1 . 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。

My Own Label

It seemed to me that I had two different identities when I was in fifth grade. Outside of school, I was a reasonably happy kid who enjoyed spending time with my friends, reading or listening to rock music. When I was in class, however, I turned into a very different Denise, one who was on guard all the time, and one who wanted nothing more than to get through the day without being teased.

To my classmates I was strange, because I wasn’t just like them. The most obvious thing they focused on was that I didn’t wear the same designer clothes as they did. Designer clothes were beyond my family’s reach. My mother was a single parent, and she worked long hours to support our small household. As far as love and attention were concerned, I was rich beyond all imagination. I was supported and cared for. The only thing that my classmates cared for was fashion, though, and there, I was poor.

I never knew if my classmates would torment (戏弄) me in class, but on the bus I could count on it. My trips to and from school were the horrific, painful bookends to stressful days. One girl made a point of running over to my seat every morning to see what I was wearing, and then returned to her friends to laugh about it. I shrank into myself and stared out the window.

I was the smallest girl in my class. One of my classmates’   mothers noticed, and offered me a beautiful skirt that her daughter had outgrown. I wore it happily, thrilled to have a cool item of clothing for once. When I outgrew the skirt, my mother bought me a new one of my own, one without a label. When my classmate saw it, she shouted on purpose, “Oh, that’s not my skirt, is it? Where did you get this one, Denise? The poorhouse?” My classmates burst into laughter, and I slipped away, my eyes locked on the ground. I stopped wearing the skirt.

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After fifth grade ended, over the summer, I spent a month at a day camp.

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With the love and support of my new friends, I became more confident.

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2 . Review Our Worries

We spend a lot of our lives worrying, but there’s one basic thing we almost never remember to do.    1    For example, one week, we might be worried about running out of money, the next of having offended a friend, and the third about being brought down by a rumour on social media. The worries go on and on, shifting unstoppably from one target to another.    2    

What we seldom spend time doing is pausing to compare the scale of the worry with what actually happened in the end. We are too taken up with the next worry to return for a composed review.

However, if we force ourselves to perform one, a strange discovery is likely to dawn on us.     3    We almost lost our minds to worry, but we didn’t run out of money in the end, our friend wasn’t offended, and so on.    4    Mark Twain’s famous saying comes to mind: “I have lived through many disasters, only a few of which actually happened.”

    5    If we got it so wrong in the past, we’re highly likely to get it wrong now too. Of course, we’re convinced that this is really and truly the end, but such a certainty was with us on many other situations which we appear to have sailed through well enough.

Perhaps the world is not quite as awful as we assume. Perhaps most of the drama is ultimately unfolding in a place we need to explore and heal as fast as we can: our own minds.

A．Our worries are nearly always out of line with reality.

B．They ruin our precious time on Earth in the process.

C．Ignore our worries and focus on more productive things.

D．Go back and check how our worries matched up to reality.

E．We might say that only 1% of our worries truly become awful.

F．Our worries are caused by external factors beyond our control.

G．We should use the data about the unreliability of our fears as a guide to the future.

3 . You can’t see it, smell it, or hear it, and people disagree on how precisely to define it, or where exactly it comes from. It isn’t a school subject or an academic discipline, but it can be learned. It is a quality that is required of artists, but it is also present in the lives of scientists and entrepreneurs. All of us benefit from it and we succeed mentally and spiritually when we are able to handle it. It is a delicate thing, easily wiped out; in fact, it blossoms most fully when people are playful and childlike. Meanwhile, it works best in meeting with deep knowledge and expertise.

This mysterious—but teachable—quality is creativity, the subject of a recently-published report by Durham Commission on Creativity and Education. The report concludes that creativity should not exist in the school curriculum only as it relates to drama, music, art and other obviously creative subjects, but that creative thinking ought to run through all of school life, infusing (充满) the way humanities and natural sciences are learned.

Nevertheless, it is arts subjects through which creativity can most obviously be promoted. The value placed on them by the independent education is clear. One only has to look at the remarkable arts facilities at Britain’ stop private schools to understand this. But in the state education the extreme focus on English, maths and science threatens to destroy arts subjects; meanwhile, reduced school budgets mean decreasing extracurricular activities.

This difference between state and private education is a matter of social justice. It is simply wrong and unfair that most children have a small part of the access to choirs, art studios and drama that their more privileged peers enjoy. As lives are affected by any number of threatening challenges—climate crisis, automation in the workplace—humans are going to need creative thinking more than ever. For all of our sakes, creativity in education, and for all, must become a priority.

1. What is the primary function of the first paragraph in the passage?

A．It offers a historical overview of creative thinking.

B．It introduces the precise definition and benefits of creativity.

C．It guides the reader on to the topic of creativity in education.

D．It provides evidence for the importance of science education.

2. What is the conclusion of a recently-published report?

A．Natural sciences should be learned the way humanities courses are.

B．Growth of creativity should run through the entire school curriculum.

C．Art courses should be made required for all students，

D．Students should learn more obviously creative subjects.

3. What do we learn about the private schools in the UK?

A．They encourage extracurricular activities.

B．They attach great importance to arts education.

C．They prioritize arts subjects over maths and sciences.

D．They meet the needs of students from different family backgrounds.

4. What should be done to meet the future challenges?

A．Increasing government investment in school education.

B．Narrowing the existing gap between the rich and the poor.

C．Providing all children with equal access to arts education.

D．Focusing on meeting the needs of under-privileged students.

4 . I’m a grandma in my 60s. In the spring of 2020, like the rest of the world, I spent a lot of time staring at a screen and that was when I first got into the YouTube world. I discovered that onscreen offerings were truly endless. From one YouTuber I learned how to plant my own vegetable garden. Someone else shared poetry from Robert Frost, wise sayings from Confucius, and a smattering (一知半解) of other philosophical viewpoints, all of which helped me through some dark days. Down the rabbit hole I went, scrolling for hours and hours, watching other people living their lives and giving me advice on how to live mine.

As the months rolled by, YouTube turned my attention away from the hard reality of what was going on in the world. I subscribed to several channels and waited anxiously for new weekly offerings. I watched people reading poetry or painting by streams or looking out windows into snowy landscapes. I found all this calming. Such lovely scenery, such beautiful background music, such pretty clothes they were wearing!

At some point though, I got upset by these artistic and seemingly perfect lives. Who is filming them? I wondered. Do they rehearse or just act on the spot? Isn’t it cold, stepping through snowbanks in dresses? The questions kept bothering me while forcing comparisons to my own somewhat more ordinary existence. I wanted to walk in a flowing dress through hilly green field filled with wildflowers! Instead, I was marching through my neighborhood’s city streets in mom jeans.

In a moment of insight, I realized that I had a full and happy life, which although it wouldn’t win awards for perfection onscreen, suited me perfectly. I put my phone away and started paying attention to my own life instead of watching other people live theirs. I still like checking in once in a while. YouTube can be a rich source of entertainment and inspiration, but I’ve limited my exposure. I am content with the knowledge that my addiction to life onscreen has been replaced by life itself.

1. What can be learned about the author in the spring of 2020?

A．She experienced some hard times.

B．She taught others about gardening.

C．She developed an interest in poetry.

D．She shared her philosophical views online.

2. What effect did YouTube have on the author according to paragraph 2?

A．It made her more anxious.

B．It improved her taste in art.

C．It taught her to accept reality.

D．It brought some comfort to her.

3. How did the artistic lives presented on YouTube make the author feel?

A．Desperate.

B．Connected.

C．Envious.

D．Proud.

4. What has the author decided to do in the end?

A．Seek inspiration from YouTube.

B．Stop using her phone in daily life.

C．Focus on her own life instead of others’.

D．Continue watching other people’s lives.

5 . Happiness, as I see it, comprises five elements: spiritual well-being (meaning and purpose), physical well-being (nutrition, exercise), intellectual well-being (curiosity, deep learning), relational well-being (kindness and generosity), and emotional well-being (cultivating positive emotions). As an interdependent aggregate of these five elements of SPIRE, happiness is about much more than experiencing pleasure.

As Aristotle put it, happiness is the ultimate purpose of life, meaning how we spend our everyday lives is ultimately guided by what we think would make us happier. This is not a good or a bad thing. It simply is, like the law of nature. Even people who are tirelessly working for an important cause, for example, to get rid of world hunger, are doing it because they find their work meaningful. Meaning is an element of happiness.

One barrier to happiness has to do with the expectation that happiness is an unbroken chain of positive emotions. This expectation, however, prevents people from experiencing happiness because painful emotions don’t go away but grow stronger when we reject them.

The second barrier has to do with equating happiness with success. It’s a commonly held belief that happiness can be attained by achieving certain goals, like money or fame. People tend to think if they finally find success, they will automatically become happy.

The third barrier has to do with the way people pursue happiness. We want to be happy for many reasons. After all, we are constantly told that happiness is good for our health, relationships, and work outcomes. Yet, if I wake up in the morning and decide to pursue happiness straight, I will become less happy.

But how? Indirectly. As is known, if you look up at the sun directly, you’ll hurt yourself. But if you take the same sun rays and break them down, you’ll enjoy the colors of a rainbow. Similarly, pursuing happiness directly can hurt us; pursuing it indirectly—by breaking it down into something like the SPIRE elements—can contribute to our well-being. Starting a meditation practice, exercising, performing acts of kindness, learning something new, or expressing gratitude for what we have are all indirect ways of pursuing happiness.

1. What does the underlined word “aggregate” probably mean in the first paragraph?

A．Combination.

B．Conclusion.

C．Accumulation.

D．Association.

2. What’s the author’s attitude towards how we spend our daily lives?

A．Favorable.

B．Suspicious.

C．Objective.

D．Indifferent.

3. What can we know from the text?

A．Being a success leads one to happiness.

B．Refusing negative feelings helps us obtain happiness.

C．Going after happiness directly makes one feel happy.

D．Pursuing one aspect of SPIRE can boost our well-being.

4. Why is the sun mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To make a contrast.	B．To make an analogy.
C．To conclude the argumentation.	D．To answer the previous question.

6 . Just about 50 years ago, needing money to support my family—my novels weren’t bestsellers—I had the idea of taking the longest train trip imaginable and writing a travel book about it. The trip was improvisational (即兴的). I didn’t have a credit card. I had no idea where I’d be staying nor how long this trip would take. And I’d never written a travel book before. I hoped my trip wouldn’t suffer a lot, though it was obviously a leap in the dark.

I set off with one small bag containing clothes, a map of Asia, a travel guidebook and some travelers’ cheques. I was often inconvenienced, sometimes threatened, now and then disturbed for bribes, occasionally laid up with food poisoning—all this vivid detail for my narrative.

What I repeated in the more than four-month trip was the pleasure of the sleeping car. Writing on board the Khyber Mail to Lahore in Pakistan, “The romance associated with the sleeping car comes from the fact that it is extremely private, combining the best features of a cupboard with forward movement. Whatever drama is being shown in this moving bedroom is heightened by the landscape passing the window...” A train is a carrier that allows residence.

I wrote The Great Railway Bazaar on my return in 1974, and it appeared to good reviews and quick sales. That’s the past. Nothing is the same. All travel is time-related. All such trips are singular and unrepeatable. It’s not just that the steam trains of Asia are gone, but much of the peace and order is gone. Who’d risk an Iranian train now or take a bus through Afghanistan?

But I’ve been surprised by some of the more recent developments in travel. I rode on Chinese trains for a year and wrote Riding the Iron Rooster, but now China has much cleaner and swifter trains and modernized destinations. A traveler today could take the same trip I took in 1986—1987 and produce a completely different book.

All travel books are dated. That’s their fault that they’re outdated, and it’s their virtue that they preserve something of the past that would otherwise be lost.

1. What happened at the beginning of the author’s trip to Asia?

A．He made full preparations for the trip.

B．He had expected the journey to be rough.

C．He organized the trip with his family’s support.

D．He started the trip out of his passion for traveling.

2. Why did the author repeatedly recall the sleeping car?

A．For its romantic scenery.	B．For its reassuring privacy.
C．For its full equipment.	D．For its long distance.

3. What did the author try to convey by saying “Nothing is the same”?

A．The landscape in Asia was gone.	B．Train trip was no longer popular.
C．He couldn’t write another bestseller.	D．Transportation and travel had changed a lot.

4. Which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with?

A．Practice makes perfect.	B．Sharp tools make good work.
C．Travel, truth is not the arrival card.	D．The journey, not the arrival matters.

7 . Don’t Live in Others’ Expectations

Whether it is our family or friends, they want the best for us. They want us to go to the best school.     1    

However, the problem with this kind of expectation is not practicable for most of us. Why do we feel the need to live in others’ expectations? Fulfilling the need of others’ desire before yourself is neglecting your freedom of happiness and self-care.     2     Therefore, it is okay to live free of anyone’s expectations.

Expectations are attachments of ourselves to please others. One of the cruel truths about people with expectations is that they don’t really care how you feel.     3     It’s a give-and-take situation.

    4     Sometimes, we lose our joy under pressure because expectations are not realistic and because they are an ideal of how you should be, not who you are. Expectations do not focus on reality but the sacrifice of your happiness.

It’s okay to be selfish for your happiness; in a way, expectations are the root of suffering. It will destroy your self-esteem and any confirmation of your worth. We can be free of it by living our lives according to our own will.     5    

Give up the thoughts of pleasing others and live a free life. Be in control of it and let others accept who you are.

A．Take expectation as a form of attachment.

B．To be happy, you should let go of how you want to be perceived by others.

C．They see you trying for their sake of pleasure, but they don’t give anything back.

D．They also want us to have the best kind of careers, ultimately to succeed in the way they want.

E．Living in others’ expectations will never get you satisfaction because they never will be satisfied.

F．We can bend the reality of expectations and see it as a form of attachment.

G．Ignore unrealistic expectations.

8 . It was Friday, and I slid into my seat I looked up and felt the _________. I heard our fifth-grade teacher say we were about to take our weekly math test. She told us not to _________ it. If we practiced our problems at home, we should be fine.

I took some deep _________ and comforted myself, “It’s only 10 questions. How hard can it be?” But when a blank test arrived on my desk, I was full of _________. Everything seemed like a blur (模糊) as I rushed to _________ on time. However, as I handed my paper to the teacher, I felt _________ good—maybe it was because the test was over. Before the end of the day, though, she handed back the tests. I _________. Another C.

Growing up, I felt math was a _________. Only thanks to a devoted teacher in a summer course did I gain the basic _________ I needed to move forward. From then on, math felt more or less tolerable.

So you might be __________ that I’m now an elementary school math specialist. Today, I often think about why many students find math __________, and I think it has something to do with the fact that we don, t develop in them the critical (批判性的) thinking skills needed for math reasoning. That’s why my __________ is to teach math as a way of thinking.

I remind those students, who think they’re born bad at math, that math is a skill you never __________ learning. There’ll always be something you haven’t yet mastered, and that’s OK. It, s also OK to __________ along the way. Actually, it’s not the __________ of the world if a problem needs correcting; it’s an opportunity to learn and grow. So keep learning.

1.

A．impatience

B．pride

C．nervousness

D．satisfaction

2.

A．care about

B．worry about

C．talk about

D．think about

3.

A．actions

B．risks

C．turns

D．breaths

4.

A．panic

B．happiness

C．pride

D．trouble

5.

A．relax

B．prepare

C．finish

D．escape

6.

A．constantly

B．surprisingly

C．seemingly

D．naturally

7.

A．looked up

B．looked around

C．looked out

D．looked down

8.

A．challenge

B．relief

C．choice

D．skill

9.

A．research

B．principle

C．support

D．knowledge

10.

A．doubtful

B．thrilled

C．hopeful

D．shocked

11.

A．easy

B．scary

C．interesting

D．influential

12.

A．goal

B．duty

C．path

D．rule

13.

A．admit

B．ignore

C．stop

D．dislike

14.

A．struggle

B．debate

C．quit

D．pray

15.

A．beginning

B．symbol

C．end

D．power

9 . As a reporter, I talk to strangers for a living and love the challenge of getting them to open up. Yet here’s a confession: I’ve been married for eight happy years, but until six months ago, I could be the stereotypical inattentive husband.

It’s not that my wife and I never had pleasant conversations. But more often than I care to admit, I was just going through the motions, nodding when I was supposed to. I was the guy who’d defensively snap (厉声说), “Of course I did!” when my wife would ask, “JB, did you even hear what I just said?”

In January, I began to lose my voice repeatedly. Doctors told me I needed surgery, or else my throat would be permanently damaged. Total silence would be required for the first few weeks of my recovery.

Two hours after the surgery, my eyes filled with tears as my two-year-old son stood by me looking puzzled because I wouldn’t answer his questions. I wanted to talk but couldn’t.

But before I got home, I had settled into a Zen-like peace about my silence. Soon I noticed another “side effect”: As my wife talked to me to keep up my spirits, I wasn’t just hearing her; I was listening to her.

Over the next few weeks, I found myself unwilling to miss a word she said. I began to hear a sweetness in her voice that I hadn’t recalled for long. I found myself understanding her better on topics I’d previously dismissed as “things I just don’t get as a guy”.

I also realized my toddler (学步的儿童) wasn’t just chattering nonstop but that he often had surprisingly thoughtful things to say for his age.

Even while walking my dog in the woods near our home, I began hearing pleasant patterns in bird songs. The rustling leaves sounded crisper to me. Before my surgery, I’d have spent those walks on my phone.

After several months, I was fully recovered. Now conversation in our house is better, but not because I’m talking more. I’m just listening better and becoming less and less surprised that I like what I hear.

1. What does the author want to tell us most in the first two paragraphs?

A．He was fond of talking to strangers.

B．He enjoyed taking challenges.

C．Sometimes he ignored his wife’s words.

D．He often quarreled with his wife.

2. Why did the author have to keep silent?

A．To avoid argument.	B．To hear more.
C．To ensure recovery.	D．To show unhappiness.

3. After the surgery, how did the author feel about his inability to talk at first?

A．Peaceful.

B．Upset.

C．Puzzled.

D．Uncertain.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Easier said than done.

B．Full set, partial to listen to the dark.

C．Knowledge is power.

D．Listen well and you can hear the world.

10 . 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。

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath a willow tree. It must be as sick, for the branches were kind of yellow and dry. I was a deserted girl. Endless quarrels with my parents had left me nowhere to go but this desolate (荒无人烟的) corner of the park. As I sat on the bench, things that happened recently began to flash through. Days seemed months to me recently. No cozy home to stay. No happy memories about my life. No considerate family members to talk to. Even the book I was reading was no fun. Not content with life, I had a good reason to frown, for the world was intended to drag me down.

And if that were not enough to ruin my day, a young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play. He stood right in front of me with his head tilted (倾斜) down and said with great excitement, “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower. What a pitiful sight, its petals (花瓣) were all worn—not enough rain, or too little light. He must have picked the flower from somewhere shady and sunless, just like where I was staying these days. I couldn’t help being self-pitying. Wanting him to take his dead flower away and go off to play, I faked a smile and then looked away. “Why couldn’t everyone just leave me be!” I thought to myself, upset and gloomy.

But instead of leaving, he sat next to me and placed the flower to his nose and declared loudly with certainty, “It sure smells pretty and it must be beautiful, too. That’s why I picked it; here, it is for you.” The “weed” before me was dying or dead, not vibrant with colors, orange, yellow or red—anyone having eyes can see that clearly! But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and replied, “Just what I need.” Strangely, instead of placing the flower in my hand, he held it in mid-air without any reason or plan.

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Casting a curious glance at the boy’s eyes, I was hugely shocked.

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“I had to make a change,” I thought to myself.

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