1 . Many years ago, my dad was facing a serious heart condition. He was unable to do a steady job. He fell suddenly ill and had to be admitted to the hospital.

He wanted to do something to keep himself busy, so he decided to volunteer at the local children’s hospital. My dad loved kids. It was the perfect job for him. He ended up working with the seriously ill children. He would talk, play, and do arts with them.

One of his kids was a girl with a rare disease that paralyzed (瘫痪) her from the neck down. She couldn’t do anything, and she was very depressed. My dad decided to try to help her. He started visiting her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn’t use his hands at all. All the while he would tell her, “See, you can do anything you set your mind to.”At the end of the day, she began to paint using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was sent home because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her. My dad also left the children’s hospital for a little while because he became ill. Some time later after my dad had recovered and returned to work, in came the little girl who had been paralyzed and only this time she was walking. She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave him a picture she had done using her hands. At the bottom it read: “Thank you for helping me walk.”

My dad would cry every time he told us this story and so would we. He would say sometimes love is more powerful than doctor, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave the picture—loved every single child in that hospital.

1. The author’s father worked at the local hospital to_______________.

A．make his serious heart condition less serious	B．keep himself occupied and pleased
C．realize his childhood dream	D．earn money to pay for treatment

2. How did the author’s father help the paralyzed little girl?

A．He helped her practice walking.	B．He visited her and made a toy for her.
C．He showed her she could still do things.	D．He painted special pictures for her.

3. According to Paragraph 3, the paralyzed girl _______________.

A．eventually became a unique painter

B．was sent home and never seen again

C．gradually recovered and walked

D．sent the author’s dad a picture painted with her mouth

4. What message does the passage mainly convey?

A．It’s better to give than to receive.

B．A sick person should not focus on his disease.

C．Volunteering is a worthwhile thing to do.

D．Love can sometimes bring great results.

2 . The pupils of Grangetown High have been busy getting to know their newest and tallest classmate — a 7-meter-tall giraffe outside their school.

The giraffe is a huge sculpture (雕像). The school’s headmaster noticed it in an artist’s garden as he drove past one day, and thought it would be perfect for his school. “I knew everyone would love it,” he said, “because our basketball team is known as the Grangetown Giraffes, and they wear giraffes on their shirts. So I asked them to write to the artist, asking how much it would cost to buy the giraffe. He was very kind and got it ready to deliver (递送) in six weeks — all for nothing! It was expected to arrive one Sunday morning, so that the pupils would see it when they got to school on Monday — at that time they had no idea that we were getting it.”

The artist, Tom Bennett was a university professor of chemistry before he retired in 2012 and only took up metalwork a couple of years ago. “I’ve always drawn pictures,” he said. I can even remember doing it on my first day at school — I drew a horse. I wanted it to be the best horse picture ever, but I don’t think I succeeded.” Tom’s first metalwork was a bicycle on which he and his wife could go cycling together, “It was the most uncomfortable bike ever created,” he said, “so I gave up making bicycles and went into sculpture instead.”

Meanwhile the pupils at Grangetown High are very happy with their new classmate. “We’re going to hold a competition to give it a proper name,” said one girl. “Everyone likes the expression on its face, so perhaps that will give us some ideas.”

1. What can we learn about the giraffe according to the text?

A．It was specially made for a basketball team.

B．It was given to Grangetown High for free.

C．It was as tall as a basketball player.

D．It was sent to Grangetown High on Monday.

2. How did the pupils probably feel when they got to school on Monday?

A．surprised	B．sad
C．shy	D．confident

3. Which of the following is TRUE about Tom Bennett?

A．He visited Grangetown High as a professor.

B．He did well in drawing, especially horses.

C．He learned a lot about sculpture at university.

D．He showed interest in art at an early age.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A．It was difficult to name a giraffe.

B．A metal giraffe arrived at Grangetown High.

C．Tom Bennett is famous as a sculptor.

D．The Grangetown Giraffes is a strong team.

3 . 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。

This morning, they left on a long trip to Hawaii. They were as     1    (excite) as if it were their honeymoon(蜜月).

When my parents married(结婚), they had only enough money for a three-day trip fifty miles from home. They made an     2    (agree) that each day they would put a dollar in a special metal box and save it for a honeymoon in Hawaii for their fiftieth anniversary(周年纪念).

Dad was a policeman, and Mom was a school teacher. They lived in a small house and did all     3    (they) own repairs. Raising five children was a challenge, and sometimes money was short,     4     no matter what emergency came up, Dad would not let Mom take any money out of the “Hawaii account(账户)”. As     5     account grew, they put it in a saving account and then bought CDs.

My parents     6    (be) always very much in love since the day they got married. I can remember Dad     7    (come) home and telling Mom, “I have a dollar in my pocket,” and she would smile     8    him and say, “I know how to spend it.”

When each of us children married, Mom and Dad gave us a small metal box and told us their secret,     9    we found attractive. All five of us are now saving for our dream honeymoon. Mom and Dad never told us how much money they had managed     10    (save), but it must have been fairly large because when they cashed in those CDs, they had enough for the flights to Hawaii and a hotel room for ten days and plenty of spending money.

4 . Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

''Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, I can do it! " when others shout, "No, you can't."

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家） who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted．Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul".

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, the official who handcrafts（手工制做） furniture.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after ''what-can-be".

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses — finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned （蜡笔的）picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.

1. What can be the best title of this passage?

A．Find pleasure in what you are doing.

B．Wake up your life.

C．To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

D．No pains, no gains.

2. What conclusion does the writer draw through the experience of finding a job?

A．Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.

B．Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

C．We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens.

D．Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

3. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

A．No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.

B．Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.

C．We should make great effort to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.

D．Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize.

4. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase let up ?

A．continue.	B．make less effort.
C．make great effort.	D．stop.

5. We can learn from the last paragraph that it is                that makes our life meaningful.

A．love of gardening	B．love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year-old child
C．love of life	D．love of beautiful rainbow

5 . I became lame(瘸的) in both legs in my childhood. I can’t stand ____ the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I ＂____＂.

I still remember the first day at ____. When I appeared at the door, ____ in the classroom stared at me in _____. My face turned ____. I couldn’t help ____ back. It was the ____ and sympathy(同情) in their eyes that _____ me doing so. I went shyly towards an unoccupied (空的) seat.

Being lame, I didn’t dare to _____ in front of my classmates. I was afraid that I might be ______ at. In those days I was very sad to see others walking _____.

One day, a few students came up to me and asked me to go outside. I was really _____. They encouraged me with a(n) _____ smile and ______ me in my wheelchair from place to place. I was _____ to them for giving me a chance to see the _____ of our lovely school with my own eyes.

After that we often read, played and talked together. My friends are always ______ to help me. It made me_______ I am handicapped(残疾的).

Once they asked me,＂What is the most beautiful thing in our school?＂Without hesitation I said,＂It is the _____.＂

1.

A．with

B．without

C．under

D．on

2.

A．walk

B．run

C．sit

D．stand

3.

A．school

B．wheelchair

C．home

D．hospital

4.

A．he

B．she

C．everyone

D．nobody

5.

A．thought

B．interest

C．anger

D．surprise

6.

A．red

B．brown

C．white

D．black

7.

A．entering

B．hiding

C．coming

D．turning

8.

A．feeling

B．kindness

C．sorrow

D．pain

9.

A．made

B．stopped

C．kept

D．let

10.

A．walk

B．study

C．practice

D．speak

11.

A．laughed

B．smiled

C．stared

D．looked

12.

A．quickly

B．slowly

C．happily

D．shyly

13.

A．brave

B．sad

C．hurt

D．excited

14.

A．honest

B．friendly

C．luckily

D．handsome

15.

A．pushed

B．placed

C．drew

D．pulled

16.

A．satisfied

B．sorry

C．loyal

D．grateful

17.

A．signs

B．sights

C．buildings

D．students

18.

A．ready

B．smart

C．wise

D．unwilling

19.

A．forget

B．remember

C．imagine

D．think

20.

A．teacher

B．schoolyard

C．classmate

D．friendship

6 . Once a boy really had everything he wanted, so he was ______ interested in the rarest (最稀有的) objects. One day he ______ a mysterious (神秘的) mirror and took it home. When he looked into the mirror, he found that his ______ looked very sad. He tried ______, but it remained the same.

Surprised, the boy went off to buy some sweets. He went home and looked into the mirror as happily as possible,______ he still looked sad. He bought all kinds of toys, but he looked forever ______ in that mirror. So the boy put the mirror away in a ______.

“What a(n)______ mirror! I’ve never seen a mirror that didn’t ______ properly!”

That same afternoon he went out to play, but on his ______ to the park he saw a little girl crying loudly. So he went over to see what was happening. The little girl told him that she had ______ her parents.

Together, they ______ in search of them. As the little girl continued crying, the boy ______ his money in buying sweets lo cheer her up.______, after walking for a long time, they found her parents, who looked very worried.

The boy said goodbye, and walked off towards the park. However,______ the time, he decided to turn around and head ______ home, as he had no time to ______. At home, he went to his room and noticed a shining ______ in the corner where he had left the mirror. Seeing this, he went over to the mirror and ______ that the light was coming from his own body, because he was so happy about having helped that little girl.

So he understood the mystery of that mirror, the only mirror reflecting (反映) faithfully (诚心诚意地) the ______ joy of its owner.

1.

A．never

B．sometimes

C．only

D．seldom

2.

A．found

B．wanted

C．guessed

D．expected

3.

A．head

B．nose

C．face

D．mouth

4.

A．smiling

B．shouting

C．crying

D．smelling

5.

A．and

B．so

C．when

D．but

6.

A．sad

B．angry

C．happy

D．worried

7.

A．corner

B．box

C．room

D．bag

8.

A．interesting

B．terrible

C．wonderful

D．difficult

9.

A．move

B．look

C．keep

D．work

10.

A．way

B．course

C．road

D．line

11.

A．escaped

B．hated

C．excited

D．lost

12.

A．set off

B．set aside

C．set down

D．set up

13.

A．took

B．cost

C．spent

D．held

14.

A．Finally

B．Actually

C．Naturally

D．Generally

15.

A．telling

B．seeing

C．feeling

D．pointing

16.

A．in

B．for

C．off

D．at

17.

A．talk

B．eat

C．play

D．walk

18.

A．light

B．mirror

C．colour

D．star

19.

A．touched

B．invented

C．improved

D．realized

20.

A．possible

B．true

C．strange

D．common