1 . It was a busy morning, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s, came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.

The nurse had him take a _________in the waiting area, _________ him it would be at least 40 minutes before someone could see him. I saw him _________ his watch and decided, since I was not busy — my patient didn’t _________ at point hours, I would exam his wound. While taking care of him, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.

The gentleman told me no and told me that he _________to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his _________. He told me she has special disease. I asked if she would be _________ if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not been able to _________ him in five years now. I was _________, “And you __________ go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”

He smiled as he patted my hand and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back __________ as he left.

Now I realized that in marriages, true love is __________of all that is. The happiest people don’t __________ have the best of everything; they just __________the best of everything they have. __________ isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

1.

A．breath

B．test

C．seat

D．break

2.

A．persuading

B．promising

C．understanding

D．telling

3.

A．taking off

B．fixing

C．looking at

D．winding

4.

A．turn up

B．show off

C．come on

D．go away

5.

A．needed

B．forgot

C．agreed

D．happened

6.

A．daughter

B．wife

C．mother

D．sister

7.

A．lonely

B．worried

C．doubtful

D．hungry

8.

A．recognize

B．answer

C．believe

D．expect

9.

A．moved

B．disappointed

C．surprised

D．satisfied

10.

A．only

B．then

C．thus

D．still

11.

A．curiosity

B．tears

C．words

D．judgment

12.

A．agreement

B．expression

C．acceptance

D．exhibition

13.

A．necessarily

B．completely

C．naturally

D．frequently

14.

A．learn

B．make

C．favor

D．try

15.

A．Adventure

B．Beauty

C．Trust

D．Life

2 . Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally ______ me, I almost never lost temper ______; of course I felt hurt, but I didn’t show it.

Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell in love with him, a proud ______ who loudly discusses things even with himself when he’s not happy. Things, however, got worse for me when we started ______ on things. He seemed really angry while I seemed polite. Truth is that I was ______ too, but I was used to not showing it on the outside. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of ______ discontent started to expand until they became hours, sometimes even days.

I felt this had to change and the conversation went ______ like this:

Me: “Either you change your ______ when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, otherwise this will ______ our relationship.”

Him: “Did you ______ the Mpemba Effect? If you put two ______ containers filled with the same amount of the same water into the freezer except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient (周围的) ______, the boiling water will ______ faster than the ambient water. Baby, you got to boil first, to cool down faster. That’s why the Italians live longer than Canadians.”

The connection he suggested is to be ______, but I have learned a fact I didn’t know, one that has inspired me to understand that if I’m angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the outside or otherwise it is like hiding ______ under the carpet: your house might look clean, but it is not.

1.

A．praise

B．impress

C．attack

D．defend

2.

A．in turn

B．in public

C．in secret

D．in time

3.

A．Chinese

B．American

C．Canadian

D．Italian

4.

A．disagreeing

B．operating

C．working

D．trying

5.

A．boiling

B．struggling

C．controlling

D．preparing

6.

A．inner

B．outer

C．extra

D．distinct

7.

A．up and down

B．by and by

C．sooner or later

D．more or less

8.

A．vision

B．viewpoint

C．attitude

D．attention

9.

A．improve

B．affect

C．mend

D．clarify

10.

A．learn from

B．worry about

C．hear about

D．hear from

11.

A．mobile

B．relevant

C．solid

D．similar

12.

A．temperature

B．sound

C．level

D．environment

13.

A．explode

B．burst

C．freeze

D．flow

14.

A．suspected

B．proven

C．inspected

D．created

15.

A．money

B．water

C．treasure

D．dust

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

On a bright, warm July afternoon, Mac Hollan, a primary school teacher, was cycling from his home to Alaska with his friends. One of his friends had stopped to make a bicycle repair, but they had encouraged Mac to carry on, and they would catch up with him soon. As Mac pedaled (骑行) along alone, he thought fondly of his wife and two young daughters at home. He hoped to show them this beautiful place someday.

Then Mac heard quick and loud breathing behind him. “Man, that’s a big dog!” he thought. But when he looked to the side, he saw instantly that it wasn’t a dog at all, but a wolf, quickly catching up with him.

Mac’s heart jumped. He found out his can of hear spray. With one hand on the bars, he fired the spray at the wolf. A bright red cloud enveloped the animal, and to Mac’s relief, it fell back, shaking its head. But a minute later, it was by his side again. Then it attacked the back of Mac’s bike, tearing open his tent bag. He fired at the wolf a second time, and again, it fell back only to quickly restart the chase(追赶)。

Mac was pedaling hard now. He waved and yelled at passing cars but was careful not to show down. He saw a steep uphill climb before him. He knew that  once he hit the hill, he’d be easy caught up and the wolf’s teeth would be tearing into his flesh.

At this moment, Paul and Beeky were driving their car on their way to Alaska. They didn’t think much of it when they saw two cyclists repairing their bike on the side of the road. A bit later, they spotted what they, too, assumed was a dog running alongside a man on a bike. As they got closer, they realized that the dog was a wolf. Mac heard a large vehicle behind him. He pulled in front of it as the wolf was catching up fast, just a dozen yards away now.

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

The car abruptly stopped in front of him

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A few minutes later, the other two cyclists arrived.

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4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Boys like to be considered to be brave, but what kind of things can be considered to be brave? It is not a question that can be answered by words, but by the actual deed. A boy with the name Henry gave us a good example. Ronny and Henry were two friends in the same class. They always played together and went home together. One day as Ronny and Henry were going home after school, they saw some people fighting in the street corner. Ronny said excitedly, “Some people are fighting! Let’s go and have a look!” But Henry refused, “It’s none of our business. We’d better go home and don’t get close to them. Also our parents are expecting to have dinner with us together at home and I don’t want them to worry about me.”

“You are a coward, and afraid to go,” said Ronny, and off he ran to the spot with some other boys. Henry had to go home alone and didn't think about it anymore.

But Ronny thought Henry was a coward and told all the boys that. They laughed at him a great deal. From then on, they looked down upon Henry and didn’t want to play with him.

Henry was sad but he wasn’t angry with Ronny for his rude behavior, because he had learned that true courage was shown most in bearing misunderstanding when it was not deserved, and that he ought to be afraid of nothing but doing wrong. Thus, he just ignored the other boys’ laughter and continued to stick to his thought and go to school and study as well. However, Ronny didn’t invite Henry to go home with him anymore. Instead, he had his new friends who also thought Henry was a coward. Every day after school, they didn't go home directly but went to the river or somewhere to play games and had lots of fun.

注意：
1. 所续写的短文词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为二段，每段的开头语已经为你写好；
Paragraph 1:
A few days later, something terrible happened to Ronny.
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Paragraph 2:
At that moment, Henry happened to pass by.
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5 . When one California construction worker, Colin Blevin arrived at work at around 7 a.m. on Monday morning, he noticed a car was blocking the entrance-way to the construction site. While asking the driver to move, Colin spotted a baby in a car seat. “He moved the car and I pulled in,” Blevin said. “The back door was cracked open and I saw a baby.”

Blevin had no idea that earlier that morning, a car with a 1-year-old had been stolen about 90 miles away while the baby’s father ran inside to order his lunch. “I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know initially the baby was in danger and there was an AMBER Alert(警报),” Blevin said.

Even though everything appeared pretty normal, Blevin’s instincts told him something was wrong. After parking his car, a local woman walked over and confirmed his suspicions. The lady told him quietly, “Help me save this baby.” She said, “You have to save this baby. The guy tried to give it to me.” He looked into the car and there was a beautiful chunky baby looking at him. The baby was calm, clean, with a bottle on his chest.

Blevin met the man, 44-year-old Raymond Randy Gutierrez, and asked whose baby was in the car. “He said a lady gave him the car and left the baby in the car,” Blevin said. “And right away I thought that makes no sense. The baby was well taken care of and this guy was dirty, skinny and nervous.” Blevin grabbed the baby from the car and Gutierrez ran away when he called 911. Police caught Gutierrez later that day and were able to reunite the baby with his parents.

1. How did Gutierrez get the car?

A．A father left it to him.	B．He stole it.
C．A lady gave it to him.	D．He bought it.

2. What can the underlined word “instinct” in Paragraph 3 be replaced by?

A．companion	B．natural ability
C．colleague	D．text message

3. What did Gutierrez decide to do with the baby?

A．To sell it to a father.	B．To take care of it himself.
C．To abandon it in the car.	D．To leave it to others.

4. What made Blevin suspect the baby didn’t belong to Gutierrez?

A．The expression of the man.

B．The appearance of the baby and the man.

C．The time when he found the baby.

D．The place where the car parked.

6 . My dog died. Yes, she was very old, deaf, and partially blind. She had long lost her _______ energy. Watching her _______ into   her bed was as painful for me as it was for her. In the past few months, she had begun to bark at strangers and neighbors. But she used to be _______ even if a child pulled her tail._______ her decline doesn’t lessen the loss, however.

My husband had found her _______ on his farm and brought her home. She was a black and dirty bag of bones who got _______ when we approached. I like to think the years she spent with us were filled with _______. Every so often, though, my husband would remind me her days were _______, and we agreed that if she showed any _______ of pain, we would put her down. No need for her to ________ ,no need for us to hold on tight. I prepared myself for her________ .

Yet, when it came eventually, I wasn’t ________ . I was angry about the __________ of it all. It appears as if we couldn’t negotiate with death, with fate but to __________ ourselves, assuming that we have more time. We can’t really live every day as if it were our last.

We do love our pets. They become a necessary part of the family. Now I still __________look for her in my home office, where she slept. I still ________ her to come and sit at my feet or to slide to the front door whenever one ________. And I miss my__________ of the walks, the feeding and the bathing. I miss her ________ and the sense of being around the house, but more than anything I miss the ________ that she loved me so unconditionally.

1.

A．natural

B．youthful

C．special

D．lasting

2.

A．settle

B．dive

C．jump

D．throw

3.

A．angry

B．brave

C．friendly

D．anxious

4.

A．Feeling

B．Enjoying

C．Checking

D．Knowing

5.

A．rejected

B．exposed

C．abandoned

D．protected

6.

A．fearless

B．disappointed

C．proud

D．nervous

7.

A．sorrow

B．love

C．regret

D．pain

8.

A．finished

B．approached

C．counted

D．ended

9.

A．marks

B．gestures

C．aspects

D．signs

10.

A．fight

B．suffer

C．contact

D．survive

11.

A．departure

B．arrival

C．journey

D．adventure

12.

A．aware

B．doubtful

C．eager

D．ready

13.

A．unfairness

B．failure

C．battle

D．challenge

14.

A．inform

B．convince

C．remind

D．fool

15.

A．carefully

B．unconsciously

C．instantly

D．actively

16.

A．expect

B．agree

C．invite

D．allow

17.

A．shows off

B．turns around

C．stops by

D．picks up

18.

A．routine

B．freedom

C．hobby

D．course

19.

A．difference

B．absence

C．presence

D．influence

20.

A．reason

B．knowledge

C．wish

D．desire

7 . It was the week before Christmas, and the line at the post office snaked twice around the lobby(大厅). It seemed that no one was moving. The office looked like an exhibit in the Postal Wax Museum. I came to the self-service machine where the line was much shorter.

I don’t like self-service. I tell people it’s because I don’t approve of taking jobs away from people, but the real problem is that I’m not good at it. The machine always asks me something I don’t know the answer to. I hate this. I am a retired letter carrier, and we moved mail in the old-fashioned way hand to hand, human to human. We were fast, friendly, and frequently accurate.

The woman in the front of the line was clicking away at the screen. And the clicks were surprisingly loud. Any signs of hesitation on her part were telegraphed to the whole lobby. I felt sorry for her: The machine could smell fear. The next person took a long time, too. I breathed deeply. By the time it was my turn, I had the heart rate of a yogi(瑜伽修行者).

Under the weight of concern from the people in line behind me, I felt a growing obligation to minimize the seconds between clicks. Finally it was time to slide in a credit card. The machine didn’t take it. “Try putting it in the other way” the gentleman behind me suggested. No good.

“I’ve got a different card,” I said, and fished around for that one, beginning to sweat. The machine wanted a PIN, but not the one I suggested.

“Start over.” I clicked, intending to try the first card again.

Oh no. I had to start all over again.

“I’ m sorry,” I said, looking back, sheepish. “I guess I don't know what I’m doing. You all go ahead.”

“Don’t give up,” said the nice man behind me. “Try it again. We’re all friends here, right?”

Smiles were blooming all down the line. I tried again, clicked with deliberation and sincerity, and introduced my credit card as though I were presenting it to the queen. Finally, I made it!

I couldn’t have been happier. Everyone burst into applause. Comfort and joy!

1. What do we know about the post office?

A．It was pretty large.	B．Something went wrong there.
C．It was very busy at Christmas.	D．Efficient services were provided.

2. While waiting for his turn, the author was     .

A．a little excited	B．totally relaxed
C．bored and impatient	D．nervous and anxious

3. What does the underlined word “sheepish” in Paragraph 8 mean?

A．Grateful	B．Surprised
C．Embarrassed	D．Determined

4. What did the man behind the author do?

A．He rushed the author.	B．He laughed at the author.
C．He mailed for the author.	D．He encouraged the author.

8 . 在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Daisy was a little girl longing to help endangered wildlife. One day, she found     1     flying carpet by her bed when she woke up. She     2     (beg) the carpet to take her to a distant land where she could find the animal     3     fur was used to make her sweater. So the carpet flew to Tibet with her.

In Tibet, she saw an antelope that told her they were being killed     4     mercy by people for their wool and were now an endangered species.     5     (feel) sad, Daisy traveled to Zimbabwe with the carpet to see the elephants there. Much to her relief, the     6     (Africa) living there protected the elephants well and their number was growing. Happy and     7     (satisfy), Daisy came to a thick rainforest, in which she saw a monkey rubbing a millipede insect over its body. Daisy asked the monkey     8     it was doing that. The monkey responded that it was protecting     9     (it) from mosquitoes, because the millipede contained a natural drug which affected mosquitoes.

    10     (hope), no more endangered animals will be killed someday.

9 . Twelve-year-old Allen decided to leave home city and make a living by himself because his family was too poor.

Before he left,his father asked him what he was going to do.Allen answered,“I want to learn____ performance.”

His father was___ with his answer, “What? No, you can’t do that. Circus is the place for clowns in many people’s eyes. Our family will be __ of you.”

But Allen __,   “Our family is so poor right now. Which is more important to you, ___or clothing and food? I will give you some money every month from the circus. It probably will be a huge __.” His father was very __, “If you go there, somebody will know about it very soon and I’ll be very __.”

After going __ a lot of difficulties,Allen finally found a circus and convinced the __ to let him stay. He worked very hard studying magic and lived with animals.

Every month, his parents would get a__from him. But they never knew his address. They knew the money was from Allen but when people asked them about Allen’s __, they never told them the truth. Later, his parents received more and more money from him.

Then,a __ named Albert became very famous in the whole world.Everyone thought__ of his performance. Lots of people hurried to see his performance from far away.

One day, Allen’s father went to visit a relative in another __. The relative paid a lot of money for tickets of Albert the magician’s show. Allen’s father went to the show with the relative. During the show, Allen’s father got totally __ by the magician’s tricks. When the magician took off his__,the father found Albert was his son,Allen.

Allen recognized his father. His father __ him, “Why did you change your name?”

“Because you said you would be embarrassed for me.”

“But nobody will __ the famous magician is my son Allen.”

We want all the best things in life and avoid the bad past. However, every good thing comes at a __. You can’t have them all without giving up something.

1.

A．music

B．theatre

C．circus

D．animal

2.

A．satisfied

B．unhappy

C．curious

D．hopeful

3.

A．guilty

B．proud

C．tired

D．ashamed

4.

A．insisted

B．demanded

C．added

D．declined

5.

A．dignity

B．popularity

C．name

D．money

6.

A．career

B．success

C．fortune

D．performance

7.

A．convincing

B．stubborn

C．understanding

D．confused

8.

A．embarrassed

B．disappointed

C．annoyed

D．frightened

9.

A．over

B．after

C．beyond

D．through

10.

A．guard

B．owner

C．trainer

D．performer

11.

A．letter

B．photo

C．check

D．note

12.

A．job

B．performance

C．address

D．boss

13.

A．clown

B．magician

C．musician

D．writer

14.

A．badly

B．ill

C．highly

D．nothing

15.

A．village

B．city

C．circus

D．country

16.

A．affected

B．addicted

C．persuaded

D．impressed

17.

A．jacket

B．glasses

C．mask

D．gloves

18.

A．hugged

B．praised

C．thanked

D．blamed

19.

A．know

B．doubt

C．admit

D．acknowledge

20.

A．reason

B．point

C．reward

D．price