1 . 21世纪英语报拟举行“奥运冠军永不言弃的精神给我的启迪”主题英文征文活动，请据此投稿，内容包括：
1.奥运冠军给我的启迪，如：他们全力以赴，追求卓越，永不言弃；
2.我今后的计划或梦想；
3.如何实现自己的计划或梦想。
注意：
1.词数应为80左右；
2.可以当增加细节，使行文连贯。

The Enlightenment from Olympic Champions

As we all know, Chinese athletes got remarkable achievements in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

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2 . For the past three months, I have been moonlighting (兼职) as a tea lady. A few weeks into lockdown and at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, my father’s care home had become desperately understaffed. So I volunteered my services.

I will admit that I also wanted to keep an eye on my father. Ever since he was diagnosed with dementia (痴呆), I had become concerned about his well-being. So I. turned up, put on a plastic apron and began wheeling a teapot around the ground floor.

It was a peculiar kind of job at first. I saw how the carers were putting themselves on the line every day. And how do you ask a dementia patient who has lost almost all their powers of speech and hearing how many sugars they want in their tea? I would often come away sweating. And saddened. The home lost a lot of patients to COVID-19 in a short span of time and seeing the suddenly empty beds was shocking.

But it was also - surprisingly - good fun. There were jokes shared by carers and the stories the elderly residents told. The place grew on me until it became the highlight of my day. I looked forward to seeing the old lady who would say “Thank you” and blow me a kiss every time I left her a cup of tea. Another said he’d started painting later in life and now his amazing work hung all around his room. And there was a former university lecturer who had researched nursing and never left a crossword unfinished.

The figures I had passed so often taught me that sitting by a sunny window drinking a cup of warm tea held its value. I have read about the meditative (冥想的) effects of running and I found the same absorbing feeling in the ritual of making tea. It is simple, wholesome, and brings calmness. To me, this has been lockdown’s greatest gift.

1. Why did the author choose to volunteer in the care home?

A．Because it was short of workers.	B．Because she was free at that time.
C．Because her father wanted her company.	D．Because she was interested in voluntary work.

2. What made the work of making tea difficult in the care home?

A．The huge needs of tea from the patients.

B．The increasing seriousness of COVID-19.

C．The failure of speaking and hearing of some patients.

D．The lack of natural resources during the lockdown.

3. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．The knowledge the author learned.	B．The daily life in the care house.
C．The challenges of making tea.	D．The great fun the job brings.

4. What does the author want to tell us through this passage?

A．It is never too late to learn.	B．The parent-child relationship is the most important.
C．Sometimes we should value little things.	D．Where there is a will, there is a way.

3 . Useful quotes

a) “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”. — Hellen Keller
b) “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
c) “Tough times never last but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller
d) “It is hard to fail, but it worse to never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
e) When one door of happiness closes, another opens.” — Helen Keller
1. Which quotes are about cheering up?

A．a) and c)

B．b) and d)

C．c) and e)

D．d) and e)

2. When you failed in the exam which quotes may encourage you?

A．a) and b)

B．b) and c)

C．d) and e)

D．b) and d)

3. Which quote has the same meaning as “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ”

A．a)

B．b)

C．c)

D．d)

4 . Jenny was a little girl who was not very confident. She always lowered her ________ because she didn’t think she was beautiful enough all the time. One day she went to a shop to ________ a green bow (蝴蝶结). The shopkeeper constantly praised she looked very beautiful with it. Though she didn’t ________ that, Jenny was so ________ that she couldn’t help raising her head.

Jenny happened to meet her teacher when she went into the classroom. “Jenny, it’s ________ beautiful when you ________ your head,” said the teacher.

That day Jenny got the ________ from many people. She ________ it must be because of the bow. When she looked in the mirror (镜子), there wasn’t any ________ on her head. She must have ________ it when she went out of the shop and bumped against(撞到)someone else.

Self-confidence is originally (本来) a kind of ________, but many people ________ so much about their appearance (外表) that they lose a lot of ________. Poor or ________, pretty or plain, as long as you, raise your head, it can make you ________.

1.

A．hand

B．head

C．foot

D．arm

2.

A．buy

B．explore

C．improve

D．confuse

3.

A．recognize

B．revise

C．quit

D．believe

4.

A．sad

B．happy

C．nervous

D．lonely

5.

A．luckily

B．formally

C．really

D．wonderfully

6.

A．nodded

B．raised

C．lowered

D．decorated

7.

A．smile

B．encouragement

C．praise

D．behavior

8.

A．thought

B．preferred

C．doubted

D．admired

9.

A．bow

B．teacher

C．shopkeeper

D．weather

10.

A．got

B．lost

C．found

D．attracted

11.

A．response

B．joke

C．beauty

D．art

12.

A．care

B．worry

C．argue

D．bring

13.

A．view

B．source

C．site

D．joy

14.

A．enjoyable

B．delighted

C．boring

D．rich

15.

A．proud

B．content

C．lovely

D．amazed

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。

Like every boy there ever was, what Kyle Hrenwood most wanted in this world was a dog. Unfortunately for Kyle, his mom didn’t think he was responsible enough.

The day before Kyle’s thirteenth birthday, he went to the park and found a woman sobbing. He was immediately worried. Was the woman hurt?

He bent over and said “Miss, Are you OK? Do you want me to call anyone?” The woman shook her head and said, “My husband died two weeks ago, and I feel alone. We’d been together for thirty years. I can’t stand the silence inside that house. I’m Deidre. What’s your name?”

Kyle introduced himself and they talked for a long time. Kyle’s encounter with Deidre left him very sad, and he decided to go home. “Mom,” he said. “I don’t want to get married.” “Why not?” asked Kyle’s mom. “What if you spend thirty or forty years with someone,” Kyle said. “And then he is dead, and you’re alone?” Mom said, “Then you’ll miss out on love. You see, if you protect yourself from feeling pain, you’re cutting yourself off from happiness. You may discover those thirty years alone are not worth living.”

The next day, he had one of the biggest surprises and greatest joys of his life—a puppy! That was when he remembered Deidre was alone in her huge house.

A few hours later, Kyle knocked on Deidre’s door holding the puppy. He said, “Today is my birthday, and my parents gave me this puppy. You need this puppy more than I do.” “Give my heart to an animal just so it can die in a few years’ time?” Deidre asked bitterly. “I don’t think so. I don’t need any more pain in my life!”

“My mom said that if you protect yourself from feeling pain, you’re cutting yourself off from happiness. too,” Kyle said.

“You’re right, Kyle!” Deidre said. “I do need this puppy. Maybe you can visit us both; I’ve never had a dog before and may need some advice!”

Over the next few years, Kyle and Deidre, and Max (that was the dog’s name) became great friends. Then Kyle’s dad was offered a job in another state, and the family moved away.

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。

Kyle grew up and fell in love, and his wedding was drawing near.

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“This is Gemma, Max’s daughter,” Deidre said.

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6 . When apologizing, make sure it is about them and not you

Last week, I asked my Instagram community to submit questions, and this one stood out to me. “I’ve hurt someone I love. She hates me. How do I say I am sorry?” We’ve all been there. We’ve all hurt someone we love –to various degrees.     1    

You probably hold powerful beliefs about apologizing. Explore any hesitation or fears you may have. It can be helpful to reflect on how your family has dealt with mistakes and forgiveness while you were growing up.     2    If apologizing is new to you, validate (证实) how scary and uncomfortable it may feel to admit you were wrong.

    3    Why do you want to apologize? Is it sincere or manipulative (善于欺骗他人的)? Did you do something that actually deserves an apology or are you trying to keep peace? Before apologizing, pause and reflect on why you are saying sorry.

Make sure not to make it about you. Although you might regret your actions and feel all the feelings, this is not a time or place when they should be comforting you.    4     It’s about them and their hurt. It’s about you showing them that you understand how you hurt them, taking responsibility, and changing your behavior from now on.

An apology is not a magic cure.     5       It will take time for the relationship to repair and perhaps shift into its new dynamic (动态). An apology can strengthen a relationship, but it may also just allow you to part ways in a friendly way.

A．Your feelings count.

B．Your intention matters.

C．It’s not about you right now.

D．Here are several things to keep in mind.

E．This is not a circumstance for you to flee.

F．Has your family modelled what an apology sounds like?

G．Just because you apologized, it doesn’t mean everything will go back to normal.

7 . Last summer, my fiance Eugeniu and I decided to drive to Provence for a holiday. The weather was beautiful, but then, about 700km into the journey, it suddenly _______. I’d never seen the sky go so dark; the rain was heavy. We _______ a tunnel and when we came out onto a _______, the visibility was so bad that we could hardly see a meter in front of us.

_______, we had the odd sensation that the car was lifting at the front. The next second, we were _______ into nothing. On the way down, Icould hear rock pieces hitting the car and my heart pounding to my chest. After that, there was _______

Our car ended up landing on a road below the bridge. We were still _______, but I was in shock. I hadn’t _______ what was happening and was still thinking about my holiday. I had no idea the bridge had _______ — thought it might have been an earthquake.

At first we shouted, but then stopped because we didn’t want to lose ________ and pass out. We tried calling an ambulance, but there was no ________ under the rock pieces. My leg was bleeding and I was too tense — because of the ________ I didn’t feel pain. My fiancé had broken his neck. Rescue workers eventually found us while saving a man whose van was ________ from another section of the bridge above us. We’d been down there for four hours by the time we were pulled out.

It was only afterwards in the hospital that I realized the ________ of the tragedy — 43 people had died. Before, we had focused on earning money. When we went on this holiday, I had lovely clothes and shoes in my suitcase, and they were all buried under the ruin. Maybe that was a sign that these things don’t really ________.

1.

A．cleared

B．switched

C．warmed

D．worsened

2.

A．crawled in

B．went through

C．looked for

D．emerged from

3.

A．road

B．stage

C．beach

D．bridge

4.

A．At any price

B．From side to side

C．Back and forth

D．Out of nowhere

5.

A．falling

B．running

C．turning

D．disappearing

6.

A．surprise

B．relief

C．silence

D．luck

7.

A．conscious

B．excited

C．curious

D．panicked

8.

A．felt

B．noticed

C．processed

D．expected

9.

A．landed

B．reopened

C．collapsed

D．disappeared

10.

A．face

B．confidence

C．weight

D．strength

11.

A．signal

B．assistance

C．feeling

D．demand

12.

A．medication

B．rescue

C．stress

D．hunger

13.

A．missing

B．hanging

C．escaping

D．calling

14.

A．scale

B．urgency

C．origin

D．process

15.

A．differ

B．function

C．hurt

D．matter

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The day was Thankful Thursday, our “chosen day” of service. It’s a weekly tradition that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out in the world and make a positive contribution, however small it is. On this particular Thursday, we had no idea exactly what we were going to do, but we knew that something would present itself.

Driving along a busy Houston road,I prayed for guidance in our quest to fulfill our weekly Act of Kindness.Around the noon hour, my two little ones wasted no time in letting me know their hunger, chanting, “McDonald’s, McDonald’s, McDonald’s“ as we drove along. And I began searching earnestly for the nearest McDonald’s. Suddenly I realized that almost every crossroad I passed through was occupied by a beggar. And then it hit me!

If my two little ones were hungry, then all these beggars must be hungry, too. Perfect! Our Act of Kindness had presented itself. We were going to buy lunch for the beggars. After finding a McDonald’s and ordering two Happy Meals for my girls, I ordered an additional 15 lunches and we set out to deliver them. It was exciting. We would pull alongside a beggar, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better. Then we’d say, “Oh, by the way... here’s lunch.” And then we would head to the next crossroad.

It was the best way to give. There wasn’t enough time for us to introduce ourselves or explain what we were going to do, nor was there time for them to say anything back to us. The Act of Kindness was anonymous and empowering for each of us, and we loved what we saw in the rear view mirror: a surprised and delighted person holding up his lunch bag and just looking at us as we drove off. It was wonderful!

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。
We had come to the end of our “route” and there was a small woman standing there, asking for change.
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She just looked at me with her huge brown eyes and said, “Oh honey, I’m not going to eat this lunch. This is my daughter’s favorite.”
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9 . Veteran (老兵) Willenbring has always been a fighter. She grew up with her parents on the West Coast during an adolescence she describes as sometimes _______. But the military struck Willenbring as a way to _______ the aggression she says built up during an unstable upbringing. In 1998, she joined the army and was _______ to a foreign country.

“We were actually part of the initial _______to go into the country,” she says. “And I can’t even describe the _______.” In the scenes of destruction, Willenbring recalled some ordinary sights that briefly woke her from the stress of the war every night. As her mission came to an end, her luck ran out. She ended up severely _______ and had to be taken away in an air ambulance.

She _______ returned to her home country, and spent three years living in her hometown, a city called Salem. She _______ to adjust to civilian life. Fireworks would _______ particularly difficult episodes. “I had PTSD (创伤后应激障碍) so badly that I could not ________ living in a city anymore,” she says.

Instead, in 2010 Willenbring ________ on a plot with sheep in rural Oregon. The sheep, she says, have helped her manage her trauma symptoms. She’s surrounded by animals that ________ her emotions and can tell her own mood.

The ________ rural life is an apparent contrast to the chaos of battle. Willenbring hasn’t had a major ________related to her PTSD for eight years. Farming has its dramas, she says, “but it is also something that is about creation, about ________ over death rather than death over life.”

1.

A．violent

B．graceful

C．cheerful

D．sad

2.

A．encourage

B．channel

C．resist

D．ignore

3.

A．sent

B．delivered

C．brought

D．led

4.

A．government

B．police

C．force

D．organization

5.

A．situation

B．scenery

C．background

D．chaos

6.

A．punished

B．neglected

C．embarrassed

D．injured

7.

A．hardly

B．temporarily

C．immediately

D．cautiously

8.

A．struggled

B．managed

C．hesitated

D．pretended

9.

A．extend

B．trigger

C．pause

D．shrink

10.

A．go with

B．begin with

C．deal with

D．negotiate with

11.

A．settled

B．went

C．relied

D．lay

12.

A．control

B．mirror

C．express

D．hide

13.

A．tough

B．uneasy

C．peaceful

D．challenging

14.

A．element

B．reason

C．method

D．episode

15.

A．kindness

B．gratitude

C．victory

D．life

10 . Driving on the mountain road where I live can be both a delight and an adventure. Yet, you should also watch for deer and squirrels _______ the road as well as fallen trees and rocks that may break loose from and _______down the side of the hill.

I _______ upon one big rock just the other day. I saw a car just ahead of me narrowly turn around it. But the stone was _______ there, which might cause traffic accidents. I turned round and then _______ over to a wide spot. I knew a rock of this _______ would break parts of a low riding car like mine if the driver didn’t see it _______. So I walked over and moved the huge stone. It must have weighed 50 pounds, but with all my strength, I removed it. I felt relieved and walked back to my car.

The happening reminded me too of an old _______ I had read once: In a faraway land, a king had placed a huge rock on the way to his palace. Many nobles walked by and surrounded it, complaining that the king didn’t keep the road up better. Finally, a _______ farmer pulling a cart (马车) of vegetables arrived. He ________ and pushed the rock off the road. Then he saw under it was a bag of gold coins that the king had left for the one who ________the path for those who came after. Later, he was not as badly off as before.

Now while there wasn’t any ________ under the rock I moved, my heart did feel more ________as I was driving back home. Maybe the real ________ is the joy we spread, and the ________ we share.

1.

A．destroying

B．beatifying

C．crossing

D．transforming

2.

A．set

B．fall

C．tear

D．burn

3.

A．came

B．stepped

C．beat

D．looked

4.

A．seldom

B．ever

C．already

D．still

5.

A．watched

B．pulled

C．knocked

D．handed

6.

A．size

B．quantity

C．length

D．smoothness

7.

A．in turn

B．in time

C．at least

D．at break

8.

A．story

B．hole

C．noble

D．saying

9.

A．greedy

B．poor

C．frank

D．lazy

10.

A．wandered

B．hesitated

C．stopped

D．continued

11.

A．reached

B．followed

C．designed

D．cleared

12.

A．treasure

B．joy

C．barriers

D．vegetables

13.

A．anxious

B．outgoing

C．awkward

D．golden

14.

A．trial

B．source

C．reward

D．tool

15.

A．vision

B．kindness

C．honesty

D．wealth