1 . 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。

It was a cool evening in spring. I was just finishing the dinner dishes when the phone rang. It was unusual because our landline seldom rang. Nearly everyone we knew contacted us on our cell phones.

“This is Janet Rhodes.” said a familiar voice that I struggled to place. That name seemed familiar, too. I knew a lot of people, having lived on two coasts and in most major cities in California for the past thirty years.

“I am calling because I need to apologize to you,” Janet stated. That’s when I suddenly realized who she was.

“That day when I came into your classroom and chewed you out for disciplining my daughter, I was way out of line. I know now that you were doing what was best for her. You were right.”

Twenty years earlier, it was only my second year of teaching. Janet’s daughter, Stephanie, had acted out toward some of the other girls in the classroom, and I had made her stay in from breaks between classes. I was kind and fair when I punished her. The truth is that I really liked Stephanie, but she clearly didn’t like being disciplined. She told her mother, and Janet felt the need to defend her child.

After school, she flew into my classroom and accused me of everything from being unfair to playing favorites to not caring about my students. She was yelling so loudly that every teacher in the building heard her accusations, including my principal.

Her words shocked me because none of her criticisms was true. I managed to keep from crying while she stood in front of me, but as soon as she left the room, I broke down. I cried all evening on and off through that sleepless night. I had once felt such joy teaching my kids, but now I felt like I was under a microscope in my classroom. For the next few weeks, her words caused me to second-guess everything I did with my students. I doubted my ability and even my own heart. Despite how her mother had treated me, I knew I would discipline Stephanie again if she acted out. It was the right thing to do.

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。

And now, two decades later, the angry mother was apologizing to me.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?” Janet asked finally.

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2 . Two years ago，my friend and I were at college.With his birthday quickly _______ ，he came to me with an unusual _______ :instead of receiving presents，he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was _______ with such all idea._______ instead of taking for the birthday was really different.I asked him how he could come up with such a   _______ idea.He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity.which had _______ him.So we started to _______ creative things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards to   _______ its students.They have to work _______ ，keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it's a thankless job as most people grow   ________ to seeing the guards all around and eventually barely notice their ________ ，let alone acknowledge their efforts.How could we show them our appreciation?

We decided to make a large pot of hot ________ .We hired a Uber and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the   ________ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate.The Uber driver was   ________ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us ________ the guards and our lively spirit had ________ to him as well.We were met with many ________ and appreciative words.It was amazing to see how a ________   act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone’s spirit.

I now realize that special energy is created when you choose to think bigger than yourself and act in ________ of others. You’ll find it's actually the greatest ________ you’never get，especially when it’s your birthday.

1.

A．ending

B．passing

C．advancing

D．approaching

2.

A．order

B．request

C．problem

D．story

3.

A．struck

B．blessed

C．burdened

D．bored

4.

A．Refusing

B．Earning

C．Giving

D．Donating

5.

A．traditional

B．complex

C．familiar

D．novel

6.

A．controlled

B．supported

C．inspired

D．rewarded

7.

A．plan out

B．take over

C．watch for

D．hold back

8.

A．judge

B．help

C．monitor

D．protect

9.

A．step by step

B．around the clock

C．more or less

D．now and then

10.

A．addicted

B．devoted

C．attached

D．accustomed

11.

A．presence

B．hunger

C．poverty

D．thirsty

12.

A．tea

B．milk

C．porridge

D．chocolate

13.

A．workers

B．students

C．guards

D．drivers

14.

A．finally

B．initially

C．occasionally

D．frequently

15.

A．remind

B．track

C．spot

D．recognize

16.

A．spread

B．moved

C．happened

D．returned

17.

A．friends

B．difficulties

C．greetings

D．smiles

18.

A．similar

B．small

C．daily

D．modest

19.

A．service

B．place

C．charge

D．memory

20.

A．1esson

B．attention

C．gift

D．care

3 . Many people believe that there is one form of their language that is more correct than others. They may believe for example that British English is more correct than other varieties; or that written English is more correct than spoken English. Often this belief is supported by reference books to grammars, usage guides or dictionaries: If something goes against a rule in a grammar, or if the word isn’t in the dictionary, it “must be wrong”. Since the reference books are most often based on observation of the standard written language, the argument is really circular: These books will naturally describe standard usage, because that is what they are for; but this does not mean that there is anything wrong with other kinds of usage that are less often described.

A better way of looking at things is to say that usage is “correct in its place”. Standard American English is correct in America, and formal written grammar is employed in formal writing. So this means there is no answer to the question: “What kind of English should learners study?” It depends on their purposes. For many learners, the best model is one or other of the two main standard varieties: British or American English. Neither of these is “better” than the other, and they are both used and understood worldwide.

People are also worried by language change. If younger people “break” the rules that older people have learnt, older people often feel disturbed: they are concerned that younger people no longer know their grammar, and that the language is going downhill. This is a needless worry: change is natural and inevitable, it cannot be stopped, and it does not generally affect a languages efficiency as a communicative tool. A great deal of modern English grammar would have been wrong three hundred years ago, and will perhaps be wrong again three hundred years from now.

1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?

A．Learners are always confused by the reference books.

B．Some wrong usages can be found in the reference books.

C．Nobody can challenge the authority of the reference books.

D．Usages not mentioned in the reference books are not necessarily wrong.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．There is no “standard English”.

B．American English is better than British English.

C．A learner should master all the distinctions of different English.

D．The differences between British English and American English.

3. Which word can replace the underlined word “inevitable” in paragraph 3?

A．Avoidable.

B．Formal.

C．Certain.

D．Temporary.

4. What is the authors attitude towards the changes of English?

A．Disturbed.

B．Optimistic.

C．Cautious.

D．Doubtful.

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Laughing is one of life’s most simple pleasure.It is free.You can do it anywhere.Like the flu，laughter can spread easy among people.Often when we hear someone laughing in crowded room or a packed train ，we start laughing too—even if we have no idea how.
In fact，mental health can affect on physical health.Therefore，“Laughter is the best medicine”does not mean that I should not take medicine when you’re sick.It simply means that have a positive outlook might help ease your troubles but make you cheerful.Besides，making others laugh with you is also an act what is joyful and kind.

5 . I was walking my dog Snoopy one evening while the last light of the setting sun _________ the clouds purple and pink. I looked up at the sky and smiled. After a minute Snoopy started _________ at her leash. She was more than ready to head inside for a bowl of dog food and a bacon   _________. I wasn’t quite ready to go in, however, so I _______ her. I was waiting for my friends the Little Blinkers to appear.

It wasn’t long either _______ I saw them switching their lights on and off. They were fireflies, of course, also known as lightning bugs. Over all the years that I have lived here they have never failed to appear at this time during the summer. They have never failed to _______me. They have never failed to make the world a little brighter. It has always been such a _______ too knowing that such wonderful creatures can shine their own light and make the _______ meadows look like the starry skies above. They make me want to share my own light as well, even if it isn’t that bright and even if it does _______ to blink now and then.

Robert Fulghum wrote, “I know some people who ________a lot of light. Because they have absorbed a lot of light themselves. They shine.” I don’t know how much light I have ________the years, but I do know that I won’t keep it ________ under a basket. I will shine it. I will share it. I will use it to ________as much goodness, love, joy, and wisdom into this world as I possibly can.

May you always ________ your light as brightly as you can. May you always share it with others as well. Remember that you are not asked to ________the whole world up. What you need to do is just to make your little corner of it a bit brighter.

1.

A．printed

B．dyed

C．colored

D．pictured

2.

A．pushing

B．pulling

C．dragging

D．waving

3.

A．food

B．thing

C．treat

D．feast

4.

A．comforted

B．approved

C．pleased

D．blamed

5.

A．unless

B．before

C．when

D．once

6.

A．delight

B．disappoint

C．satisfy

D．touch

7.

A．chance

B．surprise

C．curiosity

D．joy

8.

A．green

B．ordinary

C．vast

D．dark

9.

A．intend

B．plan

C．tend

D．manage

10.

A．give out

B．give off

C．give away

D．give in

11.

A．absorbed

B．appealed

C．applied

D．collected

12.

A．stayed

B．remained

C．changed

D．hidden

13.

A．cause

B．appear

C．bring

D．require

14.

A．hold

B．shine

C．spread

D．offer

15.

A．build

B．deepen

C．light

D．brighten

6 . Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned a farm, which looked almost abandoned.     1    (lucky), he also had a cow

    2    (produce) milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what     3    (leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass     4     it began to rain heavily. While making great

    5    (effort) to run away, she     6    (fall) over the hill and died. Then Johnson tried to make     7     living without the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs(草药) and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees     8    (sell) the wood. Thinking about his children’s clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market

    9     people from the town met regularly. Now     10     occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.

7 . She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. I watched ______ as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just ________ their heads and into the net. The boys always _____ to stop her ______ no one could. I noticed that she ______ practice shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark.

One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of _____ she said, “I want to go to ______. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship by playing basketball. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the ______ . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t ______ .”

I watched her growing up. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head _____ in her arms. I walked to her and quietly asked what was wrong. “Oh, ______ .” came a soft reply. “I am just too _____ .” The coach told her that at 5’5” she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team— _____ offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreaming about college. She was _____ and I felt my own throat tighten as I _____ her disappointment. A moment later, she _____ her head from her hands and told me that her father said those ____ were wrong. They just did not understand the _____ of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to live her dream, nothing could stop her except one thing — her own _____ . He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

Eventually, she succeeded. She was indeed offered a scholarship and got the college education that she had dreamed of and worked ____ for all those years.

It’s true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.

1.

A．in anxiety

B．in wonder

C．in doubt

D．in sympathy

2.

A．above

B．through

C．on

D．over

3.

A．appealed

B．managed

C．failed

D．competed

4.

A．but

B．moreover

C．however

D．nevertheless

5.

A．could

B．would

C．might

D．should

6.

A．silence

B．hesitation

C．sadness

D．sympathy

7.

A．college

B．team

C．match

D．tournament

8.

A．capable

B．skillful

C．best

D．fortunate

9.

A．count

B．do

C．work

D．help

10.

A．burying

B．to be buried

C．buried

D．to bury

11.

A．anything

B．something

C．nothing

D．everything

12.

A．short

B．thin

C．weak

D．small

13.

A．much more

B．much less

C．much better

D．much worse

14.

A．ashamed

B．heartbroken

C．confused

D．terrified

15.

A．witnessed

B．recognized

C．sensed

D．analyzed

16.

A．lifted

B．nodded

C．shook

D．bowed

17.

A．players

B．words

C．statements

D．coaches

18.

A．energy

B．power

C．force

D．strength

19.

A．desire

B．attitude

C．character

D．conscience

20.

A．at

B．in

C．towards

D．on

8 . When Emanuel received an email from Professor Richard English. Queen’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the School of History, Anthropology,Philosophy and Politics, encouraging him to apply for a PhD in Politics in Belfast, it was a pinch-me moment Emanual never thought would be possible. After all, just a few short years ago, he was living on the streets couch-surfing at friends’ houses and weeding gardens to make ends meet. Now, one of the world’s leading political academics was preparing to welcome him to Queen’s University over 4,000 miles away.

Emanuel never knew who his father was and his mom was mentally ill when she gave birth to him, so the hospital took him off her and he was unofficially adopted for the first few years of his life. What followed was a childhood with uncertainty as Emanuel was passed between the adoption system and family members.

Through his high school and community college years, he moved from house to house, living with friends at times and living on the streets at others.

Determined to change all that despite his rocky start in life, Emanuel involved himself in school-doing everything he could to earn extra tuition (学费) money in his spare time. But getting accepted into university was scarcely possible because a person like him couldn’t get a regular student loan.

Fortunately, the government backed him, having created a policy allowing disadvantaged persons to access funding for higher education. He graduated from the University of the West Indies with a 1st Class Honors degree and went on to do his Masters.

Emanuel knows that his story could have been very different.

“I discovered Professor Richard English online and sent him an email honestly, not thinking he would reply and to my surprise, he did. I applied for the highly competitive Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme in order to fund my research at Queen’s. When I was told I was successful, my whole world changed.”

1. What does the underlined word “pinch-me” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Expected.

B．Unbelievable.

C．Awkward.

D．Anxious.

2. What happened to Emanuel in his childhood?

A．His father was mentally ill.

B．He was abandoned by his mother.

C．He was once adopted by his relatives.

D．He lived with his friends now and then.

3. How did Emanuel afford his university education?

A．By receiving a regular student loan.

B．By earning the tuition all by himself.

C．By borrowing the money from friends.

D．By getting support from the government.

4. What can we learn from Emanuel’s story?

A．Well begun is half done.

B．It’s never too old to learn.

C．You are the master of your life.

D．Lost time is never found again.

9 . My husband and I were cleaning windows together yesterday. We have the double-hung(双吊钩)__________that you can pull forward and flip (翻转)， allowing us to clean the inside and the outside surfaces.

My husband was washing one window---and it popped out(跳出) of its frame! Well, our house is for sale and the last thing we needed was for something to ________.

He was so worried and tried with all his strength to get it ________ together, using a few less than pleasant words(I am sorry to say). After twenty minutes he still could not get it ________. that’s when my 23-year-old son told his dad to ________ for a minute and he would try to fix with me.

It’s amazing how you can see things more clearly and do things more ________ when you are _______. He and I fixed the window in three minutes! I called my husband in to see! He couldn’t _______ it!

I know this isn’t really a gift _________, in a way, it was. My son _______ my husband to leave, to cool down, and ________ him from   the worry for a moment. And my son fixing it with me was a ________ to me, because I saw him as a man instead of the kid he always seems to be in my _________.

Calm is good. Breathe through __________ times and maybe even take a break from stressful times. Return with a clear mind and things will usually _______ much better!

1.

A．doors

B．chairs

C．tables

D．windows

2.

A．break

B．dirty

C．lose

D．fly

3.

A．up

B．away

C．out

D．back

4.

A．separated

B．delivered

C．fixed

D．added

5.

A．put away

B．walk away

C．give away

D．take away

6.

A．fortunately

B．difficulty

C．slowly

D．easily

7.

A．calm

B．equal

C．nervous

D．frightened

8.

A．hate

B．doubt

C．believe

D．satisfy

9.

A．or

B．so

C．and

D．but

10.

A．asked

B．forced

C．ordered

D．promised

11.

A．kept

B．freed

C．saved

D．protected

12.

A．surprise

B．wonder

C．gift

D．hurt

13.

A．power

B．hand

C．turn

D．eyes

14.

A．easy

B．happy

C．exciting

D．difficult

15.

A．break out

B．turn out

C．pull out

D．make out

10 . The first patient who died on my watch was an older man with a faulty heart. We tried to slow it down with treatment, but it suddenly stopped beating completely. Later, whenever I would have a case like that one, I found myself second-guessing my clinical management. However, it turns out that thinking twice may actually cause more harm than good.

In a working paper, Emory University researchers found that when doctors delivering a baby have a bad result, they are more likely to switch to a different delivery method with the next patient, often unnecessarily and sometimes with worse results.

Because doctors make so many decisions that have serious consequences, the fallout from second-guessing appears especially large for us. A 2006 study found that if a patient had a bleed after being prescribed (开药) warfarin, the physician was about 20% less likely to prescribe later patients the blood thinner that prevents strokes (中风). However, if a patient was not on warfarin and had a stroke physicians were still no more likely to prescribe warfarin to their other patients.

These findings highlight interesting behavioral patterns in doctors. In the blood-thinner study, doctors were more affected by the act of doing harm (prescribing a blood thinner that ended up hurting doctors were more affected by the act of doing harm(prescribing a blood thinner that ended up hurting a patient) and less affected by letting harm happen (not prescribing a blood thinner and the patient having a stroke). Yet a stroke is often more permanent and damaging than a bleed.

But this phenomenon is not unique to medicine. ''Overreaction to Fearsome Risks'' holds true for broader society.

For instance, sensational headlines about shark attacks on humans in Florida in 2001 caused a panic and led the state to prohibit shark-feeding expeditions. Yet shark attacks had actually fallen that year and, according to the study, such a change was probably unnecessary given the extremely small risk of such an attack happening.

Humans are likely to be influenced by emotional and often irrational (不理性的) thinking when processing information, bad events and mistakes. As much as we don't want to cause an unfortunate event to happen again, we need to be aware that a worst situation that can be imagined doesn't necessarily mean we did anything wrong. When we overthink, we fail to rely on thinking based on what we know or have experienced. Instead, we may involuntarily overanalyze and come to the wrong conclusion.

I have treated dozens of patients who presented with the same illnesses as my first patient, who died more than a year ago. Instead of second-guessing myself, I trusted my clinical instinct (本能) and stayed the course. Every one of those patients survived. You should trust your instinct in your life, too.

1. The first two paragraphs suggest that________.

A．bad medical outcomes affect doctors

B．delivering babies can be difficult work

C．some doctors are not very experienced

D．doctors sometimes make silly mistakes

2. In the blood-thinner study, doctors________.

A．tend to prescribe less effective medicine

B．are more concerned about the patients' safety

C．become less confident in writing a prescription

D．believe a stroke is more treatable than a bleeding

3. What does the underlined word ''fallout'' in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Result

B．Benefit

C．Difference

D．Absence

4. The author will probably agree that________.

A．we should not doubt our own decisions

B．our experience will pave way for our future

C．humans are emotional and irrational on the whole

D．instincts don't necessarily lead to wrong directions