1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Experiences are acquired through our journey in life； we choose and create our beliefs, fears and opinions     1     (base) on all our experiences in life. Even though things and life are the way they are, we all have different opinions and beliefs about everything and everybody. Other people have opinions about us too. But     2     really matters is the opinion we have about     3     (we). You either choose to accept and follow what other people believe     4     decide to be yourself and live according to the reality of life.

    5     living life as it is and being yourself, you create an image about yourself. It is extremely important     6     (understand) how this image, created by your beliefs and imagination, directs and influences your     7     (grow). This image that you create about yourself     8     (determine) who you are and how you feel; it determines how successful you become in life. Everything starts in the mind. If you really want to accomplish your dreams, picture yourself having and living the life you want. Believe in yourself and be     9     (confidence)! It doesn’t matter how bad or difficult the     10     (circumstance) may look like. In short, you are as happy or sad as you see yourself.

2 . 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。每处错误仅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。

The wind was blowing hard as two boys were in their way to school. They met an old man, which could hardly walk. Just as they passed her, the strong wind blew the old man's hat off. It was carried quickly up the street, but the old man was not able run after it. "My boys, please picking up my hat," cried the old man. However, the boys burst into laughters and stood still. They thought it was fun to see the hat blowing about. Just then a little girl came. She ran at once but caught the hat. Then she careful wiped the hat clean before handing it to the old man. Seeing that, the boys were stopped laughing.

3 . The Benefits of Keeping a Journal

If you want to grow, one important thing you should do is keeping a journal. It may seem simple, but it can make a big difference in your life.     1     And to be honest, I can’t imagine what my life would be like without it. Here are some benefits you will get by keeping a journal.

It prevents you from losing an idea. Have you ever gotten an idea only to lose it later because you didn’t write it down?     2     But then I developed the habit of writing down every idea that came into my mind as soon as possible.

    3     By reviewing your journal, you can quickly see the lessons you’ve learned and the ideas you’ve gotten. Then you can do whatever necessary to avoid repeating the same mistakes. You can use the ideas to push yourself forward.

It allows you to see the progress over time. After keeping a journal for years, you can look back at it and see how far you’ve gone. Things that were big problems in the past might seem small today.     4    

It helps you expand your ideas. When you try to come up with a sentence to express an idea, you are thinking actively about it.     5     In the end, you expand your ideas.

A．It aims to express your ideas.

B．I often experienced that myself.

C．And the raw ideas in the past might have been realized today.

D．It helps you review all the lessons you’ve learned.

E．Just use whatever tool you feel comfortable with.

F．Active thinking helps you connect your idea to another one.

G．Keeping a journal has become a habit for me.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

“Leave a place better than you found it.” is a simple philosophy that I hold dear. I led 20 volunteers   to   help   clean   up   the   Great   Wall   in   April.   Tile   Great   Wall   is   one   of   the     1     (great)structures in the world. Everyone has a responsibility to protect it.

I first went to China to visit the Great Wall in 1986. Since 1990, I     2     (stay)in China with my family,     3     (spend)more than 2,700 days on the Great Wall. I have written several books on the subject, and also fronted documentaries.

I am credited with arousing China’s     4     (nation) consciousness to protect the Great Wall and its environment and I have held several exhibitions.     5     (protect) the Great Wall and assume the role     6     its international ambassador, I got permanent residency（居住权） in China. I live in a village below the Great Wall.

It’s a good thing that people are going out to enjoy     7     (they) and to discover tire great heritage and history, but     8     is also quite dangerous if they don’t understand     9     fragile the environment is. Every person can make a     10     (different). If we can get everybody to protect the environment, the world will be more green, beautiful and healthy.

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

It was the first day of our new grade. Everyone in the classroom was chatting happily, excited to see each other again after the long holidays. When the door slid open, all of us stopped talking and turned to look. In came our teacher Ms. Sullivan, followed by an ordinary-looking boy,

“This boy’s name is Rafael.” Ms. Sullivan announced. “He’s a transfer student (转校生), and he’s going to be in our class starting from today. Make sure all of you welcome him warmly.”

The class clapped. But I didn't want to have a second look at the newcomer, for he had no outstanding qualities considering his small figure and casual T-shirt.

“Oh, I forgot to mention one thing.” Ms. Sullivan spoke up. “Rafael actually has hearing problems. Normally he would have hearing aids on, but his old ones have just been broken.

His doctor suggested that he stay at home until he got his new ones. However, Rafael insisted on attending his first day of school. So if you want to communicate with him, you have to write it on a piece of paper.”

This single speech sent the whole class up into an uproar (嘈杂). Some students looked at each other with expressions of surprise. Others voiced cries of concern out of pity.

Ms. Sullivan calmed everyone down. “I’d like someone to personally help him out throughout the day. Do I have any volunteers?”

“How can a disabled person be intelligent?” I thought to myself. I refused to raise my hand, expecting someone else would. But nobody did or said anything. Dead silence spread across the classroom.

It was by total bad luck that my eyes happened to meet Ms. Sullivan's.

“How about you, James?” She asked me. “Is it okay for you to take care of Rafael just for today?”

It is difficult to refuse a request by someone, especially if that person is a teacher. I sighed and nodded slightly. Ms. Sullivan gestured for Rafael to sit beside me and then asked us to share our holiday stories with the class.

Paragraph 1:

Immediately, the class became excited.

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Paragraph 2:

Then Rafael rose and walked onto the platform.

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6 . Since I was young, I’ve noticed ______ in people’s hairstyles, clothes, facial expressions, behaviors. I like noticing the world around me and I ______ the power of paying attention.

I grew up on our family farm. My grandpa always had an eye on the sky, ______ the clouds and their various colors. He knew when the soybeans got the ______ of brown paper bags it was time to ______. Farming is about noticing and paying attention.

My mother and grandmother ______ everything from curtains to clothes. My mother made quite a few of my ______ and her pattern work was so ______. My Aunt Becky knit socks and sweaters. The patterns looked like a foreign language to me, but they were road maps she followed ______. If she noticed a ______ stitch (针), she would follow seriously ______. The women in my family practiced demanding crafts, requiring precision and an eye for ______, attention to color combinations, a love of a ______world.

Noticing was all ______ me. It was the clothes on my body, the ______ in the fields, and the clouds in the sky.

I’m teaching how to write and seeing details is my job. Nothing is too small to ______. Paying attention is my occupation. Through paying attention to my ______ carefully, I can get to know more about them than before. So if I notice that their eyes look ______ instead of bright, I will know ______. The world is made up of one detail after another, and by opening my eyes to each of them, I can see the world much more ______, much more broadly.

1.

A．decorations

B．inventions

C．figures

D．changes

2.

A．believe in

B．think of

C．talk about

D．laugh at

3.

A．introducing

B．complaining

C．interpreting

D．painting

4.

A．shape

B．color

C．weight

D．size

5.

A．grow

B．water

C．weed

D．harvest

6.

A．sewed

B．bought

C．showed

D．designed

7.

A．bags

B．beds

C．clothes

D．books

8.

A．quiet

B．precise

C．simple

D．patient

9.

A．badly

B．carelessly

C．rudely

D．seriously

10.

A．dropped

B．broken

C．sharpened

D．shortened

11.

A．yet

B．too

C．again

D．though

12.

A．news

B．sky

C．detail

D．money

13.

A．patterned

B．wandering

C．rough

D．simple

14.

A．for

B．around

C．like

D．over

15.

A．farmers

B．workers

C．fruits

D．crops

16.

A．hear

B．ignore

C．concern

D．share

17.

A．parents

B．colleagues

C．neighbors

D．students

18.

A．big

B．dull

C．open

D．clever

19.

A．what

B．how

C．why

D．which

20.

A．clearly

B．bravely

C．hopefully

D．easily

7 . Can you be too beautiful? It is hardly a problem that most of us have to bother—as much as we might like to dream that it were the case.

Yet the blessings and curses of beauty have been a long-standing interest in psychology. Do those blessed with shiny faces and an attractive body live in a cloud of appreciation—or does it sometimes pay to be ordinary?

Combing through decades of findings, social psychologists Lisa Slattery Walker and Tonya Frevert at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have reviewed all the evidence to date and their conclusions are not what you might expect.

At the most basic level, beauty might be thought to carry a kind of halo(光环) around it; we see that someone has one good quality, and by association, our deep mind may assume that they have other good ones too.

Even in the courts, a pleasing appearance can work its magic. Attractive criminals are likely to get less strict sentences, or to escape punishment entirely; attractive plaintiffs, meanwhile, are more likely to win their case and get bigger financial settlements. “It’s an effect seen everywhere,” says Walker.

But if beauty pays in most circumstances, there are still situations where it can have opposite results. While attractive men may be considered better leaders, for instance, hidden sexist prejudices can work against attractive women, making them less likely to be hired for high-level jobs that require power. And as you might expect, good-looking people of both sexes run into envy—one study found that if you are interviewed by someone of the same sex, they may be less likely to employ you if they judge that you are more attractive than they are.

More worryingly, being beautiful or handsome could harm your medical care. We tend to link good looks to health, meaning that illnesses are often taken less seriously when they affect the good-looking. When treating people for pain, for instance, doctors tend to take less care over the more attractive people.

And the bubble of beauty can be a somewhat lonely place. One study in 1975, for instance, found that people tend to move further away from a beautiful woman on the pathway — perhaps as a mark of respect, but still making interaction more distant. “Attractiveness can convey more power over visible space—but that in turn can make others feel they can’t approach that person,” says Frevert. Interestingly, the online dating website OKCupid recently reported that people with the most beautiful pictures are less likely to find dates than those with less perfect pictures.

Ultimately, Frevert points out that focusing too much on your appearance can itself be harmful if it creates stress and anxiety — even for those already blessed with good looks. “If you are crazy about attractiveness, it may affect your experience and interactions,” she says. It’s an outdated saying, but no amount of beauty can make up for a bad personality. As the writer Dorothy Parker put it so elegantly: “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

1. From paragraph 1, we can learn that _______.

A．some may be bothered by their unattractive appearance

B．most people are not afraid of being too beautiful

C．we might always dream about being bothered by others

D．being too beautiful can be a problem bothering everyone

2. Which is the benefit for beautiful people?

A．Good-looking people are often regarded as having many good qualities.

B．Beautiful criminals are more likely to persuade the judge and win the case.

C．An attractive plaintiff has more chances to get away with punishment.

D．Women with pleasing appearance will always be considered as better leaders.

3. The writer mentioned the underlined sentence in the last paragraph to _______.

A．persuade us to pay more attention to our looks from now on

B．suggest that beauty can help make a better personality

C．encourage us to focus more on improving our personality

D．ask ugly people to have more confidence in their personality

4. What might be the best title for the passage?

A．Real Beauty	B．Sexist Prejudice
C．Blessed with Beauty	D．Beauty, a Blessing?

8 . When I first got to the dojo( 柔道馆) at around 6, the first thing that I remember seeing was these groups of people,lined up to fight each other, which shook me. I really didn't want to come back. But I did. I stayed until my Blue Belt. After that, progressing was a little frightening. But my friends and instructors got me to keep coming.

I was progressing well, but that took a turn as soon as I reached the Red Belt. My parents were switching jobs, and it was very difficult to match our schedules so that I could come to the dojo. During that year, I didn't come to the dojo as much. It was hard for my parents, as well as myself, to be able to fit it into our schedule as often.

When I finally started coming regularly, it was bitter for me to see that all of my friends and peers were ahead. And that taught me a lesson: You should never be upset about yourself if other people are achieving something that you aren't.If anything, you should do the opposite for them. After that year, everything was back up to speed, and I entered Level 3. I couldn't believe how fast my training was going, and I was finally into the Brown Belt.

Getting through the Brown Belt tests as a young student, and a girl, was very tough. And here, in one of the last stages before my First Degree Black Belt, I learned the biggest lesson - - I could do anything that I wanted to and I was capable of anything that I set my mind to. I just didn't think I could. But I proved myself wrong, and I was able to do it.

Finally, getting my First Degree Black Belt is a dream that comes true, literally. I have been dreaming about these days for months on end, and it never loses the excitement that it gives me. And even after my ceremony, I think I will I look back on this day，and remember every second，every moment.

1. How did the author feel when she first got to the dojo?

A．Scared.	B．Thrilled.
C．Annoyed.	D．Disappointed.

2. What made the author unable to come to the dojo regularly?

A．Her dislike of her instructors.

B．Her parents' not supporting her.

C．Her little progress in the training.

D．Her parents' changes of jobs.

3. The author thinks that when others did better than you, you should

A．be respectful to them	B．be happy for them
C．learn from them modestly	D．work harder and harder

4. Which saying can conclude the biggest lesson the author learned?

A．No pain, no gain.

B．Well begun is half done.

C．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

D．All things are difficult before they are easy.

9 . A number of years ago I lost all of the hearing in one of my ears overnight. At first, it seemed like it could be a minor _______. Two days later, I was supposed to perform at an event, and I sat ___my turn in the dark,____some medicine from my doctor with orange juice. The hearing didn’t____. Soon after, I was____I had a brain tumor (肿瘤). The following ___left me exhausted and I was spending more time alone; but that____me with a lot more time for art.

I had spent most of my time in college studying _____and wishing there was a ______to combine technology with the work instead of just using computers as a tool. As a girl who had spent most of my time _____, it had simply never _____to me or anyone else that I could do technical work. In the 90s, that didn’t even ___. But, later, as part of the Design and Technology department at Parsons, I went through a crash ___in hardware and software engineering and fell in love with it for the purpose of art.

So as my body was ____well, I began doing small _____at night: sketches(素描), models, studying circuits(电路). I was_____that if anything happened to my other____, I wouldn’t be able to communicate. As I focused on the reality of daily____failure in my own life, I began to pay more attention to the physical objects such as our phones, our Internet, our radios, etc. I began building objects to____possible future disasters of communication in our society.

Over these years of hard work, the most______things I’ve learned are that we have to make our own opportunities, we have to make time for the work, and we can’t give up.

1.

A．success

B．problem

C．change

D．dream

2.

A．thinking about

B．caring about

C．asking for

D．waiting for

3.

A．washing down

B．taking out

C．searching for

D．paying for

4.

A．lose

B．affect

C．return

D．hurt

5.

A．agreed

B．told

C．armed

D．covered

6.

A．instruction

B．discovery

C．treatment

D．promise

7.

A．left

B．interrupted

C．rescued

D．surprised

8.

A．dance

B．computer

C．medicine

D．art

9.

A．way

B．accident

C．corner

D．luck

10.

A．reading

B．writing

C．teaching

D．drawing

11.

A．appealed

B．passed

C．occurred

D．continued

12.

A．permit

B．exist

C．end

D．move

13.

A．meeting

B．understanding

C．check

D．course

14.

A．recovering

B．running

C．playing

D．falling

15.

A．talks

B．discussions

C．experiments

D．predictions

16.

A．interested

B．afraid

C．satisfied

D．curious

17.

A．arm

B．hand

C．ear

D．leg

18.

A．power

B．heart

C．business

D．communication

19.

A．mark

B．avoid

C．accept

D．forget

20.

A．important

B．necessary

C．possible

D．difficult

10 . When I first moved to the South, I realized that I was stepping into a completely different world. New Orleans, Louisiana, was _________ any other place I had ever been to. What surprised me more than anything else was New Orleans people’s constant _________.

“What can 1 get for you, honey?” a waitress asked me on my first day in Louisiana.

I was _________. This woman didn’t know me _________ she treated me like family. She smiled down at me as I pointed to an item on the _________.

“Is the pasta good?” I asked her.

“Baby, it’s not my favorite,” she _________ with a smile.

I _________ my “family” in shock. She had given me her honest _________, as if we were best friends.

After a few years in New Orleans, I got _________ to the honeys and the babys. I also realized how comforting it is to be treated like I __________, wherever I go.

I recently went to the DMV (车管局) to update my driver’s license. As I was sitting in the __________room with at least twenty other people, a woman walked in.

“Good morning!” she __________ to the room.

“Good morning,” the whole room said back without __________. Soon the room was quiet again and everyone was comfortable with each other.

The woman took her __________, and waited with everyone else for her number to be __________.

Even after eight years of living in Louisiana, it still makes me __________ to know that I am not alone here. Someone is always __________ to say hello or lend a hand when needed. It is the kind of __________ that I have never been able to find anywhere else.

So I believe in treating people you don’t know like family, making people feel __________. No one should feel lonely even when they walk into a room full of__________.

1.

A．beside

B．beyond

C．unlike

D．opposite

2.

A．sympathy

B．friendliness

C．generosity

D．patience

3.

A．concerned

B．relieved

C．disappointed

D．astonished

4.

A．yet

B．and

C．or

D．so

5.

A．way

B．menu

C．table

D．surface

6.

A．recommended

B．admitted

C．defended

D．apologized

7.

A．talked about

B．paid for

C．looked at

D．commented on

8.

A．advice

B．belief

C．opinion

D．assistance

9.

A．addicted

B．exposed

C．committed

D．used

10.

A．belong

B．appear

C．improve

D．behave

11.

A．scary

B．noisy

C．empty

D．silent

12.

A．announced

B．pointed

C．explained

D．whispered

13.

A．inspection

B．purpose

C．hesitation

D．enthusiasm

14.

A．seat

B．recipe

C．order

D．type

15.

A．adjusted

B．called

C．dialed

D．answered

16.

A．stare

B．shout

C．swear

D．smile

17.

A．inspired

B．willing

C．touched

D．grateful

18.

A．warmth

B．effort

C．optimism

D．trust

19.

A．energetic

B．comfortable

C．satisfied

D．active

20.

A．volunteers

B．neighbors

C．friends

D．strangers