1 . Best Gifts for Every Type of Mom

Mother’s Day is drawing near. Do you want to reward Mom with special gifts? We have done the work for you by selecting best gift ideas for every type of mom. Just click “Add to cart (购物车)” to shower Mom with love.

Dainty Earrings — Best for the Jewelry Lover

Made from silver, the earrings are lightweight and perfect for everyday wear. They’re also ideal for anyone with sensitive ears. Among the 8,000 plus five-star viewers, April Farmer wrote, “Just about every material irritates (刺激) my ears, but I have had these in for three months now, and no irritation. Besides, I can’t even tell they are in!”

KS Lunch Bag — Best for the Working Mom

This bag will put a smile on mom’s face during lunch hour. With about 5000 five-star reviews, the fashionable and functional KS bag will keep food and soups fresh. Plus, the soft and lightweight design makes it easy to bring anywhere.

Breville Express — Best for the Coffee Lover

If Mom is a true coffee lover, she’s dreamed of owning a high-end coffee machine. Now you can make that dream a reality. The Breville Express, which has more than 14,000 five-star reviews, comes in either black or stainless steel surfaces and offers the same dose-controlled grinding (研磨) that’s normally reserved for fancy coffee shops.

Beckham Pillows — Best for the One Who Needs a Good Night’s Sleep

She deserves a peaceful night’s rest after all the hard work she does every day, and she’ll get just that with these Beckham pillows. It’s a best seller with more than 126,000 five-star reviews, so it’s pretty much a hit.

1. Why are Dainty Earrings worth buying in April Farmer’s view?

A．They are light and skin-friendly.

B．They are simple but unique.

C．They are stylish and valuable.

D．They are strong and fancy.

2. Which of the following has the fewest five-star reviews?

A．Dainty Earrings.	B．Breville Express.
C．KS Lunch Bag.	D．Beckham Pillows.

3. Who is the passage intended for?

A．Agencies selling products to moms.

B．People seeking gifts for their moms.

C．Moms planning to reward themselves.

D．Salesmen studying moms’ preferences.

3 . My mother was never truly happy in Connecticut finding the winter bitter cold and the culture provincial (偏狭的). Though she grew up in New Jersey, she moved to San Francisco in her early twenties, met and married my dad out there. After I was born, they decided to return east, closer to their own parents. But she never let go of her love for the Bay Area.

California was always part of the conversation when I was a kid. I ate meals off a map-of-the-world placemat (餐垫), and Mom taught me to identify San Francisco before I learned where Hartford was. She told us stories of perfection on a single city, fantasizing about retiring out west. My dad would play along, but his heart wasn’t in the same place.

While my mother’s status in the nonprofit world advanced, her desire to move back to her favorite place grew strong. She applied for jobs in the Bay, underwent bicoastal Skype screenings, even traveled out for a couple of interviews on a whim (心血来潮). Sometimes her cover letters disappeared, other times she made it down to the final two candidates. With each rejection, she promised to make her next job application even stronger.

This past May, I relocated from San Francisco to New York for a job. A few weeks later, Mom called me. Her pursuit had finally paid off. She’s been offered a vice president position at a public health nonprofit in Oakland. A few weeks later, she packed up her baggage and left Connecticut for good.

Our lives are more semblable than ever these days. We’re both discovering our new homes, making friends. We’re looking for a good yoga studio to join, reading the same books and chatting about the plots by text message. I emailed her photos from my trip to Burning Man and she replied with stories about her new coworkers who go every year. There’s even time for the occasional dating disaster.

Perhaps that’s the paradox (悖论) of growing older. Things will always change, and they can change immediately—my mother is proof. But an individual’s own power to create change always stays the same. Everything can change, and therefore nothing ever really changes.

Now when I’m out west for a visit, Mom meets me at a station with her big bag. We stop by the Grand Lake farmers market, picking out the freshest seasonal ingredients, before hiking up the hill to her new apartment. One of these days, I’ll actually cook her dinner.

1. What can we know about the author’s mother?

A．She always likes to struggle on her own.	B．Nothing can stop her from reaching her goal.
C．She owns a public health nonprofit company.	D．She takes everything of her daughter on herself.

2. What does the underlined word “semblable” mean?

A．Changeable.

B．Comfortable.

C．Similar.

D．Creative.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The relationship between the author and her mother is very good.

B．The author would not like to let her mother work on.

C．The author and her mother live in the same city at present.

D．The author would not like to change her life situation.

4. In the last paragraph, the author mainly wants to tell the readers that ________.

A．her family’s life always change because of her mother

B．the mother-daughter feelings will stay the same forever

C．she has grown up during her family’s constant moves

D．her mother always wants to change her current situations

5 . My mother and sister had gone through Grandma’s belongings after her memorial service and decided on the sewing machine for me. I wasn’t sure if I was the right person for it, though. I hadn’t sewn since taking a class in high school. This would take some experimenting.

I opened the built-in drawer to find Grandma’s old pieces of thread. I held her tomato-shaped pincushion (针垫)and thought of all the memories wrapped up in this machine. Grandma had become a tailoress (女裁缝)out of necessity. With four small children to clothe, she’d quickly learned how to sew almost everything they needed. For over 30 years, Grandma kept up with her sewing. She made matching Easter dresses for my sister and me and costumes for our school festivals. She was always in search of a new project, whether it was teaching our neighbors or sewing dresses for the homeless. But for the last several years of her life, dementia (痴呆)had left a shy and silent woman in place of the strong, opinionated, loving grandmother I’d known.

To honor Grandma’s memory, I wanted a project to help people the way she had. With the stay-at-home order in place because of COVID-19, I certainly had the time. So I dug out Grandma’s machine to sew masks, and read up on how to sew. I turned on my computer to research how to get the machine going again. After hours of digging through old black-and-white handbooks and sewing lessons online, I operated the machine one more time. I held my breath and pressed down on the pedal. Hurrah! It worked! In no time, my fingers were flying, steadily moving material under the very cooperative needle. When I sewed enough masks for my family, I kept going. I delivered nearly 500 masks to a hard-hit hospital in the area. Quite a big job for an old sewing machine.

A staff member met me outside to receive the donation. “Thank you,” she said, not knowing that any thanks for my efforts belonged to Grandma, who provided the inspiration.

1. Why did the author doubt herself about accepting the sewing machine? _____

A．She was not fond of it.	B．She didn’t usually sew much.
C．She had no interest in sewing.	D．She hoped to donate it to charities.

2. What can be inferred about the author’s grandma? _____

A．She dreamt of being a tailor.	B．She kept sewing as a hobby
C．She was ready to help others.	D．She had always been optimistic.

3. The underlined part “read up on” in paragraph 3 can be understood as _____.

A．studied a lot about	B．thought of slowly
C．noticed or observed	D．lost one’s heart to

4. What does the story convey? _____

A．I have donated nearly 500 masks.

B．I finally learned to use a sewing machine.

C．Making masks for others is such a pleasure.

D．My grandmother inspired me to help others.

6 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Jack, my best friend, is my classmate. Our friendship is like a stream of flowed water. We often help each another in our studies. I was once weakness in English. Only he always explained various English problems to me patient, With his help, my English got better, as which I was grateful to him. As for him, he found it difficult learn math at that time. So I spare no effort to help him with math problems. At last, he made a great progress in math. Now, we are learning painting. No matter what difficult the high school courses are, we’ll work hard to be admitting to the best art university.

7 . It was a golden season. I could see the yellow leaves _______ on the _______ wind. In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, listening to the sound of them.

Autumn is a _______ season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me down. But one day, the sound of a violin _______ into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I _______ to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was lost in playing her violin.

I had _______ seen her before. The music was so attractive that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn’t realize that I had been standing there for so long but my existence did not seem to _______ her.

Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building _______ I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only audience. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became _______ . We didn’t know each other, ________ I thought we were already good friends. I believed she also liked me.

Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening devotedly, the sound suddenly stopped. To my ________ , the girl came over to me.

“You must like violin,” she said.

“Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

Suddenly, a ________ expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

“I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very ________ . It was your listening every day that encouraged me.” she said.

“In fact, it was your playing that gave me a ________ autumn.” I answered. “Let us be friends.”

The girl smiled and I smiled.

I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine ________ of the girl. She is like a ________ ; so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.

There are many kinds of friends. Some are always with you, but don’t understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but are ________ you. Many people will step in your life, but only ________ friends leave footprints.

I shall always ________ the autumn and the girl with the violin. She will always bring back the ________ between us. I know she will always be my best friend.

1.

A．falling

B．hanging

C．shaking

D．floating

2.

A．cool

B．warm

C．hot

D．freezing

3.

A．lively

B．lovely

C．harvest

D．lonely

4.

A．grew

B．flowed

C．flew

D．ran

5.

A．jumped

B．stopped

C．happened

D．slipped

6.

A．ever

B．never

C．just

D．even

7.

A．satisfy

B．astonish

C．disturb

D．attract

8.

A．where

B．while

C．when

D．though

9.

A．interesting

B．touching

C．dull

D．exciting

10.

A．so

B．and

C．or

D．but

11.

A．amazement

B．delight

C．pride

D．satisfaction

12.

A．happy

B．sad

C．strange

D．surprised

13.

A．earnestly

B．well

C．badly

D．carefully

14.

A．meaningful

B．exciting

C．cold

D．golden

15.

A．shadow

B．picture

C．figure

D．influence

16.

A．song

B．dream

C．fire

D．autumn

17.

A．close to

B．far away

C．in need of

D．in front of

18.

A．good

B．true

C．new

D．old

19.

A．spend

B．forget

C．recall

D．value

20.

A．sound

B．love

C．care

D．friendship

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

There are many respectable people around me. Among them, the person I respected most is my father. He is ordinary middle school teacher who devotes himself to teach. It is the love for his career which makes him achieve a lot in his work. He has won his students respect. My father is very busy every day, and he still spares some time to accompany me, sharing many amused things with me about his work. Whenever I come across with problems in my life, he will encourage me to overcome it bravely. I love him deeply. What lucky I am to have such a good father!

9 . Who is the woman talking to?

A．A neighbor.

B．Her son.

C．A deliveryman.

10 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Mike,

I’m very grateful to your recommendation. It’s a great opportunity to take part in the English speech contest about environmental protection. Therefore, I’m afraid that I can’t participate in it. My mother had been ill for several days and I have to take care of her in her spare time.

I strongly recommend my friend Wang Li, who I think he is a suitable person for this contest. He speaks fluently English. Besides, he is active member of the Blue Planet Club and devotes much time to care for our earth. I’m sure his rich knowledges of environmental protection and perfect speaking English will enable him to achieve success.

Sorry again for my absence.

Yours,

Li Hua