阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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 my family moved to Ohio over the summer, I feared attending another new school and knowing no one because I was able to expect what was coming. I had bright red hair and enormous glasses. In addition, I was and not very sociable. Boarding the school bus that first day, I felt like all eyes on me. I could hear the “She’s huge!” Obviously, the kids on the bus had known each other well. I spent that first bus in silence.
The following day was even . I did not notice that a few boys had tied a shoelace across the aisle(走道) and thus fell face first on the bus, everything I was carrying. I was embarrassingly gathering my supplies, I could hear the laughter, and then the “That felt like an earthquake!” Anyway, I to find a seat. Looking out of the window, I the tears welling up in my eyes.
It was then that I sank into myself. I began walking everywhere. I would wander through the woods behind our house. I would also walk to a about two miles down the road, where I would chat silently with God. I began the afternoon school bus , walking home instead. Then, , I started losing weight. And as I became _______ with myself, I began making friends.
One of my newly-found friends also with her weight, wanting to be a “perfect” cheerleader. She lived near my neighborhood so we would meet and together. This became a daily routine with talking and laughing the way — different from the lonely walks I had taken. My friend said that I didn't have to be . I just had to be me, and be happy with myself.
While I would not want to relive that time of loneliness, sadness and embarrassment, I am I made it through. Whenever I am struggling with any other problem in life, I always remember the proverb “This too shall pass.” If you can find a path with no obstacles or challenges, it probably doesn’t anywhere.
A．outgoing B．intelligent C．overweight D．friendly
A．whistles B．whispers C．screams D．laughs
A．ride B．lift C．drive D．travel
A．duller B．longer C．funnier D．worse
A．missing B．losing C．dropping D．leaving
A．While B．Though C．Since D．Because
A．arguments B．comments C．statements D．discussions
A．determined B．attempted C．managed D．pretended
A．kept away B．took back C．put away D．held back
A．garden B．church C．market D．library
A．escaping B．stopping C．delaying D．missing
A．on purpose B．by chance C．in reality D．at ease
A．uninterestedly B．uncertainly C．unexpectedly D．unfortunately
A．concerned B．content C．angry D．disappointed
A．struggled B．competed C．dealt D．lived
A．run B．study C．walk D．play
A．along B．across C．by D．in
A．thin B．perfect C．sociable D．pessimistic
A．excited B．upset C．regretful D．proud
A．lead B．stretch C．exist D．stay
Several years ago a young teacher took a bus to the school where he worked. When he sat down, he that the driver had given him twenty pence too much change by accident. As he what to do, he thought to himself, “I’d better give the twenty pence back. It would be to keep it. ”
Then he thought, “Oh, it, it’s only twenty pence. Who would care about this little amount? , the bus company already gets too much in fares; they will 41 miss it. it as a gift, and keep quiet. These days I have been very because of bad health and I hope the gift can cheer me up.”
When he arrived at his , the teacher paused (暂停) at the door, then he the twenty pence to the driver and said: “Here, you gave me too much .”
The driver smiled and replied: “Don’t you me? I took your science class last year. I am a part-time driver here. I I had given you twenty pence too much. Later I thought why not a joke on you. I just wanted to what you would do I gave you too much change.”
When the young teacher the bus, his knees became weak. He had to catch the nearest street lamp pole (杆) for , and looked up to the sky and cried:
“Oh, I almost lost my , and didn’t pass the !”
A．hoped B．discovered C．regretted D．pretended
A．explained B．discussed C．considered D．knew
A．wrong B．true C．easy D．clever
A．believe B．avoid C．throw D．forget
A．Instead B．Therefore C．Anyhow D．However
A．never B．ever C．forever D．always
A．Bring B．Accept C．Show D．Offer
A．unhappy B．free C．strange D．angry
A．home B．school C．stop D．office
A．introduced B．posted C．lent D．returned
A．change B．help C．time D．confidence
A．find B．doubt C．remember D．refuse
A．realized B．expected C．decided D．admitted
A．hear B．share C．tell D．play
A．ask B．see C．prove D．understand
A．unless B．because C．if D．though
A．ran for B．waited for C．got on D．got off
A．pleasure B．support C．fun D．break
A．face B．sense C．money D．way
A．lesson B．chance C．risk D．test
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
TWIST OF FATE
On March 23, 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died of a gunshot wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-storey building, to commit suicide.
As he past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him . Neither the shooter nor the dead was aware that a safety net had been installed just the eighth floor level to the building workers and that Ronald Opus failed to complete his the way he had planned.
The room on the ninth floor was by an elderly man and his wife. They were , and the husband was threatening his wife with a shotgun. The old man was so that when he pulled the trigger (扳机), he completely missed his wife, and the went through the window, Mr. Opus. One intends to kill subject “A” but kills subject “B” in the attempt.
When faced with the murder charge, the said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded. The old man said it was a long-standing to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun and that he had no intention to murder her. , the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is to say, it was assumed that the gun had been accidentally loaded. The continuing investigation turned up a who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.
The case now becomes the murder of Ronald Opus the old couple’s son’s part. Further investigation revealed that the son was, , Ronald Opus. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son’s financial and the son, knowing the inclination of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. Later, he became increasingly despondent (意志消沉的) over the failure of his attempt to the murder of his mother and then he jumped off the building, only to be killed by the shot.
The truth about the matter had come to light, the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
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阅读下面的短文，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。
A good friend of mine passed away in June. John had cancer. Before you offer , you should know that he didn’t want to be mourned(哀悼). It’s been a hard request to follow, but he felt he had lived a life. As the cancer progressed, we fell into a(n) of exchanging semi-regular emails. We generally talking about his illness until the very end, we talked about everything else: from baseball to snowstorms, to my garden and his art. We talked as if nothing would . I’d mention a beach trip and John would tell me about surfing there when he was younger. I’d talk about some press(新闻) that I would be attending and he’d tell me about the time he went to a party by JPMorgan’s descendants(后代). In this way, John gave me a(n) view of my world; it became layered with his stories.
One of our favorite things to do was email the other if we happened to find an interesting movie on television. The other night, I a very good movie, and without thinking about it I for my laptop to send him an email, and then I he wasn’t there to receive it. I put my laptop down with a small of uneasiness --- and found something else to watch.
It’s hard not to have a digital presence today. While John wasn’t an active social media ,he did have at least two email addresses, a LinkedIn account, and a website where he shared his art. Now that he’s , these thing still exist, though unattended. I’m sure his work email has been closed, but I have no idea if anyone is his other email address, or has the intention of contacting LinkedIn, or has to his website. I’m sure at some the registration will come to an end and his site will be closed, but until then, John has a(n) online.
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阅读下面的短文，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。
Times were tough in our household.My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything for him.In addition to going to nursing school full-time,1 was working three part-time jobs to put food on the table for our family of five.
After a rather__ meal one night,I answered the ringing phone. With no ,a voice asked,’’Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.”Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our situation. It was up to us to decide whether we a voice on the telephone.
1 was desperate. With food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a ?When I uneasily got to a ranch home as ,I found there was no car in the garage. ,lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy （轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman me, not much different than our phone conversation!’’Look around. If you see what you want,_ yourself.”'He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same .This couldn't be real!
I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what we needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man.。’Be here next week. You’ll of the food by then “was his reply,
Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for items and canned goods from local grocery stores and folks like us who had fallen on hard times.
I never knew what our weekly menus would be I had “shopped" in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.
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阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1-20 各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Harpinder Kaur was stuck in a dead-end job, but “ a chance meeting with a man on a bus in Bradford everything”, she tells James Grey, a for the Moonlight City Newspaper.
Harpinder will forget the first day she worked as a court interpreter. “There was a murder trial at Leeds Crown Court two years ago,” she says. “There were about 40 lawyers and about 80 other people in the . so I was really .
Harpinder had been called into court to the testimonies(证词) of the defendants（被告）. Until then, Harpinder had been working as a teacher of English as a second language in Leeds, and had been , very gradually, to move into a career as a translator. Her on that day taught her how to deal with a new condition without getting any advice or support.
“It was a(n) day, but I think I did pretty well,” she says, “At first I that I couldn’t do it.” Then I thought, “This is part of my job. These people my help, and I can’t just say that I don’t want to do it.”
Harpinder doesn’t always enjoy what she does, and most of her work in courtrooms, police stations and immigration centres. It doesn’t whether she sympathises with the situation her clients are in, or believes they are or guilty: her role is to the precise meaning of their words.
“So, what made you a career as an interpreter?” asked James Grey. “One day, when I was still teaching, I met a man on a bus a Chinese dictionary. When I asked him why, he told me he was planning to move China and needed to understand the to understand the people. It made me I wasn’t using the languages that I spoke. When I got home I telephoned a career office. And an adviser I try interpreting. That’s how it all began.”
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