2 . Once there was a farmer who had a fine olive orchard (橄榄园). He was very hard-working, and the ________always prospered (繁荣) under his care. But he knew that his three sons looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to become rich.

When the farmer was ________ and felt that he would die, he ________ the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold ________ in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”

The sons tried to know in what part of the orchard the ________ was hidden, but their father would tell them nothing more.

After the farmer was ________, the sons started to find the pot of gold. Since they did not ________ where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one ________ of the orchards, and to dig until one of them should find the money.

They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, around the tree- roots and between them. ________ no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it. The three sons were bitterly ________ to have all their work for nothing.

The next olive ________, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ________ given; when it was ________, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.

And when they saw how much money had ________ from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had ________ when he said, “There is a pot of gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it if you wish it.”

1.

A．hospital

B．farm

C．factory

D．garden

2.

A．old

B．healthy

C．lucky

D．sad

3.

A．led

B．called

C．visited

D．showed

4.

A．discovered

B．stolen

C．hidden

D．collected

5.

A．rings

B．olive

C．gold

D．food

6.

A．lonely

B．dead

C．kind

D．lost

7.

A．think

B．wonder

C．ask

D．know

8.

A．top

B．bottom

C．surface

D．end

9.

A．But

B．So

C．Though

D．If

10.

A．surprised

B．worried

C．excited

D．disappointed

11.

A．season

B．part

C．sale

D．field

12.

A．already

B．still

C．again

D．ever

13.

A．made

B．sold

C．found

D．saved

14.

A．seen

B．agreed

C．come

D．gone

15.

A．meant

B．received

C．accepted

D．guessed

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

For the past 13 years, Martin Burrows has been working as a long-distance truck driver. Spending up to five nights a week on the road can be a lonely business,     1     (leave) him with plenty of time to notice his surroundings. “I kept seeing more rubbish everywhere and it was getting on my nerves. I decided I had to do something about it,” he says. One day, he stopped his vehicle,     2     (take) out a trash bag and started picking up the garbage. The satisfaction after clearing a small area was extremely     3     (remark).

Before his time on the road, Burrows spent over two decades in the military    4     a vehicle driver. His service saw him stationed throughout Europe and also on tours in Afghanistan. After returning to civilian life, he was diagnosed with PTSD (创伤后应激障碍) and had to experience situations     5     his mental health suffered a lot in 2017. His     6     (contribute) in fund-raising for Help for Heroes led him     7     (meet) a man who used model-building as a distraction from PTSD. Burrows realized that his act of roadside cleanup had a similar calming effect on his mental well-being

By 2019, Burrows     8     (begin) using his free time on the road to regularly clean up garbage. Some    9     (passer-by) encouraged him to set up a Facebook group, which he called Truckers Cleaning Up Britain. Since truckers are so often on the move, the Facebook page acts as     10     means of raising awareness rather than a platform for organizing cleanups. Burrows expressed his intention to continue the cleanup efforts as long as his physical condition allowed, as he still found joy in the process.

6 . 将语篇中的中文句子翻译成英文

One day a man was asked to paint a boat by the owner of the boat. He brought with him paint and brushes and began to paint the boat bright red, as the owner asked him. While painting the boat, he saw a hole in the boat. He repaired it at once.     1     (完成刷漆后，他拿了钱便离开了。)

The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter’s house and presented him with a nice check, much higher than the payment of painting.     2     (油漆匠感到非常惊讶。) “You’ve already paid me for painting the boat!” he said.

“But this is not for the paint job. It’s for having repaired the hole in the boat,” the owner said.

“But it was such a small service. Certainly it is not worth paying me such a high amount for something so unimportant!”

“My dear friend, you do not understand.     3     (现在让我告诉你发生了什么。) When I asked you to paint the boat, I forgot to mention the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and went on a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole in the boat. I was not at home at that time. When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was hopeless because I remembered that the boat had a hole.     4     (然而，让我欣喜的是，他们竟然安全回家了!) It was really unbelievable!

“    5     (我立刻检查了这艘船，发现你已经修补了那个洞!) You see, now, what you did? You saved my children! I do not have enough money to pay your ‘small’ good deed.”

So, no matter where, when or how, just carefully repair all the ‘holes’ you find.

参考词汇：finish doing; be surprised; let sb do sth; to one’s joy; immediately

8 . When I was eight years old, Mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go someplace special. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone ________ or that I would at least get a new ________ . I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would be getting something ________ than toy. She said I would get “access (通道) to a world of toys”.

But we did not ________ at any toy store. Nor did we finally see anyone we knew. ________, Mother pulled her car at Marcy Public Library. Mother ________ me directly to the reception desk (接待处).“I’d like to get my daughter a library card,” she told the man ________ the desk. He asked her to fill out a form and smiled at me. “What kind of books do you like?” he asked. I was too shy to ________then. I simply smiled back and shrugged (耸肩) my shoulders. “Well, you’ll know it ________,” he said.

I do not ________ what I picked out that day, but I know that in the years that followed I read ________I could find interesting at that old library. I read through all the Nancy Drew books before advancing ________Judy Blume (注：美国儿童文学作家), then the classics: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare. Then I read ________ on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I ________ knew before.

So Mother was ________ . Getting a library card was like getting access to a world of toys.

1.

A．strange

B．important

C．famous

D．curious

2.

A．toy

B．coat

C．book

D．friend

3.

A．less

B．smaller

C．better

D．fewer

4.

A．visit

B．stop

C．argue

D．wait

5.

A．Still

B．However

C．So

D．Instead

6.

A．led

B．followed

C．passed

D．drove

7.

A．on

B．above

C．through

D．behind

8.

A．reply

B．recover

C．return

D．request

9.

A．now and then

B．more or less

C．sooner or later

D．day and night

10.

A．recommend

B．record

C．remember

D．observe

11.

A．none

B．nothing

C．something

D．everything

12.

A．backwards

B．for

C．in

D．towards

13.

A．newspapers

B．letters

C．books

D．jokes

14.

A．ever

B．always

C．yet

D．never

15.

A．brave

B．right

C．real

D．sincere

9 . 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。

An Unforgivable Mistake

A few years ago, the company I work for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I’ve always loved jogging, so I was really happy when I found the apartment they had rented for us was next to Central Park. This meant that every morning I could go for a run before I went to work.

Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of muggers (行凶抢劫者) in the park, I didn’t usually take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything? But one morning my wife asked me to buy some bread on the way home, so I put a $10 bill in my back pocket.

It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with very few people walking or jogging around. While I was running, another jogger bumped (撞) into me. He apologized and continued running. For a while, I didn’t think too much of it. However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought it was kind of strange. The warning of muggers in the park occurred to me. It could have been a mugger! I suddenly became alarmed, so I checked my pocket. The money was missing! I immediately started to run after the jogger. I finally caught up with and grabbed him firmly by the arm. I started shouting and demanding that he give me the $10 bill. I’m not usually a hot-headed person, but I really lost my temper at that moment. I couldn’t believe the robbery was actually happening to me. Filled with anger, I shook my fist at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me the money. Then he ran away as fast as he could.

I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to tell my wife the story. “You won’t believe what happened to me,” I started with pride. She immediately interrupted (插话), “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”

注意：续写词数应为150左右。
Paragraph 1:

Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.

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Paragraph 2:

For several days, I waited at the same place.

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10 . 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。

A few years ago, the company that I worked for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I’ve always loved running, so I was really happy when I found I lived next to Central Park. This meant that every morning I could go running before I went to work.

Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers (抢劫犯) in the park, so usually I didn’t take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything? But one morning, my wife gave me 10 dollars and asked me to buy some bread on the way. It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with few people walking or jogging around. While I was running through the park, another jogger knocked into (撞到) me. He said sorry to me and continued running. For a while, I didn’t think too much of it.

However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought it was a little strange. The warning of robbers in the park hit me. “It could have been a robber!” I suddenly became anxious, so I checked my pocket and found that the money was missing. Without thinking twice, I ran after that jogger. I finally caught up and held him by the arm. I shouted, “Give me the 10 dollars! Now!” I am not usually a hot-headed (性急的) person, but I got really angry this time. I couldn’t believe the robbery was actually happening to me.

Filled with anger, I shook my fist (拳头) at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me 10 dollars. Then he ran away as fast as he could. I bought the bread and went home.

As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to tell my wife the story. “You won’t believe what happened to me,” I said with pride. She immediately stopped me, “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”

Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.

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But I didn’t give up finding him and for several days, I waited at the same place in the park.

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