1 . 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。

Sean was a single father of three kids who had just lost their mother to cancer. Shortly afterwards, he had to sell his house to pay the medical bills. Worse still, he had to quit his job as a regional manager due to too many absences he acquired in taking care of his wife while she was sick. Their lives sank into extreme poverty. He had to do part-time work to pay off his debts. He never imagined what his life would become. Everything felt hopeless. Anyway, he continued with his life, earning barely enough money to feed his kids.

Today was a bit different.He went to the nearest gas station after work.He had an extra $2 with which he could buy himself a cheap hot dog. It was a little treat he would give himself. As he walked toward the gas station, he saw a man panicking, saying something to a woman in the car. Not knowing why they were so worried,he continued walking until the man called out to him.

“Sir, I’m so sorry to ask, but my wife is in labor(临产), and we’re out of gas. I left my wallet and phone at home as we were rushing out of the house. Is there any way you can help me?” the man said. His desperate eyes pulled at Sean’s heartstrings.

“Well, sir. I only have 2 dollars, but you can have it!” Sean said, reaching into his pocket and producing the 2 dollars. “Thank you! That works. I have a few coins in the car, but I can get a gallon and reach the hospital with that.” The man took the bills gratefully.

“I’m Matthew. Please give me your contact information so I can pay you back.” “No need. I only hope you and your wife get to the hospital safely,” Sean smiled. But Matthew insisted. Finally, Sean gave him his number.

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1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式作答。

The following morning, Sean received a video call from Matthew.

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Knowing Sean’s experience, Matthew invited him to be a regional manager in his company.

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2 . When she was just 9 years old, Hilde Lysiak became famous across the United States for reporting on different news stories.

Hilde Lysiak’s father was a reporter for New York Daily News. When she was young, he often took her to work with him, so she developed a strong interest in news reporting.

At age 8, Hilde Lysiak started her own newspaper, called Orange Street News (OSN). Her family lived on Orange Street at the time. Hilde Lysiak wanted to cover stories important to everyone in her town. Following the rules her father had taught her, she researched and reported stories in her monthly newspaper. She also set up her own website and reported on YouTube.

OSN suddenly became famous when a murder happened in town, and 9-year-old Hilde was the first person to report it. Soon, news organizations around the country were writing and reporting stories about Hilde. However, not everyone was happy about Hilde’s efforts. Some people criticized (批评) her parents for allowing her to report on something as unpleasant as a murder. Others criticized Hilde for “pretending to be a reporter”. Hilde was upset about the complaints (埋怨). She responded with a YouTube video, “I never began my newspaper so that people would think I was cute,” she said. “I want to be taken seriously. I am sure other kids do, too.”

That wasn’t the first time Hilde had found it hard for people to take her seriously, which was mainly because of her age. But she never let that stop her. Hilde continued reporting.

In 2019, Hilde wrote a book for young people, called Hilde Cracks the Case, which is based on stories that Hilde wrote. The book was then turned into a TV show called Home Before Dark. For now, Hilde says she has given up reporting. But her efforts have already inspired people around the world.

1. How did Hilde develop her passion for news reporting?

A．By going to work with her father.

B．By reading so many news reports herself.

C．By watching how other reporters perform their jobs.

D．By teaching herself the skills and knowledge about news reporting.

2. What is the correct time order of the following events?
a. The murder was first reported.
b. The book Hilde Cracks the Case came out.
c. The TV show Home Before Dark was shot.
d. The newspaper Orange Street News was started.

A．d-a-b-c

B．b-c-a-d

C．d-c-b-a

D．a-d-c-b

3. Why did some people think little of Hilde?

A．She was too young as a reporter.

B．She frequently reported unpleasant news.

C．She often made up stories that were unreal.

D．She usually made mistakes in reporting news stories.

4. What did Hilde do in the face of others’ critical voices?

A．She turned to her father for help and comfort.

B．She posted a YouTube video to express herself.

C．She felt disappointed and gave up reporting immediately.

D．She published an article in New York Daily News to defend herself.

3 . In her 102 years, Sally Lepis has been known for helping her family, friends and neighbors. So when the old lady couldn’t _______ to replace her decades-old hearing aids (助听器) and it became increasingly difficult to _______, a local non-profit was happy to give a _______. Last month, Lepis was presented (赠予) with hearing aids, worth about $7,500, through Senior Dreams Come True, a non-profit program _______ by a law firm.

“Mrs. Lepis has _______ so much of herself over the years to friends, family and those _______ in her community,” said Jennifer Cona, a managing partner at the law firm. Lepis has long been the _______ that’s kept her family together, her niece, Olivia Schmidt, 73, said. When Schmidt was a teenager, her mother, Lepis’ twin sister, died at age 42. Lepis _______ jumped in and raised Schmidt in her Westbury home.

“It’s _______ that she has done so much for so many people and thinks ________ of it,” said Schmidt, who ________ to recommend her aunt for Senior Dreams Come True over the summer.

In July, Schmidt and her cousins wrote letters to the non-profit, ________ Lepis for her lifetime of ________ deeds. Later that month, Lepis learned she would ________ new hearing aids, replacing the ones she had used for the past 25 years, and it is ________ that Lepis will again be a lively presence at her family’s Thanksgiving dinner.

1.

A．expect

B．afford

C．stop

D．offer

2.

A．communicate

B．exercise

C．explain

D．see

3.

A．suggestion

B．promise

C．hand

D．prize

4.

A．lent

B．sold

C．run

D．recommended

5.

A．given

B．lost

C．talked

D．hidden

6.

A．with patience

B．with luck

C．in charge

D．in need

7.

A．voice

B．bond

C．tradition

D．change

8.

A．gratefully

B．repeatedly

C．eventually

D．immediately

9.

A．pitiful

B．challenging

C．natural

D．amazing

10.

A．nothing

B．something

C．everything

D．anything

11.

A．asked

B．decided

C．managed

D．continued

12.

A．forgiving

B．thanking

C．admiring

D．praising

13.

A．good

B．creative

C．basic

D．wise

14.

A．produce

B．buy

C．receive

D．find

15.

A．necessary

B．impossible

C．helpful

D．certain

4 . 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 day for sightseeing. We were a group of students just out for some fun. The weather was perfect for a picnic, so when lunch time came, we set our sights on a small park. Since we all had different things to buy, we decided to get what each of us wanted, and meet back on the grass in a few minutes.

When my friend Joy headed for a hot dog shop, I decided to go with her. We watched the seller put together the perfect hot dog, just the way we wanted it. But when we took out our money to pay the bill, the seller surprised us.

“You are the first customers to visit, and the first order is given to you for free,” he said.

After we thanked him, we joined our friends in the park, and dug into our food. But as we talked and ate, I was distracted (分心) by a man sitting alone nearby, looking at us. I could tell that he hadn’t showered for days. Another homeless person, I thought, like all the others you see in cities. I didn’t pay much more attention than that.

After we finished eating, we packed our lunch bags and prepared to throw them away.

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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Suddenly, a strong voice came from that homeless person.

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Joy asked me to wait for her for a minute and ran to the hot dog shop.

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5 . In 2011, retired worker Joao, found a South American penguin________ on the rocks and close to death on his local beach in Brazil. Joao cleaned the oil________ the penguin’s feathers,________him a daily diet of fish to get his strength up and named him Dindim.

A week later, Joao tried to ________the penguin back into the sea, but he just wouldn’t leave. Joao took him out in his boat, went to a nearby island and released him. Later that day, the penguin was back in Joao’s backyard. In the end, Dindim stayed with Joao for 11 months and then, “just after he changed his coat for new feathers he________,”Joao explains.

In fact, Dindim returns to Joao’s little beach in the summer every year-it’s ________that the penguin prefers to visit the elderly man rather than ________ to the feeding areas of his species.

Joao________how the penguin continued to follow him home. “Everyone said he wouldn’t return, but he________back to visit me for the past four years,” he says, “He arrives in June and ________ to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even________to see me.” Now new pictures have________of Dindim visiting Joao in his village earlier this month.

When Dindim is staying with Joao, the two friends sometimes like to take a walk together down the beach-or sometimes Joao walks and Dindims swims alongside him. “I love the penguin like it’s my own________and I believe the penguin loves me, ”Joao says. “No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lies on my lap, lets me give him shower and allows me to feed him sardines and to________him up.”

Who said there wasn’t still some ________news left in the world?

1.

A．sitting

B．lying

C．standing

D．walking

2.

A．off

B．beneath

C．on

D．in

3.

A．affected

B．caused

C．fed

D．ate

4.

A．release

B．figure

C．proceed

D．note

5.

A．struggled

B．responded

C．charged

D．disappeared

6.

A．composed

B．believed

C．set

D．jumped

7.

A．permit

B．threaten

C．migrate

D．tap

8.

A．recalls

B．retells

C．recognizes

D．recites

9.

A．had come

B．has been coming

C．comes

D．is coming

10.

A．figures

B．bothers

C．comes

D．leaves

11.

A．slimmer

B．former

C．happier

D．younger

12.

A．emerged

B．appreciated

C．applauded

D．reacted

13.

A．pet

B．child

C．toy

D．bird

14.

A．stand

B．hang

C．give

D．pick

15.

A．moving

B．strict

C．normal

D．visual

6 . It was Monday. Mrs. Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house. Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it：“Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently：“Take this to the butcher(屠夫)and he’s going to give you your lunch today.”

Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher’s. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady’s handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once.

At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.

The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers(顾客).

But, the dog came again at four o’clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher’s more surprise, it came for the third time at six o’clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He  said to himself, “This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today?”

Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!

1. Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite________.

A．cruelly

B．fairly

C．kindly

D．unfriendly

2. It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it ________ .

A．might do it much harm	B．could do it much good
C．would help the butcher	D．was worth many pounds

3. The butcher did not give any meat to the dog ________ .

A．until he was paid enough by Mrs. Smith.

B．when he found that the words on the paper were not clear

C．because he had sold out all the meat in his shop

D．before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs. Smith

4. At the end of the story, you’ll find that ________.

A．the dog was clever enough to write on the paper

B．the dog dared not go to the butcher’s any more

C．the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog

D．the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal

8 . 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 Jayce Crowder was in kindergarten, he began noticing that he looked different from his classmates. They had two hands. But he had only one.

It started when one boy teased him. Jayce was in a bad mood. He’d return home in Des Moines, Iowa, with questions: Why am I different? Why me? Why? “He actually told us that he was mad at looking so different from others,” said his mother, Cortney Lewis. “That really hurt him.” Lewis admitted she didn’t know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son’s questions when she had never found those answers herself ?

A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a news story about Trashaun Willis, an eighth-grader from Washington middle school, Iowa. The boy, then 14, had become an Internet star after posting videos of his slam dunk (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was missing most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in to see Trashaun on TV, too.

He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another. He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another.

“Cool,” Jayce remembered thinking with excitement. “ I saw him dunking on TV.”

Willis’ story blew up last winter. The Des Moines Register wrote about him. NBC Nightly News flew to Iowa to interview him. Just recently, Sports Illustrated named him one of its Sports Kid of the Year finalists.

At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be an inspiring moment for Jayce—he’d see a shining role model with a seemingly similar born disability. And had it stayed just that, Lewis would have been happy. But little did she know that a family friend had already reached out to the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to encourage Jayce and build his confidence. A few days later, the good news that Trashaun accepted the invitation to meet Jayce came.

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2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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Finally, the boys met at Washington Middle School on a Saturday afternoon several months later.

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After the meeting, Jayce learned to accept his disability.

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10 . A plane was flying somewhere to cut an abandoned oil pipeline. The pilot Downs ________ eight employees of the oil company and a man named Eliot on board.

Halfway, the plane was ________ by a sandstorm. It was ________ to successfully land. While the ten men were ________ for the survival, they found themselves in the depth of the desert. The plane was badly damaged and all the communication equipment didn’t ________. There were quarrels among the eight ________ for different escape plans. Soon, they ________ to fight against each other. Natural disasters had not killed them yet, but ________ disasters were about to destroy them ________.

At the moment, Eliot ________ shouted, “I’m an airplane designer. The main parts of the plane are not ________. As long as everyone works together, we can mend the plane.” People immediately stopped fighting and were ________ in their hearts. Under Eliot’s command, they began to be ________. Food and ________ could only last for ten days so they only ate two meals a day and ________ drinking water as planned. The repair work_________ in an orderly manner. Eight days later, the plane had not been ________ yet, but a camel team of businessmen passed by and ________ them.

Later, Downs knew that Eliot wasn’t an airplane designer at all and asked Eliot why he cheated them. Eliot said calmly, “If I hadn’t ________ then, could everyone live to this day?” Downs suddenly realized: being trapped in the ________ is terrible, but what is more terrible is that there is no hope for survival!

1.

A．hired

B．carried

C．visited

D．telephoned

2.

A．hit

B．assisted

C．banned

D．followed

3.

A．dangerous

B．appropriate

C．fortunate

D．necessary

4.

A．praying

B．cheering

C．reflecting

D．suffering

5.

A．work

B．appear

C．change

D．improve

6.

A．pilots

B．businessmen

C．employees

D．designers

7.

A．determined

B．hesitated

C．agreed

D．started

8.

A．bitter

B．human

C．casual

D．general

9.

A．in advance

B．on schedule

C．at bottom

D．for ages

10.

A．remarkably

B．completely

C．constantly

D．suddenly

11.

A．adjusted

B．examined

C．destroyed

D．found

12.

A．regretful

B．merciful

C．doubtful

D．hopeful

13.

A．busy

B．angry

C．mature

D．social

14.

A．wine

B．water

C．fruit

D．vegetables

15.

A．purified

B．sought

C．wasted

D．distributed

16.

A．went on

B．set out

C．broke down

D．took off

17.

A．landed

B．decorated

C．repaired

D．moved

18.

A．abandoned

B．rescued

C．condemned

D．informed

19.

A．withdrawn

B．sworn

C．participated

D．lied

20.

A．plane

B．traffic

C．desert

D．snow