1 . 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。续写的词数应为150左右。

I began to lose hope. It seemed that there was little chance that my great-grandmother was able to heal (康复). My blind, 94-year-old great-grandmother was sleeping soundly in the hospital bed. As l sat quietly with my family, I listened to the sounds of the machines that kept her alive. Her face was pale and empty. She was no longer the cheerful person I had always known.

It seemed that every day she got worse. She might not make it through Christmas. I tried to think of a present to give to her. Since she was blind, I would have to get her a gift that she didn’t have to see to appreciate, but that she could feel with her hands. I remembered that when she lived with us she always wanted to touch and play with my stuffed animals (填充动物玩具). Her favorites were my unique stuffed bears.

I knew right then what to get. She always wanted one for herself! I would have a teddy bear made especially for her. “Great-grandma’s Bear” is what I named the brown, stuffed animal — “Bear” for short. The bear was quite charming with his tiny black button nose and big chocolate eyes. I looked forward to visiting my great-grandmother on Christmas morning and seeing the look on her face when I gave Bear to her. The clay came more quickly than I thought. I carried Bear in my arms as I walked to Room 208 with my family.

There was my great-grandmother, sitting in her bed. Her eyes were wide open. I think she was sensing that we were coming. A smile grew on her face as we sat on her bed, close to her weak body hidden under the covers. “Merry Christmas!” my dad said. We talked with my great-grandmother for a while until it was time to give her the gifts we had brought. My mother gave her fresh-smelling baby powder because she could never have enough of it. My father brought her favorite candies. Now it was my turn.

Paragraph 1:

I placed the bear in her gentle, skinny hands.

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Paragraph 2:

From that day on, amazingly, my great-grandmother started to heal.

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2 . Last Friday, Emma, my 11-year-old, decided to thank our local mailman Doug, for the service he provides for us.

Usually, a letter from her is likely to _________ some art, a joke or two, a mention of her younger brother, her cat… So, in her note to Doug, she _________ nothing out. “Dear sir, I’m Emma… Thank you for taking my letters and _________ them. You are very _________ to me. I make people happy with my letters, but you do, too.” Emma wrote. That afternoon, Doug took it when she smiling _________ it which was enough to him.

Saturday, Doug _________ at our house with a thank-you note. Then two days later, an unexpected package, full of _________ and letters from Doug’s colleagues in USPS _________ with him again.

To our amazement, these letters are so deeply human, filled with family _________, pets… and an overwhelming sense of __________. A Tracy wrote “Your letter __________ made a difference! Not many understand how hard we work…” Another, “I work alone here. And you __________ me of my son of your age…” Some Michael, to inspire Emma to start collecting stamps, even sent two special ones from his __________ while the rest were mailed for her to write back or to others.

With dozens of __________ pen-pals, Emma did what she does best. She wrote the dad. She wrote his son… She shared her time to give others the one thing they need to be well-human __________.

1.

A．enjoy

B．provide

C．include

D．admire

2.

A．gave

B．left

C．work

D．pick

3.

A．delivering

B．reading

C．protecting

D．receiving

4.

A．honest

B．polite

C．important

D．familiar

5.

A．returned

B．handed

C．accepted

D．mailed

6.

A．came out

B．got off

C．slowed down

D．showed up

7.

A．flowers

B．toys

C．notes

D．stamps

8.

A．arrived

B．traveled

C．disappeared

D．went

9.

A．photos

B．hobbies

C．books

D．jokes

10.

A．kindness

B．humor

C．justice

D．duty

11.

A．hardly

B．slightly

C．mildly

D．really

12.

A．inform

B．convince

C．remind

D．warn

13.

A．collections

B．workplaces

C．colleges

D．friends

14.

A．strange

B．familiar

C．new

D．close

15.

A．nature

B．connection

C．life

D．contribution

3 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct.
Hi, everyone.

Traditionally,     1     the year winds down, it’s a time for reflections—to give thanks, reconnect with loved ones, and cherish the more meaningful parts of life, removed from our usual day-to-day distractions.

Of course, the events of 2020 haven’t shown a lot of respect for our traditions. In a year of so much tragedy, it can be tough to give thanks when you’re doing your best to get by. And far too many of us will have to gather around a table with an empty chair, if we were able to gather together at all.

One thing, though, we can say about 2020 is that it forced us all to cherish what is most important, what’s most meaningful in our lives. To stop taking things for granted,     2     truly matters. To be grateful for what we have, and to be alive to the pain of those     3     (fortunate).

Throughout this challenging year, I’ve been moved, again and again, by the sacrifices so many were willing to make on behalf of others. The healthcare professionals who risked their lives to save ours. The workers who have kept our lights on and our shelves stocked, always essential to our economy, but finally     4     (recognize) for it. The protesters of every race and age who saw injustice in their streets and their institutions and demanded change. And the less heralded leaders, the quiet change-makers who saw need in their own communities and leapt to address it. They checked in on their neighbors, delivered food and PPE to seniors and those experiencing hardship, offered mental health support to those     5    (recover) from trauma.     6     holes this pandemic tore wide in our social fabric, these emerging leaders stepped forward to patch it up.

These are exactly the leaders Michelle and I started our Foundation to support. We always thought they     7     (lead) us into a bright future, if only we     8     empower them, connect them with each other, and give them a dose of inspiration when they needed it.

What we learned in 2020 is that these emerging leaders aren’t just building a brighter future, they’re safeguarding our present. In hard times, they are the ones who’ve given me solace. It’s     9     sacrifice in which I found hope. And as we begin to close the chapter on a difficult year with encouraging news on the horizon, it’s their leadership     10     will guide us today and tomorrow.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everybody.

—Quoted from Barack Obama’s Christmas speech in 2020

4 . A number of people have asked me whether happiness measures are really accurate and reliable--and it’s a reasonable question. So let’s take a look behind the curtain(帷幕). But not just for intellectual curiosity; as we will see, understanding and measurement of happiness can itself make you better at improving your own well-being--and avoid some critical errors.

Think of the tests to find a vaccine(疫苗)for COVID-19. They take a long time because the drug companies with trial vaccines are conducting experiments that send people to a treatment group(they get the vaccine) and a control group (they get a placebo（无效对照剂), and then waiting to see if the drug is effective and safe by comparing the two groups after enough time has passed. In the research on happiness, this usually isn’t possible. Happiness researchers instead rely on self-reported happiness surveys, where large groups of people report their levels of life satisfaction.

All of the surveys are self-assessments(自我评估), which might cause your doubt. Perhaps people assess their happiness based on their present mood--or maybe they lie when asked about their happiness. To test this, scholars have compared survey data with other sorts of tests--and they’ve found them consistent. For example, self-assessments correlate highly with happiness is usually very close to how others understand your happiness. Further, well-constructed surveys tend to be unchangeable over time and might correlate strongly with other measures of well-being. And in a rare instance of honesty on the Internet, scholars have even proved the accuracy of certain virtual happiness surveys.

Thus, while single-number surveys are great for researchers like me, in order to understand and manage your own happiness you need more different self-tests, of which there are many. Professor Martin Seligman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has created a number of reliable self-tests on emotions,gratitude, optimism, relationships. These self-tests can be extremely useful at a personal level--but they can also be harmful when relied on too much. I have used them to have a huge impact on my life, but I have also seen the worsen problems with unhappiness in others. The key is to remember that happiness self-tests are a source of information to understand ourselves better, work on positive changes (personally, I have made many, and my well-being is much higher as a result), and manage our unique personalities.

The most dangerous use of happiness self-tests is social comparison. Researchers have long found that social comparison is a killer of joy, but you hardly need a study to tell that-just spend a few hours browsing Instagram and see how bad you feel about yourself.

1. How does the author explain the uniqueness of happiness surveys?

A．By introducing a concept.

B．By making a comparison.

C．By using an expert’s words.

D．By referring to previous studies.

2. What do self-reported happiness surveys show according to the author?

A．People tend to tell lies on the Internet.

B．People know clearly about themselves.

C．People’s moods matter to their happiness.

D．People vary greatly in views on happiness.

3. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about happiness self-tests?

A．Their practical applications.

B．Their appeal to the public.

C．Their major disadvantages.

D．Their impacts on our daily life.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．How we can effectively measure happiness.

B．What we can get from measuring happiness.

C．How we can improve our well-being with self-tests.

D．Whether the measurement of happiness is really helpful.

5 . When it came to moral reasoning, we like to think our views on right and wrong are rational (理智的). But ultimately they are grounded in emotion. Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without _________. Times up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. Though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often _________.

Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene does brain scans of people as they study the so-called trolley problem. Suppose a trolley is rolling down the track toward five people who will _________ unless you pull a lever (杠杆) that pushes it onto another track— where, unfortunately, lies one person who will die instead. An easy call, most people say: _________ the loss of life — a “utillitarian” (功利主义的) goal as philosopher put it — is the thing to do.

But suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track — a _________ whose body will bring the trolley to a stop before it hits the others. It’s still a one-for-five _________ and you still initiate the action that dooms the one. _________, now you are more directly involved; most people say it would be wrong to do this trade off. Why? According to Greene’s brain scans, the second situation more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to _________ than does the leve-pulling situation. Apparently, the intuitive hesitation of giving someone a deadly push is more _________ than the hesitation to a deadly lever pull.

Further studies suggest that in both cases the emotional __________ compete for control with more rational parts of the brain. In the second situation the emotions are usually strong enough to win.

And when they lose, it is only after a tough __________ process. The few people who approve of pushing an innocent man onto the tracks take longer to reach their decision. So too with people who approve of smothering (死) a crying baby rather than catching the attention of enemy troops who would then kill the baby along with other __________.

Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argues that we should __________ our moral intutions (本能) and ask whether that logic deserves respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve the “__________” — such as sympathy that moves toward relatives and friends? Why not worry more about people an ocean away whose suffering we could cheaply relieve? Isn’t it better to save 10 starving African babies than to keep your 90-year-old father on life support? In the absence of a tough decision-making process, reason may indeed be a(n) “__________ of the passion.”

1.

A．comprehension

B．hesitation

C．resolution

D．imagination

2.

A．diverse

B．generous

C．passive

D．decisive

3.

A．die

B．continue

C．hesitate

D．escape

4.

A．respecting

B．minimizing

C．investigating

D．maximizing

5.

A．referee

B．counselor

C．criminal

D．bystander

6.

A．proportion

B．deal

C．loss

D．gain

7.

A．Likewise

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Moreover

8.

A．imagination

B．reason

C．emotion

D．belief

9.

A．polite

B．religious

C．professional

D．intense

10.

A．concerns

B．efforts

C．bonds

D．therapies

11.

A．self-serving

B．decision-making

C．problem-solving

D．truth-seeking

12.

A．innocents

B．barriers

C．examples

D．accidents

13.

A．follow

B．spread

C．examine

D．ignore

14.

A．selfless

B．self-restraint

C．self-deceptive

D．selfish

15.

A．master

B．advocate

C．slave

D．protester

6 . Mrs. Thompson最近在与女儿的相处中有点麻烦，母女经常争吵，请你以Mrs. Thompson的名义给苏州中学心理学社团发邮件寻求帮助。内容包括：
1、孩子发育很快，身体出现了某些变化，如皮肤油腻、出现红点等；
2、为了减肥，经常不吃早餐；
3、孩子情绪焦躁，缺乏自信，不听安慰，不想求医。
注意：
1、词数120字左右；
2、可适当增加某些细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear President,
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Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Thompson

7 . 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 Girl Who Never Talked

I never really felt like I fit in. I was a freshman in high school and my only close friend was Bella, whom I had known since kindergarten. Bella is and will always be one of my best friends and we often play together. However,   she had other close friends too, but I didn't. I was on the volleyball team, and on the court I knew exactly who I was and where I was supposed to be. I loved all of my teammates, but when we were sitting in the stands before and after games I would just sit there quietly, totally unsure of myself.

At school, no one spoke to me and I didn't know how to get along with them. It seems like the only time anyone talked to me was just to jokingly say, "You are so quiet!... do you ever talk?" I wanted to talk, but I just couldn't find the words. I never felt like I knew what to say in a big group of people. All of these made me upset.

One Saturday after our game, Bella was supposed to come over and spend the night at my house. We always had a lot of fun together. I wished that I could talk to the other girls the way I talked to her. But before we left the gym that day, some of the other volleyball girls invited her to go to the movies with them. Since Bella had already made plans with me, they asked if I would like to go to the movies with them too. I agreed and was happy to have a chance to join them.

One of the moms drove us, and we all piled into the back seat of her Suburban-Rhiannon, Destinee, Christine, Bella, and me. I was kind of nervous at first, but once it was just us five, I came out of my shell (壳). For the first time in my life, I really felt like I was a part of the conversation, instead of just sitting there listening. It turned out that I had a lot to say.

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。

All the way there, an all the way back, we talked and laughed.

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I smiled, knowing I finally had friends and my school life would be much happier.

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8 . 上次考试中李华的几位同学因为作弊考得比他好，而李华的父母只关心分数，对他的成绩不满意，为此他很苦恼，请你写一封E-mail安慰李华。
内容包括：
1. 考试作弊（cheating in the examinations）的危害；
2. 和父母多交流，尽可能得到他们的理解；
3. 其他建议。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
3. 作文中不能出现与本人相关的信息；
4.开头不计入总词数。
Dear Li Hua,

I’m glad that you didn’t cheat in examinations.

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Yours sincerely ,

Wang Lei

9 . “I’m going to tell you a story,” I tell my class of high school seniors. “It’s a tale about love. And heart-break. And embarrassment.”

Their eyes widen. I ________ my throat. “In sixth grade,” I begin, “I fell madly in love. His name was David. He was tall, ________, kind of a bad boy—which I found fascinating. Unfortunately he had no interest in me at all. So it was Valentine’s Day. That day as I spilled my Valentine cards onto my desk, and among many small ________, I saw an enormous one, decorated beautifully. My mind ________:‘Who could it be from?’ With trembling hands, I ________ open the envelope and out fell an image of a queen, the heading of which ________, ‘To a Queen of a Valentine.’”

I give the class a ________ look. “I turned the valentine(情人卡) over, and at the bottom I saw the ________ and almost fainted: David. Then my eyes ________ up to the writing above his signature. It said, ‘To the Ugliest Girl in Our Class.’”

“Well, it ________ Valentine’s Day for me. It shook what little ________ I had in myself for a long time after. But I ________. And now I refuse to give up this holiday of love to the meanness of one ________ boy.” I smile. “And that’s why we’re going to have a party. A party that ________ kindness instead of cruelty.”

Their eyes ________. They are willing to let me take them ________ I am going. I hand out some paper so they can make cards. “Now please write something positive and sincere to everyone in the class. Even if it’s someone you ________ know, there’s always something nice to say.”

All these years, I’ve made it a routine in each of my class. After 20 years of teaching, I________few hopes that students will ________ all of the grammar or vocabulary I taught them. But if all a student ________ of one of my classes are the valentines they received one long-ago February, to me that makes it all worthwhile.

1.

A．cleaned

B．cleared

C．calculate

D．command

2.

A．cute

B．mean

C．worthy

D．generous

3.

A．cards

B．pockets

C．notes

D．envelopes

4.

A．stopped

B．raced

C．jumped

D．thought

5.

A．tore

B．spilled

C．scratched

D．intended

6.

A．read

B．wrote

C．sang

D．decorated

7.

A．excited

B．meaningful

C．shy

D．embarrassing

8.

A．image

B．cover

C．envelope

D．signature

9.

A．ran

B．floated

C．traveled

D．removed

10.

A．made

B．ruined

C．lighted

D．became

11.

A．love

B．faith

C．friendship

D．kindness

12.

A．stood

B．survived

C．witnessed

D．upgraded

13.

A．rotten

B．smart

C．imaginative

D．permanent

14.

A．remains

B．receives

C．celebrates

D．congratulates

15.

A．go up

B．narrow up

C．close up

D．light up

16.

A．whether

B．however

C．whenever

D．wherever

17.

A．barely

B．likely

C．nearly

D．narrowly

18.

A．accept

B．enjoy

C．harbor

D．welcome

19.

A．repeat

B．remind

C．remain

D．remember

20.

A．informs

B．favors

C．recalls

D．engages

10 . We have lost the art of the unsent angry letter, says a recent New York Times column.

The writer, Maria Konnikova, says that many famous people had the habit of writing letters expressing their _________ towards their receivers and then destroying the letters. Whenever former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln felt the _________ to tell someone off, he would compose what he called a “hot letter.” He would vent (发泄) all of his anger into a note, put it aside until his emotions _________. And then he would write on the letter, “Never sent. Never signed.”

Konnikova says that the unsent angry letter used to be a tradition among public figures who needed to think twice about their choice of _________. Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and American author Mark Twain all wrote unsent angry letters.

There are two _________ of the unsent letter, says Konnikova. “It serves as a type of emotional _________, a way to let it all out without incurring the negative aftereffects of actual _________. And it acts as a(n)_________ exercise, and exercise in saying what you really think.”

In the social media age, we have more channels to _________ immediate displeasure than ever before. Venting our ____________ feelings is easy, but it also means that we give up the chance to think twice and to act differently.

When Lincoln wanted to write his “hot letter,” he had to find a pen and a piece of paper. That process alone provided time to determine if his anger should be ____________ or be kept quiet. Now we need only to click a button to send our ____________ and hurtful words on their way. In the heat of the moment, says Konnikova, “We find the line between a(n)____________ response and one that needs a cooling-off period.” We have ____________ a buffer zone (缓冲带) to determine what needs to be said and what needs to only be felt. Perhaps that’s why we see so much anger and hatred online. Because it is so easy to create them in order to vent our feelings, we end up receiving less ____________ from the experience, and, as a result, we feel the need to do it more often to make up for this shortage. When your emotions never quite cool, they keep coming out in other ways.

1.

A．dissatisfaction

B．happiness

C．gratitude

D．confusion

2.

A．honor

B．cost

C．urge

D．opportunity

3.

A．blew up

B．cooled down

C．burned up

D．moved on

4.

A．pens

B．words

C．papers

D．emotions

5.

A．benefits

B．problems

C．qualities

D．types

6.

A．intelligence

B．suppression

C．release

D．support

7.

A．action

B．engagement

C．participation

D．exercise

8.

A．strategic

B．physical

C．psychological

D．academic

9.

A．express

B．cause

C．hide

D．use

10.

A．optimistic

B．guilty

C．negative

D．curious

11.

A．voiced

B．aroused

C．felt

D．controlled

12.

A．praises

B．requests

C．comments

D．complaints

13.

A．imperfect

B．appropriate

C．rapid

D．natural

14.

A．left

B．entered

C．created

D．lost

15.

A．practice

B．feedback

C．satisfaction

D．support