If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my  16 ways to do this is by developing my own 17 actions. These little acts of kindness are  18  to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be  19  and helpful.

We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is beauty and 20  .One of the exceptions to the beauty is the  21 that some people throw out of their windows as they are  22 on the rural roads. One of the few drawbacks to  23  the mountainous area is that public services, such as litter collection, are less  24  than those are closer to the city.

　  A helping action that I practice  25  with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding area. We' ve become so  26  to doing this that my daughters will often say to me in exciting  27 , "There' s some litter, Daddy, stop the  28  !" And if we have time, we will often pull over and pick it up. It may seem  29  , but we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically  30 . Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to  31  we live. He smiled at me and said, "I saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good       32 ."

Picking up litter is only one of an  33  supply of possible helping actions. You might like holding a door open for people,  34  lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or removing snow off someone else' s driveway. Perhaps you might  35  something that seems effortless yet helpful. It' s fun, personally rewarding, and setting a good example. Everyone wins.

1.                A．favorite        B．familiar         C．difficult   D．different

2.                A．taking          B．placing         C．passing   D．helping

3.                A．customs        B．ceremonies      C．opportunities  D．occasions

4.                A．cruel          B．kind           C．proud    D．brave

5.                A．science         B．weather        C．universe  D．nature

6.                A．list            B．guidebook       C．litter D．check

7.                A．driving         B．directing        C．floating   D．flying

8.                A．search for       B．live in          C．look at   D．march into

9.                A．acceptable      B．available        C．horrible  D．honorable

10.               A．regularly       B．completely      C．calmly D．roughly

11.               A．opposed        B．reduced        C．devoted   D．accustomed

12.               A．lungs          B．voices          C．sounds    D．noises

13.               A．horse          B．carriage        C．bike  D．car

14.               A．strange         B．sensitive        C．imaginable D．necessary

15.               A．nowhere       B．anywhere       C．somewhere    D．everywhere

16.               A．why           B．when          C．which D．where

17.               A．idea           B．plan           C．excuse    D．feel

18.               A．empty         B．endless         C．immediate D．attractive

19.               A．describing      B．developing      C．visiting    D．valuing

20.               A．ask for         B．look into        C．carry out  D．think of

Do you still remember your dreams from childhood? They’re like flowers that never fade, “23-year-old Liu Wei told a happy audience during a broadcast of the nationwide talent competition China’s Got Talent. Liu, an ___16____ pianist from Beijing, was named one of the show’s finalists.
Liu once had arms. At the age of 10 he accidentally grabbed a high-voltage wire and lost his arms. “My family and I were so ___17____ then,” Liu recalled. He credits a disable boy he met at the hospital who gives him the __18_____ to cheer him up.
He was forced to __19_____ playing soccer (his favorite sport) but bounced back and ___20____himself to learn swimming. After two years, Liu had won two gold medals and one silver at the National Swimming Championship for the disabled in 2002.
By the age of 19, Liu had taught himself __21_____ to play the piano with his feet, fulfilling a childhood ___22____ of composing and producing music, he said ___23____ a big smile. “__24_____ enough time, I could be just as same as anyone.”
“I can read music and have __25_____ the ‘toeing’ by myself,” he told. According to Liu, the big toe is the most __26_____ digit when “toeing,” but that he can only reach five keys at the same time. “It means I have to train my toes to move more ___27____,” he said.
One of the show’s hosts, Cao Kefan, told press. “He was __28_____ so hard his feet were constantly cramping,” Cao said.
“ We’ve all __29_____ our dreams when we were young, but no one has fought as hard as you,” commented Gao Xiaosong. Gao is one of the show’s judges and one of most ___30____ music producers in China.
“You tell us that to __31_____ our dream, we need to spare no pains,” said Yi Nengjing, a show judge and Taiwanese pop star.
“I’ve received a lot of letters of support, all ___32____ me to focus on my music,” Liu said. When asked what he would do when the show was ___33____, he revealed several music companies had asked to __34_____ him. But whatever happened, he added he is sure he would keep __35_____ his dream.
“Music is like water and air to me,” he said. “I can’t live with out it.”

第三节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

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。

Friendship has great power, and it can inspire the people in trouble as well as in easy circumstances.

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've   21    just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I   22   to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to   23   times a year when we can see each other.

Over the weekend, we   24   hours and hours, staying up late   25   the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he   26   with drugs and was into other self-destructive[自毁]  27  . I was blown away! She told me how she had been   28   to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter   29  hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big   30  . I felt like I was getting   31  . I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.

By the time she left, I was really worried about her and   32   by the experience. It had been so  33  , I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship - but I didn't. I put the   34   of friendship to the   35   test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she   36   me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.

A few days   37  , she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our   38  , and then she told me that she had  39   with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the   40   rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

21. A. divided               B. shared               C. experienced              D. enjoyed

22. A. got                            B. traveled             C. moved                     D. arrived

23. A. the few               B. the little            C. few                   D. little

24. A. took                   B. spared               C. offered                 D. spent

25. A. into                    B. in                            C. for                    D. at

26. A. supplied                 B. experimented     C. tried                 D. provided

27. A. action                 B. movements        C. behavior            D. activities

28. A. explaining           B. speaking            C. calling                     D. lying

29. A. what                   B. why                  C. how                  D. however

30. A. trouble               B. worry               C. difficulty           D. task

31. A. somewhere          B. nowhere            C. anywhere          D. everywhere

32. A. burned down              B. turned down      C. turned out         D. worn out

33. A. discouraging              B. encouraging       C. exciting             D. inspiring

34. A. strength                     B. force                 C. power               D. energy

35. A. last                        B. final                 C. late                   D. recent

36. A. treated                B. regarded            C. honored            D. valued

37. A. later                   B. after                 C. ago                   D. before

38. A. information         B. dialogue            C. conversation      D. communication

39. A. broken out          B. broken up          C. broken away      D. broken off

40. A. luckily                B. correctly           C. naturally           D. truly

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈) from a(n)_________(21) injury. I had_________(22) whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was,__________(23) for the 3,000-metre run.
“Ready… set…”. The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed________(24) me. I felt_________(25) as I fell farther and farther behind.
“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest________(26) I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈)）ahead of me when she
crossed the finish line.
“Maybe I should________(27).” I thought as I moved on. _______(28), I
decided to to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran _______(29) and decided not to_______(30) in track next year.It wouldn’t be worth it, ______(31) my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer--- ________(32) than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around, _________(33) the boys were preparing for theirs.  “They must be cheering for the boys.”
I was leaving________(34) several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.
“Courage? I just __________(35) a race!” I thought.
“I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”
Suddenly I regained _________(36). I decided to ________(37) track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always__________(38) in medals and victories, but in the _________(39) we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, _________(40) the people who don’t give up when they lose.

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈) from a(n)_________(21) injury. I had_________(22) whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was,__________(23) for the 3,000-metre run.

“Ready… set…”. The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed________(24) me. I felt_________(25) as I fell farther and farther behind.

“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest________(26) I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈)）ahead of me when she

crossed the finish line.

“Maybe I should________(27).” I thought as I moved on. _______(28), I

decided to to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran _______(29) and decided not to_______(30) in track next year.It wouldn’t be worth it, ______(31) my foot did heal.

When I finished, I heard a cheer--- ________(32) than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around, _________(33) the boys were preparing for theirs.  “They must be cheering for the boys.”

I was leaving________(34) several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.

“Courage? I just __________(35) a race!” I thought.

“I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”

Suddenly I regained _________(36). I decided to ________(37) track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always__________(38) in medals and victories, but in the _________(39) we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, _________(40) the people who don’t give up when they lose.

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