Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: he knew everything. This was our relationship: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. Is there really a man in the moon? How do sailboats work? In my teen years, he taught me things I’d need to know to survive in the real world. How to check your car. The correct knife to bring along.
When I moved out, I called him at least once a week, usually when something broke in my apartment. After I got married, I needed him less because I had my husband and Google. When I called our conversations changed into six words. Me: “Hi, Dad.” Him: “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.” (Because I still needed her - How do I cook chicken? Do I need to call the doctor for my daughter’s fever?) I loved my dad, of course, but I wondered at times if maybe he had already shared everything I needed to know. Maybe I’d heard all his stories. Maybe, after knowing a man for 30 years, there’s nothing left to say.
Then, this past summer, my husband and I moved in with my parents for three weeks while our house was being repaired. They own a lake house, and Dad asked me to help him repair the walls. I didn’t balk— it was the least I could do for free rent(房租) — but I felt anxious. It was difficult. We got wet and sandy. But as we rebuilt the walls, my dad knowing exactly what went ______. I looked at him, “How do you know how to build walls?”
“I spent a summer in college building them.” “You did?” I thought I knew everything about my dad, but I never knew this. “Yep. Now let me teach you how to use this saw(锯子).” As he explained the skills, I realized that maybe it’s not that there’s nothing left to say. Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent my life asking him the wrong questions.
A few weeks later, after my family moved back into our own house, I called my parents. Dad answered. “Hi, sweets,” he said. “Here’s Mom.” “Wait, Dad,” I said. “How are you?” We ended up talking about work he was doing. Nothing life-changing. To anyone else, it would sound like a normal conversation between a dad and his daughter. But to me, it was a new beginning. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I want to.
1.It is unlikely that the author’s dad tried to teach her _______ when she was a teenager.
A.to swim in a river B.to make a fire safely
C.to climb mountains D.to solve a difficult math problem
2.What does the sentence “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.” mean in paragraph 2?
A.The father sounded like the mother to make fun.
B.The author did not want to speak to her parents.
C.The father then gave the phone to the mother.
D.The father brought up the author by himself.
3.The underlined word “balk” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A.shout B.refuse C.smile D.talk
4.Which should we fill in the blank in paragraph 3?
A.around B.by C.crazy D.where
5.The author wants to talk to her father now because _______.
A.there is still a lot left to say B.the author has to survive
C.the father asks her to do that D.the mother asks her to do that
Angela had a serious disease about her nervous system (神经系统). She was unable to walk and her _______ was affected in other ways. The doctors did not _______ much hope of her recovering from this illness. They forecast she would spend the rest of her life in a _______ and said that few were able to come back to normal after _______ this disease. However, the little girl was _______. She would tell others she was _______ going to be walking again someday.
She was sent to a rehabilitation hospital (康复医院) in San Francisco. Whatever treatments could be _______ to her disease were used. The doctors were _______ by her optimistic spirit. They taught her about _______ seeing herself walking. If it did nothing else, it would ________ give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical treatment. She worked just as hard ________ there imagining herself moving, moving, moving!
One day, as she was trying hard to imagine her ________ moving again, it seemed ________ a miracle (奇迹) happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She shouted out in________, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”
In fact, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. At that ________ moment, everyone else in the hospital was shouting out, too, and running for ________. People were shouting, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. It was an earthquake. ________ they had no time to tell that to Angela. She was ________ that she did it.
Only a few years later, she was back in school! You see, anyone who can ________ San Francisco can ________ a disease, can’t they?
1.A.memory B.character C.hearing D.movement
2.A.hold B.lose C.reduce D.destroy
3.A.school B.wheelchair C.stadium D.workshop
4.A.suffering from B.working out C.breaking down D.appealing to
5.A.innocent B.humorous C.scared D.optimistic
6.A.simply B.usually C.certainly D.hardly
7.A.applied B.observed C.reflected D.ignored
8.A.impressed B.tricked C.puzzled D.annoyed
9.A.reporting B.imagining C.cheating D.complaining
10.A.at best B.at most C.at worst D.at least
11.A.rising B.standing C.climbing D.lying
12.A.arms B.legs C.heads D.eyes
13.A.even if B.even though C.as though D.so that
14.A.relief B.excitement C.panic D.terror
15.A.extreme B.only C.very D.just
16.A.hide B.trouble C.attack D.advance
17.A.And B.So C.But D.Or
18.A.concerned B.warned C.convinced D.blamed
19.A.hit B.explode C.dig D.shake
20.A.occupy B.defeat C.explore D.cause
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.What is Mr Green?
A.A teacher. B.A doctor. C.A driver.
2.When does Mr Green have breakfast?
A.At 6:15. B.At 6:45. C.At 7:15.
3.How does Mr Green go to work?
A.By car. B.By bus. C.By subway.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.How long did the man wait on the playground?
A.About 20 minutes. B.About 15 minutes. C.About 5 minutes.
2.Where is Mrs Smith now?
A.In the teachers’ office. B.On the playground. C.In the classroom.
3.Whom does the ring belong to?
A.Mrs Smith. B.Mr Black. C.Mrs Black.
4.What will the man do when getting home?
A.Make a phone call. B.Go to attend a wedding. C.Wait for the woman’s call.
假定你是李华，你的新西兰朋友Jim准备暑假来中国旅游，让你推荐一个城市。请你给他回信，内容包括：
1. 推荐城市；
2. 推荐理由（如景点，美食等）；
3. 你的祝愿。
注意：
（1）词数100左右；
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
（3）开头，结尾已给出，不计入总字数。
Dear Jim,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
下面每句话都有一处错误，每处错误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（∧），并在其下写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的同下划一横线，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. 不按正确的改法改错不给分。
1.It remains to be seen that the newly formed committee’s policy can be put into practice.
2.When and where the meeting will be held haven’t been decided yet.
3.It is suggested that she sings an English song for all the guests.
4.If he will offer us enough help doesn’t matter a lot to our success.
5.Do you have any idea that is going on in the classroom?
6.Word came he had been admitted to the key university.
7.It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measured over 90 meters.
8.Much to his delight, the dog saw his host’s blue coat in distance.
9.They must have arrived at lunchtime but their flight was delayed.
10.He feels it dangerous for a girl to be out late at night so he won’t have his daughter arrive home late.
