1 . Becca was 6 when she was told she had cancer on Sept. 8, 2014. She clearly remembers the bad days of her 26 months of non -stop treatment. Luckily, Becca celebrated her final treatment on Nov. 13, 2016, and she has been cancer-free ever since. But she was thinking about what her life was like while experiencing the treatment.

“I was never able to do much, and that’s what the kids lying in their hospital beds right now experience, asking their mom and dad, ‘When are we leaving? When can I play with my friends?’ So I decided I have to help them.”

In February, 2017, Becca came up with the idea for Knots and Arrows, a company that makes bracelets (手镯) out of swimsuit materials (泳衣布料). Part of the money made from each bracelet goes to the organizations that help people with cancer.

Becca created the company with her father, Gerhard Salmins. Gerhard Salmins once had cancer and already recovered from it. “I would be in the hospital sitting there crying and then my dad would come in and he would play games with me,” she said. “It made me forget about what I was going through” Becca said the name of the organization shows the motto (座右铭) she stuck to through her personal cancer journey.

Her organization has already given thousands of dollars to research organizations and families in need. Becca said she hoped her bracelets would make people remember that great things can result from small changes. “No matter what age you are, what you look like, and how you act, you can make a difference!”she said.

1. What happened to Becca at the end of 2016?

A．She recovered from cancer.	B．She created an organization.
C．She raised a lot of money.	D．She was helped by a company.

2. What do we know about Becca’s father?

A．He showed Becca a famous motto.	B．He fought off cancer successfully.
C．He advised Becca to forget her pain.	D．He named the company Knots and Arrows.

3. Which of the following words can best describe Becca?

A．Negative.

B．Creative.

C．Caring.

D．Clever.

4. In Becca’s opinion, what’s the meaning of her bracelets?

A．To tell us having a motto is important.

B．To prove cancer can be got over successfully.

C．To show there’s always someone who needs help.

D．To make us realize everyone can make a difference.

2 . I had difficulty in finding work when I was in my twenties. Finally, Seagulls Reuse in Leeds took me on as a volunteer. It's an environmental social enterprise that rescues 400 tonnes of paint from landfill (垃圾填埋池) annually and repurposes it to offer a bespoke (定制的) paint-mixing service. I carved out my own role, mixing paint, working with other volunteers and assisting customers, before being hired as a decorator and full-time member of staff. It wasn't until then, in my late 20s, that I realised I'm colour-blind.

Mixing paint is nothing like the colour wheel you learn at school; blue and green doesn't just make green. You don't even mix different greens to make green paint. It's more technical and complex than that, and there are so many subtle (微妙的) variations.

Dulux and other big companies let machines do all the work, but our process is nothing like that. We can also only use the colours we have in the warehouse that day, so we sometimes have to get creative. They have scientists, but we have our intuition (直觉), years of experience and an essential human touch and eye.

I'm 38 now, and have been at Seagulls for 11 years. I've learned that I struggle most with colours. I see green in dark browns and creams and some reds I see as pink. So, along with the knowledge I've now memorised, I use different skills with customers. I get them involved by explaining how I'm creating their paint and encourage feedback (反馈). That way, we're both helping each other get the perfect result. I write down things I do wrong, so I don't repeat them.

If I tell customers I'm colour-blind, they're always shocked and say they'd never have guessed. I do have a visual problem, but I'm not angry about it and wouldn't change it even if I could. It's made me push myself harder.

1. Why did the author volunteer to work in Seagulls Reuse?

A．It accepted colour-blind staff.

B．It helped to save the environment.

C．He had no other better jobs to do.

D．He possessed a talent for the work.

2. What does Paragraph 2 tell us about mixing paint?

A．It's rather challenging.

B．It's compulsory at school.

C．It's attractive to teenagers.

D．It's unbearable to the author.

3. How does the author improve his work?

A．By learning from his mistakes.

B．By depending more on machines.

C．By turning to experts if necessary.

D．By managing to see colours correctly.

4. What can we learn from the author's story?

A．We shouldn't regret what we’ve done.

B．We should do what we're really good at.

C．We shouldn't let our problems hold us back.

D．We should keep learning new things all our life.

3 . It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers _______about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers’ face.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one ________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.

Jeff had ________ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who ________ enough to go to that kind of ________,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue ________.

“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”

1.

A．read

B．forgot

C．thought

D．heard

2.

A．fighting

B．trembling

C．eating

D．sleeping

3.

A．tried

B．agreed

C．promised

D．regretted

4.

A．calmed down

B．stood up

C．rolled over

D．run off

5.

A．injured

B．stolen

C．lost

D．rescued

6.

A．home

B．past

C．back

D．on

7.

A．preparation

B．explanation

C．test

D．search

8.

A．cautiously

B．casually

C．skillfully

D．angrily

9.

A．surprise

B．joy

C．hesitation

D．anxiety

10.

A．predicted

B．advertised

C．believed

D．recorded

11.

A．house

B．phone

C．street

D．car

12.

A．called

B．copied

C．counted

D．remembered

13.

A．fed

B．adopted

C．found

D．cured

14.

A．hunted

B．skied

C．lived

D．worked

15.

A．on purpose

B．on time

C．in turn

D．in vain

16.

A．cares

B．sees

C．suffers

D．learns

17.

A．place

B．trouble

C．waste

D．extreme

18.

A．service

B．plan

C．effort

D．team

19.

A．equal

B．allergic

C．grateful

D．close

20.

A．suitable

B．proud

C．wise

D．willing

4 . 读下面的短文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

3. 必须按答题要求做题，否则不给分。

My hometown is a small mountainous village. In past, with only a narrow mountain road, it was almost separated from the outside world. But villagers lived in old and small house built with wood and leaves.

In the past ten years, great changes have been taken place. His hometown has developed into a tourist site. People here live a happy life. Because of the new wide road building by the local government, it is now convenient of villagers to travel around. And most importantly, thousands of tourists from all over the world came here every year. Beside, with rows of newly-built houses, villagers’ living conditions have been great improved.

5 . I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the _______ of the restaurant came over and said our meal was free. I was _______. He stood there smiling at me and there was an air of _______. Finally I asked him if he knew me. He said I had _______ forgotten him, but I had _______ his life. My friend was quite _______ and asked him how I had done this.

He said twelve years ago I was teaching a stress management class and he was one of the _______. I asked the group what their number one _______ was and most of them said it was from their bosses.

I listened to everyone, then _______ a chair and invited everyone to stand on it. I wanted them to look at the room from ________ there. After that, I asked the group to think about how the room looked ________ when they changed their perspective (角度).

Then I asked them to ________ their bosses. Was this the same person who had ________their good qualities and hired them? Do they remember how ________ they were to be chosen for the job?

He said I looked at him and asked if he had ever thanked his boss for the ________ to earn a living and ________him new skills and to be a better employee.

He said he went back to work the next day with a thank-you card to his ________. He learned to ________ stress in a smart way. Now he has been the manager of the restaurant for eight years. He said I had taught him to ________life from different perspectives and to express ________.

1.

A．waiter

B．manager

C．cook

D．owner

2.

A．satisfied

B．excited

C．surprised

D．moved

3.

A．familiarity

B．understanding

C．importance

D．dignity

4.

A．hardly

B．rarely

C．specially

D．probably

5.

A．changed

B．planned

C．built

D．noticed

6.

A．patient

B．anxious

C．curious

D．doubtful

7.

A．Employers

B．students

C．organizers

D．teachers

8.

A．joy

B．stress

C．danger

D．pride

9.

A．removed

B．broke

C．held

D．took

10.

A．down

B．outside

C．up

D．inside

11.

A．natural

B．different

C．funny

D．strange

12.

A．consider

B．ask

C．visit

D．watch

13.

A．seen

B．predicted

C．chosen

D．improved

14.

A．puzzled

B．touched

C．Happy

D．calm

15.

A．ability

B．chance

C．process

D．luck

16.

A．allowing

B．advising

C．encouraging

D．teaching

17.

A．colleague

B．customer

C．boss

D．parent

18.

A．leave behind

B．deal with

C．suffer from

D．bring about

19.

A．look at

B．talk about

C．work on

D．take over

20.

A．apology

B．regret

C．appreciation

D．sympathy

6 . When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more_______than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him_______much in repairs that he decided that he had better_______it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_______to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so_______of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was_______when they met one evening, and said, “What's_______, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may_______more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's_______was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car,________very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no________But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to________him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be________or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll________my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to________it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door,________to wait there for the people who had________his advertisement. Even Dave had to________that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean________it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this________to us yet, sir?”1.

A．directly

B．safely

C．properly

D．easily

2.

A．so

B．such

C．very

D．too

3.

A．keep

B．repair

C．sell

D．throw

4.

A．anxious

B．lucky

C．ashamed

D．generous

5.

A．some

B．neither

C．none

D．most

6.

A．delighted

B．upset

C．calm

D．astonished

7.

A．on

B．up

C．it

D．that

8.

A．learn

B．miss

C．get

D．find

9.

A．message

B．advice

C．request

D．description

10.

A．uses

B．loses

C．has

D．spends

11.

A．doubt

B．help

C．trouble

D．answer

12.

A．tell

B．see

C．agree

D．call

13.

A．exact

B．suitable

C．early

D．late

14.

A．follow

B．meet

C．bring

D．introduce

15.

A．recognize

B．gain

C．admire

D．test

16.

A．happening

B．meaning

C．turning

D．failing

17.

A．read

B．inserted

C．answered

D．placed

18.

A．forget

B．show

C．disagree

D．admit

19.

A．as

B．that

C．so

D．such

20.

A．bargain

B．sale

C．accident

D．result