1 . 阅读短文，按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

It’s break time. Molly sat at the picnic table alone while the rest of the students were running freely. The new girl was once again excluding herself from the midday celebration. Even though the school had been in session for several weeks already, she remained awkward around her classmates.

Brianna, the class clown, was standing near the playground and making the other students laugh as usual. I interrupted her fun and asked her to come to talk with me. “Brianna, do you see Molly down there?” I asked. “She looks very lonely. Would you mind walking down there and inviting her to come here to be with the rest of us?” I patted her on the shoulder.

Brianna sighed. I could tell she didn’t want to waste her precious time on what I was saying, but I also knew her heart. She was sweet and kind and often thought of others, so I chose her for this task on purpose.

Seeing that this choice pained her, I took a D-buck, our class currency, from my pocket. Though it was not the best way to handle this situation, I needed to ensure her cooperation. “Here, I’ll pay you for your time,” I said. She smiled, grasped the green paper, and headed towards Molly.

My eyes focused on Brianna as she neared the picnic table. After talking for a while, Molly turned to a standing position. Then I felt a sense of relief. The girls walked back together. Several minutes later, Brianna walked to me and handed me the D-buck, saying, “I shouldn’t keep this, because I don’t want Molly to think I only went to her for a D-buck. She is my friend.”

Then Brianna went back to her group. A moment later, they were all laughing again, and Molly was one of them.

1. What did the author ask Brianna to do? (no more than 15 words)
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2. Why did the author select Brianna to finish the task? (no more than 5 words)
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3. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to? (no more that 5 words)
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4. Why did the author feel a sense of relief? (no more than 10 words)
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5. What do you think of Brianna? Please explain the reason. (no more than 20 words)
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2 . If you’ve ever been in a cheerful mood, then met up with a bad-tempered friend, you’ll know how infectious emotions can be. Before you know it, you realize that you’re feeling down too.    1    . When you’ve been sad, perhaps your friend’s liveliness has helped to lighten your mood.

You might wonder who wins out—if you’re feeling happy and your friend is feeling sad, do you yield to their sadness or do they catch your happiness? Part of the answer is likely depending on their and your levels of expressiveness and receptiveness.     2    . If you smile a lot when you’re happy, you’re more likely to infect your friend. Likewise, if your friend is impressionable and more prone (有做...倾向的) to copying facial expressions, then they’ll be more likely to catch your smiles and start feeling happier.

    3    . For instance, there’s evidence that fear has a smell, and that smelling the sweat of an anxious person can initiate activity in parts of the brain involved in empathy (共情) and processing emotions. In fact, there doesn’t need to be any physical contact at all. Researchers have shown that emotions can spread through social media.     4    .

If and when you encounter an opposite emotion to your own, the experience will likely vary depending on how invested you are in that other person or people.     5    . And if you’re feeling sad and a bunch of strangers surrounding you were laughing their heads off, you’re likely to find it really annoying.

A．Happily, it can work the other way around too.

B．This is especially true when we’re interacting with someone we care about.

C．Everyone varies in how emotionally expressive and impressionable they are.

D．That isn’t to say that facial expressions are the only way for emotions to spread.

E．These processes have to do with effective communication and mutual understanding.

F．If you care about them, you’ll be more motivated to shift emotionally to match their state.

G．People exposed to more negative posts are more likely to post something negative themselves.

3 . 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项（选项中有两项为多余选项）。
John: Hi, Karl. You were not in your class yesterday afternoon. What was wrong?
Karl:     1    
John: Sorry to hear that.     2    
Karl: Much better. The fever is gone. But I still cough and I feel weak.
John:     3    
Karl: Yes, I have. I went to the doctor’s yesterday afternoon. The doctor gave me some medicine and asked me to stay in bed for a few days.
John:     4    
Karl: Because I’m afraid I’ll miss more lessons and I’ll be left behind.
John: Don’t worry. Take care of yourself.     5    
Karl: Thank you.
A. I can help you with your lessons.
B. I went to Hainan on holiday.
C. Have you seen the doctor?
D. Why don’t you stay at home today?
E. What would you like to do?
F. I was ill.
G. How about now?

4 . It was an extremely busy day. I was so tired of my life that I was getting a little ________ with myself and everyone around me. On my way home, I ________ my old friend Paul in the street. He looked happy and ________ me to his home for dinner. We had not seen each other for many years, so ________ I was tired I accepted his invitation.

As we entered the door of his house, Paul started ________ “I have a dream, a song to sing, to help you ________ everything.” I felt ________ his behavior, but in no time I understood. Two ________ walked to Paul and hugged him. They couldn’t walk ________ or speak clearly, but their faces were full of ________ and sang the same song.

We talked about our ________ and work, and I learned from Paul that his daughters were born as “special children”. They were mentally changed. Their mother ________ years ago. Paul was both mother and father to his beautiful daughters. But Paul said he was ________ that the little angels were together with him and that ________ could stop him from living actively.

That night, we ________ a lot, and his happy smiles made my anger and ________ fade. I forgot how many times I   ________ about my life and my work, but Paul’s life was a(n) ________ to me. The man smiled at his life and treated any trouble as a________of life. I owe my thanks to Paul, for he taught me to deal with life ________ and move on.

1.

A．delighted

B．angry

C．strict

D．concerned

2.

A．called

B．visited

C．contacted

D．met

3.

A．forced

B．begged

C．invited

D．ordered

4.

A．when

B．if

C．since

D．though

5.

A．saying

B．talking

C．singing

D．dancing

6.

A．with

B．across

C．through

D．to

7.

A．surprised at

B．crazy about

C．satisfied with

D．proud of

8.

A．girls

B．players

C．brothers

D．singers

9.

A．carefully

B．quietly

C．cautiously

D．steadily

10.

A．tears

B．smiles

C．love

D．worry

11.

A．relatives

B．friends

C．family

D．class

12.

A．came to

B．passed away

C．hung about

D．gave in

13.

A．sure

B．sorry

C．lucky

D．ashamed

14.

A．nothing

B．something

C．anything

D．everything

15.

A．argued

B．learned

C．recalled

D．talked

16.

A．weakness

B．carelessness

C．friendliness

D．tiredness

17.

A．complained

B．dreamed

C．asked

D．thought

18.

A．comfort

B．shock

C．inspiration

D．instruction

19.

A．loss

B．gift

C．stage

D．game

20.

A．cheerfully

B．flexibly

C．equally

D．separately

5 . Friendships can end. You may be feeling sad about your friend moving away.     1     There are many reasons that a friendship may come to an end. Whatever the reason is, here are some ways to cope with your loss.

    2     There is no need to blame yourself or the other person for your friendship ending, unless you want to hang onto the pain of losing your friend for the rest of your life. Blame, anger, and regret are traps that keep you from moving on after a relationship ends.

Create new habits and routines. When a friendship ends, old habits die hard sometimes.     3     You can try to find new social activities, hobbies, and sports activities. They can keep your mind occupied, improve your mental and physical health and create new social connections.

    4     One of the most important things to do when you’re letting go of someone you care about is to give yourself — as well as the other person — time and space to deal with the grief of a lost friendship. You both will need time and space to figure out how to live independently and find new interests and activities.

Set new personal goals. Set some goals that you want to reach and then make a plan to achieve each of those new goals. However, make sure that the goals you set are for you and you alone. Goals set just to spite (怨恨) someone else won’t help you move past the pain of the relationship ending.     5    

A．Give yourself time and space

B．Avoid playing the blame game.

C．Avoid feeling sad about losing a friend.

D．You need new habits to replace your old ones.

E．Or perhaps you were the one who moved away.

F．So don’t set a self-improvement goal just to get back at your friend.

G．However, constant reminders of your old friendship can make letting go really hard.

6 . Friendship is very important to me.    1     . In order to develop good friendships, I will always value these qualities in good friends and try to measure myself against these standards.

A good friend should be humorous. Nothing makes spending time together more fun than a friend who makes you laugh. My best friend is a funny girl. I feel happy when I listen to her talking. We laugh at the funny scenes in films, we laugh at each other’s silly mistakes,     2    . No true friendship can grow unless the people involved are able to laugh together.

A close friend should also be trustworthy.     3    . Whenever I feel low, my best friend has a way to break through my tears, and she will not let my secret out. She was the one I turned to when I got a low mark in Maths, when I lost the game in the school sports meeting, and when I had a big argument with my parents.

    4    . A good friend must be able to tell you the truth not only when you are right, but also when you are wrong. Without this, the friendship will only ever exist on the surface and never develop a deeper meaning. In fact, I am glad that my friend can always point out what I have done wrong. I might be upset at first, but when I realize that she is like a mirror which honestly reflects my mistakes, I have to admit that this friendship makes me a better person.

    5    . A friendship where both parties have all of these qualities will surely be a long-lasting relationship. It will enrich the lives of both friends.

A．A true friend should be honest.

B．A true friend will have all three of these qualities.

C．and we laugh at ourselves as well.

D．A true friend has to be someone you can trust with your secrets.

E．So what is trust between friends.

F．and we’re hardly out of each other’s sight.

G．There are certain qualities that are very important in a friend.

7 . The world’s oldest pen pals have both become 100 years old after many years of transatlantic letters and have now switched to Zoom. Centenarians (百岁老人) Geoff Banks from Honiton, Devon, and Celesta Byrne from the US, started writing to each other aged just 16 in 1938. They met as part of an educational project to put British and American students in contact — and decades later they are still corresponding.

Former engineer Geoff even kept in touch with Celesta during WWII when he served as a mechanic on British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Pacific. It has been so long that Geoff, a retired engineer, barely remembers how they started talking. Geoff said, “I honestly struggle to remember how we got in touch, and I think it was something to do with an American school’s scheme. It matched us up with Americans for a pen pal relationship, and somehow I ended up with a letter from an American girl, and we have just kept corresponding ever since. There were a couple of years when we struggled to keep in touch because of the war. Now I correspond mainly by email. Email is much easier for me these days because I can’t write very well anymore. We just talk about daily lives and our families really, but we don’t discuss the football.”

They now touch base via video app Zoom. Geoff said, “I have this new thing called Zoom to chat with her, but I leave all the technology to younger people. They’re much better at pressing all the buttons.”

Despite having chatted for decades, the pair only met twice — first in 2002 while Geoff visited New York aged 80, and then again two years later. Having such a unique relationship, the pair deny there is any romance there. Celesta said, “We’re just friends, like people who live next door. It’s nice to hear his voice.”

1. What played a key role in the pen pals’ contact?

A．A school program.	B．An educational email.
C．A pen pal’s introduction.	D．A correspondence course.

2. What did the pair mainly talk about in their letters?

A．Their favourite sports.	B．Their everyday life.
C．Their family traditions.	D．Their experiences in the war.

3. Which is closest in meaning to “touch base” in paragraph 3?

A．Lay foundation.

B．Take a chance

C．Stay in contact.

D．Make a difference.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Effects of War on Friendship	B．True Friendship Lasts Forever
C．Pure Friendship Differs from Love	D．The Communication Problems of Old People

8 . 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。

For many years, Steven Barbato has worked at a company in Rhode Island, the USA. In 2015, he was introduced to Marilyn Martins, who also was an employee at the time. The two became good friends quickly, and Steven also befriended Marilyn’s daughter, Izabelle Major. The little girl used to give Steven a high five with so much joy, energy and excitement every time she saw him, and Steven was always excited to see her, too.

Eventually, Marilyn left the company for some reason. However, a few weeks ago, Steven ran into Marilyn and Izabelle at a restaurant. He was about to say hello to them when he noticed something unusual. Marilyn looked preoccupied (心事重重), As for Izabelle, she wore a hat and looked very weak. Steven could tell something was wrong but he didn’t talk with them about it that night in order not to upset them.

Steven waited and then called Marilyn the next day. Marilyn told him sadly that Izabelle was suffering from a serious, disease. She had to undergo painful treatments at Hasbro Children’s Hospital every Monday and take, medicine every day. Knowing that, Steven felt heartbroken. He immediately wanted to help and do something for Izabelle because he didn’t want to see any child suffering, especially this one that he knew personally and liked so much. He wanted to know if there was something he could do to help put a smile on Izabelle’s face.

For days, Steven racked his brains, trying to find a way to offer support. Then he learned from his former co-worker that Izabelle wanted a dog. “Yes, a dog would be a good gift. It can accompany her and be her comfort during the hard time,” Steven thought to himself. Therefore, Steven immediately made up his mind to buy her a dog. As he had the habit of sharing his life on social media, he put up a post about what he intended to do. However, he didn’t expect that his usual post would bring about something wonderful.

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。
People seeing the post started to offer help in various ways.
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Soon, Izabelle met the little dog, her new friend.
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9 . 将下列几个部分（A、B、C、D和E）排序，构成一个符合逻辑的完整语篇。

With One Small Gesture

A. I just looked at him in disbelief. It was at the very moment that I realized with one small gesture you can change a person’s life.
B. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became friends. The more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him. When we began to think about college, Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I was going to Duke.
C. One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw my new classmate Kyle walking home from school, seemingly with all of his books.
D. Graduation day came and Kyle was selected as the speaker at the graduation ceremony. He told the story of the first day we met. He told of how he had planned to drop out of school because of loneliness at the new place and how he had cleaned out his locker so he would never come back.
E. All of a sudden, a bunch of kids crashed him, knocking down all his books and tripping him His glasses went flying and I saw terrible sadness in his eyes. As I handed him his glasses, he looked at me and said thanks with a grateful look on his face.
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10 . I met Nancy two years ago and we immediately became friends. Rarely would a day go by when I wouldn’t see her outside of work. I was ________ by her intelligence and sweetness. In the beginning, she was very supportive of my efforts and made me feel ________ about myself. After about a year, she told me that she is an alcoholic. This ________ prevented me from wanting to be her friend, but after she ________ that she is such a person, she became more ________ getting drunk around me when I visited her home. She would call and text me nightly asking me to come to her house, and I would ________every time. I felt obligated (有义务的) as her ________ to be with her when she was completely drunk. I was partly worried that something ________   would happen to her, and part of me was also very ________ , and I needed to have someone to care about me.

Last year, the cold, hard truth ________ me. I would always be there for her when she was drunk and help her use the bathroom, or walk up the stairs. I was letting her know I was OK with her alcoholism. I would listen to her problems and respond ________ advice. One night my dad was in the ________ because of heart problems. I was sad and anxious. I ________ Nancy, but she was so extremely drunk that she couldn’t even understand what I was saying. That night I learned this relationship was completely ________ . I could comfort her, but I couldn’t expect to be comforted in return.

She has chosen not to seek help for her alcoholism. ________, I need to end my relationship with her.

1.

A．drawn

B．shown

C．driven

D．pushed

2.

A．doubtful

B．nervous

C．uneasy

D．great

3.

A．still

B．even

C．always

D．never

4.

A．admitted

B．noticed

C．believed

D．expected

5.

A．patient with

B．curious about

C．comfortable with

D．anxious about

6.

A．promise

B．change

C．go

D．smile

7.

A．monitor

B．friend

C．sister

D．assistant

8.

A．practical

B．valuable

C．challenging

D．awful

9.

A．fortunate

B．calm

C．attractive

D．lonely

10.

A．struck

B．disturbed

C．removed

D．improved

11.

A．over

B．with

C．upon

D．toward

12.

A．shelter

B．hospital

C．town

D．company

13.

A．accepted

B．remembered

C．thanked

D．called

14.

A．subjunctive

B．concrete

C．one-sided

D．reliable

15.

A．Instead

B．Moreover

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise