1 . In February 2021, the world knew Tessica Brown, a young woman who is now known as the Glue Girl. It is possible that she has made the most ________ haircare mix-up in history. _________ using her hair-care product, she took a can of strong glue by mistake and sprayed it all around her hair.

The ________ was exactly what we might think: her hair became "a hard helmet”. It can't be________ safely in any possible way at home. As her videos about the incident on the ________ gained millions of views, endless remarks ________ .

Among those remarks, some people said that she made the mix-up on purpose to be________ online. “Now that she has become known as she expected, she ________ the unpleasant results”， a netizen(网民)said. Countless followers arrived with even crueler ________ . The poor woman cried in her videos, both for her hair and the ________ from the Internet.

Fortunately, there were also people who showed their ________. They believed she was not________ when she explained, “it is awful to have the glue in a place where it doesn't ________ Some people even posted some hair-care products and glues with ________ packages.

Have you ever seen someone who has posted their silly ________. or even misfortunes online? Do you roil your eyes or feet sympathetic? The ________ is in your own hands. What really matters is your ________ thinking rather than ________ someone else blindly.

Finally, Brown ________ herself from "the hard helmet" after a four-hour-long operation. Luckily, among cruelty, plenty of ________ did offer some relief to her, and many others.

1.

A．fortunate

B．unfortunate

C．beautiful

D．experienced

2.

A．Instead of

B．By means of

C．Regardless of

D．On behalf of

3.

A．reason

B．result

C．belief

D．discovery

4.

A．replaced

B．kept

C．returned

D．removed

5.

A．glue

B．hair

C．media

D．helmet

6.

A．ran away

B．turned down

C．poured in

D．faded away

7.

A．positive

B．foolish

C．famous

D．quiet

8.

A．collects

B．allows

C．respects

D．deserves

9.

A．likes

B．comments

C．tips

D．marks

10.

A．harm

B．agreement

C．praise

D．achievement

11.

A．hate

B．sympathy

C．pleasure

D．question

12.

A．crying

B．doubting

C．admitting

D．lying

13.

A．belong

B．stay

C．put

D．see

14.

A．classic

B．various

C．similar

D．different

15.

A．mistakes

B．advantages

C．suggestions

D．benefits

16.

A．rule

B．problem

C．action

D．choice

17.

A．successful

B．independent

C．interesting

D．simple

18.

A．correcting

B．meeting

C．following

D．expecting

19.

A．freed

B．stopped

C．turned

D．struggled

20.

A．coldness

B．happiness

C．sadness

D．kindness

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。

A little boy and his grandmother came to see Santa at Mayfair Mall in Wisconsin. The child climbed up on Santa Claus's lap holding a picture of a little girl.

"Who is this?" asked Santa, smiling. "Your friend? Your sister?"

"Yes, Santa," he replied.

"My sister, Sarah, who is very sick," the boy said sadly.

Santa glanced over at the grandmother who was waiting nearby and saw her wiping her eyes with a tissue.

"She wanted to come with me to see you very much, Santa!" the child shouted.

"She misses you," he added softly.

Santa tried to cheer the boy up, asking him what he wanted Santa to bring him for Christmas.

When they finished their talk, the grandmother came over to help the child get off his lap， and started to say something to Santa, but halted （停顿）.

"What is it?" Santa asked warmly.

"Well, I know it's really too much to ask you, Santa, but..." The girl in the photograph is my granddaughter. You see... she has leukemia（白血病）and isn't expected to make it even through the holidays," she said through tear-filled eyes.

"Is there any way, Santa, any possible way that you could come to see Sarah?

All she's asked for. for Christmas. is to see Santa.

Santa blinked. swallowed hard and told to the woman to leave information with his elves（小精灵）as to where Sarah was，saying he would see what he could do. Santa thought of nothing else for the rest of that afternoon. "What if it were MY child lying in that hospital bed, dying?" he thought with a sinking heart.

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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。
Santa knew what he had to do.
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One year later at Mayfair Mall, a little girl came up to sit on Santa’s lap and said, “Hi, Santa! Remember me?”
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3 . 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。

Holly was confused as she opened the birthday present from her best friend. Susan — it was a twelve-by-eight inch dark blue carpet. Her “thanks” was hardly heard as Holly tried hard not to show her disappointment.

The next morning. I carried a kitchen rubbish bag outside only to find Susan’s carpet lying there. I immediately reached in and pulled it out of the rubbish can. After giving it a brushing. I brought it into the house and put it away.

Before Holly’s birthday, Susan had been a regular visitor in our home. But suddenly I realized that it had been nearly three weeks since we’d heard the mention of Susan’s name. I missed her warm smile very much.

“Susan invited us to go to her house after school tomorrow. “Holly said as soon as she arrived from school. From her voice I sensed she was pleased with the invitation.

We were traveling along the winding country road that led to her house the following day. On the way Susan talked nervously about her foster mom and the seventeen cats they had taken in and cared for.

When we came to a stop, Susan’s foster mom — who introduced herself as Glenda — gave us a warm welcome. Susan guided us through the house. She proudly showed us her room, which was only decorated with some shabby used furniture.

I followed Susan’s foster mom, Glenda, into the kitchen. After clearing a small area, Glenda poured us each a cup of black coffee with her trembling hand. Then she began to relax as we drank our coffee and chatted about her cats.

Her eyes shone as she showed her fondness for Susan. But her expression turned blue when she referred to the girl’s past In an instant, I came to respect this warmhearted woman who had opened her home to a younger girl and tied hard to make a difference in her life.

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2. 请按如下格式作答。

As daylight began to fade, we offered our thanks for the visit and said goodbye.

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“Is this what you were looking for?”

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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

People with high self­confidence     1    (natural) have optimistic and joyful emotions as well as the knowledge that they can change their emotions from negative to positive.

Emotions     2    (be) a normal part of life. They indicate how you feel about a situation and any needed action. When you have high self­respect and self­confidence, you feel good     3     life. You feel secure and have an open heart and a calm mind.

The     4    (high) your level of emotional health is, the more self­worth you will have. Even when things go wrong, you’re composed and ready     5    (deal) with the situation in a constructive way.

Even when you focus on     6    (carry) a positive attitude at all times, we all know that life can be full of annoyances—your dog     7    (run) away, someone sideswipes your car, your plane is late, you have to work overtime to get a project done. All of these can cause a bad mood and throw your emotions into a downward spiral.

Having emotional health isn’t difficult, but    8     does take focus and concentration. Be aware of     9     your feeling is and direct your emotions into something more optimistic. Your self­confidence will     10    (strength) at the same time.

5 . Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean (毕达哥拉斯) power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery (嘲弄) of what human life should be. I long to alleviate (减少) the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

1. Which would be the best title of the essay?

A．The suffering of life.	B．The truth about love.
C．The forces driving me.	D．The power of knowledge.

2. What does the author compare his life’s passion to?

A．The shining stars.	B．Great winds.
C．A bottomless abyss.	D．A boundless ocean.

3. Which is NOT a reason why the author has sought love?

A．It relieves loneliness.	B．It brings ecstasy.
C．It provides a glimpse of heaven.	D．It leads to a marriage.

4. What would the author most probably agree with?

A．He regrets that he could not free himself of pity.

B．Human love is ultimately disappointing.

C．Heaven is merely a poetic invention.

D．A loving person naturally wants to relieve the suffering of others.

6 . Guilt is one of the most painful emotions that humans experience but also one of the most common. Nobody enjoys feeling guilty, but this emotion serves an important purpose: it alerts a person when he or she has done something wrong. This enables the person to make amends and work to heal relationships that were damaged by their actions.     1    

Nevertheless, guilt can be destructive if it is not dealt with in the right way. It can cause people to avoid others because they are too embarrassed to apologize for their actions or inaction. Some try to avoid the pain of guilt by turning to other worse habits.     2    

The proper response to guilt depends on what kind of guilt you're dealing with. For false guilt, it’s important to recognize that the guilt does not reflect an actual ethical failure.

For example, some false guilt focuses on failing to meet expectations you had for yourself.     3     No one is perfect, and no one can do everything, so admitting your limits is actually a sign of humility.

    4     Even when you don’t need to feel guilty, these feelings are real and normal. Try to balance them with positive thoughts, but realize that it often takes time for feelings to change.

    5     If so, don’t try to conceal it. Apologize and ask for forgiveness. Learn from your mistakes, and try to avoid committing the same acts again. Getting on well with the person you hurt should make your guilty feelings fade.

Guilt is painful, but it can serve a good purpose if you use it well.

A．Other people experience false guilt because of high expectations for themselves.

B．It’s possible that you feel guilty because you actually did something wrong.

C．Others try to cover up their guilt by blaming others or becoming angry.

D．It can also motivate people to avoid making similar mistakes later.

E．In this case, it’s important to remind yourself that you have limits.

F．Moreover, guilt can result in physical and mental discomforts meanwhile.

G．It’s also important to acknowledge what you are feeling.

7 . 语法填空

There are moments in life     1     you miss some people so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! When one door of happiness closes,    2    opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which     3    (close) for us. Don't go for looks; they can deceive (欺骗). Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone     4     makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Dream what you want     5    (dream); go where you want to go; be what you want to be. The     6    (happy) people don't     7    (necessary) have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that     8    (come) along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a     9    (forget) past. When you were born, you were crying and everyone     10    you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

8 . To think positively, you have to stop saying something to yourself that can make you become negative. Here are some examples:

※ I’m worthless.

You were born for a reason. Feed it in your mind, and this naturally makes you worthy. Actually, even something as tiny as an ant has an impact on keeping environmental balance.     1     Remember that being worthy is never a choice. It is a birthright.

※ I can never be like them.

    2     Why do you even want to become like someone else, when you’re perfect at being you? Everybody is unique. Everybody has their own set of challenges. If you dislike something about yourself and like something about others, learn to develop that thing in you. But do not try to mimic (模仿) them or change yourself.

※ I’m not good enough.

Says who? Not good enough for whom?     3     It’s not going to benefit you in any way. Start believing in yourself. Instead of saying “I’m not good enough”, try saying “I’m smart enough and I have what it takes to be”.

※ I’m a loser.

You’re a loser if you say so. Stop hurting yourself.     4     Every success story has a trial of failures. So you should learn from them and try again.

※    5    

No matter what you do, people always have something to talk about you when you leave the room. So, why care? Don’t give them the chance to destroy your dreams. For once, do what your heart wishes for, and you’ll feel free.

A．I can’t believe what happened.

B．Be grateful for the little things in life.

C．So you have no need to doubt yourself.

D．What they think and say about me matters.

E．Saying such things to yourself will just put you down.

F．Every mistake you make teaches you ways of what not to do.

G．The biggest mistake we make is to compare ourselves with others.

9 . The driver who cuts you off in traffic.The neighbors who don't pick up after their dog.Situations such as these get our hearts racing and send our stress levels skyrocketing.Anger isn't a pleasant feeling.Some of us bottle up the emotion, while others explode in a wild rage (狂怒).Both habits do considerable harm to our bodies, our minds, and our relationships.

“Anger may fee1 uncomfortable and a lot of people think they have to get rid of their anger," says Patrick Keelan, a registered psychologist in Calgary, Alberta.“But anger is an emotion built into us to signal that something needs to be addressed.When we take notice of that signal and actually wrestle with the problem instead of turning a blind eye to it, we' re usually much better for it.”

Unfortunately, many of us have been conditioned to keep our emotions hidden.Increasingly,research is suggesting that this can have long-term effects on our health.Investigators at the University of Rochester noticed that people who contain their emotions tend to live shorter lives.When we're angry, stress hormones are released, which can make us more likely to develop a wide range of diseases, including diabetes, depression, immune related conditions.

Is it better, then, to scream and howl whenever something makes you mad? That's probably the reason why“rage rooms" have popped up in many American cities, where folks are invited to let steam off by violently smashing (打碎) stuff in a“safe" environment.However, the research indicates that when people display anger aggressively, it can actually increase the intensity of the anger -- and increase the likelihood of aggressive actions in the future.It doesn't take much imagination to predict how such behavior can affect your relationship with your spouse, your kids, or your colleagues.It also hurts your health.A large 2016 study at McMaster University found that people are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack after an angry explosion.

If we shouldn't bottle up our angry feelings but aggressive behavior isn't healthy either, how should we handle things that tick us of? It's the extreme highs and lows that cause the damage.If you're able to apply techniques that smooth out some of those peaks and valleys, you can have a gentler ride.

1. What does the underlined phrase“bottle up" in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Build up.

B．Hold back.

C．Let off.

D．Bring out.

2. What does Patrick Keelan think of anger?

A．Uncomfortable and avoidable.

B．Terrible and threatening.

C．Confusing and complex.

D．Normal and natural.

3. What is the consequence of displaying anger aggressively?

A．It leads to people's depression.

B．It warns people against violence.

C．It adds to people's anger.

D．It helps people to calm down.

4. What will be talked about if the passage is continued?

A．Possible causes of anger.

B．Tips on handling anger.

C．Possible harm of anger.

D．Tips on avoiding anger.

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.

I was walking down the muddy road one day when my cell phone rang. A child's voice on the other end spoke to me softly, "Dad, please come hack soon. I miss you so much!” Unconsciously, I knew it was a wrong number once again. I don’t have a single daughter. I just have a six-year-old son. It is not unusual to receive this kind of calls nowadays, so I replied rudely, "You've dialed the wrong number!” and then hung up in anger.

During the following days, I got the same call now and then. It disturbed me, so I either rejected her or hung up right away rudely. I couldn’t help complaining about this, “What an impolite girl! How can she call me up over and over again?” How 1 wished the little girl would stop causing any trouble to me some day! Suddenly, the phone rang up again. It was from the same girl- It seemed that she would not give up until she got an answer.

She constantly called me up. Even if I did not give her an answer, she still dialed my number from time to time. Eventually I unwillingly answered the phone. 1 heard the weak voice of that little girl, “Dad, please come back now. I miss you so much! Mom told me this was not a wrong number. It is your cell phone number, right? Dad, I am in so much pain! Mom said you were too busy to take care of me. She is tired out from looking after me. Dad, I know you are busy. If you cannot come home, please kiss me again in the phone, OK?” The innocent request was difficult to reject. I made a loud kiss into the phone and heard a weak voice saying, “Thank you.... Dad, I am so... happy, so …happy

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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。

Shortly after this, I became interested in who had been on the other end of my phone.

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I couldn’t wait to ask the woman how her daughter was.

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