2 . I was a shy girl and I was afraid to talk to people I didn’t know. I enjoyed the ________ of exploring nature. However, at school I had to spend all day in the ________ of others. My escape was reading. I spent a lot of time studying and was rewarded (回报) with good grades. My only failure was Spanish —— I’d get all As on my written work and tests, but Ds and Fs on the ________ part.

Eventually I went to college. During my third year of college, I had ________ of being shy and determined to change my outlook and behavior. One day while at school, I noticed an advertisement for positions on the local classical music radio station. I had ________ listening to classical music, and I could easily pronounce names such as Tchaikovsky and Chopin.

I had no background in radio, and absolutely no hope of getting the job. The idea of ________ thousands of listeners in “radio land” terrified me. However, I ________ survived the interview. I was given brief descriptions of symphonies (交响乐) and a public service announcement to read, and a list of composers’ names ________. It wasn’t hard for me. I left the recording session (录音场次) with a sense of relief and a sense of accomplishment (成就). About two weeks later I actually landed the job. It was a ________ job, but I grew to ________ it greatly. I began to feel comfortable talking to people.

Although I now spend many hours each week talking with people, I’m ________ basically a quiet person. Perhaps it is my soft voice and my ________ nature that helps draw people out when they answer my questions when I ________ them. My former shyness is a fortune, as I can understand people who feel uncomfortable when they talk to reporters. I still enjoy moments of loneliness and the ________ found in nature. But I’m also glad I decided to make a(an) ________ in my life that has opened many doors and opportunities that I never knew existed.

1.

A．adventure

B．loneliness

C．pleasure

D．excitement

2.

A．care

B．center

C．company

D．concentration

3.

A．written

B．spelt

C．listened

D．spoken

4.

A．nothing

B．little

C．much

D．enough

5.

A．grown up

B．picked up

C．taken up

D．woken up

6.

A．explaining to

B．talking to

C．listening to

D．applying to

7.

A．quickly

B．hardly

C．luckily

D．nearly

8.

A．to pronounce

B．to type

C．to recite

D．to recommend

9.

A．pleasant

B．challenging

C．comfortable

D．painful

10.

A．hate

B．understand

C．adjust

D．enjoy

11.

A．even

B．still

C．seldom

D．also

12.

A．outgoing

B．quiet

C．optimistic

D．confident

13.

A．persuade

B．advise

C．remind

D．interview

14.

A．wealth

B．sound

C．peace

D．wildness

15.

A．change

B．study

C．promise

D．arrangement

3 . Anita is a mother who clearly likes her son. From the moment she found out that she was to give birth to her son with a cleft (裂口), she protected him, loved him, and dreamed of the day his lip would be healed.

Anita lives in a small village about two hours from Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines. She already had six children when they found out she would have Aljay, her seventh.

When the doctor performed an ultrasound (超声波) in Anita’s seventh month of pregnancy (怀孕), he saw that her unborn child had a cleft. “He told me to get rid of him.” Anita said, tears pouring down her cheeks. “I told him that you don’t just give birth and then give it up. I told him I want this child.”

When Anita showed her new baby to her neighbors, they were horrified. “Your son looks like a monster (怪物)” they told me, and “to get rid of him”. In many places around the world there is a widespread and severe social shame associated with cleft conditions and families are often forced to hide newborns from their family members and communities.

Hearing her son being laughed at was not the worst of it. “When I tried to feed him, the milk came out of his nose. I was worried that he could die.”

Aljay survived and loved school, but what he suffered from the other children was hard to bear. They teased him, laughed at him, and called him a monster.

When the teasing became too much Anita would take Aljay to the cornfields so he was hidden from view and nobody could tease him anymore. When the family heard that Operation Smile was coming to Cagayan de Oro they began saving money to afford transport to get to the city. At the medical mission Anita finally received news she was waiting for: Aljay was healthy enough to receive surgery. After just over 45 minutes his lip was repaired and his life was transformed.

Today Aljay is a happy and cheerful boy who loves going to school and playing with other children.

1. What problem did Aljay have to face?

A．He was born with a cleft lip

B．He was called a monster

C．He was teased by his neighbors

D．He was forced to hide himself

2. Besides her son being teased, what else did Anita worry about?

A．whether she could afford to heal the cleft lip

B．whether they could return home after Aljay was hidden

C．whether Aljay could survive

D．whether Aljay could be healthy enough to receive the operation

3. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．A mother’s love

B．A boy with cleft lip

C．Aljay’s new smile

D．Unkind neighbors

4 . One summer night, my friends and I stole into the Jordans’ backyard and started harvesting their sweet, juicy raspberries (树莓). We were enjoying every bite of the tasty berries_______Mr Jordan came charging outside all of a sudden.

“What are you boys doing out here?” he yelled as my friends ran off_______all directions. He attempted to catch one or two as they rushed past him, but they were too_______for the older gentleman to catch. Within seconds, the boys_______into the dark of the summer night. All except me.

However, speed was never my_______. I took the tongue-lashing(痛骂) that Mr Jordan gave me as he marched me down the block to my house, where my mother took over and scolded me_______. My friends said they could hear every_______word she spoke from the darkness of our backyard, where they had gathered to_______their escape and to observe my capture.

They teased me about it for days afterwards, while all I could do was complain about how_______it was that I was the only one who had to pay the price. After about a week of this, I complained to my father about the inequality of the situation. Dad said, “You took raspberries without________, and you get exactly the punishment you deserved.”

“But what about the other guys?” I asked. “They didn’t get punished at all!”

“That’s not my concern nor should it be yours,” Dad said. “You can’t________what happens to others. You can only________what happens to you. You made a bad choice that night, and you were punished for it.”

________the duration of the following years, I come to realize there is no guarantee that life will treat us fairly. That’s why we can’t________comparing our lives with the lives of others. Like Dad said, that isn’t our________.

1.

A．before

B．while

C．when

D．after

2.

A．towards

B．in

C．at

D．from

3.

A．smart

B．foxy

C．swift

D．intelligent

4.

A．hid

B．marched

C．hurried

D．disappeared

5.

A．strength

B．power

C．intention

D．option

6.

A．cruelly

B．bitterly

C．mercilessly

D．pitifully

7.

A．colorful

B．offensive

C．violent

D．creative

8.

A．negotiate

B．celebrate

C．plot

D．congratulate

9.

A．unhappy

B．frustrating

C．disappointing

D．unfair

10.

A．thinking

B．warning

C．asking

D．informing

11.

A．control

B．predict

C．accept

D．explain

12.

A．put up with

B．get away with

C．agree with

D．deal with

13.

A．In

B．For

C．Through

D．Since

14.

A．get stuck in

B．get engaged in

C．be involved in

D．be buried in

15.

A．problem

B．complaint

C．concern

D．choice

5 . 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。

When school was over, the day was fading and it started to drizzle(毛毛雨). I stood at the school gate, with a loaded backpack on my shoulders. It was Friday again: a weekend of joy with unlimited sleeping hours and dinner courses specially made to my taste, a weekend at home. I waved goodbye to my friends as they jumped into their fathers’ warm and comfortable cars. Curiously, this gave rise to a disturbing feeling in me. It was not exactly what they called jealousy, but something like dismay(沮丧). I knew all I could expect was an old bike Mom would ride along on, with the badly-oiled chain creaking(嘎吱作响) against the wheel to announce her arrival.

Every Friday when Mom came to pick me up for the weekend, it was a moment full of great expectation and great unease. I always felt my face burning as we rode our way in and out of the numerous cars and saw my friends’ faces sticking out of the car windows. It was like stepping into a ballroom with beautifully dressed ladies and finding yourself in a smelly T-shirt.

To tell you the truth, Mom is quite a headache once in a while. She just looks a homely middle-aged housewife. Being a practitioner of DIY, she knits most of my sweaters, chiefly in old styles. Whenever caught by some curious classmates asking what brand my sweaters are, I’d force a smile and reply in a half joking manner: homemade.

I couldn’t remember when I started to find her such an embarrassment. As a little boy, I relied on her so much. She had been working at home, cooking in the kitchen, knitting by the lamp or riding across town to buy me a book I badly needed. It had always been much fun riding with mom. But just now there seemed to be something standing between us, something that made her so strange to me and me to her.

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。

Today she showed up in a raincoat.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mom tried to cover me with the back of the raincoat again as a storm set in.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6 . I have a close childhood friend, who quit university for lack of financial support. When he got married and lived a well-off life, he thought it a(n) ________ to give up his education. So he spent the last eight years attending night ________ to get his bachelor’s degree (学士学位) while also doing a full-time job. He said it was a(n) ________ but well worth the time and efforts. Last month, after years of late nights and weekends of studying, he ________ graduated.

He ________ in our hometown after high school, ________ most of his friends, myself included, left long ago for other states for university and jobs. Over time, work, families, and other ________ have made it difficult for us all to be ________ in our hometown at the same time.

I put forward a wonderful idea: plan a weekend that we’d all be ________ to fly back to our hometown to surprise him and celebrate his ________. It was so much fun ________ the affair. The bait (诱饵): his mom told him that he was going to have ________ with just his grandparents to celebrate. Little did he know that the family dinner would ________ a 20-person affair with friends from all around the states. I got to ________ a cake so that everyone ________ the party could enjoy it.

When the guest of honor arrived to “dinner with the ________”, he was so surprised to find the room________ with those who he hadn’t seen for years. They all laughed to him ________ they were in high school.

The “white lie” dinner plan was a great ________ for me. And all the friends present thought it a good ________ to arrange the party.

1.

A．anger

B．pity

C．accident

D．fact

2.

A．club

B．party

C．cafe

D．school

3.

A．improvement

B．solution

C．challenge

D．failure

4.

A．finally

B．quickly

C．suddenly

D．luckily

5.

A．taught

B．stayed

C．arrived

D．married

6.

A．so

B．while

C．or

D．for

7.

A．adventures

B．requests

C．experiences

D．arrangements

8.

A．inside

B．apart

C．back

D．out

9.

A．safe

B．eager

C．available

D．anxious

10.

A．birthday

B．achievement

C．examination

D．wisdom

11.

A．debating

B．studying

C．planning

D．controlling

12.

A．lunch

B．dinner

C．time

D．fun

13.

A．turn into

B．give up

C．relate to

D．focus on

14.

A．sell

B．deliver

C．cut

D．order

15.

A．attending

B．leaving

C．receiving

D．tasting

16.

A．teachers

B．grandparents

C．classmates

D．friends

17.

A．covered

B．provided

C．crowded

D．decorated

18.

A．even if

B．as if

C．what if

D．even though

19.

A．surprise

B．worry

C．success

D．stress

20.

A．chance

B．duty

C．determination

D．idea

7 . The mom had died when the rescuers found her after the terrible earthquake. She was covered by a destroyed house. Through gaps (缝隙) of those ruins，the rescuers could see her last posture (姿势)．It was something like an ancient person who was kowtowing (叩头)，but it just looked strange because she was out of shape by pressure.

The rescuers confirmed her death by touching her through the gaps of the ruins. They shouted at the ruins again and again，knocked the bricks using various tools，but no reply inside.

Then the rescuing team went to the next building. Suddenly the leader ran back，calling “Come here.” He came to the body，put his hands under the woman，feeling and touching，then shouted loudly and gladly，“There is someone，a baby，still living.”

Through some efforts，rescuers cleaned up the ruins which blocked her. Under her body lay her baby，who was covered by a small red quilt (棉被)．He was about 3 or 4 months’old. Since well protected by his mother’s body，he was safe. He was in a deep sleep when the rescuer carried him out，and his lovely and peaceful face warmed everyone around him. The doctor，along with the rescuing team，took the baby out of the quilt to check if the baby was all right，and he found there was a mobile phone in the quilt. The doctor looked at the screen; a written   message was already there：“My dear baby if you could live，don’t forget how much I love you.” As a doctor，he experienced much of this type of separation; but at this moment，he cried. The mobile phone was passed，and every person who saw this message shed (流出) tears.

1. When the rescuers found the mom，she________.

A．was using her mobile phone to ask for help

B．begged the rescuers to save her baby first

C．was struggling with the pressure

D．didn’t have the normal shape

2. When the baby was rescued，he________.

A．was smiling a lot	B．was fast asleep
C．was listening carefully	D．was frightened to death

3. After seeing the words on the mobile phone，people was________.

A．pleased	B．excited
C．moved	D．tired

4. The passage is mainly about________.

A．a story of saving a mother and her baby

B．the disaster of a terrible earthquake

C．the rescuers’ hard work after an earthquake

D．the great love of a mother in the earthquake

8 . After a tough week, I wanted to have a good rest. I went to the near beach for some _______ time with myself. It was a lovely, warm weekend in California, kids _______ playing in the water, or building sandcastles.

When I was to leave, I _______ a girl playing by herself. She built a little sandcastle with a moat (护城河) around it and was trying to fill it with water. Unfortunately, there was no _______ around to carry water. She would go to the waves, _______ her hands and then walk back to her little castle. _______, not much of the water was making it to the moat. But she kept trying, still smiling and _______. As I was standing there watching her big project, I _______ that I had a bottle of water in my bag. I quickly _______ my bag, took out the bottle , and walked over to hand it to her. ________ at first, she smiled but ________ her head shyly, saying no. I told her that it would make getting the water much faster. She smiled and finally took it from my hands after I ________ . Looking back, I saw her running over to the sea with a big smile, ________ in hand.

As for me, it was a small ________. But I also know that when she meets someone in need, maybe, she would think of this little act of kindness by a ________. And maybe she would help create a little gentler world around her.

1.

A．formal

B．comfortable

C．relaxing

D．valuable

2.

A．definitely

B．frequently

C．hurriedly

D．joyfully

3.

A．observed

B．caught

C．concerned

D．noticed

4.

A．container

B．access

C．bowl

D．spoon

5.

A．raise

B．cup

C．target

D．clap

6.

A．Luckily

B．Sadly

C．Excitedly

D．Surprisingly

7.

A．lonely

B．depressed

C．disappointed

D．hopeful

8.

A．realized

B．decided

C．believed

D．expected

9.

A．watched over

B．searched for

C．picked up

D．got through

10.

A．Embarrassed

B．Frightened

C．Confused

D．Amused

11.

A．lowered

B．held

C．nodded

D．shook

12.

A．donated

B．insisted

C．complained

D．promised

13.

A．bottle

B．strategy

C．castle

D．measure

14.

A．experience

B．act

C．process

D．change

15.

A．stranger

B．gentleman

C．passer-by

D．newcomer

9 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题｡
1. For what did the boy wear a plastic bag?

A．He couldn’t afford a sport shirt.

B．He wanted to draw others’ attention.

C．He had no clothes to wear.

2. Where did the woman watch the video?

A．In a friend’s cellphone.

B．On television.

C．On a social media platform.