1 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

After 20 years as a full-time wife and mother, I decided to be a school bus driver for I loved kids. When I think about my years of bus driving, many things crowd in, but mostly, I remember Charlie.

Charlie, eight years old, with blond hair and crystalline gray eyes, began riding my bus in September of my fourth year driving. They all had stories to tell me about their summers. Charlie, though, ignored me. He didn’t even answer when I asked his name.

From that day on, Charlie was a trial. If a fight broke out, I didn’t have to turn my head to know who had started it. If a girl was crying, chances were Charlie had pulled her hair. No matter how I spoke to him, gently or firmly, he wouldn’t say a word. He’d just stare at me with those big gray eyes of his.

I later found out Charlie’s father was dead and he didn’t live with his mother. He deserves my patience, I thought. To my cheery “Good Morning”, he was silent. When I wished him a happy Halloween, he sneered (冷笑). Still I was sure that this child needed to feel some warmth from me. So, when he’d pass by, I’d pat him on the arm or sometimes gave him a hug.

Toward the end of that year, the kids on my bus gave me a small trophy inscribed (刻) “To the Best Bus Driver Ever”. I propped it up on the dashboard (仪表盘). On top I hung a small tin heart that a little girl had given me. In red paint she had written, “I love Polly and Polly loves me.”

The next day, I was delayed a few minutes talking to the principal. When I got on the bus I realized that the tin heart was gone. “Does anyone know what happened to the little heart that was up here?” I asked. For once with 39 children, there was silence.

One boy piped up, “Charlie was the first one on the bus. I bet he took it.” Other children joined the chorus, “Yeah! Charlie did it! Search him!”

I asked Charlie to come forward, stuck my hand into his pocket and immediately I felt it—the small tin heart. Charlie stared at me and seemed to be waiting for what he’d come to expect from the world. I was about to pull out the tin heart when I stopped myself. Let him keep it, a voice seemed to whisper.

“It must have fallen off before I got here,” I said to the kids. “I’ll probably find it back at the depot.” Without a word, Charlie returned to his seat. When he got off at his stop, he didn’t glance at me as usual.

That summer Charlie moved away.

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
3. 请按如下格式作答。
Paragraph 1:
A dozen years after my retirement I was in a department store, when someone said, “Polly?”
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Paragraph 2：
That night I thought over his words.
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2 . Positive emotions don’t just feel good—they’re good for you. Research shows that people feel and do their best when they experience at least three times as many positive emotions as negative ones. Here are some ways to increase positive emotions in everyday life.

    1     Make a list. Add new emotions as you notice them. You also can look over your list of emotions at the end of the day and write down when you felt different positive emotions. Did you feel proud after playing well on the soccer field?     2     Tracking these positive emotions helps us be more aware of the positive feelings we already experience, and the situations or activities that bring them.

Identify a positive emotion you want to increase.     3     Think of situations or activities you’ve experienced that made you aware of your joy. Write down as many as you can. Focus on small, simple things, like a song that makes you feel joyful whenever you hear it. Any time you notice you’ re feeling joyful, consider adding that situation or activity to your list.

Sometimes we forget the way back to feeling positive. We might need a reminder that can lead us back to a happier emotional place.     4     A positivity box is a collection of reminders of positive experiences we’ve had. These reminders bring back the feelings associated with the good moments in our lives, our strengths, joys and accomplishments, the fun we’ve had, the books or music that have meaning for us, the people who are important to us.     5    

A．It’s a positivity “treasure chest”.

B．Let’s say you want to feel more joy.

C．Happy to see a film with your best friend?

D．That’s when a positivity box is really helpful.

E．Happy when your friends remembered your birthday?

F．Collect things that remind you of positive emotional moments.

G．Name the positive emotions you’ve experienced in your daily life.

3 . Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: He knew everything. I asked him questions and he gave me _________. When I moved out on my own, I usually called him when something broke and I needed to know how to _________ it.

But then, eventually, I _________ him less. I got married, and my husband had the _________ I was short of. I didn’t know when it happened, but our _________ when I called developed into six words. Me: “Hi, Dad.” Him: “Hi, sweetie. Here’s Mom.” There would be a(n) _________ if my mum wasn’t at home. I _________ loved my dad, but I wondered at times if maybe he had already _________ everything I needed to know.

Then, this past summer, my dad said that he once spent a summer in college building boats. “You did?” I asked. I thought I knew everything about my dad. However, I never knew this. I _________ that in the past 40 years, I had focused on myself only. I felt a deep sense of __________.

A few weeks later, I called my parents. Dad answered. “Hi, sweetie. Here’s Mom.,” he said.

__________ to know more about him, I said, “Wait, Dad. How are you?” We __________ talking about a new battery he’d bought for his boat. To anyone else, it would sound like a __________ conversation between a dad and his daughter. But to me, it was novel and a new __________. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I __________ to.

1.

A．reminders

B．reports

C．responses

D．reasons

2.

A．rent

B．view

C．use

D．fix

3.

A．knew

B．needed

C．missed

D．saw

4.

A．knowledge

B．resource

C．freedom

D．character

5.

A．arrangement

B．meeting

C．performance

D．conversation

6.

A．explanation

B．tension

C．silence

D．exchange

7.

A．certainly

B．usually

C．hardly

D．particularly

8.

A．acquired

B．shared

C．gathered

D．stressed

9.

A．proved

B．complained

C．guessed

D．realized

10.

A．shame

B．doubt

C．shock

D．pity

11.

A．Lucky

B．Eager

C．Ready

D．Happy

12.

A．aimed at

B．got through

C．stuck to

D．ended up

13.

A．normal

B．long

C．personal

D．serious

14.

A．advance

B．opportunity

C．beginning

D．agreement

15.

A．learn

B．want

C．promise

D．prepare

4 . “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, can remind us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University.

“Viewing cute images of baby animals gives us a desire to act tenderly and responsibly to protect them,” he explains. “This idea holds that weak and defenseless but cute things set off caregiving behavior in the beholder.” Cute things make us feel protective, and when we’re protective, we might be naturally more focused.

Engineers, advertisers, and developers have taken advantage of this phenomenon, using kawaii to control user experience and consumer behavior. Researchers call it cute engineering. It’s a way to harness positive feelings and emotions to motivate (激励) and shape the user’s behavior in a positive way.

Sometimes cute engineering is subtle (微妙的), but it’s often quite obvious. Engineers use kawaii in the field of robotics, for instance—the cuter the robot, the more humans will want to engage with it. There’s also the iMac, which over the years, Apple designed to be subtly adorable (可爱的). It persuaded traditionally non-computer users to buy into the world of computing so that they could sell more units.

There’s also “cute filtering (萌物滤镜)”, a component of cute engineering that allows consumers to personalize their kawaii experience, just like the way iMac users could choose the color of their units. In this way, users can create their own kawaii experience. Using a “cute filter”, users can freely choose the cuteness parameters (参数) such as color, size, motion, smell, and taste to adjust their desired cute output.

1. Why would people like to protect cute baby animals according to Hiroshi Nittono?

A．People have no choice but to do it.

B．People are taught to protect animals.

C．Cute things motivate people to protect them.

D．Cute baby animals are too weak to protect themselves.

2. What does the underlined word “harness” probably mean?

A．Focus on.

B．Figure out.

C．Throw light on.

D．Make use of.

3. Why was the iMac designed to be adorable?

A．The iMac could shape people’s preference.

B．Computer producers could make more money.

C．Engineers could design computers to their taste.

D．Consumers would like to have more kawaii experience.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Power of Kawaii.	B．Protect Cute Animals.
C．A New Discovery.	D．Control Cute Feelings.