1 . Directions: complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is only one word more than you need.

A. humble     B. season     C. taste     D. legendary     E. enterprise     F. unexplored     G. unattractive H. unfounded     I. shelter     J. adventures     K. comforts

An Excerpt from The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels

In 1899 when I was five years old and living in Palmetto, Florida, my father decided to take his family through the wilds of the Everglades and have a claim on an offshore island. His purpose was to farm this island but behind this was his wish to give us a     1     of the way he grew up. He had been a cowboy in the Myakka area when he was fifteen years old. These ranchlands overlapped the north end of the Everglades at a time when it was     2    .

His life was a series of     3    . He had lost a father and a brother in the Civil War. His father’s carriage house in Charleston, South Carolina, and his nearby plantation were in the line of Sherman’s march. His widow took her eight-year-old son, my father, and fled to Quincy, Florida. When Papa finished school at the academy there, he went to work as a cowboy on a ranch in Myakka for a friend of his dead father’s. By age thirty, he was a county sheriff, no     4     job in those days, and his territory was wide ranging. The county he served was later split up into six or eight counties.

South Florida was     5     to many because of the mosquitoes, panthers, crocodiles, swamps, and wetlands. But these marks of wild country called to my father like the     6     siren song.

He started building a covered wagon around the fourth of July and we went into the wilderness with him in the fall. We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mother’s gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. Our comfortable two- story frame house on the Manatee River was set about with live oaks, guavas, and long-leafed pine that branched out from the foot of the tree to     7     our cow and provide a roost for the chickens. My grandfather was the town doctor. He doctored the entire county and was paid in eggs and ham and vegetables when they were in     8    . It was an idyllic life, and we lived close to our family and to the     9     and safety a small town could afford. But Papa was a man of     10    ; he realized that the untouched Ten Thousand Islands off the southwest coast of the state were rich in soil for crops and in game for food.

3 . 从方框中选择最恰当的词，并用其正确形式填空。

severe superb spell expand behave

When Helen was young she lost her sight and hearing. With these     1     restrictions to her communication, Helen’s     2     was often unbearable and sometimes she was troublesome, stubborn and angry with a tendency to break things when she was not understood. Anne Sullivan was a     3     teacher. Anne’s technique was simple and straightforward. She put an object into Helen’s hand and     4     out the word on her other hand. The precious knowledge she taught Helen gave her hope and joy. From “doll” and “water”, Helen’s knowledge and vocabulary     5     and this changed her thinking process.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从方框中选出恰当的单词或短语填空，使语意通顺完整。第一个方框供前4小题选用，第二个方框供后4小题选用。每个选项只能使用一次，每框有一项剩余。

A. missing       B. wet       C. wife       D. vacation E. grew up

F. thanked       G. garden       H. last       I. excited J. bedroom

The 75­-year­-old Joe lived very happily in a village and had a big warm family. His children     1     and moved to different cities. Now he has four grandchildren, and they usually visit him during their holidays.

During one     2     , Joe was preparing his home for the kids: cleaning the house and cooking their favorite foods. After he finished working, he realized his watch was     3     . The watch was from his     4     and he treasured it very much, so he was very upset. He looked for it but could not find it anywhere.

When his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch which was given by their grandma.

One granddaughter asked, “Grandpa, do you remember when you saw it the     5     time?”

“I guess when I was cleaning the     6     ! ” he replied.

The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they couldn’t find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort their grandpa.

One grandson went back to the garden to look again. He was there for about 15 minutes and rushed back with a(n)     7     look on his face.

Then everyone was very surprised to see the watch in his hand. They asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied, “I sat there without making a noise. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick’ sound and found the watch.”

Joe hugged and     8     the little boy.

This is the power of silence. If we stay calm (冷静), we are more able to find the ways of solving problems.

5 . 选用适当的单词或短语补全短文

A. lucky       B. postpone     C. argument     D. envelope     E. bet     F. odd

The tale was set in London in 1903. The two brothers had been having a heated     1     for a couple of days and had decided to make a     2     to settle it. Henry, an American who was wandering on the street outside, hungry and penniless, drew their attention. He was invited to the two brothers' house. They felt happy about Henry's bad luck and then gave him an     3    . Henry was asked to     4     opening it until two o'clock. He felt that was     5    .

8 . 选词填空

raise one’s voice; take one’s advice; calm down; jump in with both feet

Little Tom nervously approached his mother and told her he wanted to swim in the pool by himself. On hearing it, she     1    , saying, “No way! It’s too dangerous, and you’ve just started learning to swim.” Just at that moment, Tom’s grandma came in. She told Tom’s mother to     2    . Then Grandma advised Tom to think carefully and not to     3    . At last, Tom realized his grandma was right and decided to     4    .

9 . 选用适当的单词或短语补全短文。

advertise, expedition, miserable, aboard, turn

Perce Blackborow is one of the more interesting and colourful members of the    1    .In 1914,he was far from home in Buenos Aires and lived a     2     life.Fortunately,he met and befriended an American sailor,William Bakewell who was in the same situation.When the Endurance sailed into port and     3     for sailors, the two men applied for positions. Shackleton interviewed them both and Bakewell was accepted while Blackborow was     4     down because of his age and lack of experience.He slipped     5     the ship with the help of Bakewell but was discovered when the Endurance was three days out of port.Shackleton was unhappy at him being there,but realised he had no choice and offered him a position of steward.