1 . John，a very thin boy, loved football with all his heart when he was very young．Practice after practice，he eagerly gave everything he had．But being half the size of the other boys，he could only sit on the bench and hardly ever played in games．Even though the son was always on the bench，his father was always standing with cheers and encouraging him．

When John went to college，he decided to try out for the football team as a “walk-on”．Everyone was sure he could never make the cut，but he did．The coach thought he could provide the other members with the spirit they needed．

The news that he had survived the cut excited him so much that he rushed to the   nearest phone and called his father．His father shared his excitement and was sent season tickets for all the college games．

It was the end of this last football season．One day John received a telegram and   asked one week off．Nobody knew what happened except the coach．The coach said，“Don't plan to come back to the game on Saturday．”

Saturday arrived，and the game was not going well：When the team was ten points behind，John came back．“Coach，please let me play．I’ve just got to play today,”said John．The coach pretended not to hear him．But John persisted，and finally feeling sorry for the kid，the coach gave in．

Before long everyone could not believe their eyes. John was doing everything to fight. The opposing team could not stop him. He ran, he passed and blocked like a star. And at last his team won the game．

After the game，John looked at the coach，with tears in his eyes，and said，“Well,you knew my dad died,but did you know that my dad was blind?''John swallowed hard and forced a smile, “Dad came to all my games, but today was the first time he could see me play, and I wanted to show him that I could do it.”

1. Why did John hardly have any chance to play in games?

A．Because he had no time to practice．

B．Because he was too young to play games．

C．Because everyone looked down upon him．

D．Because his body condition was not good．

2. The underlined phrase “make the cut” in the second paragraph can be replaced by “       “

A．make progress	B．be allowed to join the team
C．cut himself	D．be refused by the coach

3. From the text we can know that        ．

A．John felt very depressed as a “walk-on”

B．John's father always taught him how to play

C．John's father went to most of his college games

D．the coach was sure John would be the best player one day

4. This story tells us that         .

A．a burden of one’s choice is not felt	B．better to do well than to say well
C．all roads lead to Rome	D．where there is a will，there is a way

2 . The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, even though she is nearly blind, moved to a nursing home today.

Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.

As she walked slowly to the elevator, I provided a true description of her tiny room, including the old sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she said with the happiness of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…just wait.”

“That doesn’t matter,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It’s how I arranged my mind. I have already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away.” She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account. You take what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said, “All my memories are happy ones.”

Mrs. Jones was always happy in the nursing home and she died at the age of 108.

1. We can infer from the passage that the author ________.

A．is one of Mrs. Jones’ children	B．is a relative of Mrs. Jones
C．works in the nursing home	D．is the owner of the nursing home

2. The room in which the old lady will live ________.

A．is very comfortable	B．is fairly big
C．isn’t well equipped	D．is equipped with new furniture

3. Mrs. Jones was very happy when told about her room because she ________.

A．couldn’t see what her room was like

B．thought the nursing home was her home

C．would have to live in the nursing home

D．had already made up her mind to be happy

4. Which of the following words can best describe Mrs. Jones?

A．Proud.

B．Cheerful.

C．Determined.

D．Honest.

3 . A 4-year old girl named Norah and her new friend Mr Dan have given us the glimmer of humanity we desperately need right now. A chance meeting in the grocery store pushes the _______ of depression aside and ends up changing a life.

Norah’ mother, Tara Wood, wrote on Facebook that her daughter seemed magnetically _______ to the man when they passed by him at the store. So much so that she stood up in the cart and waved _______, “Hi, old person! It’s my birthday today! ”

The man’s expression _______ and his face lit up when he realized she was speaking to him. “Well, hello, little lady! And how old are you today?” he asked.

They _______ for a few seconds and it was super adorable. They continued on their way but a few minutes later, Norah asked if she could hug and take a _______ with the man, whom they now call “Mr Dan”. They _______ together and then hugged each other like they were long lost friends.

When she thanked Mr Dan, Wood received a _______ she wasn’t expecting. He shed (流下) tears and said, “No, thank you. This has been the best day I’ve had in a long lime. You’ve made me so _______, Ms Norah.”

__________ by the encounter. Wood later polled the photos on Facebook and that night received a private message from someone who __________ knows Mr Dan.

It __________ his wife passed away earlier this year, leaving him in deep __________. The friend said she was sure Norah touched his heart, __________ the chance meeting was something he needed.

Wood got Mr Dan's phone number and called him a few days laler. They met for lunch the following week and have seen each other on numerous occasions __________— even celebrating his 82nd birthday together.

“You guys, I cannot __________ the friendship between Norah and Mr Dan. I __________ every time they’re together — it’ s so pure, simple and perfect,” Wood wrote.

Hugs can be physical such as those __________ with an intimate partner, family member or friend; or they can be symbolic such as the __________ that someone needs a word of encouragement or a helping hand. Hugs can be the interweaving threads that __________ the fabric of our communities and our society. Hugs are so powerful that they can shake us to the core and wake up the humanity within.

1.

A．ceilings

B．curtains

C．symptoms

D．depths

2.

A．drawn

B．led

C．dragged

D．introduced

3.

A．curiously

B．quickly

C．excitedly

D．greedily

4.

A．darkened

B．froze

C．betrayed

D．softened

5.

A．chatted

B．greeted

C．gathered

D．bargained

6.

A．walk

B．picture

C．rest

D．survey

7.

A．posed

B．gathered

C．cheered

D．clapped

8.

A．present

B．comment

C．complaint

D．response

9.

A．sensitive

B．delighted

C．logical

D．proud

10.

A．Influenced

B．Encouraged

C．Touched

D．Reminded

11.

A．personally

B．merely

C．gradually

D．eventually

12.

A．figures out

B．makes out

C．brings out

D．turns out

13.

A．water

B．thought

C．depression

D．shame

14.

A．predicting

B．adding

C．interpreting

D．claiming

15.

A．before

B．yet

C．since

D．thus

16.

A．develop

B．handle

C．spoil

D．deepen

17.

A．panic

B．hesitate

C．pray

D．cry

18.

A．shared

B．confirmed

C．identified

D．cooperated

19.

A．approval

B．promise

C．consequence

D．recognition

20.

A．produce

B．arrange

C．strengthen

D．rebuild

4 . 三、阅读理解
第一节（共15小题；
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
One warm May day, two eighteen – year – old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Bakers’ Beach. The two students were named Robert Kogler and Shirley O’Neill. They headed out to sea for a distance of 50 metres. Robert was in front.
“Suddenly, I heard him scream,” Shirley recalls. “I looked round and saw this great grey thing going up in the air. The water seemed to be alive.”
Robert sereamed again. “It’s a shark! Get out of here!”
An eye – witness, Army Sergeant Leo P. Day was on guard at the nearby army post. He saw exactly what happened next. “I could see this boy struggling with the shark in the water,” he said. “The sea was red with blood. He was shouting and signalling someone to go back, go back. Then I saw the girl. She was swimming towards him. She completely ignored his warning.”
Shirley reached Robert, and tried to take his hand.
“When I pulled, all I could see was his arm, handing by a thread,” she said.
So she put her arm about Robert’s back, and started to swim towards the shore. She kept praying “Don't’ let it attack again!” That journey to the shore seemed to last for hours. At last, as they neared the shore, a fisherman threw them a line, and pulled them both the rest of the way.
The young man had lost a lot of blood, and died two and a half hours later, From the teeth marks, experts identified the attacker as a Great White Shark.
For what Sergeant Day called “the greatest exhibition of bravery I have ever seen,” the President of the US gave Shirley a medal for bravery.
1. When Albert was attacked by a shark Shirley________ .

A．was swimming in the sea

B．was watching him on the shore

C．was on guard at the nearby army post

D．was shouting and struggling with a shark, too

2. Choose the right time order of the following events in the story.
a. Army Sergeant saw the girl swimming to the boy.
b. Shirley saw a great grey thing.
c. They headed out to sea.
d. Robert died.
e. A fisherman threw them a line.
f. He saw a boy struggling with a shark.

A．b,c,e,d,f,a

B．c,a,f,d,e,b

C．b,c,f,a,d,e

D．c,b,f,a,e,d

3. We canarn from the passage that _________.

A．the two students were brave and considerate

B．the fisherman was adventurous and helpful

C．the experts didn’t do much research on sharks

D．the Sergeant cared too much about his own life

5 . When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father worked outside in the winter without a coat. It could be minus 20 degrees centigrade and there’d be Dad, removing snow, or perhaps chopping(砍) some wood — his coat thrown aside — wearing a shirt, a cap, and a pair of gloves.
“Aren’t you cold, Dad?” I’d ask. “No,” Dad would reply. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
Many times I wondered whether my father was an extremely tough man, or whether he was foolish.
One time when I was quite young, perhaps five or so, I went ice fishing with Dad. It was a bright, clear day—and bitterly cold.
After we’d been out on the ice for a little while, my feet started getting cold.
“Daddy, my feet are cold.” I said.
“Yeah, it’s cold out here today,” he replied.
“Tell you what,” he said. “Walk around. Make some circles in the snow. See how many different patterns you can make. That will get your feet warm.”
I was just a little girl at the time but I remember thinking, “How in the world will walking around in the snow make my feet warm? Dad must be out of mind.”
But he was my father, after all. I made circles in the snow. I made squares. Pretty soon I was having so much fun making patterns in the snow. I forgot about my feet being cold.
Now, all these years later, I know, too, from personal experience how my father was able to take his coat off and work outside in the winter wearing just a shirt, a cap and gloves. Because I do it, too. “Aren’t you cold?” my husband asked one winter day. “No,” I replied. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
I hope my husband has decided I’m both tough and smart. But I guess quite a bit of the time he thinks I’m foolish.
Wherever Dad is on that great big farm in the sky—I’m sure he can’t help but smile whenever I take my coat off while I’m working outside in the winter.
1. When the author’s feet felt cold, her father advised her to ________.

A．go home alone first	B．keep walking in the snow
C．draw pictures in the snow	D．light a fire on the ice

2. Hearing her father’s advice, the author thought her father ________.

A．forgettable

B．warm-hearted

C．crazy

D．cruel

3. What might the author’s husband think of her?

A．Tough.

B．Smart.

C．Brave.

D．Foolish.

4. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.

A．remember her tough and smart father

B．show how her father cared about her

C．describe memories of her childhood

D．explain why her father loved her so much