1 . The biggest misconception that I've ever heard of is that in order for us to find success in anything, we must be willing to give up something else.    1    .

Over the years, I've come to realize that isn't true. As I grow, I find several things are truly stopping us from living a more fulfilling life. Below are some.

Place limitations on yourself

On the surface, limitations are the things that stop you from achieving something.    2    . You'll keep facing the same problems, forced to make the same choices, and perform the same actions repeatedly. They define your current circumstances and to that extent define your quality of life.

Lack self-control

We all have some aspect about ourselves that we don't like.    3    Maybe you have a large sweet tooth and can't help yourself from eating sweet things. When you have a lack of self-control, those habits are going to remain with you until you find some way to remove them.

    4    

Our ability to come up with creative solutions for our problems comes from our ability to learn and adapt. If you're not learning anything, you're not progressing. Leonardo da Vinci once said, "Learning never exhausts the mind." And I believe it.

Final thoughts

When you get stuck on something, you are never truly stuck    5    . You don't have to be working hard to overcome that barrier, rather change your thinking in how you're approaching the problem. Give it time and keep working at it.

A．Lack self confidence.

B．Lack learning and adaptability.

C．We shouldn't bottle up our own weaknesses.

D．Maybe you're someone who drinks a lot of alcohol or smokes.

E．It means that what you are currently doing isn't enough to get you over the barrier.

F．Whether it's career or health, one must be sacrificed in order for the other to succeed.

G．However, limitations are also the things that keep you restricted in the same life cycle.

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

A couple of months before I started high school, my parents gave me the greatest gift any teenage boy would ask for: a cellphone. I lived on that phone all summer. I always texted my friends, even at night. And I paid no attention to the people and things around myself. Being connected to the Internet was more important than being present.

So, you can imagine my displeasure when I learned what my dad had planned for our family vacation that year. It was not the Disneyland trip or beach vacation that I had been hoping for.“This year,” my dad said, “we’ll be doing something special, something I used to do with my dad when I was a kid. We’re going camping in the forest!”

His excitement was met with a disappointed sigh (失望的叹息),which was my communication style at that age. But he had made the decision and would not change his mind. I comforted myself by telling myself that it was still a vacation. I remained uninfluenced when they were busy preparing for the vacation.

My mind was on my phone, the texts flying back and forth. I focused on the screen in my hands so much that the first time I looked up was when we drove across a bridge on the trip to our campsite.

I looked out of the window and saw a fast-moving river. The air blowing into the car from the open windows was hot and smelt of trees. But that didn't matter to me. The reason why I had looked up was for something far more serious and annoying. My phone no longer had service. The signal was weak. During the last hour of the drive, there was no signal at all.

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式作答。

My dad explained he had chosen a campsite that had no phone service.

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The next morning, without checking my phone as usual, I fixed my mind on nature around myself.

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3 . In the seventh grade when my mother suggested that I should join the golf team, I thought she had lost her mind. But as usual, my mother _________ in the end. I played on the middle-school golf team in the seventh and eighth grade. The summer before high school came, I was _________ to join the high school team.

That summer I _________ almost every Sunday morning on the golf course with my _________, and too many afternoons with my mother. This_________ relationship with my parents _________ during my high school years._________ you’re walking down the freshly mowed fairway (修剪的平坦球道), looking out across miles of nothing but golf course, and looking up at the beautiful blue sky, you will realize what is _________ in life.My mom and I_________ many things in the middle of a round of golf that we would never do at ____________,where she is Mom and I am an annoying teenager. On the golf course, we’re just two people who ____________ golf.

During the past years golfing has become a part of my____________. My friends know in the summer the place to find me is on the golf course. There is ____________ I love more than a perfect autumn morning, riding around in a golf cart (球车) with my dad. Golf has ____________ me and made me into the person I am today. And I have to____________ that all of it is thanks to my mom who made me join that middle-school golf team. In fact, she was right.

1.

A．stopped

B．replied

C．recovered

D．won

2.

A．serious

B．careful

C．anxious

D．afraid

3.

A．wasted

B．spent

C．counted

D．missed

4.

A．father

B．friend

C．sister

D．classmate

5.

A．funny

B．unhappy

C．close

D．poor

6.

A．changed

B．started

C．failed

D．continued

7.

A．Though

B．When

C．Because

D．Unless

8.

A．difficult

B．common

C．convenient

D．important

9.

A．talk about

B．give up

C．look for

D．take down

10.

A．school

B．home

C．work

D．play

11.

A．discover

B．trust

C．love

D．watch

12.

A．way

B．story

C．job

D．life

13.

A．nothing

B．something

C．anything

D．everything

14.

A．saved

B．shaped

C．protected

D．persuaded

15.

A．admit

B．explain

C．consider

D．prove

4 . 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。

A freezing downpour washed the street in front of the small-town bar. I sat gazing into the watery darkness, alone as usual. I had been in that old bar for half an hour, quietly drinking, when my thoughtful eyes finally focused on a medium-sized lump (一团) in a puddle (水洼) a hundred feet away. For another ten minutes, I looked out through the window trying to decide if the lump was an animal or just something.

The night before, a German dog named Shep had come into the bar begging for potato chips. He was starving and just the size of the lump in the puddle. Why should a dog lie in a cold puddle in the freezing rain? I asked myself. The answer was simple: Either it wasn’t a dog, or it was, he was too weak to get up.

The wound in my right shoulder ached all the way down my fingers. I didn’t want to go out in the storm. Hey, it wasn’t my dog. It was just a stray on a cold rainy night, a lonely drifter (流浪者). So was I, I thought, as I tossed (扔) down what was left of my drink and headed out the door.

He was lying in the three inches of water. When I touched him, he didn’t move. I thought he was dead. I put my hands around his chest and raised him to his feet. He stood unsteadily, and his head hung like a weight at the end of his neck. His floppy ears were just hairless pieces of flesh dotted with open sores (伤口).

“Come on, Shep,” I said, leading him to a corner next to the bar, where he lay on the cold cement and closed his eyes. A block away I could see the lights of a late-night convenience store. It was still open. I bought three cans of dog food and fed him. He couldn’t swallow but poorly look at me. He was dying!

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The local vet (兽医) was still at his office, so I loaded the poor creature into a taxi and headed there.

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Three days later, when I opened the door of the vet’s, Shep welcomed me with wild enthusiasm.

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5 . 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。

Probably, most of you had the feeling before, at least once—you had been waiting for a long time, yet being afraid of getting. It was exactly my state of mind before the first day at college. I had been working hard to pass the necessary tests and have my application to the undergraduate programme in management approved. And when the time had come for me to visit the college for the first day of the study,I couldn't sleep all night because of being anxious about how to look good physically in front of the whole new world I was about to enter. However,the positive attitude and readiness to accept support from others helped a lot in a new environment.

It was Monday morning. Being too excited to sleep the night before, I came to the college half an hour earlier for the first lecture and was walking nervously through the hallway. About 15 minutes after I came, the hallway started to be full of students. Professors who walked on their business probably didn't pay attention to me. I knew which hall to go to and had already checked that it was open. However,I was hesitant to enter the hall and sit there alone. People were moving around me as if they hadn't seen me. I felt disappointed with the fact that I had nobody to talk to in the new and seemingly unfriendly place.

Suddenly,a well-dressed man who seemed to be in his late twenties approached me. He introduced himself as Mathews and asked whether I was lost and whether he could help me with anything.In that situation,I realized it was very kind of him and that he was exactly the person I wanted to ask in my thoughts a minute before, but then I was too nervous for a friendly chat. As a result, instead of welcoming the opportunity to make the first acquaintance （相识）, I told the man to mind his business and leave me alone since I was an adult capable of finding my class without anybody's assistance.

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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。

Luckily,the man didn't seem to be angry.

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Professor Mathews turned out to be an excellent speaker and the lecture went really well.

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6 . In life, do you choose to take the road everyone has taken, or do you choose the path that is best for you? It might be ________ to choose what everyone has done, especially if it seemed to work for them. But is that what truly ________ for you?

On a recent hiking ________, my partner and I decided to take a popular trail in the ________ direction. This was an old, well-traveled trail that people had been hiking and biking from A to Z for years. For our own reasons, we chose to travel from Z to A. Going backwards made more sense with my ________. The trip would take several days and going backwards ________ that I would end the trip closer to the airport for my flight home.

As my partner and I walked, everyone crossing our path had something to say, “You're going the wrong way. Are you lost? Are you returning ________ you forgot something? Are you crazy? The path occasionally crossed a ________. When it did, even passing cars beeped to ________ us in the “right” direction.

Why did people only see one way? Because that's what everyone does? Because that's how it's always been done? We even ________ to talk to a Danish woman who said, “We have a(n)       ________ in my country: when you go backwards to everyone else, it's because you're avoiding something.” I couldn't believe it. We were just enjoying connecting with nature, hiking the way that best ________ us. Had we gone the “wrong” way? No. At least, not for us.

I decided to ________ the path I chose. ________, we had an amazing experience. Choosing the “wrong” path was right for me. When your inner ________ tells you something is right (or wrong), listen to it. It's your instinct. It's speaking to you for a reason and it knows, better than anyone, what's best for you.

1.

A．anxious

B．normal

C．awkward

D．impressive

2.

A．designs

B．plans

C．works

D．prepares

3.

A．race

B．test

C．project

D．trip

4.

A．opposite

B．wrong

C．common

D．accessible

5.

A．emotion

B．target

C．schedule

D．request

6.

A．supposed

B．ensured

C．provided

D．permitted

7.

A．if

B．because

C．while

D．yet

8.

A．plain

B．valley

C．trail

D．highway

9.

A．point

B．inspire

C．protect

D．support

10.

A．expected

B．stopped

C．agreed

D．hesitated

11.

A．saying

B．point

C．myth

D．spell

12.

A．instructed

B．confused

C．offered

D．suited

13.

A．show off

B．think over

C．pick out

D．stick to

14.

A．Probably

B．Hopefully

C．Eventually

D．Knowingly

15.

A．desire

B．feeling

C．voice

D．reaction

7 . When I was a little boy, my parents and brothers would often play cards in the afternoons. It was a (n) ________ way to pass the time and after watching countless games, I started to ________. I was only five but I learned________ and was soon winning as often as I lost. When I started school, I found out the hours of playing cards had made me good with ________. I was getting full marks on my math tests until high school when I ________ they had a thing called Algebra   (代数) . I was ________to see letters mixed in with the numbers and I struggled to ________ it. Then one day I opened a Calculus (微积分) book. One look was all to know that I would not major in math.

Instead I found ________ studying literature, history, psychology, and philosophy, which all put me on a path that I am ________on today: it is a journey of learning all I can about life and________ . One thing I did learn was that love has its own unique math that isn’t logical yet makes________. In the Calculus of Love the more love you________, the more love you have. Sharing sorrows means subtracting (减去) them. Sharing________means multiplying them.

Love like life is often more than we can ________. But our soul can. May you choose it, share it, and learn it. Only then will your life add up ________.

1.

A．exact

B．valid

C．stable

D．merry

2.

A．join in

B．mark out

C．get through

D．break away

3.

A．hardly

B．quickly

C．normally

D．apparently

4.

A．dots

B．tests

C．versions

D．numbers

5.

A．discovered

B．indicated

C．observed

D．admitted

6.

A．excited

B．shocked

C．fascinated

D．associated

7.

A．adjust

B．seize

C．learn

D．obtain

8.

A．myself

B．it

C．me

D．itself

9.

A．already

B．yet

C．still

D．ever

10.

A．value

B．love

C．talent

D．skill

11.

A．effort

B．sense

C．progress

D．difference

12.

A．talk about

B．set aside

C．give away

D．hope for

13.

A．joys

B．ideas

C．dreams

D．feelings

14.

A．accept

B．hold

C．govern

D．understand

15.

A．fast

B．much

C．right

D．altogether

8 . I can remember once when I was just a little boy, I sat on a chair and watched as my mum painstakingly ______ a large, homemade quilt (被子). I looked over at one edge of the quilt being sewed and saw a piece of thread _______. Without thinking I reached over to ______ it.

“No!” yelled my mum. I jumped back. That was the first time I can ever remember her yelling at me. Seeing the ______ look on my face, she smiled and ______ showed me why she had yelled. That piece of thread ______ in and out, making its way from one end of the quilt to the other. If I had pulled it out, I might have torn the entire quilt and ______ hours of work.

As I look back on that ______ today, I can see that each of our lives is like that _______. We are all just a ______ string in the tapestry (挂毯) of life. We can’t always ______ where we are going or what we are connected to. If we pull ourselves out of it, we will leave a ______ in it.

Don’t feel lost in the tapestry of life then. Embrace your ______ in it. You may ______ be a single piece of thread but your love and your life help to ______ the whole thing together.

1.

A．sewed

B．ironed

C．folded

D．measured

2.

A．winding up

B．laid aside

C．sticking out

D．wrapped up

3.

A．curl

B．pull

C．tie

D．break

4.

A．depressed

B．disappointed

C．terrified

D．annoyed

5.

A．gently

B．reluctantly

C．roughly

D．eagerly

6.

A．wove

B．followed

C．ran

D．circled

7.

A．stopped

B．ruined

C．repaid

D．disturbed

8.

A．behavior

B．emotion

C．response

D．moment

9.

A．quilt

B．thread

C．scene

D．work

10.

A．special

B．strong

C．straight

D．single

11.

A．recall

B．believe

C．see

D．discuss

12.

A．blank

B．hole

C．line

D．mark

13.

A．change

B．weakness

C．power

D．place

14.

A．only

B．surely

C．still

D．even

15.

A．do

B．press

C．push

D．hold

9 . 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。

I was an impatient mother and frustration always kept me from enjoying life, until some strange insects came to my family.

It was Friday. We were having friends over for dinner, but Mike had to stay late at work. I was now on my own to get everything ready for the night. I could feel my frustration increasing as I drove to pick up Haydn and Michael from school. I rushed them into the car and told them that we were making a few stops before heading home, and that they needed to help me tidy the house. Both of them started complaining immediately. I turned and gave them fair warning that I was not in the mood to listen. For the next hour, I dragged the boys from one place to the next…

Just as we finished our last task, the boys reminded me that we needed to stop at the pet store to pick up crickets for their lizards. Fifteen minutes later, I pulled into the driveway with only forty-five minutes left to unpack the car, clean the house, and set the table before my guests arrived. How would I make it?

I started barking orders at the boys, but they were focused on pouring the crickets from the plastic bag into the top of their little cricket container. I just let off steam and yelled at them to hurry up.

I don’t really know how it happened, but the next time I looked up, one hundred crickets were jumping all over my kitchen…

My frustration exploded. I could feel myself about to start yelling in a way I rarely do. I watched my two sweet boys try anxiously to chase the crickets, screaming with laughter. Strangely, I felt something different.

In that split second, I realized I had two choices. Could I continue feeling annoyed and angry, or could I let go and enjoy this silly moment?

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I jumped off the chair and started chasing crickets with my boys.

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Our guests arrived and we had a wonderful dinner party.

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10 . My children and I were playing in our yard. The ball we were playing with accidentally ______. We would run out to get it first under ______ circumstances. But it isn't after the outbreak of a serious infectious(传染的) disease. ______, the country was put under strict lockdown and the physical ______ became a dangerous thing.

Considering people walking by, I went inside to get a mask and gloves to take a ______ outside, but before I could go out, an old man ______ the ball. Just as my kids began running to get it, I ______ them. I thanked him and asked him to just ______ it through the gate. The kids told me that the man showed clear ______ at my behavior. I reminded them why my behavior was ______.

As much as I want to ensure my kids to ______ themselves and others, this forced me to ______ how I can do so in a way that doesn't unknowingly teach them to treat people as ______. Thankfully, my children feel safe and loved ______ the many neighbors in our community that have been involved in raising them, ______ their values and sense of self. Despite having to stay home, we haven't been ______. For example, we have woken up to find food at the gate ______ by friends. Our kids left our extra fruits outside for people to take. It's not ______ a kind act. It's their way of creating new ______ in this special period.

Yes, sometimes we need to be ______ about getting back a ball, but it's vital to connect with people.

1.

A．passed by

B．disappeared

C．flew out

D．stuck

2.

A．normal

B．complex

C．familiar

D．certain

3.

A．Strangely

B．Suddenly

C．Luckily

D．Directly

4.

A．constitution

B．conflict

C．condition

D．connection

5.

A．chance

B．step

C．break

D．glance

6.

A．gave back

B．picked up

C．threw away

D．took out

7.

A．educated

B．punished

C．overlooked

D．stopped

8.

A．lift

B．carry

C．cast

D．pull

9.

A．puzzlement

B．regret

C．displeasure

D．shame

10.

A．necessary

B．positive

C．sincere

D．common

11.

A．balance

B．protect

C．comfort

D．respect

12.

A．reflect

B．assume

C．recognize

D．explain

13.

A．burden

B．challenge

C．model

D．threat

14.

A．because of

B．regardless of

C．but for

D．apart from

15.

A．testing

B．shaping

C．sharing

D．considering

16.

A．annoyed

B．impatient

C．alone

D．bored

17.

A．sold

B．promoted

C．abandoned

D．delivered

18.

A．even

B．just

C．ever

D．already

19.

A．projects

B．habits

C．lives

D．bonds

20.

A．anxious

B．courageous

C．cautious

D．curious