4 . 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-篇完整的短文。

Every previous year on Thanksgiving Day I’d woken up early, filled with excitement, unable to wait for the turkey, pumpkin pie with pecans, and my grandma’s famous cheesecake. But I would never forget the lesson that my mother taught me when I was 14 years old. That Thanksgiving, I couldn’t find the magic anymore. For some reason the holiday seemed fake (假的). I suddenly felt like Thanksgiving was a big lie. I saw no reason to celebrate.

As my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandma started to arrive carrying plates of food, baskets of bread, and pitchers of egg nog, I grew more and more angry and frustrated. None of them were really thankful, I realized. The whole thing was a lie!

When my mom called for everyone to take their seats for dinner, I left. I ran into the guest room where no one would look, crying. I was defiant (反抗的) because I wanted to be an honest person but 1 was realizing that Thanksgiving was fake. It didn’t feel right to join in the tradition---say something beautiful one by one around the table.

My mom, worried that 1 was absent from the table, came to see what was wrong, “No one is really thankful!” I sobbed, “They just pretend for one day because that’s what you’re supposed to do!"

My mom sat down next to me and listened wisely. Then she nodded. “You’re right,” she told me, “it’s fake until you find the truth for yourself.” She said Thanksgiving was a time to reflect because we don’t always get a chance to see loved ones and eat a good meal. Then she left. I didn’t listen to her. I was convinced that I could never find joy celebrating again.

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。

But I was also starving and I had to eat something.

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At her words, I realized they wanted me to be a part of the tradition.

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5 . 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.

I was honored to be invited by Nadim to his sister's wedding in India. The wedding ceremony took place in a brightly     1     (decorate) hotel room. There were hundreds of guests, all     2     (dress) up in formal, colourful clothes. A few traditional customs made a deep     3     (impress) on me. One was the bridegroom's entrance on a beautiful white horse. Another was the part     4     Nadira’s father proudly led his daughter through rows of seats to her husband.

The Rio Carnival was very impressive, too.     5     (experience) the spirit of the Rio Carnival for myself I went to a street party. I could see a group of around 20 Brazilian dancers and a band in fancy costumes     6     (stand) in the street. Some of them carried flags,     7     blew in the wind. Then there was an     8     (explode) of bright colours and lively music, and the group jumped into action. The band started playing an energetic samba beat, the dancers twisted and turned, and the crowd began to cheer, clap and sing. I was so caught up in the party fever     9     I hardly noticed five hours fly by!     10     an amazing first day in Rio!

6 . 国庆到来之际，你的国际笔友Leo写信询问你一些关于中国的情况，请你以Li Hua的名义写一封信回给Leo.
要求：（1）内容包括：①介绍一些关于中国的著名景点景区、传统风俗习惯；
②你在国庆放假期间的打算；
③你对伟大祖国的祝福等。
（2）卷面工整，字迹清晰，字数100字左右。
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7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did Lina's family go to town at Halloween?

A．They had no neighbors.

B．They didn't have many neighbors.

C．The people in town were friendly.

2. What did Lina's parents do while the kids went to trick-or-treat?

A．They went with the kids.

B．They waited for the kids.

C．They wandered around the town.

3. What did Lina's dad once dress up as?

A．A policeman.

B．A passer-by.

C．Santa Claus.

4. How do you like Lina's parents?

A．They love life.

B．They are strange.

C．They are stubborn.

8 . It was 1939, and the Great Depression had made all our lives much harder. But we didn’t know how poor we were until our father sat my brother and me down on the couch in our living room to have a talk.

I will always remember the sad look in Father’s eyes as he stared down at his hands, rubbing them back and forth, while he searched for the words to tell us that our family wasn’t going to be celebrating Christmas this year.

A month later, on Christmas Eve, I lay awake in bed late into the night, trying to talk myself out of sneaking into our living room to see if Santa had come. I gathered my courage, then tiptoed down the hallway, hoping I would see the bright sparkling lights of our Christmas tree standing proudly in the corner of our living room, like it did every year.

Instead, I was greeted by my seventeen-year-old brother, Frank, who slept on our living room couch. “Hey, little one, what are you doing up?” he whispered.

I started to cry. “There’s no Christmas tree.”

There would be no presents, no singing, no Christmas dinner. It felt like we were the saddest family in the world. My disappointment overwhelmed me. I looked forward to Christmas each year. It wasn’t only the presents. It was that special feeling I got from seeing my family happy. We hadn’t been happy in such a long time.

On Christmas morning, the sun shone into our chilly bedroom, waking me up. “Maybe Santa came! Maybe he came!” I suddenly insisted. My eyes searched the living room, but there was no Christmas tree. I broke into uncontrollable tears.

I ran to Father in tears and threw my arms around him. “ We aren’t going to have Christmas this year.”

“Now, now, now, calm down. Go on in and see your mother. She will comfort you.” Dad slowly pushed the bedroom door open, leading me into the room.

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。

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something different in the bedroom.

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With my question answered, everything dawned on me.

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9 . As students head to their Thanksgiving break, here comes a big homework assignment: StoryCorps wants tens of thousands of teenagers across America to interview their grandparents this Thanksgiving and upload their recordings to the Library of Congress.

The nonprofit oral history organization is asking high school history teachers to have their students record the interviews with StoryCorps free smartphone application. Recordings sent to the library will be shared with the public.

"The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an assignment that will last for generations," StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says. "When young people do these interviews and they hit 'send' at end of the interview to the library they know that their great-great-great-great-great-grand kids are going to listen to these conversations someday and get to understand where they come from and who their ancestors are."

He hopes it becomes an annual tradition that brings families closer together by using modern technology to preserve the wisdom of elders. The students could tap into memories of events dating back to the 1920s, but Isay says the stories are less important than the fact that two people are talking." The purpose of StoryCorps is to have the two people who have this conversation feel more connected with each other and give the person who is being interviewed the chance to be heard," he says.

Brandon Clarke, an administrator at the private Berkeley Carroll School, in Brooklyn, New York, is enthusiastic about tbc project. He says StoryCorps, which is headquartered near the school, has interviewed some of his teachers while developing an instructional guide for the Thanksgiving project. A couple weeks before the holiday, Berkeley Carroll students may get some classroom exercises aimed at sharpening their interview skills.

"How do you develop good questions? How do you go about conducting an interview? How do you build off of a really interesting response?"

But Isay says interviewing isn't hard. He says he has learned from listening to some of the 60,000 conversations StoryCorps has collected since 2003 that people are naturally good at it. "It's just a matter of concentrating, being present and making sure you're in a quiet place," he says. "I think people understand the importance of the moment and that they treat it very seriously."

About 13 million radio listeners hear edited versions of StoryCorps interviews every Friday on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition". StoryCorps also shares excerpts（节录）of recordings through animated videos, podcasts and its website.

Isay says the Thanksgiving project will help spread the idea that history comes from the bottom up. Clarice agrees. "This is a really great example of how oral history is really history, "he says. "For it to be legitimate（正统的）history, it doesn't have to appear in print in a carefully-edited book. Individual stories and individual perspectives are also part of history."

1. How does StoryCorps collect the stories for its project?

A．It asks grandparents to tell their children stories.

B．It asks teenagers to record their grandparents' stories.

C．It asks students to interview their grandparents in a library

D．It asks teachers to teach their students how to make recordings

2. For Save Isay the purpose of the Thanksgiving project is to ______

A．create a new family tradition.

B．pay attention to taking care of the elders.

C．make family members have a close relationship.

D．help a family's history be remembered by its later generations.

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that       .

A．sharing oral stories is a fresh idea for most Americans,

B．oral history plays a more important role in people's daily life.

C．there are many mediums and tools available for recording history.

D．oral history is currently not considered to be as credible printed history.

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Interview between teenagers and their grandparents.

B．Descriptions of the story collection process.

C．Opinions of the elders who have shared their stories.

D．Information on how the recordings are shared and used.

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或给出括号内单词的正确形式.

Right now， most people's attention is on the COVID﹣19 pandemic. In     1    way， this pandemic is also warning us to protect our planet Earth.

World Earth Day， the international movement aiming     2    protecting and improving Earth's environment， is celebrating its 50th anniversary on April 22. For Earth Day 2020， the theme is climate action.    3    （celebrate） this， the Earth Day Network organized the Great Global Clean﹣up event. The network hoped that this would be the largest volunteer event in history， with people from all over the world    4    （set） up events to remove billions of pieces of trash from green spaces， urban communities and waterways. But due to the current ban on public gatherings and lockdown measures in many affected countries， clean﹣up events     5    （postpone）.

That said， the occasion will still continue in a digital way. "    6    it be coronavirus or our global climate crisis， we cannot shut down.    7    ， we must shift our energies and efforts to new ways to mobilize （动员） the world to action. " said Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers.

While the event may not reach its originally     8    （plan） grandeur（宏大）， Earth Day 2020 could play a role in helping us sustain     9    （environment） friendly changes， such as practices like teleworking and video conferencing     10    have become more prevalent （普遍的） in this time.