1 . I had just arrived in this Asian country for a one-year teaching position. One day, I took a subway to visit some ancient palaces and temples in the downtown. What happened to me next on the subway has taught me much about culture difference.

Since all the seats were taken, I stood. Suddenly, I felt someone pulling on my bag. Assuming I probably was in someone’s way, I moved over slightly. But in one quick motion, I felt my bag removed from my back, and in a flash, it was gone. I turned around to see who the thief was. I looked at the people standing behind me, but didn’t see my bag or anyone suspicious. My heart began to beat wildly and I began to panic.

I looked around, only to find directly across from me was an elderly lady, and sitting on her lap was my bag. I tried to get it back from her lap. But as I began to pull it up, she quickly took it back and held onto it. I looked around at the people standing beside me, and those sitting beside her, but no one took any notice of the situation. Trying not to cause a scene, I tried to negotiate through gestures. I used my hands as much as I could, but she ignored my requests for my bag and pointed to my back. She picked up my bag, showing how heavy it was. I finally began to understand. She was holding my bag to help me.

At the next stop, a middle-aged woman got on the crowded subway. Another elderly woman sitting down took her bag, setting it on her lap. They didn’t talk; yet this older woman was more than pleased to sit with this stranger’s bag on her lap throughout her journey.

As the subway pulled into the main downtown station and I was getting ready to get off, the woman gently handed me back my bag. But before I had a chance to thank her, she had disappeared into the crowd.

1. What happened after the writer got on the subway?

A．The writer’s bag was stolen by an elderly lady.	B．The writer stood in someone’s way.
C．An old lady asked the writer to sit beside her.	D．A stranger offered help to the writer.

2. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?

A．Feel frightened.

B．Feel grateful.

C．Feel relaxed.

D．Feel ashamed.

3. What can we infer from the writer’s experience?

A．The middle-aged woman and the elderly woman were good friends.

B．The passengers on the subway were very unfriendly.

C．Helping standing passengers with heavy bags was common on local subways.

D．There were many thieves on the subway.

4. What is the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To warn us of the potential risks in travelling abroad.	B．To tell us a culture difference.
C．To recommend a travel destination.	D．To give us some tips on taking a subway.

2 . Everybody, at some point in their lives, has experienced failure. It could be something as simple as not getting the job you wanted, or getting fewer marks even after hard work. But what makes you is not your_______, but how you get back up after being_______. Once, a young school boy was caught in a fire accident in his school and it was assumed that he would not live. His mother was told that he was sure to die, for the terrible fire had_______the lower half of his body. Even if he were to_______, he would be lame throughout his life.

But the brave boy did not want to die_______did he want to be lame. Much to the_______of the doctor, he did survive. But_______from his waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just _______there, lifeless. Eventually he left the hospital. But his determination to walk was_______. At home, when he was not in bed, he had to stay in a________to move around. One day, he________himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass,________his legs behind him. He reached the fence，raised himself up and then began dragging himself along the fence firmly________. He did this every day, with faith in himself that he would be able to walk ________. With his________determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk on and off, then to walk by himself and then to run.

He began to walk to school, and then run to school, to run for the joy of running. Later in college he was on the________team.

In February 1934, in New York City' s Madison Square Garden, this young man who was not________to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run — this determined young man Dr.Glenn Cunningham, ran the world' s fastest mile.

A good example of the power of positive thinking and faith in one's self, Glenn Cunningham continues to be an________for many, and his story, a brilliant evidence to how one can bounce back even when all difficulties are________one, to the degree that death seemed the________option.

1.

A．regret

B．effort

C．love

D．failure

2.

A．hit

B．knocked

C．driven

D．kicked

3.

A．destroyed

B．hurt

C．shaken

D．attacked

4.

A．gather

B．survive

C．rise

D．grow

5.

A．but

B．nor

C．and

D．or

6.

A．amazement

B．relief

C．astonishment

D．disappointment

7.

A．surprisingly

B．gladly

C．unfortunately

D．gratefully

8.

A．handed

B．hung

C．put

D．stood

9.

A．unbelievable

B．unaccountable

C．unshakable

D．uncomfortable

10.

A．stick

B．place

C．seat

D．wheelchair

11.

A．caught

B．lifted

C．threw

D．missed

12.

A．dragging

B．searching

C．pushing

D．running

13.

A．excited

B．devoted

C．determined

D．sad

14.

A．untrained

B．unaided

C．clumsily

D．swiftly

15.

A．wood

B．plastic

C．iron

D．stone

16.

A．football

B．hike

C．climb

D．track

17.

A．predicted

B．expected

C．affected

D．presented

18.

A．gesture

B．favor

C．connection

D．inspiration

19.

A．piled

B．picked

C．produced

D．saved

20.

A．popular

B．comprehensive

C．effective

D．preferable

3 . 17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla is a freshman at Nagqu No.2 Senior High School in Lhasa, which sits 3,650 meters above sea level. She now plays point guard for the school’s 12-member female basketball team.

“Practice makes perfect. You get used to the altitude when you love the sport and train hard enough,” said the potential basketball star, who has been crazy about the sport since taking it up three years ago.

With outstanding speed and accurate passes, she never fails to shine on the basketball court, even when she competes against the boys. Though she is a freshman in high school, Cigla already has a clear picture of her future — entering a sports college to study basketball. In the eyes of Cigla, who comes from a poor herder’s (牧民的) family in northern Tibet, studying in Lhasa, the most developed city in this area, has made it much easier for her to realize her basketball dream.

With an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet. Low-oxygen environments and extreme weather have long influenced the health of Nagqu students, hampering the development of primary education in the area.

Like Cigla, many students at the school are from poor farmers’ and herders’ families. Dawa Droma, a senior student also on the school’s female basketball team, recalled, “I had never touched a basketball before that game but joined the class team anyway. When I scored and heard my classmates cheer for me, I couldn’t feel more proud. That’s how I fell in love with basketball and never looked back”. Reflecting on the influence of basketball on her life, Dawa Droma said the sport had helped her get fit and build up confidence over the years. “Meeting players from different schools has certainly made me a more outgoing person.” she said.

1. What do we know about Cigla from the text?

A．She loves playing basketball but dislikes training hard.

B．She is in Grade One at a senior high school at a high altitude.

C．She’s been crazy about playing basketball since she was 12 years old.

D．She’s gotten used to the altitude because she has lived there for years.

2. In Cigla’s opinion, ________ can help her realize her basketball dream.

A．her school’s location	B．her clear plans
C．her family background	D．her entering a sports college

3. What does the underlined word “hampering” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Promoting.

B．Maintaining.

C．Encouraging.

D．Preventing.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Dawa Droma seldom feels proud when scoring.

B．Dawa Droma has been affected by basketball greatly.

C．Playing basketball improves Dawa Droma’s sense of touch.

D．Players from different schools have become Dawa Droma’s friends.

4 . In the fall of 1985. I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college an the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree！
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.
1. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be____.

A．a writer

B．a teacher

C．a judge

D．a doctor

2. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?

A．She wanted to study by herself.

B．She fell in love and got married.

C．She suffered from a serious illness.

D．She decided to look after her grandma.

3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?

A．She was busy yet happy with her family life.

B．She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.

C．She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.

D．She was too confused to make a correct choice.

4. What dose the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．Failure is the mother of success.

B．Little by little, one goes far.

C．Every coin has two sides.

D．Well begun, half done.

5. Which of the following can best describe the author?

A．Caring and determined.

B．Honest and responsible.

C．Ambitious and sensitive.

D．Innocent and single-minded.

5 . We live in the surburb near the city. Last month Dad and I walked __ to our city's library. In the children's room, a librarian showed me a （n） _____ display （展示）case, saying "We're asking _____ to draw pictures to put in here. You can draw anything you want and bring it in here."

" I'd like to do that. " I said. I talked with Dad. We agreed to bring in my ______drawing.

Making that _____ was easy. Back home, _____ my eyes on a piece of blank （空白的） paper, I realized I didn't have many or any ideas! Finally, I thought, “Why can't I visit a __filled with good ideas?" That's how I started daydreaming about standing beside a ______castle, which was built from a magic mountain of things ： sea glass , marbles. . . After I _______inside, a crayfish _______ a flying saucer （飞碟）landed nearby. "Welcome," she said, “to your own made-up place to find ________ I’m Ms. Claw, your tour guide. " Then she led me through the   castle . While I was wondering whether I should draw it, ________ , next we came to an _____ door. Ms. Claw said, " This ends our tour. "   She _______ the saucer's roof and _____goodbye.

As I __ through the door, my daydream was over. That didn't _____： I'd already decided to draw the whole __ . I worked hard, finished my drawing and brought it to the librarian. A week later, Dad and I visited the library again. My picture was _____ in the display case's center. It wasn't _____ , but other kids told me how much they liked it. I could almost hear Ms. Claw say, "Drawing your daydream was a good idea and fun, too!”

1.

A．downstairs

B．upwards

C．backwards

D．downtown

2.

A．real

B．valuable

C．empty

D．unclear

3.

A．adults

B．kids

C．youths

D．talents

4.

A．draw-anything

B．day-dreaming

C．made-up

D．extraordinary

5.

A．way

B．suggestion

C．conclusion

D．promise

6.

A．watching

B．raising

C．fixing

D．catching

7.

A．house

B．temple

C．castle

D．fairy

8.

A．regular

B．strange

C．small

D．narrow

9.

A．put

B．drew

C．swam

D．stepped

10.

A．piloting

B．designing

C．creating

D．skipping

11.

A．drawings

B．ideas

C．friends

D．imagination

12.

A．finally

B．unfortunately

C．obviously

D．straightly

13.

A．entrance

B．ordinary

C．artificial

D．exit

14.

A．built up

B．cleaned up

C．folded up

D．cleared up

15.

A．waved

B．permitted

C．rejected

D．arranged

16.

A．searched

B．looked

C．pushed

D．marched

17.

A．end

B．harm

C．matter

D．quit

18.

A．day

B．tour

C．map

D．fairytale

19.

A．positioned

B．combined

C．painted

D．left

20.

A．perfect

B．simple

C．modern

D．typical

7 . Fifty years ago I had a young family of three boys. My husband Johnny and I left them with a friend while we made a rare trip to the cinema in Liverpool.

It was dark and pouring with rain but with the headlights shining on the road, we saw something ahead of us. Johnny pulled to a stop and I jumped out, ran to the grass edge and grabbed a small, wet, and frightened creature. I wrapped it safely in my woollen hat and insisted that my husband turn back and head for home. We thought it was a baby rabbit because it had long ears and was grayish-brown in colour. Once home, we filled a box with torn-up newspaper and a warm towel. We named our new animal Bobsy as we had no idea of its sex.

Sadly though, on the third day with us, it caught its back foot in a door and we quickly realised it was broken. We rushed to the vet(兽医), who said, “It’s only a rabbit, I’ll put it to sleep.” Our response was a very determined, “No way !”We found anther vet and told that she was a baby hare. We were told we should continue to keep her in her box for a week and her foot would heal.

After her recovery, Bobsy learnt to use the kitty litter tray. She would comb her long ears with her front paws. The local paper heard about this and came to our house to take her photo and write a story about her. We had her for seven wonderful years before we moved to New Zealand and we will never forget her.

1. Why did Johnny stop his car suddenly?

A．He came across a friend.

B．The headlights went out.

C．His car broke down on the road.

D．He noticed something in front of him.

2. What happened to the little animal on its third day?

A．It slept on a door.

B．It was stuck in a door.

C．Its foot got seriously injured.

D．It fell off from the top of a door.

3. Which best decribes the family’s attitude towards the rabbit?

A．Considerate.

B．Cruel.

C．Hopeless.

D．Indifferent.

4. What is the passage mainly intended to do?

A．To tell the importance of protecting small animals.

B．To remember unusual experiences with a small rabbit.

C．To persuade people to give generously and receive thankfully.

D．To make the rabbit widely known to local people by paper.

8 . When Veronika Scott was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, she received a task to “design to fill a need.” She dreamed up an idea for overcoats that would double as sleeping bags, made 25 of them, and handed them out to people living in shelters on an abandoned city playground. While her efforts were greeted mostly with enthusiasm from those braving Detroit’s cold winters, one woman voiced dissatisfaction. “We don’t need coats; we need jobs,” she told Veronika. Then she had her second inspiration.

After graduating from college in 2012, Veronika founded the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization. She hired two homeless women to sew the coats and paid them with donations she received through her blog. Now, the Empowerment Plan employs about 20 people and has produced more than 10,000 coats and distributed them in 30 states, Canada, and elsewhere abroad.

“We don’t require previous employment,” Veronika says. “We’re looking for people who are motivated.” The Empowerment Plan provides free classes and lends money to those who qualify. Nearly all the employees eventually move into permanent housing, and some go on to jobs in the auto industry and construction.

Veronika has bettered the coat’s design by making its outer layer of a lightweight material that resists air, wind, and water and its inner layer of a material that stores body heat. Still, Veronika is less focused on the coats than on the workers who make them. “At the end of the day,” she says, “the coat is a vehicle for us to employ people.”

1. What was Veronika’s second inspiration?

A．Improving her coat’s design.

B．Founding a nonprofit organization.

C．Profiting from the work of those low-paid people.

D．Producing more coats and distributing them abroad.

2. What is the purpose of the Empowerment Plan?

A．To raise more donations.

B．To design better clothes.

C．To provide help for the homeless.

D．To offer free classes to the motivated.

3. Which of the following best describes Veronika?

A．Traditional but helpful	B．Greedy and unsatisfied.
C．Generous but childish.	D．Creative and caring.

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Design to Fill a Need.	B．The Empowerment Plan.
C．Look for Motivated People.	D．How to design a coat.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why was the morning unusual for Amber?

A．She reported a crime.

B．She was late for work.

C．She didn’t send her son to school.

2. What did Amber see the large man doing?

A．Knocking on a door.

B．Talking with the police.

C．Running after a cat.

3. Who let the cat out?

A．Frank.

B．Amber.

C．The Stevensons.

4. How does Amber probably feel at the end of the story?

A．Amused.

B．Confused.

C．Embarrassed.

10 . 假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

I’d like to share a unforgettable experience with you. It happened in a warm Sunday afternoon in August. I go shopping with my cousin, Li Ming. When walk in the street, we found a young man, who was big but strong, stealing a woman’s wallet. We stopped her immediately. Though he stared at us angry, we didn’t feel frightened and tried to make him to realize his bad behavior. Because of our bravery, he left without saying a word. The woman thought highly of us for which we had done. In my opinions, it’s our duty to fight against bad behavior.