1 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

As a mother to three boys, I’m used to receiving my favorite soap as a gift for every occasion．It doesn’t require much effort, and my sons know that I love it．One day my son saw a magazine on my desk with Jane Goodall     1     the cover．I said, “She’s my favorite person.”The next Christmas, I was expecting my soap     2     my sons handed me an envelope．Inside was/a copy of National Geographic signed by Jane Goodall．I     3    (move) to tears.I will always cherish the magazine and thoughtfulness of my boys finding me the perfect gift．

2 . It was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from seven different elementary schools in and around the small town of 100-Mile House, British Columbia, were warming up and walking the route through thick evergreen forest.

I looked around and finally saw David standing by himself off to the side by a fence. He was small for ten years old, with messy red hair. But his usual big toothy grin was absent today. I walked over and asked him why he wasn’t with the other children. The only response he gave me was he had decided not to run. What was wrong? He had worked so hard for this event! David’s cerebral palsy (脑瘫) prevented him from walking or running like other children, but at school his peers thought of him as a regular kid. He always participated to the best of his ability in whatever they were doing. It just took him longer. He had stubbornly run a total of twenty three kilometres in practice runs to prepare for that day’s two-and-a-half-kilometre run, and he had asked me to come and watch. We sat down together on some steps, but David wouldn’t look at me.

I quietly said, “David, if you don’t want to run today, no one is going to make you. But if you’re not running because you’re afraid someone is going to laugh, that’s not a good enough reason. There will always be someone who will laugh and say mean things. Are you going to let them get in your way? If you really want to run, David, then you run!” I held my breath as David took this in. Then he looked at the field and said, “I’m gonna run.”

The starter’s gun sounded. But he had only gone a few metres before he tripped and fell flat on the ground. My heart sank. As I started to shout encouragement, David picked himself up and started again. All the other runners had disappeared over the hill. But it didn’t matter. He had worked for it, and he wouldn’t give up!

I waited anxiously by the finish line as the most runners completed and another race had begun. Still no David! I started to feel sick. Had I done the wrong thing? Could he have become lost? Finally, a small figure emerged from the forest. David raised his arms in triumph as he crossed the finish line to wild cheers and applause. He caught my eye, flashed me a toothy grin and said, “That was easy!”

1. What made David unable to run like other children?

A．His mental problem.	B．His physical condition.
C．His laziness.	D．His hesitation.

2. David decided to run because ________.

A．he was encouraged to	B．he wanted to be the first
C．he was laughed into doing it	D．he knew it was a shorter distance

3. Which of the following can best describe David?

A．Brave and talkative.	B．Out-going and kind-hearted.
C．Lively and hard-working.	D．Optimistic and strong-willed.

4. By using the phrase “a toothy grin” in the last sentence, the writer intends to tell us about David’s ________.

A．competence in finishing a run	B．positive attitude towards life
C．ability to win cheers and applause	D．efforts to catch others’ attention

3 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

During the opening ceremony of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, there was a surprise     1     (appear) by Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman.   

The American superstar     2     (spot) with a young physically-challenged Qatari boy, Al Muftah. The boy was born with a rare condition known as CRS. It     3     (impact) the normal formation of the lower half of the body. But the determined young man refused to let his condition prevent his thirst     4     life and decided to take on a range of sports — tackling everything from rock climbing, football, ice hockey to swimming.

5 . My first year living in Los Angeles, I was a birthday-party clown. I struggled a lot with my identity because, though I viewed myself as a filmmaker, everyone in my life viewed me as this ridiculous day job.

Once I was told, “Tomorrow you’re going to be Batman.” Now, keep in mind that at the time I had a giant mustache. I know a clown with a mustache is a huge red flag for parents. But I hadn’t wanted to alter my physical appearance for that job, because that would have been me subconsciously admitting I was more of a clown than an artist.

The next day, I went to the party in a huge public park, and I left my car parked far enough away so that the kids couldn’t see Batman pulling up in a PT Cruiser. Walking to the party, I started to regret my choice not to shave. “Gosh, this party is not going to go well.” Sure enough, once I got close enough for them to actually start making out the features of my face, the entire party broke out in laughter. I was so embarrassed that I wanted to turn around and run back to my Batmobile. But then the laughter kind of changed into cheering and applause. Feeling kind of warm and fuzzy inside, I wondered, “Is this what encouragement and support feel like? It’s so new.”

Then I decided to make an entrance for these kids. I was still about 20 yards away from the party when I started running. My cape was billowing in the wind, and mustache or not, in that moment, I was Batman. I ran into the party, and the kids were all high-fiving me. The dad was saying, “I told you, son. I told you Batman has a mustache.” Then he took me over to this huge birthday cake with a frosting Batman drawn on it, and the Batman has a mustache. I just stared at it in disbelief and learnt that instead of just admitting that the cake was messed up, the parents said, “Batman has a mustache. He just shaves it for his movies.”

That year, I struggled a lot with my identity; was I a filmmaker, or was I a clown? But that day, at least, there was no doubt in my mind what I was. I may not have been the hero that they ordered, and I certainly was not the hero they expected. But that day, I was the hero that they needed.

1. Why did “I” keep my mustache?

A．I struggled a lot for being a filmmaker.

B．I wanted to be a Batman in a birthday party.

C．I knew that a clown should wear a mustache.

D．I hadn’t wanted to change my appearance for the job.

2. How did “I” enter the party?

A．I ran fast.	B．I high-fived.
C．I drove the car.	D．I walked slowly.

3. How did “I” feel at the end of the party?

A．Satisfied.	B．Astonished.
C．Disappointed.	D．Ashamed.

6 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Did you ever run off and forget your drink? That's     1     happened to 11-year old Frank Epperson in 1905. He'd been mixing drink mix with a stick, and     2     (leave) the cup and stick out on the porch all night. And it got cold. In the morning, Frank found a     3     (freeze) block of sweet drink- with a handy stick to hold it. He thought that was pretty cool so he made more. Soon, everyone enjoyed his ice pops. At first Frank called them Epsicles, but later they got a different name—popsicles.