1 . Christmastime is generally thought of as joyful. But 40 years ago, it was a ______ time for my wife, Geri, and me. Both of us were about to lose our ______. I was an educator and Geri was a psychologist. To make matters ______, we had loans (贷款) on two houses-at a time when interest rates hovered (徘徊) at 16%. We wanted to ______ one of our houses, but the sale ______ at the last minute.

A place to call ______ looked extremely hopeless for us. Yet we ______ to celebrate Christmas in our new house before we faced the terrible ______ of becoming homeless. So we did something crazy: We ______ a Christmas tree.

It was an artificial tree—the ______ we could find at the local store. I ______ we spent just $11 or $12 on it. It looked ______ with nothing on it, which is only what you would expect from such an inexpensive ______. But it didn’t look half bad when it was fully ______.

Perhaps it gave us good ______. Our job situation turned around, making it ______ for us to keep our new house after all. We ______ put up the tree every year. Friends have advised us to ______ it. But our daughters, who know its ______, insist that we keep it.

Today, the tree is a reminder of our ______ beginnings in our present home-the same one where it first stood up 40 years ago.

1.

A．confusing

B．difficult

C．embarrassing

D．annoying

2.

A．chances

B．hopes

C．jobs

D．lives

3.

A．easier

B．further

C．less

D．worse

4.

A．rent

B．sell

C．build

D．donate

5.

A．fell through

B．went through

C．fell behind

D．went down

6.

A．home

B．heaven

C．office

D．palace

7.

A．refused

B．hesitated

C．decided

D．supposed

8.

A．process

B．progress

C．result

D．practice

9.

A．bought

B．planted

C．found

D．borrowed

10.

A．biggest

B．heaviest

C．prettiest

D．cheapest

11.

A．realize

B．remember

C．wonder

D．imagine

12.

A．pitiful

B．grateful

C．joyful

D．powerful

13.

A．gift

B．theme

C．topic

D．object

14.

A．equipped

B．polished

C．decorated

D．deserted

15.

A．choice

B．luck

C．support

D．reward

16.

A．hard

B．necessary

C．urgent

D．possible

17.

A．still

B．again

C．also

D．even

18.

A．hide

B．remove

C．repair

D．improve

19.

A．record

B．quality

C．history

D．function

20.

A．potential

B．guilt

C．illegal

D．hard

2 . After decades of married life, I realized that my life was limited, and even having friends frightened me. To ease my anxiety, my husband and I explored the Blue Ridge Mountains about an hour’s ride from home. We chose a path only a couple of miles long. The process of putting one foot in front of the other started to ease my worried soul. Being with nature slowed down my racing mind. Up and down the path we went. The trees gently swayed in the wind as we enjoyed views of valleys below us.

I knew this was my way to heal. I found the Internet site Meetup, picked a group and signed up for a five-mile hike in Shenandoah National Park. All my worries came into play when meeting the hiking group. The fifteen hikers, at least ten years younger than me, started slowly, crossing many little streams on rocks. I enjoyed the tour but struggled to keep up. After a half-mile, my steps got into the rhythm. I felt a part of all that surrounded me.

I have been actively hiking since that day, walking thousands of miles, with several worn pairs of hiking boots to prove it. With my fellow hikers, I climbed Mount Le Conte at 6,593 feet. It was a challenging hike, but I made it.

I have hiked the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland with five other women, through more than a hundred miles of green hills and valleys filled with baby sheep and their mothers. I’m fortunate to have the Blue Ridge Mountains nearby. Before the pandemic, I backpacked on the AppalachianTrail, falling short of my 100-mile goal but enjoying it. I met hikers along the way, camping next to them and listening to their determination to hike the entire 2,200 miles.

I don’t intend to give up being one with nature outdoors anytime soon. We all are responsible for our peace and happiness.

1. What made the author less worried at the mountain path?

A．Closely following her husband.

B．Choosing a path near her home.

C．Taking a walk outdoors in nature.

D．Racing with the wind in the trees.

2. How did the author feel upon meeting the hiking group?

A．Worried.	B．Energetic.
C．Confident.	D．Excited.

3. What did the author fail to do on the Appalachian Trail?

A．Travel with backpack before the pandemic.

B．Keep her boots to prove her ability.

C．Plan the hiking route of 2 ,200 miles.

D．Finish the 100-mile goal along the trail.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Outdoor Life Is Beneficial

B．The Mountains Are Calling

C．I Learned to Face My Worries

D．Nature Is Our Best Friend

3 . Malaysia Airlines(马航) flight MH370 disappeared from radar(雷达) screens an hour after it   _________ on March 8 . It has _________ for more than 2 years.

The plane may fall into the sea. China, Malaysia and many other countries have joined to search for the _________ on the sea. The relatives of the 227 passengers and 12 crew(机组人员) are _________ good news from them.

How did the accident   _________? It is said that the plane was attacked by the terrorists. Some think there may be something wrong with the plane, and_________think the accident may be _________ by the mistake of the crew. However, it is _________ to tell the reason because the plane hasn’t been found yet.

It may _________ some time to find the missing plane and even more time to get to get to know the truth of what happened. However, we can’t stop __________ what happened to the plane __________ it is found.

Whether the missing plane is found __________ not, the whole world should __________ more attention to the safety of people, especially at airports.

We hope these people on the plane will be __________ , and they can get together with __________ family members.

1.

A．took up

B．took off

C．took in

D．took away

2.

A．found

B．missed

C．flown

D．seen

3.

A．ship

B．terrorists

C．plane

D．Chinese

4.

A．talking about

B．listening to

C．waiting for

D．hearing

5.

A．take

B．go

C．come

D．happen

6.

A．the other

B．the others

C．other

D．others

7.

A．given

B．met

C．tried

D．caused

8.

A．wise

B．easy

C．hard

D．hardly

9.

A．spend

B．waste

C．get

D．take

10.

A．to imagine

B．imagining

C．imagined

D．imagines

11.

A．as soon as

B．after

C．until

D．before

12.

A．nor

B．so

C．or

D．and

13.

A．make

B．made

C．pay

D．paid

14.

A．safe

B．dangerous

C．friendly

D．bad

15.

A．his

B．its

C．my

D．their

4 . Many years ago, I bought a house in the Garfagnana, where we still go every summer. The first time we ______ there, we heard the chug chug-chug of a motorbike ______ its way down the hill toward us. It was ______ called Mario, coming to ______ us a box containing some tomatoes and a bottle of wine. It was a very nice ______ for him to make. But when we looked at the tomatoes, we were ______ because they were so misshapen: not at all like the nice, round, ______ things you get in a supermarket. And the wine was cloudy, in a funny old bottle with no label (标签) on it. These can’t be any ______, we thought. But we were ______ his kindness, so we ______ them.

What we discovered is that it’s ______ to judge what you eat only by its ______. Those tomatoes had ______ that reminded me of the ones my uncle used to grow when I was a child. Nowadays supermarket tomatoes ______ perfect but taste of water. Nobody’s going to have a ______ memory of those. It’s a surprise they haven’t managed to grow square ones so that they can ______ them easily. Mario’s wine may have been cloudy and come out of an old bottle, but it was ______.

It’s good to eat things at the correct time, when they’re ______, and as close as possible to where they were ______. What Mario had ______ us was the taste of the Garfagnana.

1.

A．waited

B．met

C．camped

D．stayed

2.

A．making

B．searching

C．squeezing

D．feeling

3.

A．customer

B．neighbor

C．relative

D．passenger

4.

A．lend

B．send

C．bring

D．show

5.

A．choice

B．comment

C．promise

D．gesture

6.

A．worried

B．moved

C．thrilled

D．bored

7.

A．simple

B．real

C．shiny

D．fun

8.

A．more

B．good

C．new

D．easy

9.

A．sympathetic to

B．thankful for

C．cautious about

D．interested in

10.

A．tried

B．sold

C．returned

D．mixed

11.

A．unnecessary

B．uncertain

C．unwise

D．unusual

12.

A．appearance

B．quality

C．origin

D．price

13.

A．size

B．shape

C．color

D．taste

14.

A．smell

B．look

C．become

D．work

15.

A．happy

B．vivid

C．short

D．vague

16.

A．clean

B．check

C．count

D．pack

17.

A．perfect

B．useful

C．convenient

D．familiar

18.

A．on view

B．on sale

C．in season

D．in need

19.

A．finished

B．stored

C．found

D．grown

20.

A．cooked

B．given

C．bought

D．told

5 . Attitude actually is mental energy and from the moment you awake in the morning until you fall asleep at night, you are continuously producing this mental energy, or attitude. There is never a time when you can have a neutral attitude. Your attitude right now is either positive or negative.

Your attitude determines your altitude. For example, as a plane is in the air, it has an altitude indicator. The indicator tells the pilot in which direction the plane is going, up or down. Just like the plane, you too have an altitude indicator and you’re the pilot of your plane. The feeling that you gain when something is wrong or what you are doing is not right serves as your altitude indicator. We all have an attitude to our thinking which determines our destiny.

In fact, attitude is a matter of choice. It determines the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we face new challenges and the thing is, no one can control your attitude but you. No one can make us angry. We make ourselves angry when we give in to that control of our attitude and when people do things to anger us. All it does is put our attitude to the tests. We have that choice every morning of what kind of attitude we are going to have for the rest of the day.

Attitude is everything. To begin with every problem is an adventure. To fall, rise and try again is what we call adventure and that’s the real fun of life. Failure is not a bad thing but another chance for success. Dreaming of becoming successful is not enough. There’ ll be a lot of things you hate doing, but you have to do them all and that’s a success.

With a positive attitude, you’ll have the ability to be happier every day, make others around you happier, and live a good life.

1. What does the author want to stress with the example in Paragraph 2?

A．Attitude’s role in people’s future development.

B．The importance of pilots ‘ feelings in flight.

C．People’s correct judgement of their life direction.

D．The application of altitude indicators in various fields.

2. What are people doing when they try to anger us according to the author?

A．They’re trying to control our feeling.	B．They’re testing our attitude.
C．They’ re challenging our bottom line.	D．They’ re reminding us of possible failure.

3. What does the author think of the adventure in life?

A．Dangerous and tiring.	B．Annoying and understandable.
C．Difficult but meaningful.	D．Exciting and necessary.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．How to achieve a positive attitude?	B．How is attitude formed?
C．What is attitude?	D．What’s the power of a positive attitude?

6 . 阅读下面材料，在 空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

My father and I had a big argument. We avoided     1    (see) each other recently. But last Tuesday I decided to tell my father I loved him. The next morning I got up early. I was so excited     2    I could hardly sleep. At 9 a. m. I called my dad.     3    he answered the phone, I said, “Dad, can I come over after work tonight? I have something     4    (tell) you.” My dad answered angrily, “Now what?”

I told him it wouldn’t take long, so he     5    (final) agreed. At 5:30 p. m. , I was ringing the doorbell at my parents’ house. Dad     6    (answer) the door. I took one step and said, “Dad, I just come over to tell you that I love you. ” After my father heard the words, he hugged me and said, “l love you too, son,     7    I’ve never been able to say it.” It was such     8    great moment that I didn’t want to move. After a while I left. Two days after that visit, my dad, who had heart     9    (problem), passed away.

So my advice for all of you     10    (be): Don’t wait to do the things that need to be done now.

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

One week or so ago, I had hot pot with one of my     1     (colleague) after a night class. We were enjoying the delicious food and chatting happily     2     a woman approached our table.     3     (feel) bothered and interrupted by a seemingly beggar I didn’t intend to offer her a response at first, because she was so young that I believed she should work to make     4     living instead of begging.

To my surprise, she showed me a box of native incense (焚香), and was very enthusiastic     5     persuading me to buy     6    . I felt she was truly     7     (respectable) than before. She charged 50 yuan and we bargained with each other. Finally we reached an agreement     8     I could buy the incense at the price of 45 yuan.

At the instant of paying the bill on We-chat, I     9     (hesitate) and eventually typed 5 and 0 in the blank. The lady gave the incense to me politely and left. Several seconds later, she came back and thanked me     10     (constant) with a smile lightening her face. “It’s your self-dependence that matters.” I responded to her sincerely.

8 . I looked out of the door of my 100 year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of_________and appreciation.

I_________to look at the things that we usually think of as_________—plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we_________. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the_________of being reused as long as we try to_________it. And I explored the worth of_________. I mean recycling isn't just about_________rubbish like putting glass and paper in_________bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn__________by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn't__________with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new__________with moving boxes and put up a__________saying, ''Dump（倾倒）leaves here". I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors__________the leaves in the new garden and I also watered the leaves__________with rainwater and collected dogs' waste as fertilizer, Then I__________flower seeds. Finally, I had a new__________garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really__________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little__________for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into__________, the world will be a much better place.

1.

A．joy

B．sympathy

C．doubt

D．regret

2.

A．refused

B．hesitated

C．liked

D．started

3.

A．wealth

B．garbage

C．investments

D．necessities

4.

A．packed up

B．brought up

C．threw away

D．gave away

5.

A．value

B．request

C．confusion

D．consequence

6.

A．own

B．find

C．forget

D．lose

7.

A．collecting

B．recovering

C．recycling

D．competing

8.

A．sorting

B．picking

C．spotting

D．recording

9.

A．uniform

B．broken

C．limitless

D．separate

10.

A．fruit

B．rice

C．leaves

D．vegetables

11.

A．compare

B．deal

C．communicate

D．fit

12.

A．platform

B．garden

C．picture

D．schedule

13.

A．building

B．tent

C．sign

D．show

14.

A．piled

B．polished

C．decorated

D．cleaned

15.

A．unwillingly

B．hardly

C．seriously

D．casually

16.

A．submitted

B．sowed

C．removed

D．reserved

17.

A．smelly

B．annoying

C．imaginary

D．attractive

18.

A．useless

B．careless

C．priceless

D．defenseless

19.

A．pleasant

B．vivid

C．violent

D．disgusting

20.

A．trouble

B．treasure

C．terror

D．trade

9 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.

1.

A．rich

B．strong

C．clever

D．busy

2.

A．hard

B．easy

C．different

D．ordinary

3.

A．always

B．often

C．never

D．sometimes

4.

A．also

B．thus

C．ever

D．still

5.

A．work

B．move

C．study

D．play

6.

A．healthy

B．sick

C．foolish

D．wise

7.

A．brothers

B．friends

C．children

D．relatives

8.

A．showed

B．taught

C．visited

D．called

9.

A．lost

B．hidden

C．planted

D．put

10.

A．harvest

B．find

C．buy

D．use

11.

A．leave

B．travel

C．die

D．disappear

12.

A．look at

B．look out

C．look after

D．look for

13.

A．relief

B．money

C．water

D．food

14.

A．gold

B．silver

C．oil

D．coal

15.

A．dug

B．piled

C．operated

D．searched

16.

A．advised

B．asked

C．followed

D．doubted

17.

A．loved

B．cared

C．understood

D．cheated

18.

A．gardening

B．fishing

C．building

D．farming

19.

A．roots

B．stones

C．fields

D．pipes

20.

A．farmers

B．workers

C．fishers

D．builders

10 . We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that often times seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus, we are sometimes affected by_______or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember I had_______with anxiety.

After graduating from university, I made friends with the Moroccan woman at work. One day, she invited me to visit her and her family back home. I wanted to; _______ , for a girl who had never been out of the UK alone in the past 23 years, it meant that I would have to travel in a very _______area by myself for the first time in my life. Could I really make it?

Then one day it _______ to me that I had a life to live. Indeed, I could choose to give in to these awful concerns. There was always a sense of fear overwhelming from the bottom of my heart and still to that moment _______I made up my mind to go to Morocco and feel something totally _______.

I remember how good it felt the minute I set foot in Morocco.

_______ arrival, my friend’s family arranged a(n) _______ welcome party and everyone was so loving toward me. Such a moment of love felt in a distant rural village ________ me that I was “good enough” or I deserved to be treated like a star, which ________ helped to relieve my anxiety.

It was after I woke up the next day, in the morning light, that I was ________by how underdeveloped the area was—and the realization that these people had very few ________. Electronic items like smart phones, computer games are nearly ________to be found.

In the days afterwards, under the guidance of my friend, I traveled around Morocco, ________ the rivers, mountains and the amazing food(most of them were new to me). It seemed that I had never felt so ________ to nature as well as the people around me before.

At the end of my stay, something ________ me changed. From dawn to dusk, I was immersed in a sense of delight ________ depression for nearly two weeks.

That trip helped me to find out what really ________ in life. And with that, all my worries disappeared. When I returned home I was much more active in challenging my anxiety. More importantly, helping others ________ their anxiety is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.

1.

A．awareness

B．fears

C．loneliness

D．mess

2.

A．argued

B．negotiated

C．dealt

D．struggled

3.

A．however

B．otherwise

C．meanwhile

D．therefore

4.

A．modern

B．unknown

C．mysterious

D．remote

5.

A．thought

B．replied

C．occurred

D．struck

6.

A．when

B．that

C．since

D．as

7.

A．dynamic

B．dangerous

C．dizzy

D．different

8.

A．Before

B．Against

C．Upon

D．Within

9.

A．adventurous

B．generous

C．enormous

D．poisonous

10.

A．reminded

B．expected

C．indicated

D．comforted

11.

A．seriously

B．extremely

C．firmly

D．actually

12.

A．shocked

B．disappointed

C．embarrassed

D．delighted

13.

A．friends

B．difficulties

C．resources

D．lands

14.

A．anywhere

B．somewhere

C．everywhere

D．nowhere

15.

A．entertaining

B．exploring

C．examing

D．exploiting

16.

A．attached

B．related

C．associated

D．beyond

17.

A．above

B．from

C．inside

D．with

18.

A．other than

B．regardless of

C．rather than

D．ahead of

19.

A．contributes

B．matters

C．dominates

D．exists

20.

A．drop

B．overcome

C．notice

D．pass