1 . 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。

Every summer, Jimmy’s beach restaurant receives lots of diving lovers from all over the   world. One day, an urgent call came in. A newly married woman, who had spent the afternoon at   the beach restaurant for her honeymoon, couldn’t find her wallet. Having turned the whole hotel room upside down, she realized the restaurant was the most likely place where she had lost it.

Near to a breakdown, she sobbed on the other end of the line, “I don’t care about my ID, credit cards, or $150 in cash, but my wedding ring is inside!”

Jimmy didn’t like the idea that a theft could have occurred at his place. So he set out to find   the wallet. He spent hours searching 16 different surveillance cameras (监控) watching the woman’s every step in the restaurant until she went to sit on a bench right outside and left when   her ride arrived. Soon, boy in rags approached the bench, shoved (乱塞) something in his   pocket, and walked off. Considering that the boy looked more of a kid than a criminal, Jimmy posted a video clip on the restaurant’s Facebook page and said, “I don’t want to punish him. I Just ask if anybody knows who the boy is.”

Within hours, Jimmy got a text from 14-year-old Tony, who’d heard about the post from his sister. Tony admitted having taken the wallet. So poor was his family that they hadn’t eaten in two days. Desperate and helpless, he took the wallet from the bench the moment he caught sight of it. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake, so he took the money and threw the wallet into the water. Then he bought some sandwiches for his family. Out of sympathy, Jimmy replied, “I see, but the ring means the world to the new couple. Where did you throw it off? Just tell me the exact spot.” However, there was no reply.

注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为100左右
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语
3. 续写部分分为两段, 每段的开头语已为你写好
4. 续写完成后, 请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:

The next day, outside the restaurant stood a boy, wet all over.

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Moved by his honesty, Jimmy decided to help him find the ring.

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2 . Many years ago, I met a man whose unique psychology helped me to get away from a life of struggle and uneasiness for great happiness, for peace of mind, and for a measure of success I otherwise would not have attained.

He was George Robert White, who lost his parents at eight, badly off for a long time. However, his God-given beliefs made him both a material and a spiritual millionaire at thirty. As a young man, Mr. White took over the leadership of a small plant, and throughout his career he donated a large part of his net profits to charity. Despite his unusual business practice, he built that tiny concern into a world-famous corporation, and became the multi-million-dollar manufacturer.

Before I met him, my path to success was the ordinary road over which most American businessmen travel—endless hours of hard work, social contacts, wise investments. But where was the resulting happiness that my material gain was supposed to have afforded me? I discovered that I had no more peace of mind.

I took the advice of Mr. White to open the pathway to happiness and freedom of mind. “Personal and business success, built upon materialism alone, are empty shells over disappointment and saddened lives,” he emphasized, “Cast your bread upon the waters and it will come back in abundance. ” If we are to be happy, to be successful in every aspect of the world, and to live truly full lives, we must share ourselves, as well as our material gain, with our fellow men.

Since Mr. White’s death, I have made great efforts, as his successor, to stick to his code of morality. Two dollars out of every three earned by our corporation is shared with others. My reward and my blessings have come to me in the form of personal satisfaction and peace of mind that had been foreign to me.

1. What was Mr. White’s unusual business practice?

A．His concern about the poor.

B．His leadership of a small plant

C．His way to deal with the net profits.

D．His becoming a millionaire at thirty.

2. How was the author’s life before he met Mr. White?

A．Busy and uneasy.

B．Wealthy and full.

C．Successful and happy.

D．Struggling and hopeful.

3. What was Mr. White’s advice?

A．Be a breadwinner.

B．Be ready to share.

C．Build personal reputation.

D．Seek material abundance.

4. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A．To call back his own life.

B．To introduce Mr. White’s lifestyle.

C．To show his concern about charity.

D．To express his gratitude to Mr. White.

3 . 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。

The Summer I Learned to Really See

It was a muggy(闷热)end-of-summer dog day in Missouri. I was preparing to go after the mail—about a mile's distance, through fields and forests, across a river, from our farmhouse, in which three generations of my family lived.

“Take the bucket with you,” my grandmother said, handing me the very familiar bucket.

“What for?” I asked, petulantly(使小性子). The berries had been picked, and it was too early for wild grapes, too late for roasting ears(穗).

“You'll find something to fill it with,” she said, her blue eyes sparkling with anticipation.

I didn't want to take the bucket. It would be a burden to me. Twice a day I'd carried a bucket for milking. With it I'd carried feed to the chickens, salt to the cows, sugar to the neighbors. I'd had enough with carrying with the bucket!

Nevertheless, I took the bucket. Halfway to the mailbox, I set it down beneath a pokeberry bush(胡桃树). I needn't carry it the whole way, I reasoned. There was no mail. When I got back to the bucket, I saw that a few ripe pokeberries had fallen into it. With childish ill humor, I picked off enough clusters(花串) to fill the bucket, even though I thought they were good for nothing.

“Aren't they just lovely!” Grandma exclaimed admiringly when I set them on the kitchen table. She squeezed out the juice of the berries and we used the lovely red ink to paint rings on our fingers and pen letters to distant cousins.

When I went to mail the letters the next day, Grandma again told me to take the bucket along. This time I carried the bucket a little farther than the previous day before setting it down. There was only a sale catalogue in the mail. When I got back to the bucket, I dropped it in. But I felt vaguely uncomfortable, remembering the pokeberries. I caught sight of a bunch of peppermint(薄荷) growing close to the path. Funny, I had passed it every day and never noticed it before. Peppermint just doesn't spring up overnight. I picked a bucketful, its fragrance seeming to cool the day. Grandma was pleased with the peppermint. She liked to chew it and make tea with it.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡上的相应位置作答。
The daily routine to take the bucket along was repeated for weeks, and I began to see more.
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One day when I went home, I didn't have anything in the bucket.
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4 . My family is still recovering from the rainy season of the past few years. It began with the untimely death of a friend, ________ by some major family changes. What’s worse, my teenaged stepson became seriously ill.

As anyone who has ________ a chronically（慢性的）sick child knows, the stress doesn’t go away. My husband and I were ________. Every day the air carried the ________ of an approaching storm.

One day, my stepson and I were discussing Valentine’s gifts—a kazoo（卡祖笛）. My first ________ to this gift was puzzlement, which quickly turned to ________ when, I, a pianist, couldn’t make a sound.

My stepson was ________. It turned out that someone on his school bus had been playing around with a kazoo that day. He wanted to see it.

“You couldn’t get a sound?” he asked. “What’s so ________ about it?”

I shrugged(耸肩). “ I don’t know. It ________ never worked.”

“It’s easy,” said my husband. He grabbed（抓住）it and blew. Nothing happened. ________, he tried again. No sound. His crazy ________ produced only a loud noise.

My stepson burst into laughter. His face ________ like that the first time in almost a year. Soon we were all laughing to the point of tears. It was the ________ 10 minutes in the past couple of years. This experience gave us a moment of ________. It showed us there’re still things to laugh at and enjoy, and that we can still ________ as a family.

1.

A．bothered

B．replaced

C．reflected

D．followed

2.

A．cared about

B．cheered on

C．approved of

D．attended to

3.

A．positive

B．guilty

C．exhausted

D．hesitant

4.

A．calmness

B．sweetness

C．heaviness

D．coolness

5.

A．imagination

B．attitude

C．assumption

D．reaction

6.

A．comfort

B．embarrassment

C．complaint

D．enjoyment

7.

A．interested

B．helpful

C．mild

D．allergic

8.

A．strange

B．challenging

C．different

D．flexible

9.

A．just

B．even

C．also

D．still

10.

A．Surprisedly

B．Anxiously

C．Upsettingly

D．Committedly

11.

A．experiment

B．attempt

C．experience

D．research

12.

A．turned up

B．came up

C．lit up

D．kept up

13.

A．saddest

B．best

C．freest

D．worst

14.

A．panic

B．adventure

C．relief

D．kindness

15.

A．operate

B．communicate

C．exist

D．connect

5 . I want to tell you three stories from my life. The first story is about connecting the _________. When I was at Reed College, it offered perhaps the best calligraphy _________ in the country. I decided to take a calligraphy class. At that time _________ of what I learned about calligraphy seemed to have even a(n) _________ of any practical application. But later when we were _________ the first Macintosh computer, it all _________ to me. And we put it all into the Mac. _________ you can only connect the dots looking backwards. But you have to trust that the dots will _________ connect in your future.

My second story is about love. I _________ Apple at twenty. And then at thirty, I got fired. __________ something slowly began to strike me - I still loved what I did. And so I __________ to start over. In a wonderful turn of __________, I returned to Apple. The only thing that kept me going was that I __________ what I did. So, if you haven't found what your interest, keep looking. Don't __________.

My third story is about death. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs __________, which is doctors' code for “prepare to __________.” Later it turned out to be curable (可治愈的) with surgery. I had the surgery and, __________, I am fine now. This was the __________ I've been to facing death. Having __________ it, I can now say this to you: Your time is limited, so don't __________ it living someone else's life.

1.

A．signals

B．skills

C．dots

D．elements

2.

A．instruction

B．indication

C．exploration

D．operation

3.

A．each

B．some

C．much

D．none

4.

A．hope

B．lack

C．intention

D．idea

5.

A．offering

B．designing

C．selecting

D．pursuing

6.

A．came back

B．handed over

C．led up

D．threw forward

7.

A．By accident

B．Of course

C．In that case

D．As a result

8.

A．instead

B．otherwise

C．somehow

D．thus

9.

A．imagined

B．desired

C．admitted

D．started

10.

A．But

B．So

C．Or

D．Even

11.

A．refused

B．decided

C．tended

D．promised

12.

A．dilemma

B．atmosphere

C．events

D．procedures

13.

A．suited

B．loved

C．entrusted

D．featured

14.

A．escape

B．fade

C．ignore

D．settle

15.

A．in return

B．in despair

C．in case

D．in order

16.

A．fight

B．set off

C．die

D．figure out

17.

A．thankfully

B．significantly

C．oddly

D．definitely

18.

A．most scared

B．dearest

C．most unwilling

D．closest

19.

A．carried on

B．lived through

C．headed to

D．passed away

20.

A．intend

B．permit

C．waste

D．lose

6 . Fatima grew up in rural Gohr Province, where there was no schooling available to girls. But she insisted on listening to BBC radio, which she could ________ when high enough in the hills.

“My sisters were forced to get married. I decided that I would not continue in their ________. That was why I decided to ________,” Fatima says.

She joined Facebook groups for history fans. ________ of people who only related Afghanistan to conflicts, Fatima started writing ________ about places that foreigners might not know about. Fatima started getting ________ from online friends. A man reached out to her saying he was going to be________ in Afghanistan and asking whether she was interested in showing him around in Herat. She said yes. Later, he recommended her to someone else and ________ Fatima came to the attention of a travel agency. The company ________ her in late 2020, and she became her country’s first female ________ tour guide.

Of course, being a ________ is never easy. Fatima says many people have told her that it’s too dangerous for a woman to work, especially if it means ________ with men one-on-one. Fatima says that the ________ of her employers and the people she has met through giving tours is what keeps her ________. There’s also the implication（暗示）of what could happen if she does________:“If I give up, then other women will never start.”

1.

A．take up

B．pick up

C．turn up

D．build up

2.

A．life

B．choice

C．tradition

D．business

3.

A．work

B．live

C．study

D．travel

4.

A．Afraid

B．Convinced

C．Certain

D．Tired

5.

A．posts

B．letters

C．novels

D．speeches

6.

A．responses

B．donation

C．lessons

D．guidance

7.

A．teaching

B．settling

C．travelling

D．serving

8.

A．similarly

B．obviously

C．hopefully

D．eventually

9.

A．promoted

B．instructed

C．hired

D．trained

10.

A．intelligent

B．devoted

C．efficient

D．professional

11.

A．researcher

B．pioneer

C．specialist

D．celebrity

12.

A．playing

B．interacting

C．exploring

D．cooperating

13.

A．support

B．patience

C．protection

D．contribution

14.

A．refreshed

B．recognized

C．informed

D．motivated

15.

A．relax

B．skip

C．quit

D．insist

7 . 语法填空

It seems inhuman to care more about a building than about people. That the sight of the Notre Dame's     1    (go)up in flames has attracted more attention than floods in southern Africa which killed over 1,000 has aroused understandable feelings of guilt. Yet the widespread sorrow is     2    (definite)human—and in a particularly 21st-century way.

It is not just the economy that is       3    (globe)today, it is culture too. People wander the world in search not just of jobs and       4    (secure)but also of beauty and history. Familiarity breeds affection. A building     5     whose sunny steps you have rested or in front of which you       6    (take)a selfie with your loved one, becomes a warm part of your memory. That helps explain why the whole world is in deep sorrow.

However, the emotions are less about the building itself than about     7     losing it might mean. Notre Dame is an expression of humanity, having experienced 850 years of political turbulence(动荡)—through war, revolution and Nazi occupation.

And it will be rebuilt. It will never be the same, but that is as it should be.     8     Victor Hugo wrote in The Hunchback of Notre Dame,     9     three-volume love-letter to the cathedral: “Great buildings are the work of centuries. Art     10    (transform)as it is being made. Time is the architect; the nation is the builder.”