1 . Mitsuhiro Iwamoto has been blind since he was 16. He wanted to ________ that his blindness didn’t limit what he can do.

Sailing a boat is much more ________ than simply steering（掌舵）. But Mr. Iwamoto can ________ it. He can feel the waves and sense the speed and angle of the winds to ________ the sails properly. In 2013, he tried to sail the Pacific with a navigator（领航员）. ________, after only five days at sea, their boat sank, and the two spent 11 hours floating in the sea before they were ________.

Doug Smith, who hasn’t ________ much before, but likes the ________ of sailing across the Pacific, learned the story of Mr. Iwamoto’s ________ during his first sail. He got in touch with Mr. Iwamoto. ________ they teamed up. Mr. Smith would go along as the boat’s navigator—to use his ________ to decide on the boat’s path. It took much courage to make a second ________, but Mr. Iwamoto was ________. He said that “Failure becomes ________ failure if you stop trying.”

They prepared for the ________ trip together. Mr. Smith bought a 40-foot sailboat that he named “Dream Weaver”. Mr. Iwamoto ________ actively and hard. On February 24, he and Mr. Smith he calls his “________ Eye Doug” set out from San Diego, California on their 14,000 kilometer trip. ________, after sailing for 55 days, the two arrived in Iwaka, Japan.

“I didn’t ________ and I made it,” Mr. Iwamoto ________ himself. He became the first blind person to sail non-stop across the Pacific Ocean in the world.

1.

A．prove

B．believe

C．suggest

D．advertise

2.

A．artificial

B．convenient

C．complex

D．expensive

3.

A．predict

B．handle

C．repair

D．improve

4.

A．advocate

B．record

C．save

D．adjust

5.

A．However

B．Lastly

C．Thus

D．Instead

6.

A．blocked

B．served

C．explored

D．rescued

7.

A．sailed

B．traveled

C．paid

D．dreamed

8.

A．distance

B．direction

C．curiosity

D．thought

9.

A．speech

B．experiment

C．defeat

D．chance

10.

A．Again

B．Then

C．Even

D．Still

11.

A．strength

B．eyes

C．theory

D．acts

12.

A．suspension

B．impression

C．attempt

D．principle

13.

A．interested

B．determined

C．satisfied

D．relaxed

14.

A．true

B．precious

C．equal

D．popular

15.

A．extra

B．normal

C．practical

D．new

16.

A．trained

B．observed

C．designed

D．commented

17.

A．Protecting

B．Seeing

C．Evaluating

D．Curing

18.

A．Consequently

B．Naturally

C．Finally

D．Directly

19.

A．fade away

B．look back

C．break down

D．give up

20.

A．enjoyed

B．expressed

C．prided

D．repeated

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。

After supper, Li Hua came and asked me go and see a film with him. In our way to the cinema we saw the little girl sitting by the roadside cry. We bring her a cake to stop her crying. But when we asked where she had lived, she said she did not know. So we took her to the police station and asked the police to take care for her. After this, we went to the cinema, but when we got there, the movie was near at its end. Though we missed the movie, we did a good deed. We felt very happily.

3 . 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（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l1处起）不计分。

I have always dreamt returning to my childhood. Just as many people say, childhood is the happier time in one’s life.

I grow up in the countryside. There are many high mountains, colorful flowers and different kind of trees. Often my parents took me to go hiking and caught insects. My grandma, whose seemed to be full of vivid memories, always shared his stories with me. She told me that I was such gentle and quiet that she never felt worrying about me. Now it is 5 years since that she passed away. I still miss her very much!

4 . Our families lived more than 450 miles away, so a few weeks before Thanksgiving one year, my husband and I decided to invite a guest over____the holiday. I called a senior center in the Dallas area and they____Ilse, a woman I imagined would be quiet and good-natured. When seeing her, I was wrong. Ilse was a stubborn 78 -year-old lady, who favored spending time at the center ____ she had her own apartment.

By the end of the Thanksgiving evening, we felt as if she were an old friend. Two weeks later, I invited her to lunch. The more time I spent with Ilse, the more she became like my grandma, always full of energy. Since I was the only one left in her life, I felt ____ for her. I soon became her personal Uber driver (minus the fee), and also helped her hire a ____. As the days went on, Ilse seemed more disconnected than before. Late one afternoon, she called from the emergency room to tell me she had ____ over her coffee table. After I got there, the doctor ____ she had suffered a mild stroke(中风).

During the next few days, I ____ by her apartment, sadly finding that she was so weak. And she was no longer the ____ Ilse I knew. At the end of the week, I received an early-morning call from her caregiver. “Please come over now,” her voice matter-of-fact. “She’s passed away.” But I was too shocked to cry.

The morning after Ilse’s death, I pulled her ____ out of my file cabinet. Ilse had____I take a copy of it a year earlier. I read through it and____when I saw my name. She had left me $ 50,000. I didn't____ her saying anything about that. ____, I would have insisted she donate the money to charity or give it to a friend she had known longer. Ilse was a friend I'd helped out of loyalty and____, not with the expectation of being paid. I opened an account in her honor. Over the next 20 years, Ilse's ____ grew and gave me the opportunity to____funds in her name to a cause she cared about deeply : children. Various families and charities____from her donations. It is beyond my expectation that a____I’d taken years before when I placed a call to the senior center and meet Ilse made my life richer and made me have a new understanding of____.

1.

A．after

B．for

C．by

D．of

2.

A．believed

B．begged

C．observed

D．suggested

3.

A．unless

B．because

C．though

D．if

4.

A．responsible

B．grateful

C．pitiful

D．happy

5.

A．teacher

B．caregiver

C．doctor

D．guide

6.

A．talked

B．looked

C．came

D．tripped

7.

A．ensured

B．confirmed

C．warned

D．reminded

8.

A．drove

B．walked

C．dropped

D．slipped

9.

A．energetic

B．outgoing

C．generous

D．determined

10.

A．photo

B．will

C．book

D．report

11.

A．insisted

B．ordered

C．recommended

D．proposed

12.

A．questioned

B．relieved

C．explained

D．stopped

13.

A．mind

B．imagine

C．remember

D．consider

14.

A．Otherwise

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Instead

15.

A．courage

B．ability

C．respect

D．ambition

16.

A．gift

B．desire

C．need

D．idea

17.

A．return

B．lend

C．sell

D．provide

18.

A．learned

B．kept

C．benefited

D．borrowed

19.

A．risk

B．praise

C．reward

D．chance

20.

A．equality

B．humanity

C．possibility

D．reality

5 . The challenge: Sail 30,000 miles around the globe, non-stop, alone. What could go wrong?

Susie Goodall ______ it this week. She was a(n) ______ in the Golden Globe Race which sends sailors from the coast of France around the earth. Goodall was 2,000 miles off South America when her boat was like a ______ man in a heavy storm and a broken bar knocked her ______ unconscious. She then activated the ______system and a series of troubling ______, which recorded her happenings during the journey, were ______ to her Twitter account.

Chile's Maritime Center received her ______ and soon ordered a cargo(货) ship to change its ______ to rescue Goodall. Meanwhile, all Goodall could do was wait—trying to keep her boat ______ in the waving South Pacific and pumping out water that was ______ into the damaged cabin(船舱).

When the Chilean ship finally ______ Goodall, employing a small boat to save her seemed ______ because up to13 feet waves, rocking both ships, would ______ the boat at any time. ______, crew members on board ______ a long thick rope from the ship, and pulled Goodall from her boat to safety. As luck would have it, the chosen method ______.

Goodall arrived at the Chilean port without any delay. On her Facebook, Goodall wrote: "They were the hardest and ______ days I’ve ever had. Actually, all I had wanted was a(n) ______ from my busy daily life. But out there in the sea, half the world from home, I might as well ______ home instead of taking the break."

1.

A．made up for

B．gave up on

C．dropped out of

D．found out about

2.

A．accountant

B．participant

C．instructor

D．organizer

3.

A．homeless

B．drunken

C．dead

D．happy

4.

A．permanently

B．completely

C．briefly

D．seriously

5.

A．emergency

B．operating

C．heating

D．insurance

6.

A．updates

B．questions

C．fantasies

D．thoughts

7.

A．attached

B．offered

C．posted

D．restricted

8.

A．call

B．warning

C．signal

D．reply

9.

A．system

B．course

C．subject

D．policy

10.

A．dry

B．tidy

C．still

D．steady

11.

A．leaking

B．disappearing

C．floating

D．dropping

12.

A．rescued

B．abandoned

C．passed

D．reached

13.

A．obvious

B．appropriate

C．impossible

D．inconvenient

14.

A．swallow

B．miss

C．hit

D．push

15.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Instead

D．Otherwise

16.

A．lowered

B．lifted

C．anchored

D．produced

17.

A．failed

B．worked

C．developed

D．remained

18.

A．busiest

B．biggest

C．greatest

D．longest

19.

A．answer

B．break

C．message

D．challenge

20.

A．drive

B．ride

C．walk

D．sail

6 . Twelve-year-old Amanda Clement raced to the ballpark across the street from her house in Hudson, South Dakota. She couldn't wait to join her brother, Hank, and the boys for a game of baseball.

Would they let her play? She could throw, run and bat as well as any of them, but they let her play only when they needed her. She would have to umpire again. At least she could be part of the game.   Amanda knew all the rules, and the boys could count on her.

Over the next few years, local teams began asking her to judge their games，too. One summer day in 2018，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden, Iowa, to watch Hank play in the championship semiprofessional game. Two local teams decided to play a game be- fore the semiprofessional teams.   Amanda agreed to be the judge. As Amanda finished the morning game, she saw two men walking toward her. To her surprise, they were the manag- ers of the semiprofessional teams and were impressed with her judge and wanted her to judge the afternoon championship game. They would even pay her.   The 16-year-old girl was about to become the first female paid to be a judge of a baseball game. Amanda was calm and confident and judged fairly.   She was right on the spot, watching closely.

Newspaper reporters said that she was absolutely fair.   Managers began to ask for her first when they needed a judge. Amanda was popular with the fans, too.   In one game, the audience weren't happy with the judge and insisted on replacing him with Amanda. Being a judge was hard work. Amanda judged for the whole game, and she worked in all kinds of weather. She said, "It isn't as easy as it looks, but for all that, there is a good deal of enjoyment in the work. You have got to have confidence in your ability or you won't do well in anything.”

1. What can we learn about twelve-year-old Amanda

A．She always competed directly with boys.

B．She showed much enthusiasm for baseball.

C．She was the best player of a baseball game.

D．She played baseball better than her brother.

2. What does the underlined word "umpire" in paragraph 2 mean

A．Act as a judge.	B．Join the local team.
C．Win a game.	D．Play baseball.

3. What was the audience's reaction to Amanda's judgement

A．They doubted it.	B．They were angry with it.
C．They showed no interest m it.	D．They were favorably impressed by it.

4. Which of the following words best describe Amanda

A．Rude and unjust.	B．Silent and thoughtful.
C．Proud and narrow-minded	D．Confident and hard-working.

7 . The small town of Rjukan in Norway is situated between several mountains and does not get direct sunlight from late September to mid-March- _______ six months out of the year.

“Of course, we _______ it when the sun is shining,” says Karin Ro, who works for the town’s tourism office. “We see the sky is _______, but down in the valley it’s darker — it’s like on a _______ day.”

But that _______ when a system of high-tech _______ was introduced to reflect sunlight from neighboring peaks(山峰) into the valley below. Wednesday, residents(居民) of Rjukan _______ their very first ray of winter sunshine: A row of reflective boards on a nearby mountainside were put to _______. The mirrors are controlled by a computer that _______ them to turn along with the sun throughout the ________ and to close during windy weather. They reflect a concentrated beam(束) of light onto the town’s central ________, creating an area of sunlight roughly 600 square meters. When the light ________, Rjukan residents gathered together.

“People have been ________ there and standing there and taking ________ of each other,” Ro says. “The town square was totally ________. I think almost all the people in the town were there.” The 3,500 residents cannot all ________ the sunshine at the same time. ________, the new light feels like more than enough for the town’s ________ residents.

“It’s not very ________,” she says, “but it is enough when we are ________.”

1.

A．only

B．obviously

C．nearly

D．precisely

2.

A．fear

B．believe

C．hear

D．notice

3.

A．empty

B．blue

C．high

D．wide

4.

A．cloudy

B．normal

C．different

D．warm

5.

A．helped

B．changed

C．happened

D．mattered

6.

A．computers

B．telescopes

C．mirrors

D．cameras

7.

A．remembered

B．forecasted

C．received

D．imagined

8.

A．repair

B．risk

C．rest

D．use

9.

A．forbids

B．directs

C．predicts

D．follows

10.

A．day

B．night

C．month

D．year

11.

A．library

B．hall

C．square

D．street

12.

A．appeared

B．returned

C．faded

D．stopped

13.

A．driving

B．hiding

C．camping

D．sitting

14.

A．pictures

B．notes

C．care

D．hold

15.

A．new

B．full

C．flat

D．silent

16.

A．block

B．avoid

C．enjoy

D．store

17.

A．Instead

B．However

C．Gradually

D．Similarly

18.

A．nature-loving

B．energy-saving

C．weather-beaten

D．sun-starved

19.

A．big

B．clear

C．cold

D．easy

20.

A．trying

B．waiting

C．watching

D．sharing

8 . It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers _______about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one ________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.

Jeff had ________ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who ________ enough to go to that kind of ________,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue ________.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”

1.

A．read

B．forgot

C．thought

D．heard

2.

A．fighting

B．trembling

C．eating

D．sleeping

3.

A．tried

B．agreed

C．promised

D．regretted

4.

A．calmed down

B．stood up

C．rolled over

D．run off

5.

A．injured

B．stolen

C．lost

D．rescued

6.

A．home

B．past

C．back

D．on

7.

A．preparation

B．explanation

C．test

D．search

8.

A．cautiously

B．casually

C．skillfully

D．angrily

9.

A．surprise

B．joy

C．hesitation

D．anxiety

10.

A．predicted

B．advertised

C．believed

D．recorded

11.

A．house

B．phone

C．street

D．car

12.

A．called

B．copied

C．counted

D．remembered

13.

A．fed

B．adopted

C．found

D．cured

14.

A．hunted

B．skied

C．lived

D．worked

15.

A．on purpose

B．on time

C．in turn

D．in vain

16.

A．cares

B．sees

C．suffers

D．learns

17.

A．place

B．trouble

C．waste

D．extreme

18.

A．service

B．plan

C．effort

D．team

19.

A．equal

B．allergic

C．grateful

D．close

20.

A．suitable

B．proud

C．wise

D．willing

9 . My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet-and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts.

Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man’s discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting deliberately and began to argue.

“She is being spiteful (恶意的) !” he yelled. “This is unbelievable.”

Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who accompanied him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.

We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. The grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has eroded. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith-starting with just one person.

Back at the grocery store, my wife and I reached our uneasy cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. “We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said. Her face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.

Those are the balancing acts, the moments of responding social and emotional pain with healing, which will add up to restore trust among people. You can start that pattern in someone else’s life, even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.

1. Why did the man at the checkout line argue with the cashier?

A．The cashier called a manager to help her.

B．Someone jumped the queue waiting to check out.

C．There was something wrong with his discount card.

D．He believed the cashier charged him more on purpose.

2. The underlined word “eroded” in Paragraph 5 probably means ________.

A．changed	B．increased
C．faded	D．formed

3. The author bought a bottle of water for the cashier because ________.

A．he thought the cashier might feel a little bit thirsty

B．he knew she had gone through much trouble recently

C．he wanted to restore the trust between her and the man

D．he wanted to comfort her after the terrible experience just now

4. The last paragraph in the passage is intended to ________.

A．add a warning	B．make a suggestion
C．introduce a topic	D．present an argument

10 . A Game of Light and Shade

It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to _______ him.

I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was _______ to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and _______ the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs _________ to the hallway.

“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some _______, but he didn’t answer.

“Not the _______ certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to _______.”

I bought a ticket and _______ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I _______. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his ________. I slowed down and followed him at a little ________. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps ________. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.

At last, after ten minutes, I ________ him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know ________ you came up.”

He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun ________ into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the ________ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is ________, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no ________ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”

The blind man seemed quite ________ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life ________ they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.

1.

A．accept

B．follow

C．control

D．visit

2.

A．frightened

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．embarrassed

3.

A．touching

B．climbing

C．hitting

D．covering

4.

A．pointing

B．attaching

C．contributing

D．leading

5.

A．respect

B．doubt

C．concern

D．sympathy

6.

A．view

B．test

C．prize

D．trick

7.

A．kick

B．jump

C．relax

D．escape

8.

A．struggled

B．explored

C．wandered

D．hurried

9.

A．promised

B．examined

C．imagined

D．confirmed

10.

A．steps

B．words

C．secrets

D．cheers

11.

A．standard

B．distance

C．expense

D．intention

12.

A．ahead

B．around

C．outside

D．behind

13.

A．recognized

B．surrounded

C．approached

D．witnessed

14.

A．why

B．how

C．when

D．whether

15.

A．knocks

B．pours

C．slides

D．bursts

16.

A．trend

B．reaction

C．change

D．honor

17.

A．light

B．space

C．mess

D．shade

18.

A．place

B．signal

C．object

D．period

19.

A．nervous

B．content

C．curious

D．patient

20.

A．unless

B．because

C．once

D．although