1 . Right now I’m the age my parents were when they had the third baby. Unlike them, I don’t have any kids to feed, I don’t have a mortgage to pay, and luckily I have a higher income. In an outsider’s opinion, I should be very_________, but in fact I’m not. Here’s why.

Money is always a_________ thing. You think that by having it you’ll be happy.

Once you start making some and_________ it’s not making you happy, you think maybe it’s because you don’t have enough. So you exchange your_________ for money, sometimes working at a job you don’t even like to make more_________. As time goes on, you realize you’ve been spending more and more time at_________.You fail to keep a(n) _________ between work and family. Friends wonder why you don’t_________ them anymore. As you get a higher position, you feel more_________ than you did before. You find you don’t __________ so well anymore. As a result, your health begins to fail. Also, the cost of keeping up with a higher quality of life is starting to__________ and you’re not making as much as you__________ you would be. At the same time, you are worried about__________ the few friends you have because you’re earning more money than they are. Workmates think you earn very much and that you must be happy. If only that were__________.

Only you can__________ your happiness; money can’t buy that for you.

1.

A．happy

B．confident

C．grateful

D．independent

2.

A．poor

B．funny

C．necessary

D．good

3.

A．realize

B．announce

C．imagine

D．hope

4.

A．power

B．place

C．time

D．mood

5.

A．moves

B．efforts

C．money

D．progress

6.

A．home

B．peace

C．ease

D．work

7.

A．connection

B．agreement

C．balance

D．difference

8.

A．welcome

B．like

C．call

D．believe

9.

A．stressed

B．important

C．successful

D．fearful

10.

A．prepare

B．sleep

C．understand

D．learn

11.

A．slow down

B．hold on

C．come about

D．add up

12.

A．thought

B．promised

C．knew

D．asked

13.

A．consulting

B．meeting

C．shocking

D．losing

14.

A．useful

B．true

C．normal

D．popular

15.

A．gather

B．control

C．limit

D．express

3 . 读后续写

George was so excited he could hardly wait to get to the store. He walked so fast that his sister Beth had to run. “Do you have to hurry like that?” she puffed. On his way from school he had seen that baseball cap in Rogers’ store window. Only a dollar and this was the last cap! George had looked at the cap a long time. He wanted it more than anything. Every boy at school had one.

George thought of his piggy hank, into which he put every coin for running errands (差使) for his family and neighbors.

George raced home, not stopping for anything. He held the fat iron pig, opened it carefully, and poured out the coins. Ten...twenty...thirty...ninety cents. If only he had one more dime (一角硬币)!

Lost in thought, George stared out the window. “What’s wrong, George?” asked Mother George told about the money and the cap. “If you give me what you have, I’ll add a dime,” Mother said, handing him a dollar bill.

George jumped up. “Oh, thanks, Mom. That’s great!” George gave all his coins to Mother and took the dollar bill. And away went George and Beth to the store with the dollar bill in George’s pocket.

They turned the last comer. Ahead was a group of boys and girls, talking heatedly and looking down at the sidewalk.

One of the children was Ronny, a new boy who had been in this town only a short time. Ronny’s father had been sick, so there wasn’t much money for extras - like baseball cap.

“What’s the matter?” Beth asked, anxiously.

“It’s Ronny,” answered one of them. “He’s been working and finally saved up a whole dollar, and now it’s lost!”

George went over to Ronny.

“We’ll all help look. We’ll find it!”

“I was going to get that last cap in Rogers’ window. I wanted it a lot. With that cap, I could join them.” Ronny said slowly.

Suddenly George remembered how Ronny had watched the fellows playing baseball, his eyes lighting up eagerly as they shouted and ran.

注意:
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。

George stared at the ground, thinking hard.

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Forcing a smile, George showed Beth the empty pocket.

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4 . 阅读下面短文, 根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段, 使之构成一个完整的故事。

I was sixteen years old and I loved music very much. I was dying to buy an album by my favourite band. However, the pocket money my parents gave me was just enough to get by. I didn’t have any extra money to buy the album (音乐专辑), which made me disappointed.

Luckily, I found that there were many opportunities for part-time work in my neighbourhood. There were so many old people who needed help. So, in order to buy the album I wanted, I decided to find a part-time job to earn money.

I chose the oldest person I knew, Mrs. Hudson, who was over eighty years old, and could not tend her garden anymore. She had flowers, a grass lawn, and some tomato plants. I knocked on her door, trying to build up enough courage to ask her for work. Fortunately, she answered that she indeed needed help in her garden.

That was a really hot summer day. My first job was to pull out weeds. I got down on my knees and began to pull them out one by one. The task was tiring and boring, and I soon became really tired. However, thinking of the album I wanted, I gathered all my energy and kept moving.

“If only I had a portable electric fan (便携式电风扇)!” I said to myself, wiping the sweat from my face. After several hours of hard work, I was paid ten dollars. It was less than I thought, but it was enough for the album.

After getting that ten dollars, I couldn’t wait to go to the supermarket to buy my favourite album. I believed it would be a memorable moment when I was able to buy what I liked through my efforts.

On the way to the supermarket, I was singing a song excitedly when I happened to see my mother who was working on the opposite side of the road. Actually, I had never seen how she worked before; I just knew she was a saleswoman.

注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2. 续写部分分为两段, 每段开头语已为你写好.
Paragraph 1:

My mother was handing out leaflets (传单) to passers-by.

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Paragraph 2:

I continued making my way to the supermarket.

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7 . I teach economics at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday，at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my students how their _________ had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so good. He had his wisdom teeth _________. The young man then proceeded to ask me why I always seemed to be so _________.

His question _________ me of something I’d read somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about how you want to _________ life that day.” I said, “I choose to be cheerful.”

“Let me give you an example,” I continued, addressing all sixty students in the class. “In addition to teaching here at UNLV, I also teach out at the community college in Henderson, 17 miles down the _________ from where I live. One day a few weeks ago, I drove those 17 miles to Henderson. I exited the freeway and turned onto College Drive. I only had to drive _________ quarter mile down the road to the college. But just then my car died. I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn’t _________. So I put my flashers on, _________ my books, and marched down the road to the college.

“As soon as I got there I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck to meet me at my car after class. The __________ in the Provost’s office asked me what had happened. “This is my lucky day,” I smiled. She was puzzled.

“My car broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway, within walking distance of here. If my car was __________ to break down today, it couldn’t have been arranged in a more __________ fashion,” I added. The secretary’s eyes opened wide, and then she smiled. I smiled back and __________ for class. So ended my story.

I scanned the sixty faces in my economics class at UNLV. Despite the early hour, no one seemed to be __________. Somehow, my story had touched them. Or maybe it wasn’t the story at all. In fact, it had all started with a student’s __________ that I was cheerful.

1.

A．weekend

B．task

C．sleep

D．class

2.

A．planted

B．removed

C．abandoned

D．brightened

3.

A．grateful

B．thoughtful

C．cheerful

D．delightful

4.

A．satisfied

B．warned

C．informed

D．reminded

5.

A．sustain

B．approach

C．lengthen

D．enjoy

6.

A．street

B．district

C．path

D．freeway

7.

A．another

B．other

C．extra

D．certain

8.

A．turn out

B．turn into

C．turn over

D．turn away

9.

A．left

B．grabbed

C．covered

D．hid

10.

A．secretary

B．consultant

C．assistant

D．minister

11.

A．thought

B．supposed

C．committed

D．meant

12.

A．valid

B．considerable

C．intentional

D．convenient

13.

A．headed

B．inspected

C．saw

D．panicked

14.

A．alike

B．asleep

C．active

D．available

15.

A．faith

B．proposal

C．observation

D．emphasis

10 . “Today I will give you a special test,” said the English teacher with a smile on his face.

All the students set up straight and ________ for the test to begin. The teacher began to ________ the test papers to all the students. ________ he finished handing out the test papers, he asked them to begin.

The students were very ________ to see that there was not a question but a black dot (圆点) in the centre of the paper. The teacher ________ the students’ surprise and said, “I want you to ________ about what you see there.”

At the end of the class, the teacher took all the students’ answer sheets (答题纸) and read the answers. ________ of them described the black dot. After reading all the answers, the teacher said, “Here everyone only paid attention to the black dot, ________ no one wrote about the white paper.” The whole class listened ________, because they were afraid to fail in the exam.

Then the teacher said, “Don’t worry about your ________ for this test. I just want you to think about our life. The white paper is like our whole life and the black dot in the centre of the paper ________ problems in our daily life.”

Our life is a ________ given to us by God, with love and care. Still, we just pay attention to the problems like ________ and poverty, and never see that these problems are very ________ compared to everything else we have in our life.

So we should try to take our eye off our problems and ________ each moment life gives us.

1.

A．searched

B．looked

C．called

D．waited

2.

A．e-mail

B．sell

C．give

D．throw

3.

A．After

B．Before

C．Until

D．While

4.

A．happy

B．surprised

C．excited

D．sad

5.

A．forgot

B．remembered

C．noticed

D．hated

6.

A．talk

B．write

C．hear

D．answer

7.

A．All

B．None

C．Some

D．Many

8.

A．because

B．although

C．if

D．but

9.

A．angrily

B．silently

C．happily

D．fast

10.

A．presents

B．grades

C．suggestions

D．tasks

11.

A．helps

B．finds

C．represents

D．solves

12.

A．gift

B．problem

C．moment

D．door

13.

A．illnesses

B．surprise

C．happiness

D．pains

14.

A．serious

B．big

C．small

D．important

15.

A．refuse

B．stop

C．waste

D．enjoy