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。

It was a sunny morning, when Jessie sat at her desk in Mrs. Williamson’s class. They were learning about science, which Jessie normally enjoyed. However, a bird stayed outside the classroom window, which Jessie’s desk was right next to. So it caught much of Jessie’s attention.

“Jessie, are you listening?” Mrs. Williamson’s question cut in Jessie’s thoughts.

Jessie turned to her teacher. “What was that?” she asked.

The teacher frowned (皱眉), saying it was the second time that morning that she hadn’t been listening and that she was supposed to do better. Jessie’s face turned red, thinking Mrs. Williamson shouldn’t have said that to her. Jessie couldn’t help it if the bird by her desk was distracting (分心) her.

When the bell rang for a break, the teacher stopped Jessie. “I hope you will think about what I said in class,” she told her. “A rule is a rule. And it’s important for everyone to follow the rules.”

Jessie nodded to show she understood, but she didn’t really take it seriously, still thinking Mrs. Williamson was being too strict. Then she rushed outside to play ball games with other kids. They first picked teams and made the rules for the game. According to the rules, when a team got two outs, they had to go to the outfield (外场).

Jessie’s team was in the outfield first. In the game, she tried her best. Soon, the other team got two outs, and then it was Jessie’s turn to kick the ball.

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Instead of giving Jessie’s team a chance to score, the other team quit.

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Jessie went to Mrs. Williamson’s office.

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2 . 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。

Looking back on my childhood, I am constantly disturbed by a broken blue and white porcelain (青花瓷) bowl, which was from China and handed down from my grandfather’s parents. It was placed high on a wood shelf in the living room and appreciated by all the guests visiting my home. At that time, I rushed to do everything: I was looking forward to growing up, graduating, and showing off everything I knew with all my friends. But my dear grandfather always reminded me: “Garrett, do not show off. You’ll need plenty of patience and modesty, and that is the way to growth.”

Knowing I loved the bowl very much, my grandpa decided to give it to me. But my mother, a lady who worked as a nurse, caring for patients at night, protested. She was afraid I would break it if I showed off. So finally it was still kept on the high shelf, out of my reach.

Soon, it was time for me to enter the new school. Refusing to be sent to school, I rode my new bike to school every day on the winding and tough road. Once I fell over at the bend of the road, but I was happy when my new bike became the envy of my classmates. However, Crawley, one of my classmates, a well-to-do fellow, whose way of impressing others was to parade his possessions before us. His bike was newer; his boots were of the best hide. Actually, what he had was better than ours. until one day he brought a beautiful glass bowl. He said the bowl was from London, absolutely the finest one we had seen.

“I have a blue and white porcelain bowl from China, which is definitely the oldest and finest one that you have ever seen!” I announced. “Yeah? ” said the boy. “Well, show it to us.”

“I will bring it tomorrow morning! And then you will see how beautiful it is!” After school, I rushed home as quickly as possible and waited for Mother to go to work.

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Paragraph 1: Immediately Mother left home, I wondered how I could take the bowl down.
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3 . Writing a book is no easy task, even for adult professional writers. Many would-be authors dream of a day when their work can be found on ________ shelves. But for 8-year-old Dillon Helbig, that ________ has already become a reality in a ________ way.

Dillon created an 81-page graphic(图画的)________ titled “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis” on a hardcover notebook using colored pencils. He ________ decorated the cover to make it look like a published book. Then, he brought the book to his local library, and secretly ________ it among the children’s books.

Imagine the librarians’________ when Dillon’s mom called the next day to inform them of her son’s “achievement”. Instead of ________ it, they took time to read the novel. Its ________ elements, featuring Santa, a walking bomb, and a talking turkey, caught their attention. They decided to officially ________ the book in thein collection.

Now eager readers are waiting to ________ the book. If each reader kept it for the standard four weeks, it would take four years to ________ the waiting list. This experience has strengthened Dillon’s resolve to pursue a career as a(n)________.

Hats off to Dillon for following his dream and making it happen, to his supportive mom for ________ him, and to the librarians who ________ and protected a child’s passion for writing.

1.

A．bookstore

B．reading room

C．library

D．exhibition hall

2.

A．dream

B．attempt

C．task

D．effort

3.

A．conventional

B．negative

C．natural

D．unique

4.

A．plan

B．novel

C．program

D．file

5.

A．illegally

B．expertly

C．immorally

D．nicely

6.

A．claimed

B．threw

C．slipped

D．stored

7.

A．amazement

B．annoyance

C．admiration

D．disappointment

8.

A．borrowing

B．investigating

C．dismissing

D．purchasing

9.

A．realistic

B．cultural

C．chemical

D．imaginative

10.

A．publish

B．include

C．download

D．remove

11.

A．check out

B．carry out

C．pull out

D．work out

12.

A．sort

B．clear

C．review

D．recommend

13.

A．author

B．librarian

C．reader

D．collector

14.

A．criticizing

B．rewarding

C．reminding

D．encouraging

15.

A．recovered

B．reviewed

C．recognized

D．revealed

4 . The Power of a Smile

In a world where technology has become an integral part of our lives, it's easy to forget the simple pleasures that come from human interaction. One such pleasure is the power of a smile. A smile is a universal language that transcends cultural and linguistic barriers. It is a simple yet powerful gesture that can change the mood of a room, brighten someone's day, and even improve one's own mental well-being.

The science behind smiling is fascinating. When we smile, our brain releases endorphins (内啡肽), which are natural mood elevators. These endorphins help to reduce stress and create a sense of happiness and relaxation. Moreover, smiling can also be contagious. Studies have shown that when one person smiles, it can trigger a response in others to smile as well, creating a positive feedback loop.

However, in today's fast-paced world, people often forget to smile. The hustle and bustle of daily life can leave us feeling stressed and disconnected from others. But it's important to remember that a smile can be a powerful tool for connection. It can break the ice in social situations, ease tension in difficult conversations, and even help to build trust and rapport.

In addition to its social benefits, smiling also has health benefits. Regular smiling can lower blood pressure, boost the immune system, and even improve one's physical appearance. It's a natural anti-aging remedy that can make one look younger and more approachable.

So, the next time you're feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, try smiling. It might just be the small act that makes a big difference in your day and the days of those around you. Remember, the power of a smile is not just a saying — it's a scientifically proven fact.

1. What is the main idea of the article?

A．The importance of technology in our lives.

B．The universal language of a smile and its benefits.

C．The negative effects of a fast-paced lifestyle.

D．The role of endorphins in reducing stress.

2. According to the article, what happens in our brain when we smile?

A．We feel more stressed.

B．Our blood pressure increases.

C．We release chemicals that elevate our mood.

D．We become more prone to illness.

3. Why can smiling be considered contagious?

A．Because it's a cultural norm.

B．Because it's a natural anti-aging remedy.

C．Because it's a sign of good health.

D．Because it triggers a response in others to smile as well.

5 . Even if I did not have a dream, I always had a plan. I never forgot my final week from college. Days away from _________ and miles away from home, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor (肿瘤).

Unsure of what my future would _________, I shed countless tears. My friends were graduating, celebrating, and eager to move on to new _________ in their lives, but I could not join them. I _________ all of my college belongings and headed home. Then I immediately turned to my best friend from high school. She had gone through cancer in our senior year. Watching her _________ overcome so many obstacles 4 years before, I knew she could give me the _________ I needed for my own battle.

As my surgery date to _________ the tumor got closer, I was experiencing intense physical pain. But something _________ started happening. I began to see all the beauty around me in a wholly new way. The smallest things that I _________ before started to catch my eyes.

Miraculously, I woke up from surgery grateful to be alive and well. Words couldn’t __________ the happiness I felt at that special moment—to be given a __________ chance. My recovery was a long __________ as I learned to walk again and so simple tasks.

Life can sure throw a good curve ball when you least __________ it. I used to prefer to __________ instead. Now, dreaming big and following my heart’s desire without knowing how it will __________ is the only thing I have time to do.

1.

A．separation

B．departure

C．graduation

D．admission

2.

A．hold

B．carry

C．control

D．promise

3.

A．conditions

B．chapters

C．tasks

D．procedures

4.

A．packed up

B．cleaned up

C．gathered up

D．collected up

5.

A．patiently

B．courageously

C．difficultly

D．painfully

6.

A．time

B．training

C．comment

D．fuel

7.

A．transplant

B．identify

C．change

D．remove

8.

A．unique

B．thrilling

C．wonderful

D．familiar

9.

A．neglected

B．recalled

C．suspected

D．forgot

10.

A．assess

B．describe

C．match

D．illustrate

11.

A．equal

B．extra

C．ideal

D．second

12.

A．aim

B．route

C．process

D．routine

13.

A．observe

B．expect

C．follow

D．determine

14.

A．plan

B．win

C．clarify

D．prove

15.

A．fix

B．cycle

C．end

D．fly

6 . About 15 years ago, I was working at a sewing (缝纫) machine when I lost focus and put the needle straight through my left middle finger — the wound never quite recovered. It’s the kind of warning teachers tell new sewists, but it also creates a metaphor for a feeling that maybe familiar to the 7.7 million people who enjoy sewing as a hobby: the effect of sewing lives on under our skin. It’s a theme that runs through historian Barbara Burman’s book exploring the cultural history of sewing: The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters. For Barbara, her own interest in sewing is something that can be traced back through her life.

“I grew up in a poor household, and I had two very practical parents,” she recalls. “My mother actually taught sewing, dressmaking, and soft tailoring, so I was surrounded by people making things and talking about tools. My interest in sewing comes from an interest in the history of ordinary people, particularly women’s lives. I feel that it’s a kind of untold story. We’re so used to it that we don’t think about it. We put our clothes on, and there we are. But I wanted to look at what sewing actually means at an individual level, as well as a more global level.”

We notice the invention of electricity and countless other creations — but sewing, despite the fact that we couldn’t go about our daily lives without it, is often overlooked. When I ask Barbara why the story of sewing is largely untold, she has some insight.

“Mostly because it’s connected so thoroughly with women, and women have always been, as it were, ‘second rate’,”   she explains. “We’ve also lived with this quite false separation between working with our brains and working with our hands. So manual work is thought of as secondary to head work. But, in fact, our hands, and particularly our sense of touch, give us such a huge amount of information in the world. Countless studies have confirmed how beneficial crafts can be for our mental health and well-being.”

1. What does the underlined part in paragraph 1 imply?

A．Sewing may cause physical injury to sewists.

B．Sewing is rooted in people’s life for a long time.

C．Sewing holds a deep meaning for sewing lovers.

D．Sewing is popular with a large number of people.

2. What’s mainly talked about in paragraph 2?

A．How Barbara’s parents taught her to sew.

B．What sewing meant to the general public.

C．How Barbabra got interested in sewing.

D．What family environment Barbara grew up in.

3. Why is the story of sewing ignored according to Barbara?

A．Women and manual work are undervalued.

B．People take no interest in the history of sewing.

C．Sewing is not as important as other inventions.

D．People prefer technology rather than hand-craft.

4. What does Barbara think of sewing?

A．It is a dying craft.	B．It is a secondary job.
C．It is a dangerous practice.	D．It is a rewarding skill.

7 . 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 power of belief

“You will never walk again. You will have to use a wheelchair.” Unprepared for the doctor’s judgment, I heard his words fall heavily on my ears, numbing my soul.

My serious car accident had left me unconscious and in critical condition. I awakened to find both leg: wrapped in casts (石膏). Lying in my bed motionless and relying on prayer, I wondered how I could give my ten-year-old son hope that Mom would heal. He’d been cheerful on every visit, but I saw the fear in his eyes. The thought of having a totally handicapped (残疾的) mother was weighing heavily on his little shoulder. He needed the ray of hope that I would not be in a wheelchair forever.

Just maybe, I thought, I could use this experience to teach what to do when disasters strike. I needed something besides my physical healing to sink my Irish stubbornness into—it’s that personality that kept me going through the toughest challenge of my life

It didn’t take me long to become impatient with the pace the doctors were willing to go with me. I determined to learn everything they showed me. I needed to make things happen my way. And being confined (限制) to a wheelchair the rest of my life didn’t fit into my plans.

At first, I taught myself to move from the bed to the wheelchair. I made tiny movements for weeks, afraid of falling, but more afraid to just lie in bed. I reached a point where my arms were strong enough to carry me into the chair. Getting out of the chair and back into bed proved more difficult, but I soon developed a method of grabbing the sheets. I often wondered what the nurses and doctors would have done if they’d seen me struggling on my own. Once sure I could return myself to the bed from the wheelchair, I began to use a walker that had been left in my room by a former hospital roommate.

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Every night, when I knew I wouldn’t be interrupted (打扰), I would start to train.

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It came time to share my achievements with the person most important to me.

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8 . My four-year-old son, Will, suffered from autism spectrum disorder (自闭症). And he went through many hours in _________ , helping him to overcome many challenges he faced.

One summer afternoon, with a bucket (桶), Will and I were walking along the _________ to search for shells. After a while, I _________ the bucket and discovered nearly all the shells were broken in it. “Will, these shells are broken and _________. You need to find shells like this.” I said gently as I held up a _________ shaped shell. Will gave me a(n) _________ look, as if he failed to understand me. He continued to   _________ imperfect shells he liked and drop them into the bucket.

“Will, why do you keep on _________ our bucket with broken shells?” This time I asked in a serious voice. He looked up at me and said, “Mom, though these shells are broken, they are still beautiful.” Then he _________ his little hand into the bucket and pulled out different shells, commenting on their __________.

“Mom, this one looks like a smile when you hold it this way. ” He showed a broken shell and explained. “It __________ me of a clown. That one is round like the sun, and these are stuck together like butterflies.” He took great pride in his __________.

My eyes were full of tears as I __________ my son was teaching me a valuable lesson. Silently, I __________ the few perfect shells I had collected and returned them to the beach. We are all broken in some way, but we can find __________ in our imperfection.

1.

A．experiments

B．foods

C．exercises

D．treatments

2.

A．river

B．lake

C．beach

D．stream

3.

A．threw away

B．looked into

C．left behind

D．turned over

4.

A．unpleasant

B．unusual

C．colorless

D．useless

5.

A．sharply

B．clearly

C．perfectly

D．commonly

6.

A．puzzled

B．delighted

C．discouraged

D．embarrassed

7.

A．gather

B．reject

C．count

D．spread

8.

A．covering

B．decorating

C．preparing

D．filling

9.

A．pushed

B．reached

C．buried

D．moved

10.

A．uniquenesses

B．styles

C．symbols

D．qualities

11.

A．informs

B．persuades

C．reminds

D．warns

12.

A．observation

B．performance

C．adventure

D．expression

13.

A．agreed

B．realized

C．pretended

D．decided

14.

A．relieved

B．removed

C．examined

D．saved

15.

A．wisdom

B．power

C．wealth

D．beauty

9 . Psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan tried to find the core of living well. Their research in self-determination theory conducted over the course of four decades with a network of 500 participants in 39 countries, has found that the experience of happiness is affected by the satisfaction of basic psychological needs to feel competent, self-determining, and positively related to other people in the activities of one’s life. These are universal needs, observed across all stages of life and in every culture in which studies have been conducted, and they help explain the truth in the ancient ideal of happiness, or human flourishing (繁荣).

According to this ideal, living well involves fulfilling one’s human potential in ways that are admirable, sustainable (可持续的), and personally satisfying. Ryan and Deci identifies three broad forms of potential: social, intellectual, and productive/creative. In other words, the forms are psychologically linked to the satisfaction of human beings’ universal basic needs for positive relatedness, self-determination, and competence. Fulfilling all three forms of potential is the key to happiness, and shaping our lives and institutions accordingly would be much more matched with sustainability than pursuing wealth without limit.

A related finding, which is very important for the pursuit of sustainability, is that escape from poverty is important to happiness but the pursuit of wealth, status (地位), and image as life goals is less beneficial to happiness than the pursuit of life goals that directly fulfill our basic forms of potential and satisfy our related psychological needs. Societies that have promoted the accumulation of wealth without limit have not raised their general level of happiness by doing so. It should be evident to any observer of life in the U.S. that as wealth and inequality have grown, most Americans have become more painfully focused on occupational insecurity and on status competition that has simply become more expensive and less sustainable.

As a consequence, we could be happier both now and in the future if we could overcome the blind faith in wealth accumulation that shaped the socially, politically and environmentally unstable world with which we must now deal.

1. What did Deci and Ryan find in their research?

A．Happiness is only determined by oneself.

B．500 people feel competent in their lives.

C．People should spend 4 decades to meet the basic needs.

D．Every culture has the similar understanding of happiness.

2. How can we live well according to the research?

A．By achieving our potential.	B．By shaping our lives and institutions.
C．By pursuing wealth without any limit.	D．By identifying three forms of potential.

3. Why did the author mention America in the third paragraph?

A．To show the importance of wealth.

B．To present the necessity of escape from poverty.

C．To introduce the new finding of the pursuit of life goals.

D．To prove the wrong concept between money and happiness.

4. What is the author’s attitude to the world nowadays?

A．Confident.

B．Supportive.

C．Disappointed.

D．Unconcerned.

10 . My professor was a retired criminal lawyer, and he had a unique way of going over the answers to our class’s weekly quizzes, For each question, he would call on a student and ask for his answer, after which he’d ask the class to vote on whether they agreed or not. If the latter, a new student was picked to give a different answer, and the whole process would begin again.

It was certainly a memorable way to review. But I was just a freshman, and quiz-review days frightened me. I’d spend the entire review shrinking (蜷缩) in my seat, praying that I wouldn’t be called on.

One of my other professors saved me. In my anatomy (解剖学) class, we watched a TED Talk by Dr. Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist. Dr. Cuddy explained that humans could choose to take either “high power” or “low power” positions with their bodies. “High power” positions involve taking up as much space as possible -- standing up straight, and moving your arms and legs away from your body. “Low power” poses, in contrast, involve making yourself look small: bending your head and keeping your arms and legs crossed and held close. She found that spending just two minutes standing in a “high power” pose measurably increased a person’s feelings of power and self-confidence. And she wanted all of her viewers to try it out for themselves. So I did.

I arrived ten minutes early to class on the next quiz-review day. However, I tried something new. I sat up straight. When our teacher arrived and asked if anyone had any questions about the material before we began our quiz review, I actually raised my hand. “I am big,” told myself. “It is all right to be seen and take up space.” The effect of this was amazing. Suddenly, I realized that the important thing was simply that I was participating. I didn’t need to be right. I just needed to engage fully in the class and learn, like everyone else.

This was an attitude many people, including my parents and my best friend, had often tried to communicate to me before. It had never really sunk in. But something about taking the “high power” pose made the same thoughts come, not from someone talking outside of me, but from the inside of my very own brain.

1. How did the author feel about the way of conducting quiz-review at first?

A．Bored

B．Tired

C．Astonished

D．Disturbed

2. What does the author want to explain by mentioning Dr. Cuddy?

A．How to be a good public speaker.

B．How body language affects self-confidence.

C．How to tell “high power” positions from “low power” ones.

D．How body language transforms the way people communicate.

3. What can be inferred about the author from the last paragraph?

A．She used to be a bit of a loner.

B．She failed to get on with her parents.

C．She used to be reminded of the importance of participation.

D．She knew less about the “high power” pose than her best friend.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．My demanding professor	B．A new way of thinking big
C．My struggling quiz-review days	D．A new platform for spreading ideas