1 . Spelling was sort of my superpower. I wasn’t a math or science guy, but I could chew and _________ books.

“Your word is onomatopoeia,” said the announcer. On the stage of “School Bee”, my brain _________ to the spelling bees ahead: first the county championship, then the state, and finally the national spelling bee. I glanced back at Alexa, who wanted another chance at _________. If I missed this word, she’d be back in the game. But that wouldn’t happen. Chin up, shoulders back, I _________ my throat, “O-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-a.” I made it.

The trophy (奖杯) was presented to me. I shouted onstage, “I am the alpha-best.” Surprisingly, my sister, Deandra, rolled her eyes. “You’re a terrible winner.” Deandra made a _________ face. “She tried to shake your hand but you _________. ”

I didn’t _________ at all. “Anyway, I won the school bee.” “Don’t be proud. You’ll soon be facing the best of the best in the county bee.”

“Will they _________ me? I am the alpha-best with no efforts at all.” After six rounds, the number of students _________ from more than 100 to just seven and I was one out of the seven. If I had been given words like aerospace or conical, I’d make __________ already. Unfortunately, I crashed with the word maestro at last. I stood __________ for the longest moment.

The final winner acted the exact __________ of mine. He accepted his trophy with a small bow, and then shook hands with the runner-up (亚军). I got to know Deandra’s words __________.

I apologized to Alexa, “I’m sorry I was so impolite when I won.” “How was the county bee?” Alexa asked. “A __________.” “If you need a study partner for next time, I’m happy to help.” “Really? Let’s __________ on it, partner.” “Better late than never,” Alexa said, shaking my hand.

1.

A．prefer

B．acquire

C．write

D．digest

2.

A．applied

B．fast-forwarded

C．belonged

D．attached

3.

A．winning

B．announcing

C．listening

D．supporting

4.

A．dried

B．cleared

C．closed

D．choked

5.

A．happy

B．sour

C．cheerful

D．painful

6.

A．ignored

B．missed

C．accepted

D．doubted

7.

A．answer

B．care

C．regret

D．decline

8.

A．admire

B．pass

C．influence

D．match

9.

A．jumped

B．rose

C．decreased

D．spread

10.

A．concern

B．efforts

C．promises

D．history

11.

A．harmed

B．devoted

C．frozen

D．addicted

12.

A．role

B．way

C．opposite

D．behavior

13.

A．took place

B．made sense

C．came out

D．caught up

14.

A．disaster

B．deal

C．success

D．dream

15.

A．rely

B．rest

C．base

D．shake

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写阿段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

At first glance she looked like any other old woman, plodding along in the snow ,alone,neglected,head bowed. A   young couple, smiling,taking,laughing, arms loaded with Christmas presents,took no notice of the old woman. A mother with two small children hurried by, on their way to grandmother’s house. Like many others, they took no notice,either. If these people had noticed,they would have seen that the old woman wore no shoes. She walked bare foot in the ice and snow.

With both hands the old woman gathered her worn button-less overcoat at the collar to keep out the wind. She stopped and stood bent and bowed at the bus stop.A red and blue scarf covering her head, she waited for the downtown bus.

A gentleman carrying an Important looking briefcase waited near her,not too closely.After all,she could have something contagious (传染的）. A teenage girl also waited for the bus,She glanced repeatedly at the old woman's feet, but said nothing.

The bus arrived and the old woman slowly, painfully boarded.She sat on the sideways sent Just behind the driver.The gentleman and the teenage girl hurried to the back of the bus.A little boy pointed at the old woman,"Look,Mother,that old lady is bare foot."The embarrassed mother slapped his hand down. "Don't point at people, Andrew. I's not polite to point." She looked out of the window.

＂She must have sons or daughters," a lady in a fur coat suggested, “her children should be ashamed of themselves." She felt morally superior,because she took good care of her mother.

A man seated near the middle of the bus steadied the bag of gifts on her lap. "Don't we pay enough taxes to handle situations like this?" he said to a friend seated beside him.

“People have to learn to save their money," a well-dressed young college man added. “If that old woman had saved when she was young, she wouldn't be suffering now. It's her own fault."

And all these vain(虚荣的）people beamed with satisfaction that they had all given such deep analysis,totally ignoring the old woman who badly needed a pair of shoes immediately.

注意：续写词数应为150左右

A vain businessman felt offended by those talking without acting and reached into his wallet.

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At the next stop.a young man wearing expensive.new.brand-name shoes boarded the bus,

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3 . There was a time when I was certain I could never deeply love an animal. I know this is_______to admit. In Britain, an indifference (冷漠) to pets is considered a fault on one's character.

My wife was also_______sure that she could never deeply love me if I could not love animals. And at the beginning of this year, the_______increased. We were to_______a cat from a friend who had fallen for a woman who is allergic (过敏的) to them.

I_______— but coldly enough, I felt, to make clear that I would not be_______for the creature's upkeep. I would_______the cost of cat food, of course, but like a strict Victorian father I would avoid_______entanglement (瓜葛)．

However, Hopper-well, I hardly need tell you that Hopper_______from other cats. Eight years old but slim as a kitten. Green-eyed and white-socked. Entirely independent but in need of human __________, too, when the mood takes her. Like I said — unique.

These last four months have__________me to spend an unexpected amount of time with Hopper. In my makeshift office, she sleeps beside me, meows at my feet, or leaps onto my back. Through the window, I watch Hopper stalk (踱方步) through the long grass,__________me of a wilder world outside.Every morning I__________her; every evening we play with a feather stuck to a stick. It is our__________-the only part of my timetable that has not been__________by the coronavirus (冠状病毒). Without the lockdown, would I have realized the everyday happiness a cat can bring?

1.

A．worthwhile

B．shameful

C．considerate

D．practical

2.

A．fairly

B．rarely

C．luckily

D．normally

3.

A．pleasure

B．risk

C．doubt

D．regret

4.

A．look into

B．search for

C．complain of

D．take on

5.

A．agreed

B．denied

C．explained

D．hesitated

6.

A．late

B．thankful

C．famous

D．responsible

7.

A．share

B．save

C．reduce

D．divide

8.

A．spiritual

B．emotional

C．mental

D．physical

9.

A．learns

B．suffers

C．differs

D．comes

10.

A．company

B．nature

C．power

D．trust

11.

A．promised

B．forbidden

C．prepared

D．allowed

12.

A．reminding

B．warning

C．breaking

D．informing

13.

A．leave

B．shake

C．feed

D．miss

14.

A．burden

B．routine

C．mistake

D．fortune

15.

A．spoiled

B．inspired

C．shocked

D．managed

4 . On the way to his home the child turned many times and beat the dog,declaring with childish gestures that he held him in contempt(茂视）as an unimportant dog.the dog apologized for being this quality of animal and expressed regret in fine form,but he continued stealthily to follow the child.

When the child reached his door-step,the dog was a few yards behind,moving slowly toward him.He became so anxious with shame when ho again faced the child that he forgot the dragging rope . He tripped(绊倒） upon it and fell forward.

The child sat down on the step and the two had another interview. During it the dog greatly exerted himself to please the child. He performed a few playful jumps with such abandon(尽情地） that the child suddenly saw him to be a valuable thing. He made a swift,greedy charge(猛冲）and seized the rope.

He dragged his captive(俘虏） into a hall and up many long stairways in a dark building. The dog made willing efforts, but he could not walk very skillfully up the stairs because he was very small and soft,and at last the pace of the child grew so energetic that the dog became panic-stricken. In his mind he was being dragged toward somewhere unknown. His ayes grew wild with the terror of it. He began to wiggle his head wildly and to brace his legs.

The child redoubled his efforts.They had a battle on the stairs.The child was victorious because he was completely absorbed in his purpose,and because the dog was very small.He dragged his acquirement to the door of his home,and finally with victory across the doorway.

No family member was in.The child sat down on the floor and made overtures to(向....示好） the dog.These the dog instantly accepted.He smiled with affection upon his new friend.In a short time they were firm and abiding(矢志不渝的）comrades.

1. What might have happened before the first paragraph?

A．The child had wanted to own the dog for a long time.

B．The dog had been someone else' s pet but lost his way.

C．The child had been looking for the lost dog for a long time.

D．The dog had been driven out of home by the child's family.

2. What directly made the boy change his mind?

A．The dog's apology.

B．His first interview with the dog.

C．His pity on the dog.

D．The dog's pleasing performance.

3. What can we know from paragraph 4 and 5?

A．The boy was naughty.

B．The dog was foolish.

C．The boy was a devoted friend.

D．The dog was a faithful friend.

4. Which of the following best describe the change of the dog's feeling?

A．Frightened-relieved-anxious-happy.

B．Worried-angry-scared-delighted.

C．Guilty-anxious-nervous-pleased.

D．Angry-regretted-scared-puzzled.

5 . One of the unforgettable experiences in California is to go whale watching in Monterey Bay. Nancy Black, a licensed marine biologist, is one of the scientists who lead these commercial outings, besides doing her own whale research. As Lawrence Biegel, her lawyer, puts it, one day Ms Black was in her research boat with assistants when killer whales attacked grey whales and killed a calf. Its blubber (鲸脂) floated to the surface, and the killer whales were about to feed on it. Seizing this opportunity to film their behavior, Ms Black threaded ropes through some pieces of blubber, then lowered a camera underwater.

For this, Ms Black might now face up to 20 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines, after a federal grand jury indicted her this month. Little about the accusations makes common sense. The federal law in question is the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act, which was intended to save whales from being killed and harassed. The law also banned feeding these animals, on the theory that doing so might damage their ability to seek food naturally in future. Feeding is what Ms Black is now accused of. She says she was using whatshe had learned from the federal agencies that are now investigating her to observe a natural feeding that was already in progress.

Just as ridiculous, says Mr Biegel, is the accusation, increasingly common in federal cases, that Ms Black lied to the authorities, which carries its own prison terms. Ms Black always edits the commercial videos of her whale outings to make them more interesting. When investigators demanded footage (连续镜头), she gave them one of these edited videos. Prosecutors now claim that she had changed evidence intentionally.

To Harvey Silverglate, the author of "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent", this is common in America's federal justice system today. A couple of trends have combined to threaten justice and freedom. First, federal regulations are often so poorly written and so vague that they are not understandable in effect. This gives too much discretion (自由裁量权) to bureaucrats and prosecutors (检察官), with their own career ambitions, who apply them randomly. Second, federal law has been moving away from mens rea ("guilty mind"), a common-law tradition that suggests that a person who had no idea he was breaking a law should not be accused of doing so. With swollen federal law system and without mens rea you can accuse most people of something or other, says Mr Silverglate. The question should be, he says, whether charges are reasonable when they run "against all human instinct and experience".

1. What does the underlined word “indicted” in paragraph two probably mean?

A．charged

B．warned

C．criticized

D．sentenced

2. Which of the following is NOT what Nancy Black is accused of?

A．Feeding killer whales on a grey whale calf’s blubber.

B．Providing false evidence with her edited videos.

C．Going whale watching for commercial purposes.

D．Breaking the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．According to Mr Biegel, Nancy Black has a slim chance of proving herself innocent.

B．Nancy Black thought she might get away with her filming killer whales.

C．Some jealous research assistants reported Nancy’s commercial outings to the police.

D．Those prosecutors might have different views about federal regulations from Nancy.

4. What is Havey Silverglate’s attitude towards America’s federal justice system?

A．Supportive.

B．Indifferent.

C．Disapproving.

D．Ambiguous.

6 . My son was ten at the time and we were on a late night family car trip to Cleveland for the get-together the next day. I was taking my _______ at the wheel while my husband and my little daughter _______.My son, full of energy, was wide awake in the back seat. I _______ to stay awake, too, and I didn’t want to _______ the radio, so I asked him to talk to me to help keep me _______.“Sure, Mom,” he said, “what do you want to _______?” I told him I’d talk about anything he wanted to talk _______.“How about frogs?” he asked. I said that would be _______,and for the next hour or so we talked about the _______ between frogs and toads(蟾蜍),and ________—basketball and soccer. He was quite ________ when we talked about Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson and how they got to be so famous. Now and then he would ________,but we’d continue to talk as I drove down the ________ road. 

About an hour and a half later, when I finally________,the bright lights woke everyone, and the magic of our discussion ________.But I knew I had taken the first step toward changing a bad listening habit with someone I love very much.

1.

A．offer

B．step

C．place

D．turn

2.

A．learned

B．ate

C．exercised

D．slept

3.

A．failed

B．needed

C．refused

D．agreed

4.

A．move

B．take

C．play

D．touch

5.

A．patient

B．pleased

C．awake

D．strong

6.

A．discuss

B．do

C．prove

D．say

7.

A．to

B．for

C．with

D．about

8.

A．lucky

B．fine

C．simple

D．dangerous

9.

A．studies

B．rules

C．differences

D．competitions

10.

A．tasks

B．sports

C．shows

D．programs

11.

A．interested

B．surprised

C．angry

D．sorry

12.

A．stay

B．stop

C．watch

D．leave

13.

A．dark

B．main

C．wide

D．beautiful

14.

A．passed

B．followed

C．finished

D．arrived

15.

A．worked

B．continued

C．disappeared

D．changed

7 . 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。

Jack and Rose were sitting face to face. At this moment, the landlord came in and asked, “Are you sure you do not rent the house any more?” He kept silent and she only shook her head. They were going to divorce, so it was obvious that they would not continue renting the house any more.

Then the landlord began examining the house. After looking around,he screamed, “Goddamn! See how you have ruined my house? The walls are full of nails! How could I rent the house to others?"

Jack said,"The room is too small and can hardly accommodate all loads of our stuff. So we could only hang them on the walls."The landlord did not listen to him and turned around up to the floor.

Rose began looking around her familiar room. Four years ago, she became his bride here. On the night of their marriage, he felt deeply guilty to her, saying,“I feel so sorry for you for having you live in this small room. In the future I will earn a lot of money to buy our own house.”

The room was only 13 square meters with two nails on the wall next to the door, one for her to hang her bag and the other for hanging umbrellas. At that time,she threw all her stuff such as her bag and umbrella on the floor once she entered the room, staring at the whole mess and feeling terribly upset.

There were three nails on the left wall, on which he hung his clothes yesterday. After she lived in the room, he removed all the clothes boxes and bought her a desk in the spared room because he knew she loved writing and drawing.

There were four nails on the right wall that were used to fix their wedding photo frame. But now there were only four nails without the frame. She still remembered he got hurt on his fingers when trying to drive the nails home. It was her who pushed him to receive an injection against tetanus(破伤风)。

注意:1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The landlord tried to pry(撬动，撬开) the nails out when complaining at the same time.

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They hung all the things back to the wall.

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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。续写的词数应为150左右．

I woke up after surgery with my leg bandaged beyond recognition, with tubes coming out of various limbs(肢体），with my mouth dry and my mind confused.

The operation had required two bone transplants to fill the chunk(组块）I'd broken (it was in a million pieces, a doctor said). They'd inserted a titanium rod, a dozen or so screws. I wouldn't walk for three months, optimistically. I couldn't drive. I couldn't navigate the steps in our house. I couldn't even shower on my own.

I would be sent home to California with a machine designed to train my leg to regain its range of motion. I would sit in it for six hours a day, and when I wasn't sitting in the machine, I would be at physical therapy or limited to bed rest.

I was not thinking normally on my IV drip(静脉滴注） but my mind was clear enough and I turned to my husband Adam and asked,"How are we going to manage?" Who would get the kids to the bus at 7:15 a.m., since my husband was in his office by 6 am, each day? Who would deal with the dogs,who relied on my companionship and long walks? Who would prepare dinner?Who would drive to tennis practices and softball games and sleepovers?

＂We'll figure it out," Adam said. I nodded, because what was the alternative? But nowhere in any of my Vicodin-infused cells did I believe him. Not even a tiny bit.

I posted about my accident on Face-book. An image of me with tubes up my nose,and a picture of my leg,wrapped and swollen.

注意：
1.续写的词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:

Friends' responses flooded in asking for ways they could help.

Paragraph 2.

Both my children and husband learned to be autonomous and considerate.