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On my way to work every day, I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular my attention. It must have suffered some . Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be . It was a reminder to me that I may not have had the best start in life, I could change in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was busy. After that week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I drove by “my” tree, I glanced over, and much to my , I found a sawed-off stump (树桩) where that tree had stood. I had my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too .
What have you been putting off? What would you do today if you knew you would have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow?
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第二部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to participate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making all sorts of new and friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was , nothing about my term in France was what I .
The moment I arrived in Paris, I was by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting I received some shocking news from my program coordinator（协调人）; there had been a death in my host parents' extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to out of one family's house and into another. The exchange coordinator told me I'd have a this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation（诱惑） to my native language, I asked not to be with an English-speaking roommate. When I got to my new room, I myself to my new roommate Paolo, a Brazilian（巴西人）, the same age as I, whom I was surprised to find playing one of my favorite CDs! In just a few hours, we knew we'd be good friends for the rest of the .
I left France with many , so when people ask me what my favorite part of the trip was, they are always to hear me talk about my Brazilian friend Paolo and the scores of weekdays in class, weeknights on the town, and weekends France we enjoyed together. I love how people seem so different, but end up being so . The most valuable lesson I gained from studying in France wasn't just to respect the foreign people to respect all people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away. I would recommend an exchange program to anyone who wants to experience foreign cultures and gain meaningful .
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Check Engine Light
As I turned from the parking lot, heading for home, I noticed a yellow light on my dashboard(仪表板)had come on. The symbol indicated that I was to the engine. I noted the water temperature and the oil light quickly to see there were problems that would an overheated engine. Noticing these two gauges (仪表) were okay, I I could ignore the little yellow light that caused such great for at least the moment.
After I reread my owner manual(用户手册), I the check engine light comes on to indicate that there is a problem and that is required. Malfunctions（故障）will often be indicated by the before any problem appears, which may more serious damage to the vehicle. This system is to assist you and your technician in diagnosing any malfunction.
Reading the manual made me think of how we need in our lives to be our “check engine light”. We need to know when a(n) occurs and when service is required in our lives. We need to correct our problems before serious damage surfaces. We need a light to in our minds to help us avoid conflict, pain or disaster. We need a(n) to come on to tell us not to give in to temptation. We need to be that we shouldn’t ignore good and work to make life better for all of us.
God makes a magnificent “check engine light”. He gives you an awareness to keep your pathway . He shows you the beauty of the earth to you to him. He brings people who care about you to help your living. He has provided his word to point the . No one can deny there are many helpful people like “God” around you to lead your pathway from the problems that could damage your living.
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If you want to learn a new language, the very first thing to think about is why. Do you need it for a reason, such as your job or your studies? ________ perhaps you’re interested in the ________ , films or music of a different country and you know how much it will help to have a ________ of the language.
Most people learn best using a variety of ________ , but traditional classes are an ideal（理想的）start for many people. They ________ an environment where you can practice under the ________ of someone who’s good at the language. We all lead ________ lives and learning a language takes 39 . You will have more success if you study regularly, so try to develop a________ . It doesn’t matter if you haven’t got long. Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes ________ .
Many people start learning a language and soon give up. “I’m too ________ ,” they say. Yes, children do learn languages more________ than adults, but research has shown that you can learn a language at any ________. And learning is good for the health of your brain, too. I’ve also heard people ________about the mistakes they make when ________. Well, relax and laugh about your mistakes ________ you’re much less likely to make them again.
Learning a new language is never ________ . But with some work and devotion, you’ll make progress. And you’ll be ________ by the positive reaction of some people when you say just a few words in ________ own language. Good luck!
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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。
You may not realize it, but you are doing much more than just studying when you are at school. School is also the place ____you socialize and learn to get along with people. But this is ___easy. What can you do ____you just don't like one of your classmates?
If you discover that you have problems ____your classmates or friends, the most important thing to learn is tolerance. Tolerance is the ____to recognize and respect the ____in others. We cannot change the way that other people act, ____it is important to learn to live happily with them.
Practicing tolerance will allow everyone to form better ____with each other. Getting to know someone may help you ____ why they do things ____from you. It is important to remember that just because something is different does not mean that it is bad. ____ teaches us to keep an even temper and open mind.
One thing to ____is the old saying, "Treat others how you want ____". You would like to be treated kindly by your classmates, so it is ____to treat them with equal kindness. If you tolerate____, it does not mean that you have to like it. No one is asking you to ____who you are or what you believe in. Tolerance just means that you will be ____of the differences in others and not try to make them change.
It is important to _____tolerance because it will make everyone's lives easier. Learn to ____people for their different abilities and interests. The world is a very ____place, and practicing tolerance in your own school and city can help make a difference.
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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。
Two excited kids begged their father for his permission to see a film. Having read some
________ about the movie on the Internet, he firmly ________ their request with the reason that movie presents immorality (不道德) as being ________ . “But dad, those scenes are merely a few minutes of the ________ film, in which good ________ evil eventually. In addition, there are other ________ themes like courage and determination making up for its ________!”
But the father didn’t ________ , and the two teenagers were cast down. Then they heard the sounds of their father preparing something in the ________ . One of the teenagers said, “Dad must be feeling ________ , and now he’s trying to ________ us with some tasty food.” Soon their father appeared with a plate of warm cakes and said, “Before you eat, I want to tell you something: I love you both so much.”
The teenagers smiled and ________ with each other knowing glances. Dad was softening. Looking at the mouth-watering cake, the two boys were getting ________ about the father’s long speech. “But I want to be ________ with you. I added one ingredient (配料) that is not________ found in cakes.”
“To make it more delicious? Oh, come on, Dad! Please just tell us what it is.”
“OK, if you ________. That ________ ingredient is dog waste.”
Both teens ________ stopped chewing the cake, spit it out and dropped the ________ cake back on the plate.
“DAD! Why did you do that?”
“That is the same reason why I won’t allow you to watch that movie. You won’t________ a little dog waste in your cake, so why should you put up with a little immorality in your movies?”
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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。
There are no ocean waves in St. Louis. We have to drive a long way to get to the ocean. Every summer we put our stuff and ourselves into the car and drive 1,000 miles to reach Vero Beach, Florida.
Once we get there, it’s all about at the beach. I’ve wanted to be a for a long time. My mom used to surf when she lived in Florida during college. I my mom to let me surf, and she promised to find a surfing for me. He found me instead.
One day when my mom was taking an old surfboard to a surf shop for , a surfer the door open for her and helped her carry the board inside. They started and she learned he’s a surfing . My mom asked him if he had any working with people with disabilities. He did and told her he would love to work with me. That’s how I my friend, Coach Bill Bolton, in 2014.
First Coach Bill taught me the pop-up. I had so much fun surfing with Coach Bill in 2014, I didn’t make it to on the board.
When we went to Florida this summer, I had more surfing with Coach Bill. We worked hard on the sand and in the water. On our third day together we our surfboards out past a sand bar where small waves were . I came close to standing each time, and on the last of the day I got up on my feet and stayed up! I was so ! So was Coach Bill.
We went to the same surfing spot the next day. Guess what! I so many times and rode wave after wave. Coach Bill called me a “surf goddess”. It was one of the days ever! I hope my story you to go surfing or to try something new. I know you can do it.
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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 day, as I was getting into my car, a woman stopped beside me and asked if I was going north. I wasn’t I asked her where she wanted to go. She told me that she had her bus and had to walk. I her to get in and said I would be happy to take her.
As I started , I thought to myself, “I am not in a ,” so I asked the lady what her ________destination was. She was going to work and was running . So I told her that I would ________ to drive her to work so that she wouldn’t be late! “I can’t you are doing this,” she said. “This is such a ________ gift. I just moved here three weeks ago and you are so ________ !”
As we near the office ________ where she worked, I ________ she put her hand into her bag for something. I asked her what she was ________ . She said, “I must have ________ my lunch bag at home.” I had just bought my ________ . “Here’s a lunch,” I said as I gave her a ________ and handed her my bag from the back seat.
She gave me a hug as she got out of the ________ . She said, “My husband died a few months ago and this is a sign that things will be ________ for me. Thank you.” I drove back home with my ________ singing and a big smile on my face!
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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。
At the end of 2014, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sixthgrade teacher Melissa Bour received a friend ____ on Facebook from one of her students. She didn’t accept the request, but a quick browse through the girl’s friends list revealed the names of dozens of kids from her ____. Many of the students’ Facebook pages were completely ____， meaning even strangers could ____ the kids’ personal photos and messages.
“I saw middle fingers, students dressed inappropriately, and extremely ____ language，” Melissa says. “It was ____．” When she brought up her ____ in class, the students were not ____ at all. So she created a ____ of her own. With a bright green marker pen, she wrote on a piece of paper: “Dear Facebook: my 12yearold students think it is ‘no ____’ that they are posting pictures of themselves... Please help me show them how ____ their images can get around.” She put a picture of the letter on her Facebook page and asked people to ____ it.
In hours, it was shared 108，000 times across dozens of states and four countries. She ____ it after eight hours, but it continued to spread. “I wanted to ____ them that it’s on the Internet forever，” she says.
As she explained the results of her ____ in class, the students’ eyes got bigger and bigger. “It scared a few of them into deleting their pages ____，” she says. Others have removed inappropriate posts and used privacy settings to ____ their pages.
Her ____ wasn’t to scare them off social media but to push them to be ____ of what they post. Melissa says, “I tell them, ‘It doesn’t ____ you have to just because everyone else is sharing.’”
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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。
Several times my daughter Carolyn had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils (黄水仙) ________ they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a long drive from my home. “ I will come next Tuesday，” I ________ , a little hesitantly, on her third call.
Next Tuesday I drove there. When I finally ________ Carolyn’s house and hugged my grandchildren, I said, “________ the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the fog, and there is ________ in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive ________ inch！”
My daughter smiled and said, “You will never forgive yourself if you ________ the chance of seeing the beautiful flowers.”
So we drove there. After twenty minutes on the highway we ________onto a small road and I saw a small church. There we got out of the car. I ________Carolyn down the path. As I turned a ________ of the path, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious ________ . There were five acres of flowers. It looked ________ someone had taken ________ gold and poured it down ________ the mountain peak and slopes.
“Who planted all these?” I asked Carolyn.
“It’s ________ one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn ________ a cottage .We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a ________ .
There it was: “ The Daffodil Principe:1. 50,000 bulbs(球茎). 2. One at a time, by one woman. 3. ________ in 1958.”
For me that moment was a life-changing ________.I thought of this woman whom I had ________ met and who had begun one bulb at a time to bring the beauty and joy to an unknown mountaintop.
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阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项
My friend Kenny and his family had just returned from Disney World. “I saw a sight I’ll ________ forget,” he said. “I want you to know about it.”
He and his family were ________ Cinderella’s(灰姑娘)castle. It was packed with kids and parents. Suddenly all the children rushed to one ________ . If it had been a boat, the castle would have tipped over. Cinderella had ________ .
Kenny said she was a beautiful young girl with each hair________, white skin, and a sweet smile. She stood in the garden of ________ , each wanting to touch and to be touched.
For some reason Kenny ________ and looked toward the other side of the castle. There was a boy who might be seven or eight years old. His ________ was hard to determine because of his height. Dwarfed(侏儒)in height, he stood ________ quietly, holding the hand of an older brother.
It was very ________ that he wanted to be with the children. He ________ to be in the middle of the kids reaching for Cinderella. But can’t you feel his ________ of being turned down? Fear of being laughed at again?
But Cinderella ________ the little boy. She immediately began walking in his direction. ________ but firmly inching through the crowd of children, she became ________ . She walked quickly across the floor, bent down and placed a ________ on his face.
“I thought you would ________ the story,” Kenny told me. I did. It________ me of the one you and I had heard of before. The names are ________ , but isn’t the story almost the same? In both cases a gift was given. In both cases love was ________ . In both cases the lovely one performed a gesture beyond words.
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Whenever we do something wrong, Jesus Christ sees it. He loves us and doesn’t say it. Perhaps he’s wondering how long we’ll keep our mind suffering. A little boy named Johnny was visiting his grandparents on their farm and he was given a slingshot(弹弓) to play with out in the woods. He for some time but he could never hit the target he had set for himself. Getting a little , he walked back to the farmhouse for dinner. As he was _ back, he saw Grandpa’s pet duck. Just out of , he let the slingshot fly , hitting it in the head ,and killed it. In a panic, he the dead duck in the woodpile, only to see his sister Sally be watching him. Sally had seen all this, but she said _ _ . After lunch that day Grandma said, “Sally, it’s your turn to wash the dishes.” But Sally said, “Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen.” And then she spoke _ to him, “Remember the duck？” So Johnny did the dishes. Later that day, Grandpa asked if wanted to go fishing, but Grandma said, “I’m sorry but I need Sally to help me make supper.” But Sally just smiled and said, “Well, that’s all right because Johnny told me he was too to help you. And she whispered again, “Remember the duck?” So Sally went fishing and Johnny to help make supper. After several days of doing both his and Sally’s, Johnny finally couldn’t it any longer. He came to his Grandma and told her that he had killed the duck .Grandma smiled and gave him a big __ . “Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was watering the flowers at the window I saw you shoot my duck with the slingshot, and I saw the whole thing. But because I love you, I you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally _ of you.”
In reality, no matter how __ or how uncomfortable it is to admit our wrongdoing, we should always choose to it and work it through instead of running away from it. Hard as it is, it us and makes us who we are.
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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，选出可以填入的空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
It happens every day，everywhere I go．At the supermarket and the post office，people keep telling me to enjoy my kids while they are________ I spend my days taking care of them and answering________ questions about everything from why we have two eyes but one nose to ________there are toilets in the heaven．They ________ me from eating a full meal or getting a full ________ sleep．
Yet，the other day，when I took my kids to a children’s museum，I began to ________what people were trying to tell me．It was the ________ time we had gone there without diaper(纸尿片)bag，baby bottle or stroller(小推车)．As 1 watched my sons paint there，I was suddenly ________ by a wave of ________ My babies weren’t babies any more．
Now I’m paying more attention to the________ that won’t happen when my kids are________ I'm enjoying the minute when Christ looked up the sky and cried________ “Wow! The moon!”In a few ________，it will take a rare Shrek card or something else to get him that excited．I’m________the moment when Nicholas put down his fork at dinner and asked，“Mommy，how are you doing?’’About ten years from now，he ________ not care about me．When they’re in primary school，they won’t want to hold my________any more．In junior high school，they won’t hug me and say，“I love you，too．”In high school，they won’t even want to be ________ together with me．
Pre ________ they’11 both be gone．And I’11________ through the supermarket and the post office alone，warning young ________ to enjoy their kids while they are little．Hope they’11 listen．
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
It had been a nice and sunny day. I stepped slowly towards the edge of the cliff and looked out. The was wonderful. I could the gentle wind coming from the coast while watching the brilliant sunset.
My dad and I used to enjoy the sunset together on that very . We would also watch the waves crash into the below. My mother would always annoy us how it was. I was never worried,________ I always felt safe next to my father, who spent most of his life out in his boat.
I remember one time on his boat；I had off the back and into the cold water accidentally. My dad immediately jumped off to me. I would never forget that day, and from that point I knew would prevent my dad protecting me if I was in danger.
As I there on top of the cliff, I remembered the times I spent with my dad. I looked down sorrowfully at the urn (骨灰瓮) . My father was my rock, someone I could when I needed him most. But now he was gone, and I felt sorrowful and .
It had always been my father’s last to have his ashes scattered out at sea. I the urn, said a farewell (告别) and then slowly twisted off the lid. The wind started to change , blowing out towards the sea. I looked last time down at my father’s ashes and then for a moment, I scattered the contents out over the cliff.
I wiped away a tear, but it was perfect happiness rather than sadness, because I finally knew the man who so much to me, my father, was finally at peace.
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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。
I sat in the chair reflecting on the past year. At that time, my Charley came into the room. Charley took one look at my face and she could I was off in another world. Charley said, “You have that on your face! Tell me what you were ”. “Well, Charley,” I replied, “I was listening to a song on the radio that asked you have done over the last year. When I on the year, I’ve realized I have had such good fortune, with a few bumps (碰撞) along the way.”
Charley immediately asked, “Tell me about the three things that you the most during this year.”
I sat thinking if I had to only three things that influenced me, what would they be? After a few minutes, I said, “OK, here are the three things that influenced me the most: My family. Throughout the year I had many , but my family were always there support and encouragement. My friends. Over the years I have my dreams and my goals with my friends. Some goals I have and other goals I have not. friends like you always supported and me. My colleagues. I have worked with some people over the last year. I have been very to have the opportunity to work with these excellent people over the last year.”
Charley smiled and said, “Do you realize that everything you have said has one thing in ?”
“What are you saying, Charley?” I asked.
She replied, “Neither the material things in your life, nor your job has had the most meaning in your life. It is the people in your life that have made the biggest in your life!”
I smiled. Material things are not , and while our jobs provide the means of existence for us, the important things in life are the people who touched our lives.
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