1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion．Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years,    1    (wheel) to the Park．

Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声) when Ms．Yates was about to speak．Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers    2    (combine)．

Then Ms. Yates started to speak:

“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here．I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I     3    (follow) your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as cried for your tragedies．I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students.     4    I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.”

Ms. Yates then stopped    5    (cry) a bit before she continued:

“It was my belief     6     if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and     7    would succeed to annoy me．Regardless of our motives, I     8     see that you have all been successful in your chosen path.”

“There is no    9    (great) comfort for an educator than to see the result of his or her years of work．You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar. Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all     10    the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown．

2 . Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

A person with positive thinking mentality expects happiness, health and success, and believes that he or she can overcome any obstacle and difficulty.

_______ thinking is not a concept that everyone believes and follows. Some, consider it as nonsense, and scoff (laugh) at people who follow it. _______, there is a growing number of people, who accept positive thinking as a fact, and believe in its _______

To use it in your life, you need more than just to be aware of its _______. You need to adopt the attitude of positive thinking in everything you do.

The following story illustrates how positive thinking works:

Allan applied for a new job, _______ he didn’t believe he will get it, since his _______ was low, and he considered himself as a failure and unworthy of success.

He had a _______ attitude toward himself, _______, believed that the other applicants were better and more qualified than him.

Allan’s mind was occupied with negative thoughts and fears concerning the job, for the whole week preceding the job interview. He _______, expected failure.

On the day of the interview, he got up late, and to his __________ he discovered that the shirt he planned to wear was dirty, and the other one needed ironing. As it was already too late, he went out wearing a wrinkled shirt and without eating breakfast.

During the interview, he was tense, negative, __________ and worried about his shirt. All this, distracted his mind and made it difficult for him to __________ the interview. His overall behavior made a bad impression, and __________, he couldn’t overcome his fear and did not get the job.

Jim applied for the same job too, but approached the matter in a __________ way. He was sure that he was going to get the job. During the week preceding the interview, he often visualized himself making a good __________ and getting the job. He prepared fully before the interview and he got the job as he expected.

1.

A．Critical

B．Current

C．Political

D．Positive

2.

A．Although

B．Furthermore

C．However

D．Therefore

3.

A．happiness

B．effectiveness

C．kindness

D．safeness

4.

A．existence

B．importance

C．attendance

D．ignorance

5.

A．but

B．so

C．for

D．or

6.

A．self-expression

B．self-esteem

C．self-control

D．self-conscious

7.

A．positive

B．aggressive

C．negative

D．friendly

8.

A．and moreover

B．and after all

C．and however

D．and therefore

9.

A．generally

B．basically

C．simply

D．actually

10.

A．excitement

B．anger

C．horror

D．amusement

11.

A．angry

B．hungry

C．hot

D．disappointed

12.

A．focus on

B．prepare for

C．make use of

D．give up

13.

A．finally

B．consequently

C．naturally

D．hopefully

14.

A．same

B．right

C．different

D．wrong

15.

A．inference

B．difference

C．translation

D．impression

3 . I was standing in the checkout line behind a woman who looked to be in her 60s. When it was her turn to pay, the cashier greeted her by name and asked her how she was doing.

The woman looked down, shook her head and said, “Not so good. My husband just lost his job and my son is up to his old tricks again. The truth is, I don’t know how I’m going to get through the holidays.”

Then she gave the shop owner the food stamps(食品券).

My heart ached. I wanted to help but didn’t know how. Should I offer to pay for her groceries, ask for her husband’s resume?

As I walked into the parking lot, I spotted the woman returning her shopping cart. I remembered something in my purse that I thought could help her. It wasn’t a handful of cash or an offer of a job for her husband, but maybe it would make her life better.

My heart pounded as I approached the woman.

“Excuse me,” I said, my voice trembling a bit,“I couldn’t help overhearing what you said to the cashier. It sounds like you’re going through a really hard time right now. I’m so sorry. I’d like to give you something.”

I handed her the small card from my purse.

When the woman read the card’s only two words, she began to cry. And through her tears, she said, “You have no idea how much this means to me.”

I was a little startled by her reply. Having never done anything like this before, I didn’t know what kind of reaction I might receive. All I could think to say was, “Oh my. Would it be OK to give you a hug?”

After that, I walked back to my car and began to cry too.

The words on the card?

“You Matter.”

A few weeks earlier, a colleague gave me a similar card as encouragement for a project I was working on. When I read the card, I felt a warm glow spread inside of me. Deeply touched, I came home and ordered my own box of You Matter cards and started sharing them.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the first three paragraphs?

A．The woman’s family mainly depends on her son.

B．The cashier helped the woman by giving her some food for free.

C．The woman and her family were having a tough lime

D．The author wondered why the cashier was familiar with the woman.

2. The woman cried when she got the card, probably because______.

A．it greatly encouraged her

B．she could use it to buy food

C．it could solve her present problem

D．it could land her husband a job

3. The underlined word “startled” in Paragraph 10 probably means______.

A．interested

B．grateful

C．ashamed

D．astonished

4. From the article, we can tell that the author is a______person.

A．smart

B．kind-hearted

C．knowledgeable

D．confident

4 . Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Blind imitation is self-destruction. To those who do not recognize their unique worth, imitation appears attractive; to those who know their strength, imitation is unacceptable.

In the early stages of skill or character development imitation is helpful. When I first learned to cook. I used recipes and turned out some tasty dishes. But soon I grew bored.     1    

Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a child’s bicycle; they help you get going, but once you find your own balance, you fly faster and farther without relying on them.

    2    If, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did. If you do not make strong choices for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of others.

In the field of entertainment, our culture glorifies celebrities. Those stars look great on screen. But when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous.     3    

Blessed is the person willing to at on their sudden desire to create something unique. Think of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeply. They touched you because their creations were motivated by inspiration, not desperation. The world is changed not by those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside them.    4    The problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with the material knocking at the door of imagination.

Study your role models, accept the gifts they have given, and leave behind what does not serve you. Then you can say, “I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors’ tragedies and declare victory, and know that they are cheering me on.”

A．In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously hold poor role models.

B．Creative people have an endless resource of ideas.

C．It is how to use imagination creatively that troubles us.

D．Why follow someone else’s way of cooking when I could create my own?

E．But if you begin to enter this field, imitation proves useful.

F．If you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not their bad character or unacceptable behaviors.

5 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
请根据下图内容，结合生活实例，谈谈你的看法。

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6 . What was the best gift I ever received? Well, I’m a music lover, so I’d have to say it was either a Spotify subscription or my top-of-the-range Sony MDR-7506 headphones. Together they’ve provided me with countless hours of high-quality audio accompaniment. Growing up in a loving, well-off family in one of the richest countries in the world, what more could I want?

Giving gifts to loved ones is great: it’s a rewarding way to spread joy and strengthen friendships and family ties. But at this time of year I’m always reminded of how many people not only get no presents but also lack the basics to allow them to live healthy lives. For me, luxury headphones were the perfect gift; for the world’s poorest, it would be nutritious food, clean water and health care.

The poorest 10% of the world’s population, some 700 million people, live on less than $1.90 per day. And that’s adjusting for local purchasing power: they live on what $1.90 would buy in the

U.S. Faced with this kind of budget, and often geographically isolated, they are forced to eat whatever they can find and drink and wash in unsafe water. They can only pray that they don’t succumb to malnutrition, malaria or any number of other diseases that, while perfectly curable in rich countries, frequently ruin or end lives in the developing world.

I don’t seek to make anyone feel guilty for exchanging luxury goods with the people they love. But it seems to me that there’s another type of giving that is, if anything, even more profound: giving the basics of life to those most in need. Sure, you might not get a thank-you letter(who does these days?), but you’ll have done something extraordinary.

However, I’m not just interested in people giving more to charity(although that is important). I’m also passionate about people giving smarter, because where you give can make a huge difference on the impact you’ll have.

What do I mean by that? Well, to start with, there’s a reason I’ve been talking about the developing world. Even average earners in the West are incredibly rich compared with the global poor, so a sum of money considered moderate for some could make a huge difference in the poorest countries.

That’s not to say that all developing world poverty-relief charities ate good at making a difference—that’s certainly not the case. Plenty of money donated in good faith is lost to local corruption, poor administration or programs of intervention that sound great in theory but don’t achieve much in practice. As a result, it’s crucial to look at the effectiveness of the work a charity does before committing your money. How much good does it achieve for each dollar donated? Is there robust evidence for the impact of its programs?

It’s not always easy for people to find the answers, but they are vital questions to ask. That’s why there are now organizations devoted to finding and promoting the best charities. As part of the   effective-altruism(利他主义)   movements,   they   are   dedicated   to   helping   people   make   the biggest possible difference with their donations.

I love my music, and I love my headphones. But this year, the best gift I could get is to see as many people as possible giving generously to the most effective charities in the world.

1. What does the phrase “succumb to”(paragraph 3, line 5)mean?

A．be unaffected by	B．cease opposition to
C．be unconnected with	D．help to cause

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The author thinks that people giving luxury gifts to the ones they love should feel guilty.

B．The author believes that there is nothing more he wants because he grows up in very rich family.

C．The author argues that compared with those poor, an ordinary worker in the West doesn’t earn much.

D．The author says that some diseases which might be deadly in poor countries can be cured in developed countries.

3. Which of the following statements can you possibly infer from the passage?

A．People used to receive a letter of compliment from the receiver after they donated money to charities.

B．Giving smarter means that those who donate should know clearly how the charity works with the government.

C．Some charity programs fail to achieve much and seem to be less effective because they are not very practical.

D．The organizations devoted to finding the best charities aim to appeal to people to donate more money.

4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Giving the basics of life to those in need

B．Giving best gifts to your beloved ones

C．Making the best gift count

D．The effective-altruism movement

7 . I believe in getting lost. Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and feelings that you consider special. The song that reminds you of your childhood summers, where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory; feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm, the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride your bicycle, murmuring the tune of that song. Like the unprepared Sunday Drive, with no destination. You’re free to wander, take paths that you’ve never noticed, discover places you haven’t been. Then falling off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back; that kind of lost.

I get lost daily; whether it’s in thought, or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on. Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you how to be more aware of your surroundings. A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost. That one late night trip back to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends. We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit South Haven, almost three hours out of our way. There was also the time where I got lost in the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids after the President’s Ball and then the parking garage for a solid two hours. I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy, minus the air conditioner. At the time, these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping. You’re fearful that you won’t be safe, but it always works itself out in the end. Physically losing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself.

You don’t always have to be lost in a literal sense to “get lost” and some of the time, losing yourself may not be a positive experience. There are times where I lose sight of who I am. While lost, I test out metaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn. I make note of these wrong turns, so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am.

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track. I believe in getting lost through day dreams, a misplacement, adventures, and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you. In order to truly find yourself, I believe that you should put down the map and get wonderfully lost.

1. In the first paragraph, the author mainly expresses that ______.

A．lost in a novel is a special feeling	B．songs remind us of past experiences
C．wandering is a wonderful discovery	D．getting lost brings us benefits

2. The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost (in paragraph 2) in order to say _____.

A．physically getting lost is most difficult to deal with

B．we can enjoy trips while physically getting lost

C．people are easy to get physically lost in our daily life

D．we realize our surroundings while physically getting lost

3. Words from Henry David Thoreau (in the last paragraph) imply that getting lost________.

A．enables us to look within and to see outward

B．pulls people back into the previous moment

C．enables us to remind ourselves of adventures

D．helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we are

4. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．I Once Was Lost	B．Wonderfully Lost
C．Physically Getting Lost	D．Mentally Getting Lost

8 . On the morning of 19 April 1966, a hooded figure was hiding in the bushes near the start line of the Boston Marathon. When the gun went off to start the race, the mysterious person allowed the faster competitors to pass before joining the main group of runners. It wasn’t long before the others noticed that their new companion was a woman.

The infiltrator(渗入者) was 23-year-old graduate Roberta ’Bobbi’ Gibb, an experienced runner who had had her application to run denied on the grounds that the Boston Marathon was a Men’s Division race only. Her rejection letter categorically stated: Women aren’t allowed and furthermore are not physiologically able. Having run up to 30 miles a day nearly every day for the two years leading up to the race, Gibb knew that this was not true. She decided it was time attitudes towards women changed, and bought a bus ticket to Boston.

Contrary to her father’s fears that she would get hurt in the race, Gibb’s male counterparts showed her nothing but kindness. Once reporters got wind of her participation, the radio began broadcasting news of her progress. Encouraged by adrenalin and the delighted spectators, Gibb was heading for an under three-hour time for the best part of the course, but then she began running out of steam. Starved of food and water, her legs began to falter, and her feet became almost too painful to run on. If she hadn’t known that dropping out would have set women’s running back 20 or 30 years, she may not have completed the course. However, the cheering crowds on the last leg of the course succeeded in lifting her spirits, and she sprinted to the finish in a very respectable time of just under three hours and 22 minutes.

On finishing the race, Gibb was treated as a hero: she was met by the governor of Massachusetts, her parents were interviewed, newspapers ran articles on her and she was invited to a TV game show. More importantly for her, she had broken the stereotype that women didn’t run marathons. She began getting calls from inspired women who had taken up running themselves, and in 1967 a second female runner competed in the Boston Marathon alongside Gibb. The following year there were five female entrants, and by 1972, the rules had been changed to allow women to compete in all US marathons. However, by then, if you had asked anyone who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, they would have given you a completely different name: Kathy Switzer.

Twenty-year-old journalist Kathrine Switzer shot to fame after competing against Gibb in the 1967 Boston Marathon. On discovering Switzer had entered the race by pretending to be a man, race director Jock Semple tried to physically remove her, and it was this image of Switzer being attacked while running that stuck in people’s minds. Switzer continued running, finishing second in the 1975 Boston Marathon. Moreover, she became a successful media personality. It took Gibb decade of writing letters to magazines, TV stations and book publishers to set the record straight. But in the end, she succeeded in gaining her due recognition and was retroactively awarded first-place medals for her 1966, 1967 and 1968 races.

1. The woman is hiding in the bushes __________.

A．to cheer on the best participants

B．so as not to be seen at the starting line.

C．in order to watch the race unfold

D．so that she has a better view of the field

2. What ultimately drove Gibb to finish the race?

A．She didn’t want her plan to backfire(发生意外).

B．She wanted her parents to be proud of her.

C．She wasn’t willing to disappoint the crowd.

D．She couldn’t take the shame of failure.

3. What does the writer mean when he describes Gibb’s running time as ’respectable’?

A．He thinks she could have done better.

B．He considers it a standard to aim at.

C．He regards it as a good time.

D．He can’t believe she ran so well.

4. What does the reader discover about Gibb in the fourth paragraph?

A．Her reputation grew as the years went by.

B．She was corrupted by fame.

C．She became a household name.

D．Her glory was short-lived

9 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
请简要描述图片，并结合生活实际谈谈你的看法。

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10 . There was once a time that I would only do what I knew was comfortable for me. Stuck in a continuous cycle of repetitive choices, I knew what was________when it came to making decisions. I knew what wouldn’t _______me too much, what would me glued to the floor of where I already was________ little did I realize at the time that this was not the right path for me.

After living the same type of life for so long I decided bat there was more for me. Although it was uncomfortable at first, I pushed myself to get_______ in things that I wouldn't normally do, I decided to open up and talk to other people that I didn’t think I would have the_______ to show my face to, and I started to share more about myself with others that already knew me. By doing these things, I _______ to find more parts of life to open myself up to.

A quote said"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."Reading the quote made me realize that I was stuck in a life that wasn't truly mine. I was bound by chains that made me _______ to experience life, so I always keep it as a reminder to myself to go beyond my_________.

There are a few ways you can begin to push past your comfort zone. First, make a bucket list. All you need to do is write down a list of things that you want to ______ in your lifetime, but make sure you do them. A bucket list isn't useful unless you are _______ going to try and achieve it.

Secondly, if you want, ask someone to tag along(H E). If you have a friend who is also interested in experiencing more of their life then you can join _______ and work together. That way, you can push each other to actually go out and experience.

Finally, ________ yourself. Make yourself a promise that if you check something off your bucket list then you will do something nice for yourself. Maybe you have always been interested in bungee jumping, but have been toe afraid. Put it on the list and promise yourself a shopping trip or anything else to _______ yourself into doing it.

Life is about ________ it up with as many experiences as possible, so don’t miss out on an amazing opportunity to ________ yourself or lean something valuable.

1.

A．safe

B．sensitive

C．alternative

D．greedy

2.

A．tempt

B．exclude

C．scare

D．impose

3.

A．Therefore

B．Otherwise

C．Moreover

D．However

4.

A．absorbed

B．participated

C．can

D．involved

5.

A．confidence

B．benefit

C．burden

D．passion

6.

A．claimed

B．strived

C．hesitated

D．pretended

7.

A．excited

B．curious

C．flexible

D．afraid

8.

A．imagination.

B．control

C．limits

D．expectation

9.

A．accomplish

B．combine

C．cultivate

D．ensure

10.

A．accidentally

B．desperately

C．actually

D．consequently

11.

A．ideas

B．forces

C．factors

D．effects

12.

A．behave

B．engage

C．treat

D．help

13.

A．bribe

B．trap

C．cheat

D．shape

14.

A．making

B．taking

C．pilling

D．filling

15.

A．satisfy

B．relax

C．identify

D．better