1 . When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say ＂sorry, ________ number!＂ and move on. But when Dennis Williams __________ a text that clearly wasn’t intended for him, he did something __________.

On March 19, Dennis got a group text __________ him that a couple he didn’t know were at the hospital, waiting for the __________ of a baby.

＂Congratulations! But I think someone was mistaken,＂ Dennis __________. The baby was born and update texts were __________ quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her __________, she didn’t seem to realize that she was __________ the baby’s photos with a complete stranger. ＂Well, I don’t __________ you all but I will get there to take pictures with the baby,＂ replied Dennis before asking which room the new __________ were in.

Much to the family’s surprise, Dennis stuck to his __________! He turned up at the hospital __________ gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy. Lindsey’s husband was totally __________ by the unexpected visit. ＂I don’t think we would have randomly invited him over but we __________ it and the gifts.＂

Teresa __________ a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website __________ by the touching words: ＂What a __________ this young man was to our family! He was so __________ and kind to do this.＂ The post has since gained the __________ of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184,000 shares and 61,500 likes in just three days.

1.

A．unlucky

B．secret

C．new

D．wrong

2.

A．received

B．translated

C．copied

D．printed

3.

A．reasonable

B．special

C．necessary

D．practical

4.

A．convincing

B．reminding

C．informing

D．warning

5.

A．wake-up

B．recovery

C．growth

D．arrival

6.

A．responded

B．interrupted

C．predicted

D．repeated

7.

A．coming in

B．setting out

C．passing down

D．moving around

8.

A．opinion

B．anxiety

C．excitement

D．effort

9.

A．comparing

B．exchanging

C．discussing

D．sharing

10.

A．accept

B．know

C．believe

D．bother

11.

A．parents

B．doctors

C．patients

D．visitors

12.

A．dream

B．promise

C．agenda

D．principle

13.

A．bearing

B．collecting

C．opening

D．making

14.

A．discouraged

B．relaxed

C．astonished

D．defeated

15.

A．admit

B．need

C．appreciate

D．expect

16.

A．found

B．selected

C．developed

D．posted

17.

A．confirmed

B．simplified

C．clarified

D．accompanied

18.

A．pity

B．blessing

C．relief

D．problem

19.

A．smart

B．calm

C．sweet

D．fair

20.

A．sympathy

B．attention

C．control

D．trust

2 . Whatever life threw at us each year, our family had one tradition at Christmas: our dog Pepper opened our presents for us.

Last year, everyone made it home for a Christmas get-together. However, it couldn’t feel perfect because Pepper’s health was becoming worse. Her life had already been longer than we expected—she was fourteen and yet her mind was still sharp. Her love for life made us feel better. But her body could not keep up with her mind.

Probably it was Pepper’s last Christmas, so we decided to make sure she would enjoy it. On Christmas Eve, we each prepared presents for her.

Soon, Pepper selected her first Christmas gift. She turned the present, just as she was a young dog once more. She pulled the paper off the dog treat before she chewed (咀嚼) it slowly. Our family was so happy.

Pepper saw the remaining three presents, and then turned to mom as if asking, “May I open another?”

“Go ahead, girl!” Mom encouraged.

For the next few minutes, Pepper opened each of her Christmas presents. While she did, she reminded us of the joy of being together. Our family felt as a whole-not because we were in the same room or city, but because our love brought us together.

Pepper passed away after Christmas. Her peaceful passing made us tearful. Her passing was also a celebration of life, because she gave my family so much love and laughter.

I still treasure Pepper’s final Christmas gift. She taught me that no matter where we each spend the holidays, the smallest act of sincere giving can unite our family through our love. For me, that knowledge is the longest-lasting gift of all.

1. Why did the author think the Christmas wasn’t perfect last year?

A．Pepper was in poor health.

B．Pepper died on Christmas Eve.

C．The family members didn’t get together.

D．Peper’s life wasn’t longer than we expected.

2. How many Christmas gifts did Pepper get last year?

A．One.	B．Three.
C．Two.	D．Four.

3. What does the underlined phrase “the longest-lasting gift” in the last paragraph        refer to?

A．The life lesson the author learned from Pepper.

B．The Christmas present for the dog.

C．The holiday spent with family.

D．The friendship with the dog.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．The Power of Love

B．The Importance of Helping Others

C．Celebrating Christmas

D．Enjoying the Happiness of Making Friends

3 . 假定英语课上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。错误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。

Silina used to dreaming of being a singer and she has relied her confidence to practice singing for 10 years. Although she was turned up by many bands because she was overweight, she never gave up and stuck to sing. At the same time, she has lost weight successful by keeping a balanced diet and exercising regularly, in which has earned her success. Now his voice is familiar to everyone. She attaches great importance on not giving up and working hard! When talked about her past, she said: “Success is not always the easy thing and if we want to succeed, we must devote ourselves to it.”

4 . Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact______she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished______a driving offence(犯规).

Then one day she nearly______her record. A police car______her, and the policemen in it saw her______a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed______that she would be punished.

____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was______old to drive a car, and that the______why she had not stopped at the red______was most probably that her eyes had become weak______old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was______, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was______and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she______a needle(针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had______done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed______the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your______. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight." The judge took the______and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case(案例) against Mrs. Jones was______, and her record______unbroken.

1.

A．which

B．when

C．that

D．this

2.

A．about

B．on

C．to

D．for

3.

A．kept

B．won

C．missed

D．lost

4.

A．watched

B．after

C．followed

D．ran after

5.

A．pass

B．go

C．past

D．rush

6.

A．sure

B．indeed

C．certain

D．perhaps

7.

A．Before

B．While

C．Until

D．When

8.

A．so

B．very

C．too

D．quite

9.

A．cause

B．reason

C．matter

D．trouble

10.

A．light

B．lamp

C．sign

D．one

11.

A．with

B．because

C．for

D．of

12.

A．speaking

B．saying

C．talking

D．telling

13.

A．seeing

B．getting

C．carrying

D．bringing

14.

A．took

B．brought

C．picked

D．chose

15.

A．almost

B．hardly

C．successfully

D．successful

16.

A．both

B．all

C．neither

D．either

17.

A．time

B．turn

C．chance

D．job

18.

A．thread

B．glasses

C．needles

D．needle

19.

A．dismissed

B．passed

C．settled

D．studied

20.

A．was

B．kept

C．seemed

D．remained

5 . In 1945,there was a young boy of 14 in a concentration camp(集中营). He was tall, thin but had a bright smile. Every day, a young girl came by the other side of the fence. She noticed the boy and asked him if he spoke Polish, and he said yes. She then reached in her pocket and gave him her apple. He thanked her and she went on her way. The next day, she came by again, bringing with her another apple which she gave him. Each day, she walked by the outside of the fence, hoping to see him, and when she did, she happily handed him an apple in exchange for conversation.

On day he told her not to come by any more. He was being shipped to another concentration camp. As he walked away with tears running down his face, he wondered if he’d ever see her again. She was the only kind person he had seen across the fence.

He made it out of the concentration camp, and immigrated(移民) to America. In 1957, his friends had fixed him up on a blind date (约会). He had no idea who the woman was and picked her up, and during the dinner they began talking of Poland at that time. She said she used to see a boy and gave him an apple daily. He asked if this boy was tall, skinny and if he had told her that she couldn't come back because he was leaving. She said yes.

It was her, the young girl who came by every day to give him apples. After 12 years, after the war and in another country, they met again. What are the odds(概率). He proposedto her on that very night and told her he’d never again let her go. They are still happily married today.

Miracles do happen, and there is a great force at work in our lives.

1. Every day the girl walked by the outside of the fence to   _____.

A．See what was happening in the concentration camp

B．Ask the boy to escape from the concentration camp

C．Have a talk with the boy

D．Sell an apple to the poor boy

2. When the boy learned that he was being shipped to another concentration camp, _____.

A．he didn’t know whether he could meet the girl again

B．he agreed to meet the girl in the USA

C．he know he would live a happy life

D．he worried about how he could get an apple each day in future

3. In 1957 he picked up the woman ____.

A．To thank her for what she has done in Poland

B．To find out the girl he had been willing to see

C．Because he worked as a driver

D．Because his friends had asked him to make a date with her

4. The best title for the passage would be ____.

A．Happy date	B．Surprising marriage
C．A legendary(传奇)boy	D．Lovely coincidence(巧合)

6 . My son Joey was born with club feet(畸形足). The doctors told us that with _____ he would be able to walk ______ but would never run very well. The first three years of his ______ were spent in surgery(手术). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a _____ when you saw him walk.

The children in our ____ ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be ______ to run as well as the other children. So he didn’t know.

In seventh grade he ____ to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others. Perhaps he _____ that the abilities that seemed to come______ to so many others did not come naturally to him. ______ the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the ______ to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He ______ to run four to five miles a day, every day — even the day he had a fever. I was ______, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he felt. “______.” he said. He had two more miles to go. The ______ ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked _____ ahead and kept running. We never told him he _____ run four miles with a fever. So he didn’t know.

Two weeks later the names of the team runners were ____. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eight-graders. We never told him he couldn’t ______ to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it. We never told him he couldn’t do all those things. So he didn’t know. He ______ did it.

1.

A．examination

B．experiment

C．excitement

D．treatment

2.

A．silently

B．usually

C．normally

D．quickly

3.

A．school

B．life

C．illness

D．time

4.

A．confidence

B．problem

C．success

D．comfort

5.

A．neighborhood

B．city

C．family

D．childhood

6.

A．pleased

B．certain

C．able

D．willing

7.

A．refused

B．decided

C．remembered

D．promised

8.

A．sensed

B．understood

C．learned

D．drove

9.

A．suddenly

B．actually

C．naturally

D．possibly

10.

A．If

B．Since

C．Although

D．Because

11.

A．strength

B．benefit

C．intelligence

D．chance

12.

A．continued

B．had

C．wanted

D．indicated

13.

A．upset

B．angry

C．worried

D．disappointed

14.

A．Sorry

B．Okay

C．Right

D．Absolute

15.

A．tears

B．heat

C．sweat

D．failure

16.

A．obviously

B．anxiously

C．straight

D．typically

17.

A．couldn’t

B．wouldn’t

C．mustn’t

D．needn’t

18.

A．discovered

B．called

C．acted

D．taken

19.

A．expect

B．like

C．fail

D．try

20.

A．seldom

B．just

C．always

D．never

7 . The bank worker told me my check had run out. It     1     (take) me some minutes to understand her words. This year had brought me so much pain—a divorce, losing my house and the loss     2    my job. After     3     (leave) the bank, I wondered what I would do.     4     it was only 5:30 pm, it was already dark and cold outside. At one point, I stopped and cried out to God. With a       5     (break) spirit, I said aloud, “Lord, I really need help right now, today, not tomorrow and not the next day.”     6     (final), when my tears dried up, I headed home. Approaching my home, I noticed     7     envelope. The envelope     8     (fill) with hundreds of dollars of gift cards     9     could meet my urgent needs! I was in shock and surprise. God heard those       10     (cry) from a cold, dark and lonely place and assured me that he did hear and would provide.

8 . One evening last fall, while Marcos Ugarte did his homework and his father, Eduardo, a teacher, prepared lesson plans, they heard shouting outside. Eduardo, 47, and Marcos, 15, stepped onto the balcony(阳台) of their two-story home. Immediately, Marcos’ s eye was caught by a flame from one of their neighbors’ houses.
"Dad, the house is on fire!" Marcos cried. Dressed only in shorts, the barefoot teen
dashed towards the Mas’ home with his dad. Grandmother Yim Ma, mother Suzanne Ma, and son Nathan Ma were gathered on the front grassland shouting for help. When the Ugartes got there, they saw through the open front door that father Alex Ma was falling down the stairs, coughing, his face black with dirt.
"Is anyone else in the house?" Eduardo asked.
"My son!" Alex managed to say, pointing to the second floor.
Eduardo started up the stairs, but thick, black smoke, swirling ash, and extreme heatforced him to his knees. He inched upstairs and down the hall where Alex said he would find Cody, eight, who had locked himself in a bedroom. "I’d never seen smoke like that," says Eduardo. "My glasses immediately turned black from the ash."
As the fire spread across the hall, Eduardo banged on the bedroom door and tried to turn the handle. But Cody didn’t respond, and Eduardo made his way back downstairs. At the same time, Marcos saw Yim and Suzanne pulling an aluminum(铝) ladder out of the garage. "Cody was standing at the window, screaming for help," says Marcos.
"I knew I had to do something." He grabbed the ladder, positioned it near the window, and climbed towards the boy. When Marcos reached the window, he pushed the screen into the room and persuaded Cody out. "It’s OK," Marcos told him. "I’ve got you." Holding Cody with one arm, Marcos moved down the ladder. Halfway down, he handed the boy to a neighbor.
The day after the fire, Alex visited Marcos. "Thank you for saving my son," Alex said. "You are his hero forever."
1. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．How a family got saved from a fire.

B．How a fire happened.

C．How a teen became a hero.

D．How a barefoot teen saved his neighbor.

2. The Ugartes went onto their balcony to ________.

A．have a rest

B．enjoy the cool

C．see where the fire was

D．see what was the matter

3. When the Ugartes got to the fire scene, ________.

A．the Mas were all out to safety

B．father Alex Ma was saving his son

C．Cody was trapped on the second floor

D．Cody was sleeping in bed

4. Why did Marcos say something to Cody?

A．To calm him.	B．To educate him.
C．To amuse him.	D．To upset him.

9 . The journey two divers made some time ago to the deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be studied. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any ocean currents(水流) or signs of life.
It was necessary to set out early, so that the ball would come to the surface in daylight, and be easily found by the mother ship which would be waiting for it. The divers began preparations early in the morning and soon afterwards, when all was ready, the steel ball disappeared under the surface of the water.
The divers felt as if they were going down steps as they passed through warm and cold layers (层) of water. In time the temperature dropped to the freezing point. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone telling how they felt. Then, at a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. All went well until some four hours later at 30,000 feet, the men were frightened by a loud, cracking noise. Even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the ball touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of "dust" made up of small dead sea creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by the great water pressure. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint but clear voices of the divers were heard on the mother ship seven miles away. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none was worse for their experience.
1. The purpose of the divers' journey to the deepest point on the earth was to find _______.

A．if there are water currents, and life in the great depths

B．if people can stand the severe cold in the great depths

C．if there are steps in the great depths

D．if the telephone works well in the great depths

2. The divers set out early in the morning so that                .

A．they could avoid the cold at night

B．they could see at the bottom of the ocean

C．they could return to the surface during the day

D．they could stay long at the bottom

3. As the divers went down to the ocean floor, the telephone              .

A．kept working all the time

B．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again when they returned to the same depth

C．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again at 30,000 feet

D．stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again after they reached the bottom

4. On the ocean floor, the divers found that               .

A．there was no life but some small dead sea creatures

B．fish were swimming as freely as they do near the surface

C．fish were not swimming freely in the dark water

D．fish were not swimming freely under the high water pressure

10 . 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

After attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had_______finding the keyhole. When I _______to open the door, I_________around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was _______ installed... but no switch!

Not discouraged easily, I remembered _______a lamp by the bed when I deposited my luggage_______ in the day. I found the bed in the _______ and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing _______ ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the _______to find another lamp. So I __________my way slowly across the room to the curtains and ... no drawstring! I finally stumbled (跌跌撞撞地) around __________ I found a desk lamp which actually __________!

That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world__________ be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than __________ light is the light that shines from people — the light of__________and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and__________place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in__________of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you__________may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is __________a candle in a forest, remember there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to __________ the light of one small candle.

1.

A．admiration

B．confidence

C．respect

D．difficulty

2.

A．failed

B．meant

C．managed

D．wished

3.

A．felt

B．touched

C．looked

D．sensed

4.

A．never

B．already

C．once

D．still

5.

A．spotting

B．equipping

C．removing

D．producing

6.

A．later

B．earlier

C．upper

D．lower

7.

A．room

B．light

C．dark

D．corner

8.

A．fired

B．operated

C．developed

D．happened

9.

A．street

B．machine

C．car

D．room

10.

A．lost

B．wound

C．forced

D．made

11.

A．after

B．while

C．until

D．since

12.

A．worked

B．affected

C．helped

D．inspired

13.

A．will

B．can

C．shall

D．must

14.

A．electrical

B．mental

C．physical

D．psychological

15.

A．love

B．existence

C．truth

D．wisdom

16.

A．friendly

B．colorful

C．lonely

D．complex

17.

A．need

B．face

C．short

D．favor

18.

A．offer

B．make

C．contribute

D．take

19.

A．not more than

B．no more than

C．rather than

D．other than

20.

A．give out

B．get over

C．set up

D．put out