1 . I was visiting Costa Rica when I found myself in a bad situation: all my bank cards weren’t
I thought the city dangerous and decided to find kind people in the
Finally, I
I realized that being able to receive kindness is a
| A．working | B．paying | C．travelling | D．increasing |
| A．villagers | B．tourists | C．visitors | D．strangers |
| A．street | B．town | C．countryside | D．community |
| A．drove | B．flew | C．headed | D．slid |
| A．buy | B．afford | C．rent | D．earn |
| A．explaining | B．sharing | C．exchanging | D．exploring |
| A．door | B．house | C．man | D．restaurant |
| A．thought of | B．heard of | C．arrived at | D．aimed at |
| A．rich | B．kind | C．busy | D．serious |
| A．proud | B．happy | C．excited | D．sorry |
| A．adventure | B．experience | C．failure | D．strategy |
| A．warm | B．curious | C．cool | D．strange |
| A．choose | B．calm | C．comfort | D．rescue |
| A．gift | B．trouble | C．trap | D．request |
| A．improves | B．challenges | C．encourages | D．designs |
2 . In the Northern Wei Dynasty, there
On a winter morning, the army was again recruiting(征募)new
During the next 12 years, Mulan managed to keep her identity(身份) a(n)
The story has a special meaning in the Chinese society, which shows that females, if they are determined,can also do
| A．took | B．lived | C．had | D．rented |
| A．unusual | B．narrow | C．major | D．equal |
| A．students | B．teachers | C．workers | D．boys |
| A．officials | B．soldiers | C．classmates | D．partners |
| A．younger | B．advanced | C．elder | D．formal |
| A．dress up | B．focus on | C．apply for | D．fall apart |
| A．in case of | B．other than | C．due to | D．instead of |
| A．cut | B．rescued | C．damaged | D．put |
| A．to | B．for | C．in | D．from |
| A．date | B．gap | C．secret | D．event |
| A．survived | B．destroyed | C．contacted | D．admired |
| A．emperor | B．host | C．master | D．expert |
| A．carved | B．struggled | C．refused | D．designed |
| A．recognized | B．called | C．graduated | D．hiked |
| A．graceful | B．great | C．positive | D．curious |
The rain was sudden and heavy on a cold night over ten years ago. Moving all the way against the heavy rain, my bus could barely stick to its normal route and was forced to stop at the station due to flash flooding.
With still two kilometers to go, time ran against me picking up my then four-year-old daughter from her childcare center. What waited for me was knee high water. I had no choice but to struggle through in the pouring rain to buy a cheap plastic coat in the shopping mall for my daughter.
After taking off my jacket and putting it into my bag to keep dry, I pulled up my skirt and took off my shoes, starting to run. Although I was wet through when arriving at the daycare center, I felt lucky to be only a few minutes late. Now I had to fix another problem.
All means of getting home appeared impossible to me. There were no buses with the clock striking 6 pm. I had no money to pay for a taxi. As the sky turned darker and darker, it seemed that we could never manage to get home.
The only thing we could do was to stand outside the childcare center staring at the rain pouring down. There was no sign of stopping. Lost in my own thoughts, I just hardly noticed another parent pull up and race inside to collect his child ten minutes later. I did not recognize him and my thoughts turned back to my current situation.
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I was a single mother with no family in Australia and no close friends I could call.
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I was about to run, when a voice asked, “How far are you going?”
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Today I will introduce two of the “Living Legends of Sports” to you. One is Lang Ping, and
Michael Jordan is known as “Air Jordan”, who showed great mental
Although they are in different sports, they are both
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。
It was a beautiful sunny day when Martin went out into the backyard. It would have been a perfect day to play. But Martin wasn’t out there to play.
Two months before, so interested had Martin been in playing the flute ( 长 笛 ) that he asked his mother to buy him the expensive flute and promised to practice at least thirty minutes every day. But it can be difficult to concentrate on a flute when your room is full of cool stuff like a TV, video games and the Internet. So Martin’s mother sent him to the backyard to practice, where there would be no distractions ( 分 心 的 事 物 ) .
Martin sat down on the grass and brought the flute to his lips. He began doing his fingering exercises with his eyes closed. You have to close your eyes when you want to concentrate on stuff. Anyway, he played for a good forty or fifty seconds before he heard a familiar sound: “Hey, Martin.”
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw the face of his friend, his next-door neighbor, Kris, who was smiling at him from the fence.
“I just got a new movie!” he said, “Want to come over and check it out?”
Well, that was exactly what Martin wanted to do. He loved movies but he shook his head and said sorry. Kris seemed disappointed that Martin had said no. But he also understood that Martin had to practice a lot when learning a musical instrument. So he left and watched the film by himself
Martin was alone with his flute. He closed his eyes and started his fingering exercises again. But he couldn’t concentrate. He wasn’t anything like his father, a biologist. Martin had been to his lab many times. He couldn’t understand why his father could concentrate on his researches for so long a time. When he was thinking, his father came over
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1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
His father smiled when he noticed Martin’s absent-mindedness.
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Martin felt ashamed and then he nodded, saying he hoped to be a great flute player.
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6 . Becca was 6 when she was told she had cancer on Sept. 8, 2014. She clearly remembers the bad days of her 26 months of non-stop treatment. Luckily, Becca celebrated her final treatment on Nov. 13, 2016, and she has been cancer-free ever since. But she was thinking about what her life was like while experiencing the treatment.
“I was never able to do much, and that’s what the kids lying in their hospital beds right now experience, asking their mom and dad, ‘When are we leaving? When can I play with my friends?’ So I decided I have to help them.”
In February, 2017, Becca came up with the idea for Knots and Arrows, a company that makes bracelets(手镯)out of swimsuit materials. Part of the money made from each bracelet goes to the organizations that help people with cancer.
Becca created the company with her father, Gerhard Salmins. Gerhard Salmins once had cancer and already recovered from it. “I would be in the hospital sitting there crying and then my dad would come in and he would play games with me,” she said. “It made me forget about what I was going through.” Becca said the name of the organization shows the motto she stuck to through her personal cancer journey.
Her organization has already given thousands of dollars to research organizations and families in need. Becca said she hopes her bracelets will make people remember that great things can result from small changes. “No matter what age you are, what you look like, how you act, you can make a difference.” she said.
1. What happened to Becca at the end of 2016?| A．She raised a lot of money. | B．She created an organization. |
| C．She recovered from cancer. | D．She was helped by a company. |
| A．He fought off cancer successfully. | B．He showed Becca a famous motto. |
| C．He advised Becca to forget her pain. | D．He named the company Knots and Arrows. |
| A．Brave. | B．Creative. | C．Caring. | D．Clever. |
| A．Becca Enjoys Her Cancer-free Life | B．Mottos Matter on a Cancer Journey |
| C．Becca’s Bracelets Help Fight Cancer | D．Small Changes Make a Big Difference |
7 . Sam Felstead, 42, suffered a heart attack around 4:30 am while sleeping at home. Her 7-year-old cat, Billy, seemingly
After
“I was a bit
“He doesn’t
| A．showed | B．noticed | C．remembered | D．told |
| A．loud | B．fast | C．kindly | D．clearly |
| A．sitting up | B．looking up | C．standing up | D．waking up |
| A．pain | B．wound | C．fear | D．anxiety |
| A．advice | B．help | C．medicine | D．attention |
| A．doctors | B．patients | C．her neighbor | D．her friend |
| A．worried | B．touched | C．disappointed | D．shocked |
| A．tired | B．ill | C．bored | D．sleepy |
| A．Finally | B．Usually | C．Naturally | D．Suddenly |
| A．see | B．hear | C．breathe | D．move |
| A．legs | B．arms | C．chest | D．head |
| A．cost | B．saved | C．improved | D．brightened |
| A．calmly | B．carefully | C．nervously | D．normally |
| A．wrong | B．funny | C．missing | D．acceptable |
| A．hospital | B．shop | C．market | D．station |
8 . A 23-year-old woman just set a record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands, Payne rowed 59 days, before arriving in Antigua. The
The challenge was described as one of the hardest ones on Earth. No
The last 8 miles was really
Payne rowed 15 hours per day alone in the Atlantic Ocean with strong winds. “In the last week, I thought I wasn’t going to break a
But finally Payne
| A．remarkable | B．artistic | C．common | D．industrial |
| A．for fun | B．for sale | C．in charge | D．in need |
| A．error | B．destination | C．support | D．profit |
| A．strong | B．tense | C．ordinary | D．generous |
| A．free | B．tough | C．smooth | D．brief |
| A．measure | B．finish | C．celebrate | D．extend |
| A．something | B．anything | C．everything | D．nothing |
| A．interrupted | B．matched | C．balanced | D．worsened |
| A．describing | B．affecting | C．imagining | D．appreciating |
| A．struggle | B．failure | C．foundation | D．tracking |
| A．container | B．commitment | C．reform | D．record |
| A．globally | B．carelessly | C．determinedly | D．instantly |
| A．disappointing | B．rewarding | C．harmless | D．formal |
| A．lost | B．deserted | C．made | D．refused |
| A．regret | B．screams | C．permission | D．complaints |
For my fourteenth birthday, my mom offered to take me and several friends to the city near our small town to visit a mall, eat pizza in the food court, and then catch a movie. Afterward, we would all return to my house for a slumber party (睡衣晚会). It was just the kind of celebration a teenage girl longed for.
On the awaited day, all the friends I’d invited to join me on this birthday trip attended school — except Nora. When it came time to climb aboard the bus and ride together to my home, she still didn’t show up.
I felt confused. Then I felt mad. Why did she tell me she’d come to the party and then break her word without letting me know? By the time we returned to my house, I decided to call Nora. When she answered, I demanded to know why she had forgotten my birthday celebration. “It’s my birthday!” I declared. “You’re not coming to my party, and you didn’t even let me know. What kind of friend are you?”
Nora explained that she had to stay at home because she was sick.
“OK, so you’re sick ... but how was I supposed to know if you didn’t tell me?” I answered. The conversation only grew more heated from there. By the end of it, Nora could only sob sadly as we both hung up the phone.
At the mall that night, all of us had a great time. I hardly gave Nora or her absence from our fun another thought.
At school on Monday, I avoided seeing her. For the rest of the school year, we barely spoke to one another. I started high school the following year. Our friendship had been relegated (降级) to the past. It happens sometimes, I figured, so I just shrugged it off (不在乎).
Years later, I discovered that Facebook had suggested Nora as a friend. We’d attended the same schools, came from the same town, and had many friends in common; it made sense. It was at that moment that I began to reflect on that ugly phone conversation I’d made with Nora all those years before.
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Recalling what had happened that day, I felt a deep regret for what I had done for the first time.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 . It was a dream born in fire. When Andrea Peterson was 5, she and her mother were trapped on the balcony of a burning building. “Throw the kid down!” said one of the firemen below, and little Andrea jumped into lifesaving arms and a lifelong goal. She wanted to fight fires like her rescuers did.
But in the early 1960’s, little girls weren’t even allowed to fantasize about such great dreams. She told that to the men who had saved her, and they laughed. “You’ll be a good mommy,” the firemen told her. “You’ll be a good teacher, maybe you’ll be a nurse, but you can never be a fireman.”
And then, as it tends to do, life didn’t give her a chance to realize the dream. When Peterson was studying for a degree in aviation technology (航空技术) — the only female in her class, she met her husband, Dennis, a Vietnam vet who later developed cancer. Peterson spent 31 years caring for the man she loved and, in 2007, Dennis left the world.
At 61, She earned her emergency medical technician license (执照) and responded to fire calls with the ambulance (救护车). It turned to be a life-and-death situation, and Peterson felt that long-ago childhood calling. She found that her years of caring for Dennis had prepared her for dealing with different hurts and ills.
A year later, she told her boss she wanted to be a firefighter. The fact that everyone else in her training team was between 18 and 21 didn’t discourage her. She passed the writing test and she cleared the physical difficulties and finally, that little girl’s dream became a reality.
Peterson knows that the window on her physical abilities won’t stay open forever. But when interviewed, she said, “I worry a little when I get too old ... However, I did get my dream.”
1. Why did Andrea Peterson want to be a firefighter?| A．She narrowly escaped from the fire. | B．She was once rescued by firemen. |
| C．She wanted to live an adventurous life. | D．She was encouraged by her mother. |
| A．She carefully looked after her dying husband. |
| B．She joined in the training team to be a firefighter. |
| C．She successful got a degree in aviation technology. |
| D．She helped the injured using her medical knowledge. |
| A．Determined and brave. | B．Kind and humorous. |
| C．Confident and friendly. | D．Generous and honest. |
| A．It’s never too late to change a job. | B．Where there is a will there is a way. |
| C．Time and tide wait for no man. | D．He who laughs last laughs best. |
