1 . Sharon, in her mid-sixties, has been coming to the adult swim class from the first day I started working at the pool. While everyone else in the class ________ their favorite stroke (泳姿), swimming lazily back and forth, Sharon and I steal a (n) ________of the pool to work on her biggest ________, the back float. Try after try she would either roll over onto her ________, or sink to bottom like a rock.

“Don’t worry,” I’d always say to her, “You’ll ________it one day.” She would always ________at me, dreaming that one day she would ________   be able to do the task that she had been working so hard on for almost two years.

One Saturday, half of the ________had gone by when I heard my name being called. “Matt,” she________across the pool, arm whipping back and forth trying to get my attention, “Watch this!” It was one of the most ________ sights I have ever seen. Sharon was lying back on the water, arms and legs spread out, ________. As she lay there for a ________ ten seconds, face above the water, a disbelieving laugh ________ her body.

Even though Sharon had been working on such a ________ thing for almost two years, she had taught me that no amount of ________ could replace patience, willpower and hard work.

1.

A．works on

B．prepares for

C．decides on

D．registers for

2.

A．corner

B．ticket

C．entrance

D．center

3.

A．regret

B．strength

C．victory

D．challenge

4.

A．surface

B．front

C．back

D．legs

5.

A．get

B．see

C．try

D．put

6.

A．stare

B．smile

C．come

D．whisper

7.

A．temporarily

B．patiently

C．finally

D．gradually

8.

A．presentation

B．labor

C．introduction

D．class

9.

A．traveled

B．ran

C．marched

D．shouted

10.

A．beautiful

B．relaxing

C．romantic

D．demanding

11.

A．floating

B．swinging

C．sinking

D．struggling

12.

A．random

B．curious

C．strong

D．dull

13.

A．burned

B．escaped

C．dropped

D．built

14.

A．rare

B．tough

C．simple

D．great

15.

A．energy

B．skill

C．determination

D．belief

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。
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。

These days, Marathon des Sables runners carry a GPS tracking device and helicopters monitor their path to make sure no one gets lost, but when Mauro, a police officer, participated for the first time in 1994, there were no such safeguards in place. When you’re running through the largest desert on Earth, one wrong turn can cost you your life. Mauro Prosperi did just that during the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultramarathon that many regard as the toughest foot race in the world.

The race was almost 156 miles long, taking runners across sand dunes (沙丘) with few natural sources of water. Temperatures in the Sahara could reach as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and each runner carried over 20 pounds of food, water, and emergency supplies on their backs. Most of these runners wouldn’t end up finishing the race, which was about the same length as six regular marathons.

That was how, on the fourth and longest days of the race, the runner Mauro encountered a severe sandstorm that turned him around and sent him wildly off course.

He spent eight hours waiting out the storm, huddled in a sand dune. The next morning, he expected to see rescuers heading his way. Instead, all he saw was desert in all directions. “After running for about for hours, I climbed up a dune and still couldn’t see anything,” he said. “That’s when I knew I had a big problem.”

A search party was organized to find Mauro, but rescuers had no idea he had been so far off course. Twice a helicopter circled over his head, and twice they didn’t see him wildly waving at them from below. He sent up his only flare (照明弹) and even set his backpack on fire hoping to catch their attention, but it was no use.

When Mauro’s water ran out, he began drinking his own urine. He found a marabout shrine, an ancient building that once served as a tomb. He took shelter from the sun’s rays there, drinking the blood of bats.

With his energy running out, he thought, “I am bound to die here”.

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After being treated in the hospital for weakness, he made a full recovery!

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3 . When evaluating people on various psychological tests, psychologists often distinguish between markers of absolute performance and relative performance. Absolute performance reflects the raw measurement of something, like the time it takes to run a mile. Relative performance is how a person rates in relation to their peers, as in what place a runner gets in a race.

The standards we use to evaluate ourselves are almost always relative, as we compare ourselves to our peers and the standards that are most familiar to us. For instance, in my private practice, I have one patient I will call “Omar” who is dependent on social services and makes less than $30,000 per year at his job. While this level of poverty would lead most people to wake up depressed each day, Omar is one of the most optimistic and appreciative individuals I know. Why? Because most of his closest peers — his siblings and friends from childhood — have lives far worse than his.

In contrast to Omar, I have another patient, an adolescent I’ll call “Lena”, whose family has property over $5 million. Lena, however, lives in an upper-class neighborhood where her family is at the lower end of the income level. Though Lena's family allows her to enjoy possessions and experiences that less than I percent of her peers across the world can share, she consistently feels “less than”. Why? Because Lena doesn't compare herself to the rest of the world; This is too abstract an exercise for her, as it would be for most of us.

Accordingly, whether a psychologist is psychodynamic or cognitive-behavioral, therapy (疗法) with individuals struggling with situational or psychological depression aims to solve the problems associated with basing one's self-worth on comparisons with others. Psychologists try to help people focus on personal growth around the achievement of concrete goals in line with their values. independent of the achievement of others. For all of us, defining these goals, especially during Periods of emotional calm, can go a long way in helping us to avoid the trap of relativity that often leads to situational and psychological depression.

1. What is the function of Paragraph 1?

A．To show the significance of evaluating people.

B．To motivate readers to study psychological tests.

C．To help people perform well in psychological tests.

D．To provide some background information on evaluating people.

2. Why does the author mention his two patients?

A．To measure different achievement.

B．To introduce the standards to evaluate people.

C．To explain relative performance with examples.

D．To contrast relative performance and absolute performance.

3. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Setting goals in life is essential for everyone.

B．It's important to avoid unhealthy comparisons.

C．A sense of achievement can affect one's happiness,

D．Improving self-worth can help get rid of depression.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Happiness: Is it all relative?

B．Self-worth: Is it measurable?

C．Self-worth: Is it based on efforts?

D．Happiness: Is it associated with achievement?