelong friends. The questionis: how?

Get to know your roommate.

You may find you have lots of things in common with your roommate, but even if you are completely different from each other, with a little effort and understanding the two of you may become best friends.

    2    

If you leave your door open, this shows that you welcome visitors. As a result people will naturally stop in and say hello. Closed doors are not likely to bring many visitors and those who stay locked up in their rooms may give others the impression of being cold.Other students will be less likely to stop in and build a new friendship.

Join clubs or organizations.

Getting involved in organized societies is a great way to meet new people.    3    By staying active in college groups such as clubs and organizations you can meet lots of people with whom you share common interests.

Talk to classmates.

    4    Starting conversations in class is a great opportunity to meet people who are interested in the same kind of studies as you are. Short friendly discussions can build lifelong friendships.

Try out for a sport.

If you' re athletic, trying out for a sport will do for you the same thing that joining a club will do.    5    

A．Close the door to keep away from theft.

B．Hang a welcome sign on your dorm room.

C．It also helps you get more familiar with the campus.

D．Your roommate is the first person you will have close contact with.

E．You will instantly meet a large group of people who share your interests in sports.

F．Get to know your classmates as you'll be spending several months with them.

G．Trying actively to find new friends can help ease the feelings of being lonely.

4 . Getting your children to study can be a little like getting them to eat their vegetables.
    1     Make a study time and have it at the same time every day. This will help your kids to learn to schedule their day and will give them a sense of control over how they spend their time.
Allow them to study in blocks of time, such as for half an hour with a five-minute break in the middle.     2     Ideal(理想的) study times are after dinner or right after school before dinner.
Never allow your children to study in front of the television, as that will encourage passive activity.     3    
You’ll also need to help your kids find the right place to study. After you’ve set up a good study time for little learners, set up a good place where they can get those creative juices flowing.
    4     Make sure there is a table or a desk and a comfortable chair.
    5     This includes helping them out with their homework sometimes and being there for them with the answers to any questions. The input you give your children during study periods will help form a bond and help make studying enjoyable.

A．Pick a place where your children can study properly.

B．Hold them to the schedule they create for themselves.

C．Finally, spend time with your kids when they’re studying.

D．Keep the atmosphere light and offer lots of encouragement, too.

E．Instead, use TV as a treat or a reward when the homework is completed.

F．Try to stop this bad habit by offering some sort of reward.

G．One of the best ways to form good study habits for your kids is to design a schedule that they keep to.

5 . It is the Thanksgiving Day. I have the strong desire to write about something to express my thanks to the people around me.

I     1     (bring up) by my grandparents     2    are as kind and hardworking as thousands of Chinese peasants in a distant village. They worked in the field all day long and took good care of me as well .

    3     (Honest) speaking, my parents are ordinary people.    4     I must say that they are great educators, for they educated me to be an     5     (dependent) and useful man to society.

My teachers, selfless, generous, devote themselves to     6     (help) each individual student achieve his/her ambition.

Meanwhile, I can share my happiness and     7     (sad) with my peer students. I am happy to be with them because we have much       8     common.

I am     9     luckiest and happiest person with all these loved     10     (one) around.

6 . Of all the things that will make life entirely happy, the greatest is the possession of friendship. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.

On the first Sunday in August, it’s time to recognize your friends and their contribution to your life. The first Sunday in August was fixed as National Friendship Day by the U.S. Congress in 1935, and remains a tradition observed in many countries and cultures. In 1997, the United Nations named Winnie the Pooh as the world’s Ambassador of Friendship.

Apparently, there are several friendship holidays, all of which fall on fixed dates.

National Friendship Day is on the first Sunday in August

Women’s Friendship Day is on the third Sunday in September

International Friendship Month is February

Old Friends, New Friends Week is the third week of May

People show their appreciation for friendship in various ways. Some expressions may be practical ones, such as flowers, particularly the pink friendship roses, cookies, chocolates, souvenirs from their vacations, a tape of favorite songs, farewell dinners, and welcome balloons.

Recipe for Friendship   2 cups of patience, 1 heart full of love, 2 handfuls of generosity, 2 cups of loyalty, 1 cup of understanding, A dash of laughter. Mix them all well. Spray generously over a lifetime and serve everyone you meet.

Friendship helps to bring peace and positivity to the globe, another great reason to celebrate! Although our friends certainly deserve thanks on more than just one day of the year, what better day to honor them than Friendship Day!!

1. Which of the following proverbs supports the main idea of the first paragraph?

A．Friendship cannot stand always on one side.	B．A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C．A friend without faults will never be found.	D．A life without a friend is a life without a sun.

2. Which of the holidays happens first in a year?

A．National Friendship Day.	B．Women’s Friendship Day.
C．International Friendship Month.	D．Old Friends, New Friends Week.

3. What is most needed to make friendship grow, develop and last?

A．Inviting your friends over for a party.	B．Looking on your friends as relatives.
C．Honoring your friends on Friendship Day.	D．Being loyal and generous to your friends.

4. “Recipe for Friendship” here actually means       .

A．a prescription for curing friends	B．a method of keeping a friendship
C．the pleasure of having friends	D．the importance of friendship

7 . Tu Youyou together with William Campbell and Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for their work against parasitic diseases. Irish-born Campbell and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin, that has helped the             battle against river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing effectiveness against other parasitic diseases. The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, an 85-year-old female scientist, was awarded the other half of the prize for the discovery             of artemisinin(青蒿素), a drug cure for malaria(疟疾) that has saved millions of lives all over the world, especially in the developing world.
When the news broke that Tu won the Nobel Prize, there were cheers as well as doubts. It also has highlighted differences in prize-awarding practices between China and the West. Some said the achievement was the result of collective efforts by lots             of Chinese scientists, so it was unfair to award the prize only to Tu. Indeed, Chinese science awards are mainly presented to projects, instead of individual scientists. But Western awards tend to honor individual scientists who are the first             to come up with a new idea or method. Li Zhenzhen, a researcher of the China Academy of Sciences said that the West believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals’ creative minds.
In 1969, Tu started to hold a government project aimed at eliminating malaria. Tu and her teammates experimented with 380 extracts in 2,000 candidate recipes before they finally succeeded in getting the pure substance qinghaosu, later known as artemisinin.             In 2011, Tu was awarded the Lasker Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award, commonly referred to as “America’s Nobel Prize”. (278 words)
1. Why Tu Youyou could be awarded the Nobel Prize for ?

A．Because she discovered the avermectin, a drug cure for malaria

B．Because she contributed to the traditional Chinese medicine

C．Because she discovered the artemisinin which shows effectiveness against other parasitic diseases

D．Because she has saved millions of lives for the discovery of artemisinin.

2. What is the difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West?

A．Chinese science awards are mainly presented to individual scientists, instead of projects

B．Chinese believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals’ creative minds

C．Western awards tend to honor individual scientists who are the first to come up with a new idea or method

D．Western awards are presented to both individual scientists and projects

3. How old was Tu Youyou when she was awarded the “America’s Nobel Prize”.

A．85

B．81

C．46

D．39

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Why Tu Youyou could be awarded the 2015 Nobel prize

B．Why Tu received the “America’s Nobel Prize”.

C．Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin

D．The difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West

8 . My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing hatching him grow up.

He called out to me today saying, “Papa, sit”. That usually means _______ everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be _______ and will not stop calling out until I _______. He was playing with beads (珠子), pushing a string through them, which is a great exercise to help _______ fine motor skills. Then, after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put them back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him _______ pick up each bead, look at it _______ it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.

With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting _______. “What a long time it will take! Why cannot he _______ ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much_______ as he had while we were playing. I didn’t see any ________ between his play and his putting away the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.

Then it suddenly ________ me that this boy was enjoying the whole ________. The journey was his goal. For him the ________ was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective: to live each moment as it is the ________ moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else ________.

Looking at how ________ my son was putting beads into the box ________ me that the process was the goal. The joy of pilgrimage (朝圣) is not in getting there but in every ________ of the journey.

This is what living in the NOW is all ________. Tom, my son, was showing me that it was about thoroughly enjoying every moment with ________ love and peace.

1.

A．wasting

B．leaving

C．taking

D．preparing

2.

A．stubborn

B．innocent

C．helpful

D．humorous

3.

A．fell down

B．turned round

C．burst out

D．gave in

4.

A．highlight

B．develop

C．illustrate

D．identify

5.

A．gratefully

B．eagerly

C．carefully

D．quickly

6.

A．as if

B．even though

C．in case

D．in that

7.

A．fascinated

B．satisfied

C．impatient

D．energetic

8.

A．package

B．grab

C．deliver

D．replace

9.

A．confidence

B．strength

C．inspiration

D．involvement

10.

A．sense

B．difference

C．need

D．value

11.

A．excited

B．helped

C．struck

D．encouraged

12.

A．process

B．morning

C．experiment

D．design

13.

A．victory

B．challenge

C．difficulty

D．pleasure

14.

A．urgent

B．decisive

C．perfect

D．dangerous

15.

A．matters

B．happens

C．disappears

D．works

16.

A．successfully

B．peacefully

C．responsibly

D．systematically

17.

A．guaranteed

B．warned

C．promised

D．taught

18.

A．plan

B．destination

C．step

D．detail

19.

A．for

B．with

C．about

D．from

20.

A．complete

B．available

C．additional

D．precious

9 . One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final _______.

He discovered the youth was _______ and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, “My mother did it. She worked as a clothes _______.”

The president requested the youth to _______ his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, “Have you ever _______ your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to _______.”

“Go and clean your mother’s _______ when you go back today, and then _______ me tomorrow morning,” the president said _______.

The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he ________ requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell ________ he cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. It was the first time he had ________ that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled (布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother ________. That night, Mother and Son ________ for a very long time, longer than any talk before.

The next ________, the youth went to the president’s office. The president noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes and asked: “Please tell me how you ________ about helping your mother.” The youth said, “Number One, I know now what ________ is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how ________ it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the ________ of family relationship.”

The president said, “You are ________. This is what I’m looking for to be my manager.”

1.

A．election

B．test

C．interview

D．competition

2.

A．strong

B．excellent

C．humorous

D．cute

3.

A．maker

B．cleaner

C．mender

D．seller

4.

A．wash

B．hide

C．show

D．dry

5.

A．found

B．let

C．helped

D．watched

6.

A．study

B．ignore

C．work

D．rest

7.

A．clothes

B．hands

C．feet

D．shoes

8.

A．see

B．move

C．recognize

D．answer

9.

A．on purpose

B．in patience

C．by chance

D．at last

10.

A．carefully

B．nervously

C．happily

D．shyly

11.

A．after

B．until

C．because

D．as

12.

A．believed

B．sensed

C．noticed

D．expected

13.

A．quietly

B．sadly

C．excitedly

D．angrily

14.

A．thought

B．slept

C．sat

D．talked

15.

A．morning

B．noon

C．afternoon

D．evening

16.

A．worried

B．felt

C．brought

D．spoke

17.

A．courage

B．appreciation

C．success

D．family

18.

A．important

B．difficult

C．different

D．impossible

19.

A．value

B．secret

C．type

D．change

20.

A．educated

B．respected

C．trusted

D．hired

10 . This is a true story of a mother’s sacrifice (牺牲) in an earthquake.

When the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. Her pose was somehow strange---she knelt (跪) on the ground like a person who was worshiping (祷告)；her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supported by an object. However, the cold and stiff body told them that she had passed away for sure.

The rescuers left this house and were going to search the next collapsed (倒塌的) building. For some reason, the team leader was driven by a strange force to go back to the ruined house. Again, he knelt down to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement, “ A child! There is a child!”

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3-month-old little boy wrapped in a blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made great sacrifice in order to save her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

A doctor came quickly to examine the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cellphone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said, “ If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Everybody that read the message cried.

1. Why did the young woman kneel on the ground?

A．To protect herself from the earthquake.	B．To show respect for God.
C．To ask God for help.	D．To protect her baby.

2. After reading the text message, everyone felt quite ______.

A．shocked	B．excited
C．moved	D．afraid

3. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

A．To prove that a cat has nine lives.	B．To show the power of a mother’s love.
C．To express his thanks to the rescuers.	D．To give advice on how to rescue others.