1 . John entered a college and often worked late until 12 at night.He fell into the _______ of smoking a year ago.He smoked so much that he_______had a cigarette on his lips.He_______ while he read，while he watched television and _______ while he drank a cup of coffee or tea.He smoked nearly forty cigarettes a day, but he was _______about it.

John's friend，Frank，_______many times to _______ him not to smoke.“Smoking is bad for your _______!” he said, “You’d better give it up.”But his advice didn’t _______.

Before long，John ________ that he often got a bad cough，________ he went to see a doctor.The doctor________ him carefully and asked whether he often smoked.John told him the ________.Then the doctor told him that his cough was ________ by smoking and he wouldn’t get any better unless he stopped smoking.

“If not,” said the doctor, “you will never ________ from your cough and some other illnesses may also be caused.” John became ________ and made up his mind to give up smoking.At the beginning，it was very ________ for him.Every ________ when he wanted to smoke，he got something to eat.At last，he was not ________ smoking at all.And he no longer had ________ .

1.

A．hole

B．love

C．habit

D．interest

2.

A．still

B．never

C．always

D．sometimes

3.

A．smoked

B．stopped

C．ate

D．played

4.

A．even

B．just

C．ever

D．only

5.

A．doubtful

B．angry

C．curious

D．happy

6.

A．1eft

B．tried

C．explained

D．forgot

7.

A．call

B．order

C．force

D．advise

8.

A．friendship

B．health

C．study

D．sleep

9.

A．work

B．return

C．continue

D．answer

10.

A．recognized

B．found

C．understood

D．showed

11.

A．so

B．or

C．but

D．though

12.

A．saw

B．examined

C．watched

D．judged

13.

A．disease

B．reason

C．accident

D．truth

14.

A．followed

B．caused

C．kept

D．resulted

15.

A．differ

B．hear

C．suffer

D．recover

16.

A．disappointed

B．worried

C．sad

D．sorry

17.

A．boring

B．tiring

C．difficult

D．late

18.

A．day

B．way

C．time

D．second

19.

A．surprised at

B．interested in

C．certain about

D．afraid of

20.

A．coughs

B．pains

C．troubles

D．cigarettes

2 . I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I _________ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a _________ writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our _________ selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to _______ them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even _________?

Thinking back on the _________, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you’re eighteen Years old, twenty-eight seems like a _________ age, but I wasn’t feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had _________ me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it _________. It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?” It continued to greet me casually __________ we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the __________SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so ________! She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldn’t worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn’t forget to be present and __________ my life!

________ to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have __________ meet. Instead, she wrote, “I’ll __________whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I’m imagining now, I’ll support you, because maybe__________ I’m imagining is someone else, but you’re not someone else, you’re me.

I was __________, and tears welled up in my eyes at this __________ through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. ________, I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison(相形之下) to how I’d feel and who I’d be.

1.

A．believed

B．bet

C．doubted

D．considered

2.

A．hopeless

B．creative

C．urgent

D．tough

3.

A．inner

B．happy

C．future

D．young

4.

A．correct

B．mail

C．answer

D．write

5.

A．remember

B．understand

C．mind

D．remain

6.

A．application

B．comment

C．study

D．letter

7.

A．grown-up

B．happy

C．made-up

D．promising

8.

A．promised

B．convince

C．encouraged

D．expected

9.

A．calmly

B．cautiously

C．eagerly

D．naturally

10.

A．even if

B．so that

C．now that

D．as if

11.

A．appearing

B．arriving

C．approaching

D．approving

12.

A．depressed

B．ambitious

C．carefree

D．stressed

13.

A．enjoy

B．value

C．start

D．earn

14.

A．Contrary

B．Honest

C．Surprised

D．Strange

15.

A．tried to

B．failed to

C．managed to

D．determined to

16.

A．stand for

B．stand with

C．stand by

D．stand out

17.

A．what

B．who

C．which

D．that

18.

A．guilty

B．touched

C．embarrassed

D．nervous

19.

A．self-acceptance

B．self-service

C．self-defense

D．self-concern

20.

A．Besides

B．Therefore

C．Then

D．However

3 . The Parents’ Lifesaving Touch

On March 25, 2010, Kate and David heard the words every parent feels frightened of: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature(早产的), ______ just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no ______. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just minutes to ______.

“I saw him gasp(喘息) weakly, but the doctor said it was no ______,” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, ______ if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up ______.”

In an effort to cherish(珍惜) her last moments with the tiny boy, Kate asked to ______ him. The couple knew this was likely a ______.

Kate removed the hospital blanket ______ the boy, whom the couple had already ______ Jamie, and ordered David to take his shirt off and ______ her and the boy in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible in their arms and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his ______. They also talked to him.

“We were trying to entice(说服) him to stay,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We explained his name and ______ he had a twin who he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to ______ him.”

Then something completely ______ happened. Jamie started ______ again. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.

The couple’s lost boy had made it.

“We’re the ______ people in the world,” David said.

Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and ______. The parents only recently told the kids the story of their ______. “Emily burst into tears,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole ______ makes you cherish them more.”

1.

A．losing

B．measuring

C．weighing

D．showing

2.

A．appreciation

B．improvement

C．prediction

D．agreement

3.

A．live

B．play

C．grow

D．think

4.

A．harm

B．trouble

C．wonder

D．use

5.

A．but

B．or

C．and

D．for

6.

A．gradually

B．peacefully

C．hardly

D．easily

7.

A．cover

B．hold

C．cure

D．wash

8.

A．risk

B．party

C．goodbye

D．tradition

9.

A．around

B．to

C．beside

D．against

10.

A．promised

B．kept

C．awarded

D．named

11.

A．join

B．place

C．feed

D．hide

12.

A．appearance

B．condition

C．memory

D．skill

13.

A．why

B．when

C．that

D．if

14.

A．protect

B．raise

C．teach

D．save

15.

A．unbelievable

B．unfamiliar

C．natural

D．acceptable

16.

A．waving

B．speaking

C．smiling

D．breathing

17.

A．kindest

B．luckiest

C．bravest

D．cleverest

18.

A．free

B．relaxed

C．healthy

D．confident

19.

A．birth

B．adventure

C．growth

D．education

20.

A．project

B．experiment

C．progress

D．experience

4 . It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.

A _______ came, "Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to _______ that shirt away, but gave it to her _______   I was speechless. I wanted to hide.

I _______ the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her _______, " I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night,

Mom told my dad that she couldn't clean anymore; she knew her life's _______ was something greater.

The next morning she _______ with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to _______ a university .

After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are _______, aren't you? I have a ________ as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of ________. "   Mom accepted the opportunity ________.

For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling ________. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal ________ in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you ________ the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hardworking ________ over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you ________ be the teacher of this class."41 mom spent more than 20 years there. ________ her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the ________ comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle ________ situations and never give up.

1.

A．noise

B．tune

C．sound

D．voice

2.

A．put

B．take

C．throw

D．tear

3.

A．otherwise

B．anyhow

C．instead

D．actually

4.

A．settled

B．pushed

C．occupied

D．placed

5.

A．opponent

B．director

C．employer

D．adviser

6.

A．success

B．encouragement

C．purpose

D．victory

7.

A．went

B．met

C．worked

D．stayed

8.

A．visit

B．continue

C．attend

D．prepare

9.

A．serious

B．fortunate

C．careful

D．responsible

10.

A．career

B．position

C．duty

D．work

11.

A．judging

B．learning

C．obeying

D．imagining

12.

A．patiently

B．eagerly

C．successfully

D．skillfully

13.

A．guilty

B．frightened

C．upset

D．awkward

14.

A．looked up

B．went up

C．took up

D．showed up

15.

A．believe

B．protect

C．receive

D．treat

16.

A．action

B．intention

C．spirit

D．attempt

17.

A．may

B．used to

C．might

D．should

18.

A．At

B．On

C．During

D．With

19.

A．worthless

B．thoughtless

C．hopeless

D．helpless

20.

A．outstanding

B．different

C．dangerous

D．challenging

5 . The morning after an evening struggle to care for my three-year-old daughter, I couldn't wait to get her to school. I, as a mother, was tired from the anger and her inability to communicate because of her slowed language development.

As I accompanied her into the car, I felt desperate. Nothing was right with our world. She'd been born around the same time when the nation was witnessing the birth of another Great Recession. My job and my house had been victims. Then this happened. My child's language delay was identified, but doctors struggled to properly help her. I felt like we both needed to be rescued.

I returned that afternoon as disenchanted with the little girl I loved as when I left. Walking slowly toward the school’s playground gate, I found her preschool teacher racing to greet me.

"You should have seen her today!" His breathy words were supported by excitement. I didn't interrupt. "See that climber." He pointed to a wooden piece of playground equipment that looked like a rock wall. I nodded. "Well, every day since she started school, she's tried and failed to make it to the top." He took a breath. "And today she did it!”

He expressed his joy just as he'd witnessed her conquering Mount Everest! "She cheered and celebrated! I wish I'd recorded it!” His words comforted me. My daughter had conquered her mountain.

As she ran toward me, I recognized something I hadn't before. I saw her perseverance（毅力）, I saw her strength. I saw a hero.

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1. Why did the author rush her daughter to school?

A．She was busy with her work as a doctor.

B．She had a fight with her daughter last night.

C．She broke down when dealing with her daughter.

D．She had to sell their house due to Great Recession.

2. Which of the following best explains "disenchanted" underlined in paragraph 3?

A．Optimistic.

B．Concerned.

C．Neutral.

D．Disappointed.

3. Why did the little girl's preschool teacher feel excited?

A．She succeeded in standing on Mount Everest.

B．She managed to climb up the wooden equipment.

C．She got the first place in the school sports meet.

D．She began to communicate with others normally.

4. From which is the text most probably taken?

A．The radio.	B．A magazine.
C．A newspaper.	D．The Internet.

5. What may be the best title of the passage?

A．Perseverance means victory.	B．Every child is an angel.
C．We can always find hope in tiny things.	D．Medical treatment is advancing.

6 . Many years ago, my dad was facing a serious heart condition. He was unable to do a steady job. He fell suddenly ill and had to be admitted to the hospital.

He wanted to do something to keep himself busy, so he decided to volunteer at the local children’s hospital. My dad loved kids. It was the perfect job for him. He ended up working with the seriously ill children. He would talk, play, and do arts with them.

One of his kids was a girl with a rare disease that paralyzed (瘫痪) her from the neck down. She couldn’t do anything, and she was very depressed. My dad decided to try to help her. He started visiting her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn’t use his hands at all. All the while he would tell her, “See, you can do anything you set your mind to.”At the end of the day, she began to paint using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was sent home because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her. My dad also left the children’s hospital for a little while because he became ill. Some time later after my dad had recovered and returned to work, in came the little girl who had been paralyzed and only this time she was walking. She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave him a picture she had done using her hands. At the bottom it read: “Thank you for helping me walk.”

My dad would cry every time he told us this story and so would we. He would say sometimes love is more powerful than doctor, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave the picture—loved every single child in that hospital.

1. The author’s father worked at the local hospital to_______________.

A．make his serious heart condition less serious	B．keep himself occupied and pleased
C．realize his childhood dream	D．earn money to pay for treatment

2. How did the author’s father help the paralyzed little girl?

A．He helped her practice walking.	B．He visited her and made a toy for her.
C．He showed her she could still do things.	D．He painted special pictures for her.

3. According to Paragraph 3, the paralyzed girl _______________.

A．eventually became a unique painter

B．was sent home and never seen again

C．gradually recovered and walked

D．sent the author’s dad a picture painted with her mouth

4. What message does the passage mainly convey?

A．It’s better to give than to receive.

B．A sick person should not focus on his disease.

C．Volunteering is a worthwhile thing to do.

D．Love can sometimes bring great results.

7 . Rarely do teachers know whether they make permanent impressions on students. I know because it ________ to my mother, a retired teacher, when she turned on the ________ one morning in 2003.

The story began in the mid-1960s.My mom was teaching ________ at Burlingame Junior High. I knew little about her job at the time except for the ________ redhead, Tamara, who was ________ writing stories as a seventh-grader in my mom’s class.

I was visiting her in 2003 when my mom came out of her room with a ________ look on her face. She’s been listening to the radio, and she had ________ an interview with a best-selling French author, Tamara Pierce—the same name as that of the redhead my mom had taught nearly four ________ before. My mother ________: Could it be the same person?

I ________ the Internet and quickly found the website for the author. My heart began to beat rapidly when I ________ it at the bottom—here was ________ that my mother had taught a now-famous writer!

“I should ________ my writing career to my English teacher. (Bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!)”

My mother’s name was Mary Jacobsen.

My mother’s immediate response to this ________ was quiet. She was always kind and extremely ________. I mention this story not only because it’s a wonderful ________ of the influence teachers can have without being ________ of it. It also makes me see my mom ________. This story makes me consider how nice it would be if we all let our favorite ________ teachers know their work ________.

1.

A．fell

B．appealed

C．happened

D．applied

2.

A．radio

B．television

C．computer

D．heat

3.

A．French

B．Spanish

C．Italian

D．English

4.

A．amazed

B．excited

C．gifted

D．bored

5.

A．respectful of

B．skilled at

C．uninterested in

D．surprised at

6.

A．puzzled

B．worried

C．tired

D．satisfied

7.

A．conducted

B．arranged

C．received

D．heard

8.

A．years

B．decades

C．months

D．weeks

9.

A．shouted

B．repeated

C．wondered

D．sighed

10.

A．went into

B．looked into

C．checked

D．searched

11.

A．spotted

B．recorded

C．seized

D．realized

12.

A．possibility

B．evidence

C．news

D．knowledge

13.

A．return

B．adapt

C．owe

D．show

14.

A．doubt

B．creation

C．event

D．discovery

15.

A．modest

B．outgoing

C．sympathetic

D．faithful

16.

A．victory

B．example

C．topic

D．stage

17.

A．worthy

B．certain

C．aware

D．proud

18.

A．averagely

B．differently

C．normally

D．patiently

19.

A．lost

B．separate

C．present

D．former

20.

A．mattered

B．disappeared

C．approached

D．continued

8 . It’s not common that a grandmother aged 89 is crowned Queen of Icebergs in north America, but when it does happen it’s quite the sight.

On a recent trip to Iceland, Judith Streng became that grandma after her son attempted to take a photograph of her sitting on an ice structure that looks like a throne (宝座) at Diamond Beach in Jokul. Shortly after Streng sat down to pose, the piece of ice broke off and floated into the water.

“I thought it was safe. One girl had been on it and then two girls at the same time, and it was very secure with them. When I got on it, it started to shake and a wave was coming in. A very large wave came in and made the throne kind of shake, and I could tell that I was slipping off,” Streng told ABC News.

Streng’s story went hot after her 24-year-old granddaughter Catherine tweeted a text message exchange she had with her father about the incident. “My grandmother almost got lost at sea in Iceland today!”

Catherine, who teaches English in Seoul, South Korea, explained via Twitter that her father described the scene vividly. He has a PhD in English, and described the event in the following words, “She climbed to the throne after a wave had pulled back and left it briefly exposed on the beach. Then a wave washed in and removed the ice throne, rocking it from side to side. When the wave left, it lifted the throne and carried her out into the sea with the tide.”

Luckily for the Streng family, Randy, a licensed boat captain from Florida with knowledge of water rescue strategies witnessed the whole thing, and was able to save the day.

1. Where was the grandma when her son was taking a picture for her?

A．On a crown.	B．In an iceboat.
C．At a throne beach.	D．On an iceberg.

2. How did Catherine spread this accident?

A．By drawing a vivid picture.

B．By exchanging tweeter account.

C．By talking with her father in Seoul.

D．By posting the text message exchange with her father.

3. Who saved the grandmother?

A．Catherine.	B．Streng.
C．Randy.	D．Judith.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Taking Pictures Must be Very Dangerous

B．A Grandma Floated out to the Sea on an Iceberg

C．An Optimistic Family Who Love Iceberg

D．The Licensed Boat Captain Went Hot Slowly

9 . Having experienced a shocking electrical accident, which caused him to become both blind and deaf, James Franco’s world became completely dark and quiet for almost ten years. The loss of sight and hearing threw him into such sorrow that he tried a few times to put an end to his life. His family, especially his wife, did their best to tend and comfort him and finally he regained the will to live.

One hot summer afternoon, he was taking a walk with a stick near his house when a   thunderstorm started all at once. He stood under a large tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. Witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up 20 minutes later, lying face down in muddy water. He was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: a tree and muddy road. When Mrs. Franco came running up to him,   shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years.

The news of James regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread and many doctors came to examine him. Most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. However, none of them could give a compellent answer as to why this should happen. The only reasonable explanation given by one doctor was that, since James lost his sight and hearing as a result of a sudden shock, perhaps, the only way for him to regain them was another sudden shock.

1. The reason why James attempted to kill himself was that ________.

A．a terrible electrical accident happened to him

B．nobody in the whole world cared about him

C．he was struck by the lightning once more

D．he had to live in a dark and silent world

2. What was James doing when he was struck by the lightning?

A．Sheltering from the rain under a tree.	B．Putting an end to his life.
C．Taking a walk with a stick.	D．Lying on the ground.

3. What does the underlined word “compellent” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Gradual.

B．Wrong.

C．Convincing.

D．True.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．A Terrible Electrical Accident	B．What a Sudden Shock
C．An Unforgettable Adventure	D．James Franco and His wife

10 . The pupils of Grangetown High have been busy getting to know their newest and tallest classmate — a 7-meter-tall giraffe outside their school.

The giraffe is a huge sculpture (雕像). The school’s headmaster noticed it in an artist’s garden as he drove past one day, and thought it would be perfect for his school. “I knew everyone would love it,” he said, “because our basketball team is known as the Grangetown Giraffes, and they wear giraffes on their shirts. So I asked them to write to the artist, asking how much it would cost to buy the giraffe. He was very kind and got it ready to deliver (递送) in six weeks — all for nothing! It was expected to arrive one Sunday morning, so that the pupils would see it when they got to school on Monday — at that time they had no idea that we were getting it.”

The artist, Tom Bennett was a university professor of chemistry before he retired in 2012 and only took up metalwork a couple of years ago. “I’ve always drawn pictures,” he said. I can even remember doing it on my first day at school — I drew a horse. I wanted it to be the best horse picture ever, but I don’t think I succeeded.” Tom’s first metalwork was a bicycle on which he and his wife could go cycling together, “It was the most uncomfortable bike ever created,” he said, “so I gave up making bicycles and went into sculpture instead.”

Meanwhile the pupils at Grangetown High are very happy with their new classmate. “We’re going to hold a competition to give it a proper name,” said one girl. “Everyone likes the expression on its face, so perhaps that will give us some ideas.”

1. What can we learn about the giraffe according to the text?

A．It was specially made for a basketball team.

B．It was given to Grangetown High for free.

C．It was as tall as a basketball player.

D．It was sent to Grangetown High on Monday.

2. How did the pupils probably feel when they got to school on Monday?

A．surprised	B．sad
C．shy	D．confident

3. Which of the following is TRUE about Tom Bennett?

A．He visited Grangetown High as a professor.

B．He did well in drawing, especially horses.

C．He learned a lot about sculpture at university.

D．He showed interest in art at an early age.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A．It was difficult to name a giraffe.

B．A metal giraffe arrived at Grangetown High.

C．Tom Bennett is famous as a sculptor.

D．The Grangetown Giraffes is a strong team.