1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Goosehead guide to life

Ashley Powers mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she     1    not find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it     2     (be), but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,    3    (ask) to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about     4    to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called All About Ashley,     5    Ashley tells readers what it's like     6    (be) the boss of a company when you're only sixteen - not always easy! "I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean. I was only sixteen - I didn't even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you'd be stressed too!"

In her book, Ashley talks about the problems facing teenagers today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by     7     (create) Goosehead on my own."

Ashley says that The Goosehead Guide o Life is not a book of teenage advice. "It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for     8    ,”she says.“I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe    9     reading my story, you'll launch your own website. But perhaps you've got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it,     10    it is. Maybe it won't work-but maybe it will!"

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Rescue a Raccoon (浣熊)

A disoriented five- month-old raccoon hurries across a busy road in Greenbrae, California.Somehow the animal and her mom have become separated, and now the     1    (frighten) baby has no idea what to do. Suddenly a car approaches. Unable to see the animal, the driver accidentally runs over her hind leg. The raccoon falls to the ground where she lies helpless.

Other motorists, who saw the accident, pull over to check on the injured animal. One concerned witness is Marco Berger,     2    works for a nearby wildlife hospital called WildCare.Berger calls a nearby branch of the Marian Humane Society, an organization that, among other things, transports injured wildlife to care centers. About 10 minutes later, rescue officers arrive on the scene.

They use a net to lift up the lttle raccoon, then load her into an animal ambulance and     3    (rush) her to WildCare.

At the hospital, head veterinary technician Nat Smith gives the raccoon a checkup. An X-ray of her leg reveals that the thighbone is completely broken. If the bone     4     (not repair),she'll never be able to run, climb, or search for food in the wild. The good news is that the leg     5    be fixed with surgery.

Almost immediately after     6     (wake) up from the surgery, the raccoon shows signs of improvement. "Within a day she's able to walk on her leg," Smith says. A week and a half later,the raccoon has become so active that WildCare staff decide to move the animal to a 12-foot-by-12-foot outdoor enclosure     7    trees for her to climb.

Within two months, the young raccoon is ready     8    (release). After one final checkup, she's loaded into a pet carrier and driven to a forested area near     9     she was found.     10    the carrier door is opened, the raccoon runs into the woods. "She's ready to take on the wild," says Smith.

3 . The Right Thing

“Hi, Mrs. Grady,” said Mark when their neighbor opened her door. “Would you like us to shovel your sidewalk and driveway?” Shoveling was Jamie’s idea, a way to earn enough money for the new Ocean Kingdom video game that came out the next day .Mrs. Grady was happy, “That would be wonderful, boys. I think the job is getting to be too much for me.

“It will cost 10 dollars,” Jamie said.” If that’s OK “, Mark added.

“Oh dear, ”Mrs. Grady said disappointedly, “I haven’t been able to get to the bank. I can offer homemade cookies, but I realize that’s not what you had in mind.”

Mark was going to say that Mrs. Grady could pay them another time, but Jamie cut him off. “We’ll come back later.”

Mrs. Grady doesn’t look like the person who’d come to his rescue last summer when Mr. Dunn’s collie, Goldie had just wanted to play, but Mark didn’t feel comfortable around big dogs. He wanted to call for help, but his tongue seemed locked behind his teeth. Then Mrs. Grady’s front door had flown open. She must have seen him from across the street. “Hold on, Mark. I’m coming!” “Goldie” she’d called. As soon as Goldie had turned her head, Mrs. Grady had slipped between Mark and the dog. She wasn’t much taller than Mark, but she’d stood firm as a rock in front of him. “Goldie, go home!” Then she’d swept her broom to hurry the dog along. “ Get!” Goldie had obeyed.

When Mark showed thanks to Mrs. Grady, Mrs. Grady laughed. “It was nothing. Good neighbors watch out for each other, don’t they? ”

And now Mrs. Grady needed Mark as much as he’d needed her last summer. He smiled and waved at Mrs. Grady, then his shovel deep into the snow.

“Hey!” Jamie shouted. “What are you doing?” Mark couldn’t explain about Goldie and watching out for neighbors.” I like Mrs. Grady’s cookies,” he said.

1. Why did Jamie and Mark plan to clear the snow for Mrs. Grady at first?

A．To help the lady	B．To do volunteer work
C．To earn pocket money	D．To visit New Kingdom

2. Mrs. Grady couldn’t pay them most probably because     .

A．she didn’t have enough cash	B．she couldn’t find the bank
C．she thought it was worthless	D．she couldn’t afford it

3. According to the story, which of the following word cannot be used to describe Mrs. Grady?

A．Positive

B．Helpful

C．Hopeful

D．Brave

4. Which of the following proverb can best summarize the story?

A．A clear conscience	B．Kindness is repaid with kindness
C．A penny saved is a penny earned	D．Actions speak louder than work

4 . When she was ten years old, Isadora Duncan dropped out of school to teach people dance. If that job was left to any other ten-year-old, it would have turned out frustrating, difficult, and a little discouraging.

But Duncan was different. Not only was she already talented enough to earn money even at that age, but she also had a rare kind of confidence that helped her treat troubles as fuel —something to elevate the fire that is already burning inside of her.

It’s no surprise, then, that when she moved to New York to join a theatre company, she found herself restricted. The existing dancing style, their way of operating—all of this seemed to her the work of a misguided past. Duncan was very direct about what she wanted, confidently telling people she had a different vision of dance that she was going to spread in the world. This, naturally, led to ridicule and laughs early on, but as she built up her work, these instances became less frequent. Today, she is remembered as “The Mother of Dance,” with much of the modern art owing its expressive style to her influence. Inspired by the ancient Greeks, she brought the style to life.

In her autobiography (自传), one of the things Duncan frequently refers to as the basis of her expressive spirit is the fact that she had a childhood where she wasn’t constantly watched. The expectations of her mother (who raised her) were open-ended. It was the freedom of this lifestyle that drove her to see what she could do.

Growing up, before she left school, she was told one of two things: that she was either completely useless or that she was a genius. There was nothing in between. Even when she started working, people either bowed to her or they basically ignored her. But there wasn’t one moment Duncan doubted her own genius.

There is an old quotation “if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” And it captures an important truth. At school, Isadora Duncan was a failure. In the dance hall, she gave form to brilliance.

1. What does the underlined phrase “treat troubles as fuel” mean?

A．Duncan used troubles to push her forward towards her dream.

B．Duncan was good at burning away everyday troubles.

C．Troubles turned Duncan into a confident girl.

D．Troubles lit the fire of dancing in Duncan.

2. Which of the following is TRUE about Duncan?

A．Her experience in New York was the foundation of her career.

B．Her teaching job when she was little destroyed her confidence.

C．Her dancing style was not very well received at the beginning.

D．Her mother set higher expectation on her than she could bear.

3. What does the author try to tell the readers in the last paragraph?

A．It is useless climbing a tree to catch fish.

B．Everybody is a genius in his own way.

C．Miseries come from human stupidity.

D．Teachers can impact students greatly.

4. What is this passage mainly about?

A．Isadora Duncan’s childhood and her achievements today.

B．Duncan’s career development and other dancers’ opinions of her.

C．Isadora Duncan’s early experiences and the reasons for her success.

D．Duncan’s high status in the dancing world and her unique expressive style.

5 . I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And unless otherwise assigned a seat by the teacher, I always _________ to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this _________ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher _________ I should try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because I didn’t have a good sense of _________, nor did I have the team ability to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “going for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.

Taking the _________ to go to the tryouts was only the half of it! When I first started attending the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game. Sometimes I’d get _________ and take a shot at the wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid. _________, I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to _________ learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t know “just yet”.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the _________ and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and exciting. Very soon the competitive part in me was winning over my __________ confidence. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the process— friends who __________ my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!

With my improved self-confidence comes more __________ from teachers and classmates. I have gone from “__________” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call __________ to myself, to raising my hand—even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent __________ I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

1.

A．admitted

B．chose

C．forbidden

D．affected

2.

A．reflected

B．remained

C．changed

D．ruined

3.

A．admitted

B．objected

C．suggested

D．considered

4.

A．balance

B．exercise

C．angle

D．expression

5.

A．signal

B．impression

C．courage

D．hesitation

6.

A．confused

B．bored

C．assisted

D．frightened

7.

A．Effectively

B．Regularly

C．Historically

D．Luckily

8.

A．glance at

B．concentrate on

C．apply for

D．have access to

9.

A．rules

B．structures

C．remarks

D．gestures

10.

A．preference to

B．overuse of

C．lack of

D．expert in

11.

A．maintained

B．included

C．preferred

D．respected

12.

A．stress

B．praise

C．wonder

D．sigh

13.

A．sealing

B．lasting

C．attracting

D．hiding

14.

A．attention

B．authority

C．hostility

D．damage

15.

A．rude

B．normal

C．likely

D．sure

6 . Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes，accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话）
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag； similar plain white anonymous (匿名）envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of €500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
"I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road； I was speechless. ”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said： “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. ” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
1. The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of             .

A．a church

B．a bank

C．a newspaper

D．a magazine

2. Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?

A．The donation amounted to €190,000.

B．The donation was sent directly to his house.

C．The money will be used for his education.

D．His mother felt astonished at the donation.

3. It can be inferred from the passage that          .

A．the donator is a rich old man

B．the donation will continue to come

C．the donation comes from the newspaper

D．the donator will soon be found out

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Money Is Raised by the Newspaper

B．Newspaper Distributes Money to

C．Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes

D．Robin Hood Returns to the City