1 . Sammie Vance is one extraordinary kid. The seventh-grader from Indiana is collecting bottle caps to upcycle them into buddy benches for her school. Sammie learned about buddy benches at a camp she attended one summer. At the camp there were benches set up for lonely children; they would sit down signaling to other kids that they are in need of a friend. She loved the idea and said, “It would be really cool to have the benches at my school.”
Then she presented her idea to the Parent-Teacher Association. Sammie used pictures showing how a simple bench could help classmates understand when one of their own needed a friend. The adults in the Parent-Teacher Association were impressed by her initiative (新方案) and how she planned on implementing it.
Sammie found a company that turns recycled plastic caps into benches. This encouraged her. She got to work and held a community-wide event asking members to bring their old bottle caps. The event alone collected 1,600 pounds of caps and with that, she created three buddy benches for her school. These buddy benches cost much less than regular park benches and are good for the environment. Sammie continued her efforts and expanded her project to create more benches for other schools.
Sammie has helped arrange 200 buddy benches in schools and neighborhoods and she has no plans to stop. She says that even adults can use a buddy bench because people at any age can feel lonely. “For me, it’s seeing people who need a friend, because I’ve been lonely myself. I don’t want others to feel that way.” she said.
Sammie knows that kids can also do something to influence the world. “I just look forward to making a difference,” she said, “and inspiring other people to make a difference.”
1. Why did Sammie Vance make buddy benches?| A．To encourage kids to enjoy school life. |
| B．To deal with bench shortages in schools. |
| C．To provide a platform for kids to find friends. |
| D．To draw people’s attention to recyclable goods. |
| A．Disapproving. | B．Amazed. | C．Doubtful. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．It was a difficult process due to the lack of money. |
| B．It has replaced many regular park benches. |
| C．It had little influence on her community. |
| D．It gained wide support in a green way. |
| A．Helping more people to get rid of loneliness. |
| B．Improving the design of the buddy benches. |
| C．Trying her best to protect the environment. |
| D．Focusing more attention on her studies. |
2 . 17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla is a freshman at Nagqu No. 2 Senior High School in Lhasa, which sit 3,650 meters above sea level. She now plays point guard for the school’s 12-member female basketball team.
“Practice makes perfect. You get used to the altitude when you love the sport and train hard enough,” said the potential basketball star, who has been crazy about the sport since taking it up three years ago.
With outstanding speed and accurate passes, she never fails to shine on the basketball court, even when she competes against the boys. Though she is a freshman in high school, Cigla already has a clear picture of her future--entering a sports college to study basketball. In the eyes of Cila, who comes from a poor herder’s (牧民的) family in northern Tibet, studying in Lhasa, the most developed city in this area, has made it much easier for her to realize her basketball dream.
With an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet. Low-oxygen environments and extreme weather have long influenced the health of Nagqu students, hampering the development of primary education in the area.
Like Cigla, many students at the school are from poor farmers’ and herders’ families. Dawa Droma, a senior student also on the school’s female basketball team, recalled, “I had never touched a basketball before that game but joined the class team anyway. When I scored and heard my classmates cheer for me, I couldn’t feel more proud. That’s how I fell in love with basketball and why I never looked back.” Reflecting on the influence of basketball on her life, Dawa Droma said the sport had helped her get fit and build up confidence over the years. “Meeting players from different schools has certainly made me a more outgoing person,” she said.
1. What do we know about Cigla from the text?| A．She loves playing basketball but dislikes training hard. |
| B．She is in Grade One at a senior high school at a high altitude. |
| C．She’s been crazy about playing basketball since she was 12 years old. |
| D．She’s got used to the altitude because she has lived there for years. |
| A．Her school’s location. | B．Her clear plans. |
| C．Her family background. | D．Her entering a sports college. |
| A．promoting. | B．maintaining. | C．interpreting. | D．preventing. |
| A．Dawa Droma barely feels proud when scoring. |
| B．Dawa Droma has been affected by basketball greatly. |
| C．Playing basketball improves Dawa Droma’s sense of touch. |
| D．Players from different schools have become Dawa Droma’s friends |
3 . My mum read Bambi to me before I could read, and later I read it to myself again and again. In the Suffolk countryside where I grew up, I would often spot deer in the fields. This book made me stop and study the animal tracks (痕迹) on the ground and made me think about the world around me in a different way.
The novel is nothing like the sickly animated movie that came later. It doesn’t turn the deer into cartoon, rather, it gives nature a voice, letting us in on the mysteries of its beautiful, secretive world, where even the leaves have something to say.
I read this relatively recently when I was doing research for my novel The Unravelling. Reading it feels a little like sitting by the fire in a pub on a cold night, a pint of beer in your hand, listening to one of the locals telling attractive stories.
At face value, the book is a written and photographic record of a journey across East Anglia. But within each corner? You discover other stories, a hidden history of the world you thought you knew. Reading it made the landscape I have known all my life transform before my eyes.
I’ve read this book every couple of years since I studied it for English A Level. Each chapter is a story in itself, a special fairytale love letter to the Fens and marshland so real that you can smell it and taste it on your tongue. At 16 years old, it was the first novel I read that made me see the landscape as a character in its own right, and it was finally the novel that made me want to become a writer.
1. When did the author first learn about Bambis?| A．Before she went to school. | B．When she was in kindergarten. |
| C．After she was in primary school. | D．When she saw deer at the first time. |
| A．A picture book. | B．A cartoon book. |
| C．An imaginative book. | D．A textbook. |
| A．She prepared for science research. | B．She prepared for her works. |
| C．She prepared for studying deer. | D．She prepared for telling stories. |
| A．Studying for English A Level. | B．The special marshland. |
| C．The beautiful landscape. | D．The book Bambi. |
4 . For twelve years, my church has participated in the Appalachia Service Project. One week each summer, volunteers go to repair or build homes for families.
At the age of sixteen, I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer (活动房屋) that was in poor condition. The staff soon decided that the only reasonable solution was to build a new house. “Our family” was overjoyed with their new house that was 20x30 foot with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen/family room.
On Tuesday of that week, I asked “our family’s” three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Josh, the oldest, responded, “I just want a bed.”
We were stunned. The boys had never slept in a bed. They were used to foam pads (泡沫垫). That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, we drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
On Friday, when we saw the delivery truck coming, we told “our family” about the surprise. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning. That afternoon, we set up the beds. As we fitted the frames together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. He observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm. As Meggan, a member of our group, slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”
“A pillow,” she replied,
“What do you do with it?” Eric persisted.
“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” Meggan answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.
“Oh... that’s soft,” he said, hugging it tightly.
1. “Our family” refers to ________.| A．a poor family in West Virginia |
| B．the author’s family |
| C．the family which consists of three boys |
| D．the family formed by the volunteers |
| A．Frightened. | B．Confused. | C．Doubtful. | D．Shocked. |
| A．The children like lying on foam pads. |
| B．The family is too poor to buy a bed. |
| C．The volunteers bought beds for the family. |
| D．The children had never slept in a bed. |
| A．we felt very tired |
| B．Eric didn’t know how to use what we bought for him |
| C．we were sad to know Eric had never used a pillow |
| D．Eric wanted some other things |
5 . Recently whenever I turned on my computer or my mobile phone, news about the great effect of Hurricane Harvey（哈维飓风）on thousands of people caught my eye. I saw many unfortunate events. However, there was also lots of bright news that showed the goodness of mankind. As a reporter, I reported many human-interest stories when doing my job, That’s why the story about the guys in the bakery（面包店）caught my eye.
When the workers at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston were trapped inside the building for two days, they didn't sit there feeling sorry for themselves. They used their time wisely after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. While waiting for the eventual rescue that came on Monday morning, the four workers decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for people around the neighborhood. They talked to their manager about their plan over the phone and the manager agreed.
The flood water rose in the street outside. They took advantage of their emergency power supply to bake bread. They used more than 4,200 pounds of flour（面粉）to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of sweet bread. Although the water kept rising, they continued baking to help more people. By the time the manager managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that they took the loaves to lots of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods.
The store manager, Brian Alvarado, told The Independent, “They've done more than they should have done. And what they had done has lit a light for people. I feel lucky to have them work in the bakery.”
Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should feelforlorn. Instead, we should stay hopeful and take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference to the people in the world as well as the world itself.
1. Why did the story in the bakery draw the author’s attention?| A．It was helpful in choosing a good job. |
| B．It made him/her interested in baking. |
| C．It could bring him/her much money. |
| D．It showed the goodness of mankind. |
| A．They tried to get people out of water. |
| B．They set up emergency centers to help. |
| C．They offered to make bread for people. |
| D．They let homeless people live in the bakery. |
| A．He found them lucky. | B．He was proud of them. |
| C．They were experienced. | D．They were shy but brave. |
| A．Hopeless. | B．Confident. | C．Serious. | D．Angry. |
6 . I was never very neat while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but my always hid somewhere. She even labeled (贴标签) everything. I always looked for everything. Overtime, Kate got neater and I got my merriser. She moved to push my dirty clothing over and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.
Who broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, “Take your shoes away! why under my bed!” Suddenly I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.
The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up. She quickly crawled (爬) under her covers, crying. Obviously. that was something she could not go through alone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy (同情) rose up in my heart.
Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bad. Cleaned the suckers and swept the floor even on her side. I got so absorbed into my work that I even didn’t notice Kate had sat up. She was watching. Her tears dried and her expression was such disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me. “Thanks.”
Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.
1. What made Kate so angry one evening?| A．She couldn’t find her books. |
| B．She heard the writer shouting loud. |
| C．She got the news that her grandma was ill. |
| D．She saw the writer’s shoes beneath her bed. |
| A．Because she was scared by Kate’s anger. |
| B．Because she hated herself for being so messy. |
| C．Because she wanted to show her care. |
| D．Because she was asked by Kate to do so. |
| A．By analyzing courses. |
| B．By showing differences. |
| C．By describing a process. |
| D．By following time order. |
| A．My Friend Kate. |
| B．Hard Work Pays off. |
| C．How to Be Organized? |
| D．Learning to Be Roommates. |
7 . Recently, a video story has spread among people.
James Anthony has cleaned the halls of Hickerson Primary School for 15 years. Although he is deaf, he never complains. Instead, he greets every child and teacher with a smile. Teachers and children love him very much and call him Mr. James.
On the day Anthony turned 60, the school wanted to give him a very special surprise. That day when Anthony walked into a classroom a group of children start to sign and sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Anthony stated smiling as usual. Then his jaw dropped open and he laughed for joy as he realized what was going on. A few teachers sled the kids through the whole song as Anthony watched. A wide smile was on his face. As they finished, tears came out from his eyes.
Scott, secretary of the school said, “The children love and respect Mr. James. They give him high fives in the halls, and he even teaches them sign language. Today he has put smiles on faces all around the world.”
1. James Anthony is ____.| A．a cleaner | B．a student | C．a secretary | D．a guard |
| A．On his fifteenth birthday. | B．On his fiftieth birthday. |
| C．On his sixtieth birthday. | D．On his sixteenth birthday. |
| A．Because he lost his job. | B．Because he was deeply moved. |
| C．Because the kids didn’t like him. | D．Because he couldn’t hear the kids. |
| A．Anthony used to be a good teacher. |
| B．the kids love and respect Mr. James. |
| C．the kids often help Anthony clean the halls. |
| D．Anthony always greets the kids and teachers by singing songs. |
| A．A Famous Teacher | B．Lovely Kids |
| C．A Special Birthday Gift | D．An American School |
8 . Generally speaking, newly born babies are not beautiful. They are wrinkled(多皱的)or hairless, or they have an angry look on their face. They seem to say, “Get away! I hate everybody.” But to a parent, that hairless, wrinkled, angry-faced baby is the most beautiful and perfect child in the world. When that proud father or mother asks you, “Well, what do you think…isn’t she beautiful?” What are you going to say? Is this the time for the truth? Of course not!
You look that father in the eye and say, “Yes, she is! She is really a beauty. She’s one in a million. She’s going to be a movie star! I can tell! She’s as beautiful as a picture.”
In English, this is a white lie. White lies don’t hurt people. They are not cruel or angry words. People use them to make a difficult thing a little easier. When people don’t want to meet someone, or eat something new that they really don’t like at a friend’s house, they tell a white lie. They are trying to be kind. They feel that being polite is sometimes more important. A doctor tells white lie in order to make a patient feel that his health is not so worse and then the patient may become optimistic.
From what is said above, we may draw a conclusion that we should not treat white lies as obstacles in life, and that sometimes telling a lie should not be associated with the issue of being dishonest. Some white lies can encourage you to be better.
1. What purpose does the first paragraph serve?| A．To emphasize the beauty of newly born babies. |
| B．To show parents’ selfless devotion to their children. |
| C．To introduce the topic of a special kind of lie. |
| D．To use examples to prove lies are common in daily life. |
| A．impatient | B．tired | C．delighted | D．careless |
| A．kind | B．impolite | C．the white color | D．angry |
| A．You tell a parent that the newly-born baby is ugly. |
| B．Your friend’s bag isn’t beautiful but you say it is. |
| C．You broke the window but you say you didn’t. |
| D．You tell your friend that her new haircut is terrible. |
9 . At thirteen, I was diagnosed (诊断)with a kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.
In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and their write on it, all within 45minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”
She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are not different from your classmates, young man. ”
I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it homie.
In the quietness of my bedroom; the ‘story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raise dots(点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.
Wasn’t I the “blind”in my class; being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out(溢出)and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was not different from others; I just needed a quieter place: If Louis could find his “Way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?”
I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs.Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to ‘me the next day-. with an “A”on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words:. “See what you can do when you keep trying?”
1. The author didn’t finish the reading in class because .| A．He was new to the class |
| B．He was tried of literature |
| C．He had an attention disorder |
| D．He wanted to take the task home |
| A．He had good sight |
| B．He made a great invention. |
| C．He gave up reading |
| D．He learned a lot from school |
| A．Angry |
| B．Impatient |
| C．Sympathetic |
| D．Encouraging |
| A．The disabled should be treated with respect. |
| B．A teacher can open up a new world to students. |
| C．One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts. |
| D．Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges. |
10 . “Everything happens for the best.” My mother said whenever things weren't going my way. “Don’t worry. One day your luck will change.”
Mother was right, as I discovered after I had finished my college education. I had decided to try for a job in a radio station. One day, I wanted to host (主持) a sports program. I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But I got turned down every time.
In one station, a kind lady said my problem was that I hadn’t got enough experience. “Get some work in a small station and work your way up,” she said.
I went back home. I couldn’t get a job there, either. Then my dad told me a businessman had opened a store and needed someone to help him. But again, I didn’t get the job.
I felt really down. “Your luck will change,” Mom said to me. Dad lent me the car to help me to look for my job. I tried another radio station in Iowa. But the owner, a nice man, told me he had already had someone.
As I left his office, I asked, “How can someone be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard the man called, “What did you mean? Do you know anything about football?” He put me in front of a microphone and asked me to try to imagine that I was giving my opinion on a football game. I succeeded.
On my way home, Mom’s words came back to me, “One day your luck will change, Son. And when it happens, you’ll feel good because of all the hard work you have done.” At that moment I knew just what she meant.
1. What job was the writer most interested in?| A．A sportsman. | B．A shop assistant. |
| C．A businessman. | D．A sports announcer. |
| A．Because he hadn't got enough experience. |
| B．Because he didn’t get college education. |
| C．Because he wasn’t a good looking person. |
| D．Because he was too young. |
| A．You just need to wait for some time then luck will come. |
| B．Luck will come if you try your best to do everything. |
| C．It’s important for you to wait for luck. |
| D．You should trust your mother. |
| A．Mother’s Words | B．Everything Happens for the Best |
| C．No One Is Always Lucky | D．To Find a Job in Radio Is Difficult |
