1 . We all have memories of what our fathers enjoyed, and all the fun we had with him: travelling, reading, or exploring the neighborhood hiking trail. Each of us has treasured stories and memories of times with dad.    1    

The charm of storytelling,the fun of traveling, the immersion in a book...these are the gifts of a lifetime my father helped me unwrap.    2    All the stories he narrated to engage us and all the travels we took with him opened up a whole new world to me which was like a breath of fresh air in my life.

My father, turning 75 this year, is still a storyteller, but his exploration of the world has turned virtual. Like almost all children, I spent my twenties walking away from his stories since I was always “occupied with my work.”    3     August all expectations, I hear the unsaid health concerns and the frustration at no being able to do everything the way he used to. In contrast, I have travelled farther than he could take us, and read books much more than he ever had time outside his working hours.

    4    That lies in the things he points at and in the activities he helps us manage. He gifts us expediences of strength and courage that power us forward into the big wide world — a world he walks with us so as to better assure that we will be able to explore and navigate its nettles (荨麻) without being held back by our fears or worries.

Have you ever put your ear to a seashell and heard the waves whooshing in there? On the outside, it is a hard shell — pitted, untidily edged and boldly patterned.    5    They seem to have a tough shell, and you have to put them to your heart and listen for the waves of what they feel and whatever it is that they have left unsaid.

A．I am no exception.

B．A father brings the world to us.

C．In some ways, this describes fathers.

D．However, a father can sometimes be hard on us.

E．Inside are some valuable contents that should be treasured.

F．Now older and wiser, I restarted listening attentively to his tales.

G．As I look back on my childhood, I see loads of books and miles of travel.

2 . Ten years ago when I was diagnosed with a serious illness, my first thought was, “Why me?” And this thought _______ me throughout my journey. It wasn’t until I was _______ enough to look back that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my illness not in a bad way.

Being _______ for our past experiences and _______ can be a hard thing to do. We sometimes wish events in our past could be _______ so we could start a new life. But without these events, we wouldn’t learn, change and grow.

The day I _______ this was volunteering with my boyfriend. A friend’s wife came up to me and asked me how school was, _______ I said I didn’t like it that much. She then _______ by saying, “Well, if you hadn’t gone, you wouldn’t have met him.” and pointed at my ________.

This really opened my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life in this ________. If I hadn’t gone to that school, I would never have met my future husband. If I hadn’t battled ________ the illness, I wouldn’t have found my true ________. At first I didn’t see how my illness could have ever been a blessing. But when I looked at it as an experience for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be thankful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I gained knowledge about myself that I could ________ gain through struggle, and learned how to take care of my wants and needs in a way that made me happy.

1.

A．occupied

B．followed

C．delivered

D．stopped

2.

A．well

B．happy

C．sad

D．ill

3.

A．widened

B．shot

C．shaped

D．united

4.

A．mindful

B．thankful

C．hopeful

D．cheerful

5.

A．stories

B．replies

C．rewards

D．struggles

6.

A．swallowed

B．caught

C．swept

D．taught

7.

A．remembered

B．reminded

C．removed

D．realized

8.

A．but

B．and

C．yet

D．then

9.

A．responded

B．collected

C．corrected

D．lectured

10.

A．boyfriend

B．girlfriend

C．husband

D．teacher

11.

A．way

B．means

C．appearance

D．face

12.

A．through

B．for

C．within

D．against

13.

A．hope

B．self

C．relief

D．friend

14.

A．living

B．losing

C．recovering

D．searching

15.

A．never

B．already

C．only

D．also

3 . A professor was teaching his class. All the students were listening to his _______ with great interest. But there was one student whose_______ of mind showed he was in a bad mood.

The professor took notice of this student on the first day but did not say anything. But when this _______ for a week, he asked. “You are _______ in spirits all the time. What is the matter? Have some trouble?”

“Sir, that...” the student said. “... something has happened in my past, _______ which I remain troubled. I don’t know what to do.”

The professor was a(n) _______ good person. He called the student at his house in the evening.

When the student _______ the professor’s house, he was greeted with a _______ welcome. The professor went to the kitchen and started making lemonade for his student. He _______put more salt in the lemonade.

__________ the student had a taste of it, his mouth became sour. __________ this, the professor asked, “Did you not like the lemonade?”

“No, sir, this is not the __________. Just a little more salt in the drink,” the student said. “Now it’s useless. I will throw it away.” The professor __________ his hand to get the glass of drink from the student. But the student refused, saying, “No, sir. If you add more__________, the taste will be fine.”

Upon hearing this, the professor became serious and said, “You are right. That’s what I want to__________. Just as salt cannot be taken out of the lemonade, those bad experiences also cannot __________ life. Adding more sugar can change the taste of lemonade. In a(n) __________way, sweetness has to be dissolved (溶解) in life to forget bad experiences. I want you to take the sweetness in your life into __________ now.”

To his relief, the student __________ him and decided from then on he would not be troubled by the __________.

1.

A．custom

B．lecture

C．request

D．arrangement

2.

A．absence

B．attitude

C．presence

D．target

3.

A．held on

B．lived on

C．went on

D．moved on

4.

A．along

B．away

C．up

D．down

5.

A．due to

B．in spite of

C．in addition to

D．far from

6.

A．hardly

B．extremely

C．informally

D．previously

7.

A．arrived at

B．searched for

C．took over

D．escaped from

8.

A．rude

B．romantic

C．cold

D．warm

9.

A．purposely

B．absolutely

C．sadly

D．gratefully

10.

A．So long as

B．As soon as

C．Unless

D．Even if

11.

A．Feeling

B．Hearing

C．Seeing

D．Smelling

12.

A．deal

B．amount

C．luck

D．case

13.

A．reached

B．removed

C．released

D．relaxed

14.

A．salt

B．sugar

C．oil

D．wine

15.

A．suffer from

B．get through

C．get across

D．break up

16.

A．result from

B．be separated from

C．recover from

D．be saved from

17.

A．ultimate

B．natural

C．original

D．similar

18.

A．energy

B．advice

C．account

D．effort

19.

A．confused

B．warned

C．understood

D．rejected

20.

A．mass

B．majority

C．duty

D．past

4 . One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. But not everyone knows how we can create that foundation. The position you find yourself in today is the accumulation of the small choices that you’ve been making for years.

The ordinary choices that guarantee a strong future go unnoticed. There is no pat on the back for doing the right thing just as there is no slap on the wrist for doing the wrong thing. Reading a chapter of a great book today won’t solve your problems just as not reading it won’t make them worse. Not doing the obvious thing that positions you for future success — rarely hurts you right away. But as the days turn to weeks, weeks into years, and years into decades do the small choices create massively different results.

Whenever this idea is brought up, people are quick to interject. “I do these things and I don’t get the results.” Most of us make the right choices most of the time. But most of the time isn’t the same as all of the time.

For your choices to compound, you need to be consistent. A lack of consistency keeps ordinary people from extraordinary results. It’s like we’re Sisyphus rolling a boulder halfway up the hill, only to throw our hands in the air and go home. When we show up the next day, we see the boulder at the bottom of the hill. Not only did this undermine our progress but it makes getting started even harder.

Excelling at the small choices that compound over time perpetually (不断地) leaves you in favorable circumstances. If you want results you need to pay the price. The price is knowing that time is working on your side even when the results don’t show it yet.

When you look below the surface, giant leaps aren’t really giant leaps at all. If you look for the magic moment, you’ll miss how ordinary becomes extraordinary.

1. According to the passage, what causes most people to fail?

A．Selection difficulties.	B．Lack of perseverance.
C．Insufficient exterior support.	D．Shortage of social resources.

2. Sisyphus’s story is used to _____.

A．exhibit the way to get compound choices

B．prove that a good beginning is half success

C．emphasize the importance of being consistent

D．explain the difficulty of achieving extraordinary results

3. What’s the genre of the passage?

A．Narration.

B．Argumentation.

C．Practical writing.

D．Expository writing.

4. Which is the best title of this passage?

A．No Pains, No Gains.	B．Time Heals Everything.
C．Never Too Late to Mend.	D．Small Steps make Giant Leaps.

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。

Be yourself and always follow your heart. Never let anyone change who you are. This is the lesson I have learned from my childhood experience when I figured out I wasn’t invited to the party, Bridget’s party.

One morning, I got off the bus and saw my friends except me hugging under the tree where we used to stand. The circle seemed tighter as I approached；the white invitation cards being hastily stuffed into backpacks gave it away. I knew as well as the entire universe that Bridget’s party was this weekend. Bridget was the most popular girl in our class. She was thin and beautiful, always wearing fabulous clothes and fine makeup.

Why hadn’t she invited me? My feet were too big? No. Maybe. My face was broken out? Why did she invite every person in my group except me? I tried to think of any interactions I’d had with Bridget recently. A few days earlier, we’d been partners during a sixth period project. I was determined to get the project done and she was absorbed in looking at fashion magazines. She barely spoke to me except to say, “You’re so serious. You know, you should smile more."

Soon, I had overheard all the details about the party. They were going swimming. It was a sleepover. They were renting scary movies and were going to stay up all night. Each time someone mentioned the party, I smiled weakly and nodded, with my stomach in knots.

When having my favorite English class, I found myself just unable to concentrate on the short stories we were supposed to be reading in class. Maybe she didn’t invite me because of my coat. It is pretty ugly compared to some of the other girls’ coats. I should have bought another color. Maybe I should smile more but I just can’t get into smiling at people unless I know them really well. But I just couldn’t pretend to be the person I wasn’t. I felt sick.

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。

At lunch, my friend Kate who had been invited came over to me, trying to show off.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I was about to let it go when Bridget invited me as a substitute for a girl who couldn’t come.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6 . Whether it's the slow drifting apart from a childhood friend, the sudden, sharp distance created by a disagreement, or one of the many relationships that have quietly fallen away during the pandemic, losing someone that you thought would always be in your life is deeply jarring.

But friendship breakups will happen over the course of our lives, and we need to start learning how to deal with them in healthy ways, says friendship coach Danielle Bayard Jackson.

The most significant thing we need to do, says Jackson, is normalize the fact that sometimes friendships do end and that can actually be healthy. However, we haven't been taught to carry this expectation into our friend relationships.

“We’re not looking at our friends through a lens (透镜) of ‘Gosh,I hope this works out’, but we’ll do that with a romantic partner for sure,” says Jackson. “ With a partner, we wonder if they're going to be the one. But with friends, we assume they' re the one from the minute we establish that we like each other.”

And because we don't view the loss of a friendship as a normal occurrence, it feels like a personal failing when it happens and something we should be ashamed of. Or, as Jackson puts it, “If friendship is supposed to be easy and yours ended, what did you do wrong?”

But that isn't the case.

Friendships, like any relationship, sometimes aren't meant to be and even if they are, maintaining them takes real work. Kristen Newton has been interested in this work for years and founded HEART Convos, which aims to help people who feel stuck in unsatisfying friendships have the kind of open and honest communication that keeps a friendship healthy.

“I think we feel blindsided because we belittle the value and significance of our social connections and friendship. Yet we recognize the weight that they carry when they don't work out, and we experience that hurt and disappointment,” she says.

1. What is the text mainly about?

A．How to regain a friendship that has ended.

B．The loss of a friendship is a normal occurrence.

C．Why friendship breaks up over the course of our lives.

D．Many relationships have fallen away during the pandemic.

2. What does the underlined word “jarring” possibly mean?

A．Disturbing.	B．Inspiring.
C．Exciting.	D．Disgusting.

3. According to Jackson, a romantic partner is different from friends in that___________.

A．friends are much harder to get than a romantic partner

B．your romantic partner will be apart from you but friends never

C．you are more afraid of losing a friend than losing a romantic partner

D．you are sure who will be your friend but not sure of a romantic partner

4. Which of the following proverbs can best interpret Kristen Newton's opinion in the text?

A．All good things came to an end.

B．A life without a friend is a life without a sun.

C．We don't know what we've got until we lose it.

D．Everything is good when new, but friend when old.

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。

I truly believe the secret to a successful quit lies in the desire to quit. No     1     (program) work when you don’t really want to stop     2     (smoke). If your desire to quit is     3     (great) than your need to smoke, you will     4     (success). We all deserve.     5     smoke-free life. No matter what causes us     6     (quit) smoking or spurs (鞭策) us on, we deserve health and     7     (happy) that being smoke-free provides. You’ll have a     8     (wonder) existence without nicotine addiction. If you still struggle with the desire     9     you have to continue smoking after you’ve quit, I believe you need to re-examine your reasons     10     quitting in the first place.

8 . Over the last few weeks, I have been back and forth to the hospital and working with my doctors and medical technicians. I feel very _________ and appreciative of all the great minds and effort involved in _________ my illness. I found I have become _________ grateful to those human beings who invented the many medical _________ that have saved so many lives and _________ so much pain.

With everything I _________, I couldn’t help thinking about many life-changing _________ that we humans have come up with, from the fairly simple stethoscope (听诊器) to more _________ inventions like X-rays, and other great devices. Of course, one of the biggest, most basic inventions was the _________. It changed the world in all kinds of ways. Without wheels, we’d have no __________, such as bikes, cars, trains, or airplanes.

__________many inventions human beings have invented through the ages, I __________ some very popular inventions. It is __________ to imagine what if we live without them. These __________ things like tape, nails, Post-it notes, DNA testing, the Internet, vaccines, and medical imaging.

Some inventions were accidental __________ but many were matter of simply trying to solve a problem. If we pay attention to what we experience and really put our __________ to it, there is no reason why we couldn’t come up with some new inventions ourselves. Maybe make a list of __________ items, systems, and habits we all have, and then go up and down the list and see if we can put two or three items together in a way to come up with a new __________ or better way to handle life and the __________ in it. Give it a try and see what we can come up with, We could __________ ourselves, and others as well!

1.

A．regretful

B．grateful

C．severe

D．pure

2.

A．ignoring

B．concerning

C．curing

D．swapping

3.

A．painfully

B．specially

C．frequently

D．particularly

4.

A．devices

B．antiques

C．curtains

D．manuals

5.

A．gathered

B．threatened

C．relieved

D．detected

6.

A．suffered from

B．set down

C．packed up

D．went through

7.

A．inventions

B．shadows

C．editions

D．proofs

8.

A．pure

B．complex

C．adorable

D．contradictory

9.

A．wheel

B．train

C．airplane

D．car

10.

A．structures

B．labels

C．vehicles

D．assumptions

11.

A．Drafting

B．Reviewing

C．Adapting

D．Seizing

12.

A．switched

B．pirated

C．leaked

D．found

13.

A．hard

B．steady

C．funny

D．safe

14.

A．mean

B．expand

C．include

D．indicate

15.

A．discoveries

B．statistics

C．patents

D．observations

16.

A．principles

B．policies

C．minds

D．effects

17.

A．distinct

B．strange

C．legal

D．common

18.

A．current

B．product

C．powder

D．criterion

19.

A．challenges

B．directions

C．privacies

D．conclusions

20.

A．puzzle

B．frighten

C．annoy

D．surprise

9 . I was recently told by someone that I am a people-pleaser, a person who works hard on satisfying other people. However, this person wasn't saying it in a nice way. So what's wrong with that? What's wrong with making sure others are happy with me? Moreover, what exactly are the negative results of being a people-pleaser?

People-pleasers bum their fingers because of their "others-focused" mindset, which puts them at a disadvantage. When others are not happy, people-pleasers cannot think of anything else, nor can they enjoy the moment, because they are often disturbed with the fact that there is someone on the planet who is not satisfied with them at the moment.

People-pleasers often make promises they can't keep—they write checks they can't cash. This is the situation I found myself in recently. I made a promise to someone that I would do something for him. But it was a bit unrealistic and would take more efforts than I was willing to put in. As a result, that promise was empty. The act of making the promise made them happy, and that, in turn, made me feel satisfied.

Now that we've got an idea of the negative aspects of people-pleasers_, what can we do to get rid of those aspects? Where can we start? The biggest challenge people-pleasers must overcome is to get used to saying "no". I find that it is a struggle, indeed. However, if I want to change my ways, then I must learn to overcome that discomfort

Are you a people-pleaser too? Don't worry. It doesn't make you a bad person, or a dishonest person. But it can sometimes leave you open to unneeded anxiety or be cheated by truly selfish people who only wish to take advantage of your kindness. Keep the good intentions and the good-heartedness in your heart. Just work on how you express your real feelings and hold on to your position through your actions.

1. What does the underlined phrase 'burn their fingers” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Hurt their fingers.

B．Suffer some losses.

C．Get slightly burned.

D．Feel angry with people.

2. What is typical of a people-pleaser?

A．Breaking his word.	B．Behaving selfishly.
C．Saying no to others.	D．Cashing his checks.

3. What is the author's purpose in writing the last two paragraphs?

A．To instruct people to express true feelings.

B．To stop people-pleasers from being cheated.

C．To sum up negative aspects of pleasing others.

D．To put forward suggestions for people-pleasers.

10 . “Katy, please come to the front desk. You have a ________ here.” Immediately my sensors were on. Why? Could it be...? Is it...?

As I ________ the front desk, Sabrina sat comfortably in front of her computer. Nothing was ________. She was ________ her task at hand and hardly noticed me approaching.

“You called me?” I said, somewhat ________. For a while I became unsure that there even was a package there waiting for me. I was ________.

Sabrina looked up. “Oh yeah, the doorman brought this up and told me to give it to you.” As she ________ a brown paper bag from under her desk, ________ it over her desk from her sitting position.

“What is it?” Sabrina asked.

Once glance inside, my doubt was confirmed. ________ inside were 2 containers. could not see their ________ from my bird’s eye view but a pleasant smell had already spread the front office area.

“Someone has tagged me.” I ________ with a smile and a shake of my head I rounded the corner and ________ into the bag. I lifted a round container full of fried potatoes, finding below a larger container filled with rice and yogurt. I set the bag down and saw a(n) ________ among the containers. Inside was a beautiful card that read, “They say the world is ________. What we send out eventually finds its way back home.

I had to ________ about three times as I stared at this card. My heart was ________ fast and my body was electric with the shower of ________. I could do nothing but shake my head and smile, trying not to cry.

As I sat eating this amazingly delicious food, a ________ realization came over me. The joy and ________ that I was feeling must have been the same feeling that ________ the people to whom we gave away food on Saturday’s event! It was the exact same thing.

1.

A．call

B．visitor

C．bill

D．package

2.

A．telephoned

B．approached

C．left

D．checked

3.

A．important

B．ordinary

C．unusual

D．impossible

4.

A．focused on

B．tired of

C．satisfied with

D．used to

5.

A．excitedly

B．curiously

C．hurriedly

D．doubtfully

6.

A．stressed

B．addicted

C．confused

D．thrilled

7.

A．emptied

B．filled

C．pushed

D．pulled

8.

A．opening

B．passing

C．throwing

D．dropping

9.

A．Lying

B．Laying

C．Hiding

D．Loading

10.

A．styles

B．shapes

C．contents

D．patterns

11.

A．replied

B．requested

C．sighed

D．shouted

12.

A．reached

B．put

C．took

D．got

13.

A．photo

B．envelope

C．card

D．drawing

14.

A．big

B．flat

C．wide

D．round

15.

A．swallow

B．count

C．try

D．pray

16.

A．hurting

B．beating

C．moving

D．breaking

17.

A．sweat

B．rain

C．warmth

D．pain

18.

A．strange

B．painful

C．strong

D．different

19.

A．confusion

B．peace

C．magic

D．gratitude

20.

A．went through

B．looked through

C．lived with

D．dealt with