1 . Our room was on the second floor but you could still hear the roar of the ocean and see the stars at night. I used to take long walks along the water. The food in town was wonderful and the people were very friendly. The area was very quiet and peaceful, and fairly deserted.

The last evening of our vacation, however, we all heard strange footsteps following closely behind us as we were walking up to our room in the holiday centre. We turned around and noticed a fairly young man moving very rapidly across the beach and getting closer to us. He was tall and wore a baseball cap. We didn't have any cell phones on us. I never saw Dad as worried as he was then and knew that something was terribly wrong. The sense of fear started to overwhelm Mom and me. We had had such a good time in town. Now, the night was rapidly turning into a dangerous situation．

We could hear the man's footsteps getting closer. Dad's face was almost pale．The so﹣called intruder（侵入者）had moved nearer and nearer when all of a sudden, the nearby vending（自动贩卖）machine started going crazy and spitting out cans of soda! The noise actually scared the intruder and he ran out of sight. My parents were shaking, but we all turned around to see who had put money into the vending machine downstairs, and actually saved us, but no one was around at all. Not a soul.

It's one vacation I will never forget.

1. Where did the author spend her vacation?

A．Near a lake.	B．In a village.
C．At the seaside.	D．In a mountain.

2. What happened to the author's family on the last evening of their vacation?

A．They saw a stranger walking up to their room.

B．Their cell phones were missing.

C．They were robbed by a tall man.

D．They were followed by a stranger.

3. What does the underlined word“overwhelm”in Paragraph 2 mean.

A．Control	B．impress
C．excite	D．move

4. What helped them get out of the trouble?

A．Their quick action.

B．The noise from the vending machine.

C．Other people's kind help.

D．The young man's warning.

2 . I wasn’t prepared for the way I felt when my 18-ycar-old son, Dylan, left for Asia during his winter break. I was _________ the moment he first told my husband and me that he wanted to use some of his _________ to go around China. We were excited for him to explore the world. We told him that _________ was one of the best ways to spend his money and that the _________ will last a lifetime.

On the morning of Dylan’s departure, he _________ a few more things in his bag. Before he and Michael _________ for the airport, I yelled, “Be safe, and _________ when you arrive.” That night, _________ he was flying somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, it hit me that Dylan was really on his _________. I woke hourly, each time __________ the clock and counting the hours before he would land the following morning. __________ my decision to let him go alone, I prayed and thought about all the things that could go __________. And then I heard from him. The first text said he’d arrived. The second text said his luggage didn’t __________ it. Feeling anxious, I madly attempted to __________ his luggage. And I persuaded him to go back to the __________ and go to the airline’s office. My efforts __________. All the while Dylan was texting me he was all right.

After that, there was no more talk about lost luggage, __________ I knew that he’d figure it out, and that the life lessons would be __________.

Several days into the trip, Dylan sent a photo from the top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. “I thought I could __________ study abroad anywhere but Europe. However, I could definitely do it here,” his note read. And I was __________.

1.

A．thrilled

B．worried

C．eager

D．upset

2.

A．experiences

B．savings

C．relations

D．friends

3.

A．traveling

B．learning

C．driving

D．purchasing

4.

A．costs

B．posters

C．pressures

D．memories

5.

A．packed

B．changed

C．poured

D．knocked

6.

A．took off

B．saw off

C．set off

D．went on

7.

A．write

B．call

C．text

D．email

8.

A．since

B．though

C．after

D．while

9.

A．behalf

B．feet

C．mind

D．own

10.

A．touching

B．checking

C．finding

D．rocking

11.

A．Investigating

B．Doubting

C．Contacting

D．Admiring

12.

A．wrong

B．wild

C．away

D．bad

13.

A．arrive

B．make

C．manage

D．explore

14.

A．bring down

B．put down

C．take down

D．track down

15.

A．homeland

B．airport

C．supermarket

D．car

16.

A．failed

B．worked

C．ended

D．continued

17.

A．or

B．so

C．and

D．but

18.

A．awful

B．unbearable

C．impressive

D．worthless

19.

A．still

B．never

C．just

D．already

20.

A．in disbelief

B．for fun

C．at peace

D．in shock

4 . After a serious earthquake happened, a father left his wife safely at home and rushed to his sons school, only to find that the building where his son studied had collapsed and looked like a pancake.

He was shocked. He didn’t know what he should do for a while, then he remembered the words he had said to his son, “No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!” And tears began to fill his eyes. He started digging through the ruins.

As he was digging, other helpless parents and the firemen arrived and tried to pull him off the ruins, saying, “It’s too late! They’re all dead! There’s nothing you can do!” To them he replied with one line, “Are you going to help me now?” And then he kept on digging.

No one helped, however. He went on alone because he needed to know for himself, “Is my boy alive or is he dead?” He dug for eight hours…12 hours.….24 hours.….36 hours.. then in the 39th hour, he pulled back a rock and heard his son’s words. He shouted his son’s name, “ARMAND!” He heard back, “Dad!?! It’s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told them that if you were alive, you’d save me and when you saved me, they’d be saved. You promised, ‘No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you!’ You did it Dad!”

“What’s going on there? How is it?” the father asked.

“There are 14 of us left out of 33, Dad. We’re frightened, hungry, thirsty and thankful you’re here. When the building fell down, it made a triangle, and it saved us.”

“Come out, boy!”

“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, because I know you’ll get me! No matter what happens, I know you’ll always be there for me!”

1. The underlined word “collapsed” probably means_________

A．fallen down

B．shaken violently

C．stood by

D．gone off

2. Other parents and the firemen wanted to pull him off the ruins because they thought ____________

A．he was mad	B．all the children had died in the earthquake
C．he was too dangerous to others	D．it was not his job to dig

3. How many students were still alive when the father found them in the ruins?

A．Fourteen.

B．Thirty three

C．Forty seven

D．Nineteen.

4. We can learn from the passage that_________

A．it took the father one day to find his son and other students

B．his wife died in the earthquake

C．his son was the last one to come out of the ruins

D．the son didn’t believe his father would come to save him

5 . One day I was walking around in a national park when I saw a beautiful tarantula (狼蛛) crossing a path. I just stopped and decided to observe its walking.

Behind me there was a family going up the same way and they also noticed the tarantula. Without doubting it, a kid shouted, “Quick, Dad, kill it.” His brother also encouraged their dad to do that.

Then I stopped their dad. “Wait. This is the last place the tarantula has to live in. Do you really want to kill it?”

“Well, it’s dangerous and we have kids here…”

“Why not stand still and let it cross safely? Then you can go and admire the rest of the park.”

After some discussions I persuaded them to stand still and watch. Soon, the tarantula crossed and hid into the bushes.

Their dad thanked me and said, “You’re right. I was about to make a mistake.” The children even said good bye to the tarantula and they learned something too.

1. What did the family want to do on seeing the tarantula?

A．To watch it.

B．To kill it.

C．To stand by

D．To hide away.

2. What did the dad think of the tarantula?

A．Dangerous.

B．Interesting.

C．Powerful.

D．Beautiful.

3. What is the author’s advice on how to deal with the tarantula?

A．To stop it quickly.	B．To greet it politely.
C．To let it cross safely.	D．To drive it into the bushes.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的 正确形式。

Jim is an eight-year-old boy. One day, when he went to the countryside with his parents, he caught a beautiful bird in the woods.     1     his father tried very hard to persuade him to let it go, Jim still decided     2     (keep) it.

After     3     (come) back from the countryside, Jim bought a beautiful cage and kept the little bird in it. In order to make the bird happy, he     4     (feed) it with nice food. He thought the bird lived     5     (happy) with him because it didn’t have to try hard to find food.     6    , the bird didn’t look happy. It always looked out of the cage, staring     7     the sky. And it never sang.

One day his father said to him, “You should let the bird go now. It would be much     8     (good) for it to live in the woods than here. If you continue to keep it, it may die.” But Jim didn’t follow his father’s     9     (suggest). The bird was still kept in the cage.

One morning, when Jim went to play with the bird as usual, he found that the bird     10     (die). Jim was very sad and regretted not letting it go. But it was already too late.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。

A Turning-point Party

The cold snow was falling as Kelly struggled home from school in December. How much she hated the snow---and everything else about Pinetree, Wyoming, America. How much she missed Thailand! “I hate it here! I want to go home!” Kelly thought.

She reached for a small white envelope in her pocket. In it was an invitation to Jennifer’s party: Kelly didn’t want to go. She felt awkward at the thought of being at a party with a bunch of kids she barely knew. She closed her eyes and remembered this time of year people would hold a festival to thank the Mother of Water in Thailand, They used banana leaves to make a little boat with a candle lit in it, made a wish for the coming year and set the boat floating on the river.

Kelly sighed and pushed open the door to her parents’ restaurant. They were busy working. “Maybe I should go just this once for Mama and Papa. They are so worried that I’m not making any friends.” Kelly went over and tied an apron around her waist. As she was washing dishes, she told her mother that she had been invited to a party on Friday night. Mama smiled saying now she might be happy in their new home. Kelly nodded, thinking Pinetree could never be her home.

On Friday evening, Papa drove Kelly to the party. Jennifer met her at the door and led her into the dining room. Six kids from her classes were seated around the table, on which were sitting small brown cookie houses. They were selecting colorful candies and gluing them to their own houses, Wow, she loved making things. For this part of the party, she could be herself. She decided to decorate her cottage like one of the golden temples of Thailand. As she was making it, Jennifer wondered how she did it. The others joined staring at Kelly with admiration, Kelly felt a warm glow. Maybe I could fit in here-----a little, she thought.

注意:1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

After dinner, the party went on and the talk turned to the coming holidays.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Suddenly, Kelly came up with an idea.

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9 . Years ago, I was on a long flight, during which a voice from the speaker said, “We won’t________drinks or the meal because we are facing a storm ahead. Please make your seat belts fastened.” Many passengers became________, talking about it with each other. At once it became________in the plane. Soon, lightning________the darkening sky, and within moments the________was like a boat on waves in the storm. One moment it was________up by the storm; the next, it was thrown as if it were to________onto the ground. All the passengers were________. Some cried. Some prayed(祈祷). The________seemed hopeless. I wondered if we could________it through the storm.

Then I noticed the little girl next to me. Surprisingly, the storm seemed to mean________to her. She was________, looking through a picture book. Sometimes she closed her eyes，then she would________again, but she never showed a(n)________of worry or fear. The little girl wasn’t afraid at all________all the adults were scared to death. Finding me watching her, the girl smiled at me and said, “Don’t worry. My father is the pilot. He is taking me home. Take it easy. He will take us home safely.”

When the plane was out of________, I smiled at the girl and she gave me a big smile in________.“I said my father would take us home safely.”

Many kinds of storms may________ us: diseases, difficulties... They can easily darken our sky and________our planes into hard times. Let us________: Love is the pilot. It will help us out of trouble. So take it easy.

1.

A．serve

B．take

C．get

D．sell

2.

A．excited

B．comfortable

C．happy

D．nervous

3.

A．noisy

B．quiet

C．warm

D．cold

4.

A．broke out

B．came about

C．lit up

D．gave off

5.

A．ship

B．plane

C．train

D．seat

6.

A．lifted

B．cut

C．turned

D．shut

7.

A．jump

B．fly

C．land

D．drop

8.

A．surprised

B．scared

C．glad

D．Interested

9.

A．weather

B．question

C．future

D．action

10.

A．make

B．reach

C．win

D．finish

11.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

12.

A．funny

B．frustrated

C．sad

D．calm

13.

A．talk

B．read

C．play

D．sleep

14.

A．book

B．story

C．expression

D．impression

15.

A．and

B．while

C．so

D．since

16.

A．order

B．date

C．fashion

D．danger

17.

A．turn

B．time

C．return

D．front

18.

A．trouble

B．help

C．encourage

D．stop

19.

A．introduce

B．invite

C．throw

D．change

20.

A．ask

B．remember

C．explain

D．wonder