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。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are , one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say, across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lisa, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) memory for me. Lisa was one of the mobile children, from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors for 200 years.
We soon by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the where I was once so gloriously a child. It still a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk the rooms in memory. Here, my mother in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lisa attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ; where I belong. "
She has her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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完形填空
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“I failed to protect you.” That was the message posted online by Du Yijun’s boy friend. He was with the 21-year-old Fudan University student as she died in the crush of the New Year's Eve crowd on the Bund.
Du was one of the 36 people who died that night when a holiday celebration _____ into a terrible tragedy. Authorities say overcrowding and the _____ of the police to control the crowds were the main reasons why it happened.
For the last three New Year’s Eve celebrations, a light show on the Bund had ____ large crowds and a large police presence, but this year the light show was cancelled and there were fewer police on hand. But the crowds came _____. About 300,000 people were on the Bund by 8:30 that evening and more kept ______until all hell broke loose around 11:30.
For some unknown reason, on a stairway _____ up to the riverfront viewing platform, a sense of _______ overtook the crowd and they began to stampede(蜂拥).Some people ______ on the stairs and were stepped ______ to death. More lives would have been _____had it not been for a group of brave young men who urged the crowd to _____.
Crowd _____ like the one on the Bund happen all over the world and they are becoming more _____.According to one study, human stampedes have more than doubled in the past two decades. In recent years, hundreds of people have died at ____ festivals, football games and rock _____— all caught in the crush of panicked crowds.
In Shanghai, authorities have reacted to the Bund tragedy by cancelling or scaling back big events. But this isn't really necessary. Better planning and better crowd ____can ensure safe celebrations.
______, if you're going to a place where there will be a big crowd, you should take notice of where the exits are and, if the crowd becomes large, ____ away from the center. And most ______, if the crowd seems too big and makes you feel uncomfortable, just leave. No celebration is ____ losing your life.
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完形填空
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。
It was a dark, wet November morning. It seemed like it would take a million years to get to summer again. I thought bears have got it right - what a idea to sleep through the worst part of the year and wake up when spring comes!
“Want some words of encouragement?” a co-worker, seeing my mood, kindly . “You don’t think they would you up?”
“ Today ? No.” I shook my head.
“I used to think so too,” he said, “ I realized the effect my words had on a certain person. Well, it was someone I knew pretty well. I have to say I him rather badly.”
“ You? you are always so positive! How did you do that?”
“I told him I did not like anything about him, really. I told him I did not like his name. In fact, it wasn’t only what I said. I also did pretty bad things to him. When he was hungry, I did not give him the chance to eat food. When he felt like doing something fun, I said to him that having fun was not worthwhile. And worst of all, when he was sick and needed , I did not care. I told him to get up and get to work. And when he did, I never told him he did good work. I was so ashamed him,” he said. “that I wanted to him, but couldn’t.”
“But that was !”
He nodded. “Then one day it all . I stood there in front of the bathroom mirror in the morning. I saw the dark circles under his eyes. I saw the excess weight. I saw the long hair that needed . And I saw the eyes that once had looked at the world . Now they were so sad and tired. And there and then I realized he better. So I told the man I had disliked for so many years that he was a good person .”
My dropped. I looked at him, full of positive energy, in good shape, always ready to ________ others.
“Wow...”
He looked at me. “So how about having a little conversation with the bathroom mirror? The person in there has the greatest effect on you!”
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完形填空,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。
I was travelling by the West Coast Express to Mangalore two years ago. Berth (铺位) No. 55, not far from me, was taken by a middle-aged gentleman. When the _ reached Palakkad Junction around 9 pm, a large group of entered with much disturbance. Just then another middle-aged man from the group that he owned Berth 55. He had a paper given by his travel agent to support himself.
The examiner arrived and told the second man that it was not his berth. “No,” said both men. “It’s mine.” A policeman from the Railway Protection Force tried to get the second man to __. But he wouldn’t _ — and he had the support of his many .
Fierce arguments continued, even the train left Palakkad. Then someone even the emergency chain as we were leaving Tirur station, four stops after Palakkad. Nobody could and it was getting late.
around midnight, I watched as a teenager, a I’m sure, climbed down from an upper berth close to me. “Please my berth,” he told the second man, who accepted it after a bit of .
To my great surprise, the student then a newspaper on the floor and was soon lost in deep, peaceful sleep. By now everybody was as if nothing had happened! I’m a 58-year-old biology teacher who has two recent generations of students. I was once again that, contrary to popular opinions, young people can often be far than many older ones. And that’s the hope of our nation.
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完型填空
Four days ago, I was taking a taxi. On the way, I just had the stop at a store to buy something. A woman me to let her hitchhike (免费搭车).
I and picked this woman up. I thought she was too fat; she about 120kg. But she was very sweet and kind-hearted, so I didn’t .
She was talking to me while going back to her place about how she got everything for her . So I thought to myself she must have a happy family. But nothing special yet.
I got to her apartment she needed help getting all the things she got to her place. I just helped her out and while I was the stuff inside her house, I that her husband walked in from the back of the apartment. So she was talking to him in her voice, “Honey, I got you this; Honey, I got you that.” But what I came to notice was that her husband was . And then I looked close to how they were together and I knew for that moment I was seeing “TRUE ”.
They cared for each other so and what they looked like was not at all.
I was just deeply by the true love between them.
Sometimes I think about going back to the apartment and tell them what I in them and to thank them for sharing their with me, even it is for a few . I like the blind couple care about each other; it is a very happy and romantic thing.
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完型填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a famous concert. After they were seated, the mother a friend and walked over to greet her. Seizing the to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy got up and explored his way a door marked “NO ADMITTANCE（禁止进入）”. When the lights became less bright and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her and discovered that the child was missing.
Suddenly, the curtains and the lights focused on the stage. In horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
At that moment, the great piano master, Paderewski, on the stage, quickly went to the piano and in the boy’s ear, “Don’t . Keep playing.”
Then, leaning(倾斜) over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began in a bass (低音的) part. Soon his right arm reached to the other side of the child and he added a beautiful piece of music. , the old master and the boy a frightening situation into a wonderfully creative .
That’s the way it is in life. we can complete on our own is noteworthy(值得注目的). We try our best, but the aren’t exactly graceful or flowing music. when we put our trust in the hands of greater power, our life can be truly beautiful.
The next time you set to create great performances, listen carefully. You can hear the________ of the master whispering in your ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”
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