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。

The frightening day of our diving test was here. Our parents thought we were lucky to have an Olympic-size swimming pool at the school. My mom stressed that the swimming pool was one of the best in our city. But I didn’t feel happy about it at all. Instead, I felt afraid of the swimming pool. It was mainly because I was terribly shy.

I was so shy that I always sat at the back of the room in class so I’d not be called upon to read. As for the present physical education class each Monday morning, I would work my way to the back of the line forming at the diving board so I would not have to practice the dives.

Now, it was another Monday morning - the morning of our diving test. My blood ran cold when the teacher Ms. Robbins announced that we would be graded for our final on the most difficult dive- the jackknife. And she added, “This diving test is important. The one who fails has to spare time in the following Monday mornings to practice diving in this swimming pool and attend this test again.”

My body kept shaking with fear as the line to the scary diving board shortened. As I watched, each student seemed to perform the challenging dive effortlessly. And shortly I would have to attempt something that I had never even practiced before.

Then I remembered someone telling me that when you picture yourself doing a skill over and over, it’s just as effective as physically practicing that skill. So I watched carefully as each classmate jumped at the end of the board once, added a jump for height, folded their body in half to reach for their toes, and finally straightened out like an arrow for going into the water. After carefully watching for a while, I was actually in a state of surprise, because all of a sudden I realized that it was possible for me to perform these four steps of diving.

Eventually all classmates except me finished jumping. The teacher announced that it was my turn.

注意：1. 续与词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

With my heart knocking wildly, I walked down the diving board towards its end.

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Knowing I failed, I climbed out of the pool, embarrassed.

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2 . Judy Pugh was an elderly woman sitting in her home when a tornado hit. A ________ fell on top of her, and the rest of her house was sucked up into the twister (龙卷风). Neighbors called her name and ________ the wall off her. Luckily, she was only slightly ________.

Pugh had three pet cats, and her only ________ after the storm was finding them. She ________ to find two of the cats soon after. But ________, she could not find her third cat, Cadie. Her family ________ that the10-year old cat was carried away in the twister. Despite the ________ that over a month had passed since the storm, she did not give up ________. Pugh continued to ________ to the ruins of her home and search for the cat every single day. A local TV station found Pugh standing there and ________ her. In the middle of the recording, Cadie the cat silently ________ out of the remains of Pugh’s house. He found his way home ________.

Cadie was ________, dirty, and could not even gather the strength to meow (猫叫声). Pugh walked over to him, holding him into her arms. “I have ________ in the world, now.” Pugh said as she began to cry. She gently held her pet close to her chest.

1.

A．tree

B．wall

C．stone

D．board

2.

A．shook

B．kept

C．lifted

D．wiped

3.

A．injured

B．touched

C．disturbed

D．confused

4.

A．difficulty

B．complaint

C．choice

D．concern

5.

A．hoped

B．decided

C．managed

D．attempted

6.

A．luckily

B．suddenly

C．lately

D．sadly

7.

A．suspected

B．heard

C．concluded

D．predicted

8.

A．delay

B．fact

C．disadvantage

D．barrier

9.

A．hope

B．chance

C．research

D．work

10.

A．get down

B．show up

C．give in

D．look forward

11.

A．telephoned

B．impressed

C．interviewed

D．reminded

12.

A．grew

B．rushed

C．escaped

D．appeared

13.

A．at present

B．after all

C．once more

D．of course

14.

A．lovely

B．naughty

C．skinny

D．greedy

15.

A．something

B．nothing

C．anything

D．everything

3 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或用括号内单词的正确形式。

I was on a train in Switzerland. The train came to a stop and the conductor’s voice over the loudspeaker     1     (deliver) a message in German, Italian, and French. I’d made the mistake of not learning any of those languages before my vacation.

Everyone started getting off the train and an old woman saw that I was     2     (confuse). She could speak some English and told me that an accident had happened on the     3     (track). She asked me where I was trying to get to, then went and talked to some workers, and came back to tell me that we’d have to get on trains three or four times to get there.

I was really glad she was heading     4     same way because it would have been impossible for me to figure it     5     on my own. So we went from one train station to the next, getting to know each other along the way.

She was really the     6     (sweet) woman. It was a 2.5-hour journey in total, and     7     we made it to the final destination, we got off and said our goodbyes. I had made it just in time to catch my train to Rome. She told me she had a train to catch as well. I asked her how much farther she had to go and     8     turned out that her home was two hours back the other way.

She had jumped from train to train and traveled the whole way just     9     (make) sure that I made it. I was in shock. A woman spent her whole day sitting on trains and taking her hours away from her home just to help out a confused tourist     10     (visit) her country.