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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My dad has been driving a truck for almost his entire life.He's usually all the weekdays and comes home only at weekends.Sometimes he stays for two weeks at a time. I don't get to see him as often as I wish, we remain very

My dad is the type of person who doesn't let you up anything that you start.When I was eleven, my father bought me a piano. At first I was so about it that I would spend hours and hours learning how to play. Then it got .I was so tired of it that I asked if I could stop. Much as I tried, he me to go on.Now I have been playing for almost five years. I love it and I'm glad I my dad's advice.

My dad is talented, for he has been playing the guitar for over 20 years. Under his influence, I also like now. Sometimes my dad can be my biggest . He makes me smile even when I lose in a talent show sometimes he can be my biggest critic(批评家). He ignores the small mistakes I make. He encourages me never to lose because he thinks that all my efforts will one day.

My dad is generous. Every Thursday night, he to read to the children at a children's club. When he reads, their light up with curiosity about what will happen next. I feel of having a person in my family who cares enough to volunteer to .

I love my dad with all my heart. He's a hero in my heart and the most wonderful person in the world.

1.A. on B. with C.in D.out

2.A. home B. away C.inside D.alone

3.A. Even though B. In case C.If only D.As if

4.A. polite B. kind C.close D.different

5.A. put B. give C.take D.speed

6.A. nervous B. anxious C.familiar D.crazy

7.A. rough B. difficult C.boring D.disappointing

8.A. persuaded B. promised C.reminded D.suggested

9.A. receive B. challenged C.listened D.took

10.A. physically B.typically C.exactly D.musically

11.A. dancing B.composing C.writing D.drawing

12.A. supporter B. director C.scholar D.sponsor

13.A. however B. so C.still D.and

14.A. ever B. often C.even D.never

15.A. aim B. dream C.heart D.strength

16.A. come true B. take risks C.let out D.pay off

17.A. agrees B. likes C.offers D.intends

18.A. bodies B. arms C.faces D.hands

19.A. jealous B. optimistic C.happy D.proud

20.A. read B. help C.work D.drive

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请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

As an old-fashioned explorer, Paul Salopek sets out on foot to circle the world.He is also a modern-day explorer.On top of a few clothes, a small first-aid kit and notebooks, he is carrying a recorder, a video camera, a small computer and a satellite phone — a telephone that connects to a satellite and can be used in many places where cell-phones don’t work.

The journey is long: 21,000 miles! It will take seven years to complete it.

Salopek was born in California and spent his childhood in Mexico.He says he has always liked to travel and doesn’t like to rush.At the age of fourteen, he climbed Mount Whitney in California and crossed the state’s Sierra Nevada Mountains alone.When he was fifteen years old, he walked the length of Death Valley.He once rode a mule 2,000 miles through mountains in Mexico.

A longtime reporter, Salopek has reported from Africa, Asia and Mexico.Now 51 years old, he plans to keep writing.As he travels around the world, he is writing stories about the people he meets and the way they live.He looks for how people find local solutions to big problems such as lack of food and water.He also records the sounds he hears and takes photos of the sky and the Earth’s surface.

The long walk started in the Rife Valley in Ethiopia in East Africa.Many consider East Africa to be home to the first humans, who lived 160,000 years ago.

Salopek is retracing the paths our ancestors took as they left Africa and settled in parts of the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas.As Salopek is walking, he is learning more about himself and all of humankind.

1.The underlined phrase “on top of” in the first paragraph can be replaced by _____.

A.on the top of

B.in contrast to

C.in addition to

D.on the basis of

2.The author develops the third paragraph mainly by ________.

A.providing examples

B.making comparisons

C.making a careful analysis

D.following the order of time

3.According to the passage, Paul Salopek is a ________.

A.doctor who likes carrying the small first-aid kit

B.journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying

C.writer who likes traveling, exploring and studying

D.photographer who is good at using satellite communication equipment

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A.Paul Salopek: Following Man’s First Footsteps

B.Paul Salopek: Reflecting People’s Real Lives

C.Paul Salopek: Going for a Seven-year Study

D.Paul Salopek: Looking back upon the Childhood

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Dear Dad,

Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards.They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you.Yet as I selected and read,it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.

You'll soon be 84 years old,Dad,and you and I will have had 55 Father's Days together.I haven't always been with you on Father's Day but I've always been with you in my heart.

You know,Dad,there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap.You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.

The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear ( 档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the '54 Chevy whether you liked it or not.The police officer who sent me home,after you reported the Chevy stolen,didn't have much tolerance for a stub?born 16 year old,while you were so tolerant about it,Dad,and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.

Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked,and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left.Somewhere along the line,the generation gap disappeared.I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together,rather like a fine wine.

But the strangest thing happened last week.I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car.It didn't immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car.It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere.Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.

I guess what I'm trying to say,Dad,is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today.Honoring a father on Father's Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking.It's about loving someone more than words can say,and it's wishing that never had to end.

I love you,Dad.

Love,

Jenny

1.How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?

A.Disappointed

B.Nervous

C.Guilty

D.Frightened

2.We can learn from the passage that Jenny and her father_________.

A.kept in touch by writing each other

B.are separated due to the generation gap

C.have been getting along very well

D.had a hard time understanding each other

3.Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week?.

A.She seldom saw him driving that huge car.

B.She had never realized his being old and weak.

C.She didn't expect to meet with him there.

D.She had never seen him driving so slowly before.

4.Jenny wrote his father this letter to _________

A.tell him about their conflicts

B.say sorry for her being stubborn

C.express her gratitude to him

D.remind him of the early incident

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

The International Painting Contest on Google’s homepage in 2015 may look pretty strange,but it spotlightings a very serious issue:clean water, which is unusual for an 11-year-old from Long Island.

Audrey Zhang,a fifth-grader from Levittown,N.Y,is the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest,rising to the top of some 100,000 entries on the theme of“draw one thing to make the world a better place.”

Her piece,titled“Back to Mother Nature,”describes a detailed water-cleaning machine.Zhang worked with a team of artists at Google to animate(使……生动)her drawing.

“To make the world a better place,I came up with a transformative water purifier, a machine used to remove dirty or harmful substances,”Google quoted Zhang as saying.“It takes in dirty and polluted water from rivers,lakes and even oceans,then massively transforms the water into clean,safe and pure water. When humans and animals drink this water, they will live a healthier life.”

She created a whole world around the device—one populated by humans, a whale in a top hat and dragons.

Zhang,s piece is“so vivid and so rich and so full and so complete,”Google Doodle team leader Ryan Germick told the Washington Post.“Every leaf seemed to have life in it.”

Along with having her artwork featured on Google’s homepage,Zhang wins a $30,000 college scholarship.In addition,her school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education technology grant,and the company is donating $20,000 in her name to a charity devoted to bringing clean water to schools in Bangladesh.

On Sunday, the night before her work was revealed on net,Zhang told Newsday she was excited by the big win,but said she wouldn't be awake when her art first went online at midnight.

“I have school-tomorrow, so I can’t stay up late,”she told the paper.

1.What’s the passage mainly about?

A.The winner and her work in the painting contest.

B.The team of artists at Google to animate drawings.

C.The painting contest of Google’s homepage in 2015.

D.The water-cleaning machine in the painting contest.

2.According to the passage,we know that______.

A.Audrey Zhang is creative and self-disciplined

B.a water-cleaning device was made in the contest

C.$50,000 will be donated in Audrey Zhang’s name

D.Zhang’s piece was printed in all major newspapers

3.The underlined word in Paragraph l probably means“_____”.

A.put up with B.1ook for ward to

C.breakaway from D.focus attention on

A study of a million UK women, published today in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect. Life-threatening poor health can cause unhappiness, and for this reason unhappiness is associated with increased mortality. In addition, smokers tend to be unhappier than non-smokers. However, after taking account of previous ill health, smoking, and other lifestyle and socio-economic factors, the investigators found that unhappiness itself was no longer associated with increased mortality.

The lead author, Dr Bette Liu, now at the University of New South Wales, Australia said: "Illness makes you unhappy, but unhappiness itself doesn't make you ill. We found no direct effect of unhappiness or stress on mortality, even in a ten-year study of a million women."

As in other studies, unhappiness was associated with deprivation, smoking, lack of exercise, and not living with a partner. The strongest associations, however, were that the women who were already in poor health tended to say that they were unhappy, stressed, not in control, and not relaxed.

The main analyses included 700 000 women, average age 59 years, and over the next 10 years these women were followed by electronic record linkage for mortality, during which time 30 000 of the women died.

After allowing for any differences already present in health and lifestyle, the overall death rate among those who were unhappy was the same as the death rate among those who were generally happy. The study is so large that it rules out unhappiness being a direct cause of any material increase in overall mortality in women.

This was true for overall mortality, for cancer mortality, and for heart disease mortality, and it was true for stress as well as for unhappiness.

1. The word “mortality” in the passage means .

A. richness B. relaxation

C. death D. morality

2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Unhappiness will definitely make a person ill.

B. Unhappiness doesn’t necessarily make you ill.

C. Unhappiness is not associated with lack of exercise.

D. The death rate among those unhappy people is greater.

3.It’s wrongly believed that ________.

A. unhappiness itself is not associated with increased mortality

B. there is no direct link between unhappiness and mortality

C. ill health directly causes unhappiness and stress

D. ill health directly results from unhappiness and stress

4.The writer’s attitude towards the result of the study is __________.

A. disappointing B. indifferent

C. subjective D. objective

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