The Perfect Gift
Colin walked through the mall with his head down. He couldn’t bear to look at another window display of great Christmas gifts he couldn’t afford. There were only a few days left until Christmas, and Colin still didn’t t have a present for his parents. He had only managed to save four dollars and seventeen cents. He counted the money in his pocket and sighed heavily.
“You look upset today, Colin. What is the matter?” Colin’s older sister Whitney asked.
Colin explained his problem to his sister.
“Why don’t you make them something?” Whitney suggested.
“Making presents is for babies,” Colin said. “Mom and Dad won’t like baby stuff.”
“Hey, that is not true. When I was your age, I wrote Mom and Dad a poem for Christmas. They loved it so much that they had it framed (给……做框),” Whitney said.
Colin knew that was true. The poem was hanging in the living room right above the fireplace. Mom and Dad often stood at the fireplace and read the poem to him. But Colin wasn’t good at writing poems, so that didn’t really help him.
“It doesn’t have to be a poem,” Whitney said, “It could be anything that makes them think of you whenever they look at it. That’s why homemade gifts are special — because they make you think of the person who made it.”
“But I don’t know how to make anything Mom and Dad would actually want!” Colin said, kicking a tiny stone across the parking lot.
Whitney opened the car door. “Yes, you do! You’re always drawing those funny little comics. Why don’ t you do a family portrait(全家福) as a comic? Mom and Dad would love it.”
”Maybe," Colin said. He thought about the idea the whole way home. He even pictured how he would draw everyone.
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Paragraph 1: For the next two days, Colin drew one picture after another.
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Paragraph 2: After all the other presents were opened, Colin handed his gift to his parents.
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I cooked a western-style meal for my parents on their twenty anniversary. I started the meal with seafood soup. After starter, I provided a number of dishes, including a fish course or other lighter courses. Then I cooked them steaks as the main course. My mother wanted her well done while my dad wanted his medium. Next came to the salad course with cabbages, carrot slice and so on. The meal ended with a dessert, what was a cake basically consist of chocolate and eggs. This was the first time I have tried making Western dishes all by myself. I was very proudly to see that they enjoyed the meal.
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)，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.
4 . My father was the kind of guy who could walk into a room full of strangers and leave with new best friends for life! He was a hard worker and was known as “Mr Fix-It” to everyone. He was also one of the most cheerful, affable (和葛可亲的) and gentle people you would ever meet, which made us, his beloved daughters feel proud.
But when Dad was in his fifties, my family began to notice him struggling. His work and skills began to become worse and worse, and he became depressed and withdrawn. This was not the man I knew. At the age of fifty-eight, Dad was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As for our family, it was the worst.
Our first step was to attend a meeting hosted by the Alzheimer’s Association to learn more about the disease and programs that might help us. That meeting inspired me to start a Walk to End Alzheimer’s® team. But I still wanted to do more. In 2017, I became a board member of the Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley Chapter.
The loss from this disease is gradual. My father’s decline continued for several years. Losing my father more and more each day was leaving a big hole in my heart and my life. I decided to fill that hole with action to honor my father.
That’s why I recently decided to leave a gift to the Alzheimer’s Association by naming it as a beneficiary of my retirement plan. My future gift will provide money to support research because I don’t want another person in my family or someone in other families to have to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
I am so proud to be able to honor my father and other family members who lost their fights to Alzheimer’s in this way. My dad was an inspiration to me, and I hope, through my gift, I can inspire others to join in the fight to end Alzheimer’s.
1. What can we infer about the author’s father before having Alzheimer’s?| A．He was an outgoing man. | B．He hiked with strangers. |
| C．He made a living by sales. | D．He was a popular repairer of cars. |
| A．She consulted many experts. | B．She established a research team. |
| C．She gained more relevant information. | D．She funded the Alzheimer’s Association. |
| A．Research funds for the disease. | B．A record of her father’s mental state. |
| C．Her research papers on families like hers. | D．Experts’ suggestions on her father’s disease. |
| A．Her precious gift. | B．Her father’s firm confidence. |
| C．Her future expectation. | D．Her father’s original motivation. |
1.时间和地点;
2.观鸟节简介;
3.期待回复。
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When I was a boy, I was a football fan. I always played the football with some other boy in the backyard. One day, I came into the yard with a football and played it happy. But suddenly, the ball flies through the window or nearly hit my dad. Dad took my football and cut it in half. I didn’t cry because I knew what terrible my mistake was. I didn’t expect to getting a football again. But to mine surprise, Dad bought me a new one the next week. He said, “You have punished for your mistake already. Now, you have another chance. Please be more careful.” I was really grateful to my father’s forgiveness.
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删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)画掉。
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。
As my mum’s birthday approached, I was considering give her a unique gift. Finally, I decided to make short video to celebrate her fifty birthday. To do this successful, I did short interviews with my other family members or her friends, in which they all wished her a happy birthday. I include their birthday wishes in the video. Then, I added some photo and music to it and did some editing work. All this was done without my knowledge. On the day when I played the video for her, she was too touched that she gave me a warm hug. How happy I was to bring about joy to my mum!
8 . Do your family have any good traditions to keep? My family keep a “Good Things Jar (罐)” on our
Each year at Christmas time, we
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, it was one of the most terrifying things I could have
“Zarah, Will, and I had a picnic outside and I taught Will how to clap with his feet.”
“Even though Grandma is on chemo, she kicked the sickness!”
“My family
…
My “Good Things Jar” is like a jar of bottled
| A．kitchen | B．study | C．bedroom | D．washroom |
| A．contained | B．handy | C．decorated | D．extra |
| A．pull down | B．break down | C．take down | D．turn down |
| A．mentioned | B．applied | C．stuck | D．happened |
| A．hide | B．empty | C．sign | D．fold |
| A．serious | B．right | C．exact | D．clever |
| A．noticing | B．asking | C．inspiring | D．smelling |
| A．fixed | B．imagined | C．agreed | D．prevented |
| A．committing | B．conducting | C．calling | D．teaching |
| A．filling the bill | B．blowing itself out | C．hitting the face | D．coming to life |
| A．created | B．saw | C．cleaned | D．touched |
| A．honestly | B．secretly | C．eventually | D．instantly |
| A．Meanwhile | B．Therefore | C．Soon | D．However |
| A．quick | B．interested | C．surprised | D．generous |
| A．following | B．previous | C．tough | D．free |
| A．threw | B．organized | C．rushed | D．considered |
| A．hope | B．happiness | C．content | D．excitement |
| A．warn | B．remind | C．retell | D．refer |
| A．grasp | B．prepare | C．expect | D．write |
| A．command | B．urge | C．allow | D．encourage |
Returns
When I saw my mother at her home last month, it was a hot Sunday. I travelled there by train. As the train reduced its speed, I knew I was going to see her.
Leaving the station, I headed to the town center where I bought cakes — the kind she used to tell me to bring home. And I bought a cat, which I think can accompany her for along time. Until I got home, I didn’t think anything besides, I’m going to see her again and she’s waiting for me.
I knocked on the narrow door of the ground-floor apartment. She called out, “Yes. Come in!” “You should lock the door!” “I knew it was you. There’s no one else it could have been.”
When she saw the cat, she was very pleased as if it were my kid. She took the cakes, a little uneasy, but thanked me with a happy tone to her voice. That’s because she had already bought some for us on her way back home.
She was laughing, standing by the table. She put her hand on my shoulder, tilting her face up for me to kiss. At the same time, she was firing off questions about my trip, my children, my husband, my work...
We sat opposite each other at the table that, along with the meal she had already prepared for me, almost filled her apartment. She bought it big — it can seat at least ten people! But in six years, not once...
After meal, she tried to come up with more subjects of conversation, so that I wouldn’t go too soon, leaving her alone with her desire for me, her longing to live with me, her daughter, forever. Meanwhile, the cat approached us, which kept us busy for along time — watching it, taking turns holding it... My mother was the happiest she’d been since I got home. She seemed to have forgotten that I was going to leave.
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It’s time for me to say goodbye to her.
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A month later, I, along with my husband and kids, came back to visit my mother.
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10 . Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids and Google Family Link are fast growing in popularity, handing parents powers to monitor their children. But how are the latter experiencing what previous generations might have la-belled as an invasion of their privacy? Could these devices even hurt youths’ sense of independence?
We set out to answer these questions in our research, which involved a series of one-on-one interviews with parents who geo-tracked their children, and teenagers who were geo-tracked.
Overall, the parents who took part in our survey claimed they were driven to use these apps not by nosiness(多管闲事),but a sense of care in the face of what they perceived as dangerous or uncertain environments. Knowing a child’s geographical position cannot guarantee their safety when faced with an incident in real time, but checking where they are can help ease parental fears. Other parents surveyed admitted to monitoring their children only in the case of unanswered phone calls or unfulfilled requests. Rather than a systematic method of monitoring, geo-tracking acted as a “lastresort” option after parents failed to reach their children.
While some teenagers were sympathetic to their parents’ anxieties, most of them perceived the use of geo-tracking apps as an invasion of their privacy. When seen as a tool to contact, geo-tracking appeared to be quite well accepted by them in our survey. However, most teenagers in our sample were worried about their parents’ use of monitoring apps.
Geo-tracking is not without its ill effect on family relationships. Xavier, for instance, said that discovering he was being tracked has profoundly weakened the trust between him and his father. Furthermore, tensions among parents and children may also arise, thus widening the gap between them. Geographical monitoring also directly challenges young people’s need to go into the world independently, both holding back teenage autonomy and generating tensions in parent-child relationships.
1. Why are the two questions raised for Geo-tracking apps in paragraph 1?| A．To display their function. |
| B．To indicate their intelligence. |
| C．To show the worry about privacy. |
| D．To describe parents’ magic power. |
| A．Their desire to monitor their kids. | B．Their concern for their kids’ safety. |
| C．Their eagerness to reach their kids. | D．Their curiosity about their kids’ life. |
| A．Critical. | B．Confused. | C．Indifferent. | D．Mixed. |
| A．It can make children more dependent. |
| B．It may badly influence family relationship. |
| C．It may relieve the tension within the family. |
| D．It can increase children’s trust in their parents. |
