Homelessness is a huge problem all over the world. It’s said that each day there are about one million people on the streets in the US. It is a serious problem which should be effectively(有效地).
There are main reasons for people leaving their homes: poverty and less affordable houses bad economic conditions. Living without a home people main targets of violence activities and these homeless people have to face the following .
They have to move , carrying their belongings, which makes difficult to help them. They have limited to bathrooms and restrooms and are forced to live in dirty conditions, making them easy to be attacked by . They have limited access to health-care facilities in case of emergency(紧急情况), and no access to education as they have no money. They are often badly treated by society, makes them unfriendly, often ending up being involved(被卷入) in activities connected with crime like selling drugs or guns.
Homelessness is not that happened suddenly --- it has been in the country for . The society usually those living on the street to be mentally(精神上) ill sometimes. This belief is partially true. Most of them are people just like you and me.
The government is doing it can to help but it is not enough, so the ordinary citizens have to help it’s possible. There are various organizations, such as charity organizations that are working all the time to help them and the united efforts have helped of people return to their normal lifestyle. However, there is still a long way to go a better situation is created for all the homeless.
A．going B．working C．playing D．living
A．worked out B．concerned with C．dealt with D．made up
A．one B．several C．two D．three
A．according to B．because of C．in addition to D．as to
A．makes B．takes C．has D．gives
A．challenges B．difficulties C．activities D．punishments
A．out B．quickly C．about D．personally
A．that B．which C．who D．it
A．access B．right C．time D．approach
A．robbers B．polices C．disasters D．diseases
A．seldom B．almost C．hardly D．ever
A．that B．what C．which D．it
A．anything B．something C．nothing D．everything
A．weeks B．days C．seconds D．decades
A．believes B．judges C．makes D．lets
A．common B．ordinary C．normal D．usual
A．any B．all C．every D．none
A．whatever B．however C．whichever D．whenever
A．million B．millions C．hundred D．thousand
A．when B．after C．before D．unless
完形填空（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
Friends are very important in our everyday life. When in trouble, we need friends to us encouragement and help. As a human being, one can hardly do anything without a friend,
life without friends will be a lonely voyage in the vast dark sea . Everyone friends. We all like to feel close to someone. is nice to have a friend to talk to, laugh, and do things . , sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people . But we would feel lonely if we had a friend.
A person should make as many friends as he can. The more friends he has, the meaningful his life will be. No two people are . Friends don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up (言归于好) and become again.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very . We miss them very much, but we can them and write to them. And we can new friends. It is encouraging to find out how we like new people when we get to know them.
There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live than people who don’t. Why? Friends can make us feel happy. happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just done that someone cares. If someone cares about you, you take care of .
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He was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. He stopped to give her a . “I’m here to help you, madam. Why don't you wait in the car where it is warm, Madam? It won’t take me long.” He said, “ , my name is Joe.”
She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn’t thank him and asked him how much she him. He told her that if she really wanted to him back, next time she saw someone in of help, she could give that person the he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me”.
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles the road the lady saw a small . She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant her with a sweet smile. The old lady how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe’s words her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her from a hundred-dollar bill. , the lady stepped right out the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, “I’m helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is you can do--Do not let the chain of love with you．”
The waitress went home that night with the tip and what the lady had written. With the baby next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything’s going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”
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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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Falling off a box car and landing on my head，I lost my sight when I was four years old . Now I am thirty two. I can remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, a tragedy can do strange things to people.
It to me that I might not have come to love life as I do now if I hadn't been blind. My parents and my teacher saw something me,and they made me want to against blindness.
The hardest I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say in myself I am not talking about the kind of self-confidence that me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am realpositive person imperfections.
It took me years to obtain this . It had to start with the . Once a man gave me an indoor . “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he me, “and roll it around.” The stuck 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 . At the School for the Blind I a new kind of baseball called ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my . I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made.
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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。
One of my next-door neighbors is a sweet 92-year-old Polish lady. A few days ago, I came back home from a trip. As I was my clothes in my room, I heard a(n) ,violent knock on the door. It was 10:30 pm, and I wasn’t sure who it could be. I went downstairs and the peephole（猫眼）, and saw that it was our sweet next-door neighbor.
I quickly the door, and she seemed really distressed and kept , “please help me, I need your help. The fire alarm won’t go off. Please help me.” I told her that everything would be okay, and her to her house to see what was going on the fire alarm.
She that the alarm had been going on and off inconsistently for the past two hours, and that her to call her daughter to come and fix it was fruitless. So I took a chair from her dining room table, it, and looked at the fire alarm.
After twisting the fire alarm off, I blew into it, because sometimes causes it to make strange noises. She seemed but was exactly shaking out of fear. I asked her she was okay, and she said she was , so I gave her a hug. I felt her shaking in my embrace, and held her for a few minutes until she stopped shaking and sighed a breath of relief.
We then and talked for ten minutes, until I felt that she was okay, and safe to sleep. She was so generous with for being with her, but I thanked her for me that hugs are indeed good tools! So, sometimes, a(n) hug is a good and powerful way to hold someone going through a difficult period.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。
For many, just taking part in a single marathon is the achievement of a lifetime. But for Julie Weiss, it has become a routine. She has run 52 marathons once a week-for the past year in memory of her dad who just 35 days after he was with pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌). When Julie Weiss lost her father in 2010, she was to find the research for pancreatic cancer is so short of fund. “ It made me feel .” she said, “I knew I had to do something.”
So this marathon queen, she calls herself, did what she did best; she went running. Having completed 25 marathons during the two years, Julie now vowed(发誓) to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks in of her father. After asking people to money for each marathon, she a website, marathon goddess, com, to collect money for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network(PANCAN), a nonprofit organization. Julie began her incredible with a marathon is Rome and then entered a race every in some city across North America. leaving work at 5p.m.on Friday she would be ready to begin the next race, before she home to California on Sunday. Julie finished her 1,362.4-mile journey in March 2013, more than $ 200,000 in the process for PANCAN.
While running, she stuck to a strict training schedule. “My body’s getting used to this. I’m changing my diet, becoming more healthy and learning to run more .” she said. When her muscles began to , she kept her in mind. “When you do what you love, for those you love, that is where the happen. Together we can make a(n) ,and pave the way for a happy, healthy, cancer free life.” she said.
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