2 . My memories of my father are divided into parts and shares. Alive, and then dead. Healthy, and then helpless. And further back in time, the first and most division: Present and then absent; loving, and then indifferent.

He used to be a good writer and loving father. When I was a 16-year-old girl, he was fired from his company, a public, gossip-based dismissal that he would spend decades refusing responsibility for. This was the first crack that divided my relationship with him into poles of before and after. To escape his shame, he pushed away those who reminded him of it, first divorcing my mother, then alienating my sister and I.

As an adult, my relationship with my father was one of low expectations and high boundaries. He spent most of his time travelling. But when he died of heart failure in August, I was knocked off balance by the weight of the blow. I thought, after years of setting up delicate fences around our relationship, that I had already begun letting go. His death delivered a realization: despite years of analyzing his complicated love for me, there were pieces of my father I never understood—until I found my father’s notebooks in his cupboard.

In the notebooks, he often collected documentation: train tickets from Rome or a photograph of San Francisco’s Prescott Hotel. But what he was also doing was offering fatherly guidance, the kind I could only receive after he died. His life, in which what he had was never quite enough, was eventually exposed. In his final decade, he realized he had built a castle for himself upon sand and regret. Now in his entries, I hear his voice. “Debaleh,” I hear him say, using his pet name for me, “learn from my mistakes.”

I read these pages among my dad’s clothes, and wept. I hadn’t known that my father, too, lived with that familiar ache for new horizons in his heart, the one that can only be comforted by traveling.

1. Why did the author’s father keep away from his family?

A．They weren’t responsible members.	B．He didn’t get on well with his wife.
C．Their presence recalled his sad experience.	D．They talked behind others’ backs everywhere.

2. What advice did the author’s father give her?

A．Writing a journal carefully.	B．Travelling more for relaxation.
C．Avoiding following in his footsteps.	D．Obeying father’s guidance thoroughly.

3. What made the author end up crying?

A．Finding her father’s clothes.	B．Getting to know her late father.
C．Failing to look for new horizons.	D．Knowing her father’s heart disease.

4 . 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

There are many benefits of friendship.     1     (general) speaking, close friendships have three “fruits”.

The first fruit is the peace that     2     (come) from sharing with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure. Friendship has a double advantage—happiness takes     3     a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved!

The second fruit is the better understanding and judgement that may be achieved through conversations with friends. We often find it easier     4     (recognize) other people’s weakness than our own. As     5     result, our judgments might be one-sided if we are guided only by our own feelings. Also,     6     we want to talk our problems over with a friend, we have to put our thoughts into words first, which helps make our thoughts clearer.

The third fruit is the help that a friend may offer in many different ways. Friends can help us achieve anything     7     we want during life and perhaps, even after     8     (die).

Finally,     9     (enjoy) the company of a crowd is not the same as being with friends. Friends should     10     (choose) carefully. In this way, we can better walk the path of life.

5 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段内容，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数为150左右。

Jonathan had been wandering on the streets for almost a whole day after angrily running away from his home in the morning. Thinking of his quarrel with his mother for his study, he still felt depressed and hopeless.

It was freezing and snowing at dusk on such a winter day. He was walking down an empty set where there were no passers-by, because people must have locked themselves at home for warmth. Jonathan was walking to a crossroads when suddenly he encountered a little boy stuck in the middle of the road alone like him.

Jonathan had meant to turn a blind eye to him at first. But the boy’s sad crying and the worry that he might be hit by cars made Jonathan just not walk away. He approached, asking worriedly, “How did you come here? What’s your name?”

“I’m Leo. I was playing with my cat. He ran away, and I ran after him for a long distance. But when I turned back home, I lost my way,” cried the boy. Feeling pity for the boy, Jonathan decided that he couldn’t leave the little boy alone here. With no cellphone and considering the police station was far from here, Jonathan decided to help him first.

He took him to different neighborhoods, aiming to look for his home. But things didn’t go that smoothly as he had expected. It was getting darker, and Jonathan thought he had to find Leo’s home. He knocked on every door, noneffective. It was snowing more heavily, and he removed his coat and put it around Leo.

Paragraph 1: Suddenly, a police car was drawing, and Jonathan waved with excitement to it.
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Paragraph 2: Seeing Leo and his parents off, Jonathan was lost in thought.
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7 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．A host.

B．A program.

C．A child.

8 . Sports are important in our family. Both of our sons were high-school athletes. So, I shouldn’t have been _________ when Lauren announced she was going out for the girls’ basketball team. But I was, because she has Down syndrome(唐氏综合症). My wife and I never told Lauren that she was _________. We treated her like our other children. We didn’t want her to feel disabled.

“I’m gonna play basketball, Daddy.” Lauren ran to meet me when I came in from work. She flew into my arms and lingered long in my embrace. “That’s _________, honey,” I patted her shoulder and walked into the kitchen. My wife spoke slowly, her tone steady. “What Lauren’s trying to say is that she’s joining the girls’ high-school basketball team.” Her words _________ in. Everything that could happen flashed through my mind. But what could we do?

Mid-November, the season’s first basketball game arrived. It got off to a good start, but soon Verden, Lauren’s team, was behind. Lauren _________ followed the movement on the court and reacted to every shot. Even though she wasn’t playing, she looked as if she were having the time of her life.

Just less than two minutes were left, and Verden was down by seventeen points when Lauren was called in for the game! She _________ the others fairly well. From her agile movement and eager expression, I knew she was desperate to score for her team. Then they passed Lauren the ball. She _________ it. She shot. She scored! A few minutes later, Lauren joined us in the stands. “Did you see? I scored! I made a _________!”

For sixteen years, I’d tried hard to _________ Lauren from feeling like she was different. But watching Lauren in the game, I saw that she really was different—not physically or emotionally, but __________.

1.

A．disappointed

B．surprised

C．depressed

D．embarrassed

2.

A．normal

B．ordinary

C．different

D．typical

3.

A．awful

B．strange

C．hard

D．nice

4.

A．sank

B．poured

C．came

D．kicked

5.

A．frequently

B．carelessly

C．attentively

D．repeatedly

6.

A．kept pace with

B．gave way to

C．put up with

D．broke away from

7.

A．threw

B．missed

C．cast

D．caught

8.

A．mistake

B．record

C．mess

D．basket

9.

A．excuse

B．shelter

C．discourage

D．prohibit

10.

A．consciously

B．spiritually

C．literally

D．socially

10 . What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Co-workers.

B．Husband and wife.

C．Driver and passenger.