2 . People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to get rid of the mood.

There once was a poor and discouraged salesman, _________ every day that there was no platform for him to display his ability and the fate was often pulling his legs.

On Christmas Eve, every family decorated their houses _________ lanterns. But he was alone sitting on a bench in a park and _________ the past. It was on the same day last year when he was also drinking his Christmas day away _________, without new clothes, new shoes, _________a new car and a new house.

“Damn! I have to spend this Christmas day with these old shoes again.” he _________ and began to _________ the old shoes. Suddenly, he found a young man in a wheelchair passing by him with his hands painfully pushing the _________ forward. It _________ him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the __________. Afterwards, the salesman did everything with a calm mood and cherished every opportunity to __________ himself. He worked hard and tried his best to make progress every day. Several years later, he __________ changed his life totally and became a millionaire.

If you look all around, you will __________ there are so many people who were born disabled in the society but they are __________ in life and never complain about the unfair destiny. They are also not to beg others’ alms(施舍). __________, they constantly strive to make themselves stronger and more __________to serve the society. __________, we should feel ashamed. We are born __________, but we complain about our colleagues and — dissatisfied with our jobs.

Maybe all of us would feel afraid when we __________ we have fallen into such discouraging state of life, but worse is that you even do not realize you have fallen into such a __________ situation.

1.

A．complaining

B．providing

C．collapsing

D．exposing

2.

A．in

B．like

C．off

D．with

3.

A．broadcasting

B．impressing

C．recalling

D．urging

4.

A．for himself

B．to himself

C．by himself

D．of himself

5.

A．let alone

B．let down

C．let off

D．let out

6.

A．enhanced

B．deserved

C．sighed

D．transformed

7.

A．take off

B．show off

C．turn off

D．keep off

8.

A．trucks

B．wheels

C．handles

D．bicycles

9.

A．convinced

B．occurred

C．withdrew

D．struck

10.

A．money

B．welfare

C．tendency

D．opportunity

11.

A．trust

B．teach

C．absorb

D．improve

12.

A．extremely

B．eventually

C．initially

D．generally

13.

A．guarantee

B．withdraw

C．discover

D．predict

14.

A．confident

B．intelligent

C．unique

D．relevant

15.

A．Instead

B．Besides

C．Furthermore

D．Therefore

16.

A．fierce

B．excellent

C．comfortable

D．attractive

17.

A．as a result

B．By contrast

C．in return

D．in turn

18.

A．significant

B．abstract

C．universal

D．healthy

19.

A．witness

B．realize

C．know

D．consult

20.

A．outstanding

B．admiring

C．dangerous

D．stimulating

4 . Once in a while, an unexpected present reminds us that someone is thinking about us.

The rosebushes were finally in full bloom. Seeing roses always brings to ____Wanda's childhood memories. To Wanda, those flowers were extra special. “We never had money to buy extra things, so even a(n) ____ rose was something to ____,” Wanda said. Nowadays, Wanda and her husband, Dale, own a garden filled with roses. Wanda especially loves the first blooms.

Dale, ____ attends the roses because he knows the little fact about his wife. So on that special morning, he picked the very first flowers of spring.

But as Dale returned to the house, he met a neighbor stopping for a ____ visit. As the woman ____ to go, Dale handed the roses to her. While their visitor _____ she didn't want to take them, she was ____ told that the flowers were for her.

“I told her I was happy for her, but I really wasn't,” Wanda said, remembering the ___ she was feeling then.

Seeing her very ____ first blooms gone filled her with ____. Throughout the rest of the morning, she ____ and wished she could have kept the roses for herself, knowing it's better giving than receiving.

Later that day, the couple ____ to the market, where Wanda ____ outside in the car. Then, an older woman appeared at the car's ____ window, with a bunch of roses in her arms.

“These are for you.” she said, “They’re my first blooms this ____.” Surprised, Wanda thanked the woman and took a moment to smell the roses' ____ fragrance(香味). When she ____ , the woman had disappeared.

That “special delivery” ____ Wanda. Now, her very first blooms always go to someone else, as a ____ that someone is thinking of them.

1.

A．thought

B．mind

C．arm

D．head

2.

A．tired

B．pretty

C．ugly

D．fresh

3.

A．like

B．delight

C．cherish

D．shock

4.

A．fortunately

B．excitedly

C．frankly

D．devotedly

5.

A．quick

B．valuable

C．careful

D．cautious

6.

A．promised

B．turned

C．started

D．passed

7.

A．suggested

B．demanded

C．claimed

D．insisted

8.

A．naturally

B．eventually

C．repeatedly

D．normally

9.

A．emotions

B．sadness

C．situations

D．happiness

10.

A．beautiful

B．precious

C．fresh

D．best

11.

A．grief

B．relief

C．gratitude

D．regret

12.

A．argued

B．discussed

C．struggled

D．fought

13.

A．headed

B．looked

C．walked

D．stepped

14.

A．tapped

B．trapped

C．waited

D．stopped

15.

A．clear

B．open

C．transparent

D．broad

16.

A．fall

B．season

C．term

D．spring

17.

A．long

B．rich

C．colorful

D．bright

18.

A．looked up

B．turned up

C．showed up

D．brought up

19.

A．improved

B．instructed

C．impressed

D．changed

20.

A．souvenir

B．honor

C．reminder

D．memory

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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。

It was Women’s Day. I decided to give my mother a surprise. Immediately after the school, I started to prepare dinner. It is the first time that I had cooked something on her own. Not knowing the exact procedures to cook, I read some recipe first. Keeping that I had learned in mind, I set about cook. Almost an hour later, three simple but deliciously dishes were ready on the table. No soon had everything been ready than she came back. A big smile with both surprise and satisfaction spread on Mom’s face when she found the hearty dinner but the tidy room. At that moment, pride rose the bottom of my heart.

6 . Last Sunday, our family went to a nice restaurant. The meal was ____ and we all had a good time just being together. When the waitress ____ the check I looked down at it. The gift card (代金券) covered almost all of it. I reached into my wallet to get enough cash to cover the rest. I saw two ____ in the front of it. The first would cover the rest of the bill and give the ____ a nice tip. The second bill was much larger so I reached down to ____ the first one.

At that moment my ____ flashed back to 30 years before. I was working in a restaurant. It was long hours of hard work for low ____. I went home just barely making enough to feed my young family. I also ____ how more than once I saw the waitresses ____ about how they were going to pay the rent and buy their kids the things they needed. I saw the ____ in their eyes and the sadness in their faces at the end of the day.

I was back in the present ____ my fingers touching the smaller bill in my ____. I smiled, pushed it back down, and ____ the much larger bill. I ____ it around the gift card (代金券) and covered both of them with the ____. As we all got up from the table I ____ them to the hard working waitress. “You keep the ____”, I said with a smile and a ____ heart.

We are all one family in this world. We live together, rejoice (庆祝) together, and suffer together. Do your best to be ____ then. Do your best to be a good person. Do your best to replace the ____ with joy.

1.

A．awful

B．late

C．delicious

D．inexpensive

2.

A．brought

B．tore

C．suspected

D．inspected

3.

A．models

B．brooms

C．guests

D．bills

4.

A．host

B．waitress

C．customers

D．actress

5.

A．pick out

B．give out

C．leave out

D．try out

6.

A．film

B．mind

C．task

D．business

7.

A．pressure

B．background

C．pay

D．investment

8.

A．promised

B．determined

C．convinced

D．remembered

9.

A．curious

B．particular

C．careful

D．worried

10.

A．horror

B．confidence

C．pain

D．kindness

11.

A．again

B．anyway

C．then

D．still

12.

A．wallet

B．drawer

C．pocket

D．car

13.

A．sought for

B．reached for

C．asked for

D．call for

14.

A．buried

B．folded

C．rushed

D．painted

15.

A．photograph

B．note

C．check

D．cloth

16.

A．retold

B．lent

C．explained

D．handed

17.

A．change

B．receipt

C．equipment

D．pity

18.

A．cold

B．happy

C．heavy

D．broken

19.

A．perfect

B．grateful

C．kind

D．brave

20.

A．confidence

B．service

C．politeness

D．suffering

7 . What’s your dream in life? Many children dream of becoming ________ when they grow up. But very few start as early as Jose, a Peruvian boy who________a children’s savings bank when he was only 7 years old.

Jose had the ________ for a children’s savings bank six years ago. He ________ that many children at his age spent their money on sweets and toys instead of something ________ . Although he was young, he under-stood that saving________   was a good way that could help adults solve many of their problems. ________ he decided to make it possible for kids as well. At that time, he started thinking of ways that children could ________ money without the help of their parents, and recycling seemed like the best ________ . But when Jose shared his thought with his teachers, he was ________ that a 7-year-old couldn’t deal with such a project. ________ , he tried to prove them all wrong.

“At the beginning, my teachers thought I was ________ and that a child couldn’t do it successfully,” Jose said. “________ I had the support of the schoolmaster.” Jose ________ the Bartselana Student Bank in his home. The ________ of this creative bank was very simple: Children could become client(客户)of the bank by ________ at least 5 kilograms of recyclable waste. And they were ________ to bring at least one other kilogram of waste to the bank every month. They would set savings goals, and could only take some of the money out when they ________ their savings goals.

The 7-year-old signed a ________ with local recycling companies that offered his clients a higher price of recyclable waste. And all the money they got could be deposited(存)into the Bartselana Student Bank. Between 2012 and 2013, the bank ________ one ton of recyclable material and made savings for around 200 children at Jose’s school.

1.

A．successful

B．religious

C．humorous

D．slim

2.

A．lost

B．established

C．imagined

D．tricked

3.

A．balance

B．idea

C．chance

D．memory

4.

A．consulted

B．attempted

C．noticed

D．guessed

5.

A．violent

B．boring

C．attractive

D．meaningful

6.

A．time

B．waste

C．money

D．energy

7.

A．So

B．Or

C．But

D．Because

8.

A．change

B．spend

C．borrow

D．make

9.

A．purpose

B．news

C．explanation

D．means

10.

A．praised

B．told

C．admired

D．pulled

11.

A．Instead

B．Moreover

C．However

D．Besides

12.

A．stupid

B．crazy

C．shy

D．careless

13.

A．Interestingly

B．Naturally

C．Luckily

D．Similarly

14.

A．donated

B．designed

C．introduced

D．founded

15.

A．aim

B．variety

C．award

D．scene

16.

A．turning in

B．staring at

C．handing out

D．going ahead

17.

A．prevented

B．begged

C．refused

D．required

18.

A．set

B．reached

C．appreciated

D．understood

19.

A．document

B．goal

C．conclusion

D．solution

20.

A．bought

B．produced

C．collected

D．threw

9 . 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。

Last September, a common graduation ceremony held in Henan University, and it received much attention. Xue Minxiu, born in 1937, graduated with excellent grades after worked hard for 4 years. Going to a university has always been a dream for Xue. But with some reasons, she doesn’t have the chance when she was young. Even so, she never forgot his dream. In 2014, she was accepted by Henan University and final her dream came true. Since then, Xue has been a model for the people around her. She got up at 5 o’clock every morning. Her room was filling with books and newspapers. Wherever she went to, she would take books with her. Her hard works paid off in the end.

10 . Happy April Fool’s Day! In celebration of the day, we have put together a list of some of the greatest hoaxes in history. They are the lies that have been designed for innocent people who are ready to believe them.

▲INSTANT COLOR TV

In 1962 there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station’s Kjell Stepson, appearing on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily transform their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon (尼龙) stocking over their TV screen, and they would begin to see their favorite shows in color. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, were taken in. Actual color TV transmission only started to appear in Sweden on April 1,1970.

▲SAN SERRIFFE

In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement (增刊) in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately asked for more information about the beautiful holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was made up.

▲NIXON FOR PRESIDENT

In 1992 American National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program announced that, Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.” Accompanying this announcement were audio clips (片断) of Nixon delivering his election speech. Listeners responded immediately to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and anger. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Huckleberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon’s voice was copied by comedian Rich Little.

1. Which of the following countries is NOT mentioned in the text?

A．Sweden.

B．Germany.

C．The UK.

D．The United States.

2. When did the small republic San Serriffe come into being?

A．Never.

B．In 1962.

C．In 1977.

D．In 1992.

3. Who worked as a host on the radio?

A．Kjell Stepson.

B．Rich Little.

C．Richard Nixon.

D．John Huckleberry.