1 . My dad has watermelon-size muscles and enormous hands as if he’s always wearing baseball gloves. He doesn’t seem like the kind of person who bakes great bread, but he does. Every Saturday he bakes silently by himself. When he’s done, the whole house smells delicious. The rest of the week, he’s a car mechanic whose job involves complex lifting, tightening, shaking and hitting. People tend to think of cars as metallic members of the family, and Dad seldom lets them down.
I kind of understand Dad’s baking routine. Though he’s into the work, customers’ expectation and understaffing weigh him down. When working on the dough (生面团) he returns to a life of ease.
I had been feeling stressed out myself since I didn’t qualify for the swim team. I would have to wait a whole year, which was like a million years. I thought Dad had found that. He asked me how things were going last Saturday. I said OK. He looked at me for a moment, said it was time for me to help and headed to the kitchen.
Surprised though, I followed him. Dad took out his mixing bowl, telling me to mix materials while he added them. He isn’t big on measuring, knowing instinctively (凭直觉) how much to use. The bread is always great. Then he showed me how to process the dough — repeatedly stretching, pounding and folding it. It took ten minutes and a surprising amount of energy to finish. But what came next was harder and more surprising — doing nothing. We put the dough back into the bowl. It took an hour to rise. Then we pressed and stretched it, put it into pans and waited another hour for it to double. “It’s hard to resist putting the dough directly into the oven, but if you do, the bread will be tough,” Dad explained.
When the dough rose at its own pace, time seemed to slow down. We could do nothing to speed that. As I accepted that, I stopped watching the clock and started enjoying the time. My father taught me how to bake, but I learned something more — appreciate the slow pace of time and let the bread rise.
1. What can we learn about the author’s father?| A．He is not talkative. | B．He enjoys playing baseball. |
| C．He is expert at his work. | D．He doesn’t like fixing cars. |
| A．To get relaxed. | B．To kill the time. |
| C．To pursue his hobby. | D．To learn a new skill. |
| A．Measuring materials. | B．Waiting for the dough to rise. |
| C．Processing the dough. | D．Controlling the temperature of the oven. |
| A．Secrets of Baking | B．Influence of My Father |
| C．A Bread Lesson | D．A Surprising Leisure Time |
On my seventh birthday, I got a gift from my father, which was a book titled Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians. It was my favorite. I kept it under my pillow and read every page over and over every night enjoying the pictures of colorful animals. Some of the snakes were the most beautiful creatures I had ever seen.
Little did I know that my book would end up saving a life.
Years ago, my family moved into a new house near the woods. My father built a sandbox in our yard. The cat sometimes used the sandbox for a litter box, so my father had to put a plastic cover over it .When I wanted to build sand castles, I had to pull the cover off.
One day before dinner, I ran to the sandbox to build a miniature city. I pulled off the plastic cover, and there in the sandbox was a snake. It was lying very sill, all coiled up, and it was beautiful. The snake had rings of color around it. I had seen a picture just like it in my guidebook, and I remembered that it was one of the prettiest snakes in it. It said in the book that the poisonous coral snake looked very much like the harmless king snake, the only difference was in the order of the colors. 1 ran inside to get the guidebook.
“Mom! Mom! There’s a snake in the sandbox!” I yelled. “I have to find out what kind it is!”
Mom came running. “Don’t touch it, Chris! It might be poisonous!”
Dad was at work, so my mother went to get our neighbor, Mr. Cook.
“Mr. Cook!” my mother yelled across the fence, “We have a snake in the sandbox, and it might be poisonous!”
Mr. Cook was retired and lived with his wife in the house on the other side of our back fence. He came running toward the gale with a shovel and tried to kill the snake.
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“Wait!” I shouted, waving the guidebook in my hand.
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“So what to do now?” Mr. Cook put down the shovel.
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3 . There was an old couple who had been married for 40 years. They loved each other deeply and went on dates together. Every time they went out for supper, the husband would order pie for dessert, which became their
But then the husband began to develop a type of disease. He started to slowly
He moved out of the house and into a nursing home. She was
One of the doctors
Everything had come back. His wife’s
| A．power | B．belief | C．culture | D．tradition |
| A．decided | B．refused | C．waited | D．hoped |
| A．catch | B．judge | C．steal | D．try |
| A．wonder | B．forget | C．doubt | D．admit |
| A．secretly | B．entirely | C．naturally | D．finally |
| A．relative | B．doctor | C．stranger | D．friend |
| A．cut up | B．cut off | C．cut down | D．cut in |
| A．excuses | B．rewards | C．examples | D．ideas |
| A．frightened | B．amazed | C．puzzled | D．moved |
| A．allowed | B．advised | C．asked | D．forced |
| A．gallery | B．park | C．cinema | D．restaurant |
| A．serious | B．sad | C．angry | D．calm |
| A．clearly | B．suddenly | C．actually | D．simply |
| A．thinking | B．laughing | C．debating | D．crying |
| A．action | B．response | C．attention | D．attitude |
4 . Some time ago, I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there was a lot of antique (古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning, carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop, expecting a friendly reception. I was quite wrong. The man didn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth — so I decided that my approach (way) must be wrong.
I went into the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, “Would you like to buy a chair?” He looked it over carefully and said, “Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?” “Twenty pounds,” I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll give you twenty pounds.” “It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said. “Yes, I saw that. It’s nothing.”
Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. “What will you do with it?” I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done.” “I’ll buy it,” I said. “What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I’m sorry. I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it.” “You must be crazy,” he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair.” “You’re right,” I said. “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ‘Would you mend this chair for me?’ ” “I wouldn’t have agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for a fiver (five dollars)?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.
1. The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ______.| A．changed his mind | B．accepted the offer |
| C．saw the writer’s purpose | D．decided to help the writer |
| A．￡ 5. | B．￡ 7. | C．￡ 20. | D．￡ 27. |
| A．honest | B．careful | C．smart | D．funny |
5 . One of the luckiest things in life is that someone offers help when you are in need. Such warm stories happen these days in our city.
We’ve never depended on deliverymen for our daily needs so heavily as we do now, when we work from home to stop the spread of the COVID-19. Some of the deliverymen were afraid that they would not be able to come out to work the next day if they went home and found an overnight lockdown (封锁) in their communities. So they chose to sleep under overpasses (天桥) or on park benches. Photos of them sleeping in those outdoor places were put online. The next day, the government took action and offered them free places to live in either at hotels, at schools or at courier stations (快递站).
Another recent case that shows ordinary people are cared for was about a bun (面包) seller. The man left a message below a post on the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission (市健康委员会)’s WeChat account. He said he had trouble running his store because of the recent spread of the COVID-19. Community workers in his area paid him a visit to see what they could do to help. On the night of the same day, the man received an unexpected large order from his community.
There is a long list of such small acts of kindness in almost every corner of the city. It tells us love and care is powerful to help us overcome the difficulties.
1. What does the underlined word “they” refer to?| A．stories | B．companies | C．communities | D．deliverymen |
| A．Their companies stopped them from going home. |
| B．They would like to come out to work the next day. |
| C．They wanted to stop the spread of the COVID-19. |
| D．They discovered a lockdown in their communities. |
| A．In hospitals. | B．At schools. |
| C．Under overpasses. | D．On park benches. |
| A．The community workers gave him a phone call. |
| B．The community workers left a message to him. |
| C．His community made an unexpected large order. |
| D．His community offered him free places to live in. |
| A．To tell us love and care can help us get through hard times. |
| B．To invite us to do some voluntary work when we have time. |
| C．To ask people to take action to fight against the COVID-19. |
| D．To encourage more people to help the deliverymen in need. |
After buying his family’s first home, Josh Ferrin of Utah
Ferrin
It would have been wrong of me
When I was a child, we lived next door to the Schonfield Home. People who got too old to take care of themselves lived there. I was a regular visitor and volunteer there. I enjoyed spending time with the caring and responsible workers and the old people who always seemed happy to see me.
One day, a very old lady named Mrs. Kurtz moved to the Schonfield Home. She seemed sad all the time. For days, I had never seen her smile or laugh like the other old people. And no one ever came to visit her. My parents learned that she had no family or friends.
Weeks after Mrs. Kurtz moved into the Schonfield Home, I was visiting the home again. And I saw her sitting alone, looking unusually upset. I asked one of the other old people, Mrs. Smith, why Mrs. Kurtz was more depressed than usual. Mrs. Smith explained to me that Mrs. Kurtz had turned eighty-nine, and that she was upset to be celebrating another birthday all alone without any cards or gifts. She truly believed there was no one in the world who loved her.
This moved me deeply, and I started to create a plan in my mind. I ran home and raced to my room. I took out my piggy bank that I always valued. And I poured out all the money that I had received on birthdays and other special occasions. I had been saving money for a new bike. Although the money wasn’t enough to buy a bike, it was enough for what I wanted to do then.
I raced down the stairs. My mother was cleaning the house. I walked to her and explained what I was about to do, and she smiled at me proudly. She planted a kiss on my cheek and said, “I must be the luckiest mother in the world to have such a caring daughter.” My mother stopped what she was doing.
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And we went to a gift shop together.
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We approached Mrs. Kurtz and gave her our gifts.
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8 . Many years ago, when I was working in the emergency department, I met John, an amputee (被截肢者). John had lost a leg during the war. He was only 24 years old when that happened,
When he learned I was injured in a car accident, John came to
Life moved on. I didn’t
My mother
| A．but | B．so | C．because | D．although |
| A．necessary | B．good | C．hard | D．boring |
| A．talk | B．work | C．study | D．walk |
| A．tell | B．teach | C．visit | D．treat |
| A．chose | B．saved | C．shook | D．hit |
| A．hoping | B．worrying | C．knowing | D．believing |
| A．fear | B．anger | C．regret | D．pity |
| A．plans | B．experiences | C．interests | D．knowledge |
| A．invited | B．allowed | C．helped | D．ordered |
| A．wait | B．look | C．stay | D．live |
| A．find | B．consider | C．make | D．change |
| A．well | B．happy | C．careful | D．proud |
| A．serve | B．support | C．miss | D．see |
| A．showed off | B．went back | C．passed away | D．turned up |
| A．sad | B．surprised | C．ready | D．unable |
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The teenage year from 13 to 19 were the most difficult time for me. They were also the best and worse years in my life. At the first, I thought I knew everything and could make decisions by yourself. However, my parents didn’t seem to think such. They often thought wrong for me to do some things without their permission and always tell me what to do and how to do it. At one time, I even felt my parents couldn’t understand me so I hoped I could be freely from them. I showed them I was independent by wear strange clothes. Now I am leaving home to college. At last, I will be on my own, but I still want to have my parents to turn to whenever I need help.
A man stopped at a flower shop to order some
