The Pillow
At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house — something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were surprised when Josh responded, “I just want a bed.”
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”
“A pillow,” he replied.
“What do you do with it?” Eric continued to ask.
“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.
“Oh . . . that’s soft,” he said, hugging it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks, “Do you have a pillow?”
We know exactly what he means.
1.The writer’s first volunteer project was ________.
A.working on a poor trailer B.helping a poor family
C.donating beds and bedding D.dealing with a housing problem
2.On bearing Josh’s answer, the writer was shocked because ________.
A.the family lived in a trailer B.he expected to get some toys
C.he didn’t know what a bed was D.the boys had no bed to sleep in
3.From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen before ________.
A.a trailer B.a truck C.a pillow D.a house
4.By sayg “Do you have a pillow?”, the writer’s father means that ________.
A.what they want to get may be unnecessary
B.they should not waste money on small things
C.they should do more volunteer work for the poor
D.what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still_______the brightness of sunshine. It would be_______to see again, but a_______can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the_______of them made me_______more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustmentsto reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more_______his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never_______I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the_______to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to_______against blindness.
The hardest________I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of________that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real,________person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and________this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he________me, “and roll it around.” The words________in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought________: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I________a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my________It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach________that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would________sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
1.A.remember B.affect C.measure D.bring
2.A.possible B.wonderful C.hopeful D.reasonable
3.A.question B.mistake C.disaster D.situation
4.A.importance B.value C.loss D.attention
5.A.record B.expect C.offer D.appreciate
6.A.natural B.modern C.meaningful D.challenging
7.A.necessary B.easy C.difficult D.practical
8.A.right B.plan C.place D.potential
9.A.guard B.hit C.argue D.fight
10.A.game B.skill C.lesson D.knowledge
11.A.self-control B.self-confidence C.self-defense D.self-improvement
12.A.modest B.energetic C.generous D.positive
13.A.strengthen B.express C.share D.destroy
14.A.urged B.blamed C.respected D.admired
15.A.held B.stuck C.bothered D.knocked
16.A.important B.specific C.common D.impossible
17.A.invented B.confirmed C.checked D.noticed
18.A.interest B.limitation C.experience D.responsibility
19.A.once B.unless C.because D.though
20.A.fail B.try C.act D.continue
假设你叫李华，现在在英国交换学习，你的朋友陈明写信告诉你他打算赴英留学，想知 道初到英国可能会遇到的困难。请你用英语给他写一封回信，信的内容应包括：
1.可能会遇到的困难：语言方面的障碍、饮食的不习惯、想家孤独等；
2.鼓励他并表示愿意帮助他。
注意：1.词数 100 个左右。
2.信的开头已为你写好，不计人总词数。
Dear Chen Ming，
I'm glad to hear from you. You asked me about the difficulties you may meet with when you get here in UK.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Mr. Li is my head teacher. He is now in his thirty and has been teaching in almost ten years. He has much know ledges and his teaching method is scientific. All of us enjoy his lessons which are lively and interested. Not only is he strict and also he is kind and patient. As a result, he is popular with our students. All these years he has devoted to teaching his students. In addition, he often gave his encouragement to us, that means a lot to us. With his help, we have made a great progress. We all love him!
根据句子语境及句中所给的首字母或汉语提示写出一个单词。
1.Natural _( 资源) are running out at such an alarming rate that we should no longer take them for granted.
2.Many precious paintings are being d_ in the hall of our school, which helps all the students get a better understanding of the glorious history of our school.
3.After several months, the riot ( 暴 乱 ) in Hong Kong e_ spread into the university campus, concerning all the Chinese people.
4.It is quite common for people to work in the city and live in the s_, even though it means a longer commute(通勤).
5.With the age of 5G coming, our life surely will be much easier and it will certainly bring us more _(便捷) from many aspects.
6.There are some s_differences between the twins which few people can identify other than their parents.
7.When I got the news that he had already dropped out of school, my mind went _(空白的) immediately.
8.Yuan Longping, one of the winners of national commendations( 表 彰 ), has made a huge contribution to the _(农业) nationally and globally.
9.It is mostly not q_but quality that matters more when it comes to products.
10.Nobody can _(替代) him in this field, since he is the one who has the final say.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, 1. (enter) the history of human engineering and connection as a point of pride upon its 2. (open) to traffic at 9 am on Oct.24,2018.
One day after the opening 3. (announce) at a ceremony held in Zhuhai, the bridge’s ports in three different administrative 4.(region) started serving travelers around-the-clock, opening 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 5.(ensure) faster boundary crossings for passengers, the Macao and Zhuhai ports jointly use 6. one-off immigration clearance model, 7.allows travelers to queue up only once to finish both exit and entry procedures of the two cities in about seconds.
Apart from private cars, taxis and goods vehicles, two types of public transportation – shuttle bus and cross-boundary coach-- can also run on the HZMB. The frequency of shuttle buses is about 5-10 minutes during peak hours. Booking tickets for the shuttle bus online in advance8. (be) available since 9am on Tuesday. With the bridge now in service, the traveling time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong International Airport will be9. (sharp) shortened from four hours to 45 minutes, 10. the time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong’s Container Terminals will be cut from 3.5 hours to 75 minutes.
