1 . When preparing for a training run in Smyrna, Georgia, 24-year-old amateur (业余的) boxer Bilal Quintyne noticed an older woman sitting in a wheelchair by the side of the road. The chair was ________, and she could not move.

“She kind of had a(n) ________ look,” Quintyne recalled. “I just asked her, ‘Are you okay?’”

The woman, 67-year-old Belinda Whitaker, told him that she had been there for 45 minutes since her wheelchair motor stopped working. But ________ a passerby who had helped her back into her chair after she was thrown to the ground by the initial jolt (颠簸), no one had offered ________.

So she asked Quintyne, “Would you call someone to help?”

“I’ll do you one better,” he said. “I’ll ________ you home.”

Whitaker’s home was a 30-minute walk, and the wheels on the 360-pound chair had seized up(卡住)， making it harder to push for the first part of the ________ . Along the way, Quintyne’s trainer, Tony Willingham saw what was going on and started ________ it.

By the time Quintyne got to Whitaker’s home, he was ________. Whitaker hugged him anyway, and he went on his way.

Then Quintyne ________ Willingham’s video on his Facebook page, and it became a ________ immediately. It gained 3.4 million views, and he got calls from all over the world.

Quintyne said, “I don’t see myself as a superhero. I’m ________ a moral man doing what I can do.”

To Willingham, Quintyne’s act offers a ________ for the whole neighbourhood and the community. “There are still such things as being a good neighbour, there are still such things as sacrifice (牺牲), there are still such things as caring, there are still such things as sending a(n) ________ out saying, ‘I’m not too busy,’” Willingham said, “I thought that message was worth ________ with other people. The world should know that Bilal Quintyne exists, and that might ________ people to pay it forward, to say, ‘Hey, I want to do that for someone else.’”

1.

A．stuck

B．threatened

C．burnt

D．torn

2.

A．interesting

B．helpless

C．calm

D．disappointed

3.

A．according to

B．in favour of

C．instead of

D．apart from

4.

A．aid

B．advice

C．money

D．food

5.

A．protect

B．push

C．drive

D．fly

6.

A．project

B．programme

C．journey

D．competition

7.

A．celebrating

B．laughing

C．shouting

D．filming

8.

A．leaving

B．complaining

C．whispering

D．sweating

9.

A．posted

B．delivered

C．drew

D．published

10.

A．hit

B．hope

C．stress

D．failure

11.

A．also

B．never

C．just

D．always

12.

A．choice

B．gift

C．model

D．reason

13.

A．excuse

B．story

C．note

D．message

14.

A．sharing

B．visiting

C．ordering

D．recording

15.

A．mislead

B．persuade

C．force

D．encourage

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Grandpa’s Bee

A long time before I was born, my grandma and grandpa moved into the house on Beechwood Avenue. They had a young family of 4 little girls. On weekend they dug a garden to grow some of their own food.

Everybody worked to keep the garden growing. All summer long, the family ate food from the garden and enjoyed the beautiful flowers. Grandma put up strawberry jam, tomatoes, beans, peppers, pears and peaches in canning jam. They were good to eat through the long winter.

Grandchildren grow up, and grandparents grow older. It became harder for Grandma and Grandpa to keep up the garden. So they made it a little smaller. There was still plenty to eat from the garden and lovely flowers to enjoy.

Then one summer when Grandpa was eighty-nine years old, all he could do was watch from his lawn chair as the vegetables grew and the roses bloomed. Summer slowly faded, and Grandpa died before it was time to bring in the harvest.

It was a lonely winter for Grandma. She sat near the window, looking out at the yard and wondering if she could plant the garden in the spring. It would be hard to care for it by herself. When spring came, she planted only a little garden.

One sunny day in the early summer, Grandma heard a commotion(喧闹) in the front yard and looked out the window to see a frightening sight—a large group of bees filled the air between two tall trees. There was thousands of bees in the air, so many that the group reached the tree-tops! The buzzing sound was disturbing(令人烦恼的). Grandma watched as the bees made their way into a hole up in one of the trees. Before long, every one of those bees had disappeared into its new home.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Grandma wondered what in the world she could do.

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One day, Grandma’s brother Frank visited from Arizona.

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3 . Last November, a kindergarten teacher, Robin Hughes, read her class a book about snow. The students listened closely. But Hughes noticed that some children looked puzzled because only a couple of kids had seen snow.

Hughes decided to call in a favour to her sister, Amber Estes. “Would you be willing to ship a snowman to us if it snows?” Hughes called. Estes laughed it off and agreed, as Hughes always shared some uncommon ideas with her. A few days later, her neighbourhood got nearly 10 inches of snow. So, she walked out into the snow and built “Lucky”, a small snowman with blueberry eyes, a carrot nose.

After about 10 days of refrigeration and planning, Lucky was on a nearly 800-mile flight from Kentucky to Florida. Estes mailed Lucky in an insulated (绝缘) container filled with ice packs. “If Lucky arrived in one piece, the plan was for him to keep his name,” Estes said. “If the experiment failed, he would be renamed Puddles (水坑).” That night, Estes stayed up late tracking the package.

On January 19, a postal driver delivered the snowman to the school. Hughes cut the box open before she presented the snowman to her students. To her surprise, Lucky had arrived almost whole. “I was so excited because he made it,” said Hughes. “All the children wanted to touch him. They asked if he is coming to life.” Ever since, at least twice a day, Hughes said she brings Lucky out from the cafeteria freezer so students can touch the snowman and ask questions. Cheers and wows fill the room every time Lucky is brought in. When his coat starts to get shiny, she takes him back to the freezer.

This year, things are not normal for kids in the classroom or for adults, she said. “This little snowman has created happiness.” Hughes plans to melt Lucky before Earth Day and will use the water while planting a garden at the school.

1. What caused Robin Hughes to ask her sister to mail a snowman?

A．Some students hated the hot weather.

B．Some students had never seen snow.

C．Some students did not believe the snowman was real.

D．Some students had never done a science experiment.

2. Why did Estes laugh when Hughes asked her to mail a snowman to her students?

A．She was used to her sister’s strange requests.

B．She knew it would never snow in Kentucky.

C．She thought her sister’s idea would bring joy to her students.

D．She had not seen her sister in a long time and missed her.

3. What can we infer from Estes’s words in Paragraph 3?

A．Estes was happy to help her sister’s students.

B．Lucky would probably arrive in one piece.

C．The students did not agree on a name for the snowman.

D．Estes was unsure if Lucky would melt in the mail.

4. Which of the following best describes Hughes and Estes?

A．Humorous.

B．Bored.

C．Serious.

D．Caring.

4 . A cinema-goer who suffered a heart attack while watching the latest Bond movie was saved by fellow film fans who performed CPR on him. The film’s title? No Time to Die.

81-year-old Malcolm Clarke had been revisiting childhood haunts(常去之处) in and around Chesterfield where he grew up as a_________for his birthdays. Then he had gone to_________the new Bond film with his wife on Saturday night to make the latest_________more impressive.

_________, Malcolm had a sudden heart attack at the Odeon cinema in Sheffield, South Yorkshire while watching the new film._________of the audience, believed to have included a doctor and a nurse,_________came to Malcolm’s_________and helped keep him alive. Thankfully, their_________were successful and the ambulance soon_________and took Malcolm to Northern General Hospital. And now Malcolm is in a(n)__________condition.

Malcolm’s son-in-law, Andrew Wileman, said, “Four__________people among the audience worked on him for about 15 minutes because he had__________consciousness(意识). The ‘rescue team’,__________two ladies and two gentlemen, just__________shortly after they did the good deed. There is no__________that they saved Malcolm’s life in the cinema.”

“The consultant at the hospital said the quick CPR had saved his life in the__________before the ambulance got there. He would have__________, but he was lucky,” Andrew added.

Andrew said he was “completely unconscious” while the kind people__________to save his life using the on-site defibrillator(除颤器) in the cinema.

The family has been reunited with three of the four__________and they were__________to meet the fourth to say thanks.

1.

A．guide

B．deadline

C．wish

D．treat

2.

A．adjust

B．see

C．make

D．advertise

3.

A．movement

B．assessment

C．celebration

D．sightseeing

4.

A．However

B．Therefore

C．Besides

D．Instead

5.

A．Competitors

B．Supporters

C．Members

D．Assistants

6.

A．gradually

B．illegally

C．casually

D．instantly

7.

A．gift

B．comment

C．aid

D．speed

8.

A．appointments

B．ceremonies

C．explanations

D．efforts

9.

A．arrived

B．dropped

C．escaped

D．exploded

10.

A．unfamiliar

B．good

C．severe

D．unknown

11.

A．helpful

B．modest

C．greedy

D．curious

12.

A．gained

B．lost

C．learnt

D．noticed

13.

A．breaking away from

B．turning down

C．catching up with

D．consisting of

14.

A．remained

B．united

C．left

D．changed

15.

A．possibility

B．doubt

C．description

D．conclusion

16.

A．cinema

B．shop

C．school

D．hospital

17.

A．died

B．hidden

C．apologized

D．recovered

18.

A．disappeared

B．worked

C．refused

D．hesitated

19.

A．suspects

B．attackers

C．lifesavers

D．passers-by

20.

A．guilty

B．unwilling

C．cautious

D．eager

6 . Since being introduced to chess at the age of six, Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi has had one goal. He wants to become the world’s youngest-ever Grandmaster—the highest title a chess player can achieve. The record is currently held by Russian chess player Alexandrovich Karjakin, who won the title in 2002 at the age of 12.

To work for his goal, the gifted chess player practiced for up to 11 hours every day after school. On May 1, 2021, the now 10-year-old Tani became the newest national chess master of the United States. The title, awarded by the United States Chess Federation (USCF), requires players to get a rating of between 2200 to 2400. Tani achieved a rating of 2223 by defeating two chess experts, a master, and an international master. Tani said the secret to his success was thinking of his plays ahead of time.

The now fifth-grader first knew and fell in love with chess in 2017 after being exposed to the basics by a part-time teacher at school in Manhattan, New York. However, his mother, Oluwatoyin, didn’t let him join the school’s chess club due to the travel and chess competition costs. The family of four, who were living in a homeless shelter, did not have extra money to spare. When Oluwatoyin explained the family’s situation to the chess club’s instructor, Russell Makofsky, he instantly cancelled all costs for the young boy.

Tani did not disappoint those who supported him. Over less than a year after joining the club, he had garnered seven trophies(奖杯)and was ranked 27 in his age category. In 2019, the then eight-year-old, who was still living in a homeless shelter, made national headlines when he defeated 73 competitors to win the New York State Scholastic Chess K-3 Championship. His amazing story caught much attention and a GoFundMe campaign, set up by Makofsky, helped raise enough money for Tani and his family to move into a new home.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A．Tani’s efforts paid off.	B．Tani did badly at school.
C．Tani hardly practiced chess.	D．Tani’s thoughts were simple.

2. Who first introduced Tani to chess?

A．His mother.	B．His teacher.
C．Alexandrovich Karjakin.	D．Russell Makofsky.

3. Why did Tani’s mother disagree to let him join the chess club?

A．The family was too poor to cover the costs.	B．The competition in the club was too fierce.
C．She was afraid that he was not independent.	D．She wanted him to concentrate on his study.

4. What does the underlined word “garnered” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．Assessed.

B．Designed.

C．Gained.

D．Missed.