1 . Bobby and I had been friends right when we were five. I had a natural talent and _________ for painting, but Bobby’s life was marked by sorrow. While he had lost his parents, we _________ through our youth together, playing, chatting, loving and studying, until we graduated from college.

I was fortunate enough to find a job that allowed me to _________ my passion for painting. Bobby, on the other hand, seemed to wander _________ in his search for employment. Having heard his situation _________ when he fell ill, I decided to put my career on hold to look after him. When I stepped into his house, _________, a single room that he lived in, I saw it was covered with a layer of dust. Bobby’s only _________ during his days at home was a tree outside his window, holding desperately on to a single leaf.

Bobby would often pour out to me, “If that last leaf falls, I probably won’t _________ either.” Determined to lift his spirits, one early morning, I drew a leaf and tied it to one of the branches. It was so _________ that it appeared as if it belonged to the tree. This leaf never fell; it became Bobby’s symbol of hope.

As time passed, under the silent encouragement of the leaf, Bobby’s health began to __________. Eventually, he was hired as a clerk in a bank close to his home and __________ his enthusiasm for life. It turned out that the leaf I had drawn was more than just an artistic creation — it was an unbreakable __________ of our friendship.

Our experience taught us that sometimes, a simple __________ can have far-reaching effects. Friendship proves to be the most __________ power along our path, even when faced with all challenges. This is the very __________ of life.

1.

A．passion

B．treasure

C．courage

D．shortage

2.

A．spent

B．struggled

C．searched

D．sailed

3.

A．increase

B．appreciate

C．pursue

D．abandon

4.

A．aimlessly

B．cheerfully

C．carelessly

D．energetically

5.

A．lessened

B．worsened

C．strengthened

D．appeared

6.

A．other than

B．or rather

C．rather than

D．let alone

7.

A．despair

B．entertainment

C．company

D．choice

8.

A．make it

B．get it

C．have it

D．lose it

9.

A．beautiful

B．green

C．interesting

D．real

10.

A．delay

B．improve

C．fail

D．ignore

11.

A．recalled

B．replaced

C．regained

D．released

12.

A．connection

B．barrier

C．duty

D．witness

13.

A．word

B．look

C．life

D．gesture

14.

A．demanding

B．inviting

C．comforting

D．amusing

15.

A．pain

B．core

C．hardship

D．fun

2 . 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。

As I opened the door, my two little girls squeezed past me, and hit the fridge for their after-school snack. A bag full of research papers begging to be graded fell down heavily from my shoulder onto the table. After a tiring day’s work, I still had to face the mess that was bothering me, including my husband’s doing-nothing and my daughters’ constant talking noisily. While scolding them, I reached for a cup of leftover morning coffee. As I turned towards the coffeepot, I noticed that the morning dishes weren’t in the sink and the counter was clear except for an envelope with my name on it. My heart pounded, as my husband hadn’t written me a love letter since we were engaged. Then I replayed the casual comment I had made that morning “Since you’re working evenings this week, it would be nice if you’d do something to help out around the house while you’re home.”

I picked up the letter, expecting an apology. But when I read the first line, my heart sank. “I’m tired of being accused of not helping around the house. I am tired of you scolding children every day. Yesterday, I washed the windows. Did you notice? I also picked up your car from school and took it for an oil change. I bet you didn’t notice that either, did you? Of course nor did you notice our daughters prepared coffees well every morning.”

The letter continued in the same tone—a little anger, a lot of hurt—and I deserved every word. The truth was when he worked evening shift, I envied the solitude (独处) he enjoyed by day. He spent hours alone in a quiet house while I took on the parenting role for both of us at night—dinner, homework, baths, bedtime. Then I graded papers or made lesson plans while losing my temper occasionally before I collapsed into bed. But who had time for clothes washing? For dirty floors? Not me, because my husband did.

注意：
1. 写作词数应为150左右；
2. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I folded the letter and slid it inside the envelope to hide his words and my shame.

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Hardly had I finished writing the letter when our younger daughter skipped in.

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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。

Jake Stonehall was gifted. He had a passion for sports.

When he was five, his father took him to see the top two hockey (冰球) teams in the country play each other for a chance to lift the cup of victory. The boy could vividly remember how his heart pumped and how he wished to play there on the hockey ground with the players.

Since then, Jake became a hockey lover. With the company of his father, he spent most Saturdays skating in the ice rink (溜冰场).

When he got old enough, he joined his school’s hockey team. With the guidance of the coach, he progressed rapidly, which made the coach and his father really proud. Jake was soon appointed as captain of the team. He was a great team player and the whole team admired him.

Over time, his passion for hockey deepened. Beyond his own training, he would watch practices of his school’s disabled ice hockey team. These players worked together on specialized sleds (冰车), engaging in matches in an astonishingly incredible manner. Each game and practice became a passionate display of toughness and teamwork, setting off even more curiosity and admiration within him.

One day, he was on his way back home from training when a car crashed into him, throwing him several feet away.

The accident took away his ability to use his legs, which meant he could no longer play hockey. After he was out of hospital, he became a totally different person. Any talk about hockey would make him cry. He avoided seeing the coach and other players in his team. He even threw away the hockey sticks.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.开头已给出。

Jake sank into the world of hopelessness.

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Jake began to practice hockey on the sled, like a kid learning to walk.

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4 . When I was ten years old, Mum got paralyzed (瘫痪) . Before that, she was a lively and active woman who amazed many with her energy. I admired her for all the things she did.

However, everything changed when she turned thirty-one.

I still have vivid images of her before her paralysis. She would play popular music, creating a cheerful atmosphere for lively gatherings. She would joyfully rearrange the furniture to make room for friends to abandon themselves to dance. She often spent hours filling the house with flowers, which we picked fresh from the gardens.

After Mum’s paralysis, I began to take care of my 2-year-old sister, Mary Therese. In no time at all, I learned to bathe and feed her. For me it was a giant step beyond playing with dolls. One moment stands out even today: the time Mary Therese fell and skinned her knee, burst into tears and ran past my mother’s outstretched arms into mine. Too late, I noticed slight hurt on Mum’s face, but all she said was, “It’s natural that she should run to you, because you take such good care of her.”

When I was grown and entered the field of corrections, Mum became interested in working with prisoners. She taught writing to them. One day, she asked me to mail a letter to one prisoner, Waymon. I asked for my mother’s permission to read it first. It read: when you said that I couldn’t imagine what it is like to be in prison, I felt like I had to tell you that you are mistaken. When I awoke one day to find that I was completely paralyzed, I felt trapped, overwhelmed by a sense of being imprisoned in a body that would no longer allow me to dance or carry my child in my arms. But then, I made a choice about whether I would smile when I saw my daughters again or I would weep. I made a decision to live as fully as I could.

By the time I finished Mum’s letter, my vision was clouded by tears. For the first time, I saw my mother in a clearer light.

1. How can we describe Mum before her paralysis?

A．Creative.

B．Ambitious.

C．Adventurous.

D．Enthusiastic.

2. What do Mum’s words about Therese’s choice imply?

A．Mum had a sharp insight

B．Mum was emotionally generous

C．Mum was worried about her position

D．Mum was absent-minded at the moment

3. Why did the author cry?

A．She regretted for what she had done.

B．Waymon’s experience was saddening,

C．She witnessed Mum’s character shining through.

D．There was some secret between her and her mother.

5 . Cessna planes flew me and my climbing team onto the Kahiltna Glacier, the base camp of Mt. McKinley. When we worked to __ a camp out of the thick snow and ice of the glacier, we heard one of Spanish climbers had died while climbing.

Sam, one of my partners, __ , and worried that this disaster might be a bad __.

He asked whether we were putting our __ at unnecessary risk by attempting this. I thought back to my training more than a year ago in the __ , by running with my guide dog because I am blind. One day I had __ a cactus(仙人掌), landing on my hand. One of my friends asked me, “If you fell down in the desert, how do you __ to climb that big mountain?”

I didn’t yet have an __ , but I knew within a year, I would have to!

For the next year, we trained hard. Now I said __ , “Sam, we’ve come a long way in a year. We’ve made mistakes, we’ve learned from them. We’ve solved problems __ prepared for all the things that could go __ on the mountain. ”

Now, I had enough __ . We began to take each step slowly and carefully, knowing that the mountain would not allow any __ movement. Risk is like the next __on a rock face: you reach for it expecting that it’s __ , but ready to find the next hold if it’s not!

It took 15 days for us to get to the top of North America.

1.

A．carve

B．transform

C．rent

D．move

2.

A．escaped

B．concentrated

C．hesitated.

D．lectured

3.

A．impression

B．result

C．credit

D．sign

4.

A．hope

B．equipment

C．lives

D．chances

5.

A．village

B．desert

C．forest

D．lake

6.

A．sided with

B．broken down

C．taken out

D．tripped over

7.

A．expect

B．register

C．prefer

D．aid

8.

A．appetite

B．excuse

C．answer

D．apology

9.

A．joyfully

B．firmly

C．sadly

D．frankly

10.

A．but

B．because

C．or

D．so

11.

A．silent

B．public

C．missing

D．wrong

12.

A．time

B．faith

C．patience

D．money

13.

A．slight

B．different

C．careless

D．individual

14.

A．centre

B．step

C．rope

D．hold

15.

A．there

B．here

C．nowhere

D．somewhere

6 . 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。

Last week, I was having breakfast at Chick-fil-A and as I was sitting in my truck eating, I noticed a homeless guy sitting on the curb (路边) behind the building with his dog.

He was holding a sign asking for money or food donations to help feed him and his dog. I observed him the entire time I ate my breakfast. He mostly just sat there scratching his dog and holding the sign while people drove past ignoring them. When I finished my breakfast, I decided to make another run through the drive-through and ordered a large chicken biscuit combo. As I was leaving, I pulled up alongside him and handed him the bag of breakfast and a small bag of dog food I had in my truck for my dog.

The bag of Chick-fil-A put a huge smile on his face, but when I handed him the bag of dog food, the guy literally lost it and started bawling (放声痛哭) right there on the side of my truck. After regaining his composure, he exclaimed that it had been so long since somebody had treated him like a human being. I asked him if he would be willing to work hard for a decent day’s pay and he immediately straightened up and exclaimed that he could be the hardest worker I had ever seen. I gave him my business card and a fiver and told him to meet me at that spot the next morning and I would put him to work.

The next day I stopped in and sure enough he was waiting there for me. I took him and his dog to the jobsite. He wasn’t kidding about being a hard worker; this guy carried wood around and fetched tools out of my truck for me all day without complaining once. His dog just followed him the entire time. During the day I learned about his misfortune.

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At the end of the day I took him to my bank and withdrew his day’s pay which amounted to $80.

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When I left him last night, he looked like a different person from the man I saw hanging his head in shame behind Chick-fil-A.

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7 . In Molly Pollak’s second-floor Manhattan apartment, the spare bedroom is filled with decades of classroom memories.

“Those are all my high school yearbooks,” Pollak says, ________ to a shelf. “Those are my middle school yearbooks. I really need to throw them away,” she admits.

But after 40 years teaching English to middle and high school students, there’s one book Pollak will never ________ . It’s a big book with an orange cover. She ________ this book a few months ago. It was the________of the school year and the students were taking off for the summer. But Pollak was taking off for, well, forever.

As news of her ________ spread, Ora Bayewitz-Meier, one of Pollak’s former students, reached out to other former students and ________ them to write in. They did eagerly.

She received 75 ________. These weren’t just a paragraph or two — many were pages long. “I don’t think it is an exaggeration (夸张) to say that you________ my life,” wrote Rebecca Rosenthal. “There are a handful of people that ________ who I am and you are one of them,” wrote Chris Ryan, one of her students in the 80s. Other letters tell of a trying moment in middle school.

When Pollak and her husband first sat down to read this book, she________ something: The ________from Pollak’s first year of teaching back in 1974, and the ones from 40 years later, are very ________. They saw the same themes over and over.

So Pollak did what English teachers do: She________those themes and found a thesis statement (中心句). “And the thesis statement is not what you ________ it is,” she says.

It’s essentially this: “Molly________ us like adults when no one else did. She challenged us to rise to the occasion.” That’s from the letter Jackson Krule wrote. He had Ms. Pollak as his teacher in 10th, 11th and 12th grade.

1.

A．referring

B．pointing

C．waving

D．adding

2.

A．throw away

B．pick up

C．give away

D．sell out

3.

A．wrote

B．submitted

C．received

D．published

4.

A．start

B．end

C．symbol

D．bottom

5.

A．appointment

B．arrival

C．retirement

D．promotion

6.

A．forced

B．followed

C．allowed

D．invited

7.

A．books

B．letters

C．emails

D．gifts

8.

A．changed

B．saved

C．gave

D．dominated

9.

A．shaped

B．destroyed

C．accepted

D．created

10.

A．recalled

B．attracted

C．noticed

D．admitted

11.

A．responses

B．comments

C．efforts

D．decisions

12.

A．familiar

B．similar

C．different

D．tough

13.

A．looked down

B．looked out

C．looked up

D．looked across

14.

A．remember

B．think

C．appreciate

D．cherish

15.

A．taught

B．impressed

C．treated

D．contacted

8 . 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。

Parenting teenagers was challenging. For a long time, I could feel the tension between Jordan, my teenage son and me, especially over his curfew. (儿童晚归时间的规定)

One Sunday afternoon, the unpleasant discussion happened again.

“I’m seventeen years old, but I still have a curfew. None of my friends has a curfew. You don’t trust me.” Jordan said.

“It’s not about trust,” I said. “It’s about wanting what’s best for you and I want to protect you.”

“Protect me from what? Having fun?” He rolled his eyes and walked away.

I sighed, trying to hold back my tears. How could I make Jordan see that those rules existed because I love him, not because I was trying to control him.

I decided to go for a walk, hoping the cool October air would clear my head. I opened the front door and nearly stepped on him: Meatball, the small black cat we had adopted two weeks ago.

Meatball used to be a homeless cat and until now he still hadn’t adjusted to the life of a full-time indoor cat. After a few hours in the house, he’d sit by the door, begging for someone to let him back outside. After a few hours outside, he’d sit by the door again, ready to come back in the house. He just really liked being able to come and go as he pleased. “How I wished I were a cat like Meatball.” Jordan kept saying over and over.

One snowy night in January, the temperature was unusually low. Meatball stood at the door, begging to go outside again. I patted his head, telling him to stay in for his own good or he would freeze. Jordan whistled nearby and went into his room.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 开头已给出。
The next morning, I found Meatball missing.
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On the drive home from the animal doctor’s office, petting Meatball’s head, Jordan apologized to me.
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9 . Age is truly just a number if our hearts are young. Lee Minor, an 85-year-old retired psychologist, has________this by finishing his 600th marathon race with 32 members of his family by his side. “Runners don’t have a________line. We just keep going,” he toldGood Morning America. “I felt________running with my family.” Minor has been running three days a week since 1969, and his heart is filled with enthusiasm for running.

“I like to run in all kinds of________. It is so childish as the rain touches your face. And I love to come here after snow and you watch your________as you go along.” he concluded.

Minor’s enthusiasm for running is________. “It is my joy. And I want to live as long as I can. And I mean live, not________.” His words ring true for Ron Robert, a man diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease who decided to ________ a three-year bachelor of artsprogram at King’s University College in London, Ontario. “I was always taught early in life that the brain is like the most ________instrument we have in our body,” said Robert.

Last fall, Robert graduated from the university, despite the challenges of his illness. “When I went across the stage, and as I’m getting my________, the kids all stood up andyelled and clapped,” he________. “I had to hold back the tears. It was something else, just wonderful.” He hopes that his story will give hope to others facing________difficulties. “There will come a time when I won’t be able to, and I fully________that. Butin the meantime, I’m living a full life.”

The stories of Minor and Robert are reminders that age and illness need not________us. We can choose to pursue our________and live life to the fullest, no matter whatchallenges we may face.

1.

A．proven

B．approved

C．won

D．imagined

2.

A．starting

B．center

C．finishing

D．bottom

3.

A．depressed

B．thrilled

C．calm

D．uneasy

4.

A．weather

B．zones

C．illness

D．phases

5.

A．position

B．footprints

C．reflections

D．route

6.

A．infectious

B．temporary

C．blind

D．restricted

7.

A．wait

B．abandon

C．exist

D．run

8.

A．award

B．suspend

C．quit

D．pursue

9.

A．powerful

B．visible

C．boring

D．accurate

10.

A．uniform

B．application

C．certificate

D．license

11.

A．slid away

B．gave up

C．broke in

D．choked out

12.

A．emotional

B．identical

C．financial

D．abstract

13.

A．enjoy

B．reject

C．doubt

D．expect

14.

A．save

B．define

C．distinguish

D．witness

15.

A．scholarship

B．fitness

C．passion

D．career

10 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Andrew and Tina was a happily-married couple who lived in New York. Andrew worked hard every day to support their family and Tina stayed at home to look after their children. Andrew felt lucky to have such a kind and understanding wife as Tina and he was determined to try all out to earn more to make their life better and better.

While Andrew was getting ready for work one Friday morning, he announced to his wife that he had finally decided to ask his boss for a salary raise. Tina smiled at him without a word but her warm smile gave Andrew a lot of courage. However, all day Andrew felt nervous and anxious as he thought about the upcoming showdown. What if Mr. Larchmont refused to accept his request? Andrew had worked so hard in the last 18 months and landed some great accounts for Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency. Of course, he deserved a wage increase.

The thought of walking into Larchmont’s office left Andrew weak in the knees. Late in the afternoon he was finally courageous enough to approach his boss. To his delight and surprise, the ever-frugal(一向节俭的) Harvey Larchmont agreed to give Andrew a raise!

Andrew arrived home that evening—despite breaking all city and state speed limits—to a beautiful table set with their best china, and candles lit. His wife, Tina, had prepared a delicate meal including his favorite dishes. Immediately he figured someone from the office had told her the news!

Next to his plate Andrew found a beautiful lettered card. It was from his wife. It read: “Congratulations, my love! I knew you’d get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!” He read it and stopped to reflect on how sensitive and caring Tina was. He felt warm and proud to have such a good wife, and thanked God for that again. He was eager to show his love and gratitude to his wife and he hurried to the kitchen to find her.

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On his way to the kitchen, he observed a second card had fallen out of Tina’s pocket onto the floor.
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Suddenly tears filled Andrew’s eyes.
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