1 . While everyone feels lonely at times, being alone too much can negatively affect your physical and emotional health. Studies have found that loneliness can be just as harmful to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day.     1     . Here is something you can do right away when you feel lonely.

·Acknowledge that you’re feeling alone

Admitting feeling alone doesn’t mean you’re a loser or you’re weak.     2     . So simply putting a name to loneliness might help your brain make sense of how you’re feeling and instantly help you feel a little less lonely.

·     3    

When you are feeling alone, sometimes it’s easier to connect with old friends than it is to make new ones. Perhaps you have lost touch with your college roommates over the years. You might reach out and see how they’re doing. Talk about how you’ve missed being able to catch up and say that you’d like to reconnect.

·Join a group or club

    4     . From book clubs and community service projects to hiking groups and business societies, you will likely discover there are many ways to connect with people in your area.

·Learn something new

Getting excited about something you’re learning— whether it’s a new language or a new skill— might help when you are feeling alone.     5     .

A．It just means you’re human

B．Connect with people from your past

C．Address how you feel about being lonely

D．Loneliness is also linked with cognitive decline

E．It also might open up doors to meeting new people

F．Look for community activities that might be a good fit for you

G．It isn’t unusual to be alone and feel that you have few or no close friends

2 . I was in first grade in Mrs. Bauer’s class at a time when elementary schools held student gift swaps. I was to _______ toys with Paul, a boy I knew little about.

I bought a Matchbox car for Paul. After all, all boys _________ such toys. However, the gift Paul _________ for me was a small plastic Santa Claus on green snow skis. It surely cost much less.

As Paul and other boys raced their new Matchbox cars delightedly in the classroom, I tried to hold back hot tears. Though I felt _________, I started racing my skiing Santa alongside the Matchbox cars. Truthfully, I wasn’t trying to erase any _________ Paul might have felt for giving such a cheap gift. I _________ didn’t want to feel left out.

When school was over, Mrs. Bauer asked me to remain behind for a moment. I sat _________ at my desk, having no idea what I’d done wrong. When we were alone, she said to me with great _________, “I’m proud of you for not showing your _________. That would have hurt Paul’s feelings. You gave him a very nice __________ that made him cheerful, and you should be __________ about that.” Mrs. Bauer’s message, which I didn’t fully __________ at that time, was that it is better to give than to receive.

Afterwards, I became __________ with Paul. I found his socks always had holes in them. He shared a tiny bedroom with two sisters, and his dad had died. That skiing Santa might have been all Paul could __________ to give. I suddenly realized it was far more __________ than any other gift.

1.

A．arrange

B．exchange

C．create

D．share

2.

A．needed

B．identified

C．possessed

D．loved

3.

A．took apart

B．put away

C．picked out

D．checked up

4.

A．excited

B．sorrowful

C．concerned

D．proud

5.

A．amusement

B．punishment

C．puzzlement

D．embarrassment

6.

A．generally

B．simply

C．eventually

D．instantly

7.

A．nervously

B．shyly

C．comfortably

D．casually

8.

A．respect

B．courage

C．kindness

D．confidence

9.

A．shame

B．regret

C．intention

D．disappointment

10.

A．toy

B．tool

C．decoration

D．prize

11.

A．certain

B．hopeful

C．happy

D．serious

12.

A．understand

B．assess

C．remember

D．ignore

13.

A．strict

B．content

C．popular

D．familiar

14.

A．afford

B．choose

C．expect

D．agree

15.

A．useful

B．fashionable

C．precious

D．necessary

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。

Joe worked as a night watchman in a factory after he graduated from high school. It was a lonely job, but he was content. He stopped by the beach every day on his way home to watch the sunrise.

One day, he was walking on the beach when he noticed a bottle in the surf. Joe picked it up and saw a roll of paper inside it. His heart beat fast. He removed the lid and opened the letter. “Hi! My name is Ritchie. I’m sending this message in the hope that somebody will find it and become my friend.”

It saddened Joe to think of this boy waiting and hoping somebody would answer his message. He took his cell phone from his pocket and dialed the number written near the bottom of the page.

However, the number didn’t exist anymore. Joe was determined to find Ritchie, so he went straight to the city library for help. A librarian took him to a section of the library that felt deserted. There, she pointed him to the shelves filled with old telephone books. She sat down with him, and they searched the telephone books for Ritchie’s phone number together. Two hours later, the librarian let out an excited scream. “I found him!”

“Thank you,” Joe said, quickly copying down the address. He immediately headed for the address from the phone book. He almost screamed when he saw that the house at the address had been transformed into a hair salon. Joe stared at the sign. He held the message from the bottle in one fist and the paper with the address in the other. He walked in and explained everything to the barber. “Ritchie was born with disabilities. He has been using a wheelchair since he was a kid. Well, he’s an old man now. If you still want to find him, I hear he’s at the Serenity nursing home.” Joe thanked the man and drove to the nursing 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。

After asking to see Ritchie, Joe was shown to a sunlit room.

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One day, Joe received a call, learning that Ritchie had passed away the previous night.

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4 . Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike. “I just couldn’t get going in the morning,” she says. “I’d get depressed and gain 10 pounds every winter and lose them again in the spring.” Then she read about seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in fall and winter, and she saw the light literally. Every morning now she turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it’s still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work.

Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 million Americans suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there’s never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights makes a difference. After all, it’s hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That’s why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo (安慰剂) effects.

Until now, in three separate studies published last month, researchers report not only that light therapy works better than a placebo but that treatment is usually more effective in the early morning than in the evening. In two of the groups, the placebo problem was resolved by telling patients they were comparing light boxes to a new anti-depressant device that gives off negatively charged ions (离子). The third used the timing of light therapy as the control.

Why does light therapy work? No one really knows. “Our research suggests it has something to do with shifting the body’s internal clock,” says psychiatrist Dr. Lewey. The body is programmed to start the day with sunrise, he explains, and this gets later as the days get shorter. But why such subtle shifts make some people depressed and not others is a mystery.

That hasn’t stopped thousands of winter depressives from trying to heal themselves. Light boxes for that purpose are available without a doctor’s prescription. That bothers psychologist Michael Terman of Columbia University. He is worried that the boxes may be tried by patients who suffer from mental illness that can’t be treated with light. Terman has developed a questionnaire to help determine whether expert care is needed.

In any event, you should choose a reputable manufacturer. Whatever product you use should give off only visible light, because ultraviolet light damages the eyes. If you are photosensitive (对光敏感的), you may develop a rash. Otherwise, the main drawback is having to sit in front of the light for 30 to 60 minutes in the morning. That’s an inconvenience many winter depressives can live with.

1. What is the probable cause of Krentz’s problem?

A．An unexpected gain in body weight.

B．Unexplained impairment of her nervous system.

C．Weakening of her eyesight with the setting in of winter.

D．Poor adjustment of her body clock to seasonal changes.

2. What is the CURRENT view concerning the treatment of seasonal depression with bright lights?

A．There is definitive proof of its effect.

B．It serves as a kind of placebo.

C．It is considered as a relatively effective therapy.

D．It hardly produces any effects.

3. What is psychologist Michael Terman’s major concern?

A．Winter depressives will be addicted to using light boxes.

B．No mental patients would bother to consult psychiatrists.

C．Inferior light boxes will give off harmful ultraviolet lights.

D．Light therapy could be misused by certain mental patients.

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Winter depressives prefer light therapy in spite of its inconvenience.

B．Light therapy increases the patient’s photosensitivity.

C．Eye damage is a side effect of light therapy.

D．Light boxes can be programmed to correspond to shifts in the body clock.

5 . 每个人的心中都有一位或更多所崇拜、敬佩的人。请以 “The Person I Admire Most” 为题，写一篇文章介绍一位你最敬佩的人。
要点如下：
1. 对该人物的简单介绍
2. 崇拜该人物的理由
注意：
1. 可适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯；
2. 词数：120字左右。

The Person I Admire Most

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