1 . My dad came to America from Greece at the very young age of fourteen. He ____ an average of fourteen hours per day, six to seven days a week, for over thirty-five years.

Because of his ____ work, he owned many restaurants in New Jersey. He was ____ his achievements and what he could ____ for his family.

When I was graduating from college, Dad told me he decided to ____ the restaurants and retire (退休). “If you are graduating, my ____ is over. I have ____ my children and provided for all of you. I am going to ____.”

“Great, but what will you do? I ____ know you cooking in the kitchen and serving customers. I can’t imagine you doing anything else,” I said.

“I am going to play golf!” he ____.

“Golf? You have never played golf. I never heard you mention golf,” I was ____.

And then Dad ____ to play golf. He taught my brother and me the ____ and shared his interest with us. Dad would look at us and say, “If you live your life as you play the game of golf, you will be ____.”

He repeated often, “When you get to the green, stay focused (集中精力的) and hit straight down the fairway (平坦球道). Don’t ____ anything else, and just know where you want to put the ball. Do this and you will ____ your goals.”

Dad wanted us to have ____ and to stay focused on them to achieve ____. He also wanted us to ____ ourselves and take time to have fun with friends and family.

Dad retired at the age of fifty-six and played golf every day until his death at the age of eighty-six. What a ____ role model!

1.

A．worked

B．studied

C．practiced

D．ran

2.

A．dangerous

B．light

C．poor

D．hard

3.

A．worried about

B．prepared for

C．proud of

D．tired of

4.

A．care

B．find

C．say

D．provide

5.

A．open

B．sell

C．manage

D．decorate

6.

A．plan

B．doubt

C．job

D．hobby

7.

A．treated

B．helped

C．educated

D．noticed

8.

A．retire

B．travel

C．leave

D．cook

9.

A．still

B．only

C．even

D．never

10.

A．suggested

B．accepted

C．agreed

D．replied

11.

A．excited

B．ashamed

C．shocked

D．satisfied

12.

A．failed

B．began

C．forgot

D．remembered

13.

A．direction

B．game

C．custom

D．language

14.

A．strong

B．special

C．normal

D．fine

15.

A．give up

B．believe in

C．turn to

D．think about

16.

A．reach

B．change

C．refuse

D．keep

17.

A．memories

B．goals

C．problems

D．families

18.

A．happiness

B．praise

C．success

D．effort

19.

A．trust

B．organize

C．enjoy

D．count

20.

A．terrible

B．great

C．strange

D．simple

2 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last week, all of us were told prepare for an exhibition of our understanding of traditional Chinese culture. After knowing that, we had a heat discussion at the class meeting. Very soon, ideas like Peking Opera, Han Clothing, and Chinese Kung fu come to our minds. With the ideas gathering, we started to take the action. Some searched on the Internet for more details, when others set about draw pictures on the blackboard. Thanks to my hard work, our design finally won the head teacher’s approval. We were not only proud about our teamwork but also deep impressed by the great traditional Chinese culture.

3 . It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat ______ we had to take the girls to their next activity.My husband seemed a bit ______ that dinner was not on the table.

That night, I had a heavy ______, thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线). We had become too ______ in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would ______ our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.

I bought a notebook, named it "Our Deed Diary" and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a ______ for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our ______. And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.

I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually ______ than it seemed because it had to be something ______ what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not ______.

We had a rough ______. On some days,someone would forget to ______ a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to ______ what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to ______ me the good deed they had done.

Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a（n）______ in our lives. Instead of always   ______ what the day will bring for us, we think bout what we can do for someone else.

Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so ______? I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only ______ by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in ______. So, when someone does return the favor,it is an enormous and positive ______.

1.

A．though

B．unless

C．before

D．while

2.

A．annoyed

B．puzzled

C．embarrassed

D．frightened

3.

A．shoulder

B．stomach

C．foot

D．heart

4.

A．absorbed

B．interested

C．confident

D．successful

5.

A．repeat

B．relate

C．refocus

D．recall

6.

A．kindness

B．task

C．job

D．copy

7.

A．room

B．home

C．school

D．town

8.

A．stranger

B．sweeter

C．harder

D．bigger

9.

A．beyond

B．from

C．about

D．between

10.

A．matter

B．count

C．last

D．happen

11.

A．time

B．life

C．start

D．idea

12.

A．praise

B．check

C．record

D．do

13.

A．describe

B．decide

C．remember

D．explain

14.

A．bring

B．teach

C．offer

D．tell

15.

A．effort

B．choice

C．difference

D．fortune

16.

A．forgetting

B．believing

C．knowing

D．wondering

17.

A．tiring

B．moving

C．surprising

D．rewarding

18.

A．experience

B．imagine

C．predict

D．exchange

19.

A．silence

B．return

C．time

D．order

20.

A．effect

B．bonus

C．attitude

D．contribution

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I have recently been told that listen to loud music is gradually making people hard of hearing. I'm sure it has already been happened to my neighbor. For years she had turned a deaf ear to my requests to turn her radio down. When she gives a party she doesn’t have to invite a rest of the street. Everyone can dance in her music in his own room. Now a scientist has discovered certain electronic sounds have strangely effects on rats. He declares break down, almost paralyze(瘫) with their legs trembled. Then it is simply a matter of throwing them out by their tail. I wonder that the same thing will happen to my neighbor someday.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A US teenager criticized（批评）on social media for wearing a     1     (tradition) Chinese dress to her high school prom（毕业舞会）defended her decision and has won support from netizens（网民）in China.

Keziah Daum, 18,     2     high school senior in Utah, faced a strong reaction from thousands online, some of whom accused her of “cultural appropriation（文化挪用）” after she posted four prom pictures on Twitter on April 22 that featured her wearing a qipao, a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for     3     (woman). “I     4     (praise) by the many people from China who have both reached out to me and have posted to social media their viewpoints. I thank them     5     the moral support regarding my decision     6     (wear) a qipao,” Daum told China Daily in an email on Tuesday. “I     7     (sincere) thank the outpouring of support I have received from the people of China.” Daum stood by her choice to wear the dress,     8     was red and orange with gold-and-black embroidery（刺绣）. She said on Twitter that she will not take down the original post. “The dress     9     (catch) my eye at first because of     10     (it) beauty,” she said. “I was also so happy to find a dress with a modest neckline. It is very hard to find dresses in America for prom which cover a women’s neckline.”

6 . My First Marathon（马拉松）

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I was determined to go ahead.

I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P.E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and then hit a softball. I didn’t do either well. He later informed me that I was ＂not athletic＂.

The idea that I was ＂not athletic＂ stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!

The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces(鞋带) became untied. So I stopped to readjust. Not the start I wanted!

At mile 3, I passed a sign: ＂GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!＂

By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt badly. Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.

By mile 21, I was starving!

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.

I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签), I can now call myself a ＂marathon winner＂.

1. A month before the marathon, the author ____________.

A．was well trained	B．felt scared
C．made up his mind to run	D．lost hope

2. Why did the author mention the P.E. class in his 7th year?

A．To acknowledge the support of his teacher.

B．To amuse the readers with a funny story.

C．To show he was not talented in sports.

D．To share a precious memory.

3. How was the author’s first marathon?

A．He made it.	B．He quit halfway.
C．He got the first prize.	D．He walked to the end.

4. What does the story mainly tell us?

A．A man owes his success to his family support.

B．A winner is one with a great effort of will.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．One is never too old to learn.

7 . I learn to fly in a balloon in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in 1992 and became extremely interested in the sport. In the same way that a mountain climber dreams of climbing the world's highest mountain,I dreamed about flying non-stop around the world.

I spent six years planning the flight and failed twice before I and my team managed to succeed. For some reason,we had to go first to North Africa to catch the right winds. That added 10 ,000 kilometers,and another week,to our journey. But because of this,our flight broke all the records for distance and time spent in the air.

The most memorable part of the trip for me is that we lived in the air for 20 days and that the rising sun was the most amazing thing we saw. We had to go out of the balloon’s capsule , in which we were transported,three times while in the air to repair the fuel system. We didn’t have any safety equipment but when you are in a situation like that,you just do what you have to do without thinking about feeling afraid.

Landing was a fantastic moment. I remember that when I got out of the capsule,I looked at my footprint in the sand. I remembered the astronaut Neil Armstrong,who was so happy to put his footprint on the moon,so far away from Earth. At that moment, I was so happy to have my foot back on Earth!

1. The author became interested in ballooning because of .

A．a cross-ocean race

B．a mountain climb

C．a childhood dream

D．a long sea journey

2. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2 about the author and his team's flight?

A．They set a new record.

B．They shortened their flight.

C．Their flight went very smoothly.

D．Their flight covered 10,000 kilometers.

3. Why did the balloonists get out of the capsule during the flight?

A．To fight their fear.

B．To do some repair work.

C．To admire the rising sun.

D．To check safety equipment.

4. The author mentioned Neil Armstrong to show his .

A．regret

B．surprise

C．respect

D．pleasure

8 . 阅读理解。
阅读短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
One day, a poor man, who had only one piece of bread to eat, was walking past a restaurant. There was a large pot of soup on the table. The poor man held his bread over the soup, so the steam from the soup went into the bread, and gave it a good smell. Then he ate the bread.
The restaurant owner was very angry at this, and he asked the man for money, in exchange for the steam from the soup. The poor man had no money, so the restaurant owner took him to Nasreddin, who was a judge at that time. Nasreddin thought about the case for a little while.
Then he took some money from his pocket. He held the coins next to the restaurant owner’s ear, and shook them, so that they made a dingling (叮当声) noise.
“What was that?” asked the restaurant owner.
“That was payment for you,” answered Nasreddin.
“What do you mean? That was just the sound of coins!” said angrily the restaurant owner.
“The sound of the coin is payment for the smell of the soup,” answered Nasreddin. “Now go back to your restaurant.”
1. The poor man held his bread over the soup to _______.

A．make it heated

B．warm his cold hands

C．avoid paying the restaurant owner

D．make it smell and taste a little better

2. Why did Nasreddin make a noise with the coins?

A．To make the poor man relaxed.

B．To pay for the smell of the soup.

C．To make the restaurant owner happy.

D．To show that he was a rich person.

3. Nasreddin thought that the smell of the soup ________.

A．was worthless	B．should be paid
C．was pleasant	D．could be sold

4. The writer’s purpose in telling the story is mainly to _________.

A．show the bad restaurant owner

B．describe the poor’s unhappy life

C．show Nasreddin’s cleverness and humor

D．prove the value of the sound of coins

9 . A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took______ of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack. Guy Harvold,24, had ______ the students and three course leaders from Gatwick airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to ______ their host families. They were going to ______ a course at the ABC Language School in Bournemouth where Harvold works as a ______.

Harvold, who has not ______ his driving test, said, "I realized the bus was out of control when I was ______ the students." The bus ran into trees at the side of the road and he ______the driver was slumped(倒伏) over the wheel. The driver didn't ______. He was unconscious. The bus______ a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold ______ to bring the bus to a stop. Police______ the young teacher's quick thinking. If he hadn't ______ quickly, there could have been a terrible______.

The bus driver never regained consciousness and died at Easy Surrey Hospital. He had worked regulary with the ______ and was very well regarded by the teachers and students. Harvold said, "I was ______ that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would ______.

The head of the language school told the local newspaper that the school is going to send Harvold on a weekend ______ to Dublin with a friend, thanking him for his ______. A local driving school has also offered him six ______driving lessons.

1.

A．control

B．care

C．advantage

D．note

2.

A．taken in

B．picked up

C．tracked down

D．helped out

3.

A．greet

B．thank

C．invite

D．meet

4.

A．present

B．introduce

C．take

D．organize

5.

A．drive

B．doctor

C．librarian

D．teacher

6.

A．given

B．marked

C．passed

D．conducted

7.

A．speaking to

B．waiting for

C．returning to

D．looking for

8.

A．learned

B．noticed

C．mentioned

D．doubted

9.

A．sleep

B．cry

C．move

D．recover

10.

A．ran over

B．went by

C．carried

D．hit

11.

A．remembered

B．continued

C．prepared

D．managed

12.

A．witnessed

B．recorded

C．praised

D．understood

13.

A．appeared

B．reacted

C．escaped

D．interrupted

14.

A．delay

B．accident

C．mistake

D．experience

15.

A．airport

B．hospital

C．school

D．police

16.

A．happy

B．fortunate

C．touched

D．sorry

17.

A．survive

B．retire

C．relax

D．succeed

18.

A．project

B．trip

C．dinner

D．duty

19.

A．bravery

B．skill

C．quality

D．knowledge

20.

A．necessary

B．easy

C．different

D．free

10 . “Who can ever have imagined someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered _______ to his fellow classmates to never give up---and the words _______ much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he _______ to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Chad didn’t start to _______ until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was _______a disadvantage, she was determined not to treat him_______. “I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no _______ why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he_______ the first time, we just tried again.”

Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, _______ no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work ________. He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never ________,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have ________ so far behind that escaping seems the only way ________. Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire ________.”

Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and ________ messages from family, friends and strangers. “They’ve been sending me messages on Facebook, email, they’ve been talking to me in person telling me how it had a ________ on their lives and how they’re really ________ by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels ________. Seeing that my words ________ have a power on someone and that they want to work harder because of my words makes me feel ________.”1.

A．advice

B．description

C．warning

D．information

2.

A．recognized

B．analysed

C．meant

D．described

3.

A．needed

B．faced

C．consisted

D．forecast

4.

A．cry

B．write

C．smell

D．hear

5.

A．at

B．for

C．under

D．by

6.

A．kindly

B．differently

C．cruelly

D．similarly

7.

A．harm

B．trouble

C．reason

D．conclusion

8.

A．failed

B．organized

C．succeeded

D．blamed

9.

A．appealing

B．receiving

C．possessing

D．operating

10.

A．set off

B．dropped off

C．took off

D．paid off

11.

A．give in

B．give out

C．give up

D．give away

12.

A．waited

B．fallen

C．walked

D．gone

13.

A．up

B．off

C．in

D．out

14.

A．impossibility

B．failure

C．victory

D．chance

15.

A．awkward

B．negative

C．doubtful

D．supportive

16.

A．reward

B．detail

C．power

D．source

17.

A．defeated

B．exposed

C．educated

D．puzzled

18.

A．unwilling

B．amazing

C．shocking

D．embarrassing

19.

A．actually

B．suddenly

C．strangely

D．extremely

20.

A．astonished

B．cautious

C．confused

D．wonderful