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Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time！

When I was a senior in high school，I________knew I wanted to pursue writing as a career．

Writing had basically________me when I was only 7 years old，________since that time，I’d been bombarded by guidance counselors and career planners who all________me to have “a back up plan” in case writing didn’t work out．

I’d never even________a different career path，so I was very____6____and worried．After much thought，I decided________would be my “back up plan,”and I signed up for a class through my high school．

This________that every morning，I would serve as a teacher’s helper for my favorite 6th grade teacher，Mr．Ralston．Morning after morning，I showed up in Mr．Ralston’s classroom and_______papers for him．

Sometimes，I even________a lesson or two．It was fun，and the students seemed to like me，so I was surprised when it came time for my________．Mr．Ralston looked me right in the eyes and asked，“Do you really want to teach？”

“Had I really been that_______？” I thought．

“Don’t misunderstand．You’ll do fine in teaching,”he continued．“But，is your______really in it？”

“Not really,” I______．“I want to write．I want to write news stories and fiction and poetry and so much more…but I’ve been told it’s tough to make it as a writer________I thought maybe I would teach and then use my summers______to pursue writing．”

As I shared with Mr．Ralston my hopes，dreams and carefully plotted out back up plan，he smiled and said，“Why are you preparing to______with this back up plan？If you want to be a writer，go for it！Pursue writing！”

Mr．Ralston’s________to follow my dreams was the little nudge I needed to help me push past my________of not making it as a writer and simply “Go for it！”

That’s what an encouraging word will do when spoken in love in________season．So，let’s try and be like Mr．Ralston and speak that word of encouragement at just the right time and make a difference in someone’s life today．

1.A．even B．never C．already D．also

2.A．reminded B．entertained C．accompanied D．chosen

3.A．or B．and C．for D．but

4.A．urged B．forced C．taught D．persuaded

5.A．created B．taken C．considered D．examined

6.A．embarrassed B．confused C．annoyed D．frightened

7.A．writing B．teaching C．studying D．compiling

8.A．meant B．indicated C．suggested D．revealed

9.A．read B．set C．graded D．composed

10.A．reviewed B．skipped C．took D．presented

11.A．application B．evaluation C．instruction D．qualification

12.A．transparent B．shallow C．superior D．ambitious

13.A．eye B．mind C．heart D．focus

14.A．interrupted B．joked C．admitted D．apologized

15.A．unless B．if C．because D．so

16.A．up B．apart C．along D．off

17.A．fail B．follow C．depart D．compete

18.A．encouragement B．determination C．tendency D．attempt

19.A．dreams B．fears C．regrets D．mistakes

20.A．peak B．low C．due D．New

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Americans prefer to try every way to have fun. For example, they drive their own cars, some even tow a small boat after vehicle. They start from Los Angeles, California under sun, ____ through four or five hundred miles to go to La Fulin, Colorado to spend weekends ____ Chinese people are still busy with work, and have dinner at home together with families on weekends or ____ time watching TV.

The difference is mainly due to cultural customs and traditions ____ the two countries. It is said that Chinese people are living for others, while Americans are for ____.When Chinese people come to the United States, they fight for ____ first, and then desperately make money after they are recognized by others. It seems that, the purpose to earn money is not to enjoy life, __47__ for their following generations: sons and daughters and even grandchildren. Chinese people prefer to save money ___ emergency' such as illness. Although Chinese people with ____ in the United States don't need to worry about their own social welfare and health insurance, they work still very hard, ____ they hope that they can save more money.

Chinese people's interest is in the amount on the passbook, so they spend ____ money usually. Most of Chinese are very thrifty, and they are ____ to spend money, but there are exceptions. They are willing to spend money on their ____. Many Chinese people think that, they endure many ____, so they wish that their children could live much better. Therefore, in the United States elementary schools, you can see that those who ____the best, with more pocket money are Chinese students. In contrast, American children dress very simply, with just a little pocket money.

____ Chinese, Americans believe in living for themselves. They do everything for their own. ____, they earn money to enjoy a ____ life, and pursue a higher quality of life. As for their own parents or children, they think that parents have their own pension and social welfare, and children should live a(n) ____ life when they are 18 years old. So they could boldly spend money on themselves. __ _, Americans save little money. In the street, it is easy for Chinese to take out 300－400 dollars, but it is hard to say for Americans.

1.A. running B. driving C. going D. walking

2.A. until B. if C. while D. when

3.A. spend B. take C. cost D. pay

4.A. through B. for C. among D. between

5.A. themselves B. theirs C. them D. others

6.A. survival B. remainder C. existence D. material

7.A. or B. nor C. but D. and

8.A. in possession of B. on account of C. in spite of D. in case of

9.A. identity B. force C. fame D. power

10.A. though B. unless C. so D. as

11.A. large B. few C. much D. little

12.A. easy B. reluctant C. willing D. happy

13.A. children B. relatives C. parents D. friends

14.A. hardships B. problems C. difficulties D. sufferings

15.A. match B. decorate C. dress D. wear

16.A. Different from B. Interested in C. Similar to D. Thanks to

17.A. Otherwise B. However C. Therefore D. Since

18.A. better B. well C. good D. rich

19.A. single B. independent C. different D. comfortable

20.A. In that case B. As a whole C. In this way D. As a result

—It is said that John’s paper got an A.

—He deserves it. He _________ a lot before he handed it in.

A. prepared B. prepares

C. had prepared D. has prepared

Dolphins(海豚) live in a dark underwater world. It’s often impossible to see each other or anything else around them, so sound plays an important role in their survival. To communicate with each other, dolphins produce all kinds of sounds.

Only other dolphins understand what the sounds mean. Scientists haven’t uncovered their secret communication, except for one kind of whistle. It might last less than a second, but this whistle is a big deal. Why? Because these whistles are actually names of dolphins - and every dolphin has one. Scientists call these sounds a “signature whistle.” When other dolphins hear the whistle, they know which dolphin is calling.

Dolphins often hunt by themselves but still need to stay connected to the group. Since they can’t always see each other, dolphins use their signature whistles to check in with other dolphins hundreds of yards away. “In coastal areas, dolphins exchange whistles even when they’re a third of a mile apart,” says Greg Campbell, who studies animals. That means dolphins shout out to group members that might be nearly five football fields away.

What’s amazing is who names the baby dolphin. Not the mother. Not an auntie dolphin or another group member. Scientists believe the baby dolphin itself comes up with the signature whistle. Like human babies, a baby dolphin plays with sounds throughout its first year. While testing its sound skills, a baby dolphin is doing something amazing. It’s creating or figuring out its signature whistle. How or why it chooses its signature whistle is not clear. Studies show that most of the time the signature whistle is nothing like its mother’s or group members’ whistles.

When the baby dolphin is about a year old, its signature whistle is set. It repeats it of ten so the other dolphins learn to recognize it.

Deciphering(破译) dolphin names is just the beginning of figuring out what dolphins communicate about. Do they chat about sharks? Discuss the tides? Maybe they even have a name for people. Someday scientists to decipher the rest of dolphins’ communication.

1.Sound is important for dolphins because of ______.

A．their poor sense of direction

B．their living environment

C．their strong enemies

D．their big groups

2.The dolphin’s signature whistle ______.

A．lasts along time

B．can travel long distances

C．is especially helpful in hunting

D．can be recognized by other animals

3.The author writes the text mainly to ______.

A．encourage readers to study dolphins

B．tell reader s how dolphins communicate

C．show how lovely and clever dolphins are

D．introduce a special sound made by dolphins

4.A baby dolphin gets its name ______.

A．soon after it was born

B．according to its size

C．all by itself

D．with the help of its group

The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and a poster child for human-caused extinction events. Despite its bad name, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history, little is actually known about how this animal lived, looked, and behaved. A new study of the only known complete skeleton(骨架) from a single bird takes advantage of modern 3-D laser scanning(扫描) technology to open a new window into the life of this famous extinct bird.

The study was presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Estrel, Berlin. Leon Claessens, Associate Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, and lead researcher on the study said that, "the 3-D laser surface scans we made of the fragile dodo skeletons enable us to reconstruct how the dodo walked, moved and lived to a level of detail that has never been possible before. There are so many outstanding questions about the dodo bird that we can answer with this new knowledge."

A complete dodo skeleton, found by an amateur collector and barber, Etienne Thirioux, on the island of Mauritius between 1899 and 1917, has remained unstudied, even though it is the only complete dodo skeleton from a single individual bird known to exist. All other skeletons are incomplete combinations, meaning that they are gathered from more than one individual. In addition, Thirioux constructed a second, partially combined skeleton, which contains many bones that also belong to a single bird. "Being able to examine the skeleton of a single, individual dodo, which is not made up from as many individual birds as there are bones, as is the case in all those other combined skeletons, truly allows us to appreciate the way the dodo looked and see how tall or fat it really was," said Juilan Hume, of the Natural History Museum UK, a co-author on the study.

The scans were performed on site in Durban, South Africa, and allow examination of the biology of this mysterious extinct bird in detail for the first time. Using the newest digital tools and techniques, the scans provide an insight into how the flightless dodo may have developed its giant size, and how it walked and lived in its forest home. According to Kenneth Rijsdijk, a biologist from University of Amsterdam, “the skull of the dodo is so large and its mouth so strong that it is easy to understand that the earliest naturalists thought it was related to sharks and other birds of prey（猛禽）, rather than the pigeon family.”

1.The underlined phrase “a poster child” in Para. 1 is closest in meaning to “ ”.

A. a typical example

B. an endangered animal

C. a child who puts up posters on the board

D. a child posted in a newspaper as an advertisement

2.The researchers study the dodo skeleton to find out .

A. ways to save the dodo

B. the dodo’s living habits

C. the bird’s natural habitat

D. the cause of the dodo’s extinction

3.What is special about the dodo skeleton found by an amateur collector?

A. It is gathered from more than one individual.

B. It reminded unstudied between 1899 and 1917.

C. It is the only complete dodo skeleton from a single individual bird.

D. It can be examined with 3-D laser scanning technology.

4.What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A. To call people’s attention to wildlife protection.

B. To criticize humans for the extinction events.

C. To introduce a new way of studying the dodo.

D. To give tips on how to study extinct creatures.

I have found that spreading kindness is not always about 1. you do for someone, but it can also be what you say．One day I was standing in line at the gas station．Ahead of me were 2.other people．3. of them had a smile on their face and they all seemed to be in a hurry ．After the cold ,snowy winter, we were having a warm, sunny day．I wanted to cheer them up, so I spoke up and said, “I don’ t know 4. one of you ordered this fantastic day for us, but l want to say I really appreciate5. and thank you ．”After that, the five of us smiled 6. we started talking to each other．What I had said made 7. big difference to everyone’s day．You can see that it is much easier to spread kindness8. words．

______ she has earned her PhD, she wants to find a job with higher pay.

A．As if B．Now that

C．Even though D．In case

I hate nosy (爱管闲事的) neighbors and it’s very unlucky that I had one for myself. They moved in a couple of months back and although I never felt that they were a strange family, I’ve always hated the way they get “too close” to me, my house, my garden, and even my garbage cans.

One day, my neighbors were mowing their lawn (草坪). My garbage cans were near their lawn. For some strange reason, I found the wife looking through my garbage cans. I felt angry but since they were from a different culture, I thought that maybe it was “normal” from their ideas.

That afternoon, the couple knocked on my front door. When I opened, they gave me a plastic bag. Inside were my old daily bills, credit cards and bank statements, and an old birthday card that my old uncle sent. They said that they were returning them to me because these documents contained very private information that may be used by others.

I’ve heard of it before. I asked them how those documents can be used by others and they started telling me their very own experience, which forced them to leave their home and move next door to us. The wife told me that she never destroyed the bills. They also had a “nosy neighbor” who looked through their garbage cans which they actually thought was pretty strange. Little did they know that this “nosy neighbor” was collecting their personal information from their rubbish. Then all their money was taken out from the bank by their neighbor.

It was a very painful experience for all of them and they wanted to leave it all behind so they left. I was very thankful. They were not nosy neighbors. They simply didn’t want us to experience the same thing that they did.

1.What made the author angry?

A. His neighbor’s wife was looking through his rubbish.

B. His neighbors were mowing their lawn one morning.

C. His neighbors got too close to his own home.

D. His neighbors came to knock at his door at night.

2.Why did the couple come to the author’s home?

A. To introduce themselves to the author.

B. To get to know each other better.

C. To return the documents to the author.

D. To borrow some money from the author.

3.Which of the following can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. The author was kind and helpful to the neighbors.

B. The neighbors had to move from place to place.

C. The neighbors didn’t have enough money.

D. The author changed his idea about his neighbors.

Once upon a time there lived an old man in a nice cottage with a large garden. The old man was seen his flowers all the time. They were so well-tended(照顾得好) that every passer-by could not but for a glance.

One day a young man went by the garden. He gazed at the splendid garden, in admiration（赞美） at the beauty of these sceneries. Then, suddenly he the old gardener was blind. , the young man asked, "Why are you busy tending these flowers every day which you can't in fact?" The old man smiled and answered that "I can tell you reasons. First I was a when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, although I can't see these flowers, yet I can them. Third, I can smell sweetness of them. As to the last one, that's ."

"Me? But you don't know me," responded the young man .

"Yeah, it's that I don't know you. But I know everyone knows flowers and would never them down. I know the beauty of my garden will get many people into a good . In the meantime, it also a chance to me to have a word with you here and to enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us."

The old man's astonished me. The blind man grows flowers and them as a link of minds（心灵的连接） so as to make enjoy the sunshine in spring. Isn't it one kind of happiness?

I believe every flower has with which they can see the kindness of the man's heart. The blind man grows flowers in his heart. Though to see the beauty of blossoming（繁花盛开）, he surely can hear the voice of it, I suppose.

1.A. loving B. watering C. tending D. planting

2.A. stop B. stay C. live D. run

3.A. kept B. dropped C. fallen D. lost

4.A. realized B. noticed C. felt D. thought

5.A. Excited B. Frightened C. Shocked D. Satisfied

6.A. feel B. see C. hear D. eat

7.A. one B. two C. three D. four

8.A. gardener B. teacher C. farmer D. painter

9.A. taste B. plant C. touch D. appreciate

10.A. it B. me C. them D. you

11.A. with pleasure B. in surprise C. with hope D. in anger

12.A. true B. possible C. a pity D. a shame

13.A. put B. turn C. get D. knock

14.A. mind B. life C. future D. mood

15.A. introduces B. offers C. stands D. leaves

16.A. words B. behavior C. story D. attitudes

17.A. treats B. acts C. works D. serves

18.A. anybody B. somebody C. everybody D. nobody

19.A. ears B. soul C. eyes D. heart

20.A. refusing B. trying C. pretending D. failing

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