1 . Back in the days when I was just a young student, I was always absent from school ______, too shy to step into the public attention. My grades, though not absolutely good, was above the ______. However, an unexpected incident allowed me to______life lessons and gradually accept the challenges thrown at me.

One rainy afternoon, while walking home from school, an accident happened. A speeding car ______me, leaving me with a broken leg. Lying on my hospital bed,pain aching through my body, the reality of my situation ______. This unforeseen incident had set me back academically, and I needed to figure out how to achieve my previous______.

With the help of my parents and teachers, who ______accompanied me through the healing process, I managed to transform my ______ into a stepping stone. I began to acquire the will to push myself beyond my limits. After several months, I returned to school. My teachers had made accommodations for me, which included access to ______classes to catch up on the lessons I missed. Fueled by a newfound ______, I made every effort to engage in all activities and strived to stay active in both the academic and extracurricular fields.

In the end, my actions______fruit. Not only did my academic performance improve, but I also developed an ability to adapt to unexpected situations. I realized the importance of being able to______my fears and overcome them. The incident that I______viewed as a major discouragement was, in fact, a turning point in my life. It was an opportunity to adjust my perspective and learn to admire the strength within myself.

The______did not happen overnight. It was a gradual process, just like adding a new piece to a puzzle every day. But with each piece, I moved one step closer to the bigger ______ .

1.

A．camps

B．days

C．facilities

D．events

2.

A．minimum

B．maximum

C．average

D．majority

3.

A．absorb

B．forget

C．teach

D．avoid

4.

A．approached

B．hit

C．lifted

D．followed

5.

A．gave in

B．sank in

C．fit in

D．cut in

6.

A．standing

B．playing

C．suffering

D．finding

7.

A．occasionally

B．casually

C．constantly

D．scarcely

8.

A．shyness

B．setback

C．strength

D．performance

9.

A．practical

B．optional

C．basic

D．extra

10.

A．drive

B．concept

C．version

D．skill

11.

A．planted

B．distributed

C．sold

D．bore

12.

A．assess

B．address

C．monitor

D．hide

13.

A．initially

B．actually

C．suddenly

D．eventually

14.

A．inspiration

B．assumption

C．transformation

D．exploration

15.

A．space

B．ambition

C．picture

D．capacity

2 . Although most flyers (传单) have gone the way of tape recordings, there’s still the _________ one that shows up at our door. _________, they go straight to the recycling bin — unless there are small children and a page with toys catches their eyes.

They are _________ by it. They tend to feel forced to read it over and over again. But that’s not _________. Now there’s a whole list of toys they can’t live without. Before they saw this page, they were _________. There was nothing they needed. They had _________ puzzles, books, and games to keep them satisfied for hours. Not to mention the outdoor _________. Now, they need this toy. They’ll be miserable _________ they have it. After calming down the kids and giving some firm nos, it’s time to _________ the experience.

Aren’t we all like those children? We’re mostly fine until we run into a situation where our desires are __________. This could be a trip to the mall or a view of someone’s vacation pictures on WeChat. There are new things or experiences we __________! We’ll be so miserable without them.

We are all __________ affected. And that’s thought-provoking.

Recognizing our weakness and the source of the temptation (诱惑) is a big first step towards __________ it. We can begin by steeling ourselves against the sources — __________ social media, avoiding the mall… And even under those circumstances that can’t be avoided, we can repeat to ourselves the wisdom, “Who is the rich person? The one who is __________ with his life. ”

1.

A．original

B．occasional

C．important

D．inspiring

2.

A．In order

B．In general

C．Now and then

D．More or less

3.

A．ignored

B．puzzled

C．prohibited

D．attracted

4.

A．within its reach

B．a piece of cake

C．the worst of it

D．as plain as day

5.

A．content

B．curious

C．innocent

D．unsettled

6.

A．all

B．limited

C．enough

D．extra

7.

A．options

B．agency

C．education

D．areas

8.

A．if

B．because

C．until

D．though

9.

A．meet with

B．bring up

C．work out

D．reflect on

10.

A．excited

B．admitted

C．controlled

D．expressed

11.

A．need

B．obtain

C．possess

D．share

12.

A．secretly

B．directly

C．barely

D．easily

13.

A．understanding

B．conquering

C．investigating

D．building

14.

A．making time for

B．looking forward to

C．staying away from

D．taking advantage of

15.

A．familiar

B．satisfied

C．busy

D．concerned

3 . The Most Important Day of Your Life

What’s the most important day of your life? The answer to that question is simple — Today.

    1     You can’t do anything about things that have already happened, and trying to live in the future will take your focus away from the present. So the helpful strategy for anyone is to make the most of the moment that is right in front of us.

Doing our best today may make things easier for us later on, or at least help us to deal with whatever situation we are in.     2     We will still be dealing with the same challenges tomorrow.

Each morning I ask myself what I can do to make today memorable.     3     In Hebrew school we were asked what we had done to help other people the previous week. Did we help an older person cross the street? Did we encourage someone who had a promising idea?    4     All of these things represent a worthy deed because they involve doing something to help someone else.

Even if today is not that meaningful for you, something you do for someone else may be very meaningful for them. You never know how much a good deed for someone else will impact that person. The greatest meaning that today brings may not be for you, it may be for someone else.

    5     You can deal with tomorrow next week, or next year when it gets here.

A．The answer involves doing something kind for someone else.

B．Did we hold the door for someone whose hands were full?

C．Is today still the most important day?

D．The past cannot be changed, and the future has not happened yet.

E．Ignoring today and hoping it will go away certainly won’t work.

F．If you wash it away, someone else may not get the benefits.

G．So make the most of today.

4 . I am a professor of clinical psychology. Some time ago, I got halfway through a day of teaching before a co-worker pointed out to me I was quite carelessly wearing a pair of different shoes, one red and one black. I felt so embarrassed and upset but I would have to go teach my course like this. When I noticed how much I wanted to disappear and avoid this situation, I was determined to face it instead. I walked into class and announced to the students that I was wearing two shoes from different pairs, and directed their attention to my feet. Everyone laughed and we went on with class. Years later, a student in that class told me that this was the moment she first thought that maybe, just maybe, she could be a professor, too.

I shared my mistake because I realized that trying hide it was interfering with my ability to concentrate my mind on my teaching — but I had no idea that it would also help shorten the psychological distance between my students and myself.

Many contexts may punish or shame people for making mistakes. Our efforts to avoid them result from our desires for success, and how others will respond to our mistakes. We might feel self-criticism and shame if we do make some.

However, mistake making is part of learning new things, and it can draw us closer to others. It opens up the possibility of accepting mistakes gladly, letting us be more open and engaged in what we are doing.

We can say words of kindness and self-compassion to ourselves: Mistakes are natural and human; we can be kind to ourselves for this error and still try to do better next time; noticing our own imperfections can help us to be kind to others when we notice they are imperfect, too. When we practice our mistakes in this way, they can become opportunities to open up to others, learn about ourselves, and connect even more with what matters to us.

1. How does the author develop paragraph 1?

A．By giving some examples.	B．By following time order.
C．By doing scientific experiments.	D．By sharing personal experience.

2. What was the result of the author sharing his mistake?

A．Shameful.

B．Unexpected.

C．Punishable.

D．Unaccepted.

3. What does paragraph 3 mainly tell us?

A．Intentions to avoid mistakes.	B．Advantages of making mistakes.
C．Possibilities of making mistakes.	D．Efforts to avoid making mistakes.

4. What can we know about mistakes from the last paragraph?

A．They interfere with what we are doing.

B．They draw too much attention from us.

C．They are big opportunities to get us improved.

D．They make us feel irresponsible and defeated.

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。

Different sports filled my days in my youth. I dreamed or a big win some day, with a big trophy (奖杯). I was skillful and fast, or so I thought. However, I soon learned my skills seemed quite weak because the bigger, stronger boys seemed to occupy every corner of the playground. Once I was in the 100-yard hurdles, the only recognition I received for my performance was two bloody knees.

In college, I took a swim competition, dreaming of the glory! It turned out I achieved nothing. As an older adult, I still maintained an active lifestyle. In 2010 I signed up for a stair-climbing challenge to raise money for fighting against lung cancer. My father had died of the same disease, so this was a meaningful cause for me. Then, in 2019,the organization offered an even more challenging climb option: the vertical (垂直的) mile. So I would have three hours to climb up and down twenty-eight floors fifteen times, plus three more.

I trained hard. When the challenge started. I felt confident. But soon my legs started feeling heavy. What was worse, I began experiencing leg cramps (抽筋). My progress slowed dramatically and I quickly fell behind. When came down after finishing lap 14, it was past the time limit, so my big win had escaped once again.

Soon after the climb, I struggled to experience the sense of self-satisfaction. And I had, after all, set a goal for myself to prove what I was made of, what I had inside me. And what I had inside me was, “Nice try, but you didn’t make it.” So, a year later, at age 62 and after numerous workouts, I was back. Like last year, I was well ahead after an hour and I again started feeling some discomfort in my legs. I heard myself cry out loud, “Oh, no not again!” I finally stopped and sat down on the stairs, feeling quite depressed and wondering if my dream was over. A few climbers stopped to offer help. I was touched, but embarrassed to accept. Except for one climber. An angel climber, really.

Jessica, who I happened to know, was a salesman’s friend when I bought new running shoes at his store. And without that connection, she might have climbed past me as I sat on those steps, my legs shaking. But all those things did happen, and Jessica stopped to help.

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。

When she saw I was cramping, she offered me some sports drinks containing electrolytes (电解质).

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The cramps in my legs finally started to go away.

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6 . 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。

Independence is such a beautiful word. It is the growth from dependence to independence     1     leads us to maturity. Independence is another word for freedom,     2     is a universal value     3    (cherish) by all people. Freedom is     4     the drifting of white clouds in the open sky and the happy blooming of a flower in the woods. When we do not depend on anything to feel good and happy, we can truly be free. But how can we achieve independence? We must first of all have     5    (confident) in     6    (we). We should trust life and trust our own abilities to understand     7     is right and wrong, what decision to make     8     how to solve problems. We must also be brave enough     9    (take) responsibility for our decision and action. When we become independent, we     10    (be) truly mature.

7 . Dr Max is a thoughtful and devoted expert. I couldn’t agree more with Dr Max’s ____ that the empathy (移情) shown by a doctor is the key in a patient’s evaluation of the ____ received.

While having a colonoscopy (结肠镜检查) without sedation (镇静剂), I was working hard to keep myself ____ by using techniques learned to ____ panic attacks. As the camera ____ the twists and turns of my bowel, the specialist ____ I was quietly humming a tune to myself. He asked what the ____ was and I replied, “Puff the Magic Dragon.” However, I ____ that I only knew two ____ of the song.

The specialist then started ____ along with my humming and agreed that he also only knew two lines. He asked the student observing to google the lyrics. When the student ____, he explained that anything they can do to help a patient through a difficult ____ was worth doing. ____ with the words we then sang along for the rest of the process!

Not only do I remember this years later, but when ____ by the student afterwards my advice was to learn from the specialist’s bedside manner as it was so ____.

1.

A．devotion

B．warning

C．belief

D．mission

2.

A．treatment

B．operation

C．condition

D．recovery

3.

A．quiet

B．alarmed

C．sensible

D．calm

4.

A．generate

B．maintain

C．rid

D．control

5.

A．witnessed

B．measured

C．explored

D．outlined

6.

A．concluded

B．noticed

C．justified

D．assessed

7.

A．matter

B．tune

C．singer

D．poet

8.

A．explained

B．whispered

C．implied

D．revealed

9.

A．editions

B．composers

C．lines

D．titles

10.

A．surfing

B．dancing

C．working

D．whistling

11.

A．hesitated

B．protested

C．complained

D．threatened

12.

A．infection

B．process

C．dilemma

D．event

13.

A．Linked

B．Confronted

C．Armed

D．Flooded

14.

A．interviewed

B．followed

C．accompanied

D．remarked

15.

A．demanding

B．lacking

C．wonderful

D．important

8 . Usually, it takes a painful lesson to teach us to avoid injury.

I, like any young _________, love to run around as quickly as I can. One day while playing “catching” with some _________, I happened to run down a hill. I found that running down a hill was _________ and I could go very fast. Suddenly, I decided to _________ how fast I could go. Alas (哎呀), I ran too fast for my legs to _________. One moment I was running, the next I _________ sprawling (伸开四肢躺着) onto the road.

The _________ was unbearable as I lay on the road writhing (扭动). My hands, legs, and face were _________. The pain was strong and _________. When my friends came to help me, they were __________ to see me in such a bloody mess.

I learned then, at that young age, that you should __________ every day like it’s your last because it just might be. Anyhow they asked for __________ and I was taken to the hospital. There they cleaned and dressed my __________. All the time I felt as though I was on fire.

I __________ there after every time they changed the bandages (绷带). It is really __________ to run down a hill.

1.

A．child

B．clerk

C．player

D．adult

2.

A．colleagues

B．relatives

C．friends

D．roommates

3.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．funny

D．shocking

4.

A．explain

B．make

C．see

D．imagine

5.

A．get up

B．keep up

C．stand up

D．look up

6.

A．fell

B．stopped

C．sat

D．bent

7.

A．emotion

B．feeling

C．pain

D．hit

8.

A．sweating

B．bleeding

C．freezing

D．shaking

9.

A．acceptable

B．stable

C．slight

D．sharp

10.

A．frightened

B．excited

C．moved

D．confused

11.

A．save

B．play

C．live

D．survive

12.

A．hope

B．help

C．blessing

D．luck

13.

A．clothes

B．face

C．legs

D．wounds

14.

A．rested

B．suffered

C．slept

D．worried

15.

A．amazing

B．joyful

C．upsetting

D．foolish

9 . We can probably all agree that it is good to be kind, moral (道德的) to be kind, nice to be kind, but does it lead to success in life? After all, isn’t kindness about putting other people’s interests first? Doesn’t it require self-sacrifice?

Yet consider these well-known people: James Timpson, boss of the Timpson chain of shoe repairers; Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand. These two are clearly “winners” in their fields, and yet both put kindness at the heart of their strategies for success. What they have found is that taking a more compassionate (同情心) and apparently “softer” approach to business, politics and sports management brings positive results, not just for the benefit of people who work for them, but for their own benefit. The traditional idea that you have to be cruel, driven and focused on number one if you want to achieve success is being discredited (不足为信的).

It’s notable (值得注意的)that in the field of business research, kind leadership is more often referred to as “ethical” (有道德的) leadership, maybe because it sounds less soft. But whatever you decided to call it, studies have shown that it can result in a more positive atmosphere at work and that employees perform better too. There’s evidence that even small acts of kindness and cooperation by anyone can make a difference in a workplace. An example might be getting the printer mended, rather than leaving it broken for the next person to find, or watering the plants in the office. These actions aren’t required as part of the job, but if we carry them out, the working environment is a little better for everyone.

Of course, there are still plenty of examples of people who do well in life, but they are self-centered and unkind to others. But the point is that despite what we might see, you don’t have to be hard-nosed (不讲情面的) to get on in business or other highly competitive walks of life. You can’t be a winner simply through being kind of course — you need motivation, dedication and skills too — but there’s more and more evidence that showing some kindness as you pursue your goal is no barrier (障碍) to success.

1. Why does the author include questions in the first paragraph?

A．To enrich the content.	B．To reveal a truth.
C．To express different attitudes.	D．To encourage readers to think.

2. Which of the statements can we learn from the text?

A．Kindness can be a win-win result for both employees and employers in business.

B．There is no doubt that to be ruthless, driven and focused on number one can lead to success.

C．The positive atmosphere in the workplace is part of the job.

D．Motivation, dedication, skills and kindness can prevent you from achieving success.

3. How did the author develop his or her arguments?

A．By comparing various ideas.	B．By listing different people.
C．By collecting the supporting examples.	D．By observing the workers’ reaction.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards kindness leading to success in life?

A．Doubtful.

B．Concerned.

C．Supportive.

D．Mixed.

10 . 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。

In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, the story of a scientist who tries to create a superior, being and instead creates a monster. In the last two centuries, this story     1     (tell) over and over again in countless variations. At first sight, the Frankenstein story appears to warn us that if we try to play God and engineer life we will be punished severely. Yet the story has a     2     (deep) meaning.

The Frankenstein myth confronts. Homo sapiens (智人) with the fact that the last days are fast approaching.     3     some nuclear or ecological disaster strikes, the pace of technological development will soon lead to the replacement of Homo sapiens by completely different beings who possess not only different physiques, but also very different cognitive and emotional worlds. This is something most Sapiens find extremely worrying. We like to believe that in the future people just     4     us will travel from planet to planet in fast spaceships. We don’t like to think about the     5     (possible) that in the future, beings with emotions and identities like ours will no longer exist, and our place will be taken by alien life forms     6     abilities beat our own.

We seek comfort in the fantasy that Dr. Frankenstein can create only terrible monsters, whom we would have to destroy in order to save the world. We like to tell the story that way because it implies that we are     7     best of all beings, that there never was and never will be anything better than us. Any attempt     8     (improve) us will inevitably fail, because even if our bodies might be improved, you cannot touch the human spirit.

We would have a hard time     9     (accept) the fact that scientists could engineer spirits as well as bodies, and that future Dr. Frankenstein could therefore create something     10     (true) superior to us, something that will look at us as condescendingly (居高临下地) as we look at the Neanderthals (穴居人).