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。
I had not seen my parents for a long time. Last Saturday I drove a long way to visit them, neither of them was at home. So I waited patiently at their home their return. Not seeing them made me really .
As I was walking around their bedroom, I little reminders of them. Some Christmas gifts were still in boxes. There were on the wall, which I guess must have a meaning to them. What took my breath away was seeing my dad’s emblems（徽章）from his military service of our country he was young. My father never to us about the Korean Wars. As I looked at those emblems hanging with all the photos that he treasures, I that this was an important part of his life, but I never spent the in talking with him about them. The photos of my mom with her close made me realize her life before she was my mom. I had been so running my business to raise my own family that I the chance to know about their past and experience.
We sometimes don’t realize something is for us until we have lost it, so it’s not too late for us to talk to our parents about their past. I am writing my story to everyone who is fortunate to still have their parents to invest some time to learn about them. I am grateful to have of my parents. So I still have time to talk with them. I hope that readers will from my story and find the time to talk about those things in their life that mean so much to their parents.
A．and B．but C．or D．so
A．for B．to C．of D．in
A．frightened B．embarrassed C．upset D．excited
A．sought B．took C．needed D．saw
A．kept B．folded C．hidden D．covered
A．Santa Claus B．family trees C．family photos D．old clothes
A．simple B．real C．past D．special
A．if B．when C．though D．until
A．talked B．explained C．showed D．referred
A．finally B．clearly C．proudly D．openly
A．promised B．declared C．admitted D．realized
A．courage B．time C．chance D．energy
A．friends B．teachers C．students D．children
A．strict B．eager C．busy D．blind
A．rejected B．avoided C．delayed D．missed
A．hopeful B．important C．careful D．original
A．encourage B．demand C．require D．warn
A．away B．awake C．around D．alone
A．one B．neither C．either D．both
A．make B．benefit C．change D．recover
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的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。
Joy to the World
Lights, decorations and Christmas trees filled the stores. Many people were there because Christmas was only two days away.
Thirteen-year-old Joy had just her Christmas shopping. She knew her parents, grandparents so well that finding them was a piece of cake.
Joy went out of the store and came across her classmate, Nick, the least student in school because he wore strange clothing and he had a face only a mother could love.
“What are you doing for Christmas?” said Nick with a smile that showed all his yellow teeth.
“I’m opening presents and having dinner with my ,” said Joy, trying to be polite. “What about you?”
“My parents are away,” he said. “I live with my uncle, who doesn’t like me very much.”
Joy wasn’t sure how to , so she said goodbye with an awkward smile. She felt sorry for Nick since he must feel . But that wasn’t really her problem.
On Christmas Eve, Joy’s family were busy around for the holiday. Joy’s parents were cooking in the kitchen. Joy was a child for holiday cheer, dancing the house.
After dinner, the family into their car and headed to church for the Christmas Eve service. When they walked into the old building, they were by the flow of beautiful songs. A man stood up with Bible and the story Joy had learned on her mother’s knee. It was about a baby named Jesus who came to live on Earth to help people who him.
Joy’s thoughts kept turning back to Nick. It must be to be lonely on Christmas, a day that celebrated God’s Son coming to Earth. Tears started to run down her , but she brushed them away.
Joy lay awake that night everyone else was sleeping like a baby. She was thinking ways to help Nick. As soon as she heard parents get up, she out of bed. She found them in the kitchen and told them about Nick. Then she asked, “Can we him over today?” “Sure,” said her mother, who was always happy when came. Her father smiled.
When Joy called Nick later that day, he was excited. After getting his uncle’s , he joined them for dinner. To her surprise, Joy enjoyed spending time with him.
Joy came to understand Christmas cheer is a joy to Nick, even to the whole world.
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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。
Our family raises sled dogs(雪橇狗). In ________Mom and Dad take people driving in a dog sled, and it’s super fun!
When the dogs were born, I was so ________ .That’s when I saw my favorite—little Jip. Every ________ I had, I put little Jip in my arms. I carried him around and played with him, not just because it’s fun to ________ dogs. Getting them used to human touch makes a________ sled dog, Dad says.
When Jip was eight weeks old, he got his first ________ .All he had to do was________wearing a light leash to get used to the ________ of pulling something behind him.
When he was ten weeks old, I started ________ Jip to come when he was called. It was ________ time to try out a harness（挽具）around his body. The harness can be a little heavy, ________ we left it on for just a short time each day.
________ , I put Jip ’s harness on him at mealtime. I ________ him to a heavy chair. And I placed his ________ just far enough away so that when he ate, he had to pull on the line.
The dogs________ fast! When they were four months old, we tied old shoes to their harnesses. ________ wolves, sled dogs like to run after anything that’s moving such as a rabbit. We started teaching the ________ “On by!” That means leave the rabbit alone! A sled dog must stay on the trail(路线).
Jip won’t be fully grown and ready to pull a heavy sled ________ he’s almost two years old. But now that he’s nine months old, he’s ________ enough to go on short runs with the big dogs. Dad says that maybe next winter I can ________ in the sled when Jip goes on practice runs. I can’t wait!
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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，选出最佳选项。
There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only________ in the most rare objects. One day his parents bought him a very strange________. When the boy went to see his reflection (映像) in it, he looked very ________. He tried smiling,________ his reflection continued with its sad expression.
________, the boy went off to buy sweets and lots of toys. He came home as happy as he could be, but he ________ looked sad in that mirror.
“What a(n) ________ mirror! It’s the first time I’ve seen a mirror that didn’t ________ properly!”
That afternoon he went out to buy some toys and on his way he saw a little girl who was ________. The boy went over to see what had ________ to her. The little girl said that she couldn’t find her parents.
Together the two children set off ________ them. As the little girl wouldn’t stop crying, the boy spent all of his money buying her sweets to________her up. After much walking, they________her parents who were looking for her, very worried.
Then the boy said ________ to the family. When seeing the time, he________ to head for home, without toys and without ________ In his room, to his great surprise, he found a(n) ________face in the mirror. And so he understood the ________ of that mirror. The mirror could only reflect the ________ feelings of its owner. He felt really happy at having ________ that little girl.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出一个最佳答案。
One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled(铺瓦) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is .
Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room I see is hair.” Once you’ve what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will make you happy. Then do one of the three things: Get it, replace it with a different , or forget about it and the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but remain happy.
The first is gratitude. All happy people are . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads people to becoming unhappy.
The second secret is that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious________are those pursuits that give our lives purpose—anything studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our ________ has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We ________ a spiritual faith, or a philosophy; it should this truth: if you choose to find the ________ in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is ________ your decision to make.
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完形填空
The famous composer(作曲家)，Albert Roussel，didn’t have a good start in this career. However，he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a ．
Roussel's parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his ．As a little boy，he fell in 1ove with music and himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept． which there were a lot of related books．
Three years later．Roussel’s grandfather died，and his mother’s sister decided to him．Her husband was a kind man and for young Roussel’s music lessons．One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second to his life—the sea．Then he studied to be a naval cadet(海军学员)，but still took time to study ．
In the French Navy，he and two friends found the time to a band，playing the works of Beethoven and other ．Roussel also began composing．On Christmas day 1892，he had his first chance to as a composer，which turned out to be a success．
That success Roussel to write a wedding march(婚礼进行曲)，and one of his navy friends_______to show it to a famous conductor，Edouard Colonne．When Roussel’s friend with the manuscript(手稿)，he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to his naval career and devote his life to music．
Not long ，at the age of 25，Roussel decided to Edouard Colonne’s advice．He gave his heart and soul to his composing and a major force in the twentieth century’s French music．Because of Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring ，Roussel devoted his life to music，but Rousssel’s friend later admitted that he had made it up．He said he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the famous conductor．
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