1 . Every year, in preparation for New Year’s Day, my family holds Baking Day, a very important tradition to our family. It began years ago and is nearly _______ as much as New Year’s Day.

For our Baking Day_______we certainly bake pies and cookies, but the most _______ dish we work on is my great-grandma’s L Noodles. She _______ it “L Noodles” because she felt the vital ingredient(成分) was the _______ that went into creating it. As a little girl I asked her for the _______ and leaned accordingly to make this dish other families rarely eat on New Year’s Day. On Baking Day, together my family make L Noodles we’ll _______ beside other dishes, using kitchen items _______ from my great grandma and telling her stories. I understand this isn’t a _______ New Year dish, but it means a lot to me-it’s about ________ and the special legacy(遗产).

________, my girls never met their great-great-grandma. But it’s amazing to ________ them to make L Noodles to pass down this legacy and make them ________ of her life. I tell stories that my great-grandma once ________ me when I was a little girl to my girls most nights. They brighten up knowing I heard the same stories in childhood. And we experience the legacy of love in something as small and ________ as that.

1.

A．acknowledged

B．applauded

C．prized

D．promoted

2.

A．recreation

B．routine

C．purpose

D．challenge

3.

A．delicious

B．common

C．meaningful

D．popular

4.

A．made

B．appointed

C．supposed

D．named

5.

A．life

B．love

C．labor

D．link

6.

A．recipe

B．permission

C．recommendation

D．opportunity

7.

A．prepare

B．enjoy

C．expect

D．serve

8.

A．handed down

B．taken over

C．brought back

D．got in

9.

A．unique

B．proper

C．suitable

D．typical

10.

A．feelings

B．preferences

C．memories

D．relationships

11.

A．Surprisingly

B．Sadly

C．Undoubtedly

D．Obviously

12.

A．convince

B．encourage

C．coach

D．allow

13.

A．aware

B．proud

C．respectful

D．certain

14.

A．sent

B．handed

C．taught

D．read

15.

A．simple

B．appealing

C．peaceful

D．extraordinary

2 . It is never easy to be away from our loved ones.

Samantha Norris has missed her mother, Tamie Norris, for the past 11months every day. Tamie spent those months working in Jordan, far away from the family’s home in Austin, Texas. When the mom went back home earlier than expected, she decided to surprise her daughter who was still teaching students in the classroom at that time.

Samantha is a first-grade teacher at Harmony School of Innovation in Austin. This is her first teaching job, and she wanted to share every moment with her mother.

In a video of the big moment, Samantha’s jaw(下颌)hit the floor when her mom walked confidently into the classroom without telling her. Her eyes were filled with tears as Tamie gave her a big hug.

Students suddenly looked up to see their teacher tearfully hugging a woman. They had heard stories about Samantha’s mother, but seeing her was very exciting! “My kids were excited when they understood what was happening, of course, ” Samantha said. “They have always been so curious about her!”

Not only was it a surprise to the students, but Tamie also brought along a box of donuts (甜甜圈) for a sweet treat. Tamie made a big impression on the kids that day.

Later, Samantha shared the video and photos of her mom’s visit on Instagram. “11 months too long without giving my mom a hug-the best surprise, welcome home!!” she wrote.

What a special treat for Samantha—and her students! Tamie is a wonderful example of a strong woman and mother. We’re so glad she’s back in the homeland for a while.

1. What do we know about Samantha?

A．She is a teacher of Grade Two.

B．She is an experienced teacher.

C．She once worked in Jordan for 1l months.

D．She hasn’t seen her mother for l1 months.

2. How did Samantha feel about her mother’s sudden visit?

A．Amazed and hopeful.

B．Disappointed and sad.

C．Surprised and excited.

D．Worried and depressed.

3. What can be inferred from the story?

A．Tamie came back home later than expected.

B．Tamie is a confident and considerate mother.

C．Samantha didn’t share the video of her mom’s visit.

D．The students’ first impression of Tamie was favourable.

4. What could be the best title of the story?

A．A Sweet Surprise.

B．A Confident Mother.

C．An Interesting Class.

D．A Surprised Daughter.

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。

The economic downturn caught us. We sold our ranch and moved to town, Mother had decided to open a day nursery. She had had no training, but that didn’t stand in her way. She sent away for correspondence courses in child care, did the lessons and in six months formally qualified herself for the task. It wasn’t long before she had a full enrollment and a waiting list. I accepted all this as a perfectly normal instance of Mother’s ability. But neither the nursery nor the motel my parents bought later had provided enough income to send my sister and me to college. In two years I would be ready for college. Time was running out, and Mother was anxious for ways to save money. It was clear that Dad could do no more than he was doing already — farming 80 acres in addition to holding a full-time job. A few months after we’d sold the motel, Mother arrived home with a used green typewriter.

“That’s all we can afford,” Mother said. “It’s good enough to learn on.” And from that day on, as soon as the table was cleared and the dishes were done, Mother would disappear into her sewing room to practice. The slow tap, tap, tap went on some nights until midnight. Soon I heard Mother got a job at the radio station. I was not the least bit surprised, or impressed. But she was wild with joy.

Monday, after her first day at work, I could see that the excitement was gone.

Tuesday, Dad made dinner and cleaned the kitchen. Mother stayed in her sewing room, practicing. “Is Mother all right?” I asked Dad. “She’s having a little trouble with her typing,” he said. “She needs to practice. I think she’d appreciate it if we all helped out a bit more. You might just remember that she is working primarily so you can go to college.”

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Wednesday, I arrived home earlier and was surprised by what I saw — Mother was crying in the corner of the couch.

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Mother took another job earning half, but the evening practice sessions on the old green typewriter continued.

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5 . 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.

注意：
1．续写的词数应为150左右;
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

“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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6 . 阅读下面短文，按照要求完成阅读任务。

My neighbor Josie was a good cook and college professor. We have been good friends for many years. Each early morning, Josie would invite me to join her in walking and she would make breakfast for me as a reward!

Josie planted a lovely garden. Every flower and vegetable made its debut (首秀) once a year. There were so many kinds that I could not even recognize what was growing, and we had the freshest salads in the neighborhood all summer long!

Each evening, Josie and I would sit in front of the garden. We would have a chat, exchanging our world views as well as funny jokes. However, one evening, Josie was a “no-show”. Then I heard the ambulance and saw her husband and children running outside. Josie suffered a stroke (中风).

Later, when I set eyes on her, she was in a wheelchair, covered in a thick blanket. She looked smaller and older than before. But how she chose to face it made me surprised. During the days when Josie had some strength, her husband wheeled her into the living room, and they watched old movies together. She called it “date time”. And during the most special days when Josie was doing well, her husband took her for a walk outside in her wheelchair. She called it “going on vacation”. Despite the fact that Josie was not expected to make a full recovery, they continued to watch movies and took lots of mini-vacations.

She is grateful for listening to her grandchildren telling stories to her, smelling a summer barbecue, sharing a laugh with her favorite neighbor, and being here for another day. I am thankful for her simple life lesson: Find the positive, and you will find your reason to live.

1. What was Josie like before she suffered a stroke? (no more than 10 words)
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2. How was Josie’s skill in gardening? (no more than 5 words)
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3. How can we understand the underlined part in Paragraph 3? (no more than 5 words)
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4. What made the author surprised after Josie suffered the stroke? (no more than 10 words)
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5. How does Josie’s story inspire you? Please explain in your own words. (no more than 20 words)
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8 . “You need to sign this,”   my son Joe informed me. “What is it?”   I asked. Rolling his eyes with a sense of impatience, Joe replied,“   Your permission. And it’s due tomorrow!”

I learned that Joe’s sixth-grade class would be taking a field trip to the state capital. “That sounds like fun,” I said.“ I’ve always wanted to go there.”   “You can’t come!” Joe answered. Puzzled, I asked. “Why not?”   “Because you always come on field trips!”

Of course，I always joined his class on field trips. Being a chaperone(监护人)on a field trip is one of the advantages that comes with being a mom, a vacation day in a career that offers few opportunities for a change of scenery. “You don’t want me to be a chaperone?”   “Give someone else’s mom a chance,” he suggested. What was surprising was how much I minded being so impolitely removed from the short list of willing chaperones by my own son.

When Joe was in kindergarten, his class planned a pretend trip to Norway. The day before the trip,   Joe woke up not feeling well.

After learning that he didn’t have a fever, I asked,   “You don’t want to miss getting ready for the trip to Norway, do you?”   “I guess not,” he said.

But when I picked him up at the end of the day, the teacher whispered, “Joe got a little upset today.”   “What happened?”   “He doesn’t want to go to Norway without you.”   So that was what had been bothering my 5-year-old.He thought his class was really flying to Norway on their wooden chairs in their paper airplane. He believed those passports and tickets he and his classmates had been making were the real deal.

Preadolescence fell upon my family as my husband and I found ourselves preparing for our son’s upcoming teen years with the same trepidation as someone about to climb an ice-covered mountain wearing high heels.

Joe needed to take a field trip without me accompanying him. And I needed to let him.   I’m glad he doesn’t need me all the time.

1. What did the author really mind?

A．The additional responsibilities as a mom.

B．Being asked by her son to sign a permission.

C．Having missed the chance to visit the state capital.

D．Being denied rudely by her son as a chaperone.

2. What made Joe upset when he was five years old?

A．His going to Norway without his mom.

B．The occurrence of his fever on the journey.

C．His fear of the paper airplane’s crashing down.

D．The loss of his passport and ticket.

3. What does the underlined word “trepidation” in Paragraph 7 probably mean?

A．Excitement.

B．Nervousness.

C．Expectation.

D．Determination.

4. What did the author realize about Joe at last?

A．He hated being controlled by parents.

B．He was longing for his parents’ love.

C．He was becoming less dependent.

D．He was unwilling to obey rules.

9 . 阅读下面材料，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。

When a grandchild comes along for the first time, it’s important to have the right help. In our case, a lovely young couple seems    1    (absolute) perfect in bringing up our grandson. The new baby appears to really like them,    2    certainly takes away the worry for us grandparents.

Here’s the deal: we get the young couple to do most of the difficult work, like    3    (feed) the baby and changing nappies. He even lives    4    their house, which makes things a lot    5    (easy). We arrive for the good times, such as when the grandson is available to lie in our arms and glancing up at the world as if to comprehend its wonder.

Why, you may ask, would a young couple be willing    6    (do) all the hard work, while the grandparents enjoy the good times? It’s a fair question. When we arrive,     7    couple has usually been up, all night with dark circles. The grandchild, though, is full of energy. We, the grandparents, take    8    (turn) to rock him and he wriggles (扭动)in our arms. An hour    9    two later,when things are about to turn tricky, we hand him back to them and disappear down the steps.

Could these different work conditions really    10    (consider) fair? The young couple seems happy enough. The grandchild looks like them both, which may have helped.

10 . 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。

Willie’s 11th birthday was coming. His aunt sent him a birthday present—a small nice notebook. There was a place in it for a pencil. Willie valued it a lot and always kept it in his pocket. When he found something interesting, he would write it down in the book.

One afternoon, after Willie came back from school, he called his best friend, Caper, a well-trained shepherd dog and said, “Come, Caper! Let’s go out and have fun.” They went to the pasture field (牧场) to catch the butterflies and there they found a shaft (通风井), which seemed to be deserted for a long time. Willie sat down on the edge of the shaft, bending over to see how deep it was. Suddenly, he lost his balance and fell in. “Help! Help!” Willie called desperately. But no response at all. He was so far away from the house. He made several attempts to climb up the shaft but again he failed! Now Willie was exhausted and frustrated. When Caper saw his master falling into the shaft, the little good companion ran round and round, reaching down and trying to pull him out. Unfortunately, a piece of rock gave way under his feet, and he fell in the shaft too!

It was getting dark. When Willie’s mother, Mrs. Lee came back from work and found there was no one at home, she was anxious and worried. Without any clue at home, she decided to look for Willie outside. She went to all the trees under which Willie was in the habit of playing, but he was nowhere to be found. By this time, the sun had gone down. A feeling of panic took hold of Mrs. Lee. She comforted herself that Willie might have come back. She rushed back, hoping to find her son at home.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

She found Caper sitting in front of the door, with a notebook in his mouth.

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Willie told Mum how he came up with the idea after he was successfully rescued.

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