1 . One fall morning a farmer waved good-bye to his family and walked to town to sell their old donkey.
“Be sure to bring back a young, frisky donkey,” his wife called after him.
“And pots of gold!” called his greedy daughter.
When he reached the market, the farmer cried out,“Hee-haw, donkey for sale! Hee-haw, donkey for sale!”
Now, the pumpkin seller wanted a donkey, but he didn’t want to pay much. “I’ll give you one silver coin!” he shouted. Oh, I will need more than that to buy a young, frisky donkey,” said the farmer.
“You're in luck!” said the pumpkin seller. “I have just what you need. This pumpkin is really a donkey egg. Take it home and keep it warm until it hatches, and you will have a new donkey.”
“A new donkey!” exclaimed the farmer. He slipped the coin into his pocket, put the pumpkin under his arm, and plodded home.
“Only one silver coin,” sobbed his greedy daughter.
“Where’s the new donkey?” wailed his wife.
“Here is our new donkey,” cried the farmer, holding up the pumpkin. “All we have to do is keep this donkey egg warm until it hatches.” At night they wrapped the pumpkin in a blanket. In the daytime they sat on the donkey egg to keep it warm.
The first week the farmer’s wife perched on the pumpkin. She sewed new dresses from cloth bought with the silver coin.
Every evening they put their ears against the pumpkin.
“Do you hear any long ears flapping?” they asked one another.
“Not yet,” they answered.
The second week his daughter sat on the pumpkin. She spread her skirt wide to keep the pumpkin warm and read tales about handsome princes.
Every evening they put their ears against the pumpkin.
“Do you hear any hooves tapping?” they asked one another.
“Not yet,” they answered.
The third week the farmer sat on the pumpkin. He drew pictures of a cart hitched to his new donkey.
Every evening they put their ears against the pumpkin.
“Do you hear a faraway hee-haw?” They asked one another.
But they heard no hooves tapping, no long ears flapping, and no faraway “hee-haw.”
Suddenly, the farmer grabbed the pumpkin. “This donkey egg is no good!” he cried.
The farmer ran from the house and threw the pumpkin down a hill. The pumpkin crashed into bushes at the bottom.
The crash woke a long-eared rabbit. The frightened rabbit jumped out of the bushes and hopped away.
The farmer watched the rabbit and wailed, “Oh no! If only we had sat on the donkey egg longer! That little animal would have grown into a beautiful big donkey with giant ears and a long tail!”
Then the farmer went down the hill and picked pumpkin seeds out of the broken pumpkin and carried them home.
“I’ll plant these seeds and grow more donkey eggs,” he told his wife and daughter.
Hee-haw!
1. What did the farmer’s wife and daughter want to get from the donkey?| A．One silver coin and a pumpkin. | B．A pumpkin and a donkey egg. |
| C．A young donkey and pots of gold. | D．One silver coin and a young donkey. |
| A．Put their ears against the pumpkin and listened. |
| B．Sewed new dresses. |
| C．Read tales about handsome princes. |
| D．Drew pictures of a cart. |
| A．Hooves tapping. | B．Long ears flapping. |
| C．Faraway “hee-haw”. | D．None. |
| A．Catch the rabbit. | B．Go home angrily. |
| C．Argue with the pumpkin. | D．Plant the pumpkin seeds. |
2 . The deadliest wildfire in California's history broke out on November 8, 2018. It burned for 17 days and consumed 153,336 acres. In all the fire cost $16.5 billion in damage, destroying nearly 19,000 buildings, living 50,000 homes and killing 85. The beauty of this beautifully named place was gone.
Shane Grammer works as a creative director for Disney's theme parks. When his childhood friend Shane Edwards posted pictures of his white chimney--- the only part of his house to survive---Grammer felt very sad, but didn't know how to help him. And then he had an idea. "I've got to paint that chimney," he told Inside Edition. "And it was an opportunity for me to express myself and be an artist." On December 31, Grammer spent three hours spray-painting a black -and-white image of a woman on the chimney---a reminder, perhaps, of the beauty of life, or even just of life itself.
Grammer posted the image on Instagram. And many viewers said that he had really brought beauty and hope. Suddenly, Grammer realized that what he had thought was that a purely artistic expression had morphed into something deeper, the nature of true art. “When the first mural(壁画) moved so many people in this community, I knew I had to come back up,” Grammer told KRCR- TV. Over a period of three months, he returned eight times, painting 17 portraits of victims and figures of the Bible on walls, pickups, and broken buildings. "There is hope," he explains. "There is beauty in the ashes.”
Grammer's work in Paradise has now become a movement. He has traveled to many places painting murals in dark places that badly needed some light, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico, for example. "I want to do something powerful and create art that moves people," he says.
That first painting, on the chimney in Paradise, survived only a few months -the bulldozer(推土机) is a cruel art critic. Grammer couldn't be more delighted. It means that the spirit of Paradise is rising again.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?| A．The cause of the fire. |
| B．The damage caused by the fire. |
| C．The economic loss which resulted from the fire. |
| D．The reason why the beautiful place was gone. |
| A．Broke out. | B．Launched out. |
| C．Moved into. | D．Turned into. |
| A．Some people disliked it. |
| B．Grammer wasn’t satisfied with it. |
| C．The town was under reconstruction. |
| D．The bulldozer knocked it down by accident. |
| A．Caring. | B．Casual. |
| C．Humorous. | D．Indifferent. |
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:在错的词下画一横线，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。
Growing up in Jamaica, Luis didn't know about basketball until he arrived in the US at the age of twelfth. At his new school in the new country, he showed no interest in play basketball at all. One day, he met the boy named Tom at his school, but soon they became good friends. Tom was fond of playing basketball and ask Luis to do that with him. At first Luis wasn't interesting. But he finally decided to give it a try after he watched Tom to play several time. As soon as he started playing, he found it was actually fun. Now he plays the sport regular.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
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| A．studying | B．working | C．entering | D．playing |
| A．educational | B．personal | C．political | D．occasional |
| A．way | B．hope | C．hunger | D．goal |
| A．spare | B．part | C．own | D．school |
| A．something | B．everything | C．anything | D．nothing |
| A．somewhere | B．everywhere | C．anywhere | D．nowhere |
| A．and | B．so | C．yet | D．but |
| A．terribly | B．personally | C．heartedly | D．physically |
| A．fighting | B．killing | C．murdering | D．butchering |
| A．factory | B．farm | C．school | D．family |
| A．other | B．the other | C．others | D．another |
| A．him | B．himself | C．themselves | D．others |
| A．even | B．ever | C．still | D．yet |
| A．positions | B．conditions | C．occasions | D．situations |
| A．gave up | B．gave in | C．gave away | D．gave out |
| A．helpful | B．hopeful | C．helpless | D．hopeless |
| A．sure | B．certain | C．sorry | D．happy |
| A．self-taught | B．self-assured | C．self-controlled | D．self-styled |
| A．failure | B．confidence | C．foundation | D．determination |
| A．ideas | B．ways | C．dreams | D．styles |
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The doctor described the
After he
When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch, very
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By the end of the six-month waiting period, he thought that the scars did not
We all have "scars" that we believe
But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same
| A．brought | B．given | C．turned | D．showed |
| A．doctor | B．hospital | C．aircraft | D．ambulance |
| A．serious | B．terrible | C．dangerous | D．important |
| A．event | B．process | C．reason | D．accident |
| A．got | B．lit | C．burned | D．moved |
| A．took | B．held | C．caught | D．attracted |
| A．Fortunately | B．Surprisingly | C．Happily | D．Slowly |
| A．pushed | B．threw | C．dropped | D．rolled |
| A．shape | B．place | C．fact | D．time |
| A．benefited | B．recovered | C．suffered | D．relaxed |
| A．if | B．while | C．because | D．although |
| A．normal | B．violent | C．obvious | D．popular |
| A．like | B．notice | C．laugh | D．hide |
| A．sent | B．kept | C．handed | D．passed |
| A．heart | B．life | C．practice | D．consideration |
| A．grow | B．matter | C．exist | D．appear |
| A．mistake | B．effort | C．decision | D．request |
| A．invite | B．cause | C．allow | D．remind |
| A．false | B．strict | C．moral | D．general |
| A．by | B．over | C．beyond | D．within |
