第一节  单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

根据所给汉语提示写出正确单词完成句子，每空填一词。

The proud man said he would rather ________ (挨饿) than beg for food.

To eat turkey on Thanksgiving is a ________ (传统) in America.

Smoking is ________ (有害) to people’s health.

The editor admitted the mistake and ________ (道歉).

Newton’s law of ________ (重力) explains why everything on earth falls to the ground.

Teaching children requires ________ (耐心) and understanding.

It is not polite to ________ (盯着看) at others.

To be ________ (诚实), it is one of the worst books I have ever read.

We all ________ (钦佩) her for her courage to save the children from the fire.

I could tell from her face that she was telling ________ (谎言).

One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to   36  her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy, am I  37  ?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you  38  , OK?”
Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.
“Who   39  that you are bad?” asked Mummy.
“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I   40   because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got   41  and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.
“You are   42  ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say   43  to him?”
“But he called me bad and   44  with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.
“Though you have done   45   bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are  46   a good person.”
Nancy showed a  47   look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.
“Our   48  is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.
  49   flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I  50  good, Mummy?” she asked.
“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not  51  the wrong that you do. You will have to call and   52  to Phillips. Do you understand me?”
“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy  53 . “I am going to   54  Phillips right away, and I am never going to   55  that I am always good.”

People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.

1. 1.

   The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

   1. A.
      her face in good condition
   2. B.
      her bunch of pink roses
   3. C.
      Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses
   4. D.
      Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers
2. 2.

   It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

   1. A.
      her father was poisonous
   2. B.
      the iron kettle was poisonous
   3. C.
      elderberry juice was poisonous
   4. D.
      it was her father that hated her
3. 3.

   After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

   1. A.
      usually change
   2. B.
      were stolen
   3. C.
      are no longer fresh
   4. D.
      come from a criminal
4. 4.

   What would be the best title for the passage?

   1. A.
      A fairy brings the flowers.
   2. B.
      The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.
   3. C.
      What happens to the girl?
   4. D.
      How do the flowers get there?

The Maum Sin Yong School says that they are the first in Colorado and the one of only two schools in the US to teach martial arts (武术) to students with mental diseases.

    “They do everything that our regular classes do,” says Rob Hansen, Tae Kwon Do instructor. Hansen teaches the kids how to punch (拳打), kick, and block along with the values of the Korean martial arts. He says that they also learn confidence and how to improve their motor skills. “They’ve learned focus, just to be able to pick one item and pay attention to it.”

    “Tae Kwon Do is pretty fun,” says Christina Hinkle. She was born with Down syndrome (唐氏综合症) and says she never wants to miss class. “Well, how come? It’s pretty fun.”

    “Ever since she saw Karate Kid, she’s been running around the house, doing kicks and punches,” says Peggy Hinkle, Christina’s mother. Peggy says that her daughter processes information slowly and taking Tae Kwon Do lessons has helped her in all parts of her life. “It gives her a chance to be a regular kid.”

    Wednesday’s class is not a normal class. Instead, it’s a day that all the students have been waiting for. “Today is actually the first day, and I’m actually going to be able to test these guys,” says Hansen. The students would receive their White Belts. However, in order to receive their belts, the students must show off their skills in front of a group of Black Belts.

    “Nervous? No way. I’m so excited,” says Christina just before she displayed what she has learned over the past few months. She and the other students also answered questions about the history of Tae Kwon Do, as well as its philosophy (哲学).

    “To me, it’s just really important for them to actively see that they are learning something,” says Hansen. “That they actually are able to be rewarded for everything that they’ve done in this class.” All the students passed. They received their White Belts.

    “To see the joy in her face was very rewarding,” says Peggy. She videotaped the whole test and hugged her daughter telling her that she’s proud. “Christina feels like she could do anything,” she says.

Christina says that her next goal is to keep working on her skills so she can move up to a Gold Belt. She says, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe I got the first rank.”

The purpose of teaching the students with mental disease Tae Kwon Do is _______.

A. to help them gain confidence and be skilled at concentration

B. to enable them to punch and kick the other opponents

C. to take part in tournament and win prize.

D. to get rid of their mental diseases and run motorcar

Wednesday is the time ________ according to the text.

A. when the students with mental disease will begin to learn Tae Kwon Do 

B. when Hansen’s students will give a display of what they have learned.

C. when Hansen’s students will replace their black belts with white belts.

D. when the parents can see how Hansen teach their children with mental disease.

The example of Christina in the passage suggests________.

A. children are learning Tae Kwon Do with their parents’ company.

B. Rob Hansen is a strict coach of teaching Tae Kwon Do 

C. children with mental disease are interested in Tae Kwon Do

D. Tae Kwon Do can cure mental disease.

What can we infer from the passage?

A. Learning Tae Kwon Do is beneficial to children with mental disease both in health and mind.

B. Any child with mental disease should come to learn Tae Kwon Do.

C. Parents understand why Rob Hansen teach children with metal disease.

D. More schools like The Maum Sin Yong School are needed in America.

My husband Ollie had retired from teaching and we were making plans to travel together to Florida. Then he was terribly ill and became very weak, hardly able to speak. Weeks passed and it became clear that Ollie was near death, but I prayed day and night that he could get better.
One of us was always in Ollie’s hospital room—either me, or our grown children, Bruce and Karen. One day, in his broken and weak speech, Ollie told Bruce, “Go home. You should be with Gwen.” Gwen was Bruce’s wife. They had been married for six years and lived hundreds of miles away. Gwen was about to have a baby. We felt an extra sadness, knowing Ollie would never see his first grandchild.
“I don’t want to leave you, Dad,” Bruce said. Ollie repeated, “You should be with Gwen.” Reluctantly, Bruce left. “When the baby comes,” he promised Ollie, “you will be the first to know.” A few days later, around 2 p.m., Ollie awoke from a sleep. He turned and looked at me. I sat close to hear his weak words. “The baby is coming now. It’s a boy,” he said. For a moment his eyes were filled with tears. Then he went back to sleep again. Not long after that, Karen ran into the room. “Bruce called,” she said, a smile lighting her face. “Gwen gave birth to a healthy baby boy around two o’ clock.”
Ollie smiled; he had been the first to know. That night, Ollie died in his sleep.
【小题1】Ollie didn’t travel to Florida because________.