1 . How to Choose Friends

The word “friend” as well as its meaning is the one that can be related to all generations, age groups, and all types of people.     1     During teenage years when we begin to move around in a social circle of our own, and come across different people, we get to know them, spend more time with them and one day they become our friends.

Then how does a teenager choose his or her friends wisely? You can’t call every building in town your “home”.     2     Every person you meet isn’t a friend; many may just be like “ships that pass in the night”.

    3     Choose friends who have thoughts similar to yours, who reflect（反映）your family values, who think the way you do. The company we keep both reflects and helps determine the kind of people we become. So if you want to be more brave, choose a friend who is brave.

    4     Friends do have an influence on your present habits and new habits that you may develop. It’s important to have friends who are similar to you, but it’s equally important to have friends with different kinds of qualities that will lead you to positive（积极的）growth.     5    

Above all, choose friends you can trust.

A．Friends influence you.

B．Friends mirror each other.

C．It’s the same with friendship.

D．Friends quarrel with each other.

E．Then your friends will make that happen to you.

F．Whether you’ re young or old, you need friends to survive.

G．If you are easy to get angry, choose a friend who has a cool head.

2 . For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old girl discovered that her mom had been posting her photos for much of her life. “I’ve wanted to bring it up. It’s strange to see myself up there, and sometimes there are pictures I don’t like of myself,” she said.

Like most other modern kids, Cara grew up under the influence of social media. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were all founded before she was born. Instagram has been around since she was a toddler. While many kids may not yet have accounts themselves, their parents, schools, sports teams have been organizing an online presence for them since birth. It is a shock to know that details about their lives have been shared online without their                    permission or knowledge. And this has become a common、experience for many teenagers.

Recently a parenting blogger said that despite her 14-year-old daughter’s horror at discovering that her mother had shared years of highly personal stories and information about her online, she simply could not stop doing it.

But it’s not just crazy mommy bloggers who share their children’s information on social media. Plenty of average parents do the same. There’s even a special word for it: sharenting (晒娃).Almost a quarter of children begin their digital lives when parents upload their prenatal sonogram scans (产前超声波扫描) to the Internet to a study conducted by the Internet-security firm AVG. The study also found that 92 percent of kids under the age of 2 already have their own unique digital identity.

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

A．Teenage girl.	B．School student.
C．Daughter.	D．Very young child.

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．AVG is the name of an Internet company.

B．25% of children begin their digital lives before they are born.

C．Fathers don’t like to share their kids’ information on social media.

D．The word “sharenting” has been appearing on the Internet recently.

3. What can be a suitable title for the article?

A．Growing up on the Internet	B．A New Term Born
C．Parents Addicted to Blogging	D．The Children’s Horror

3 . My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, and is hesitant to try new things. When with close friends, she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants," Girls rule, boys drool." But when that comfort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous.

This has been challenging for me at times. "Shy"is not a word that I think has ever been used to describe me. But this has been a year of firsts for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of confidence. This year she moved to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she learned to ride a bike without training wheels. And this year she completed her first kids' triathlon(三项全能).

On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son's birthday party later in the day, we all went out in the dark of the morning for Kelly to participate in her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to bike to run with her, we got all the equipment she'd need, and we kept talking about the race. But as we waited the two hours for the older kids to finish before her turn, she held my leg a little harder and told me she loved me a few too many times. She was nervous but trying to keep it together.

And then it was her turn. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart soared. My daughter transformed into the most confident human being I had ever seen.She dominated(主宰)that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to the finish with the biggest smile on her face.

I can honestly say that I never felt so proud of someone in my entire life. It wasn't because she did a sport or anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and conquered(克服) that fear with confidence and a fire I hadn't seen before.

All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I felt like I won that day. I won the chance to see my girl shine.

Shine on, sweet baby.

1. Kelly is nervous when          .

A．situations are new to her	B．boys are around her
C．she changes into a leader	D．she is away from her mom

2. We can know from Paragraph 3          .

A．the race began in the early morning

B．the whole family gave Kelly support

C．Kelly was eager for her turn in the race

D．Kelly prepared for her brother's birthday party

3. Seeing Kelly's performance in the race,the author felt          .

A．excited and proud	B．anxious and uneasy
C．curious and concerned	D．worried and hesitant

4. The author"felt like I won that day"because Kelly          .

A．expressed love to her	B．won the gold medal
C．took part in the sport	D．overcame the fear.

4 . How to Meet New People

Sometimes meeting friends can be depressing , especially when you suddenly find yourself in a new city     1     If you encounter some awkward situations , this list of suggestions is sure to inspire you.

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Perhaps the best way to meet new friends is when you’re getting outside your comfort zone and doing something new. Getting involved in a new hobby, taking a class that makes you stretch your mind or just making a point to do something different than the usual are all good ways to connect with someone new.

Join a Book Club

If you’re into books and authors, there are several great ways to connect with new people.    3    Of course, you don't need to be introverted (内向的)to enjoy a conversation about literature. The great part about joining one of these groups is that you'll meet a surprising variety of people.

Go to the Gym

Oh, I know, you want to do your workout and then leave. But if you're looking for new friends, the gym is a good place to find them. One way is to look for run or walks in the your neighborhood, which are often posted in the gym.     4    

Revive (恢复) an Old Friendship

If you are seeking new friends, why not try looking at some of your past friendships?     5     Friendships don't always end on negative terms. Sometimes friends just drift apart or begin to have nothing in common. But that can change as each friend's life has changed.

A．Do New Things.

B．Get out of your comfort zone.

C．One of them is by joining a book group.

D．Another way to do this is by taking a few exercise courses.

E．You can make more new friends by buying some books.

F．You can decide if one or two old friendships might be worth starting up again.

G．Making new friends can come easy to some people, but to others it might take more work.

5 . I keep remembering odd things: the way she loved daffodils, jokes she told at the dinner table, the look in her eyes when she talked about my future. I knew about college before I’d never heard of high school was Mom’s second chance at the degree she never had.

Her parents pushed her too much, too hard, and she always wished she hadn’t let the pressure defeat her. She dropped out of college after one term for marriage and a secretarial job. While she never regretted marrying my father, she always regretted giving up her dream of becoming an accountant. She was determined her eldest daughter would never miss an opportunity.

One of the most extremely special times of my life was Christmas in my second school year, when I played Tiny Tim in a local community theater production of “A Christmas Carol.” Mom delighted in my endless rehearsal stories and spent hours helping me work out ways of disguising my long hair. There’s a line in the show: “And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” Change the pronouns and that sentence describes Mom perfectly.

She was the one person I could talk to about anything. She was right about so much, so often—much more than I gave her credit for at the time.

I never imagined she wouldn’t be here now. I never thought cancer could strike so quickly, could kill someone so strong and determined in only a year. She’s the one person I couldn’t imagine living without; now, since last January, I’ve had to. Suddenly, I have no one to talk to about meaningless little things, no one whose advice I trust completely to help me with decisions. When I come home from school, I come home to an empty house, troubled by memories of the year she spent here dying. I remember the disastrous Thanksgiving when she was feeling terrible, and our wonderful last Christmas Eve together.

What I feel cheated of is the future we’ll never have.

1. What can be learned about the author’s mother in Paragraph 2?

A．She gave in to her parents.	B．She had an obedient daughter.
C．She fell in love with her husband in college.	D．She wished her kids to follow her example.

2. What made the Christmas in the author’s second school year special?

A．Her rehearsal stories.	B．Her mother’s company.
C．Her favorite line from the show.	D．Her mother’s skills in doing hair.

3. What does the author think of her mother?

A．Clever and passionate.	B．Caring and humorous.
C．Supportive and reliable.	D．Talented and hard-working.

4. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To show her mother’s great sadness.	B．To tell anecdotes about her mother.
C．To talk about the cruelty of the disease.	D．To share fond memories of her mother.

6 . It’s hard when a best friend isn’t around — maybe because he or she moved to a different school or a different class.    1    . You want to have new friends, but how do you make them? Maybe it seems like everybody else already has his or her friends.    2    .

Start by looking around your classroom — think about which kids you’d like to play with at break. Look for chances to say hi to them, smile, and be friendly.    3    . Invite someone to play with you or say “Do you want to sit here?” in the lunchroom. When you’re at break, walk over to kids you want to play with, act friendly, and say “Hi, can I play, too?” or just join in.

If you have trouble doing this or if you’re feeling shy, ask your teacher to help you make new friends. Teachers are usually pretty good at matching up friends.    4    . Be kind, be friendly, share, say nice things, offer to help — and pretty soon, you’ll have one, or two, or even more new friends.

    5    . But when you see each other, you can share something you didn’t have before he or she left: You can introduce him or her to your new friends!

A．What’s right for me?

B．But remember, there’s always room for more friends.

C．You may feel lonely at break or lunchtime.

D．The best way to make friends is to be a friend.

E．Offer to share something or offer greetings.

F．Make a choice in your life.

G．You might still miss that special best friend.

7 . Friends play a very important part in everyone’s life. Friendship usually develops during childhood. New friends are made when you progress through school. Those friends that you make as a student can usually last long. Friends influence your development, maturity( 成熟) and sense of responsibility (责任). A familiar opinion is “You can tell a lot about a person by knowing who his friends are.” Friendship is based on common interests. If you like sports, most of your friends are likely to be active. If you enjoy reading and shopping, most of your friends do the same.

Some people call you their friends for the wrong reasons. These people are not really friends. They are superficial (表面的) only “ friends” on the outside, not the inside where it counts. Superficial friends only want to be your friends if it is to their advantage. True friends are there whether you are rich or poor. It is easy to have many so-called “friends” if you are rich. By this time you should be able to recognize your friends as the real or the “phoney”.

True friends are most special. Sometimes they might not easy to find, so you can consider yourself very lucky if you have one true friend. This friend is eager to help you whenever necessary. He or she knows you would do the same for them. A true friend is someone you can talk to about any subject or problem. You and your true friend have good understanding of each other. True friends support you, take your side, and build up your confidence.

1. What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

A．How to make true friends.

B．What is friendship based on.

C．We should make friends in our childhood.

D．Friends play a very important role in our life.

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It is easy to have many true friends if you are rich.

B．If you have no music in you, none of your friends will be a music lover.

C．The friendship developing during your school days will be with you for a long time.

D．What you value above anything is the friendship developing during childhood.

3. What does the underlined phrase “so -called ‘friends’”in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Friends in need.

B．Fair- weather friends.

C．Those who can help you.

D．Those who often gives you money.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards “true friends” according to paragraph 3?

A．True friends are too difficult to find.

B．You can only share sadness with a true friend.

C．You can only share happiness with a true friend.

D．True friends will stand by you whatever happens.

8 . “BANG!” the door caused a reverberation (回声). It was just standing there, with father standing on one side, and I on the other side.
We were both in great anger. “Never set foot in this house again!” stormed father. With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street.
The street lights were shining, causing rather sad-feeling. I wandered aimlessly.
A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me. I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space: happy and carefree.
But now … I don’t know whether it is because I have grown up or because dad is getting old. We differ in our ways of thinking. He always put his opinions and codes of behavior on me. Whenever I do something wrong, he never admits it. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened.
I wandered the streets, without a destination in mind. My heart was frozen on this hot summer night. As I walked on there were fewer and fewer people on th e streets, until I had only the street lights to keep me company. When I finally reached the high-rise apartment block in which I lived , I saw that the light was still on.
I thought to myself: “Is father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?”
In fact, it was nothing. Perhaps, dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps. I can’t stand his outrageous(蛮横的)words: “I can’t throw you away, let alone these old papers?”
All the lights were off except father’s.
Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn’t know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any mercy or any moments of regret. After an argument he has the habit of creeping up in my sleep and then tucking me underneath the covers.
This was how he always was. He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature.
The light was still on. “Am I wrong?” I whispered, maybe… With the key in hand, I was as nervous as I had ever been. At last, I decided to open the door. As soon as I opened the door tears ran down my cheeks. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had imagined between us did not exist(存在) at all. Love—it second to none.
1. Decide which is the best order of the following according to what happened in the passage.
a. I opened the door and entered the house.
b. Sadly I ran out into the street.
c. I reached the place where I lived and saw my house still brightly lit.
d. I thought of my father’s kindness towards me.
e. I walked about in the street without any aim.

A．b, e, d, c, a	B．b, e, c, d, a
C．b, e, a, c, d	D．b, e, c, a, d

2. What made the writer think of his childhood?

A．The sight of the street lights.

B．The sight of the empty street.

C．The sight of a father with a child in his arms.

D．The sight of light in his own house.

3. Why do you think the father often shouts at his son?

A．perhaps the father is getting older and older.

B．perhaps the son has already grown up.

C．perhaps they never agree with each other.

D．perhaps the father has got used to doing that.

4. What conclusion（结论）can you come to after reading the passage?

A．The father treats his son in an unfair way.

B．The father is actually kind to his son.

C．The father is neither kind nor cruel to his son.

D．The father is always finding fault with his son.

9 . My dad was a farmer in the Midwest and he spent his winters selling insurance. Dad could really talk up anyone and his favorite thing to do was find out their income. Once we were at Chicago's O'Hare airport. Dad was sitting with me as I waited for my flight to Fort Lauderdale. A Russian guy who sat down next to my dad could not speak a word of English but this did not stop my dad. He found out his business, how many children he had and of course how much he made.

I used to be a little embarrassed by this, but I changed later. It was in the last year of dad's life. As I was home visiting with my husband and twins and I was in the car with my mom, she told me a story about how she was in the doctor's office with dad and how he was his usual self-talking away to the others in the waiting room. She said he started talking to this young man in a wheel chair who could not talk, could not move his arms or head, really couldn't do anything. But dad was asking questions and got the young man to smile in response. And he carried on like that with the disabled man till he was called back to the doctor's office. When the young man and his father got up to see the doctor, the father of the young man came over and shook my dad's hands and said, "Thank you for speaking to my son. Most people just turn away when they see him.''

My father ended up dying later that month, a sudden heart attack. Fortunately, all the 9 children of his had been home that summer to visit. I told this story at his funeral（葬礼）. Truly, my dad was one who never knew a stranger.

1. What was the author's dad most interested in when talking with strangers?

A．What fields they worked in.

B．What insurance they bought.

C．How much they made yearly.

D．How many children they had.

2. The young man's father thanked the author's dad for .

A．calling in the doctor in time

B．chatting with his disabled son

C．comforting the other patients

D．teaching his disabled son to smile

3. Why did the author tell the story mentioned in Paragraph 2 at her dad's funeral?

A．To well remember her dad.

B．To entertain the whole family.

C．To introduce her dad's business.

D．To change strangers, opinion of her dad.

10 . We thought we had it all---a beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way, two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment---and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down for good.

We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren't any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn't felt in years.

That's why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.

Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children. That's what's important. That makes you a rich man.”

“But what if we lose the house? They'll hate me-you'll hate me,” he replied.

I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye. “No matter where we live I will be happy--as long as I have you.” I smiled again. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said “I do”.

I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn't for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.

We are still struggling for our better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can't buy and no one can take away from us.

1. Why was it hard for the author to watch her husband blame himself?

A．She thought she should be blamed

B．She thought he had tried his best

C．She thought he would get a job someday

D．She thought it would remind her of sad memories

2. Which of the following can best describe the couple’s present life?

A．Bitter but quiet	B．Comfortable and easy
C．Hard but happy	D．Well-off and relaxing

3. The best title of the text might be     .

A．We Have It All	B．We Find It Again
C．A Perfect Couple	D．A Hard Time