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What do photography and foster (收养的) care have in common? Apparently a lot. Jennifer Loomis, an experienced local photographer, and her husband were a childless couple, so they were considering ____________ a kid. As part of their _____________， they went online and visited sites containing _____________ of children up for adoption. ____________， the photos didn't really express the children.
To Loomis' artful eye, they ____________ to let people know who the children truly were. Loomis then contacted Northwest Adoption Exchange and ____________ a free photo shoot (专业摄影) to help ____________ children show better pictures of them to adoptive parents. The _____________ readily agreed.
One child who _____________ the photo shoot was Deon, a lonely child who had bounced around the foster system. With Loomis' great ______________， a new and more handsome Deon was photographed. And this had a(n) ______________ effect! Soon prospective parents Joanna Church and Sean Vaillancourt saw Deon's new photo on the website and were attracted by the boy with bright, happy eyes (They had previously seen his old photo, but got no ____________ impression of him). Contact was made, and he was _____________ their home.
Now Church and Vaillancourt have become Deon's parents. The ____________ was a godsend (天赐之物) to Deon. He had been in and out of various foster homes since the age of 5, and was losing ____________. At age 18, children no longer qualify for foster care and must begin to ____________ themselves. This is a bitter reality for a child at age 16, ____________ one who has never really found _____________ from a home.
Deon is now paired with a loving family simply ____________ Jennifer Loomis took a better photo of him. She has completely changed Deon's ____________ and that of his adoptive parents.
“When you give someone a chance，” Deon said, “you are basically saving a life.”
1.A.photographing B．interviewing C．adopting D．sponsoring
2.A.study B．treatment C．search D．design
3.A.images B．plans C．stories D．ideas
4.A.However B．Therefore C．Besides D．Otherwise
5.A.managed B．failed C．decided D．tried
6.A.required B．accepted C．offered D．allowed
7.A.curious B．lonely C．happy D．willing
8.A.team B．couple C．government D．organization
9.A.attended B．helped C．refused D．learned
10.A.concerns B．skills C．abilities D．courage
11.A.permanent B．immediate C．positive D．adverse
12.A.unique B．first C．clear D．new
13.A.taken for B．called at C．brought into D．carried away
14.A.match B．performance C．practice D．struggle
15.A.hope B．opportunity C．energy D．interest
16.A.teach B．support C．control D．trust
17.A.usually B．particularly C．specially D．definitely
18.A.freedom B．happiness C．answers D．chances
19.A.though B．unless C．but D．because
20.A.attitude B．manner C．behavior D．life
假如你是中学生李平。最近你校规定：学生在校期间，禁止到校外就餐。现在，请你就此事给校报英文版编辑写一封信，内容包括：
1．学校制定此规定的理由；
2．同学们对此规定的反应及理由；
3．你的看法。
注意：1.词数100左右；信的抬头与结束语已写好，不计入总词数；
2．文中不得透露你和所在学校的真实名字。
参考词汇：食堂canteen
Dear editor，
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Best wishes!
Yours，
Li Ping
阅读理解。
Years ago, when I was a poor artist trying to sell my paintings in local galleries, I_1. (live) in the heart of a city. The rent for my apartment was really cheap 2. it was in the middle of one of the busiest neighborhoods in town. People who visited me used to ask me 3. I could sleep. “Doesn't the sound of the traffic bother you? How can you get used to _4. much noise？” You see, there were also rows and rows of shops and bars playing loud music day and night and my apartment was above a really loud and noisy 5.. But I found it all fascinating. If I were ever short6. cash and couldn't afford to do anything much, which in those days was usually the case, I could always go outside and take 7. look around. You see, there were always a great number of tourists visiting the shops, so I could always find someone 8.(interest) to talk with. And Joe, the owner of the bar below me, could always give me a little money to survive on in exchange for _9._ (do) a few odd jobs for him. At the time, I suppose, I thought I was poor. Sometimes, we don't realize how _10. (fortune) we are, do we?
完形填空
“Paul must have been trying to carry his waste paper to garbage
can and dropped a few pieces.” I ___________， picking them up. ____________ later I found more pieces. No quiet sighing this time. I ___________， “Who is throwing garbage？” No answer. Instead, I saw more bits of paper silently floating ____________ from upstairs. Looking up, I saw my sevenyearold son, Paul.
“Stop making a mess.” “It's not a mess. They're ____________.” “Sorry, what did you say？” I hadn't heard him clearly.
He didn't answer me. Paul has autism (自闭症) and __________ answers a question, especially when he's __________ attentively on something else. He ran down the stairs. “Where are my other butterflies？” he asked, ___________ around. Every time Paul ___________ five or more words together, my heart says a __________ of thanks. But lately he seems to ___________ that the benefits of forming complete sentences when communicating are __________ of the effort.
Butterflies. Of course. I rushed to ___________ them from the garbage, __________ them off and handed them to my young artist. “Want to see them ___________ again？” he asked with a shy smile. “Oh yes! They're beautiful，” I whispered. He ran back upstairs to float his ____________ down again. They really did look like beautiful butterflies.
That day Paul __________ me to look up at ___________ instead of down at garbage. How many other masterpieces do I miss because I'm too caught up in my ____________ to take time to appreciate what's right in front of me? Life is not what happens to us. It's ___________ we look at it. Now, I look up.
1.A.laughed B．sighed C．amazed D．shouted
2.A.Days B．Years C．Moments D．Weeks
3.A.called out B．turned up C．got in D．added to
4.A.up B．down C．away D．off
5.A.planes B．papers C．leaves D．butterflies
6.A.rarely B．frequently C．willingly D．eagerly
7.A.devoted B．depended C．focused D．addicted
8.A.showing B．looking C．playing D．drawing
9.A.spells B．puts C．pushes D．accumulates
10.A.sound B．remark C．report D．prayer
11.A.refuse B．hear C．mind D．realize
12.A.worthy B．aware C．fond D．typical
13.A.hide B．destroy C．rescue D．remove
14.A.tore B．dusted C．cut D．seized
15.A.throw B．flow C．land D．fly
16.A.masterpieces B．schoolwork C．inventions D．imagination
17.A.reminded B．forced C．intended D．permitted
18.A.mistakes B．weaknesses C．beauty D．scenery
19.A.amusement B．housework C．communication D．homework
20.A.when B．whether C．where D．how
阅读七选五.
Everyone can benefit a lot from reading books. The following is about the various benefits of reading books.
1. Whenever you read something, you learn information that you otherwise wouldn't have known. It can be a fact about history or a theory you didn't know existed. If you want to learn new words, reading books is a great way to enlarge your vocabulary.
2. Similar to solving puzzles, reading books allows your mind to practice its processing skills. Going without books for too long will turn your mind into a whirl (混乱)．
One of the primary benefits of reading books is its ability to develop your critical thinking skills. _3._ Wherever you are faced with a similar problem in real life, your mind is able to put its mysterysolving skills to a test.
One of the great benefits of reading books is that the information in it can be accessed over and over again. For example, reading a cookbook allows you the luxury of reviewing the procedures whenever you need to. 4. Don't even think about writing the information down because you may lose the paper you wrote down on sooner or later.
These are just some of the wonderful benefits of reading books. 5._ If you can't even go outside, you can download free ebooks online and read them on your computer. That way, you can see how advantageous reading can be for yourself.
A．Reading books can put you in a confident mood.
B．You can improve your memory by reading.
C．Reading books provides you with new knowledge.
D．Following a recipe from a cooking show will be difficult.
E．Reading mystery novels, for example, sharpens your mind.
F．Reading keeps your mind in good condition.
G．Why don't you drop into the bookstore or library and pick a book up?
阅读理解.
The Internet is full of headlines that grab your attention with buzzwords (流行术语). But often when we click through, we find the content hardly delivers and it wastes our time. We close the page, feeling we've been cheated. These types of headlines are called “click bait”．
A headline on Business Insider reads：“This phrase will make you seem more polite”. First, when you click through, you find another headline：“Four words to seem more polite”. Then, on reading the article, you find it's actually an essay about sympathy. And what are the four words? They're “Wow, that sounds hard”. On some video websites, you might encounter headlines such as “Here's what happens when six puppies visited a campus”. It turns out that it's just some uneventful dog footage (连续镜头)．
Nowadays, with the popularity of social media, many news outlets tweet (推送) click bait links to their stories. These tweets take advantage of the curiosity gap or attempt to draw the reader into a story using a question in the headline. These click bait headlines are so annoying that someone is attempting to save people's time by exposing news outlet click bait through social media. The Twitter account @ SavedYouAClick, run by Jake Beckman, is one such example.
Beckman's method is to grab tweets linking to a story and retweet them with a clicksaving comment. For example, CNET tweeted “So iOS 8 appears to be jailbreakable but ...”， with a link to its coverage of Apple's product announcements. Beckman retweeted it with this comment attached: “...it hasn't been jailbroken yet.”
Since founding the account, Beckman's Twitter experiment has brought him more than 131,000 followers. Beckman said，“@ SavedYouAClick is just my way of trying to help the Internet be less terrible.” Asked about his goal, he said，“I'd love to see publishers think about the experience of their readers first. I think there's an enormous opportunity for publishers to provide readers with informative updates that include links so you can click through and read more.”
1.The article on Business Insider turns out to be________.
A．useful suggestions on politeness
B．an essay about another topic
C．an article hard to understand
D．a link to a video website
2.Why are readers often cheated by tricky headlines?
A．Social media has become more popular.
B．Readers have questions to be solved.
C．Such headlines are fairly attractive.
D．There're always stories behind them.
3.Beckman attached his comment to CNET's tweet to ______.
A．criticize CNET
B．save readers' time
C．advertise Apple's new product
D．tell readers something about iOS 8
4.In the last paragraph, Beckman appeals that ________.
A．publishers should be more responsible for the link
B．readers think about their needs before reading
C．publishers provide more information for readers
D．people work together to make the Internet less terrible
