1 . Are you a person who loves challenges, or hates them? I must _______ I’ve spent most of my life as a person who hates them. I always _______ challenges as maddening _______ keeping me from where I want to be. I even used to take them _______, feeling like the universe must hate me and like to see me struggle.

As I grow older and wiser——I find my _______ nature rising up to meet these challenges, and I’m learning to see them _______. Most of us know that great rewards _______ great effort. Nothing _______ comes easy. When we work hard for something and then see it appear before our eyes, we get such s powerful sense of _______. We can point to it and say, “I did that. It was tough, but I did it ________.”

Challenges are truly ________. They give us opportunities to grow and learn, to test and improve ourselves. They show how ________ we want to create the dreams in our hearts. This is such a(an) ________. It may not seem that way at first, but with a tiny ________ in attitude, we can see that we have been handed an excellent opportunity.

The next time life ________ you a challenge, stop and consider for a moment what it means. Don’t look at challenges as an end, look at them as a door ________ your heart’s desires. That door might be locked and maybe you forgot ________ you put the key. It might take some effort and patience to find it again but I believe that you will.

Once we begin to change our ________ about obstacles and challenges that can actually become fun. Our competitive human nature ________ and gets ready to win, no matter what. We develop a steely determination to not be ________.

1.

A．permit

B．admit

C．convince

D．ensure

2.

A．thought of

B．took advantage of

C．heard of

D．talked of

3.

A．possessions

B．sufferings

C．failures

D．obstacles

4.

A．correctly

B．reasonably

C．personally

D．generously

5.

A．kind

B．sensitive

C．available

D．competitive

6.

A．proudly

B．differently

C．sensitively

D．desperately

7.

A．require

B．deserve

C．submit

D．target

8.

A．easy

B．comfortable

C．worthwhile

D．appropriate

9.

A．happiness

B．pride

C．direction

D．awe

10.

A．any longer

B．at all

C．above all

D．anyway

11.

A．opportunities

B．achievements

C．substitutes

D．capacities

12.

A．easily

B．wisely

C．badly

D．difficultly

13.

A．joy

B．chance

C．puzzlement

D．blessing

14.

A．shift

B．accumulation

C．decline

D．selection

15.

A．punishes

B．hands

C．states

D．sponsors

16.

A．closing

B．consisting of

C．leading to

D．responding to

17.

A．when

B．why

C．how

D．where

18.

A．way

B．future

C．attitude

D．fate

19.

A．rises up

B．takes up

C．makes up

D．hold up

20.

A．intended

B．beaten

C．introduced

D．recommended

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。

Grandfather was a wise and honorable man. His house was not far from ours, and I would visit him often going home after school.

No matter how rotten I had been, 1 could tell Grandpa anything. My secrets were safe. He always understood. He loved me.

I remember a time when a bunch of us were playing baseball in the field behind Mrs. Ferguson's house. I hit one pitch (投) just right and . . . slam! It was a home run that soared (急升) high and away, and ended up breaking Old Lady Ferguson's kitchen window! We all ran!

Walking home, my best friend, Tom, asked, “How will she ever know who did it? She's blinder than a bat!” I decided to stop by Grandpa's. He must have known something was up by the expression on my face. I felt ashamed. I wanted to hide. I wanted to bang my head against a tree a thousand times and make the world just go away- as if punishing myself could undo things. I told him about it.

He knew we had been warned many times about the dangers of playing where we shouldn't. But he just listened.

“I was wrong,   I told him, with my head down. “I hate myself for what I did. I really blew it. Is there a way out? Will she call the police?”

“Well,” he said, “she has a problem, just like you. I'll bet if she knew you cared, she would be sad to know that you're afraid of her. I'll bet she wishes you would give her a chance... a chance to be understanding, It's your decision, ” he said, shrugging his shoulders. “Just so I don't say the wrong thing, is the plan to pretend nothing happened? Just keep quiet and carry your little secret around . . . hide what you're not proud of?”

“I don't know, ” I sighed. “Things might get worse. . . . ”

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。

Grandpa asked, “If you were Mrs. Ferguson, what would you do?”

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“Doing what's right is not always easy, ” Grandpa said, handing me the phone.

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