1 . J. K. Rowling frequently shows there is magic every day. Her Harry Potter series has helped people through times of stress and depression and she is always there to deliver wise words of encouragement.

She is one celebrity who is very active on Twitter. So when a single dad named Matt Burke sent her a message thanking her for the series, she noticed. Her series had helped strengthen his relationship with his 9­year­old daughter Bailey.

He included a link to his article titled Being a Broke Parent. He explained how he hadn’t found a level of financial stability that allowed him to pay bills on time and take his daughter on more activities and events. The family also doesn’t have the Internet or TV, which means there’s no “digital babysitter” and he has to rely on his own creative ways to bond with his daughter. Since he received the series, the main thing that has occupied them these days is reading books together.

Burke admits that he thought he was “too cool” for the books when they first came out and he was in his twenties, but he’s loving reading them now. “We switch off chapter by chapter reading them out loud，“Burke explains.” This not only allows her to get more used to reading aloud in front of someone, but it gets me directly involved in something she loves, and it gives me the chance to be very dramatic when I read my chapters and bring myself into the characters in the book, which has proven to be a ton of fun.”

After hearing Burke’s story, Rowling said how honored she was when Harry Potter was a part of his family’s life and offered Burke more books. Besides, people are also offering to send Burke more books as gifts. For Burke, this experience, far more than gifts, will be what he treasures.

1. Why did Burke thank J. K. Rowling according to the text?

A．She guided him how to write a good story.

B．She encouraged him when he was in trouble.

C．Her books helped him through times of confusion.

D．Her books helped him improve his bond with his daughter.

2. What is implied in Burke’s words in paragraph 4?

A．He has found it interesting to read the series.	B．He was too old to understand the series better.
C．He has chosen a better way of reading the series.	D．He hopes to play a role in the drama in the future.

3. Which word can best describe Burke’s experience according to the text?

A．Useless.

B．Normal.

C．Valuable.

D．Boring.

4. What is the main idea of this text?

A．J. K. Rowling chooses to help improve kids’ health.

B．J. K. Rowling gives a magical gift to a single father.

C．J. K. Rowling has a deep influence on others’ growth.

D．Burke comes to know J. K. Rowling through her series.

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据所给上下文并结合最后一段第一句，续写最后一段内容。续写词数为70词左右。

An odd thing happened to Arthur when he was on the way to work one day. As he walked along the First National Bank, he heard the sound of someone trying to start a car. He tried again and again but couldn’t get the car moving. Arthur turned and looked inside at the face of a young man who looked worried. Authur stopped and asked “It looks like you’ve got a problem,” Arthur said.

“I’m afraid so. I’m in a big hurry and I can’t start my car.”

“Is there something I can do to help?” Arthu asked. The young man looked at the two suitcases in the back seat and then said, “Thanks. If you’re sure it wouldn’t be too much trouble, you could help me get these suitcases into a taxi.”

“No trouble at all. I’d be glad to help.” The young man got out and took one of the suitcases from the back seat. After putting it on the ground, he turned to get the other one. Just as Arthur picked up the first suitcase and started walking, he heard the long loud noise of an alarm (警报).

It was from the bank. There had been a robbery (抢劫)!

Now the air around the bank was filled with the sound of an alarm and the shouts of people running from all directions. Cars stopped and the passengers joined the crowd in front of the bank. People asked each other, “What happened?” But everyone had a different answer.

Arthur, still carrying the suitcase, turned to look at the bank and saw a young woman walking towards him. She looked at the suitcase and then at him. Arthur was surprised, “Why is she looking at me like that?” He thought. “The suitcase! She thinks I’m the bank robber!” He became frightened, and without another thought, he started to run.

As he was running with the suitcase, Arthur heard the young man shouting behind, “Stop, stop! My money”,

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Arthur seized (抓住) this opportunity to catch the young man and took him to the nearby police station by car.

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3 . Devon Gallagher, a college graduate from Philadelphia, wants the world to know exactly where she’s been during her worldwide vacation in a special way.

The traveler, who was born with a congenital bone disease (先天性骨病), had her right leg amputated (截肢) at the age of four. Although the amputation caused misfortune for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as an inspiration for living her best life.

To spread that message, Gallagher has taken to social media, where she shares photos of her travels around the world. Besides, she writes her location across her artificial leg (假肢) before taking a picture.

Now she has been taking pictures across Europe, which show her cycling over the canals in Amsterdam, relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle (华夫饼) in Brussels, taking breath-taking pictures in Athens and enjoying a river cruise (巡航) in Budapest, with all the well-known locations written on her artificial leg.

“I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden idea to get a chalkboard (黑板),” Gallagher said. “My mum and grandmother didn't like the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did.”

Gallagher said people often stare when she’s writing on her leg, but once she shared the photos, she received only positive comment. “My leg hasn't stopped me doing anything I’ve wanted to do, I know it’s my determination to prove to myself that I can do it. Therefore, I’ve been able to keep up with my peers (同龄人) and lead a pretty great life.”

Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. If life gives you an artificial leg, make art.

1. What message does Gallagher want to express in her special way?

A．She enjoys her traveling across the globe.

B．She suffers little from her leg amputation .

C．She looks on her misfortune as another form of blessing.

D．She has exactly fallen in love with posting photos online.

2. What can we learn about Gallagher from the text?

A．She is interested in art.

B．She lost her both legs at the age of four.

C．She wrote her travel destinations on her artificial leg.

D．She got permission from her family for getting a chalkboard.

3. Which of the following can best describe Gallagher?

A．Considerate and cooperative	B．Reliable and generous
C．Independent and selfless	D．Determined and creative

4. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A．Never Too Late to Share	B．A Special Artificial Leg
C．An Outstanding Photographer	D．Gallagher’s Summer Holidays

5 . Are parents rational (理性的) about their children? No. Parents aren’t rational because ________ isn’t rational. Young people can understand this about romantic love, but they find it ________ to accept this part in parental love.

My eldest daughter’s ________ the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began in patiently controlled ________ that every experienced parent knows.

“I sailed around the Mediterranean in a yacht (游艇) when I was seventeen,” she said. “I hiked through the Pyrenees from Spain to Paris. I’ve done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in rainforests in the jungle of Indonesia. Right?”

“Right,” I said, “So what?”

“So this,” she went on. “When I go to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be ________ when I cross the street?”

There is no satisfactory ________ a parent can give to this.

All I could say in reply was that when I was 50, my mother would ________ me not to drive too fast. If I were 80 and she were still alive, I would be getting the ________ warning. No matter what the age, a child is a child.

There is something else, too, that children find it hard to understand. When they are far away, there is nothing we can do about their ________. They are in the hands of the gods. Parents try not to ________ about it.

But when the children are close, the old protective urge quickly ________, and it doesn’t ________ how far they have been or what experiences they have got through.

Most ________ happen around the corner, not in the rainforest. The most instinctive (本能的) act of almost every creature is to ________ its young, and with humans this reaction stays for a lifetime.

In the parents’ mind, a child ages but does not ________. Rational? No. But if we were rational, would we want children at all?

1.

A．worry

B．fear

C．love

D．need

2.

A．easy

B．friendly

C．hard

D．important

3.

A．problem

B．explanation

C．warning

D．question

4.

A．anger

B．pride

C．worry

D．surprise

5.

A．careful

B．brave

C．quick

D．helpful

6.

A．question

B．answer

C．problem

D．present

7.

A．select

B．remind

C．insist

D．expect

8.

A．different

B．extra

C．same

D．right

9.

A．success

B．happiness

C．luck

D．safety

10.

A．argue

B．think

C．forget

D．complain

11.

A．comes back

B．pays back

C．looks back

D．goes back

12.

A．prove

B．mean

C．matter

D．mind

13.

A．accidents

B．failures

C．changes

D．mistakes

14.

A．tolerate

B．protect

C．devote

D．treat

15.

A．stop

B．compete

C．grow

D．leave

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

I am a proud mother of three children, my last little one being delivered in the middle of this pandemic (疫情). She was born in August and her name is Aida.

Shortly after having Aida, my mother-in-law Ann showed me something she learned from her friend’s mother in an art class she attended weekly, She had showed me how to knit (编织) a scarf.

I spent a lot of time breastfeeding my sweet little girl, so I had some extra time to do something with my hands throughout the day. I enjoyed making the scarf so I purchased tons of yarn (线) since it was winter. I wanted to make scarves for my three children as Christmas gifts.

There was a new family that moved in down the street. The only daughter of the family was Jane, a shy girl, aged 14, the same age of my oldest son David. It seemed that she came from a financially disadvantaged family, for she always wore old clothes. Worse still, in such cold days, she had no more clothes to wear and trembled with cold.

Due to the pandemic, society was thrown into crisis mode. Schools were closed, food supplies and deliveries were suspended and children were stuck at home. In such discouraging time, however, they became good companions, talking and playing at home or around the houses.

It was dreadfully cold this winter. Every time David came back from outside, with red face, he always cried, “Mum, it is freezing outside!” Then, he came over to see whether I finished the scarf. I could tell how impatient he was to wear my scarf sooner! I had to speed the project to satisfy his expectation. But David comforted me by saying he could wait a few days. What a kind and considerate boy he was! Then my great art project finally was accomplished on the morning ahead of Christmas.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150词左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语己为你写好。
Paragraph 1: I wrapped the scarf around David’s neck.
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Paragraph 2: Later that day David came back saying Jane also deserved a scarf.
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7 . For many people, bookstores are wonderful places. That’s because the books on the shelves can take you away to magical lands, help you learn a foreign language, or cook a delicious meal. But when your community is too small to house a brick bookstore, you have to come up with another idea. A mobile bookstore was the result. That is the case for Rita Collins, 70, who dreamed of opening a used bookstore after retiring from teaching.

A business planning class from the American Booksellers Association convinced Collins to give up her idea of opening a bookstore in the small town where she lives. Her town, Eureka, Montana, only has a population of 1,517. Collins asked her instructors about a traveling bookstore on wheels and they doubted her idea. But she insisted on it.

Collins was inspired by Dylans Mobile Bookstore, a traveling bookstore in Wales run by Jeff Towns. She contacted Jeff for advice but she was largely on her own when it came to building her bookstore. First, she had to find a vehicle large enough to stand in. Then she had to have it refitted with shelves that would hold the books at a 15-degree angle so that they would stay in place while traveling. Collins named her bookstore St. Rita’s Traveling Bookstore, which has been on the road since 2015.

At first, she drove through Montana and then she made her first cross-country trip in 2016. After she retired in 2017, it became a full-time job. Collins and her bookstore have visited 30 states, stopping at festivals and events along the way. Collins loves meeting people and making connections. While she loves what she does, Collins doesn’t think she can keep doing it. In several years, she hopes to pass her traveling bookstore onto another book lover who shares the same interest and will keep it on the road.

1. According to the passage, what’s the basic requirement for opening a bookstore?

A．There must be a community with a popularity of 1517.

B．The American Booksellers Association should support the store.

C．A bookstore must store enough books.

D．The bookstore must offer delicious meals.

2. How to hold the books in place while travelling?

A．With a large vehicle.

B．At a 15-degree angle.

C．On the wheels.

D．On the road.

3. Which of the following is TRUE about Collins?

A．Nobody supported Collins at first.	B．Jeff helped Collins a lot in building her bookstore.
C．Collins made the bookshelves by herself.	D．Collins would devote all her life to her bookstore.

4. What probably is the next paragraph of this article about?

A．How to make her bookstore popular.	B．How to raise more money to support her store.
C．How to choose more suitable books.	D．How to choose a man who can inherit her bookshop.

8 . My work started in 2003 at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. It seems like such a long time ago. In the 13 years that have ______, more than 50,000 animals have passed the doors of the ______. Most of them, I do not remember. But ______ there are animals who stand out. Tabby was one such ______.

Tabby was one of the many ______ dogs. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s ______ to be adopted seemed small. But one day a woman ______ Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, who ______ epilepsy (癫痫) had seen Tabby’s picture ______ the shelter’s website. They were ______ in meeting her! Most boys would want a puppy, a dog who could ______ with him and run through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would never be able to do that. But as they say, “love is blind.” After meeting her, they decided to ______ Tabby!

If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her ______ adoption, it would still have been something very ______ indeed. But it was ______ happened after her adoption that some might label as “magical”. They became inseparable. They got along well with each other so that Tabby could sense Gary’s seizures(疾病发作)before they ______, giving his family a ______ that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby’s ______.

How could it be? There are some things that challenge logic and understanding in this world. Sometimes the best that we can do is to accept a ______, which we couldn’t attempt to explain. Because when you try to ______ it, you lose the beauty and miracle of it all.

1.

A．passed

B．created

C．wasted

D．imitated

2.

A．park

B．hospital

C．shelter

D．destination

3.

A．usually

B．occasionally

C．frequently

D．always

4.

A．animal

B．backpack

C．guest

D．treasure

5.

A．content

B．homeless

C．disappointing

D．comfortable

6.

A．chances

B．challenges

C．adventures

D．discussions

7.

A．ordered

B．sold

C．advertised

D．named

8.

A．got across

B．got through

C．suffered from

D．broke up

9.

A．beyond

B．on

C．with

D．between

10.

A．serious

B．bored

C．curious

D．interested

11.

A．agree

B．grow

C．deal

D．doubt

12.

A．destroy

B．win

C．adopt

D．save

13.

A．successful

B．straight

C．traditional

D．miserable

14.

A．special

B．normal

C．similar

D．difficult

15.

A．which

B．when

C．where

D．what

16.

A．noticed

B．greeted

C．occurred

D．met

17.

A．release

B．warning

C．requirement

D．conflict

18.

A．date

B．damage

C．habit

D．arrival

19.

A．decision

B．contest

C．miracle

D．promise

20.

A．describe

B．forgive

C．believe

D．explain

9 . Michael Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first three weeks of school. When_______kids began to notice, Todd, a freshman became the _______ of being teased. But there was little Todd could do. His mother _______ couldn’t afford to buy him new clothes.

Two of the_______piling on were Garrett and Graham. But over time, they _______ that their words felt like hurt and seemed to be slowly destroying Todd’s _______. Graham felt like he_______to do something. So he and Garrett_______a plan. They went home and hunted through their own drawers and closets(壁橱). The next day at school, they _______Todd and asked him to come into the __________. Todd was worried about being __________ by the larger boys.

“He wasn’t __________or doing anything,” Graham says. “ I told him, ‘I __________for laughing at you, and I want to give something to you to__________it up.’ ” He then handed Todd a big bag. Inside were clean shirts and shorts, plus a brand-new pair of sneakers.

Todd was __________. “ I was very happy,” he said later. “ Shocked, completely.” And Todd got much more than __________ clothes. He no longer sits __________ at lunch. Now he eats with his __________, Garrett and Graham.

“I’ve been bullied my entire life,” Todd told CBS News. __________the day when Garrett and Graham called him into the hall, he added, “The__________day of my entire life, basically.”

1.

A．devoted

B．other

C．curious

D．native

2.

A．model

B．sign

C．target

D．loser

3.

A．simply

B．slightly

C．hardly

D．thankfully

4.

A．professors

B．coaches

C．colleagues

D．kids

5.

A．complained

B．realized

C．recognized

D．reported

6.

A．temper

B．lung

C．spirit

D．reputation

7.

A．hesitated

B．forgot

C．failed

D．needed

8.

A．hatched

B．denied

C．abandoned

D．expanded

9.

A．entertained

B．met

C．accused

D．questioned

10.

A．reserve

B．playground

C．hall

D．lab

11.

A．called out

B．taken in

C．picked up

D．looked over

12.

A．arguing

B．recording

C．wondering

D．smiling

13.

A．pace

B．appear

C．apologize

D．pause

14.

A．lock

B．wake

C．put

D．make

15.

A．blown away

B．called off

C．put aside

D．approved of

16.

A．worn

B．new

C．colorful

D．casual

17.

A．alone

B．up

C．still

D．away

18.

A．hands

B．friends

C．employees

D．examples

19.

A．Discussing

B．Warning

C．Recalling

D．Facing

20.

A．busiest

B．worst

C．richest

D．best