1 . Power of Perseverance (毅力)
There was once a young man named David. Born into a humble family, David had to
When David was in high school, he faced bullying (欺负) from his schoolmates, which left him feeling
After graduation, David had a dream of becoming a successful businessman. However, he had no money or
David
David’s
A.prepare | B.bet | C.struggle | D.run |
A.doubt | B.ability | C.average | D.circumstance |
A.inspired | B.defeated | C.concerned | D.touched |
A.fame | B.growth | C.survival | D.escape |
A.complained | B.thought | C.trembled | D.persevered |
A.energy | B.ambition | C.connection | D.courage |
A.launched | B.polished | C.expanded | D.rebuilt |
A.unsteadily | B.surely | C.suddenly | D.likely |
A.take up | B.take in | C.take off | D.take over |
A.hurried | B.stole | C.developed | D.broke |
A.willpower | B.productivity | C.luck | D.creativity |
A.stepping-stone | B.milestone | C.flashlight | D.roadblock |
A.require | B.motivate | C.remind | D.guide |
A.journey | B.focus | C.vision | D.interest |
A.fantasy | B.right | C.belief | D.potential |
When Jeff Permar returned home to Middletown, Delaware, after a trip to Orlando, he was
In a bid to catch the culprit (罪魁祸首), Permar set up a motion-sensitive surveillance camera.
Since he began visiting the garden, Chunk
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3 . I woke up with a painful back this moming.This was not
From the split in one shoe,I knew that it wouldn’t be too long
Later,after walking the dogs,watching the sunrise and eating breakfast,I was feeling a lot
At some point in your life you need to
A.unusual | B.unknown | C.appealing | D.appropriate |
A.shoes | B.coat | C.clothes | D.trousers |
A.symbols | B.signals | C.signs | D.marks |
A.since | B.until | C.before | D.after |
A.tense | B.painful | C.better | D.worse |
A.strange | B.dark | C.moving | D.delightful |
A.normal | B.useful | C.different | D.great |
A.in respect of | B.in spite of | C.in addition to | D.in terms of |
A.if | B.while | C.as | D.because |
A.soul | B.comforted | C.assigned | D.wish |
A.describe | B.decide | C.display | D.deny |
A.seems | B.looks | C.grows | D.keeps |
A.young | B.mature | C.strong | D.weak |
A.start | B.step | C.make | D.put |
A.under | B.from | C.behind | D.without |
I begged my mom to let me make cookies by myself. Even though I had never attempted baking before, I was nine years old and my friend Emmie had been baking cupcakes by herself for a year. I was determined to prove that I could make it.
My brother, Caleb, laughed at the idea of me cooking alone, calling it a disaster. Having a big brother can be annoying. Despite his laughing, my mom agreed to let me try. She reminded me to take my time and be careful because I’d had some messy spills before I was nine.
I raced to the kitchen and went to work. I cracked eggs and put a cold stick of butter into the bowl. I turned on the mixer at medium speed—and whoa. Whoa. Whoa! What a disaster! I had to wipe butter off my face, then off the table and floor.
Caleb made fun of me again, calling me a mess. I chased him away with a spoon and turned back to the mixing bowl. I started again with softer butter. Referring to the recipe, I poured everything needed into the bowl and mixed it. After that, I put round batter (面糊) onto the cookie sheet and put it into the oven (烤箱). Within a minute, a fantastic smell filled the kitchen—the smell of cookie success!
I was going to prove that I was responsible. No more eye-rolling from my brother. No more “You’re too young” from my parents. I was grown up and in control.
I stared into the oven, and my heart sank. The neat, little balls had melted (融化) and overflowed to the edges of the cookie sheet. I pulled the pan out just as Caleb wandered back into the kitchen.
“What in the world?” He started to laugh. “Cookie soup?”
“You just be quiet,” I whispered, trying not to cry. “Just leave me alone.”
“How’s it going in there?” Dad called from the living room.
Caleb raised his eyebrows and bit his lip. I responded that everything was fine, pouring the melted batter into the bowl quickly.
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。
Paragraph 1: I picked up the directions, wondering what had gone wrong.
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Paragraph 2: I brought a plate of cookies into the living room for my parents.
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5 . Kwane Stewart, a vet at an animal shelter, stepped outside a convenience store and
Stewart, now 50, has his own practice in town,
There’s a desperate need for his help. About 25 percent of the town’s homeless population owns a pet, but there are few healthcare
He knows there are some people who question whether the homeless should even have pets. “I think that
A.started | B.spotted | C.caught | D.viewed |
A.seated | B.sat | C.put | D.located |
A.symbols | B.signals | C.warnings | D.signs |
A.helped | B.reached | C.approached | D.contracted |
A.Arriving | B.Revisiting | C.Retuming | D.Leaving |
A.yet | B.still | C.though | D.while |
A.decisions | B.options | C.reliefs | D.rights |
A.complete | B.widen | C.fill | D.narrow |
A.anywhere | B.somewhere | C.elsewhere | D.nowhere |
A.operations | B.procedures | C.medicines | D.treatments |
A.Normally | B.Frequently | C.Occasionally | D.Rarely |
A.set up | B.put up | C.built up | D.made up |
A.rather than | B.more than | C.instead of | D.other than |
A.common | B.usual | C.ordinary | D.average |
A.host | B.home | C.god | D.master |
6 . Starting a business at a young age is challenging. 18-year-old Tom Oswald, the owner of the newly-founded “Homeboy Cafe” is the best
The
Oswald tried to maintain an aesthetic and develop a personality for the café that would
Hopefully, weeks later someone showed up. Oswald posted his next video which read, “
A.player | B.role | C.example | D.position |
A.picked out | B.rented out | C.found out | D.carried out |
A.intended | B.expected | C.happened | D.managed |
A.depressing | B.astonishing | C.confusing | D.frightening |
A.unique | B.busy | C.empty | D.smart |
A.hesitate | B.quit | C.fail | D.battle |
A.arrange | B.pursue | C.share | D.create |
A.efforts | B.faiths | C.motives | D.difficulties |
A.Therefore | B.However | C.Otherwise | D.Furthermore |
A.qualities | B.abilities | C.beliefs | D.spirits |
A.inspire | B.pressure | C.allow | D.remind |
A.effect | B.experience | C.touch | D.taste |
A.expanded | B.known | C.improved | D.mastered |
A.ever | B.never | C.still | D.even |
A.Update | B.Warn | C.Advertise | D.Maintain |
Catherine had stayed at home all her life to look after her three children, but now, she, who lost her husband in a car accident, had to step out and earn money to make ends meet. With zero work experience and no professional degree, her chances of getting hired for a well-paid job were next to zero.
One day, after dropping her children at school, Catherine spotted a construction site. “I think I can work here,” she thought and approached the manager.
“Hi, are you hiring?” she asked. “Yes, we are,” the manager looked at Catherine from head to toe. “Are you sure you can work here? This job requires a lot of hard work.” “I’m ready for it,” she told the manager and signed a contract to work a 12-hour shift.
However, Catherine kept her new job a secret from her children. She thought they would feel embarrassed after learning their mother worked at a construction site.
Every morning, after dropping her children to school, she would go to the construction site and work until her shift ended. She would pick up heavy bricks on her shoulder to transport them from one part of the site to the other. One evening, Catherine’s son, Peter, told her about an upcoming contest in school that required mothers to participate. In the competition, students will wear blindfolds and have to recognize their mothers without looking at them. “That sounds like such a cool event, Peter!” Catherine said excitedly. “I can’t wait for it!” “I won’t go therewith you, mom,” Peter replied. “But why?” What her son said next was something Catherine wasn’t prepared to hear.
“Mom, I would have to touch your hands to recognize you, and everyone would look at them,” Peter explained. “Your hands are so ugly. They’re so hard and rough,” he added. “I will feel so embarrassed when my classmates look at your hands,” the boy said. “I won’t attend the event.” Catherine felt terrible but couldn’t say anything in her defense.
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。
Paragraph 1:
A few weeks later, Peter was walking home when something unexpected caught his attention.
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On his way back home, he kept thinking about how he would apologize to his mother:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Cindy nervously glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall. Five minutes before midnight. Her parents were still out there celebrating their 15th anniversary.
“They should be home any time now,” she thought as she put the finishing touches on the chocolate cake. It was the first time in her 12 years she had tried to make a cake from zero, and to be honest, it wasn’t exactly an artistic success. The cake was... well, lumpy. And the coating was bitter, as if she had run out of sugar or something which, of course, she had.
And then there was the way the kitchen looked. Imagine a huge blender(食物搅拌器) filled with all the stuff needed for chocolate cake -including the bowls, plates and tools. Now imagine that the blender is turned on. High speed. With the cover off.
Do you get the idea?
But Cindy wasn’t thinking about the mess. She was anxious for her parents to return home from their date so she could present her anniversary gift to them. Picturing her parents’ surprised faces when they saw the cake, she could feel a wave of excitement washing over her. She turned off the kitchen lights and waited excitedly in the darkness, hoping to give her parents a big surprise. Time seemed to her to be crawling with feet of lead while she anxiously awaited her parents’ arrival. When at last she saw the flash of the car headlights, she positioned herself in the kitchen doorway, her heart thumping like a drum. By the time she heard the key sliding into the front door, she was THIS CLOSE to exploding.
Assuming Cindy was already sound asleep, her parents tried to steal in quietly, but Cindy would have none of that. She turned on the lights dramatically and trumpeted “Ta-daaa!” She gestured grandly toward the kitchen table, where a slightly off-balance chocolate cake awaited their inspection.
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1: But her mother’s eyes never made it all the way to the cake.
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Paragraph 2: “Wow, look at the beautiful chocolate cake,” her father exclaimed.
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9 . A young man was about to go to the office when he received a phone call from a nurse who told him his father was injured and in hospital. So he
The nurse
Throughout the night the young man
Sunrise
A.jogged | B.jumped | C.rushed | D.slid |
A.left | B.forgot | C.remained | D.removed |
A.better | B.worse | C.more | D.finer |
A.in favor of | B.in memory of | C.in search of | D.in fear of |
A.despair | B.joy | C.relief | D.anxiety |
A.cut in | B.turned in | C.called in | D.took in |
A.joined | B.connected | C.led | D.appointed |
A.argued | B.whispered | C.responded | D.described |
A.weakly | B.positively | C.passively | D.generously |
A.took | B.looked | C.ran | D.asked |
A.desired | B.argued | C.concerned | D.recommended |
A.received | B.refused | C.recovered | D.reflected |
A.approaching | B.advancing | C.accounting | D.assuming |
A.obvious | B.beneficial | C.necessary | D.impossible |
A.writing | B.reminding | C.drawing | D.reading |
10 . In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest; a competition she won last year.
As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the con test again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.
An enlightenment came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”
I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into mine without even realizing it.
Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting (借用) my daughter’s experience.
While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices.
1. What do we learn from the first paragraph?A.Children do find lots of fun in many mindless activities. |
B.Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing. |
C.Rebecca is much too occupied to enjoy her leisure time. |
D.A lot of distractions compete for children’s time nowadays. |
A.She does not quite live up to her reputation as a writer. |
B.Her way to success is full of pains and frustrations. |
C.She is constantly under pressure of writing more. |
D.Most of her stories are rejected by publishers. |
A.She wants to share her story with readers. |
B.She believes she possesses real talent for writing. |
C.She is sure of winning with her mother’s help. |
D.She has won a prize in the previous contest. |
A.A writing career is not for every child to pursue. |
B.Children should be allowed room to grow through experiences. |
C.Parents should keep an eye on the activities their kids engage in. |
D.Children should be given every chance to voice their options. |