1 . A
Since I started working part-time at a grocery store, I have learned that a customer is more than someone who buys things. To me, a customer is a person whose memory fails entirely once he or she starts to push a shopping cart. One of the first things customers forget is how to count. There is no other way to explain how so many people get in their express line, which is clearly marked 15 items(件) or less, with 20, 25 or even a cart load of items.
Customers also forget why they came to the store in the first place. Just as I finish ringing up an order, a customer will say, “Oops, I forgot to pick up a fresh loaf of bread. I hope you don’t mind waiting, while I go to get it.”Five minutes later, he’s back with the bread, a bottle of milk, and three rolls of paper towels. What is strange is that customers also seem to forget that they have to pay for their groceries. Instead of writing a check or looking for a credit card while I am ringing up the groceries, a customer will wait until I announce the total. Then, in surprise, she says, “ Oh no, what did I do with my check book?” After 5 minutes of digging through her purse, she borrows my pen because she has forgotten hers. But I have to tolerate customers because they pay my salary, and that’s something I can’t afford to forget.
1. What does the author say about his customers?

A．They cannot count numbers.

B．They sometimes jump the queue.

C．They don’t know how to express themselves.

D．They behave as if their memories had totally failed.

2. According to the text, who are supposed to be in the express line?

A．Customers with nothing purchased.

B．Customers with not more than 15 items.

C．Customers with items between 16 and 25

D．customers with 25 or even a cart load of items.

3. When customers arrive at the check-out counter, they_______

A．find their pens lost

B．go back and get more items

C．cannot wait to pay for their groceries.

D．prefer paying by check to paying with a credit card.

4. We can infer from the text that ________

A．business in the grocery store runs well

B．the author finds his present job full of fun

C．the author’s part-time job calls for patience

D．customers go to grocery stores without planning.

2 . B
        When you smile, not only do you feel happy, but you also bring a ray of light into the lives of ____ . Someone once said, “ A smile is a curve (弧线) that sets everything straight, by ____ your face value.” Know that a smile is a little thing that can produce ____ results. What it takes is a smile to make short work of many difficulties, for just being happy helps others along. I’ve often ____ a smile as the touch of God given to His people.
          A day ____ a smile is to waste a day. Some people grin (咧嘴笑) and bear it, while others smile and change the world. Don’t you ____ the feelings of a returned smile? It can move into the ____ and release good into the world. It can make friends with strangers. It can bring friends closer together. It can bridge the generation gap. It can ____ the heart with love.1.

A．yourself

B．people

C．others

D．world

2.

A．increasing

B．lighting

C．rising

D．keeping

3.

A．important

B．useful

C．good

D．great

4.

A．think

B．considered

C．refer

D．count

5.

A．with

B．of

C．beyond

D．without

6.

A．love

B．refuse

C．lose

D．bear

7.

A．feelings

B．soul

C．head

D．life

8.

A．put

B．make

C．take

D．fill

3 . My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing watching him grow up.

He called out to me today saying“Papa, sit.” That usually means_______everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be stubborn and will not stop calling out until I_______. He was playing with beads (珠子) , pushing a string through them. Then after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him_______pick up each bead, look at it as if it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.

With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting_______. “What a long time it will take ! Why cannot he grab ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much_______as he had while we were playing. I didn’t see any difference between his play and his_______the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.

Then it suddenly_______me that this boy was enjoying the whole_______.The journey was his goal. For him the_______was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective to live each moment as it is the________moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else matters.

Looking at how________my son was putting beads into the box________me that the process was the goal.

1.

A．wasting

B．leaving

C．taking

D．preparing

2.

A．fell down

B．turned round

C．burst out

D．gave in

3.

A．gratefully

B．eagerly

C．carefully

D．quickly

4.

A．curious

B．satisfied

C．impatient

D．energetic

5.

A．confidence

B．strength

C．inspiration

D．involvement

6.

A．putting aside

B．giving away

C．putting away

D．setting aside

7.

A．occurred

B．flashed

C．excited

D．struck

8.

A．procedure

B．process

C．experiment

D．experience

9.

A．victory

B．challenge

C．difficulty

D．pleasure

10.

A．perfect

B．urgent

C．necessary

D．dangerous

11.

A．successfully

B．peacefully

C．responsibly

D．cautiously

12.

A．guaranteed

B．warned

C．taught

D．promised

4 . My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom (开花), _______me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and _______. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.

I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was _______ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, “Beauty has a _________. I hope it was worth it.”

“Yes, ma’ ma,” I’d say. “ _______ was.”

I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her _______. She’s been gone for years, but sometimes, when I _______ down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her _______, not mine.

I thought I’d grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I’d be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered I’d much rather run after them _______ go digging. Actually I’m no gardener. I’m a __________, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry __________ me a heart she made from her own.

I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is __________ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.

1.

A．Not

B．Even

C．Only

D．Often

2.

A．famous

B．humorous

C．caring

D．amusing

3.

A．determined

B．anxious

C．curious

D．free

4.

A．standard

B．range

C．price

D．quality

5.

A．It

B．I

C．She

D．That

6.

A．possession

B．promise

C．beauty

D．time

7.

A．climb

B．reach

C．look

D．sit

8.

A．smile

B．spirit

C．soul

D．hand

9.

A．than

B．until

C．unless

D．since

10.

A．worker

B．teacher

C．picker

D．farmer

11.

A．to

B．within

C．beyond

D．for

12.

A．attend

B．miss

C．promote

D．influence

5 . Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches(沟渠)along the highway I travel daily to work.
There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours; the afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers.
This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Every day I drove past the flowers thinking, "I'II stop on my way home and dig them." "Gee, I don't want to get my good clothes dirty.,." Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a folding tool one year for my trunk to be used for that expressed purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was upset to see that the highway department had removed the ditches
and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, "Way to go, you waited too long. You should have done
it when you first saw them blooming this spring."
A week ago we were shocked and sad to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a serious brain disease. She is20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we haven't been as close as we all would have liked. I couldn't help but see the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my husband's sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful
memories that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden.
1. Why does the writer want to start a wildflower garden in her yard?

A．Because the flowers bloom only in the morning hours.

B．Because she can see the flowers every day for two weeks.

C．Because the flowers can remind her of her oldest sister-in-law.

D．Because she enjoys the way of life in company with the flowers.

2. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The blue flowers in the ditches always draw my attention.

B．We don't get on well with the sister-in-law in practice.

C．I never stopped to dig the flowers for some reason.

D．The sister-in-law lives far from us.

3. According to the passage, the writer will     .

A．stop to find the flowers whenever she drives along the highway

B．plant a variety of flowers in the garden in her yard in future

C．get as wonderful memories with the sister-in-law as before

D．get more close to the sister-in-law in the following days

4. What is the theme of the story?

A．Actions speak louder than words.

B．No sweets without sweat.

C．Time and tide wait for no man.

D．Opportunity belongs to whoever is prepared.

6 . One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is____.
Once I heard a bald man said, "Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've ____what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will completely make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different ____,or forget about it and ____the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively ___ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy.
The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are ____. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.The second is ____that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience.Finally,if you choose to find the ____in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this largely depends on your decision to make.1.

A．different

B．missing

C．short

D．broken

2.

A．determined

B．predicted

C．assumed

D．imagined

3.

A．tile

B．brick

C．ceiling

D．house

4.

A．look on

B．focus on

C．count on

D．rely on

5.

A．peaceful

B．difficult

C．easy

D．ordinary

6.

A．wealthy

B．grateful

C．proud

D．generous

7.

A．admitting

B．dividing

C．proving

D．realizing

8.

A．worst

B．best

C．positive

D．negative

7 . More and more pupils are giving teachers presents, but the practice only creates insecurity in parents and staff.
I’ve certainly noticed some pupils being feverishly overgenerous of late. Last year, I received not one bottle of wine but four for helping a disaffected pupil through his GCSEs. By and large, my colleagues report the gifts differing along gender lines. Gentlemen get ties, mugs, booze and, if they’re really lucky, tickets to football matches. The ladies are often presented with flowers, jewels, chocolates and so on.
When my son was at private school, I noticed there was a real competitiveness between the students about giving presents to teachers, with expensive baskets from fancy stores and huge bouquets being handed out on the last days of term. Since my wife and I only let my son give thank-you cards, it was clear we were not “classy”. Now he is at an inner-city primary, we’ve noticed that this kind of nonsense seems to have more or less disappeared. For one thing, there isn’t that kind of money floating around – but there isn’t that kind of competitive culture either.
Personally, I think gifts to teachers should be banned beyond the thank-you card: they cause many more problems than they solve, creating insecurity in both parents and staff. Perhaps the recession and the lack of money in people’s pockets might be a good excuse for the government to issue some guidelines to schools that gifts shouldn’t be accepted by teachers.
The gifts that I really value are the cards which say a genuine thank you. I still keep them in a file at home.
1. What can the author most probably be?

A．A teacher.	B．A school nurse.
C．A researcher.	D．A gift shop owner.

2. The underlined word “nonsense” in Paragraph 3 refers to the fact that ________.

A．the son only gives thank-you cards to teachers

B．the author and his wife are not classy

C．the son goes to an inner-city primary

D．the students give gifts to teachers

3. To solve the problem, the author thinks it’s a good way to ________.

A．forbid the students to give any gifts to teachers

B．create insecurity by giving thank-you cards

C．make people have less money in pockets

D．issue some guidelines by the government

4. Which of the following can be the best title?

A．Don’t Forget to Give Gifts to Your Teachers

B．Presents Won’t Make Pupils Teachers’ Pets

C．Learn the Competitive Culture of Gifts

D．Refuse Presents from Your Students

8 . There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to ____ things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest （寻求）, ____, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to ____ what they had seen. The first son said that the tree wasugly, bent, and ____ The second son contradicted—it was covered with green buds and full of ____ The third son ____, saying it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful. It was the most graceful thing he had ____ seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and ____ with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then ____ to his sonsthat they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are—the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life—can only be ____ at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it’s winter, you will ____ the hope of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Don’t let the ____ of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don’t judge a life by one ____ season.1.

A．determine

B．judge

C．analyze

D．explore

2.

A．by chance

B．as usual

C．in turn

D．for sure

3.

A．describe

B．classify

C．compare

D．review

4.

A．twisted

B．wounded

C．woodened

D．deserted

5.

A．delight

B．pride

C．faith

D．promise

6.

A．agreed

B．approved

C．argued

D．announced

7.

A．never

B．ever

C．once

D．later

8.

A．falling

B．slipping

C．going

D．hanging

9.

A．excused

B．sighed

C．explained

D．instructed

10.

A．measured

B．considered

C．affected

D．committed

11.

A．change

B．develop

C．miss

D．taste

12.

A．comfort

B．pleasure

C．regret

D．pain

13.

A．difficult

B．magic

C．lonely

D．light

9 . 书面表达
如何理解“成功”，不同的人有不同的看法。请认真阅读下面的引语( quotation)，按要求用英语写一篇短文。
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.（热情）”
－Sir Winston, Churchill
内容要求：
1. 你对该引语的理解；
2. 你的相关经历；
3. 恰当的结尾。
注意：
1. 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 文中不能出现考生的具体信息；
3. 词数：120左右。
This quotation from Winston Churchill tells us that
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10 . My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought _______. My complaints, even self-justified shouting, were always landing on _______ ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end with their _______ into tears, I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to _______ my method of “mothering”.

One day when they were at school, I spent some time _______ their rooms. On their desks, in plain _______, I left the cards: “Dear Bill (the other card was _______ to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.” _______ arriving back, the children were _______ excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy __________ for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and __________ asking them to play a certain violin __________. Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas __________.

Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little __________: “If you can finish your homework and __________ your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in __________ of well-done jobs the day __________.

__________ I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its (贴条). The bathroom mirror became the __________ centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be posted.

We all benefited from and __________ the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication.

1.

A．indifferently

B．gratefully

C．doubtfully

D．otherwise

2.

A．side

B．deaf

C．neither

D．either

3.

A．crying

B．breaking

C．bursting

D．bumping

4.

A．adjust

B．adopt

C．access

D．addict

5.

A．clearing

B．tidying

C．emptying

D．searching

6.

A．distance

B．words

C．speech

D．sight

7.

A．sent

B．read

C．delivered

D．addressed

8.

A．As

B．At

C．In

D．Upon

9.

A．more than

B．rather than

C．no more than

D．other than

10.

A．asking

B．waiting

C．praying

D．expecting

11.

A．politely

B．happily

C．gently

D．toughly

12.

A．music

B．song

C．piece

D．tone

13.

A．respectable

B．uninteresting

C．incredible

D．fresh

14.

A．challenge

B．question

C．suggestion

D．advice

15.

A．go with

B．look up

C．go over

D．look into

16.

A．response

B．answer

C．praise

D．honor

17.

A．ahead

B．before

C．over

D．ago

18.

A．Actually

B．Even so

C．Even if

D．Though

19.

A．life

B．main

C．memory

D．reminder

20.

A．learned

B．appreciated

C．shared

D．thanked