________ he was twenty the young man had never been away from his home village.

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A. When   B. Until   C. Till   D. As

You'd better not try to get up _______ you're badly hurt.

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A. if   B. until   C. till   D. before

   阅读下面短文，掌握其大意， 然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑.

      I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _1_ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d  2?” Just when I started to  3that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women  4at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of  5that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t  6. Somebody had thought  7of me to bring me a gift. 

      Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my  8Christmas there special and memorable, I  9remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of  10for as many children as I could possibly reach.

      So I  11a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies,  12with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were  13. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I   14them that they couldn’t open their presents  15every child had come forward. Finally the  16they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles  17up the room. The  18in the room was obvious, and  19wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew  20that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter. 

1.A. sending        B. receiving        C. making      D. exchanging

2.A. found          B. prepared        C. got          D. expected

3.A. doubt          B. hope            C. suggest      D. accept

4.A. broke in        .B. settled down     C. turned up     D. showed off

5.A. relief           B. loss            C. achievement   D. justice

6.A. blamed          B. loved           C. forgotten     D. affected   

7.A. highly           B. little            C. poorly       D. enough

8.A. present          B. first             C. recent        D. previous

9.A. hardly           B. instantly         C. regularly      D. occasionally

10.A. strength          B. independence     C. importance    D. safety

11.A. kept up with      B. caught up with     C. came up with  D. put up with

12.A. none            B. few              C. some         D. each

13.A. fine             B. special            C. helpful       D. normal

14.A. reminded         B. guaranteed        C. convinced     D. promised

15.A. after             B. until              C. when        D. since

16.A. chance           B. gift               C. moment      D. reward

17.A. lit               B. took              C. burned       D. cheered

18.A. atmosphere       B. sympathy           C. calmness     D. joy

19.A. it                B. such               C. something   D. everybody

20.A. by               B. till                C. for         D. from

  
第二节：读写任务（共1小题;满分 25分）
阅读下面的短文 .然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文.
We all know the story of "The tortoise and the hare". The hare lost because he was overconfident. So slow­-and-steady wins the race.but did you know the tortoise and hare raced three more times? Afrer his loss the hare challenged the tortoise to a second race and this time was without stopping from start to finsh. There was no doubt that he won. The lesson this time was
that fast-and-consistent beats slow-and-steady.then the tortoise challenged the hare to  a third race. over a slightly different route. The hare ran at top speed until he reachcd a broad river.Although the finishing line was just a kilometre past the river the hare had no way of croasing and once more the slow-and-steady swimming tortoise came out on tup.
The hare and the tortoise. by this time, had become good friends. They realized they could perfom better together than separately. So they decided to have one more race. But this time they would work as a team.  They started off. and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the  riverbank. There. the tortoise took over and swam across the river with the hare on his hack. On the opposite bank. the hare again camed the tortoise and they reached the finishing line togeLhcr. much more quickly than chey had been able to alone They both felt a greater sense of
Satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.                                        
[写作内窖]
1．以约30个词概括这段短文的内容；
2(1)以约120个词就第四次龟兔赛跑的寓意发表个人观点。内容包括：
(1)如何利用自身优势：
(2)如何发挥团队精神。
[写作要求】
1．在作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不
得直接引用原文中的句子：
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并将答案填入答题卡相应位置

Whenever I recall my childhood, there is one thing I remember clearly. My father used his   36  to let my mother   37   her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother and myself in the   38  . One evening, our father came home and there was no   39  , not even a piece of bread. My father had no money and he was as   40   as we were. My brother and I went to bed without having anything.

   41   I knew from the expressions on my father’s face that he could not    42   us be hungry for long. He left the house, and about two hours later he   43   and woke us up. He had two small potato pies in his hands. I didn’t know where he got the money for the food but somehow he   44   to find a way. It was clear that he wanted to get his children    45  .

My father did not eat and had    46   all day but he sat there and felt   47   at seeing us eat. This has always stuck in my   48  . At that moment, I felt moved   knowing that he tried his best not to let us   49  , and he wanted us to know he was always there ____50______ us.

In   51   times, I think, it is important not to   52   weakness but strength.   53   the mother is the cement(黏合剂)that   54   a family together, then the father is the steel that strengthens(加固) that cement.

It is his values and    55   that have carried me forward and helped me deal with my own problems in life.