Last Sunday, I waked into the house in the afternoon to find my brother rushing around in a hurry. As soon as I took my coat off, my little brother placed a bunch of papers in my hands and asked me to fold them up so they could fit into an envelope as quickly as possible. He said it needed to get done quickly before it turned dark.

I was a little surprised that something could be so urgent on a Sunday. It wasn’t until I was halfway through that I actually looked at what I was folding. After I read it, it put the biggest smile on my face. It was a lovely letter to all the residents （居民）in my neighborhood. My brother was asking everyone to let him know if anyone needed help. He left his contact information and said that anyone that needed help should get in touch with him and he would figure something out. He also asked people to get in touch if they were able to help out.

London received an unusual amount of snow last week, and the city was completely under- prepared for it. So it was quite difficult to get anywhere. Only the major roads had been cleared, and smaller roads and pavements could be quite treacherous. There are a good number of old people in our little community. So my brother thought that the snow may have posed （造成）some difficulty for some of them, particularly because we live on a hill.

A few elderly people got in touch with him asking for help for things they needed. One of them was especially grateful because his caregiver couldn’t make it. To our surprise, he got more responses from people offering to help. Then he received help from people who wanted to help. Everyone was really touched and wrote to my brother wonderful email. One of our neighbors wrote email saying that although she wasn’t able to help, she was “very proud of having a neighbor like him who puts other people’s interests first.”

1.The author’s brother wrote the letter to _______.

2.What can we learn from the text?

3.The underlined word “treacherous” in Paragraph 3 probably means “_______”.

4. One of their neighbors sent email to the author’s brother to ________.

Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects．

       One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly．He took it home．A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole．Then it seemed to stop making any progress．It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther．Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon．

       The butterfly then appeared easily．

       But it had a swollen body and small, fragile wings．The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would be smaller in time．Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling （慢慢爬行）around with a swollen body and fragile wings．

       It never was able to fly．

       What the man in his kindness and hurry did not understand was that the limited cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon．

       Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life．If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles and difficulties, it would disable us．We would not be as strong as what we could have been．And we could never fly．

1.The butterfly could never fly because _______________．

       A．it was too fat and strong．

    B．it loved crawling around．

       C．it got out of the cocoon easily．

    D．it didn’t get through the cocoon．

2.The text is most likely to be found in a book about_______________．

       A．popular science                                          B．humorous stories．

       C．successful people                                       D．philosophy events

3.What is the implied meaning of the passage?

       A．Life without any obstacles and difficulties is perfect．

       B．Obstacles and difficulties contribute to success．

       C．Never help a butterfly to get out of the cocoon．

       D．A butterfly can never fly without going through the cocoon

第四节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

I was on my lunch break in the city，enjoying a salad at an outdoor café, when a shabby homeless lady came walking towards me．She was yelling and    26    everyone who walked past her for spare  27  and she looked like a mess．My  28  reaction was fear．．．to close off and hope she didn’t come near me，but she did．1 was on the phone and when she    29  yelling，I said，“I’m on the phone，”in the nicest way I could，assuring myself what she needed was a lesson in   30  . She walked away ,mumbling (自言自语)，”I’m  31  you . I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’ll leave”. And she turned the corner.

32  , I would feel relieved or satisfied, but something in me couldn’t  33   . Without another thought, I looked in my   34   for the spare change I had, Even I started searching through my entire purse, the pockets, everything for all of the change I could   35  find to give.

I got up and walked towards this lady and gave her all I  36 ．She held my hand and said，“Thank you!” Her hand was  37  and dirty，but I didn’t mind 38  her hand．1 wanted to be there for her for some reason，when normally I would   39   the other way．She looked at me and said，“Will you touch my face?’’And for some reason，I did．I put my hand on her cheek and she started to    40   . I could  41   it was as if she had not been touched by a loving, soft hand in ages,   42  . And so I held it there, trying to  43   her with my heart open. It was powerful.

She thanked me and walked away quietly. And I walked away with an open heart, trying to   44  sense of what had just happened. It changed something in me and has made me want to be a   45   person to the people I meet during my day.

26.  A. greeting            B. praising       C. applying       D. begging

27.  A. change          B. room          C. clothes        D. food

28.   A. usual              B. instant        C. 1ast           D. general

29.   A. came across        B. came out      C. came over     D. came through

30.   A. attitude            B. trouble        C. practice       D. manners

31.   A. calling            B. hurting       C. annoying      D. abusing

32.   A. Fortunately         B. Normally            C. Luckily       D. Unfortunately

33.  A. rest             B. appear        C. enjoy          D. exist

34.   A. car              B. table         C. wallet         D. seat

35.  A. necessarily         B. possibly       C. deliberately    D. certainly

36.  A. earned             B. searched      C. found         D. mad

37.   A. soft              B. rough         C. 1arge         D. neat

38.   A. washing            B. waving        C. wiping        D. holding

39.   A. lead              B. set            C. turn          D. show

40.  A. cry                B. 1augh          C. yell           D. shout

41.   A. expect             B. sense          C. know         D. 1earn

42.  A . if  necessary       B. if any         C. if so          D. if ever

43.   A. persuade           B. comfort       C. entertain      D. amuse

44.  A. take               B. get           C. catch          D. make

45.  A. kinder             B. richer         C. wiser         D. happier

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When I was in Germany, one day at Christmas-time I went to a post office to send a letter. To my    1    I found people queuing (排队) some paces away from the person at the savings deposit window.    2  so? Each did his business  3    but the line never moved a step    4   , I was very    5   , so I walked to the window to find out the cause. There was a notice on which was written “Thank you for your    6  for other’s privacy (隐私)”—a polite    7    to keep people away from nosing into other’s    8    (money matters are regarded as privacy in Western countries). I was deeply impressed by the    9   and stayed a while to watch: they were waiting so    10    at a distance that they seemed quite    11  to the practice. The    12    thing happened at a public telephone box.  13    waiting for their turns always kept their distance—enough to be out of  14   . It’s another typical example!

From then on I    15   to watch their ways of doing things, manners, treatment   16  towards others. I found the Germans always mindful of other’s privacy. They avoided putting others in an embarrassing (窘迫)situation. For instance, they never    17    about age, incomes or the place to buy such a coat,    18    would they comment on the others or jewelry others wore. Their laws    19    reading diaries or opening letters without permission. That shows    20   matters are not allowed to be disturbed.

1. A. sorrow        B. anger           C. delight          D. surprise

2. A. Why          B. How           C. What            D. Where

3. A. in secret       B. with care        C. in turn           D. by turns

4. A. slower        B. nearer           C. farther           D. longer

5. A. curious        B. angry           C. interested        D. impatient

6. A. care           B. respect          C. help            D. search

7. A. voice          B. phrase          C. warning         D. sentence

8. A. pockets        B. savings          C. needs           D. affairs

9. A. word          B. sight            C. people          D. matters

10. A. honestly        B. anxiously        C. nervously       D. calmly

11. A. used           B. familiar         C. uncomfortable    D. polite

12. A. interesting      B. strange          C. same            D. different

13. A. They           B. These            C. Those            D. That

14. A. sight          B. hearing          C. touch            D. question

15. A. went on        B. took care         C. paid attention     D. took charge

16. A. moving         B. shown          C. facing           D. offered

17. A. asked          B. heard           C. worried          D. learned

18. A. so             B. nor             C. not only         D. if

19. A. appreciate      B. stop             C. hate             D. forbid

20. A. pubic          B. personal         C. small            D. important