3 . It was Ensley who made me a poet.

When I was one, my family moved into a tiny apartment off 20th Street in Birmingham. I wrote my first poem, surrounded by toys. I was 7 or 8 and the poem was for my best friend who had moved away. I was angry with him for being willing to leave me, and I got mean. I figured his leaving would be easier to face if I pushed him away first. But as soon as the moving track pulled away, I realized how foolish I'd been.

So I wrote him a poem to apologize. The poem was terrible, of course, but with it, a lifelong love affair began—not with the boy who moved away, but with the written word.

I left Birmingham after I grew up to learn how to tell true stories in prose. After college in Alabama and graduate school in Berkeley, California, I moved to Kentucky to be a newspaper reporter. My skill at writing personal essays helped me land my own column and the chance to be included in a collection of essays published by Seal Press. For so many years, I had never quit the exploration of literature.

Then I came home.

In her book Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg writes, "It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole...You must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and hug it, or at least, accept it."

Now in Birmingham, I get to share my story in local magazines and on my blog. And I build my story through every friendship formed in this city of steel, sweat, and sweet tea.

1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?

A．The author was always mean to her friend.

B．The author was afraid of pushing her friend away.

C．The author found it hard to face her friend's leaving.

D．The author wrote her first poem when she was one year old.

2. When did the author fall in love with writing?

A．After pushing her friend Ensley away.

B．After finishing a poem of apology to her friend.

C．After having her essays published by Seal Press.

D．After moving into a tiny apartment off 20th Street.

3. What kind of life had the author lived before coming home?

A．Challenging and risky.	B．Tiring and stressful.
C．Planned and unchanged.	D．Active and rewarding.

4. Why did the author mention Natalie Goldberg's words?

A．To express her thanks to Natalie.	B．To praise Natalie's vivid language.
C．To introduce Natalie's book to readers.	D．To explain her decision to return home.

4 . When I was 19, I suffered a terrible accident that resulted in the loss of both my arms at the elbows(肘)and my feet. I may never be able to______in a sign language. However, my general______to solve problems has been heightened. I was forced to think______to overcome problems that most people aren't______.

One of the first lessons that I had to learn immediately was how to______again. It happened when I attempted to climb stairs. As basic as this action sounds to most of you,______stairs is somewhat of a______for those of us without feet. I tried to climb stairs the way I used to, but without______. I decided to solve the problem from a______ angle. If I couldn't use an ankle joint (踝关节) to______the range of movements, I would have to use a different joint like my hip(髋部). First I sat on the stair, keeping the left side of my______touching the side of the stair, and then placed my left leg up on the surface of the stair. I made it with the help of the disabled arm on the left. Within five minutes, no stair was safe from my______.

In the past I was a______. When I lost my arms, the idea that music may no longer be a part of my life______   challenged my will to keep living. However, it is not a good______to give in to my misfortune. After______ an engineer, I designed a slide system to play the guitar. It______after weeks of testing, and thus I was able to enjoy music again.

While relearning is very______, it has a positive effect in my life. How does______affect you? I become strong and confident______the fact that I have to live harder than normal people.

1.

A．refuse

B．communicate

C．translate

D．prove

2.

A．wish

B．aim

C．attempt

D．ability

3.

A．secretly

B．easily

C．positively

D．anxiously

4.

A．faced with

B．interested in

C．satisfied with

D．addicted to

5.

A．swim

B．write

C．walk

D．act

6.

A．sweeping

B．climbing

C．wiping

D．building

7.

A．task

B．reason

C．threat

D．challenge

8.

A．success

B．failure

C．danger

D．doubt

9.

A．familiar

B．similar

C．different

D．dangerous

10.

A．limit

B．achieve

C．observe

D．stop

11.

A．chest

B．back

C．head

D．body

12.

A．advance

B．preference

C．stress

D．survival

13.

A．scholar

B．guitarist

C．journalist

D．coach

14.

A．blindly

B．hardly

C．greatly

D．lightly

15.

A．shame

B．surprise

C．pity

D．idea

16.

A．thinking of

B．caring for

C．consulting with

D．picking up

17.

A．stopped

B．worked

C．shut

D．appeared

18.

A．easy

B．tough

C．interesting

D．short

19.

A．prejudice

B．luck

C．hardship

D．behavior

20.

A．for lack of

B．for fear of

C．in case of

D．in spite of

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When did the story take place?

A．On a weekday.

B．On the weekend.

C．During a holiday.

2. What was the strange guy like?

A．He had a big head.

B．He wore a pair of sunglasses.

C．He wore pink clothes.

3. Why did everyone start clapping?

A．The guy did tricks on his bicycle.

B．The guy did a good thing.

C．The guy sang a song for them.

4. What might be the speaker’s main point?

A．Don’t ride a unicycle down the street.

B．Don’t carry too much money.

C．Don’t judge people by their appearances.

6 . A 12 -year-old girl who had a feeling that she might be quite clever has taken a test and proved she was absolutely right.

After raising the idea with her parents and pestering (纠缠)them for the best part of a year, Lydia took the test in her summer holidays. It turns out the test wasn't that hard after all.

"I was really nervous before the test and I thought it was going to be really hard. But as I started the test, I thought it was a bit easier than I thought it was going to be," she said.

Lydia Sebastian achieved the top score of 162 on Mensa’s Cattell III B paper, showing she has a higher IQ than well-known geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who’s currently in Year 8 at a selective girl’s grammar school in Essex, England.

"I don't think I can be compared to such great intellectuals as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. They’ve achieved so much. I don’t think it’s right," Lydia told CNN.

To explain Lydia’s mark’s level, the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which mainly tests verbal(语言) reasoning, is 161. A top 2% score---which allows entry to Mensa, the club for those with high IQs---would be 148 or over. Lydia scored 162, placing her in the top 1% of the population.

Lydia’s not quite sure what she wants to do when she leaves school, although she’s leaning toward something "based around Maths, because it’s one of my favorite subjects." "All I’m going to do is work as hard as I can, and see where that gets me," she said.

1. Lydia wanted to have an IQ test because_______,

A．she felt that she might have a high IQ

B．the grammar school advised her to do so

C．all people around thought that she was smart

D．her parents strongly wanted her to do so

2. Which of the following can best explain the underlined words in the fourth paragraph?

A．does not satisfy	B．does not affect.
C．is not related to.	D．is not accepted by

3. What is Lydia's plan about the future?

A．She is quite sure about what to do in the future.

B．She will drop out of the grammar school.

C．She has a tendency to focus around Maths.

D．She doesn’t have to work hard with her high IQ.

4. According to the text, which of the following statements is True?

A．Only adults with high IQs can enter Mensa.

B．Mensa is a club for those with high IQs at least 148.

C．No one has achieved a higher IQ than Lydia.

D．Whoever has a high IQ can enter Mensa.

7 . Once upon a time, a hardworking farmer had a fine farmland. And the harvest is always ____ under his care. But he knew that his three sons ____down upon the farm work, and were ____to make wealth through adventure.

When the farmer was old and felt that he would ____soon, he called the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold hidden in the ____. Dig for it, if you wish it.”

The sons ____to get him to tell them in what part of the farmland the gold was hidden; but he would tell them ____more.

After the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to ____the pot of gold; since they did not know____ the hiding-place was, they ____to begin in a line, at one end of the farmland, and to ____until one of them should find the money. They dug until they had turned up the ____from one end of the farmland to the other, round the tree-roots and between them. ____no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have____it, or as if the farmer had been playing a joke on his____. The three sons were very____to have all their work for nothing.

The next year, the farmland produced ____food than they had ever given; when it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of ____.

And when they saw how much money had come____the farmland, they suddenly understood what the ____father had meant.

1.

A．bad

B．good

C．helpful

D．important

2.

A．got

B．put

C．looked

D．started

3.

A．eager

B．patient

C．upset

D．clever

4.

A．live

B．work

C．play

D．die

5.

A．farmland

B．house

C．garden

D．forest

6.

A．refused

B．pretended

C．tried

D．failed

7.

A．nothing

B．something

C．anything

D．everything

8.

A．find

B．sell

C．buy

D．divide

9.

A．which

B．what

C．where

D．how

10.

A．preferred

B．quarreled

C．helped

D．agreed

11.

A．water

B．dig

C．plant

D．fertilize

12.

A．root

B．seed

C．pot

D．soil

13.

A．So

B．But

C．And

D．Or

14.

A．stolen

B．thrown

C．touched

D．protected

15.

A．friends

B．daughters

C．sons

D．neighbours

16.

A．disappointed

B．worried

C．satisfied

D．excited

17.

A．less

B．more

C．cheaper

D．worse

18.

A．salt

B．sugar

C．gold

D．wine

19.

A．with

B．after

C．into

D．from

20.

A．wise

B．foolish

C．honest

D．bad

8 . One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I _______ the car by the roadside and waited for her.

     As I looked _______ the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old, _______ freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short _______.The boy had a big smile on his face _______ he had just been set free from some sort of_______. The boy would then fall to the grass, _______, and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could again, still with a _______ on his face.

Kids, when they fall down, don’t view their falling down as failure, but _______, they treat it as a learning experience. They try and try again until they ________. While I was touched by the boy’s persistence, I was ________ touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so ________ and so natural — no signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged. His only ________ was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a ________ — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for ________ or was not worrying about whether ________ was watching. He didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him ________ and that it would be ________ if he did fall. No, all that ________ to him was to accomplish the task, to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that ________ and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

1.

A．drove

B．started

C．parked

D．broke

2.

A．outside

B．down

C．toward

D．over

3.

A．playing

B．smiling

C．rolling

D．running

4.

A．way

B．length

C．time

D．distance

5.

A．even if

B．as if

C．so long as

D．now that

6.

A．park

B．cave

C．prison

D．castle

7.

A．get up

B．take up

C．break down

D．lie down

8.

A．tear

B．smile

C．pleasure

D．surprise

9.

A．however

B．instead

C．therefore

D．anyhow

10.

A．stop

B．win

C．achieve

D．succeed

11.

A．luckily

B．apparently

C．actually

D．equally

12.

A．confident

B．joyful

C．quiet

D．proud

13.

A．worry

B．dream

C．aim

D．hope

14.

A．boy

B．child

C．player

D．winner

15.

A．chance

B．fortune

C．approval

D．trouble

16.

A．someone

B．anyone

C．everyone

D．one

17.

A．fail

B．run

C．fall

D．cry

18.

A．embarrassing

B．disappointing

C．frightening

D．amusing

19.

A．happened

B．contributed

C．related

D．mattered

20.

A．discovery

B．observation

C．story

D．incident