3 . Is patience still a virtue in our world? In our fast-paced world it often seems so easy to get what you want right away that when you have to wait even a little bit, it can seem like you are waiting forever.     1    

We used to be happy to wait the 10-15 minutes it would take to reheat food in the microwave oven (微波炉).     2    . Even so I would argue that patience is still — and always a virtue. Sure, I used to be one of those who often stared at the microwave for the full two minutes it took to heat my food. And in the end the food tasted subpar (差劲) . Had I only had the patience to set the oven in advance and warm the food properly I would have enjoyed a delicious and relaxing meal.

    3    . Patience is also an exercise in self-control that shows that you can handle life problems when things get difficult, and that you can look outside yourself, and exercise good judgment.

    4     Even those known for their calmness and quiet manner may sometimes feel impatient. We want what we want now, even if we know patience is not only a necessary virtue, but protection against rushed and often dangerous actions. Lack of patience can cause you to make wrong decisions that waste your time, put you under a lot of stress, and put your life in danger.

Sometimes you have a difficult moment because you need to grow in ways you didn’t realize. It’s not always obvious when that is happening, but with patience you will soon see clearly why something occurred when it did and what you were meant to learn from it.     5     . Being patient is a small price to pay when determining, the best possible solution to any situation.

A．However, we’re impatient now.

B．We all feel impatient sometimes.

C．To succeed, we’d better be patient.

D．Take your time to think about your actions.

E．Patience plays an significant role in one’s development.

F．More and more it seems that impatience dominates (主导) our lives.

G．Actually the benefits of patience go beyond just heating up your food.

4 . I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. The good doctor had some interesting theories ______   plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which was contrary to ______ wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants ______ them, which led to ______ roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of ______. Also, he’d ______ them with a rolled-up newspaper. Hit! Smack! Slap! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention. Twenty-five years later, every now and again, I ______ his house and are greeted by the trees, which are very ______ now. In fact, I also planted a couple of trees a few years ago. I carried water to them, sprayed them and prayed for them. Years of ______ has resulted in trees that expect to be waited on hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they ______ with fear.

I have two sons. Every night before I go to bed, I ______ my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I hope that their lives will be       ______. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change. I know my children are going to encounter ______, and I’m praying they won’t be ______ , because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not. What we need to do is help roots reach deep, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, they can ______ to it.

1.

A．owing to

B．including

C．concerning

D．following

2.

A．conventional

B．individual

C．original

D．additional

3.

A．improved

B．boosted

C．destroyed

D．spoiled

4.

A．few

B．shallow

C．narrow

D．small

5.

A．water

B．nutrients

C．soil

D．minerals

6.

A．protected

B．patted

C．beaten

D．touched

7.

A．walk by

B．come across

C．look for

D．turn to

8.

A．lovely

B．hopeful

C．straight

D．strong

9.

A．nursing

B．serving

C．growing

D．counting

10.

A．escape

B．tremble

C．suffer

D．swing

11.

A．check on

B．wait for

C．keep to

D．call at

12.

A．happy

B．easy

C．wealthy

D．meaningful

13.

A．acquaintance

B．depression

C．hardship

D．resistance

14.

A．fragile

B．pessimistic

C．naughty

D．scared

15.

A．live up

B．add up

C．stand up

D．come up

5 . 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 average present merely satisfies a temporary desire; the great one becomes more precious with time going by.

When I was a boy of fourteen, I needed to have 80 hours of community service per year and I used to take care of Mrs. Long’s garden, which was near the Presbyterian Church. As a junior high school student, I devoted myself to it, sweeping the fallen leaves and mowing the lawn (修剪草坪). There I learnt how to cut away dry branches and even helped to plant a sapling (小树苗). Tired as I was every time I finished my work, I did enjoy the time there for learning something new. I clearly remembered that Mrs Long, a nice and caring elder, always treated me to delicious meals and drinks. She also loved taking photos, always with an old camera in hand. It was said that the camera was passed down from her father and she cherished it a lot.

Several days before Christmas, she whispered to me, “When Christmas comes, I shall have a present for you.” I spent much time wondering what it would be. The boys I played with had baseball gloves, ice skates and bicycles, and I was so eager to acquire any one of these that I convinced myself that she intended to choose from among them. But at the same time, I had some doubts whether she would buy me such things because she was not that well-off.

The day before Christmas, I went there as before. With the work done, I was going to leave when she pulled me aside. “Kid, wait for a minute,” she said, leading me into her living room. She seated me on a chair, went to another room, and in a moment stood before me holding a small package that under no circumstances could hold a bicycle or a pair of skates or even a baseball glove. It weighed almost nothing.

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。

Paragraph 1:
I took the package with disappointment. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
Opening the package, I was totally astonished. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6 . Architecture is amazing. It has changed the way I look and interact with the world and my environment.   It has trained me to be hyper-sensitive (过度敏感) to the built environment, to recognize problems and find solutions that an untrained eye would never notice.

As much as I love this profession, it is very easy to get lost in architecture. I get so focused that I have forgotten about everything else. Luckily my passion for cycling kept me sane (清醒的) while I was becoming an architect. I faced a lot of obstacles and challenges taking a bicycle ride across the United States. Looking back, cycling across the America was actually one of the smartest things I ever did.

I have actually bicycled across the continental USA twice; East to west. Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean, both times. Bicycling across America isn’t as hard as you think.

I rode alone on my first trip in 2005 from Virginia Beach to the coast of Florence, Oregon. In the end it was 4,547 miles over the course of 77 days.

I left for the second trip in 2007 with my two best friends from Bar Harbor, Maine to Portland, Oregon, which was a 4,886 mile ride over 90 days. At that time, I fell in love with the idea of leaving the east coast behind, starting a whole new life and career in a new city. I ended up in Portland. After arriving in town on a bike, I eventually found a job, a place to live and an amazing dog.

I share all this not to convince anyone to go biking across America, but only to share how doing this has changed my life. Architecture has given me a wonderful life and career but it isn’t everything. Thankfully I have also been very passionate about: my friends, traveling, bicycles, punk rock, technology, the internet, my dog, and even yoga. My architecture background has definitely sweetened my relationship with all those things.

Becoming an architect is a noble pursuit, but you should keep pursuing everything else that you are passionate about. It will enhance your architecture career and ultimately make you a more interesting person, which in my opinion is really more important than being another silly architect.

1. What’s the advantage of cycling according to the author?

A．Changing his negative attitude to architecture.

B．Keeping himself focused on his career all the time.

C．Enabling him to find solutions without training.

D．Making him a much better architect and person.

2. What does the author think of his two cross-country bike trips?

A．They are harder than what he expected before.

B．They show the benefits of riding with friends.

C．They give him some extraordinary experiences.

D．They guarantee him a new life and career in Portland.

3. What can be inferred from Paragraph 6?

A．Don’t get completely lost in your hobbies.

B．Don’t abandon hobbies for your profession.

C．Don’t feel ashamed of stopping your hobbies.

D．Don’t weigh your family against your profession.

4. In the last paragraph, the author reminds us to ________.

A．take up the pursuit of becoming an architect

B．find what we are really passionate about

C．appreciate other people’s good intentions

D．avoid our career taking over other pursuits

7 . Growing up in a Jamaican-American household, food was an important part of my childhood. I remember my grandmother preparing fried dumplings and curry mutton, jazz music playing in the background. Food was our greatest treasure. Food brought the family together. Food celebrated new beginnings and eased the wounds of life’s untimely endings.

When I was 8, I was diagnosed with a muscle disease, which caused me to spend most of my childhood in hospital rooms and wheelchairs, slowly gaining weight by swallowing prednisone (肾上腺皮质激素) hidden inside mint chocolate chip ice cream. My mom made it her duty to help me lose the weight through strict dieting. I’ve tried every single one. In fairness, my mother did the best she could. As a single mom, she felt this brought us closer. However, as an adult, I began to experience a paralyzing fear of food. My “I’ll start a new diet on Monday” mind-set lasted for 16 years as I uncontrollably ate and abused my body. I was worried that I was not attractive enough. So obsessed and afraid no one would hire me as an actress if I didn’t win the battle with the numbers on the scale, in February 2011 I attempted suicide and landed in the hospital for multiple days.

We do extreme things to our bodies because of those numbers. Numbers that cannot talk with us or love us. I have had to stop judging my belly, stop starving myself, stop getting on the scale and staring at those numbers. I have come to the realization that my life is more important than those numbers on the scale and that the quality of the life I live is more important than how I look in the mirror.

1. What role did food play in author’s childhood?

A．It healed her physical wounds.

B．It strengthened the family bond.

C．It was a source of family income.

D．It marked the end of someone’s life.

2. What made the mother feel closer to her daughter?

A．Making cooking her daily duty.

B．Limiting the author to a strict diet.

C．Raising the author as a single mom.

D．Preparing healthy food for the author.

3. What was the immediate cause of the authors’ attempted suicide?

A．Her worsening health state.

B．Her anxiety about unemployment.

C．Her intense hatred for food.

D．Her losing the fight with her disease.

4. How does the author feel about her weight now?

A．Nervous.	B．Satisfied.
C．Disgusted.	D．Unconcerned.

9 . It was a night in July 2020. As I applied lotion to my hands, I noticed that my diamond wedding ring was ________. I looked in every drawer. No such ________ I sat, bitterly disappointed. My mind travelled back to the time when I had caught my first ________ of the man I married.

I was five years old then. On that particular day as I with my dad drove down on our truck, we ________ a large herd of cattle being driven near the roadside. “We are going to New Underwood for water.” The man in ________ told my dad. I was looking at the youngest rider. I waved to him, but he just ________ to the cattle.

Next my memory ________ to my senior year in the university. It was on such a day that a group of students went by, among whom was the young cowboy who hadn’t responded to my ________ 15 years before!

The daydream passed. My daughter ________ me to a second-hand shop. At the shop, I picked up a ring and ________ it on my finger. “Here’s my lost ring! See how it just ________.”

I’m still ________ that I should find my ring. Why did I go to that very shop? It was really a ________, but I did learn that sometimes things are gone for a while ________ they reappear, just like my man, and just like my ________.

1.

A．special

B．sparkling

C．missing

D．expensive

2.

A．way

B．chance

C．problem

D．luck

3.

A．attention

B．reflection

C．sight

D．expectation

4.

A．waited for

B．came across

C．crashed into

D．talked of

5.

A．business

B．action

C．demand

D．charge

6.

A．pointed

B．attended

C．referred

D．replied

7.

A．changed

B．returned

C．faded

D．wandered

8.

A．call

B．wave

C．question

D．request

9.

A．invited

B．directed

C．introduced

D．welcomed

10.

A．surrounded

B．turned

C．slipped

D．pulled

11.

A．matters

B．differs

C．shines

D．fits

12.

A．curious

B．scared

C．astonished

D．skeptical

13.

A．pity

B．mystery

C．lesson

D．surprise

14.

A．before

B．after

C．till

D．unless

15.

A．ring

B．daughter

C．memory

D．childhood

10 . What does it mean to live a good life? This question has been debated by may philosophers(哲学家). In the field of psychology (心理学), two main ideas of the good life are influential: A happy life, full of stability, enjoyment and positive emotions, and a meaningful life, full of purpose, virtue and devotion. But what if these aren’t the only choices?

In recent years, the psychologically rich life has been receiving greater research attention. It is full of strong emotions, both positive and negative, and new and interesting experiences. They are, however, seldom boring or dull.

In a new study, Shigehiro Oishi and his colleagues found that many people’s self described ideal lives include psychological richness. When to chose a life, however, the majority chose a happy life and a meaningful life. Even so, some people still favored the psychologically rich life.

These findings suggest that while most people do struggle to be happy and have meaning and purpose in their lives, a sizable number of people are content only living a psychologically rich life. Indeed, other new research suggests that for a lot of people, the intensity (强度) of the experience matters more than only how “positive” or “negative” it was. As Oishi and his colleagues conclude, “we believe that taking the psychologically rich life seriously will deepen, broaden and enrich our understanding of well-being.”

At the end of the day, there is no one acceptable path to the good life. You have to find a path that works best for you. As Nietzsche put it: “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless bridges but there is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”

1. The author mentions the two main ideas of the good life to _________.

A．introduce another aspect of a good life

B．compare two different ways of life

C．explain how to live a good life

D．tell readers some good ways to live

2. According to the passage, the psychologically rich life is _________.

A．full of meaning and purpose

B．nothing but different emotions

C．strong emotions and interesting experiences

D．all about being content with what you have

3. Shigehiro Oishi and his colleagues hold the view that ________.

A．the psychologically rich life is the best one

B．more people prefer to live a psychologically rich life

C．there is no difference between,’ positive’ and ‘negative’ experience

D．studying psychological richness helps to understand well-being better

4. Nietzsche’s words in the last paragraph imply that __________.

A．the suitable one is the best one

B．all roads lead to Rome

C．God helps those who help them

D．nothing is impossible for willing heart