阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dropping into hopelessness completely, Jack wandered on the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his mid-fifties, Jack had never been ___________, experienced the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this miserable rainy night, he felt as if there was___________ in the entire world who cared whether he lived or died.
Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room watching the rain ___________ my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I___________ from my chair and raced out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by ___________, invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room．
___________, I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the sight of the man, ___________ his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to my room and ___________ my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.
When I reached the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three ___________ looked at me in ___________ as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a ___________, turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.
Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with his head ___________.Tears streamed down his face as he___________held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, "It’s just that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so___________. That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody ___________”
Jack's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was___________ to live instead of die. Although we never saw Jack again, we received letters from him ___________, letting us know that he was doing fine.
My life changed that night, too, as I___________the hug healing (治愈) power of giving, even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents. Before Jack left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that ___________ he'd walked along the streets that rainy night, ___________ and ready to die, he had noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.
1.A. employed B. understood C. managed D. married
2.A. anybody B. somebody C. nobody D. everybody
3.A. approach B. beat C. break D. cover
4.A. jumped B. ran C. looked D. settled
5.A. fear B. anxiety C. guilty D. pity
6.A. Curious B. Annoyed C. Excited D. Worried
7.A. shaking B. nodding C. holding D. resting
8.A. adjusted B. reached C. presented D. pushed
9.A. strangers B. neighbors C. visitors D. adults
10.A. anger B. delight C. fun D. surprise
11.A. hug B. smile C. kiss D. handshake
12.A. raised B. bowed C. ignored D. turned
13.A. calmly B. tightly C. impatiently D. privately
14.A. anxious B. lonely C. stressed D. bored
15.A. makes B. figures C. cares D. deserves
16.A. flexible B. likely C. disappointed D. ready
17.A. occasionally B. at once C. hardly D. never
18.A. hid B. informed C. assisted D. saw
19.A. as B. before C. until D. unless
20.A. weak B. ashamed C. helpless D. Regretful
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。
(注意：此题答案写在第II卷答题卷上)
Tips on how to save money
It’s important for you teenagers to know how to save money. You know that the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think it’s a difficult task and don’t know how to do it, please do as the following.
1.
My dad always tells me that if one doesn’t respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, it’s important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expenses at the end of the month, you will realize what you have spent more money in doing. 2.
Open a savings account.
Opening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal; say (for example), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college. 3.
Do not carry much cash.
Do you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money around with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, which will not even help you buy a drink. 4.
Save the changes.
Save the changes that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some changes, then do not spend them. 5. And you’ll be surprised at the huge amount of money after days.
Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, they’ll help you to be more responsible in your life.
A. Keep a record of your daily expenses.
B. After a few days, you’ll get rid of this habit.
C. Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank.
D. By that time, you will realize the importance of saving money.
E. Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom.
F. Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part.
G. Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money.
Dear Alcohol,
You’ve been around forever. I can remember all the pain you’ve caused for me.
Do you remember the night you almost took my father’s life? I do. He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you more than he loves me. He’s addicted to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. You just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. He wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.
Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were there. My friends were intrigued by you. They treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. “I’m so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair back so that they could vomit (呕吐). “I’m sorry,” they said when I called taxis for them, walking them out and paying the driver in advance. “This won’t happen again,” they said as they were sent to the hospital to have their stomachs pumped. Two 15-year-old girls slept in hospital beds that night thanks to you.
Do you remember the night when you took advantage of my 17-year-old neighbor who had to drive to pick up his sister from her dance lessons? Do you know how we all felt when he hit another car and killed the two people in the other car? He died the next morning too. His sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people gathering on the sidewalk just two blocks away from the dance studio. She didn’t realize her brother was in the midst of it all. She never saw him again. And it’s all your fault.
I wish you’d walk out of my life forever. I don’t want anything to do with you. Look at all the pain you’ve caused. Sure, you’ve made people happy too from time to time. But the damage you’ve caused in the lives of millions is inexcusable. Stop luring（诱惑）in the people I love. Stop hurting me, please.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
1.What is author’s purpose in writing to alcohol?
A．To introduce Mr. Alcohol to the readers.
B．To describe the harm alcohol did to his family.
C．To show how much alcohol can hurt people.
D．To show the great fun that alcohol can bring to people’s life.
2.What did alcohol do to the author’s father?
A．It made him crash into two other cars and took his life.
B．It made him drink too much and he had to get his stomach pumped.
C．It made him kill two other people when driving.
D．It made him get into a car accident and badly injure himself.
3.What is the tone of the article?
A．Critical. B．Doubtful. C．Unconcerned. D．Humorous.
4.What is the main writing technique of the passage?
A．Making something less noticeable than usual.
B．Representing something in the form of a person.
C．Describing something by listing its harmfulness.
D．Comparing one thing with another to make his point clear.
The top ten hottest English words in 2015
Selfie (自拍) is “taking a photo by yourself”, Now “taking a selfie” is generally a way of self-expression.
Budgetwife is the opposite of budget husband (经济适用男). By name, you can see that the economy strength of budget male is not strong as the "diamond man" (钻石男), but he is both economically and emotionally reliable.
Phubbing refers to impolite behavior that in social situations people don’t pay attention to the people around, but just look at their mobile phones, we can call it "down". People are called phubber "down" (低头族).
Bromeo (男闺蜜) are male girlfriends. He is one of your most loyal friends, will support you in every situation.
"Fangirl" or “fanboy” (脑残粉) refers to those who are crazy about something or a star, even to the point of sanity.
Gayriage (基婚) refers to two people of equal gender form of marriage. Two men to get married, the marriage is called gayriage.
Mompetition, it is the competition between mothers, comparing whose child is more beautiful, more smarter, more fashionable. It can be compared two or more mothers, and the children being compared can be adult.
Social bubble (社交泡沫), which means that some people seem to know many people, but only few people could be friends. After “financial bubble”, “housing bubble”, personal bubbles begin to hit career people.
1.Tom is a ______, crazy about selfies.
A. fanboy B. phubber C. bromeo D. photographer
2.Today’s career people meet many problems except______.
A. personal bubble B. financial bubble
C. housing bubble D. mompetition
3.What will the text talk about next?
A. The use of the hottest words.
B. The way of picking the hottest words.
C. The ninth top hottest words.
D. The effect of the hottest words.
Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. It may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but it also turns you into a workaholic, it seems.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.
The study by technology retailer Pixmania reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. More than 90 percent of office workers have email-enabled phones, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess (承认) they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they make work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., with more than a third checking their first emails in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11 p.m. and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constant in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).”
1.What can we conclude from the text?
A．All that glitters is not gold.
B．It never rains but pours.
C．Every coin has two sides.
D．It’s no good crying over spilt milk.
2.The underlined word “accessing” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
A．calling B．reaching C．getting D．using
3.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．The average UK working time is between nine and twelve hours.
B．Nine-tenths spent over three hours checking work emails.
C．One-fourth check their first mail between 11 p.m. and midnight.
D．The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. .
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A．Workaholics like smartphones.
B．Smartphones bring about extra work.
C．Smartphones make our life easier.
D．Employers don’t like smartphones.
At thirteen, I was diagnosed（诊断）with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.
In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”
She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man.”
I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.
In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.
Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?
I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words: “ See what you can do when you keep trying?”
1.The author didn’t finish the reading in class because .
A．He was new to the class
B．He was tired of literature
C．He had an attention disorder
D．He wanted to take the task home
2.What do we know about Louis Braille from the passage?
A．He made a great invention.
B．He had good sight.
C．He gave up reading.
D．He learned a lot from school.
3.What was Mrs. Smith’s attitude to the author at the end of the story?
A．Angry. B．Impatient.
C．Sympathetic. D．Encouraging.
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．The disabled should be treated with respect.
B．A teacher can open up a new world to students.
C．Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.
D．One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.
