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。

When I was about four years old, I started washing my face on my own. However, I always ignored the area behind my ears on purpose though my mom would often remind me.

One summer, in July of that year, my mom drove me to my grandparents’ house for our annual summer holiday visit. When we arrived, I was told that Grandma had gone on a trip with her friends and wouldn’t be back for another two weeks. Feeling a bit down, I went to the yard to play while my mom and grandpa caught up on some things. Although I couldn’t hear their conversation clearly, I had a strong feeling they were talking about me based on their gestures and expressions. Later, my mom returned home, and she would come back to pick me up two months later.

After dinner that night, Grandpa asked me to take a bath before going to bed. Since I loved taking baths, I happily agreed. With the bathtub (浴缸) filled with water, Grandpa reminded me, “Just make sure you clean the area behind your ears really well. You wouldn’t want potatoes to start growing there, would you?”

“Potatoes?” I stopped in my tracks and turned back to look at him. “Yes, potatoes. If you don’t clean the dirt behind your ears, potatoes might actually sprout (发芽) and grow there,” he explained, causing my eyes to widen in surprise. “But I don’t have any potatoes behind my ears, Grandpa,” I said as I ran my fingers along the back of my ears. He took a quick glance and replied, “Oh, I see a couple of sprouts: starting right there!” He urged me to get into the bathtub immediately and scrub (擦洗) them away thoroughly.

I nodded, still in disbelief. This was the first time I had ever heard such a thing. Why hadn’t my parents warned me about this before? I wondered, but couldn’t find an answer. Nonetheless, I felt shocked by Grandpa’s warning.

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
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I hurried to jump into the bathtub, carefully scrubbing behind my ears.

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“What are you looking at behind your ears?” Grandma asked me curiously.

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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。

I was sitting down in the examining room chair, annoyed that my mom had even scheduled the appointment when the doctor arrived and dove right in to the basic small talk about my health history. But then he threw in a question that shocked me, “So Robin, what are you going to do after high school?”

What was I going to do after high school? Was he kidding me? “don’t know,” I mumbled (嘟囔). I was seventeen. I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do after high school. My high school guidance teacher told me in certain terms that I wasn’t “college material” and I believed her. My grades were far from satisfactory. Education wasn’t exactly emphasized in my family.

“You don’t know? Well, why don’t you go to college to become a doctor like me?” He smiled as he glanced at his watch. Go to college to become a doctor? Who was this man kidding? I thought he was crazy for even suggesting it. No one in my family had even graduated from college, let alone become a doctor. And I wasn’t college material. “I’m not smart enough to be a doctor. ”

Hearing this, the doctor immediately turned toward me. He looked at me straight in the eyes when he very seriously said, “Let me tell you something: you don’t have to be smart to be a doctor. You just have to be persistent.” Then he turned around to gather his things and rushed off to his next appointment. I never saw him again.

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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。

On the ride home I found myself thinking about the conversation with the doctor

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So, I began to focus on classes and break down the difficult things into steps

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3 . A Chinese woman who lost an eye in a road accident a decade ago has received high praise for developing cool-looking artificial eyes as she struggles to overcome appearance anxiety that often accompanies such a loss.

The former dancer and actress from Beijing, who is known by her online nickname, Xintong, completed the process of becoming a self-taught artificial eye maker, in 2020.

She spent years improving her skills through trial and error, driven by a desire to help others with a similar disability rediscover their confidence.

A decade after she lost her right eye in a car accident aged 18, and following years of self-hating, Xintong now runs her own artificial eye-making workshop.

From the beginning, her aim has been to help people like her by providing them with custom-made artificial eyes. “Because I once got wet in the rain, I now want to give others an umbrella,” she said.

The idea came from a “very cool” overseas artificial eye maker who did not care what other people said or thought about people who had lost an eye.

“People already look at me in a strange way, so why not exaggerate how I appear and use that to my advantage?” Xintong said.

However, Xintong found the artificial eyes she had to wear both ugly and uncomfortable. “I thought to myself, it would be great if I could produce ones according to my own taste,” she recalled.

She pursued her dream and in 2020 quit her teaching job to devote herself full-time to artificial eye-making.

Now she’s mastered the technique of making her ideal artificial eyes, opened a workshop and hired three assistants.

1. What do we know about Xintong?

A．She lost both of her eyes in a traffic accident recently.

B．She was worried about her looking after losing her eye.

C．She is highly praised for overcoming her appearance anxiety.

D．She learnt to make artificial eyes from others in 2020.

2. Why does Xintong run an artificial eye-making workshop?

A．To make money.

B．To rediscover her confidence.

C．To provide the disabled with custom-made artificial eyes.

D．To buy others an umbrella to avoid getting wet.

3. How did Xintong feel about the artificial eyes in the beginning?

A．She was unsatisfied with them.	B．She found them very comfortable.
C．She thought them very attractive.	D．She found them suitable to her taste.

4. Which of the following can best describe Xintong?

A．Humorous and positive.	B．Caring and persevering.
C．Generous and creative.	D．Reliable and independent.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Jeremy was born with a twisted body and a slow mind. At the age of 12 he was still in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became extremely angry with him. He would squirm (来回扭动) in his seat and make a lot of noises. At other times, he spoke clearly and distinctly. Most of the time, however, Jeremy just annoyed his teacher.

One day Doris called his parents and asked them to come in for a talk. As the Forresters entered the empty classroom, Doris said to them, “Jeremy really belongs to a special school. It isn’t fair to him to be with younger children who don’t have learning problems.”

Mrs. Forrester cried softly into a tissue, while her husband spoke. “Miss Miller,” he said, “there is no school of that kind nearby. It would be a terrible shock for Jeremy if we had to take him out of this school. We know he really likes it here.” Doris sat for a long time after they had left, staring at the snow outside the window. Its coldness seemed to flow into her soul. She wanted to sympathize with the Forresters. After all, their only child had a serious illness. But it wasn’t fair to keep him in her class. She had 18 other youngsters to teach, and Jeremy was a distraction.

As she thought over the situation, guilt washed over her. Here I am complaining when my problems are nothing compared to that poor family, she thought. From that day on, she tried hard to ignore Jeremy’s noises and his blank stares.

Spring came, and the children talked excitedly about the coming of Easter. Doris told them the story of Jesus (耶稣), and then to highlight the idea of new life, she gave each of the children a large plastic egg. “Now, I want you to take this home and bring it back tomorrow with something inside that shows new life. Do you understand?”

“Yes. Miss Miller,” the children responded enthusiastically — all except for Jeremy. He listened carefully; his eyes never left her face. He did not even make his usual nose.

The next morning, 19 children placed their eggs in the large basket on Miss Miller’s desk.

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Then Doris opened the third egg but it was empty.

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5 . Nine-year-old Abdulwal Abdula lifted his right arm and waved guests goodbye as they left his house. What appeared a simple gesture was only possible because people from different walks of life raced against time to save the boy’s severed right arm more than two years ago.

On April 30, 2021, Abdulwal’s right arm was severed when it got caught in the motor of a running tractor. Realizing the complexity involved in reattaching the arm, the local hospital decided to transfer the boy to the traditional Chinese medicine hospital of Urumqi, about 1,400 kilometers away, for a surgery that had to be performed within eight hours. But by the time Abdulwal was sent to the airport in Hotan, the last flight to Urumqi that night was already on the runway and ready for takeoff.

Everyone knew that if Abdulwal missed the flight he would lose his right arm, and possibly his life. Air traffic control workers immediately contacted the pilots and asked them to wait, while officials at the airport rushed to arrange permission for the plane to return to the terminal and pick up the boy. With permission granted, Abdulwal and his severed arm, packed in a medical bag, were carried onboard. None of the passengers complained about the delay.

Once the plane landed in Urumqi, a series of green channels ensured Abdulwal reached the hospital in the shortest time. The surgery started seven-and-a-half hours after the accident. His severed limb was successfully reattached and the broken bone fragments rearranged.

The story went viral (走红) on social media, touching all people who could not stop praising the efforts made by so many people to save the boy. The extraordinary story inspired a film, Ordinary Hero, in 2022.

Abdulwal said he had watched the movie twice. “It reminds me of how many people have helped me. They aren’t ordinary people, but superheroes to me.” His mother said that the doctor who reattached Abdulwal’s arm often calls to check on him and give advice on recovery. “I want to be a doctor when I grow up, so that I can help others,” Abdulwal said.

1. What was the key factor in the process of rescuing the boy?

A．Money.

B．Time

C．Medicine.

D．Information.

2. What do we know about the boy?

A．He was cured in the local hospital.

B．He was badly injured in an air crash.

C．His arm recovered well with joint efforts.

D．His surgery lasted seven and a half hours.

3. Why does the doctor often call Abdulwal?

A．To offer some help.	B．To ask about his ambition.
C．To express his sympathy.	D．To check on his recovery.

4. Where is the text most probably taken from?

A．A news report.	B．A film review.
C．A medical magazine.	D．A biography.

6 . With ADD (注意缺陷障碍), I could look straight into your eyes and not hear a word you’re saying. I could _________ to be listening to you but my mind was somewhere miles away.

In middle school, I took Language Arts with Mrs. Smith. That first day, she told us her rules. Then I knew I had better “_________” myself. So I told her I might need to take home some reading assignments because my _________ is better in a quiet setting and asked her if I could use my word processor at home to do written assignments because my “fine motor skill (精细动作技能)” problems made my _________ look messy. However, she refused, saying it was _________ for my classmates. The result was that each paper came back with Mrs. Smith’s flaming red X’s.

One day, again I asked her for _________ to complete the written assignment at home. But she still refused my _________. Therefore, to prove to her, or rather to myself, that I could do the work under the right conditions, I took the assignment home __________

That night, the story, which had seemed so _________ in class, became quite clear to me in the __________ of my room. It was about Louis Braille, a __________ boy. During his time, society prevented the blind having much of an education, but Louis Braille “defended” himself. He developed a reading system of raised dots for the blind, __________ him to read like his peers.   I was like Louis in my class. I was made to learn like the other students.

I used my word processor to set down my thoughts and explain myself __________Louis and many other famous people different in their learning styles and abilities, hoping Mrs. Smith would finally understand me.

As Mrs. Smith handed my paper back, I found an A instead of her usual X. Below were her __________ red penned words, “See what you can do when you __________ yourself?”

1.

A．pretend

B．appear

C．happen

D．deserve

2.

A．defend

B．examine

C．adjust

D．delight

3.

A．feeling

B．limitation

C．energy

D．concentration

4.

A．writing

B．handwriting

C．listening

D．reading

5.

A．unfair

B．great

C．impossible

D．remarkable

6.

A．cooperation

B．interaction

C．permission

D．forgiveness

7.

A．suggestion

B．care

C．offer

D．request

8.

A．openly

B．secretly

C．gently

D．luckily

9.

A．confusing

B．relaxing

C．amusing

D．frightening

10.

A．brightness

B．tidiness

C．quietness

D．beauty

11.

A．selfish

B．blind

C．deaf

D．kind

12.

A．enabling

B．assigning

C．forcing

D．forbidding

13.

A．because of

B．in honor of

C．in terms of

D．in spite of

14.

A．casually

B．wildly

C．messily

D．neatly

15.

A．respect

B．encourage

C．apply

D．cheat

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 10-year-old son and two friends attended a wonderful basketball camp on 6 August 2023. The camp was over two hours long, with more than 60 kids in attendance. I watched how much fun my son was having throughout the day.

A few minutes before the session (一场) ended, there was a shooting contest. Only a few kids were chosen to compete, and my son was not one of them. The contest winners received prizes and recognition, and some children were also selected as “All Star” due to their excellent performance. Again, my son was not selected.

My son was struggling to deal with his disappointment. Of course, as his mother, I would have loved to see him win an award. He absolutely loves the sport, and he is impressive at rebounding (篮板球). He would have enjoyed the honors. It would have also been fun to see either of his friends selected. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.

When the camp ended and we walked out, I could see how disappointed he was. I love my kid’s confidence and his competitiveness, but it can also lead to dealing with disappointment and frustration.

At the camp, he played a basketball game with kids he had never met, guarded them fiercely and took shots easily against them. As his mom, I was thrilled he spent the day without his iPad. All in all, the day felt wonderful. The last thing that I wanted was for these awards to ruin the experience.

I could see how he was feeling about the day. I decided to simplify it for him. I did the math and figured out the shooting contest and awards were about 6% of the total camp. The rest of the camp, the parts that he enjoyed, were 94% of the day. Even though the kid loves math, it was hard for him to see the contests and awards as a small part of his day.

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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。
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At night, I went to chat with him.

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Indeed, we should learn how to be more positive.

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8 . Mauro Prosperi is a police officer who gained worldwide fame after getting lost in the Sahara Desert in 1994. Mauro ______ the 1994 Marathon of the Sands in Morocco, a six-day-long race in one of the ______ environments on the planet.

During the ______, a sandstorm caused Prosperi, then 39 years old to lose his _____ at last. One day after going off track, he found himself in an abandoned house in Algeria. In order to ______, he killed and at e bats. To make himself not thirsty, he was ______ to drink his own urine (尿), and lick dew (露水) off rocks.

______ he would never be found, he cut his wrists with a pen knife from his supplies. ______, it was such a dry heat that the ______ clotted (凝结) and he would go back into the desert and ______ to find help. For nine days he ______ through the desert and ate insects. Finally, he found a small village. From there he was flown to a ______ , where doctors said his liver (肝脏) had almost completely failed.

Having traveled 180 miles ______, Prosperi lost 35 pounds in body weight during his race in the ______; it took several months before he could eat solid food again. But he has remained a(n) ______ runner and even returned and completed the race in 2012.

1.

A．referred to

B．showed off

C．put aside

D．took part in

2.

A．warmest

B．driest

C．safest

D．noisiest

3.

A．race

B．treatment

C．interview

D．operation

4.

A．sense

B．memory

C．way

D．tongue

5.

A．survive

B．explore

C．reflect

D．approach

6.

A．invited

B．forced

C．supposed

D．forbidden

7.

A．Acquiring

B．Identifying

C．Assuming

D．Tricking

8.

A．Moreover

B．Instead

C．Otherwise

D．However

9.

A．supplies

B．wounds

C．rocks

D．jams

10.

A．fail

B．pretend

C．attempt

D．regret

11.

A．walked

B．rushed

C．drove

D．toured

12.

A．hotel

B．castle

C．valley

D．hospital

13.

A．in all

B．after all

C．at all

D．above all

14.

A．region

B．desert

C．jungle

D．association

15.

A．intelligent

B．neat

C．enthusiastic

D．capable

9 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

In a misty morning, Robert was hiking high in the mountains with Lucky, his tiny but energetic dog. Every weekend, the two would go together on a hiking to climb nearby mountains. As they got near to the top, the path was rocky and less-traveled. After an hour, they reached the top, touched by the beautiful view there. Lost in the breathtaking scenery, Robert felt refreshed. When he looked at the loyal friend beside him, the memory of meeting Lucky for the first time flooded into his mind.

It had been about two years since Robert got Lucky. She was small and a ball of energy. “The day when my mother let me choose a dog from the doghouse, she was playfully jumping around and licking (舔) me, barking (犬吠) loudly to show how much she wanted to be my family,” thought Robert. “She looked quite small, but from the moment I threw my eyes on her, I knew she was the perfect dog for me. And, for some reasons, that active energy was something that I needed in my life,” Robert kept thinking.

Time flew, dark night drawing near. Having got enough rest, Robert decided it was time to go home. Suddenly, Robert lost his balance, rolled down a rocky hill, hit his head really hard, and finally stopped upside down.

One of his leg was in between two rocks, so he couldn’t move. But that was the least of his worries. What Robert was really scared of was that he was going to sleep with a serious head injury. He tried to cry for help, but he was so weak that he was going to become unconscious (昏迷的). “If only there had been someone else,” Robert thought, sad and hopeless. As darkness fell further, the weather turned cold and windy and he was about to lose consciousness. What’s worse, Robert noticed something like a snake approaching him before he finally fell unconscious.

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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。
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Fortunately, Lucky was there all the time and never stopped barking for help.

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After seeing unconscious Robert, the two strangers managed to wake him up.

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10 . As I walked to the market this morning, I saw an old man in dirty clothes sitting in front of a shop. He seemed to be a beggar ______ alms (救济品). I decided that on my way back I should give him whatever ______ I had. Meanwhile, a few feet away, I saw a young man ______ on the sidewalk and no one who passed by took any notice. I thought it was some ______ drunkard who had wasted all his money on alcohol (酒精).

When I finished ______ and reached the beggar, I put out some change asking him to take it. To my ______, he shook his head. But I didn’t give up. Finally, he ______ it. As I stood there gloating (洋洋得意) over my great act of ______, the man got up, walking to the tea shop, to ______ a loaf of bread and a cup of hot tea for which he paid with the money I gave. He then walked up to the young man, shook him gently till he was ______. He helped him to sit and ______ have the bread and the tea. When he ______ that I was still there, he said that the young man has not ______ for two days and collapsed (晕倒) on the sidewalk. Suddenly I felt so ______. That moment I admired and learned the real ______ of a man who has so little compared to me.

1.

A．giving away

B．looking for

C．turning down

D．putting aside

2.

A．bread

B．tea

C．change

D．gift

3.

A．exploring

B．struggling

C．sitting

D．lying

4.

A．good-for-nothing

B．down-to-earth

C．hard-to-get

D．easy-to-see

5.

A．walking

B．thinking

C．shopping

D．observing

6.

A．anger

B．comfort

C．surprise

D．satisfaction

7.

A．accepted

B．refused

C．shared

D．dropped

8.

A．belief

B．charity

C．curiosity

D．politeness

9.

A．enjoy

B．borrow

C．make

D．collect

10.

A．impressed

B．awake

C．calm

D．anxious

11.

A．slowly

B．perfectly

C．skillfully

D．confidently

12.

A．expected

B．noticed

C．ignored

D．imagined

13.

A．slept

B．relaxed

C．worked

D．eaten

14.

A．selfless

B．unique

C．small

D．proud

15.

A．generosity

B．bravery

C．honesty

D．humor