1 . Almost all kids pretend their dolls can talk or that their toys possess magical powers.    1    A study conducted by researchers at the University of Oregon found that by age 7, 37 percent of children had an invisible friend. In fact, imaginary companions are quite common in many people’s childhood.

And while there’s nothing wrong with kids who don’t have imaginary friends, children who have imaginary companions shouldn’t be a cause for concern either.

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Some research indicates that kids with imaginary friends are more likely to be firstborn or only children, but that doesn’t mean imaginary friends are just for kids who are lonely. In fact, studies show kids who have imaginary friends are quite social and creative.

    3    On the contrary, they can be a tool that kids use to cope with their troubles. Kids who have experienced trauma (精神创伤)，for example, may rely on imaginary companions to help them through times.

While some parents worry that the invention of an imaginary friend means a child doesn’t have any real friends, imaginary friends don’t indicate a lack of social skills.    4    

Talking to an imaginary friend can even improve a child’s communication skills.    5    Consequently, studies show kids with imaginary friends may be better at understanding a listener or observer’s perspective.

A．That’s not to say you need to stop their communication soon.

B．Imaginary friends usually aren’t a sign that a child is troubled.

C．It’s OK to be concerned about the imaginary friend by asking, “Who is he?”

D．In fact, some studies show there are many benefits to having imaginary friends.

E．But some kids take their dramatic play a step further and invent an imaginary friend.

F．They can actually serve as a safe way to practice such skills, like solving conflict and sharing.

G．Engaging in dialogue with an imaginary friend requires a child to take on the friend’s perspective.

2 . 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。

Just like on every break, Asiri would go with his uncle to his workshop, who made costumes for elephants! Asiri had been asking to help make the costumes. But he’d been told he was too little to sew the fine stitches (缝线) needed for the costumes.

Waiting for Uncle Thad, Asiri smoothed his practice piece beside him. Across it he had sewn, pulled out, and resewn stitches just as Uncle Thad had taught him. He couldn’t wait to show it to his uncle.

When his uncle finally came over, Asiri leapt from his seat. “Look, Uncle, ” said Asiri, holding up the stitched cloth. “These are fine stitches, Asiri, ” said Uncle Thad. “Just right to fix sequins (亮片). ” Together they walked to the workshop.

Uncle Thad and his team were busy making the costumes. They had to be ready for Esala Perahera, the biggest festival held in the city of Kandy. Since the elephants were the stars of the parade, their costumes had to be dazzling. He especially loved the sequins sewn on them that made them sparkle.

Uncle Thad, his team, and now Asiri, would finish the costumes. Asiri hoped he’d get to sew a sequin onto the costume for the most important elephant in the parade. After lunch, Asiri was putting away a piece of cloth when his uncle called. “Asiri? Please bring me the box of golden sequins. ”

Here was his chance, thought Asiri. He’d bring the box to Uncle Thad and then ask to sew one on. Uncle Thad was sure to say yes. Asiri lifted the box from the shelf but turned a little too quickly, and the box was turned over, leaving the golden sequins on the floor. Uncle Thad turned to stare-first at Asiri and then at the golden sequins. Asiri felt his cheeks turning red. Now, Uncle Thad would never let him sew a single sequin on the costumes this year. Asiri dashed out of the door, down the street, and all the way back home. Hearing the rush of his footsteps, Asiri’s mother came to the door.

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“What’s wrong, Asiri?” asked his mother.

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Reaching the workshop, Asiri found the sequins were still there.

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3 . 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。

High—school sports is the biggest thing that happens in our town of Verden, population six hundred. Sports are important in our family. Both of our sons were high—school athletes. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when Lauren announced she was going out for the girls’ basketball team, but I was because she has Down syndrome(唐氏综合征). My wife and I never told Lauren that she was different, treating her like our other children.

“I’m gonna play basketball, Daddy.” Lauren flew into my arms when I came in from work. “That’s nice, honey,” I replied automatically and patted her, figuring she meant outside—on the driveway.

Walking into the kitchen, I met my wife Laura, whose frown indicated I’d missed something. Laura spoke slowly, her tone steady. “She meant she’s joining the girls’ high—school basketball team.”

Just as her words sank in, I heard Lauren behind me. “I’m gonna be a Lady Tiger,” she yelled, skipping into the room and throwing her arms in the air. Everything that could happen flashed through my mind. I discussed Lauren’s announcement with my wife that evening and finally agreed. After all, there were only 11 girls, not everyone willing to play.

The next afternoon, I parked in front of the school gymnasium. Inside, Coach Forsythe greeted us, “We’re glad Lauren came out for the team. She is not just a cheerleader!” Lauren stood alone at the other end of the court, shooting free throws. No other girl on the court grinned（咧嘴笑）like Lauren did, and after every shot, Lauren approvingly cried, “Woo hoo!”, seemingly not caring if she made the basket or not.

Mid-November, the season’s first basketball game arrived. I settled into a seat with the rest of my family. The game got off to a good start, but soon Lady Tigers was behind. Lauren followed the movement on the court and reacted to every play. Even though Lauren wasn’t playing, she looked as if she were having the time of her life. I felt admiration for my daughter. Plus, her team was getting beat, yet she still enjoyed the action. Just less than two minutes left, and Lady Tigers was down by seventeen points.

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Still in high spirits, Lauren cheered for Lady Tigers off the court.
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Then a teammate passed Lauren the ball.
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4 . 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。

The gym teacher blew the whistle (哨子) and four students dived into the swimming pool, racing to the other side. Then the next four were up, but only three stood on the diving board. “Where is Ren?” the gym teacher asked in concern.

Ren’s face turned red, and he was unsteady. He looked at the pool and stepped back. “You cannot make me do this!” he said.

Sadie patted him on the back gently. “You can do it! I will help you if you need it.” Ren stared into Sadie’s eyes and he calmed down.

“You can do it. You need to pass this class.” The gym teacher said. Ren stepped on the diving board,vputting his goggles (护目镜)vover his eyes, and the blue cap hid his red hair. The whistle blew and Ren stood there as the other three swam away. Then one boy ran and pushed Ren into the water.

Sadie glared at the boy. “Why would you do that?” A minute passed by and Ren still wasn’t coming up. Sadie jumped in and pulled him out of the water. She gave him CPR (心肺复苏)，and it took a while until water came out of his lungs. Then finally he spat out the water and sat up, feeling dizzy.

Ren looked over at Sadie,who breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, thank goodness! Why didn’t you use your arms or legs?”Ren stared away from Sadie, looking at the bottom of the blue pool, then looking up at the gym teacher who rolled his eyes.“I can’t swim. My parents never taught me as a kid. We are afraid of water.”

Sadie put her hand on his shoulder. “Don’t worry. I will teach you how to swim. The water is my favourite place to be.”Ren thought for a while, and nodded gently.

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Paragraph 1:

Ren and Sadie finished gym class and walked home together:

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The gym teacher blew the whistle and this time Ren dived bravely.

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5 . One person’s happiness causes a chain reaction that benefits not only their friends, but their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends. The effect lasts for up to one year. The opposite, interestingly, is not the case: Sadness does not spread through social networks as strongly as happiness. Happiness appears to love company more so than misery.

Focusing on 4,739 individuals, Christakis and Fowler, who co-authored this study, observed more than 50,000 social and family ties and analyzed the spread of happiness throughout this group. The researchers found that when an individual becomes happy, a friend living within a mile experiences a 25 percent increased chance of becoming happy. A co-resident spouse (配偶) experiences an 8 percent increased chance, siblings (兄弟姐妹) living within one mile have a 14 percent increased chance, and for next-door neighbors, 34 percent. But the real surprise came with indirect relationships. Again, while an individual becoming happy increases his friend’s chances, a friend of that friend experiences a nearly 10 percent chance of increased happiness, and a friend of that friend has a 5.6 percent increased chance.

The researchers also found that, contrary to what your parents taught you, popularity does lead to happiness. People in the center of their network groups are the most likely people to become happy, and then there are chances that increase to the extent that the people surrounding them also have lots of friends. However, becoming happy does not help migrate a person from the network fringe (外围) to the center. Happiness spreads through the network without changing its structure.

“Imagine a bird’s eye view of a backyard party,” Fowler explains. “You’ll see people in groups at the center, and others on the fringe. The happiest people tend to be the ones in the center. But someone on the fringe who suddenly becomes happy, say through a particular exchange, doesn’t suddenly move into the center of the group. He simply stays where he is—only now he has a far more satisfying sense of well-being.”

Next time, if you’re happy and you know it, thank your friends—and their friends. And while you’re at it, their friends’ friends. But if you’re sad, hold the blame.

1. Who will be more likely to become happy as a man is happy according to the research?

A．His wife.	B．His next-door neighbors.
C．His brothers and sisters.	D．A friend of his friend.

2. Why does Fowler mention a backyard party in Paragraph 4?

A．To explain a rule.	B．To clarify a concept.
C．To describe a fact.	D．To make a prediction.

3. What does the research aim to tell us?

A．Happiness changes social structures.

B．A social network is a double-edged sword.

C．Happiness goes hand in hand with sadness.

D．Happiness spreads through social networks.

4. What do we know from the last two paragraphs?

A．Friends’ friends may bring you happiness.

B．Your friends are to blame for your sadness.

C．Your friends decide whether you are happy.

D．The happiest friends at party are on the fringe.

6 . 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。

It was an early winter morning. Joan was sleeping soundly when the phone rang in the living room. She rolled over and glanced at the clock on the wall—it was already nine o’clock.Every weekend morning, her mother had to work part-time in the cafe. Although Joan was still sleepy, she knew she had to get up. After all, she didn’t expect her brother Mike, who was sleeping like a log, to hear the phone. She quietly went over to the living room. When she picked up the receiver, on the other end came the warmhearted greetings,“Good morning, my Dear!”Recognizing the voice from her father, Joan was immediately surrounded by a sense of joy and the sleepiness swept away.

Joan’s father was a seaman, who rarely came back. Working on the sea was really hard.Born in a not-rich family, Joan and Mike felt the stress of life but they were happy to enjoy the family atmosphere. At school, they were straight-A students throughout the academic career and actively involved in school activities. They became the pride of the school and the envy of the students.

“Good morning, Dad, what’s up?”Joan said in an easy tone.“I have been very nice recently, my baby. Today is your mother’s birthday, and I have ordered her a cake online and it should come to the house in one and half an hour. Do remember to take the cake.”

Hearing her father’s words, Joan felt a little ashamed. How she could forget Mum’s birthday!She took a glance at the dirty clothes piled on the sofa and the oily floor that hadn’t been mopped(拖地) for a few days—There was two hours before her mother came back. She calculated they had enough time to prepare a surprise for Mum.

Thinking of this, she felt full of excitement.“Well, Dad, now I’m going to wake Mike up.We will give Mum a surprise !”

Joan hung up the phone with Dad, and hurriedly went to Mike’s room to share him her Big Cleaning plan. After listening to Joan, Mike readily accepted her idea.

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The Big Cleaning plan began.

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With the cake placed on the table, Mum came in.

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7 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

My parents grew up poor. But as a family, we were comfortable, though we didn’t have much what would be considered luxuries. One year, my father went on a trip to Italy and brought my mother an opal ring. It was her favorite stone, and she cherished that ring. It represented Dad’s love for her.

Dad died at the age of 53 in 1980 after a grueling battle with cancer. Mom was working at Burlington Coat Factory Department store. She usually wore the ring to work. Over the years, the ring became impossible for my Mom to wear because of her swollen knuckles (指关节). I had the ring fitted with a clasp so that Mom could wear it again. She took great pride in the frequent compliments as she got on that ring.

One day during her shift, the ring slipped off. She didn’t realize it until the following day. Mom was sad. The ring did not have a high monetary value, but it meant as much to her as life itself. I decided to go and look for it.

I encountered Chloe, one of my Mom’s co-workers at my Mom’s workplace. She led me to the store where Mom worked, and then left. It was packed with clothes, racks and tables. I started row by row crawling on the floor to see if I could find the ring underneath all the clothes. When I got to the last row and hadn’t found the ring, the thought occurred to me that it might have fallen into the pocket of a coat as my Mom was hanging or rearranging the clothes. I started feeling around in the pockets of some of the coats, but quickly abandoned. There were at least 20,000 pieces of clothing in that department. The attempt seemed useless.

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I stood by a small table in disappointment when Chloe came in.

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I called my Mom and now I was choking back tears.

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8 . In the winter some 30 years ago, I lost my job as a substitute teacher. With three little children ______ on me, I had to work in a saw mill for just above the minimum ______.

As I got ready to go to work, I ______ band-aids around my fingers and put more in my pockets. Cutting and stacking lumber for eight hours a day would cause my ______ to split and bleed at their tips in the cold, dry winter air. ______ still, we were short-handed on workers and the machines kept ______. We could see our breath as we ______ hours chopping, stacking, carrying, and packaging the hard wood flooring to be shipped out.

“When the work day finally ended, I took off my work ______ and inspected my aching fingers. The splits were worse and they had ______ through the band-aids again.

I started my car and and drove back home. I tried to ______ a smile on my face as I opened my front door. My daughter ran up to me, yelled “Daddy!”, and put her little arms around my neck. I ______ her up, and all my aches and pains disappeared into her ______. In that second, the joy in my heart ______ the sadness away.

We all have bleeding fingers and band-aid days in our lives. But with ______ we can make it through them all. After all, work may give us a ______, but it is love that gives us a life.

1.

A．supporting

B．feeding

C．counting

D．keeping

2.

A．strength

B．time

C．money

D．wage

3.

A．protected

B．wrapped

C．circled

D．turned

4.

A．fingers

B．palms

C．hands

D．arms

5.

A．Worse

B．Next

C．Further

D．More

6.

A．slowing down

B．coming down

C．breaking down

D．lying down

7.

A．spent

B．passed

C．took

D．lost

8.

A．glasses

B．clothes

C．jeans

D．gloves

9.

A．broke

B．bled

C．went

D．hurt

10.

A．put

B．hide

C．stay

D．offer

11.

A．caught

B．cheered

C．kept

D．lifted

12.

A．voice

B．heart

C．hug

D．smile

13.

A．struck

B．drove

C．stole

D．left

14.

A．comfort

B．love

C．courage

D．work

15.

A．family

B．choice

C．living

D．chance

9 . She was dancing. My disabled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely ________. I looked how her body bent beautifully, her arms greeting the sunlight that was ________ through the window. And her legs… Those legs that had ________ walked, aided with a walking stick as long as I could remember. Now she was wearing beautiful dancing shoes and her legs ________ her perfectly.

She turned around and saw me standing in the doorway. Her beautiful movement ended so ________ that it felt like being shaken awake from a beautiful dream. Grandma looked so much like a kid ________ with her hand in a cookie jar. Grandma sighed and gave me the whole story.

“________, my legs have been well all my life”, she said. She thought for a while and then continued. “We were talking about engagement when your grandfather had to go to war. I put all my energy and time into ________. I was invited to perform with the best and one day I realized

I was considered to be one of them. And then one day a letter from the ________ came. He lost his leg and asked me to forget about him.”

“What happened then?” I ________ her.

“I made my decision ________. I loved him so much that I was not going to lose him to depression. I told everyone I had been in a car ________ and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. I only danced at home when no one was around and never ________ my decision. I figured I could change a few years of fame to a lifetime of ________. And I was right. It was worth it.”

Tears filled my eyes. I was thinking about how much joy we can bring to each others’ lives. I know people who have chosen to ________ a lot and done it gladly to achieve something they considered worth it, just like my grandma.

1.

A．astonished

B．amused

C．annoyed

D．ashamed

2.

A．sticking

B．rising

C．pouring

D．lifting

3.

A．rapidly

B．inflexibly

C．firmly

D．freely

4.

A．obeyed

B．followed

C．stretched

D．pushed

5.

A．early

B．slowly

C．weakly

D．suddenly

6.

A．beaten

B．caught

C．banned

D．forgiven

7.

A．to begin with

B．to sum up

C．to tell the truth

D．to make matters worse

8.

A．dancing

B．singing

C．working

D．exercising

9.

A．hometown

B．battlefield

C．ballroom

D．campground

10.

A．confirmed

B．persuaded

C．hurried

D．greeted

11.

A．here and there

B．up and down

C．day and night

D．there and then

12.

A．race

B．crash

C．ride

D．park

13.

A．regretted

B．accepted

C．defended

D．supported

14.

A．loss

B．gift

C．love

D．pain

15.

A．go over

B．take off

C．put away

D．give up