1 . As you probably know by now, I have been in Boston helping my wife Kimberly through some difficult medical procedures. ________ my wife’s first 3 days after her delicate 6 hours surgery, in so much discomfort, pain and suffering, woke up my empathy beyond words to the point that I ________ wanted to be able to share some of that ________ if I couldn’t take it all myself.

Then after the first 3 days knowing that Kimberly’s ________ didn’t allow her to eat single morsel (少量) of food, it really ________ me just how long we can go without food and not damage our ________. I decided to give Kimberly some ________ support by not eating for 3 days. Not that she said one word of ________ in that time but I knew it would ________ her — and me—to be in this together. To be honest, I did ________ one small salad each of the 3 days. I did this because I had to ________ myself to some extent to continue to have ________ to be there for her.

The thing is, we’re here and ________ what we really can do for each other. The ________ we can take on for others has got me to ________ about how much we could take on for ourselves. We ________ to avoid pain, discomfort and difficult situations even when we know it would be ________ for us to go through the hard times to get to better place in our lives. So it got me thinking... if we will go through so much because of our love for another ________, couldn’t we do this for the ________ of ourselves?

It’s something to think about the next time you ________ to take on a difficult challenge. Do you love yourself enough to do this to make your life better?

1.

A．Observing

B．Talking

C．Leaving

D．Debating

2.

A．eventually

B．temporarily

C．desperately

D．thankfully

3.

A．happiness

B．pain

C．caution

D．urgency

4.

A．problem

B．discomfort

C．fitness

D．condition

5.

A．threw

B．put

C．hit

D．disturbed

6.

A．disease

B．health

C．life

D．fortune

7.

A．ordinary

B．great

C．spiritual

D．devoted

8.

A．complaint

B．trouble

C．understanding

D．meaning

9.

A．help

B．separate

C．move

D．break

10.

A．get

B．abandon

C．own

D．have

11.

A．make up for

B．take care of

C．get rid of

D．be in line with

12.

A．strength

B．advantage

C．force

D．light

13.

A．admit

B．imagine

C．realize

D．estimate

14.

A．difficulty

B．event

C．load

D．suffering

15.

A．talk

B．think

C．look

D．go

16.

A．plan

B．disagree

C．tend

D．like

17.

A．better

B．easier

C．tougher

D．friendlier

18.

A．stranger

B．friend

C．teacher

D．person

19.

A．love

B．reward

C．rule

D．courage

20.

A．want

B．hesitate

C．prefer

D．request

3 . 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。续写词数应为150左右。

A cactus (仙人掌) stood all alone in the desert, wondering why it was stuck in the middle of the desert. “I do nothing but stand here all day,” it sighed. “What use do I have? I am the ugliest plant in the desert. My spines (刺) are thick, my leaves are tough, and my skin is uneven. I can’t offer shade or juice to the passing travellers. I don’t see that I am of any use at all.” All it did was stand in the sun day after day, growing taller and fatter. Its spines grew longer and its leaves grew tougher. It truly was strange-looking.

“I wish I could do something useful,” it signed. By day, hawks (鹰) circled high overhead, and the cactus called, “What can I do with my life?” Whether they heard or not, the hawks flew away. At night the moon floated into the sky and cast its pale light on the desert floor. “What can I do with my life?” the cactus called. The moon only stared coldly as it continued its course.

A lizard (蜥蜴) passed by, leaving a little trail in the sand with its tail. “What worthy deed can I do?” the cactus called. “You?” the lizard smiled, pausing a moment. “You can do something. Just wait for the right moment. The hawks circle their ways overhead, making beautiful patterns for us all to admire. The moon hangs high like a lantern at night, so we can see our ways home to our loved ones. Even I, the lowly lizard, have something to do. I decorate the sands with these beautiful trails as I pull my tail along. And you, you will show us your beauty some day.”

Paragraph 1:

It went on year after year, and the cactus grew old.

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The desert hadn’t known such a flower of it.

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4 . Zachariah Fike has an unusual hobby. He finds old military medals _______ in antique shops(古董店)and on the Internet. But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals’ rightful _______, and returns them.

His effort to _______ families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, found in an antique shop. Zac knows the

_______ of a Purple Heart — he _______ one himself in a war as a soldier. So when his mother gave him the _______, he knew right away what he had to do.

Through the Internet, Zac _______ tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally _______ her, the woman _______ him with questions: “Who are you? What antique shop?” However, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had ________ the call. So she called Zac back and ________. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N.Y. “At that point, I knew she meant ________,” Zac says. “To drive eight hours to come to see me.”

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t ________ the medal was missing. Like many military medals, the one Zac’s mother had found was a family ________. “This medal was very precious to my parents. Only on ________ occasions would they take it out and let us hold it in our hands,” Adeline says.

Zac and Adeline got to know each other well after their first meeting. They’ve talked about planning a ________ to Italy, hoping to visit some of the ________ Corrado could have stayed at during the war. Adeline says, “Zac’s ________ of our family now.”

Zac recently returned ________ lost medal to a family in Alabama. Since the first Corrado’s medal, Zac says his ________ is now 5 for 5.

1.

A．for fun

B．in view

C．for sale

D．in store

2.

A．friends

B．sellers

C．collectors

D．owners

3.

A．provide

B．reunite

C．connect

D．share

4.

A．significance

B．standard

C．process

D．cost

5.

A．accepted

B．demanded

C．earned

D．desired

6.

A．heart

B．name

C．antique

D．medal

7.

A．directly

B．naturally

C．previously

D．eventually

8.

A．caught

B．reached

C．discovered

D．guaranteed

9.

A．flooded

B．treated

C．persuaded

D．filled

10.

A．failed

B．refused

C．handled

D．managed

11.

A．prayed

B．argued

C．complained

D．apologized

12.

A．business

B．promise

C．discovery

D．exchange

13.

A．realized

B．believed

C．expected

D．imagined

14.

A．heritage

B．dream

C．treasure

D．pride

15.

A．private

B．common

C．necessary

D．special

16.

A．duty

B．trip

C．campaign

D．task

17.

A．sites

B．cities

C．districts

D．states

18.

A．member

B．part

C．brother

D．son

19.

A．the other

B．more

C．another

D．every

20.

A．criteria

B．record

C．score

D．practice

5 . 改错

This morning, I was jogging in the park while I caught sight of a wallet on a bench. Clear, someone had left it there in accident. I picked up and checked the contents. Inside it, I found some money or a card with a phone number. Believing that the owner would be worried, I immediately try the number. A man answered it in an anxious voice. Hearing that I had his wallet, he sighed with relief and told me he would come right away. Ten minutes late, the man arrived. After confirm he was the owner, I returned the wallet back to him. With his thumb up, he expressed his thanks to me repeatedly. Seen the smile on his face, I felt happy that I was able to help.

6 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、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。

When I offered my next-door neighbor an ice cream, what was difficult to open, she told me to wait the minute. She went in her house and comes out with a rubber band (橡皮筋). She said she could get it open right away by put the rubber band around the top! And she did open it. When she was told to have the ice cream, and she said, “No. You enjoy it!” I noticed her garden gloves were worn as we spoke, so I went in my house and got a new pair for him. The gloves were decorating with ladybugs (瓢虫). She loved them and I was attracted by the legend of the ladybug she shared me! We've been neighbors for 9 year and we have shared so much happy moments.

9 . My father often works very hard. And he_______goes to the movies. Here I will tell you a_______story about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work, and_______go home, he found a film ticket under the glass on his desk. He thought he_______to have not much work to do that day and_______was quite wonderful to pass the evening at the cinema.

So he came back home and_______finished his supper. Then he said good-bye to us and left.

But to our_______, he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the_______. He smiled and told us about the funny thing that had happened at the_______.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a________came to father’s seat and said that the seat was hers. My father was________. He took out the ticket________looked at it carefully. It was Row 17,________. And then he looked at the seat. It was________. So he asked her to________her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat________in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

Why? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering, suddenly the woman said, “The________of the tickets are different.” ________they looked at the tickets more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, I am________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the________a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left.

1.

A．always

B．seldom

C．often

D．sometimes

2.

A．funny

B．sad

C．bad

D．strange

3.

A．was to

B．was about to

C．had to

D．ought to

4.

A．happened

B．liked

C．pretended

D．wanted

5.

A．it

B．this

C．that

D．which

6.

A．early

B．quietly

C．quickly

D．suddenly

7.

A．surprise

B．joy

C．sorrow

D．delight

8.

A．matter

B．date

C．time

D．price

9.

A．hall

B．theatre

C．office

D．cinema

10.

A．man

B．woman

C．boy

D．stranger

11.

A．interested

B．surprised

C．frightened

D．disappointed

12.

A．and

B．but

C．or

D．so

13.

A．Seat 1

B．Seat 2

C．Seat 3

D．Seat 4

14.

A．different

B．unusual

C．the same

D．strange

15.

A．bring

B．get

C．see

D．show

16.

A．said

B．named

C．told

D．shown

17.

A．designs

B．colors

C．prices

D．owners

18.

A．But

B．However

C．So

D．Yet

19.

A．sad

B．sorry

C．wrong

D．worried

20.

A．exhibition

B．play

C．concert

D．film

10 . I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch (养马场). He introduced himself to me by saying, “I want to tell you a story. It all ______ back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant (流动的) horse trainer. When he was a senior, he was______to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do ______he grew up.

“That night he wrote a seven-page paper______ his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a ______of a 200-acre ranch, showing the _______of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house.

“He put a great deal of his______ into the project and the next day he______ it in to his teacher. Two days later he______his paper back. On the front page was a large red “F” with a note that read, ‘See me after class.’”

“The boy______the dream went to see the teacher after class. The teacher said, ‘This is a(n) ______dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You ______ an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch ______a lot of money. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher ______, ‘If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will______ your grade.’”

“The boy went home and thought about it______and hard. However, he thought it was a very important ______for him. Finally, after a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.”

“The boy is me. Now, my dream has come______. That teacher said to me, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was______of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams.______, you had enough determination not to give up on yours.’”

1.

A．comes

B．goes

C．returns

D．falls

2.

A．asked

B．invited

C．ordered

D．forced

3.

A．before

B．while

C．as

D．when

4.

A．talking

B．telling

C．describing

D．explaining

5.

A．picture

B．article

C．construct

D．project

6.

A．location

B．space

C．position

D．condition

7.

A．money

B．thought

C．spirit

D．heart

8.

A．took

B．handed

C．passed

D．got

9.

A．obtained

B．accepted

C．received

D．deserved

10.

A．of

B．with

C．for

D．to

11.

A．unrealistic

B．fanciful

C．imaginable

D．practical

12.

A．come from

B．make from

C．receive from

D．bring from

13.

A．requests

B．means

C．requires

D．provides

14.

A．quarrelled

B．debated

C．asked

D．added

15.

A．reconsider

B．reread

C．recount

D．rearrange

16.

A．short

B．long

C．thick

D．thin

17.

A．matter

B．plan

C．decision

D．choice

18.

A．true

B．vain

C．real

D．pure

19.

A．something

B．everything

C．nothing

D．anything

20.

A．Strangely

B．Regrettably

C．Anxiously

D．Fortunately