2 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

We were in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit on Boxing Day 200 I was 15 and my brother was 17 at the time. Sadly, we lost our parents in that disaster.

Three years before the tsunami, our parents said we were to be removed from our structured school system in England and enrolled in what they believed to be the best education form: the university of life. As a family, we traveled the world, jumping from county to county and doing volunteer work along the way.

In the years after the tsunami, my brother and I were still both zealous travelers and often set off separately on our own adventures. It was our travels that inspired us to help others. We’d seen various products people wanted when they were on the move and we knew that if we created them, the profits from our business could go towards supporting those in need, especially kids.

So in 2012, we founded Gandys. From our bedroom in Brixton, we designed a range of clothing and accessories (配饰), with a part of the profits from each sale going towards helping children around the world by building Kids’ campuses and offering support including education, medication and healthy food. The first campus we built was in Sri Lanka,and then the next one was built.

The stand-out moment for Gandys came in October 2019. To mark the 15th anniversary of the tsunami, we opened our third campus in Nepal, a country that has seen its fair share of terrible events.

Help is still needed long after the event itself, but people often lose interest after a year or so and move on to other things. That’s why we feel it’s important to build lasting projects which support communities for the years ahead.

1. Why were the author and his brother removed from their structured school system in England? (no more than 10 words)
2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean? (no more than 10 words)
3. What did the two brothers do with a part of the profits from Gandys? (no more than 15 words).
4. What do the two brothers most probably consider important? ( no more than 10 words).
5. How do you like the two brothers? Please give your reason(s). ( no more than 20 words)

3 . Tired of underpaid jobs and inconvenient hours, three entrepreneurial (富于企业家精神的) McLean teens decided to start their own company.

Their new company, TeenServ aims to solve teenage unemployment with a platform that matches students and community members who need short-term assistance with various tasks Through TeenServ, residents sign up to post jobs they need done. Teens signed up to work can choose to accept a job depending on their schedules and work preferences. Website users can pick up shifts wherever and whenever they want, making it convenient for hectic schedules.

A year ago, Jack Lannin, Quin Frew and Ben Jeannot worked as lifeguards at a local pool. Lanin told Tysons Reporter that they were upset when a pay change “almost cut their salary in half,” and they wanted to find another job but there were few options. Then they came up with the idea for TeenServ. “Aside from getting a real job, refereeing sports or yard work, there isn’t rally a good way to make money,” Lannin said, adding that even becoming a referee requires a significant sat-up cost for teens — around $70 — to pay for training and a uniform.

They started out by going door to door and asking community members if they would pay teens fair wages for short-term yard work. Soon enough,they began gathering opportunities. With help from an entrepreneurship class at McLean High School and feedback from teens, the students were able to turn their idea into a reality. So far, the website has employed more than 200 teens, according to Lannin. TeenServ pays students up to $18 per hour — well above Virginia’s minimum wage of $7.25.

The business is focused on mostly McLean for now, but TeenServ’s owners hope to expand around Fairfax County. That involves building up a base of teen workers before allowing residents to post jobs elsewhere in the county. After all, if residents need time-specific jobs done, they can’t be the ones waiting.

1. What is TeenServ’s goal?

A．To increase the number of teen workers.

B．To help teens decide on their future career.

C．To encourage teens to start their own business.

D．To connect community employers to local teens.

2. What does the underlined word “hectic” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Regular.

B．Flexible.

C．Traditional.

D．Busy.

3. What problem did the three founders come across last year?

A．They failed to find a part-time job.

B．They received a significant pay cut.

C．They obtained little funding for their start-up.

D．They lost a game due to a referee’s unfair decision.

4. What do the three owners plan to do?

A．Create more time-specific jobs.

B．Raise Virginia’s minimum wage.

C．Grow their business outside of McLean.

D．Allow McLean residents to post jobs elsewhere.

5. What does the text focus on?

A．Three entrepreneurial McLean teens and their company TeenServ.

B．The main reasons of teenage unemployment in McLean.

C．The challenges three entrepreneurial McLean teens are facing.

D．The bright future of the platform TeenServ.

4 . 阅读表达

Nathan and Madison Donovan were in the market for a car to drive so she could begin working at a downtown call center. Nathan has been unable to work since breaking his back in a car accident several years ago, and since the bus system in Moncton, New Brunswick doesn't run at night, Madison needed the car to go back to work and get the small family out of social assistance.

When they found an online loan company, they applied for a car loan of $7,000. The company required $600 as collateral (抵押品), and the couple spent all their savings in the hope of being one step closer to getting an automobile.

Days after they made the $600 payment, however, the company’ website was taken down. and the couple’s calls went unanswered. Heartbroken, they contacted CBC News telling their story as a means of preventing other families from making the same mistake. Fortunately, their willingness to save others from the scam (骗局) ended up paying off; A man named Denis LeBlanc had been in the middle of trying to sell his 2007 Volkswagen Jetta when he heard Nathan’s story on the radio.

Denis and his wife had been trying to sell the car for at least $3,700, but they had only received several lowball (低报价) offers from online buyers. By that time, they had already been considering simply giving the car away to charity — so when they heard about Nathan’s situation, they knew just what to do.

Nathan was hesitant to visit a stranger giving away a perfectly good car, but when he showed up, the LeBlancs were true to their word. With great gratitude, Nathan simply got in the Jetta and drove away. The good deed had entirely changed his family’s fortunes for the better. LeBlanc, meanwhile, was able to teach his kids a valuable lesson about helping others who are less fortunate.

1. What happened to Nathan in the car accident several years ago? (no more than 5 words)
2. Why did Nathan and Madison tell their story to CBC News? (no more than 10 words)
3. What did Denis LeBlanc intend to do after receiving lowball offers for his car from online buyers? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean? (no more than 10 words)
5. Would you give away your valuable things to less fortunate people? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)

6 . 阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容完成下列各题。

Reading broadens our horizons and gives us wisdom. Reading can also be a bridge bonding family members.

Rose is my daughter. I read stories to her every night when she was a little girl. So I had her captivated by books when she was at an early age. For example, almost every night she would go to bed early, waiting for my reading. When Rose was about eight, we changed our routine. We took turns selecting our books and reading out loud.

There was no regular pattern in the books selected. I remember that we began with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, enjoying the company of those rough sailors and stumbling (结结巴巴地读) over the eighteenth-century seamen’s dialect. But we loved the book, and learned a lot about pirates daily life, adventures, tricks, greed and so on. We later went through many books, like the chick lit series.

In due course Rose grew up and left for McGill University in Montreal. She was educated in French and was enthusiastic about speaking the language. Her first visit home was at Christmas.

There was a gift from her, an audiobook with six cassettes. It was Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, read by Rose. Her reading was interrupted occasionally by a giggle, and her voice made me remember how happily Rose and I read together in our bedroom every night when she was a kid.

As I write this, Rose is a third-year medical student at Dalhousie University. Now she is interested in medicine while I am interested in history. However, we manage to combine our different personal interests. We recommend selected reading materials to each other. We are currently loving The Crimson Portraitby Jody Shields, a well written novel about the development of plastic surgery during World War I. Our first written collaboration an article on Canadian medical history, will be published this year.

1. What does the underlined word “captivated” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (Only 1 word)
2. What did the author and her daughter learn from Treasure Island? (no more than 10 words)
3. What did Rose’s reading Shopaholic Takes Manhattan make the author remember? (no more than 10 words)
4. How were the author’s interest and Rose’s interest combined? (no more than 10 words)
5. What do you think of the author’s way of bringing up her daughter? (no more than 20 words)

8 . Emily Bhatnagar, a 17-year-old-girl, developed serious health issues — depression and anxiety. However, she found a way to _________ that negative feelings into something good. Books were her _________, so maybe, she thought, she could help others who were _________ challenges also escape into the pages of a book.

This summer, she decided to start collecting new or lightly used _________ for children of all ages, with the _________ of distributing them to health-care services. When she initially wrote a _________ asking for books on the neighborhood networking site Nextdoor, “I was only _________ two to three responses,” she said. To her delight, hundreds of neighbors _________ offered to support her book drive (捐书活动), and before long, “there were boxes of books just piled up at my front door,” Bhatnagar said.

On Oct. 5, Bhatnagar with her parents, _________ 2, 215 books to the Children’s National Hospital in D. C. “Kids treated here will stay in the hospital for extended periods of time. Reading helps to ______________ them from the boring and fearful course and makes the time ______________   quicker,” said Allie Slocum, doctor at the Children’s National Hospital. Likewise, staff at lnova Health System in Virginia are thrilled about the 1, 400 ______________ books Bhatnagar dropped off on Sunday. “A book is super ______________. It is a small thing that can have a big ______________,” said Fadi Saadeh, senior director at the Inova Cares Clinic for Families.

The ______________ Bhatnagar gets from collecting and donating books is, “Brilliant,” She said, adding that she also buys books to contribute to the initiative, using ______________ she earns while working at her family’s bread shop. “The book drive gives me a sense of ____________.” Since the start of her book gathering, “she has come ______________ her shell so much, I feel so ______________ of her, and I am sure all those kids are enjoying those books as well,” said her mother. “It’s like she found her voice, and it’s so beautiful to see her using it to ______________ joy.”

1.

A．impress

B．channel

C．inform

D．narrow

2.

A．company

B．wisdom

C．imagination

D．achievement

3.

A．providing

B．evaluating

C．encountering

D．enjoying

4.

A．novels

B．books

C．magazines

D．surveys

5.

A．aim

B．love

C．help

D．wonder

6.

A．mail

B．post

C．paper

D．story

7.

A．requiring

B．complaining

C．expecting

D．replying

8.

A．worriedly

B．apparently

C．hesitantly

D．eagerly

9.

A．introduced

B．delivered

C．compared

D．returned

10.

A．attract

B．disappoint

C．beat

D．distract

11.

A．give out

B．fall on

C．go by

D．use up

12.

A．donated

B．broken

C．virtual

D．dramatic

13.

A．luxury

B．valuable

C．limited

D．friendly

14.

A．mouth

B．chance

C．impact

D．question

15.

A．feeling

B．report

C．fame

D．stuff

16.

A．burden

B．praise

C．options

D．tips

17.

A．safety

B．purpose

C．reality

D．humor

18.

A．out of

B．into

C．over

D．down

19.

A．certain

B．proud

C．aware

D．capable

20.

A．express

B．spread

C．keep

D．decrease

9 . 阅读短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。

Katie always felt there had to be something more to life than just partying, buying clothes and driving a cool car. She finally discovered what she was missing out on when she traveled halfway around the world to help poor kids.

When she was 14, she discovered a club at school called Operation Smile, an organization that supports free operation for facially deformed (面部畸形的) kids in developing countries. At that time, she joined Operation Smile just to satisfy her school’s community service requirement.

After working with Operation Smile for a while, she learned different countries have different deformities. The more she learned about what affects kids around the world, the more she wanted to go abroad with Operation Smile.

At 15, she was chosen to go abroad. Before her trip, she attended a weekend “mission (使命) training”. That’s when she was told she’d be going to the Philippines. Although she was excited, one night during training, she broke down in tears. She felt pity for all those unfortunate kids. After her arrival in the Philippines, she met the kids waiting for operation, and they were running around and happy. It seemed normal. Her job was to play with the kids before their operation to help them feel more relaxed. She also went to nearby schools to hand out toothbrushes and teach students how to brush their teeth.

When their operation was over, the kids were always overjoyed, but their parents were blown away. Sometimes they couldn’t even recognize their kids because their appearances had improved so much. They would cry and hug the doctors and nurses and give them presents — they were so grateful.

1. According to the text, what is “Operation Smile”? (no more than 15 words)
2. What was Katie’s original purpose in joining Operation Smile? (no more than 10 words)
3. Why did Katie break down in tears one night during training? (no more than 10 words)
4. What did Katie do to help relax those kids? (no more than 8 words)
5. Would you like to join the club? why? (no more than 20 words)

10 . Teresa Search attended a first aid course recently. When she attended the course, she had no idea that she’d be using her ________ to save a life within a couple of ________.

“Our tutor (导师) ________ us so the skills we learnt could be used in the real world. At the end of the ________ he asked us to keep in touch and give him feedback (反馈信息) when we ________ them,” Teresa recalls.

Forty-eight hours after the course, her skills were ________. While on night duty at her ________, the Petone Working Men’s Club, one of her colleagues ________ fell down.

Teresa quickly assessed the situation. There were no signs of ________, so she turned him on his back, told a staff member to get the club’s defibrillator (电击器) and asked another bystander to call a(n) ________.

“A colleague and I started CPR (心肺复苏术). ________ the defibrillator arrived, ________ colleague hooked it up while we kept going,” Teresa remembers.

The man showed some signs of life, but was ________ to maintain normal breathing. Teresa ________ CPR until an ambulance arrived.

Teresa ________ that an ambulance crew spent a further 30 to 40 minutes before he was ________ to hospital.

“I called the hospital early the following morning and was ________ to be told that he was doing okay and that his name was Graham. The nurse put him on the phone to ________ to me. He told me that it was a lovely day to be ________. Hearing his voice was incredible,’’ says Teresa.

While Graham’s recovery is ongoing, Teresa’s ________ in dealing with emergency has grown.

1.

A．senses

B．skills

C．hobby

D．power

2.

A．seconds

B．minutes

C．hours

D．days

3.

A．remembered

B．prepared

C．found

D．chose

4.

A．journey

B．performance

C．training

D．meeting

5.

A．used

B．forgot

C．accepted

D．needed

6.

A．avoided

B．tested

C．praised

D．introduced

7.

A．workplace

B．classroom

C．home

D．office

8.

A．finally

B．nearly

C．immediately

D．suddenly

9.

A．recovery

B．love

C．life

D．trust

10.

A．doctor

B．ambulance

C．tutor

D．taxi

11.

A．While

B．Until

C．Once

D．Since

12.

A．another

B．next

C．every

D．one

13.

A．eager

B．ready

C．unwilling

D．unable

14.

A．waited for

B．asked for

C．continued with

D．dealt with

15.

A．imagined

B．figured

C．discovered

D．predicted

16.

A．forced

B．transported

C．admitted

D．invited

17.

A．relieved

B．surprised

C．honored

D．worried

18.

A．smile

B．read

C．write

D．talk

19.

A．happy

B．strong

C．special

D．alive

20.

A．difficulty

B．interest

C．confidence

D．faith