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。

When something that’s important to you disappears, don’t be hopeless. It may miraculously (奇迹般地) come back sooner or later. I learned it on one winter day.

It was one of those busy days. Especially, I had lots of clothes to wash. and Karen, my four-year-old kid, kept following me, pulling my shirt and crying for attention. I was annoyed. To stop her troubling me and make her quiet, I searched the drawers in the bedroom and found-a bag of forgotten balloons. “Yellow,” she said with joy.

The balloons were the gifts for her that her uncle had bought abroad. These balloons were of good quality and very unique, unable to be found at least in our small town. Among the balloons, the yellow one was Karen’s favorite. And there was only one yellow balloon. She viewed it as her best friend and even signed her name on its surface.

After I blew the balloon up, she cheerfully took it with tiny fingers, touching it and telling it her secrets. Immediately. her attention was attracted.

After lunch. we prepared to go to the local public clothes-washing shop. Before long. I was ready. Carrying her yellow balloon. Karen followed me into oat car. On the way, she was singing and had fun with the balloon. She kept beating the balloon against the back of the car seat. As I turned the corner, trying to keep my attention on my driving, I felt a sudden, big wind blow across my feet. I called out at once, “Karen! Close the window. It’s cold out!”

And then I heard her frightened scream. In a hurry, I looked over my shoulder, expecting to see some terrible insects that led to her being frightened. But there wasn’t one. Karen was looking out of the window. both arms reaching out, as if to get something. And she cried, “Balloon, balloon. Come back! Come back!” Then. she turned to me, calling out, “Mom, please stop the car! My balloon has escaped.”

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“Alright, “I said and slowly pulled over.

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While walking in the park, we suddenly found a yellow balloon flying over a tree.

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3 . “We’ve seen a big storm heading up to my community and we thought it was just rain,” said Japanangka, a local from Lajamanu, a town in the outback (内陆地区) of Australia. “ But when the rain started falling, we saw fish falling down. We saw some free-falling down to the ground and some falling onto the roof. It was the most amazing thing we‘ve ever seen,” Japanangka added.

Such unusual natural phenomena have been reported in the past, but Michael Hammer, an expert of fishes who have investigated such things in the past, stated that many times people just came out after the rain and saw the fish scattered (散布) everywhere. They didn’t actually see it falling out of the sky, but preferred to believe it rained from the clouds, rather than a more sensible explanation -like the fish being flooded out of a waterhole.

However, in the case of Lajamanu, there are plenty of reasons to believe that the fish did rain down during a storm. There are no watering holes near the town, and the fish picked up from the streets were recognized as spangled perch, a common freshwater fish that has no business being in Lajamanu.” “Normally, the fish is quite large and it’s not able to be drawn up out of the water and held up in the sky for very long,” Jeff Johnson said. “But clearly that’s what has happened.”

Another confusing thing about this most recent case of raining fish is that the people of Lajamanu say that at least some of the fish were alive. Dr Hammer said, “As long as they were not lifted too high and frozen mid-air, it would not be impossible for fish to keep alive as they were carried by the storm, even over long distances.”

While uncommon, raining fish isn’t unheard of. In places like Honduras, for example, it happens yearly. However, in dry places like the Australian outback, it’s surely something you don‘t expect to see, ever.

1. How does the author start the text?

A．By raising a question.	B．By quoting a local’s words.
C．By listing some numbers.	D．By making comparisons.

2. What is one of the reasons why people believed the fish in Lajamanu was brought by the storm?

A．The fish’s size.	B．The fish’s weight.
C．The species of the fish.	D．The number of the fish.

3. What is the purpose of Dr Hammer’s words?

A．To express his doubt about the fish rain.	B．To explain why some fish were alive.
C．To share his experience of fish rain.	D．To show his research on fish rain.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．A big storm happened in Australia	B．Why is fish rain in Australia special?
C．Fish rain happened in an Australian town	D．Why are there strange weather phenomena?

4 . Twenty years ago, I was a taxi driver. One night I received a call at 12:30 am. When I arrived at the address, the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. I waited for a while, and no one showed up. In this case, many drivers would just honk (按喇叭).

But I feared this passenger might be someone who was in need. So I walked to the door and knocked.“ Just a minute ,” answered an elderly lady. A few minutes later, a small woman in her 80’s stood before me. I helped her take the suitcase to the taxi. She kept thanking me.

Then she gave me an address, and asked, “Could you drive through downtown?” “It’s not the shortest way,” I answered. She said, “I’m in no hurry. I’m on my way to a hospice (疗养院).” “The doctor says I don’t have very long time to live. And I don’t have any family left,” she continued. I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.

For the next two hours we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building and stare into the darkness, saying nothing.

When morning broke, we arrived at the address. She asked, “How much should I pay you?” “Nothing,” I said. She thanked me and said ,“ You give an old woman a little moment of joy.” Then behind me, a door was shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives center on great moments. But great moments catch us unawares. When that woman said that I had brought her a moment of joy, I had good reasons to believe that I had been placed on earth for the single purpose of providing her with that last ride. I do not think that I have ever done anything in my life that was any more important.

1. Why did the author walk to the door and knock ?

A．He thought the passenger might need help.	B．He didn ‘ t want to miss any passenger.
C．He was annoyed with the passenger.	D．He wanted to rush the passenger.

2. For what purpose did the woman ask the author to drive through downtown ?

A．To take a short cut.	B．To return the author ‘ s kindness.
C．To be in memory of her husband.	D．To say goodbye to some special places.

3. Which of the following can best describe the author ?

A．Patient and outgoing.	B．Honest and humorous.
C．Warmhearted and generous.	D．Responsible and hardworking.

5 . 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。

An unexpected change on the road

It was a damp evening in September 2013 when I landed in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak in Malaysia. I was a 19-year-old Dubai-raised kid away from home for the first time to start my undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering.

Alone and homesick, the wet welcome I received at the airport didn’t make me feel any better. I had never travelled alone before and the seven-hour flight from Dubai was the longest flight I had ever taken. I pushed my luggage and headed to the airport exit to find a grey van with the name of my university on it. My ride, I assumed, and I was right.

As we left the airport, the driver began talking to me; he told me that I was the last of the new students he had to pick up that day. He shared information with me about the city and its people and what I should see and do. As I am a driving enthusiast myself, we started talking about cars and driving in Dubai and his accounts of driving in Kuching.

“Never make a Sarawakian angry” he warned. “No road rage (路怒). Very dangerous!” He then went on to list his experiences of road rage and by the time he had finished, I had made up my mind to be very passive on the roads.

Not long into our journey, the lights of the car behind flashed at us. This continued more aggressively and my driver started to panic. We pulled over to the roadside in a well-lit area. My heart was pounding but I tried to put on a brave face as the man from the car emerged and made his way to my side of the van. As he reached my window, I lowered it and tried to force a smile. He reached into the van and I let out a loud “Whoa (used to tell someone to become calmer)!”

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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。

Then I looked down at his hands to see that he was holding a travel bag. 

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With a sigh of relief, I took my bag and thanked this stranger. 

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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。

My name is Bronson Layton. I am 23 years old, I am a college student, and I have a story that I feel should be shared with the world.

I come from a family that had never had a single record of ancestry with autism (自闭症), until the day I was born. When I was two years old, my parents were still getting used to the lifestyle of raising a normal kid, but what they had noticed was what they considered “out of the ordinary” behavior. Whatever toys I played with, I placed them in a straight line. When I was not satisfied, I got angry easily.

Soon after my parents noticed these signs, they took me to a child expert, who eventually informed them that I was diagnosed (诊断) with a type of autism, a disorder that delays the nervous growth of a child’s brain.

My diagnosis was in 1999, a time when autism was still not commonly understood and was still being observed. At first, my parents were shocked at the news from an expert that I was going to grow up blind, but they (and I) were not prepared for how the following events would completely change our lives forever.

As I got older, I began to change from keeping myself alone to getting with other kids once I entered public school in first grade. I noticed how the other kids were able to answer questions in class a lot faster than I could understand. Because of my slow thinking, it took me two minutes to come up with an answer. From that year on, I received special accommodations for my studies, such as sitting in front of the class to read the blackboard better, and taking longer time on tests.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

My teacher and classmates tried their best to help me.

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Thanks to my classmates, I made great changes.

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10 . I was hired for my first airline job in August 2009. I had $45, 000 of credit card debt. Most of it was from my flight training.

Ten years ago, I was watching TV in my bedroom one day before my flight training began and I saw the second airplane hit the World Trade Center. Then I got the call saying I no longer had a job. My career was destroyed. I had no place to go and ended up moving into my car. I read newspapers to look for a job and I was offered one, which offered me $75, 000 a year, but I decided to make a change. I wanted to receive fight training and become a pilot. It was my dream. So I refused the job and chose to work part time. It sounded unbelievable to do such a thing. It was even more so because I was over the age of thirty, but I was determined to make my dream come true. I left the state of Virginia and ended up in Las Vegas.

Though I made about $25, 000 a year at that time, I was severely in debt because the fees for training were high. I was living in my tuck and sleeping in parking garages. I didn’t plan for my life to take this direction, but I insisted on my training. Then at last my world changed and my dream came true. I finally became a pilot.

The passengers that I flew had more money in their pocket than I had in the bank. I hated myself and was worried about my situation, but I never gave up. I kept paying back the debt and I kept saving in the bank. And finally, I paid off my credit card debt.

Today, I am a skilled airline pilot based in Milwaukee. I wrote in my spare time. My autobiography (自传) has been published, which sells well. That is my first book, but it won’t be my last one.

1. Why did the writer refuse the job?

A．Because he didn’t like it.

B．Because the pay was low.

C．Because he wanted to follow his dream.

D．Because he was frightened to work in a building.

2. We can learn that during the flight training, the writer        .

A．wanted to give up	B．lived a very hard life
C．didn’t make any money	D．paid off his credit card debt

3. We can know from the passage that now the writer        .

A．regrets his decision	B．is a professional writer
C．is a very good airline pilot	D．makes about $75, 000 a year

4. We can infer the writer wrote this passage most probably to        .

A．tell us how to become successful

B．encourage us to follow our dream

C．tell us how to become an airplane pilot

D．tell us about the life of an airplane pilot