People in communities have slowly been pushed apart through the years, mostly because people simply aren’t taking the time to say a simple “hello,” After considering this phenomenon, I decided I was going to   36   the way I was doing things.

   My   37   came one morning when I was in the community library. I passed by a girl who   38   her books out of her locker .Thinking like most that someone else would help her pick them up, I continued my way. However, when I had to   39   because I stupidly forgot my book, I noticed she had just finished packing them up by herself he one had stopped to   40   her.

   “OK,” I thought to myself, “this is where I should have changed.”

   My best opportunity came a few days later when I saw a man   41   by himself waiting for the library to open ,so I sat down next to him and began a   42  .It was difficult to get started ,and even when I had to say goodbye, almost every   43   from my new friend had a tone (语气) of doubt in it ,And who could blame him?

   People aren’t used to making an   44   chat with a stranger. But a change, no matter how   45   it is needed, doesn’t just happen. It takes people like us to make it possible. I    46    you to take a small step out of your comfort zone and try to make someone’s day a little brighter, Together, we can really make   come   47    as a whole.

1. A. change        B. explain      C. learn         D. show

2.A. trouble        B. doubt       C. wish         D. opportunity

3. A. took          B. dropped     C. got           D. pulled

4. A. come out      B. stand by     C. go back       D. turn up

5. A. please        B. greet        C. help          D. praise

6. A. sitting        B. walking      C. riding        D. running

7. A. discussion     B. lesson       C. report        D. conversation

8. A. joke          B. response     C. cry          D. story

9.A. unchangeable  B. unprepared   C. unforgettable   D. unfinished

10. A. desperately    B. frequently    C. simply        D. widely

11. A. allow         B. warn        C. order         D. advise

12. A. tater          B. straighter    C. closer        D. slower

单词拼写.(根据首字母或汉语提示，每空填写一词)（10分）

1.There is no         (可能) that the crisis will be over in a short time. 

2.It is   u         to treat girls and boys differently.

3.His first speech as president made a strong  i          on his audience.

4.In front of the village lives a foreign  j                    (记者).     

5.I bought this house for it’s                .(方便)

6.She lives in a pleasant neighborhood and enjoys her  s       (环境).

7.When I saw the new freshmen, my own first day at high school    (闪现) into my mind.        

8.He’s   (连续不断）disturbing me.

9.A medical team  c     of fifteen doctors has been sent to the front.

10.The old man who happened to see the accident gave a brief  （描述）of what happened.

This year I decided to do something to regain my good name as a kindly uncle. My  36    Tony,had never forgiven me for the dictionary I had bought him as a birthday present last year. His  37  had no reason to be thankful to me either,because the year before, I had   38   their dear son with a pot of paste(浆糊) and some funny pictures. Instead of   39    them into a book, Tony had naturally covered every wall in the house with them. This year,   40  , I decided to let him  41   for himself.

  We went into a big shop,but Tony was very particular about   42   . Although I tried to show him toy after toy,he was not to be   43  . Then I saw he suddenly became  44  ; he had discovered something he really liked: a large tin dram. I was quite happy too   45     I thought what Tony’s mother would say when she saw it. Nobody would get any    46    for weeks! I led Tony away   47  , saying that the dram was too expensive.

   Tony asked for permission to go off    48     and I made the most of my chance to sit down end    49    my aching feet. Fifteen minutes passed but there was still no sign of Tony. I began to get   50    and got up to look for him. I asked a young lady if she had seen a little boy in a grey suit. She looked    51    her helplessly and pointed out that there were so many   52

in grey suits. I was just going to call the police for help,when I saw a strange   53   dressed in strange orange clothes. He was wearing a false beard and had a caveman’s axe(斧子)in one hand,and a space gun in the other. It was, of course,Tony, who informed me  54    that he was the first   55   to fly into space.

1.A. cousin         B. daughter          C. grandson          D. nephew

2.A. friends       B. parents           C. classmates       D. brothers

3.A. presented      B. annoyed          C. confused         D. occupied

4.A. entering       B. dividing         C. sticking          D. drawing

5. A. anyhow       B. though          C. again             D. therefore

6.A. guess        B. choose           C. pay             D. see

7.A. sweets        B. toys           C. clothes          D. books

8. A. pleased   B. disturbed        C. accepted         D. disappointed

9. A. surprised     B. hopeful          C. patient          D. excited

10. A. after            B. until            C. unless           D. since

11.A. shock           B. trouble          C. peace           D. time

12.A. happily         B. eagerly        C. cautiously       D. quickly

13.A. on his own   B. in his way      C. now and then      D. more or less

14.A. drag           B. rest.           C. lay              D. step

15. A. 8shamed        B. angry           C. worried          D. doubtful

16.A. about           B. to             C. at               D. across

17.A. young ladies  B. new customers   C. loving parents     D. small boys

18.A. figure          B. actor           C. man            D. doll

19.A. on time        B. at once          C. just now         D. once again

20.A. policeman       B. spaceman        C. caveman       D. postman

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第四部分：根据下面句子的意思，从方框中选择适当的单词或短语填在每句空白处。（共10个空；每空2分，共20分）。将答案写在后面答题纸上相对应的题号后。

hearing from,    dried up,    turned around,    upside down,    cut out embarrassed,   

is occupied with , out of breath,     was scared to death,     settle in

1. The plane turned over and flew ______.

2. I______ when I saw the horrible face.

3. He ran so quickly that when he arrived he was _______

4. She ________ taking care of her children and doing housework.

5. Later, people began to _______ the places where food and water were plentiful.

6. When you are asked to write a summary, you must ______ all unnecessary details.

7. I come to the river where we used to swim, but it has ________due to the drought.

8. She _______suddenly, knocking down the child following her closely.

9. I looked forward to _______ my parents in the near future.

10. _______by his unexpected question, I didn't know what to say.

It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’  hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned（不满,发牢骚） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
【小题1】We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.