1 . Every year about 40,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. They ______ with them lots of waste. The ______ might damage the beauty of the place. The glaciers (冰川) are disappearing, changing the face of Kilimanjaro.

Hearing these stories, I’m ______ about the place — other destinations are described as “purer” natural experiences.

However, I soon ______ that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of ______ among tons of rubbish. I find a ______ mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths. The environmental challenges are ______ but the efforts made by the Tanzania National Park Authority seem to be ______.

The best of a Kilimanjaro ______, in my opinion, isn’t reaching the top. Mountains are ______ as spiritual places by many cultures. This view is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as ______ go through five ecosystems within a few kilometers. At the base is a rainforest. It ends suddenly at 3, 000 meters, ______ lands of low growing plants. Further up, the weather ______ — low clouds envelop the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass. I counted twelve shades of green from where I stand. Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert: gravel (砾石), stones and rocks. ______ you climb into an arctic-like zone with permanent (永久的) snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

Does Kilimanjaro deserve its reputation as a crowded mountain with lines of tourists ______ the atmosphere of peace? I found the opposite to be true.

1.

A．keep

B．leave

C．connect

D．bring

2.

A．stories

B．buildings

C．crowds

D．reporters

3.

A．silent

B．doubtful

C．serious

D．crazy

4.

A．discover

B．argue

C．decide

D．admit

5.

A．equipment

B．grass

C．camps

D．stones

6.

A．clean

B．quiet

C．tall

D．faraway

7.

A．new

B．special

C．significant

D．necessary

8.

A．taking over

B．spreading out

C．carrying on

D．paying off

9.

A．atmosphere

B．experience

C．experiment

D．sight

10.

A．regarded

B．observed

C．explored

D．studied

11.

A．adventurers

B．climbers

C．natives

D．officials

12.

A．holding on to

B．going back to

C．setting out to

D．giving way to

13.

A．changes

B．clears

C．improves

D．permits

14.

A．Obviously

B．Seemingly

C．Absolutely

D．Finally

15.

A．keeping

B．ruining

C．replacing

D．creating

2 . Sadie looked out of the window and sighed (叹气) as she thought about another long, boring day of summer. She wondered what all of her friends from school were doing on their summer vacations. It had to be a lot better than looking out of a window. Sadie thought about the fun she had last summer when she and her best friend Allison went to the beach. They built sandcastles, played beach volleyball, and even tried surfing. But they wouldn’t be going to the beach together this summer because Allison had moved to a different city far away from Sadie’s.

Suddenly, Sadie had an idea. She could call her friend Wendy, who always had funny ideas. Maybe they could ride their bikes together around the park. Sadie raced to the living room, picked up the phone, and called Wendy. She sighed more deeply as the phone rang and rang. Then Sadie seated herself on the sofa, picked up the television remote, and put it down again. She didn’t really want to watch television, so she went to her room and found the list of phone numbers of her good friends from school. In the living room, she called almost each of them, but no one was at home.

After hanging up the phone, Sadie wandered into the kitchen and sat down at the table, watching her mom do the cleaning. “Mom, I don’t have anyone to hang out with because my friends from school aren’t home and Allison moved away,” said Sadie. “Honey, there are many things you can do by yourself, like playing your guitar or having a walk in the garden. You could even finish that story about our camping trip,” said Mom.

“I don’t want to do those things by myself. I want to play with a friend.” “Sometimes, it is nice to do things by yourself,” said Mom. “I like seeing my friends, but I also like doing things alone like taking a walk by myself or finding a quiet spot to read. Why not have a try?”

Sadie thought about her mom’s words and returned to her room.

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Disappoint     ride     take     suggest     bore   strike     phone     look     how     friend     her     tired
A Different Way to Spend Summer
__________out of the window, Sadie sighed and wondered___________her friends spent their summer vacations.	→	Sadie felt quite___________.
↓		↓
It___________her that she could call her friend Wendy___________ bikes.	→	Sadie raced to the living room and picked up the___________.
↓		↓
Since Wendy didn’t answer the phone, Sadie called other____________, but nobody was at home.	→	Sadie felt quite___________.
↓		↓
Without anything to do, Sadie turned to her mom for___________.	→	Mom told Sadie sometimes it was nice to do things by___________.

2. What was the problem Sadie faced and why?
__________________________________________________
3. How did Sadie spend her vacation last summer?
__________________________________________________
4. What changes will Sadie make after listening to her mother’ words?
__________________________________________________

3 . When my father was dying, I traveled a thousand miles from home to be with him in his last days. It was far more heartbreaking than I’d expected, one of the most difficult and painful times in my life. After he passed away I stayed alone in his apartment. There were so many things to deal with. It all seemed endless. I was lonely. I hated the silence of the apartment.

But one evening the silence was broken: I heard crying outside. I opened the door to find a little cat on the steps. Thin and poor, he looked the way I was. I brought him inside and gave him a can of fish. He ate it and then almost immediately fell sound asleep.

The next morning I checked with neighbors and learned that the cat had been given up by his owner who’d moved out. So the little cat was there all alone, just like I was. As I walked back to the apartment, I tried to figure out what to do with him. Having something else to take care of seemed like the very last thing I needed. But as soon as I opened the apartment door he came running and jumped into my arms. It was clear from that moment he had no intention of going anywhere. I started calling him Willis, in honor of my father’s best friend.

From then on, things grew easier. With Willis in my lap, time seemed to pass much more quickly. When the time finally came for me to return home I had to decide what to do about Willis. There was absolutely no way I would leave without him.

It’s now been five years since my father died. Over the years, several people have commented on how nice it was of me to rescue the cat. But I know that we rescued each other. I may have given him a home but he gave me something greater.

1. How did the writer feel when she first saw the cat?

A．Happy.

B．Sad.

C．Doubtful.

D．Excited.

2. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph mean?

A．The author needed to do something else badly.

B．The author lacked the experience of raising a cat.

C．The author couldn’t decide what to do in the situation.

D．The author was too busy and heartbroken to keep a cat.

3. What can we learn about Willis from the passage?

A．He ensured the safety of the apartment.	B．He didn’t like staying in the apartment.
C．He was abandoned by his previous owner.	D．He was found outside the author’s own home.

4. What’s the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?

A．To highlight the benefits of being one with nature.

B．To share tips on how to take good care of animals.

C．To remind people to cherish their family members.

D．To appreciate the cat’s company and healing power.

4 . A couple of months before I started high school, my parents gave me the greatest gift any teenage boy could ask for: a cellphone. I lived on that phone all summer with my face buried in its screen. I ignored my family and my surroundings. Being connected was more important than being present.

So, you can imagine my displeasure when I learned what my dad had planned for our family vacation that year. “This year,” my dad said, “we’ll be doing something special. We’re going camping!” His excitement was met with a disappointed sigh. It wasn’t my dream vacation because mind was on my phone. I was so buried in the screen, in fact, that the first time I can remember truly looking up was when we drove across a bridge on the way to our campsite.

I stared out the window and saw redwoods towering above us, their branches threatening to pierce (刺破) the blue sky. I saw a roaring river, with slivers of silky black water appearing between crashing white rapids. The air blowing into the car from the open windows was hot. But none of that mattered to me. The reason I had looked up was for something far more serious: my phone no longer had service.

The last hour of the drive was increasingly tense. My dad announced that he had chosen a campsite that had no cell service, and that my phone would be useless until we returned home. I would be trapped in the forest for four days with no way to contact the outside world! I went through the full cycle of teenage emotions during the first day of the trip. I raged. I bargained. I begged. I flip-flopped (转变) from a depressive state to anger and back.

I went to bed angrily that night. But when I awoke in the morning, something had changed.

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ignore   enjoy   teenager   present   prize   disappoint bury   surrounding   camp   serve   anger   use

The author, a ______ boy, shared a four-day family vacation in which he was separated from his cellphone.

PLOT	FEELING
Months before the author started high school, his parents gave him a cellphone as a ______.	The author was very happy.
With his face ______ in the screen, the author lived on the cellphone all summer.	He ______his family and his ______.
Dad planned to go _____ for their family vacation that year.	The author was very displeased and ______.
On the way to the campsite, the author was so absorbed in his cellphone that he didn’t raise his head until his phone was out of ______.	The scenery on the way didn’t matter at all to the author.
The last hour of the drive became even more tense when the author got to know that his phone would be ______ until they went back home.	The author was depressed and ______.

2. What problem did the author have after he got a cellphone?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What would they do the next day?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How would the author feel at the end of the vacation? Why?
____________________________________________________________________________________________

5 . “Hi! How are you? A woman smiled as she took the seat beside me. She squeezed her fat body into the scat, and I _________ a little towards the window, feeling worried silently about the long hours of _________. I was going to experience with this “enormous monster” beside me.

She said, “My name is Laura. Since we’re going to spend six hours side by side, we’d better be friends.” She didn’t _________ my unfriendly reactions. She talked _________ about herself and her trip to Hong Kong.

I gave her one-word answers to her questions about me. Not affected by my _________, she nodded as she made _________ about my answers. She was warm and considerate, _________ that I bad enough room to stretch in my scat. I couldn’t help but let down my _________ slowly. Laura was so interesting that she made every crew member on the plane who _________ us walk away laughing at her jokes.

I asked Laura, “Have you ever __________ losing some weight?” “No, I don’t trust the advertisements from fitness centres.” “You aren’t worried about the diseases that come with being __________?” “Not at all. I eat __________ and walk frequently; I’m this size, and the reason is that I was born to be big! There is more to life than worrying about weight all day long.” She drank her wine. “Besides, I have so much __________ that I need a bigger body to hold all of it! Why would I lose weight to lose my happiness?”

__________ by her unusual reasoning, I smiled. I suddenly __________ that Laura was the most beautiful woman I had ever met in my life.

1.

A．moved

B．turned

C．walked

D．changed

2.

A．darkness

B．discomfort

C．silence

D．tiredness

3.

A．think highly of

B．take part in

C．catch up with

D．take notice of

4.

A．nervously

B．gently

C．sadly

D．excitedly

5.

A．coldness

B．disappointment

C．doubt

D．confidence

6.

A．notes

B．comments

C．mistakes

D．noises

7.

A．giving out

B．agreeing on

C．making sure

D．feeling like

8.

A．idea

B．seat

C．guard

D．attention

9.

A．awoke

B．avoided

C．called

D．served

10.

A．considered

B．combined

C．reacted

D．excused

11.

A．anxious

B．weak

C．embarrassed

D．overweight

12.

A．slowly

B．healthily

C．luckily

D．actively

13.

A．happiness

B．work

C．pain

D．wealth

14.

A．Exhausted

B．Upset

C．Amazed

D．Frightened

15.

A．proved

B．realized

C．imagined

D．remembered

6 . When I was a boy we used to live across the road from a big hill with huge oak trees growing out of it. When winter arrived, thick, heavy snow would fall, and my two brothers would grab their sleds (雪橇) heading over to the hill for a day of fun. I remember watching them with envy because I was still too small to go sledding. Finally, one winter I was considered big enough and joined my brothers as they carried their sleds up the long hill and prepared to ride down it.

The first few trips I rode with one of my brothers and had the time of my life. It was so exhilarating when the wind whipped across my face as I flew down the hillside on the wooden sled. Near the end of the day I was overjoyed too when my oldest brother decided to let me try riding the sled all by myself. I climbed on it full of excitement and lay on my stomach. Then with one big push my brother sent me down the snowy hillside. I was doing pretty well too until I hit an old stump hidden by the snow and went off course, straight towards one of those big oak trees. My heart pounded in my chest and I could hear myself screaming. At the last possible second I rolled off and the sled crashed into the tree. I could hear my brothers running down the hill yelling, “You have to steer (操控)! You have to steer!”

Sadly, that wasn’t the last time I failed to steer when some obstacle knocked me off course in my life. Many times problems, troubles, and my own failures have sent me crashing into the trees of anger, frustration, and despair. I am still learning that life isn’t always safe sledding. I am still learning that it is up to me to steer myself back to love, back to kindness, and back to goodness.

Life is a trip, but no one ever said it was a smooth ride. Steer well then. Steer straight. Steer your soul towards the light and the love we are all meant for.

1. What do we know about the author when he was very young?

A．He lived on a big hill with huge oak trees on it.

B．He was frightened to go sledding with his brothers.

C．He longed to go sledding with his brothers.

D．He carried his brothers’ sleds as they went sledding.

2. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “exhilarating” in Paragraph 2?

A．Delightful.

B．Terrifying.

C．Ordinary.

D．Violent.

3. Why did the author fall off his sled?

A．Because his sled crashed in an oak tree.	B．Because he lost control of his sled.
C．Because his brother pushed it so hard.	D．Because the hillside was snowy.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．A Life out of Control.	B．A Life with Courage and Determination.
C．A Life in My Hands.	D．A Life of Coincidences.

7 . 任务型阅读

Eric was working in a selling business. He had been on the road visiting people for more than a month without going home. He couldn’t wait to get back to see his wife and children. It was coming up on Mother’s Day, and he usually tried to make it “back home”, but this year he was just too busy and too tired. The day when he was driving in a small town, he saw a flower shop. He said to himself, “I know what I will do. I’ll send my mother some roses.”

He stopped and went into the flower shop and saw a young man talking to the girl in it. “How many roses can I get for five dollars, Miss？” the young man asked. The girl was trying to explain that roses were expensive. Maybe the young man would be happy with something else.

“No. I have to have roses,” he said. “My mom was badly sick last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. I want to get something special. It has to be red roses, because that is her favorite.” He was stubborn.

The girl in the shop looked up at Eric and was just shaking her head. Something inside of Eric was touched by the boy’s voice. He wanted to get those roses so badly. Eric had been lucky in his business, and he looked at the girl and silently said that he would pay for the young man’s roses.

The girl looked at the young man and said, “OK, I will give you a dozen red roses for your dollars.” The young man almost jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran down the store. It was worth more than fifty dollars just to see that kind of excitement.

Eric ordered his own flowers and asked the girl to have it delivered to his mother. After that, with a relief he drove down the road. Not long after his driving,he saw the young man walking to a graveyard (墓地)．

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try             favor          bad          touch               excite        deliver tiring        he            walk          special            drive             explain
Before stepping into the flower shop.	Eric was too busy and__________ to visit his mother on the coming Mother’ Day as he usually did in the past so he decided to buy and send____mother some roses.
In the flower shop	Eric saw a young man__________to buy roses with just five   dollars   and   the   girl tried____that roses were expensive and offered something else.
	The young man insisted on red roses which were her mother’s_________. He wanted to give her something special because   her mom was_________sick last year and he didn’t get to spend much time with her.
	Eric_________by the boy’s voice and offered to pay for the young man’s roses.
	The girl gave the young man a dozen red roses and he took the flowers and ran down the store in_______Eric ordered his own flowers and had it_____________to his mother.
After stepping out of the flower shop	With a relief, Eric__________down the road and saw the young man walking to a graveyard．

2. What did Mother’s Day mean to Eric?
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. How did Eric feel after helping the young man?
___________________________________________________________________________________
4. What might Eric do after he saw the young man walking to a graveyard?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________

10 . I was 11 years old standing outside in just my underwear while I watched the house that I grew up in rapidly burn to the ground.

A few minutes earlier I had been in bed when a scream woke me up. My grandma’s bedroom was just next to mine and my brother’s. A fire had broken out there and awakened her. Hearing her, my brother jumped into action, running from room to room quickly waking everyone in the house. Before we could do anything the fire destroyed it. We all had just made it outside when the flames (火焰) took hold of every room.

I stood there shaking while the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched helplessly while my mom cried and my dad sighed. I wondered what was going to happen to us because we had lost all our things.

As I looked around, though, I realized something for the first time: The things that mattered were not things. I saw my brother running around to get help. I saw my grandma and dad wrapped in each other’s arms and my mom holding our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all alive. Our lives would continue without the”stuff” that was burning. We would all live to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.

1. Who first found the house was on fire?

A．The author.

B．The brother.

C．The grandma.

D．The parents.

2. What was the author thinking about when seeing everything destroyed?

A．He was wondering how the fire got started.

B．He was worried about their life after the fire.

C．He was mad about losing his clothes and toys.

D．He felt lucky that they were saved by the firefighters.

3. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in paragraph 4?

A．That their life and family matter most.

B．That his family was lucky enough to escape.

C．That family and pets both meant a lot to him.

D．That the things burned in the fire didn’t matter at all.

4. Which of the following quotes is the author most likely to agree with?

A．“Keep calm and carry on.” —the Ministry of Information, UK

B．“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

C．“You’ll be alive. That’s what matters. Enjoy what you have.” —Richelle Mead

D．“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” —Marjorie Pay Hinckley