1 . One day, a woman bought a parrot (鹦鹉) from a pet store. However, the woman decided to send the parrot back to the store the next day. “This bird doesn’t talk,” she told the pet store owner. “Does he have a mirror?” the owner asked. “Parrots enjoy watching themselves in it.” So the woman bought one and left.

The next day, she came back, saying that the bird still didn’t say anything. “How about a ladder (梯子)? Parrots love ladders,” the owner said. The woman bought a ladder and left.

But the next day, she went back a third time. “Does your parrot have a swing (秋千)? No? Well, once he starts swinging, he’ll talk a lot happily,” the owner said. The woman then bought a swing and left.

When she walked into the store the next day, she began to cry and said sadly, “The parrot died.” The pet store owner was surprised at what she said. “What? I’m sorry. Tell me, did he say anything?” he asked. “Yes, right before he died,” the woman answered in a low voice, “he asked me weakly, ‘Don’t they sell any food at that pet store?’”

Sometimes we forget what’s really necessary in life. We sometimes have lots of things to do at once, but we forget to do with the most important things first. We have to remember to “feed the parrots” in our lives.

1. The woman bought ______ for the parrot from the pet shop owner.
①a cage   ②a mirror   ③a ladder   ④a swing ⑤some food

A．①②⑤

B．②③④

C．①②③

D．②③

2. The woman went back to the store for ______ times.

A．one

B．two

C．three

D．four

3. The parrot died because ______.

A．the woman gave him nothing to eat	B．he couldn’t enjoy himself in the mirror
C．he couldn’t fly in the sky like others	D．the woman was angry and killed him

4. In our real life, the words “to feed the parrots” refer to “______”.

A．喂养鹦鹉

B．放飞鹦鹉

C．做最重要的事情

D．让鹦鹉唱歌

2 . A simple honk (汽车喇叭声) from the bus is one part of a secret code between the driver and students living in a remote village in Wanzhou district, Chongqing city.

Noticing a schoolbag hanging on the door of an old house along his _________, the bus driver pulls over and honks to answer the “code”. After a moment, he leans (倾斜) out of the bus and _______ a loud reminder. A boy then rushes outside and _________ the bus.

The boy's parents work far from home, leaving him in the _________ of his grandmother. Despite this separation (分离), the boy is determined to pursue (追逐) his education, making the _________ journey to the city to go to school. He and the driver, Mr Cheng Lin, have _________ a special routine. Whenever the boy's schoolbag is hanging outside the house, it signals to Cheng that the young student needs to catch the bus. This simple interaction between the driver and the student became their _________ “secret code”, a non-verbal (非语言) way of saying,“Today, it's time to go back to school.”

Mr Cheng, who has been _________ the Luotian to Wuqiao Nan Station route for many years, shared his ideas on the matter. He mentioned that this rural route had a significant number of left-behind children due to their parents' work _________. Recognizing the importance of his role in their lives, he paid extra __________ on Fridays and Sundays, the days when these children typically traveled back and forth to school.

1.

A．street

B．travel

C．path

D．river

2.

A．shouts

B．gives

C．sees

D．hears

3.

A．gets on

B．takes into

C．pulls up

D．tries out

4.

A．control

B．hope

C．honor

D．care

5.

A．daily

B．weekly

C．monthly

D．yearly

6.

A．created

B．promoted

C．developed

D．improved

7.

A．current

B．shared

C．devoted

D．convenient

8.

A．walking

B．working

C．running

D．driving

9.

A．experiences

B．levels

C．approaches

D．solutions

10.

A．thankfulness

B．movement

C．attention

D．performance

3 . I’m now at a special university where 46 speech and hearing impaired (受损) students graduate each year. Every morning, I made it a practice of setting the intention (意图) in my heart of “May I be a tool for them to get what they need right now?”.

Today, one girl came and sat down. I started with how we usually do. She can speak but cannot hear and lip-read. I asked one question, and she went on for 10 minutes straight, and in Tamil (泰米尔语). I understood a couple of words here and there, so I understood that she was not saying anything connected with what I asked. I just kept on listening to her without speaking a word. This went on for an hour and a half! Then, after a long pause, I told her to get back on track with another question. And then she shared for another half an hour straight! The whole time I was just looking in her eyes which would go here and there but come back to me. In the end, I just got up and hugged her and she was smiling wider.

Then I invited her to have juice with me. She said yes. What put me in a state of fear was realizing, just a few minutes later, that treating my new friend to some juice was the first celebration of my very first salary! A month ago, I started my first job, and what a blessing to have this important moment in my life be rooted in generosity.

1. What was the writer’s intention according to Paragraph 1?

A．A doubt.

B．A wish.

C．A struggle.

D．A guess.

2. When the girl came, the writer _________.

A．required her to speak in English	B．discovered something strange about her
C．asked her questions as usual	D．began to teach her to lip-read

3. What did the girl do in the conversation?

A．She asked the writer to speak.

B．She listened most of the time herself.

C．She stared at the writer’s eyes all the time.

D．She went on talking for 1.5 hours before a long pause.

4. How did the writer feel after treating the girl to juice?

A．Glad.

B．Regretful.

C．Bitter.

D．Grateful.

4 . During my second month of the art school, our teacher gave us a pop quiz(突击小测验). I was a hard-working student and I did well in all the ______. I had finished the questions successfully and easily, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the ______ who cleans the school?”

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and about 50 years old, ______ how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the ______ question empty.

Just before class ______, one student asked if the last question would count towards our quiz grade.

“Absolutely(绝对地),” said the teacher. “In your life, you will meet many people.______ people are important and all jobs are important. They deserve(值得) your attention and care, even if all that you do is ______ and say hello.”

I’ve never ______ that lesson. Actually, that was the most ______ lesson in my life. I ______learned her name was Feng Yue.

1.

A．subjects

B．homework

C．texts

2.

A．nurse

B．woman

C．student

3.

A．or

B．and

C．but

4.

A．first

B．second

C．last

5.

A．ended

B．began

C．changed

6.

A．Some

B．Most

C．All

7.

A．laugh

B．smile

C．shout

8.

A．learned

B．forgotten

C．remembered

9.

A．important

B．boring

C．relaxing

10.

A．seldom

B．also

C．never

5 . One day, Franz Kafka saw a young girl crying in the park_________she had lost her favorite toy bear. She and Kafka_________the toy bear but they didn’t find it. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day.

The next day, they looked again, but_________didn’t find the toy bear. Kafka gave the girl a(n)_________ “written” by the toy bear. It said, “Please don’t cry. I have gone on a _________ to see the world. I’m going to write to you about my adventures.”

When they_________, Kafka read aloud his carefully written letters of the toy bear’s adventures. The girl found them quite_________and laughed a lot. Finally, Kafka_________her a new toy bear. “This doesn’t look like my toy bear,” she said. Kafka handed her another letter. It said, “My trips have_________me.” The girl hugged the new toy bear and took it home with her.

Many years later, the grown-up girl__________a letter in the toy bear by accident. It said, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”

1.

A．although

B．because

C．unless

D．until

2.

A．looked for

B．looked at

C．looked through

D．looked after

3.

A．just

B．even

C．still

D．ever

4.

A．invitation

B．diary

C．novel

D．letter

5.

A．trip

B．place

C．speed

D．sight

6.

A．visited

B．met

C．moved

D．won

7.

A．difficult

B．useful

C．interesting

D．slow

8.

A．gave

B．sold

C．promised

D．lent

9.

A．copied

B．changed

C．missed

D．trained

10.

A．wrote

B．forgot

C．returned

D．found

6 . I’m David and my wife is Sally. We’re from Germany. Last month we went to Sichuan to enjoy the fantastic mountains and we felt so________. But two days later, we faced a difficult situation. While traveling by car in the high mountains, the car________working after making a strange, loud noise.

The driver was a local man and he could only speak________. We tried communicating with him but we________. He used his body language to tell us that he was going to get help and then he left.

We were in a lonely place and we could see________houses around. We started to hear the cries of wild animals. Sally was very afraid. It was getting darker and colder, but we didn’t have much food or water. Should we leave the car? Would our driver return? Was he a________man? We were very worried.

We had to stay in the car for a couple of hours and time passed so________. Suddenly the lights from another car appeared in the dark. A man came out of the car.________ he found us, he kindly let us gets into his car.

The man________his phone number on a piece of paper and put it on the window of the car before we left. Then he drove us to his house and his cousin could speak English. Later that evening, the phone rang. It was our driver. He told us that he had fixed the car.

I will never forget the warmth we received on that day because we________a stranger for help.

1.

A．excited

B．painful

C．unhappy

D．awful

2.

A．started

B．stopped

C．finished

D．kept

3.

A．French

B．German

C．English

D．Chinese

4.

A．agreed

B．understood

C．failed

D．refused

5.

A．few

B．some

C．many

D．any

6.

A．polite

B．humorous

C．believable

D．careful

7.

A．quickly

B．slowly

C．carefully

D．widely

8.

A．Before

B．Unless

C．As soon as

D．As long as

9.

A．fell down

B．wrote down

C．came down

D．got down

10.

A．put on

B．kept on

C．held on

D．depended on

7 . One day a little boy asked his father, “What does the word ‘great’ mean? Who are great people and how do they become great?”

The father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them ________ the house and the other outside the house. The boy did as his father said.

The father asked his son, “Which one of the two plants do you think will be ________ and bigger?”

The boy replied, “The plant inside the house will be safer, so it will grow bigger, while the plant outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to ________ it. It may be eaten by animals.”

The father smiled and said, “Let’s wait ________. We will know the answer.”

Then the boy left for study and after four years he came back to his house. He said to his father, “Look, ________ happens to this plant inside the house and it is safe.”

When the boy went outside, he was very ________ to see a big tree. The boy couldn’t believe his eyes. He couldn’t understand how the plant outside was able to grow much bigger than the plant inside the house.

“The plant outside the house faced four ________ and many difficulties!” the father explained to his son why the plant outside was bigger. “The plant inside was safe, it didn’t face weather changes, and it didn’t get proper ________, so it didn’t become big.”

Here is the ________ to the question about being great: ________ a great person, one must have failed many times, experienced many difficulties and overcome those difficulties. After that, he is able to become great.

1.

A．besides

B．opposite

C．behind

D．inside

2.

A．stronger

B．safer

C．nicer

D．weaker

3.

A．look after

B．come across

C．take away

D．cut down

4.

A．seriously

B．carefully

C．actively

D．patiently

5.

A．something

B．nothing

C．everything

D．anything

6.

A．excited

B．satisfied

C．pleased

D．surprised

7.

A．seasons

B．chances

C．years

D．choices

8.

A．protection

B．sunlight

C．care

D．water

9.

A．result

B．answer

C．way

D．reason

10.

A．To choose

B．To save

C．To find

D．To become

8 . Victoria O’Neal and her husband, Derrick Stroud, recently welcomed three kids. They are happy about it.________, not long after, danger came. One afternoon, Victoria ________that one of their babies, Amelia, was having trouble breathing. She called Derrick and asked him to return home to ________their little one to the hospital.

Derrick came home and found his daughter’s ________ was worsening. He raced to the hospital in Greenville. On the way, the police Matthew Brown ________Derrick’s speeding car. After looking at baby Amelia, Matthew said he knew he had to move quickly to save her life.

“When I got there, the baby was unresponsive sitting in the child’s seat,” Matthew said. “I turned her ________ towards me and I could see that her lips started to go ________ and she was having a lot of trouble breathing. Once I got her out of the seat she started to breathe a little bit better. Her blueness started to go away and I started to rub (按摩) her back and make her keep________.” Once Matthew got Amelia to responda medical unit was called and she was taken to a local hospital.

This was beyond a scary situation. It’s terrifying to think of the baby’s life without the quick________of Matthew. Amelia’s parents are so thankful for his knowledge and what he did to________ their kid. Victoria says she would not have known what to do if it was her in that situation.

1.

A．Surprisingly

B．Naturally

C．Unluckily

D．Suddenly

2.

A．noticed

B．judged

C．proved

D．guessed

3.

A．force

B．pull

C．take

D．walk

4.

A．memory

B．body

C．mind

D．condition

5.

A．called

B．stopped

C．found

D．attacked

6.

A．head

B．seat

C．eyes

D．shoulders

7.

A．red

B．black

C．brown

D．blue

8.

A．happy

B．cool

C．calm

D．awake

9.

A．offer

B．help

C．swimming

D．reply

10.

A．save

B．cheer

C．raise

D．comfort

9 . My father is a doctor, who is always as busy as a bee. However, he doesn’t love me any less.

Today was my father’s birthday. I decided to make it an unforgettable birthday to show how ______ I am for everything he has done for me.

I told Mum that I waned to give my father a surprise birthday party. At my words, she was really ______that I even remembered his birthday! She ______ to help me, but I told her I determined to plan everything myself.

First, I called Bernie, my father’s best friend. He gave me the name of my father’s favorite ______. Next, I called the restaurant and booked some table. Then, I also ______ our relatives and asked them to come.

Without telling anyone, I went to the watch shop to ______ my father’s present. When he was young, his father gave him a ______. It stopped working last year, but my father ______ had time to get it fixed. So I took it to the watch shop and get it ______ and polished(擦亮).

The moment Dad and Mum turned up, we shouted, ”Happy Birthday!“ I gave Dad his present. When he saw his shiny watch, he cried, ”What a surprise! Thank you, George. This is the best ______ ever. ”

1.

A．grateful

B．eager

C．ready

D．famous

2.

A．scared

B．annoyed

C．worried

D．surprised

3.

A．refused

B．hated

C．offered

D．managed

4.

A．park

B．beach

C．garden

D．restaurant

5.

A．promised

B．phoned

C．introduced

D．helped

6.

A．pick up

B．keep up

C．put up

D．make up

7.

A．watch

B．bike

C．computer

D．car

8.

A．also

B．always

C．never

D．already

9.

A．priced

B．fixed

C．sold

D．changed

10.

A．lesson

B．plan

C．show

D．birthday

10 . Wang Yi, who can’t walk or even communicate normally, has written eight books with one movable finger. Wang was born with cerebral palsy(脑瘫)in Jiangsu Province in 1989. Restricted to a wheelchair as she began to grow up, she even has difficulty eating and bathing.

However, Wang and her parents have stayed positive throughout. Since childhood, Wang’s parents have been telling her to regard herself as a normal person even if she is physically disabled.

She practiced performing daily activities repeatedly. With her parents’ help, she learned to live with her physical disability and aimed to be an outstanding writer. Before the age of 17, Wang completed nine years of compulsory education and acquired much literary knowledge. With the encouragement of her teacher, she became more determined to pursue her dream of writing.

Literature has become a medium for her to communicate with the world. Sitting in a wheelchair, Wang pursues her dream in her own way. Though she only has one movable finger on her right hand, she has managed to write eight books with a total of more than a million words. “For me, writing is not a tool to make a living, but my necessary life mode. Only when I am involved in writing can I feel complete,” she stressed.

Wang hopes that every disabled person can live without discrimination. “What I value most is the sense of value and dignity from the efforts of the disabled themselves, as well as from social recognition, acceptance and equal treatment.” She also hopes that readers can experience the strength of life, the warmth of family and the beauty of the times when they are reading her works.

Jidi Majia, Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association commented, “Although Wang Yi has a disability, the spirit shown in her works is positive. Besides, Wang’s lyrics show a unique understanding about the value of life.”

1. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．Wang’s dream of writing.

B．Wang’s parents’ influence on her.

C．The attitude of Wang’s family toward her condition.

D．The difficulties Wang and her parents have to overcome.

2. Why does Wang Yi consider writing a necessary life mode?

A．It helps her earn a living.

B．It improves her physical condition.

C．It offers her knowledge and makes her content.

D．It helps her communicate with the world and feel complete.

3. According to Wang Yi, what matters most for the disabled?

A．The career success.	B．The sense of value and dignity.
C．The warmth of family.	D．The financial support from society.

4. Which of the following can best describe Wang Yi?

A．Determined and hard-working.	B．Warm-hearted and creative.
C．Cautious and positive.	D．Unique and energetic.