Once there was a little girl named Emily. Although her singing was very pleasant to hear, lacking of courage, she never dared to sing in front of strangers.
One summer, the neighborhood where she lived would hold a singing competition. Her best friend, Lucy, came to invite her to participate in the competition, but Emily said, “I’m afraid to take part in it.” Her mother said, “It’s okay; just do it bravely.” Emily followed her mama’s advice and decided to give herself a try. The day came. Emily and Lucy went to the competition site. But she was too timid (胆小的)to walk onto the stage. She had been waiting until others finished singing. She shakily (颤抖地)forced herself to stand on the stage. She started to sing,but her voice was so low. What’s worse, she was so nervous that she forgot the lyrics (歌词)after singing a few words. Being laughed at by others, embarrassed and shy, she ran away from the stage.
Some naughty boys ran after her and said, “Emily, coward (胆小鬼)!Emily, coward!” Emily didn’t argue with them. What she wanted was to go back home as quickly as she could. Finally, she rushed into the house, hugged her mom and cried sadly.
“Well, my poor girl, don’t cry. Tell me what happened to you,” asked her mom. Emily looked up at her mother and told her what she had experienced.
Listening to her, her mom cupped her face and said, “It doesn’t matter, girl. As long as you practice singing more in front of strangers, you will become braver little by little. So, my girl, don’t be beaten by a failure.You can go out to practice singing every day. No matter who is listening to you, go on singing and never stop. I believe there will be a harvest for you.”
注意：续写词数应为150左右。Emily listened to her mother carefully and followed her mom’s suggestion.
Going on singing,she walked into the park,where many people were singing and dancing.
2 . My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn’t sure what he wanted from
He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road
It’s easy to feel
Getting along well sometimes seemed
On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were
This is why road trips were like
If we were
| A．move | B．life | C．experience | D．belief |
| A．live up | B．struggle on | C．get out | D．walk around |
| A．took | B．drove | C．served | D．controlled |
| A．anxious | B．upset | C．helpless | D．lonely |
| A．wasted | B．worked | C．spent | D．chatted |
| A．better | B．easier | C．safer | D．cleverer |
| A．available | B．alternative | C．necessary | D．impossible |
| A．arguments | B．fights | C．embarrassments | D．amusements |
| A．light | B．heavy | C．local | D．fast |
| A．buried | B．crazy | C．stuck | D．impatient |
| A．holiday | B．journey | C．exploration | D．march |
| A．dragging | B．pushing | C．helping | D．sending |
| A．unusual | B．common | C．free | D．mobile |
| A．earned | B．expected | C．missed | D．valued |
| A．somewhere | B．anytime | C．somehow | D．anyway |
A man got lost while driving through a country. As he tried to read a map, he drove off the road into a ditch (沟渠)
“Warwick can get your car out of that ditch,” said the farmer,
The farmer hitched (套住) the mule to the car and
The man was
The farmer smiled and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. Once he
It was a peaceful night. I was sleeping with my brothers, feeling warm and comfortable. Mama was sleeping nearby, covered by snow. Papa was somewhere nearby, watching over us. There was a bright moon and we all had had a good meal of venison (鹿肉)．
“Uncle Louis is coming, ” Papa said. We loved Uncle Louis. He was a funny wolf, and always had interesting things to tell us and show us.
A little while later, Uncle Louis appeared. We did not approach him with respect the way we approached Papa. We flew at him, jumped all over him, and rolled him in the snow. Uncle Louis laughed and patted us with his paws. He is black all over, with yellow eyes, and he is very tall.
“It’s the longest night of the year, ” Uncle Louis said.“Does everyone feel like taking a run through the woods? I want to show you something unusual.”
Hearing that, Papa warned that it was dangerous to go near that pack of humans who lived in the woods.
“They are hardly dangerous,” Uncle Louis laughed. “They are so clumsy and make so much noise. They are not able to get near us — or even see us if we don’t want them to.Besides, this is their special night. They are quite peaceful and won't be bothering wolves.”
“Oh, please, Papa, let us run through the woods with Uncle Louis and see something unusual！” we all begged.
“It is a fine night,” Papa smiled. “I must admit. I do feel like running.”
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And we were off, all of us, heading towards the woods.
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We stopped and sat on a hillside and below us was the humans' place.
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5 . On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a messy beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench and opened the door for us. Regardless of his
Once inside, my daughters whispered, “Mom, he smells.” After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look
Just then, the “doorman” was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even acknowledging his
When I returned, we talked a bit. He said he was not allowed inside
Back in truck, I fell into deep thought. While we can’t choose many things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude. I said thanks to a man who had simply held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that chance to teach my children by example.
1.| A．service | B．appearance | C．impression | D．attitude |
| A．rude | B．active | C．cheerful | D．shy |
| A．beyond | B．over | C．around | D．into |
| A．stressful | B．easy | C．impressive | D．tough |
| A．occurred | B．happened | C．reminded | D．informed |
| A．appearance | B．presence | C．effect | D．absence |
| A．when | B．unless | C．as long as | D．until |
| A．anxious | B．shocked | C．puzzled | D．bored |
| A．make | B．start | C．stop | D．continue |
| A．hostility | B．affection | C．hesitation | D．gratitude |
6 . I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads. Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something, “I’m awfully sorry,” I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop. It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass or I thought I did. But because l had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by, I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
1. The girl refused to ask for help because she thought .| A．she might be recognized | B．asking for help looked silly |
| C．she was normal and independent | D．being found blind was embarrassing |
| A．began to run | B．hit a person as usual |
| C．hit a lamppost by accident | D．was caught by something |
| A．The bus stop was usually crowded with too many people. |
| B．More lorries than buses responded to the girl. |
| C．It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus. |
| D．It was not always reliable to make a good judgement. |
| A．confident | B．proud | C．shy | D．brave |
7 . Uncle Jeremiah sighed. He wondered if he had made the right decision in agreeing to looking after Ant and Cleo over the school holidays while their parents went to London to catch a month-long festival of Shakespeare plays.
Ant and Cleo were having a waste of time staying with their research scientist uncle. They easily bullied (欺负) him into letting them stay up to watch the late-night creature features. It was fun, they said, being scared socked by vampires (吸血鬼), wolfmen and other not-to-nice people. They could handle the late nights; what they couldn’t were the nightmares (梦魇). Watching such fearsome movies as the Curse of the Yeti, the Dread of Dracula (雪人), Fangs of the Wolfman and More Dread of Dracula had resulted in the most terrifying nightmares imaginable.
Once Cleo dreamed she at a dico wearing a fur coat which turned into a yeti that totally ruined her evening by eating her boyfriend. Ant had a frightful dream about being a wolfman, going all hairy and getting locked in the dog house where he was bullied by a brainsick huge dog. And the nightmare that caused Cleo to wake up in a cold sweat was all about a pale, toothy plumber (水暖工)who kept trying to fit a tap to her neck.
Uncle Jeremiah sighed again. He trailed back to bed and buried his head under the pillow. Ant and Cleo settled down to watch The Great, Great Nephew of Frankestein.
1. The children were staying with Uncle Jeremiah_________.| A．overnight | B．at weekends | C．several weeks | D．permanently |
| A．play with Uncle Jeremiah | B．watch horror movies |
| C．watch creatures outside the window | D．meet not-so-nice people |
| A．amused | B．upset | C．scared | D．surprised |
| A．Aggressive. | B．Responsible. | C．Critical. | D．Helpless. |
8 . Eight hours and 48 miles into what was supposed to be a 24-hour run, Dan Frank entered his Columbia, MD, home at 2 a.m. last Saturday and sat on the sofa in the living room.
Frank, a 36-year-old who teaches math at Paint Branch High in Burtonsville, runs as a hobby, and about two weeks earlier he set a plan of running for 24 straight hours in support of the Howard County Food Bank during the COVID-19 outbreak. But he hit a wall.
Frank didn’t stay long. He got back up, had a lot to eat and drink, and returned to running Howard County’s roads. “It was like: ‘All right, well, you can’t imagine getting up, but it doesn’t really matter. Other people are depending on this, so get up and go,’” said Frank, who posted updates (最新消息) of his run on Facebook.
Late last month, David Kilgore, a 28-year-old who has made a career out of running, ran 100 miles in about 17 hours 47 minutes in Florida to help provide medical workers with supportive footwear. Frank brainstormed his idea and ran for about two weeks while he prepared for the online classes he is now teaching.
Frank began running about five years ago, and he has always felt road races were too serious for him. Still, he was encouraged to provide for those in need. His children attend Phelps Luck Elementary, where every month a mobile food pantry (储藏柜) is stationed. “Over the past month, fewer donations have been made to the food bank,” he said. “In good times, about 40 families show up every time we have that mobile food pantry, and I can’t imagine what it might be like now, with so many people losing their jobs.”
On Sunday night Frank had raised nearly $12, 000 for the Howard County Food Bank. “The coolest part besides raising the money is watching a community do a common cause in these times,” Frank said. “People are looking for things like that right now. They’re at home on Facebook anyway; they want to cheer something on that has some good meaning behind it.”
1. What does the underlined phrase “hit a wall” in paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Lost his way. |
| B．Made no progress. |
| C．Got seriously hurt. |
| D．Became terribly tired. |
| A．The encouragement from his online friends. |
| B．The advice of a medical worker. |
| C．Another runner’s kind act. |
| D．His great love for running. |
| A．The mobile food pantry is popular among many people. |
| B．There has been a great need for food in the local community. |
| C．Frank made it his task to do something for his children’s school. |
| D．More and more people are unwilling to support feeding local families. |
| A．It drew people’s attention to exercise. |
| B．It received a lot of support from others. |
| C．It raised as much money as he had expected. |
| D．It encouraged other communities to do the same. |
9 . Ben Blumenfeld is a web designer. He used to work for a big TV network and was asked to design
From then on, he
One day, he received a(n)
When he began to work there, he
| A．books | B．websites | C．pictures | D．clothes |
| A．believed in | B．came with | C．agreed to | D．led to |
| A．never | B．just | C．also | D．still |
| A．wasted | B．achieved | C．understood | D．thought |
| A．started | B．kept | C．stopped | D．tried |
| A．important | B．interesting | C．hard | D．new |
| A．strange | B．simple | C．good | D．expensive |
| A．job | B．school | C．house | D．hobby |
| A．plan | B．invitation | C．gift | D．task |
| A．exciting | B．easy | C．meaningful | D．difficult |
| A．fought | B．worked | C．compared | D．communicated |
| A．refused | B．decided | C．failed | D．continued |
| A．found | B．remembered | C．accepted | D．hoped |
| A．controlled | B．forgotten | C．used | D．shared |
| A．chance | B．problem | C．comfort | D．risk |
10 . Ludwick Marishane, a 17-year-old South African, was with his friends in Limpopo when they started talking about inventing something to put on your skin so you don't have to take a bath. Ludwick thought that this was a great idea. He used his mobile to do some research on the Internet and he found some surprising facts.
Two point five billion people around the world haven't got clean water. This is a huge problem because dirty water can create terrible illnesses. One of them is trachoma (沙眼): eight million people all over the world get trachoma every year. They wash their faces with dirty water, get an infection and become blind. To stop trachoma, people don't have to take expensive medication. They don't have to take medicine. They have to wash their faces with clean water. That's it.
Ludwick started thinking. He wanted to make something to help people in parts of the world where it's difficult to find clean water. He did more research on his mobile, and he did some more thinking. Then Ludwick had a plan. He wanted to make a gel (凝胶) for people to put on their skin so they don't have to take a bath. He wrote the formula (配方) for the gel on his mobile phone. When he was at university, he never stopped thinking about his invention. He started to talk to other people about it, and three years later his dream came true. He made the gel and called it “DryBath”.
Ludwick Marishane is the winner of lots of prizes. People call him “one of the brightest young men in the world”. He is very happy about his success. DryBath is helping people stay healthy. And DryBath also helps to save water. That's important in many parts of the world where it's difficult to find clean water. Now he wants to invent other things, and he wants to help other young people to become inventors too.
1. What did Ludwick and his friends talk about?| A．How to get clean water. |
| B．Protecting people from trachoma. |
| C．Finding a way to avoid taking a bath. |
| D．How to ask for help on the Internet. |
| A．Many people in Africa didn't know how to reuse dirty water. |
| B．Many people faced the difficulty of not having clean water. |
| C．People didn't realize the danger of trachoma. |
| D．People cleaned their hands in wrong ways. |
| A．What encouraged Ludwick to create the gel. |
| B．The advantages the gel gave to people. |
| C．How Ludwick invented the gel. |
| D．The huge popularity of the gel. |
| A．Helpful and creative. |
| B．Caring and honest. |
| C．Brave and fearless. |
| D．Kind and strict. |
