1 . Photography has been my passion ever since I was old enough to pick up a camera, but today I want to share with you the 15 most treasured photos of mine, and I didn’t take any of them. There were no art directors, no stylists, no chance for re shoots, not even any regard for lighting. In fact, most of them were taken by random tourists.

My story begins when I was in New York City for a speaking engagement, and my wife took this picture of me holding my daughter on her first birthday. We’re on the corner of 57th and 5th. We happened to be back in New York exactly a year later, so we decided to take the same picture.

Approaching my daughter’s third birthday, my wife said, “Hey, why don’t you take Sabina back to New York and make it a father-daughter trip?” This is when we started asking passing tourists to take the picture.

You know, it’s remarkable how universal the gesture is of handing your camera to a total stranger. No one’s ever refused, and luckily no one’s ever runoff with our camera.

Back then, we had no idea how much this trip would change our lives. It’s really become sacred to us. This one was taken just weeks after 911, and I found myself trying to explain what had happened that day in ways a five-year-old could understand.

So, these photos are far more than a specific trip.They’re also ways for us to freeze time and reflect on our times and how we change from year to year, and not just physically, but in every way. Because while we take the same photo, our views change, and she reaches new milestones, and I get to see life through her eyes, and how she interacts with and sees everything. This very focused time we get to spend together is something we treasure and expect the entire year. One of the most important things we all make is memories.

So, I want to share the idea of taking an active role in consciously creating memories. I want to encourage everyone today to get in the shot, and don’t hesitate to go up to someone and ask, “Will you take our picture? Thank you.”

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To encourage us to take photos.

B．To inform us of the author’s life.

C．To introduce the topic of the passage.

D．To tell us the skills of photography.

2. Why did the author’s wife suggest a father-daughter trip?

A．Their daughter’s coming third birthday.

B．Their attending a speaking engagement.

C．Their asking passers-by to take photos.

D．Their appreciation for strangers’ help.

3. What does the underlined part probably mean?

A．These photos were taken by strangers.

B．These photos carry valuable memories.

C．These photos show just a usual trip.

D．These photos were expensively taken.

4. What is the author’s attitude in the passage?

A．Disapproving.

B．Positive.

C．Uncertain.

D．Fearful.

3 . Gabriela worked for a multinational (跨国的) company as a successful project manager in Brazil and was transferred to Sweden. She was ________ about her new role but soon realized that managing her new team would be a challenge.

Despite their friendliness, Gabriela didn't feel respected as a ________ . Her new staff would ________ her decisions openly in meetings, and when she gave them instructions on how to ________ a task, they would often go about it in their own way without ________ with her. When she announced her decisions, they would ________ giving their opinions as if it was still up for discussion.

After weeks of frustration(郁闷), Gabriela emailed her Swedish manager about the ________ . Her manager ________ asked her if she felt her team was still performing, and what she thought would help her better ________ her team members.

What Gabriela was experiencing was a ________ conflict. She was used to a more hierarchical (等级制的) framework where the team leader took control and gave ________ instructions on how things were to be done. In such a culture, leaders make the big decisions and are not often ________. Her Swedish team, ________, were used to working in a low power distance culture where subordinates(下属)often work together with their ________ to find solutions and make decisions. Here, leaders ________ coaches who encourage ________ thought and expect to be challenged.

When Gabriela became ________ the cultural differences between her and her team, she had an open ________ with them.

The conversation led to a better understanding. From then on, Gabriela and her team were able to ________ their ways of working. Gabriela was then able to make adjustments so as to more effectively motivate her team to ________ their goals.

1.

A．upset

B．excited

C．worried

D．shocked

2.

A．leader

B．friend

C．teammate

D．winner

3.

A．follow

B．avoid

C．understand

D．question

4.

A．turn on

B．turn to

C．carry out

D．carry away

5.

A．checking

B．quarreling

C．debating

D．bargaining

6.

A．start

B．continue

C．delay

D．risk

7.

A．satisfaction

B．problems

C．amusement

D．illnesses

8.

A．unwillingly

B．hardly

C．simply

D．quickly

9.

A．deal with

B．argue with

C．live with

D．work with

10.

A．cultural

B．religious

C．abnormal

D．necessary

11.

A．abstract

B．uncertain

C．specific

D．similar

12.

A．challenged

B．trusted

C．judged

D．accepted

13.

A．therefore

B．however

C．furthermore

D．besides

14.

A．relatives

B．assistants

C．parents

D．bosses

15.

A．laugh at

B．cheer for

C．rely on

D．act as

16.

A．common

B．independent

C．regretful

D．traditional

17.

A．aware of

B．proud of

C．fond of

D．afraid of

18.

A．argument

B．apology

C．conversation

D．conflict

19.

A．choose

B．continue

C．adapt

D．keep

20.

A．doubt

B．predict

C．stop

D．achieve

4 . It's amazing how often we take advantage of things in life. When we're used to something, we don't always appreciate how lucky we are to have it. While we're here complaining that our WiFi isn't fast enough and our videos keep buffering (卡顿), there are people in Africa who don't even get to eat three meals a day. While most people work hard for the things they own, it's important to stop and think of what others don't have every now and again. You may not think that shoes are something worth going crazy over, but the Uganda woman would disagree. After all, she went wild when she put a pair on for the first time in her life.

That's what Laura Grier did one day. The woman was in Bwindi National Park, Uganda, when she felt it necessary to stop and help someone by the side of the road. The person in question was standing around without any shoes on, and the sight convinced Grier to give up her own footwear. She had more shoes at home, while this woman had never even worn a pair before.

Laura's generosity was definitely appreciated by the stranger who treated her benefactor (恩人) to a celebratory dance. The woman couldn't keep the smile from her face as she went wild in her brand-new shoes. Grier was thrilled that her good deed had made the stranger so happy, and she cheered on the Ugandan woman as she danced in the street.

The next time you buy a pair of shoes, remember how lucky you are to have them.

1. What does the author talk about in the first paragraph?

A．Her view about what we have.	B．Something that we are used to.
C．The appreciation of her shoes.	D．Her opinion about the Uganda woman.

2. Why did Laura Grier give her shoes to the woman?

A．To offer some help to her.	B．To show off extra shoes.
C．To show her curiosity.	D．To exchange it for a meal.

3. How did the Uganda woman's feel about the shoes?

A．Strange.

B．Thankful.

C．Shocked.

D．Reasonable.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Never Expect Too Much of Life	B．Don't Admire What Others Have.
C．Value What We Already Have.	D．Know More About Africa.

6 . In my starting days of real-life practice, I took up a job in a direct sales firm as a door-to-door marketer. I ______ this job and the good pay pushed me to become the best at the door-to-door sales. The motto given to us by our CEO, Mr Jones sounds ______ —meet 200 people and then you’ll achieve 10 sales. But it’s not that simple to do. I _______ this every day. Most of the days, I just couldn’t meet 200 people and the ______ left short of my target. But whenever I did meet 200 people, I could achieve the target. So I realized the motto was truly ______ words.

There were so many people who slammed (砰地关上) their ______ in my face. The kids answered the door, shouting “Mom, another ______ is here”. Some scared me with their dogs. Some even ______ to call the police. Some called me a thief. _______, there were a minority of people who gave me the strength to ______ hour after hour, day after day.

I remember such a _______: One Sunday at the railway station I ______ to sell something to two positive customers. One of them even went to ATM to get _______ for me during the big rain. When I asked him not to _______, his reply made me even stronger. He said that when I could sell in the big rain then he could ______ in the rain to get the money to help me.

These experiences in my life made me a stronger person and made me ______ that no matter what happens in life, I can never give up _______. And that’s how I have been able to achieve a little success from being ______ to being somewhere. I’m the CEO of my own marketing company now.

The lesson I learnt from door-to-door sales is that good doors are ______ there, and we have to ______ several bad ones before reaching the good one. Keep going and you’ll reach your target.

1.

A．lost

B．offered

C．liked

D．refused

2.

A．easy

B．ridiculous

C．complex

D．confusing

3.

A．wrote

B．played

C．thought

D．practiced

4.

A．salary

B．result

C．goods

D．partners

5.

A．warning

B．comforting

C．magical

D．meaningless

6.

A．books

B．doors

C．phones

D．windows

7.

A．neighbor

B．stranger

C．salesman

D．beggar

8.

A．threatened

B．forgot

C．expected

D．determined

9.

A．Besides

B．Otherwise

C．Therefore

D．However

10.

A．go away

B．stay up

C．carry on

D．pull out

11.

A．report

B．novel

C．movie

D．situation

12.

A．preferred

B．managed

C．failed

D．wished

13.

A．cash

B．food

C．drinks

D．tickets

14.

A．stop

B．return

C．trouble

D．complain

15.

A．sell

B．walk

C．talk

D．stand

16.

A．realize

B．imagine

C．doubt

D．dream

17.

A．exercising

B．shopping

C．learning

D．trying

18.

A．everywhere

B．anywhere

C．somewhere

D．nowhere

19.

A．never

B．always

C．seldom

D．sometimes

20.

A．open

B．repair

C．break

D．avoid

7 . I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts” when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.

For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building.

In the front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth.

Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured. Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see.

Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing.

So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do something about it.

They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns (舞会礼服).

She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.

Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me—a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.

1. The underlined phrase in Para. I “blew me away” probably means “________”.

A．attracted me	B．surprised me
C．accepted me	D．refused me

2. What does the house really mean to the author?

A．A house.	B．Buildings.
C．An object.	D．Memories.

3. What surprised the friends I know after work?

A．Finding the wall repainted.

B．Erasing the fingerprints.

C．Greeting them by tears.

D．Leaving the wall unfinished.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Gift Made with Love

B．Buildings Made by Children

C．A Very Wonderful Painting

D．A Family History

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处，每处仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I still remember an incident which happened last year. In a sunny spring morning, I was walking to school while someone called out, “Look! A cat!” I looked up and notice a little cat trembling in a tree. Obviously the cat could climb up the tree, but they didn’t dare to get down. We called to ask the kitty come down, however, it was so frightened to move. The girl wanted to call 119, but I said, “The fireman are busy enough. Let me do it.” I climbed up the tree and slow approached the cat. Finally, I caught it and got down. I was so delighted for what I had done. Care for small animals is our duty, do you think so?

9 . Most of us have lost our wallet at some stage in our lives. But few would imagine having it returned after a nearly seven-decade gap. Edward Parker dropped his wallet in 1950 into an inaccessible spot behind a bookshelf, while working as an electrician, repairing World War Two bomb damage in the palace. The wallet stayed there until this year when a builder, doing some restoration work, finally found it.

The wallet is a time capsule. Its leather and webbing has long ago started to disintegrate. But it contains numerous pictures of family, invoices (发票), receipts, old union cards, results of a chest X-ray (sent to him in 1948, the same year as the NHS was founded), a national service card dated 9 December 1944 and a medical insurance card. His business cards-E Parker, Electrical Contractor-seem almost original. Reflecting the typical methods of contact of the time, they have an address but no telephone number.

A month ago I was speaking a press officer Lambeth Palace and he mentioned that the wallet had just been handed in. We thought it might be nice to try and work out whose it was and give it back to the family. Edward Parker is a pretty common name, but his medical card contained two places of residence-Poets Road and Springdale Road in north London. From this, Islington Council were able to find details of a marriage between Edward Parker and Constance Butler in 1947.

That information was enough to work out that he was still alive and in a care home in Essex, so I went to visit him. Now 89, Edward has dementia (痴呆), but he was clearly happy to get the wallet and in particular, the photographs back. He pointed out pictures of his mother and father, his brother, his cousins and his wife Constance, who was with him when I visited. He hadn't seen a picture of his father since he lost the wallet, Constance, 90, says.

1. We can possibly infer that Edward Parker       .

A．once worked as electrical technician	B．always lost his wallet
C．once participated in World War II	D．once worked as a restoration builder

2. What, s the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．The material of the wallet.	B．The producer of the wallet.
C．The contents of the wallet.	D．The shape of the wallet.

3. What does the underlined word “disintegrate” in the second paragraph mean?

A．Maintain.	B．Damage.
C．Disappear.	D．Destroy.

4. What plays a key role in returning the wallet to its owner?

A．Business card.	B．National service card.
C．Old union card.	D．Medical card.

10 . There was a little, but always strange girl. Everything was bad for her. She wished to meet an enchantress (女巫) that would turn her life a _______ tale.

One day an enchantress came and said that one of her wishes would _______. The girl became very happy at first, but then she started to think that she had a lot of wishes and all of them were _______ for her. She could not _______ just one. Then the _______ enchantress said that she would help her realize one wish every day. The girl became _______—now all her dreams will become realities.

From that day on, she was waiting every morning with joy and _______. Then as days passed, the dreams became real ones... But soon the little girl realized that _______ of the wishes didn’t give her joy and happiness which she _______ for. Many wishes brought her disappointment, and some __________ a pain. Almost every dream was an empty little girl’s caprice (任性). Though being __________, she suddenly found that she did not __________ this. Soon she started to __________ dreams. She was afraid to __________ every day, waiting for the realization of another wish. Crying, she asked the enchantress to __________ only one her dream-to live as she lived __________ and enjoy life.

The good enchantress had __________ upon the little girl. She waved her magic wand and disappeared. The girl was happy __________ she knew that now she would carefully seek for her one big __________ dream, not wasting time with short-term, __________, quite unnecessary wishes.

1.

A．funny

B．outstanding

C．fairy

D．extraordinary

2.

A．give out

B．come true

C．come out

D．give off

3.

A．mysterious

B．humorous

C．important

D．private

4.

A．remind

B．choose

C．change

D．guess

5.

A．kind

B．strict

C．magical

D．optimistic

6.

A．weaker

B．prouder

C．luckier

D．happier

7.

A．enthusiasm

B．sorrow

C．surprise

D．doubt

8.

A．doubt

B．wonder

C．achievement

D．requirement

9.

A．hoped

B．took

C．thanked

D．waited

10.

A．still

B．ever

C．indeed

D．even

11.

A．annoyed

B．satisfied

C．confused

D．excited

12.

A．want

B．do

C．get

D．decide

13.

A．suspect

B．hate

C．fear

D．enjoy

14.

A．stand up

B．wake up

C．go to sleep

D．dress up

15.

A．understand

B．remember

C．accept

D．realize

16.

A．before

B．alone

C．later

D．now

17.

A．effect

B．envy

C．mercy

D．punishment

18.

A．so

B．because

C．as if

D．even though

19.

A．apparent

B．delicate

C．typical

D．valuable

20.

A．by all means

B．by coincidence

C．as a result

D．in fact