1 . 读后续写

When I look back on my childhood, the first image that springs to my mind is the daisy (雏菊) kept in my dictionary, which always reminds me of my lunchtimes with my mother.

When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had practised my lines (台词) so hard with me. But no matter how easily I delivered them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s (旁白) part to the play, and asked me to switch roles.

I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain, and instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤蔓) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow daisies popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with a little bit of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the daisies. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, suddenly pulling a flower up by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like daisies,” I protested (抗议). “All flowers are beautiful——even daisies.” My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower has its own beauty, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, feeling pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too,” she added, “Not everyone can be a princess. Hence, there is no shame in that.”

Relieved that she had sensed my pain, I started to cry when I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled.

注意：
1. 所续写的短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在以下位置作答。
Paragraph 1：

“You will be a beautiful narrator,” she comforted.

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Paragraph 2:

Backstage on the night of the performance, I still felt nervous.

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2 . My car slid easily into the school lane. I turned around and glanced at the back seat as my ten year old daughter_______. My daughter’s words started to spill, “Momma, Jenny_______all the girls in the class to attend her birthday party except for Heather and me. I_______I was her friend, too.” The air was filled with her_______.

As tears ran down my little girl’s face, I felt_______. As an introvert (内向的人), I often breathe a sigh of _______when I am not invited to a large social gathering. I prefer_______with a few friends who get me. _______, I don’t extend my preferences to my daughter’s social life. Since the age of four, rather than_______just a few, I’ve invited all of her classmates to her birthday parties. That’s because I am________to the need for young girls and boys to feel________.

I understand that at some point all of us are excluded from something and that this is a________children will eventually learn. But why does it have to happen when they are so________?

As soon as we got home, I hugged my still upset daughter and wiped away her tears. As I________her, I thought of her own approaching birthday party. The invitation would go out to all of her________.

1.

A．got off

B．climbed in

C．passed by

D．fell down

2.

A．invited

B．taught

C．warned

D．forbade

3.

A．forgot

B．pretended

C．figured

D．feared

4.

A．sorrow

B．excitement

C．pride

D．humor

5.

A．fearless

B．careless

C．tireless

D．powerless

6.

A．disappointment

B．impatience

C．relief

D．sadness

7.

A．competing

B．bargaining

C．connecting

D．writing

8.

A．Stressfully

B．However

C．Extremely

D．Otherwise

9.

A．refusing

B．choosing

C．ignoring

D．training

10.

A．apologetic

B．frightened

C．blind

D．sensitive

11.

A．left out

B．held back

C．fulfilled

D．included

12.

A．lesson

B．role

C．skill

D．quality

13.

A．upset

B．young

C．naughty

D．lonely

14.

A．praised

B．blamed

C．rewarded

D．comforted

15.

A．classmates

B．neighbours

C．teachers

D．relatives

4 . 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。

Today is my son Matthew’s last day at home before college. I know that this is good news. I feel extremely proud that Matthew will go to a great school. But looking at the suitcases on his bed sends me out of the room to a hidden corner where I can’t stop crying     1     (bitter). Maybe it’s normal for most people.

    2     (feel) rather depressed, I tell myself, “Pull yourself together!” There are parents sending their kids off to battle fields.

One of the greatest gifts of my life is my boys, Matthew and John Owen. Through them, I have explored the mysterious and complicated bond(纽带) between fathers and sons over the past years By the time Saturday came around, I     3     (be) unable to enjoy the day’s activities.

Now, standing among Matthew’s so many things including a     4     (collect) of science magazines, all of a sudden, I realize it’s me who has become a boy again. All my sadness and longing     5     (hold) on to things are back, sweeping over me as they did when I was a child.

His bed,     6     position is in the corner of the room, is tidy and spare. It already has the feel of a guest bed, In my mind I remember wrapping him in his favorite blanket. That was our nightly routine until one evening he said, “Daddy, I don’t think I need a blanket tonight.” I think of all the times when we lay among the covers, reading books or magazines, I look at the bed and think of all the recent times when I was     7     (annoy) at how late he was sleeping. I’ll never have to worry about that again.

For his part, Matthew, who is an     8     (ambition) boy, has been a rock. He is treating the time to leave as just another day at home. After all, someone’s got to be strong. The reason why I’m proud is     9     he is charging into the first chapter of his adult life with such confidence. I myself am to blame     10     the feelings of sorrow and bitterness.

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。

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, immediately announces she never did care for pie.

—Tenneva Jordan

I knew I was not supposed to be quite so excited. I was too old for that. At age eleven, as the oldest and my mom’s “grown-up” girl, I had to keep myself cool. I was in middle school after all. But when I got every chance and I was alone. I checked each present under the tree. I read every tag(标签)and felt every package, guessing at the contents within. I examined each gift so often that I could tell which present went to which person without even looking at the tags.

It had been a tough year for my family. Whenever my mom looked over at the tree and scattered(撒)presents, she would sigh and warn us, “There won’t be as much for Christmas this year. Try not to be disappointed.” Christmas had traditionally been a time for my parents to spoil us. In the past, the presents would pile up and spill out from under the tree, taking up a lot of space of the living room. I had heard the phrase, “Giving is better than receiving”, but thought that whoever had said that must have been out of their mind. Getting presents was the whole point! It was the reason why I couldn’t get to sleep on Christmas Eve.

On Christmas morning, we eagerly waited in the hallway until Dad told us everything was ready. We rushed into the living room and let the wrapping paper fly. Some of us made weak attempts to wait and watch while other family members opened their presents, but as the time passed, we lost our self-control.

“Here’s another one for you,” said Mom as she handed me a package. I looked at it, puzzled. Having spent so much time examining the presents before Christmas, I recognized this one. But it was not mine. It was my mom’s. A new tag had been put on it, with my name written in my mother’s handwriting.

“Mom, I can’t…”

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。

“This is your present and it belongs to you,” said my mother.

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That Christmas is quite meaningful to me.

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6 . You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. —Winston Churchill

We come by (获得) business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s hardware (五金制品) _______ in Mott, North Dakota, a small town in the countryside. We started working by doing small jobs like cleaning and _______ shelves, and later tried to _______ customers. As we worked and watched, we learned that work was more than about survival and making a _______.

One lesson stands out in my mind. It was shortly before Christmas. I was in the eighth grade and was working in the evenings, arranging the toys in the area. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was wearing a dirty, old brown coat. His hair was _______. His shoes were worn out. The little boy looked too poor to _______ to buy anything. He _______ looked around the toy area, picked up several toys, and put them _______.

Dad came down the stairs, walked over to the boy and asked what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas present for his brother. I was _______ that Dad treated him with the same respect that he would give to any ________. Dad told him to take his time and look around. He did so.

After about twenty minutes, the little boy chose a toy ________, walked up to my dad and said, “How much is this, Mister?” “How much have you got?” Dad asked.

The little boy held out his hand and opened ________. His hand was covered with wet lines of dirt from holding his money. In his hand lay five coins: two dimes, a nickel and two Pennies—twenty-seven cents altogether. The price on the toy plane he’d ________ was $3.98.

“That’ll be OK,” Dad said when he closed the sale. Dad’s answer still ________ in my ears. I thought about what I’d seen as I wrapped (包，裹) the present. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t ________ the dirty, worn coat, the messy hair or the old shoes. What I saw was a glowing child with a treasure.

1.

A．office

B．library

C．station

D．store

2.

A．painting

B．tidying

C．breaking

D．lifting

3.

A．visit

B．question

C．relax

D．serve

4.

A．sale

B．decision

C．face

D．mistake

5.

A．short

B．messy

C．clean

D．black

6.

A．afford

B．learn

C．refuse

D．fail

7.

A．blindly

B．rudely

C．carefully

D．dangerously

8.

A．on

B．out

C．back

D．off

9.

A．afraid

B．sorry

C．lucky

D．proud

10.

A．adult

B．workmate

C．nurse

D．doctor

11.

A．train

B．truck

C．plane

D．ship

12.

A．them

B．it

C．another

D．itself

13.

A．broken up

B．given away

C．hung up

D．picked out

14.

A．rings

B．drops

C．bends

D．pulls

15.

A．supply

B．treasure

C．notice

D．show

9 . Adrian’s “Amazing Race” started early, when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired (听觉受损的), he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.

Later on, Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular schools couldn’t take care of a student with special needs. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work every day because they want to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn’t always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.

The effort made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht (帆船) Race 18/19 — being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.

But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother. “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results,” she often said.

1. How did Adrian’s mother feel when she saw the disabled children communicating?

A．Amazed.

B．Puzzled.

C．Worried.

D．Ashamed.

2. What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Why the headmaster prevented Adrian from being accepted into the school.

B．What possible measures the teachers took to give a hand to Adrian at school.

C．What kinds of troubles Adrian met with when communicating with others.

D．How Adrian managed to overcome challenges to get along well with his studies.

3. What can we infer from the third paragraph?

A．He did quite well in yachting.

B．He went to Nepal to do volunteer work.

C．He was unable to go into a top high school.

D．He preferred studying indoors to doing outdoor sports.

4. Why did Adrian’s mother often say the words in the last paragraph?

A．To amuse him.

B．To inspire him.

C．To scold him.

D．To annoy him.

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。

Allen came here today only because of Grandfather, who refused to use anything but bat (蝙蝠) waste to feed his crops.

Grandfather had always come here by himself before. But recently he was too weak to do the whole job. Grandfather could gather the waste and bring it out in the basket, but he needed Allen to pull it home in the wooden cart (手拉车).

On arrival, Grandfather took a shovel (铁铲), a flashlight and the basket from the cart. “Would you come inside with me?” he asked Allen. Allen hadn’t been in the cave for nearly two months. Not since the Terrible Day of the Bats. “It won’t happen again, Allen,” Grandfather promised. “That time it was my mistake to wait until nearly dusk (黄昏) to go inside. I know that the bats fly out of the cave at sunset.” That was exactly what happened on the Terrible Day of the Bats. As Allen was standing at the entrance, a large group of bats suddenly flew from it. Allen was frightened. “Bats hurt no one,” Grandfather said. “Besides, you shock them as much as they do you.”

But nothing could make Allen forget the horror he had felt enclosed (被包围) in that black cloud of bats. “I can’t go in there,” he answered. “OK,” Grandfather said. As he started to go into the cave, he called over his shoulder, “I’ll be out in no time.” Allen looked quickly at the shovel and flashlight inside the cart—his shovel and flashlight. He used them back in the days when he always helped Grandfather. Now they only reminded him of his fear.

Allen walked down to the river, sitting and watching the fishermen in their small boats. Suddenly, Allen realized that Grandfather’s “no time” had turned into a long time. Had he somehow missed Grandfather? Had Grandfather pulled the cart home by himself? Allen hurried up the hill toward the cave. The cart was there. Grandfather was still inside. Something must have gone wrong, Allen thought. He had to go in, but he didn’t dare.

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。
“I must take action right now,” Allen said to himself.
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“Where is Grandfather in the cave,” Allen wondered.
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