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。
When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town．Most of the ________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie．He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his ________.
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, ________ anything that needed to be done．He became a close friend of mine, ________ he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my ________． Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was ________. I didn’t have the ________ to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might ________ me he had died.
Several ________ later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face．When I ________ who it was, my eyes filled with tears．He was ________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look ________ his face, he replied yes．I ________ how I knew him and that I had spent many days talking with him in the hospital．His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever ________.
He began to tell me that ________ he lay there comatose(昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could ________ me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie ________ believed that it was my voice and ________ that had kept him alive．
Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with ________ every day．I know that I made a(n) ________ between his life and his death．
1.A. timeB. energyC. effortD. money
2.A. interestsB. requestsC. conditionsD. opinions
3.A. talking aboutB. looking afterC. pointing outD. helping with
4.A. so thatB. even thoughC. soon afterD. as if
5.A. handB. headC. noseD. arm
6.A. killedB. lostC. goneD. changed
7.A. energyB. chanceC. courageD. time
8.A. cheatB. tellC. remindD. warn
9.A. daysB. weeksC. monthsD. years
10.A. recognizedB. wonderedC. heardD. asked
11.A. wellB. aliveC. happyD. alone
12.A. atB. onC. behindD. in
13.A. apologizedB. rememberedC. explainedD. admitted
14.A. dreamedB. seenC. wantedD. received
15.A. becauseB. ifC. unlessD. although
16.A. noticeB. feelC. imagineD. watch
17.A. hardlyB. quicklyC. firmlyD. nearly
18.A. humorB. dutyC. touchD. success
19.A. sorrowB. excitementC. regretD. joy
20.A. effortB. wishC. differenceD. decision
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。
Be an inventor
The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it’s true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.
Wrong idea number 1: 1.
Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists. 2.
Wrong idea number 2: Inventors are born, not made.
There are a lot of factors that make invention possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with a special talent for music. 3. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was in kindergarten.
4. Very successful creators don’t give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question!”
Wrong idea number 3: Inventors are always old people.
5. Here is an example of a young inventor: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was 15, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.
A. Everyday things can give people lots of ideas.
B. An invention has to be something completely new.
C. But other factors were also important for his creativity.
D. As a young man, George Nissen invented the trampoline (蹦床).
E. Don't believe that you can’t invent something when you are young.
F. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration”!
G. The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.
Today, many people use plants from other places to design their yards. Well, do they have any influence on animals living nearby? As we know, plants supply food for things like insects and plant-eating animals. In turn, birds and meat-eating animals feed on these insects and plant-eating animals. It is easy to see how important plants are.
Although foreign plants may look beautiful, they can cause problems when there are too many of them. I live in Virginia, USA, and sometimes see a plant—commonly known as Kudzu—that seems to cover everything in the area, even climbing over whole trees and houses.
Kudzu is an unbelievable plant since it grows very fast. It was first brought to the United States from south-east Asia around the 1870’s as a crop that farmers could grow. However, Kudzu quickly came to be considered harmful throughout the southern United States.
Since Kudzu grows fast in many different environments, it can completely cover areas of land quickly. The plant is also not eaten by any insects or birds in the United States so it can grow unchecked. Kudzu can cover trees, bushes, and even houses. It costs the United States 500 million dollars a year to just keep Kudzu from growing too fast. The plant is a perfect example of what scientists call an invasive (侵略性的) species, which grows more quickly than other native plants.
All foreign plants have the possibility to spread quickly. Not only are they costly, but planting them in gardens actually takes away food from insects. If everyone filled their garden with plants native to where they live, many lovely butterflies and other native creatures would be attracted to their backyards! So, take a look out of your window — how does your garden grow?
1.We can learn from the text that Kudzu in Virginia ________.
A. is very popular
B. is difficult to grow
C. can cause big trouble
D. can make air cleaner
2.Which of the following is TRUE of Kudzu?
A. It served as food at first in America.
B. It came to America in the early 19th century.
C. It grows fast in Asia, but slowly in America.
D. It is often eaten by insects or birds in America.
3.How does the author sound when telling of these foreign plants?
A. Sad.B. Worried.C. Proud.D. Excited.
4.What does the author mainly discuss in the text?
A. Everyone should learn to love nature.
B. It is a hard job to grow plants in yards.
C. Gardening has become a serious hobby.
D. It is important to say no to foreign plants.
Rick Garcia is going to play outside with his friends. He is taking out his reliever inhaler (缓解物吸入器) and taking two puffs (吸). Five minutes later, he’s on the field with his friends, running after a soccer ball. Rick has asthma (哮喘), but he knows how to control it.
Asthma is a lung disease. A person with asthma may cough or suffer from shortness of breath. Asthma can begin at any age. Childhood asthma, often beginning when a child is younger than 10 years old, is one of the most common childhood diseases. Doctors report that the number of young people with asthma is increasing. It is the number one cause of absence from school. If parents have asthma, their children are more likely to develop the disease. Children in homes where an adult smokes are more at risk.
It is important to find out the triggers for asthma. As we know, dust, pollen, or animals often make people suffer from asthma. Once a child learns the triggers, he can help prevent future attacks. About half of all children outgrow asthma and then asthma attacks stop when they are teenagers. However, many people live with the disease into adulthood.
Children often take control drugs once or twice a day to help prevent asthma attacks, if a child begins to have an asthma attack, a quick-relief drug is also necessary. This is often an inhaler. School-aged children usually carry their inhalers with them. This medication works quickly and children begin to breathe more easily in a few minutes. If a child has a serious asthma attack, he may need full-time care at a hospital or a doctor’s office.
1.The story of Rick Garcia is used to ________.
A. show the importance of exercise
B. introduce the topic of the text
C. show the popularity of soccer
D. tell us how to control asthma
2.The underlined word “triggers” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.
A. risksB. levelsC. possibilitiesD. causes
3.The last paragraph mainly deals with ________.
A. the treatment of asthma
B. the influence of asthma
C. the prevention of asthma
D. some research on asthma
“I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” That’s the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada.
When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploading pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it because we had nothing to do, living in a small town.”
“I’d check different websites for the hottest songs, and I’d record my own videos,” he explains. “That’s how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a record company. The result was the release of Austin’s first album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didn’t put him off.“I kept working hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming.
Austin’s achievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austin’s unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way Free The children works and raises money.
Because of Austin, his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austin’s presence certainly helps We Day, it’s good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that he cares about making the world a better place.
1.Why did Austin put pop songs on musical websites?
A. He was bored with his life there.
B. To attract people’s attention.
C. To help advertise the songs.
D. His friend asked him to do so.
2.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Austin’s sudden rise.
B. People’s dissatisfaction.
C. The release of Junior Year.
D. Signing with a record company.
3.What Austin did at We Day ________.
A. was a win-win situation
B. set an example for all the singers
C. first made him become known to the public
D. led many young people to be volunteers
假定你是李华，你的美国笔友David来信说自己在学校常和同班同学发生冲突，自己不被别人理解，没有什么朋友，现在感到生活没意思，所以向你寻求建议。请你根据以下提示，用英语给David写一封电子邮件。内容主要包括：
1、表达对David所处现状的看法；
2、给David提供解决冲突的对策；
3、告诉David怎样才能交上朋友。
注意：1、词数100左右，（不包括给出的首尾句）；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、邮件开头和结尾以为你写好。
Dear David，
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Looking forward to your reply!
Yours,
Li Hua
