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,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Forever friendship

Twenty-one years ago,my husband gave me Sam,an eight-week-old dog,to help me ease(减轻;缓解) the loss of our daughter. Later my husband and I moved from New York to New Jersey where our neighbor,whose cat had had kittens,asked us if we would like one. We were afraid that Sam would not be ,but we made up our to take a kitten.

We picked a little,gray,playful cat. She around running after imaginary mice and squirrels and jumped from table to chair very ,so we named her Lightning(闪电).

At ,Sam and Lightning were not close to each other. But slowly,as the days went on,Lightning started Sam. They slept together,ate together and played together. When I took one out of the house,the other was always by the door when we returned. That was the they lived for years.

Then,without any ,Sam suddenly died of a weak heart. This time,there was no Sam for Lightning to greet and no way to why she would never see her friend again.

In the that followed,Lightning seemed heartbroken. She could not me in words that she was ,but I could see the pain and in her eyes whenever anyone opened the front door. The weeks by,and the cat’s sorrow seemed to be lifting(消失). One day as I walked into our living room,I to have a look at the floor next to our sofa we had a sculptured replica(雕塑复制品)of Sam that we had bought a few years before. Lying next to the statue(雕塑),one arm wrapped around the statue’s neck,was Lightning,sleeping with her best .

1.A. recently B.lastly C.firstly D.never

2.A. sad B.excited C.disappointed D.glad

3.A. minds B.hearts C.heads D.brains

4.A. walked B.climbed C.raced D.hid

5.A. slowly B.quickly C.carefully D.bravely

6.A. last B.noon C.night D.first

7.A. leaving B.following C.hating D.catching

8.A. neither B.both C.either D.any

9.A. waiting B.sleeping C.crying D.barking

10.A. road B.path C.way D.street[

11.A. words B.diseases C.fear D.warning

12.A. talk B.explain C.think D.write

13.A. days B.weeks C.seasons[来源:学.科D.years

14.A. express B.tell C.report D.say

15.A. enjoying B.doing C.suffering D.missing

16.A. disappointment B.anger C.excitement D.fun

17.A. came B.went C.gathered D.walked

18.A. seemed B.appeared C.happened D.meant

19.A. what B.which C.that D.where

20.A. friend B.enemy C.sofa D.chair

1.Moving from high school into college can be especially different because of the freedom students experience in college along with a new set of expectations.

In high school, students usually live at home, and their parents take care of all their physical needs such as food and housing. 2.Parents are also there to help with and make sure that the student’s homework is done. During the school day, students rarely have free time. They go directly from one class to another. Teachers are always around to tell the students what to do. 3.So students can often complete their homework and reading in a short time.

4.They may be responsible for shopping, paying bills, and laundry. They also may have to cook their own meals. Their parents are not around to help with homework or even to check that it has been done. Contrary to students in high school, students in college may have a lot of free time between classes, but must discipline themselves to use this time productively or homework and other assignments. 5.

A. Students do not usually have to shop for their food, take time to pay bills, or even do their own laundry.

B. High school students have to bury themselves in piles of papers

C. Finally, the work itself it not so challenging.

D. In contrast, in college, students often live away from home in dorms or apartments.

E. In college, students may apply to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs.

F. Each new level of education brings new challenges and demands to students.

G. Most important, college requires a higher level of thinking and a lot more work than high school.

Football is so popular in China. Almost everyone is interested in the sport — the young and the old, boys and girls, and now even robots.

Recently at Hangzhou Guangming Middle School, kids from several schools played football with their robots.

Robot football is very different from human football. Only two robots play in each match. The field is as big as a ping-pong table. One half is black and the other is white. Each robot tries to catch the “football” and score a goal. The robot with more goals wins.

Gao Linge, a boy from Hangzhou Guangming Middle School, helped make one of the robots for the match.

“My school bought the main board (主板),” said Gao, 14. “Then I decided what my robot looked like and made a computer program for it.”

Gao’s robot was eight centimeters tall and had two arms. It had four sensors (传感器) to “see” and “kick” the “football”.

Ying Xuehai, a 12-year-old student from Gao’s school, also made a robot. His robot played against Gao’s. The match decided who would go to the final game. Ying lost the game. So he gave many of his robot’s parts to Gao.

Even so, Gao’s robot didn’t win the final. It played well in the first five minutes. Then it slowed down. By the end of the match, it could hardly move. What was wrong? Gao and Ying found the problem — the robot ran out of batteries (电池)!

“We’ll solve the problem and beat the other schools next time!” said the two boys.

1.________ is popular in China.

A. Football B. Robot C. Sensor D. Game

2.How many robots are needed in a match?

A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.

3.The third paragraph mainly talks about ________.

A. a wonderful robot football game B. how robots can score more goals

C. the rules of robot football games D. how robots can win the matches

4.Gao Linge lost the match for the reason that ________.

A. his robot ran out of power

B. he broke the rules of the game

C. he used Ying Xuehai’s robot’s parts

D. his robot happened to be out of order

5.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Gao Linge is as old as Ying Xuehai.

B. Ying Xuehai’s robot was 8 centimeters tall.

C. Gao’s and Ying’s robots were both bought.

D. The passage doesn’t tell us who won the final.

The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. The foundation is based in the state of Maryland. It was created more than 50 years ago. It teaches people ways to protect the environment.

At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create. Hanna Seligmann works for the foundation. “So let’s figure out what is in our bag of trash.” She shows adults and children how to reduce waste during the holiday gift-giving season. “You can sort it as a cardboard item or you can sort it as a plastic item.” “We encourage using things that are already in your house like newspaper, old magazines, using a gift within a gift.” Urging people to recycle is important in the Washington, D.C., area, because Potomac River, one of the most famous rivers in the country lies there.

“Over time we realized that really just doing trash cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And so it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative (倡议) itself.” says Seligman.

The Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative is an effort by the Alice Ferguson Foundation to support clean agricultural methods. It includes educational programs teaching children about the kinds of pollution that can enter the watershed.

One activity is called the Trash Timeline Game. It teaches children that the things they throw away do not decompose, at the same rate. For example, paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core may take two months to rot. A metal can take up to 100 years.

1.The Alice Ferguson Foundation ________.

A. devotes itself to keeping citizens engaged in going green

B. deals with relationship between people

C. teaches people how to form groups

D. concerns itself about children’s holidays

2.At the end of the year, the Alice Ferguson Foundation is busy ________.

A. buying plastic items

B. celebrating Christmas

C. figuring out how much waste was produced

D. educating people to reduce less waste while enjoying Christmas

3.How to get to the root cause of environmental protection, according to Seligman?

A. Environmental education. B. Doing trash cleanups.

C. Saving water. D. Celebrating holidays less.

4.What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. Give off. B. Break down. C. Come out. D. Pack up.

Honest Thanks

I sat down at my desk and started writing. I wrote an emotional letter of gratitude. I put the notecard into the ___________, sealed it and stuck the stamps on it, but when it came to actually placing the letter into the mailbox … I ___________.

The letter was to a schoolmate with whom I kept in contact via Facebook _______. She had inspired me to live a(n)_______life—for example, by_______more.

Her volunteer efforts weren’t_______—she wasn’t building wells in Uganda, but_______she was doing small, local good deeds, such as serving as a crossing guard. These were things I could do, too. She made me _______ I could make a difference here at home. I felt I should let her know how her_______positively influenced my life. I could have easily sent her an e-mail, ________that seemed a bit lame for such an important thank you, That’s why I ended up________the letter. But now I stood before the mailbox, unable to place the envelope inside. What was________me? Why was this so ____________to do? I guess I felt strange because it wasn’t like she was my best friend, I just knew her, “People don’t ____________do this,” I thought to myself. However, ________thinking it over, I still felt a(n)________to let her know how grateful I was. Finally, I put the envelope in the mailbox.

Weeks later I received her reply. She was________a tough time and my letter meant the________to her, She didn’t know she had such a(n)________on others. Not only did this letter make her happy, but her response to it increased my____________of happiness, I decided to write a gratitude letter to someone each month, Cultivating gratitude is a great skill to practice, Life is too short not to do it.

1.A. envelope B. drawer C. handbag D. pocket

2.A. sighed B. froze C. panicked D. smiled

3.A. usually B. formally C. occasionally D. secretly

4.A. different B. tough C. enthusiastic D. rich

5.A. enjoying B. volunteering C. exercising D. travelling

6.A. essential B. meaningful C. ordinary D. huge

7.A. once B. also C. still D. instead

8.A. accept B. realize C. admit D. prove

9.A. words B. thoughts C. example D. emotion

10.A. and B. but C. so D. or

11.A. editing B. receiving C. answering D. handwriting

12.A. stopping B. urging C. encouraging D. confusing

13.A. boring B. pleasant C. hard D. cool

14.A. directly B. constantly C. equally D. normally

15.A. until B. after C. while D. before

16.A. desire B. ambition C. fear D. curiosity

17.A. going through B. going for C. going against D. going over

18.A. earth B. world C. dream D. future

19.A. comment B. honor C. influence D. concern

20.A. search B. appreciation C. level D. experience

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