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。
People say one man’s trash(垃圾) is another man’s treasure. That________comes to me as I________the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house ________ my sister and me when he died a few months ago.
After Dad was ________ , we looked around the________ house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so ________ all the stuff left. Like so many of their generation, my parents ________ everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious ________ about what to abandon and what to keep.
As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every ________my parents ever saw, I also ________many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it, ________ her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler, ________ everything—from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the ________ . The letters he wrote during the war ________ his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I ________ our old kitchen table, which brought back ________ of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.
I'm realizing all these things ________ my parents' life journey. Each time I go to________ , I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I ________ knew. ________ , from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.
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阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项．
On a cold November afternoon，my mother and I were walking home from a ．We were dressed ．I was feeling a little as I was carrying our shopping，and decided to throw away something．So I started to walk towards a when I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us．He over to another nearby dustbin and started looking through it.
I suddenly felt very guilty because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was ．I walked up to him and handed the and some snacks（小吃）over to him．The man looked up and took what I gave him．A huge smile across his face and this me to feel indescribable satisfaction．I felt I couldn’t be happier myself．But then he said：“Wow，this is my son’s lucky day!”
With that，he thanked me happily and started off on his bike，I heard him whistling a song as he rode away．
I got a warm inside．I now understand is meant by the saying “giving is getting”．
Although it only a little action and a few words，I gained and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the month．Everyone in the world needs ，everyone can help and everyone will be helped by kindness．
The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind every I have the chance to do sething nice．
This is the of charity（慈善行为）．
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The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two ______ systems on the whole.
The ______ of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River _____ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own _____. Then in Dang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture _____ went overseas to Japan, _____ into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same ______.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was ______ on the Mesopotamian Plain ---- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known ______ the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also ______ waters. When the colonists(殖民者) of England _____ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't _______ from the European one a lot.
At the same time, the difference of the language systems _______ the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, ______ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no _____ with the other.
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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)
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。
When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage（孤儿院）and taught us how to do woodworking projects.
I remember my first project—a small table. I was so ____ of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an) _____ . It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to ______it. I could hardly wait to give it to Mother Winters as a _____. She was the head mistress of our orphanage, who was always _____ with us.
As the tables were not dry from the clear coating, the man told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. But I was just so ____and happy that I couldn’t wait. I dashed out like a ______ , carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was _____it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand _____ it, she noticed that it was still wet.
“Were you ______to bring this home?” she asked.
“No, ma’am,” I _____ with my head down.
She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately opened the door to get it back. There was _____stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but it would not come off.
I hid the table in my closet and never _____it. A year later while cleaning up, I gave the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent（宿管员）, thinking that she would _____it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I ____that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her_____ to get something important. I followed her _____ into a dark corner. She picked something up. _____she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.
Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of _____to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to _____ .
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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。
I have been driving for over 30,years, but I can remember what happened that day when I drove a car for the-first time．My mom had driven our big Plymouth to a and deserted back road and parked it．
The road was only one lane（车道）and had a wall built with river rocks along the side of it Mom knew there was little chance of meeting any on it that day．With a smile, she gave me the key and _ ． seats with me．And then she told me to start the car, to petit into drive and to 46 push on the gas pedal．In my , though, l miscalculated what " gentle "meant．After I pushed on the gas pedal, the car sped forward． I could turn the wheel, I heard the ;scraping c副擦声） of metal the stone wall．I stopped the car and looked over at my Mom．Her face was pale and her hand’s were _．Slowly, she opened her _ and started checking the car. Then she walked _ around the car to the driver's side door．I kept waiting for her to me but she just and said, “Well, that’s enough for today. We’ll try again tomorrow.”
As I looked and on that day. I am amazed at the amount of kindness, love and my Mom showed me. In the years that followed, I many times in many ways．Often I didn't feel worthy to be , but each time I could feel Mom's gentle voice, "We'll try again tomorrow," When we fall today, don't down．Rise up and be to try again tomorrow．
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Less is more. This is why we say reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junks instead of piling them up, slow down instead of .
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have that you didn’t even know you had. The pressure at work is on the rise. In the past, the expectations were among all the family members. But now, in the family, the expectations are now concentrated on the individual(个体) partner. If you feel 24 hours per day are not enough, it is not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. The is very simple: Refuse to accept so much work. People tend to forget that one who can deal with stress well is given more work—until one day he .
Pay careful attention to the that tell you that you are under more stress than you can handle. They may come from various areas of life. You weak, or your work efficiency decreases. If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and reduce some work.
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Once upon a time a teacher and his student down under a big tree near the big grass area．Then suddenly the student asked the teacher，“Teacher，I’m puzzled．How do we our soul mate(知己)?Could you please help me?”
Silent for a few seconds，the teacher then answered，“Well，it’s a pretty hard and easy question．” The teacher ，“Look that way．There is a lot of grass．Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk ．On your way，try to find a blade(叶片)of beautiful grass and it and then give it to me．But just one．”
The student said OK and then he walked straight ahead to the grassy field．A few minutes later，the student came back empty-handed．When the teacher asked the ,the student said，“On my journey，I found quite a few beautiful blades of grass，but I that I would find a better one，so I didn’t pick it．But I didn’t realize that I was at the of the field，and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back，so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said，“That’s what will happen in real life．”
What is the of this story? In the story，grass is the people around you；the beautiful blade grass is the people that you and the grassy field is time．In looking for your soul mate，please don’t always and hope that there will be a better one．By doing that，you’ll your lifetime．Remember “Time Never Goes Back．”
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We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that’s life. It’s a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!
positive through the cold season could be your best against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a sunny characteristic were less likely to ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness increasing immune(免疫的) function and subjective as in happy people being less by a scratchy throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have different immune to the virus,” explained the lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may their illness as being less severe.”
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional tendency itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality tendency, health-consciousness and emotional “style”. Those who be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, those who were often unhappy, tense and unfriendly had a negative style. The researchers gave them drops through their noses either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the reported on any aches, pains, sneezing they had, while the researchers collected data, like daily mucus(黏液) production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes(鼻部的不适), happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
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Dad was not only my best friend, but my compass (指南针)．While he was alive, he ____ me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important ____：“Believe in yourself.”
If there was one phrase my dad ____ liked to hear, it was “I can't.” He did not have chance to finish high school and ____ two jobs to support his large family, ____ he never complained. Through self-education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.
When I was in high school, I had a ____ time with math. He tried to help me, but I ____ struggled. So my math teacher suggested I meet with him at 7：00 each morning before school for ____ help. I told Dad, “That's ____！ I'm tired! I can't do that！” He replied, “You're doing it. I'll send you to school.” Every morning at 6：45, we'd leave the ____.Despite (尽管) working 12 hours every day, Dad never once ____ driving me to school.
After months of ____， I was facing the final exam. I was so ____.On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke, ____ yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my ____ and in the hours of work I'd ____.When I got my ____ proudly, the first person I called was my father. He cried, “Yes! You deserved it！”
Even now, whenever I ____ that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how ____something is, if you're willing to work, you can succeed. I'm forever ____ to Dad for that lesson.
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I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was and my stepmother had us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no _ what to do with me. And that’s when my other family .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I with them for the next seven years.
Barbara washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. I could tell, for the Beaches there was no between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _ his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely __ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
the Beaches, I would have bee a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed(使麻痹，瘫痪) by my _ , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
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第一节：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。
Imagine being born without arms. No arms to hug someone, and no hands to touch. Or what about being born without legs? Having no to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. Now put both of those scenes together: no arms and no legs. How would that one’s everyday life?
Without any medical explanation, Nick Vujicic came into the world with neither arms nor legs. Imagine the his parents felt when they saw their baby being what the world would consider imperfect and . Little did they know that this beautiful limbless baby would one day be someone who would and motivate people from all walks of life.
Throughout his childhood Nick dealt with the of self-respect, and struggled with depression and . As Nick grew up he learned to deal with his and started to be able to do more and more things on his own. He to his situation and found ways to tasks that most people could only do by using their limbs, such as cleaning teeth, hair, typing on a computer, etc. As time , Nick began to eagerly accept his and achieve greater things.
Nick got a double bachelor’s degree in accounting and financial planning. By the age of 19, Nick had started to his dream of encouraging others by sharing his story through speaking. He found the purpose of his . Now at 27 years old, he has accomplished more than most people. He has travelled around, his story with millions of people. He is a true inspirational and motivational .
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第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
My daughter is a single parent. She works hard to ______ for herself and her three young sons. She budgets carefully and ______ to plan for the little luxuries (奢侈品) and treats that others take for granted. When her eldest son, David, wanted a _____ so that he could do an after-school newspaper delivery job, she ______ and soon, he was the proud ______ of a good second-hand bike.
One afternoon, my daughter asked David to go to a local shop. He rode his bicycle, ______ foolishly left it outside the shop without ______ it up. When David came out of the shop, it was______. He walked home in ______ and then, together with his frustrated mother, went to the local police station to report the ______.
Imagine their ______ when they arrived at the station: a car parked out front had David’s bike wedged (挤进) in its boot (汽车后部的行李箱). The ______ told them how he’d seen a group of kids _____ the bike once my grandson had gone inside the shop.
The driver – in his late teens himself – had called out to them to “leave that bike ______!” Despite this, one member of the group ______ on the bicycle and rode it away while the others followed. Not to be ______, the teen got in his car, drove after them and ______ that they give the stolen bike back.
He was happy to be able to _____ it to my grandson together with a lecture (echoed by the policeman and his mother) about the silliness of _____ to use the bike lock. _____, in all the excitement, he slipped away, without even giving them his name or telephone number.
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At just 18 years old, Canberra student Lochie Ferrier has already conducted research in a frontier field — aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering is the primary of engineering concerned with the science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
In 2014, he was one of 80 high school students worldwide who a six-week science and engineering program at MIT. During the program, he was by the institute’s scientists, and developed a method to identify inactive satellites. This method, called OASIS, is designed a way to help manage space debris(碎片), which operating satellites.
“One solution to this problem is a robot that can gather pieces of space debris and store them in orbit，” he says. “These pieces could be to new satellites later, thus the costs and launch weights of new satellites.” However, satellite identification technology would be needed for this solution, and that’s what Lochie is working on. “I hope this method would be put into practice in the near future, in the next 10 years,” he says.
Lochie has made the of the Young Innovators category of the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards with his OASIS. This category is open to students aged 21 years or and carries a $ 5,000 prize. If he won, he would use the money to help fund research into OASIS. “My plan for using the money would be to try to use materials which could stand up to the environment of space,” he says.
He is also considering how to the technology to organizations such as NASA and satellite manufacturers.
Lochie’s in aerospace engineering was aroused by the big dish antenna(碟形天线）at NASA’s tracking station near Canberra，which he visited in his early teens. He said his software design and development teacher at Canberra Grammar School him, too. “He taught me valuable project management and skills which I applied to OASIS.”
Lochie has been attending Canberra Grammar School and will soon exams for admission to universities. He his time between schoolwork, his personal projects such as OASIS and the development of apps, rock climbing, and playing classical violin. The teenager is well on his way to realizing his sky-high ambition.
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Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970，when the average age of independent living was ? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures (花销）not 36 higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of today’s kids so poor when with that of children in the 1960s and before? Why do today’s become defensive when told by teachers that their children have misbehaved in school?
The answer in two words: parental . Those two words best summarize the between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Then, the overall philosophy was that parents were not to be involved with their kids. They were available crisis, but they stood a (an) distance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process. It was the child’s , back then, to keep his or her parents from getting involved. That was children learned to be responsible and determined.
Today’s parents help their kids with almost everything. These are parents who are when it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids’ lives. Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids; , the defensiveness. But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades, the confusion and defensiveness are .
University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parent participation in children’s academics. Their conclusions what I’ve been saying since the 1980s: parental help with homework a child’s academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests.
Parents who manage a child’s social life interfere with the of good social skills. Parents who manage a child’s after-school activities grow kids who don’t know how to their own free time. Parents who get involved in their kids, with peers grow kids who don’t know how to avoid much less trouble.
These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don’t want to leave their . And their parents, when the time comes, don’t know how to being parents. You can imagine what will become of their fu ture.
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Gandi wanted so badly to help the world that he devoted himself to removing self-interest out of his heart and mind, leaving them pure, healthy, and free to love. It took him nearly twenty years to gain such control of his process.
When in South Africa, Gandi would sometimes walk fifty miles a day and only a few hours a night. into his seventies Gandi wrote hundreds of letters every week; when his right hand became , he learns to write with his left. Once, while he was writing a letter, the lantern giving light , in which case most of us would have and gone to bed, Gandi, knowing his timely reply would be particularly to those who had written to him, went and finished writing by moonlight. If asked to live like this, we would say,“Impossible！”Gandi would , “Oh, no. It’s possible, when your mind is flooded with 46 for all.”
Late in Gandi’s a Western journalist asked, “Mr. Gandi, you’ve been fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don’t you ever taking a few weeks off and going for a vacation?” Gandi laughed and said, “Why? I’m on vacation.” This world-famous figure, who could have been prime minister of India and one of the richest men in Asia, announced he wasn’t on becoming rich or famous. He wanted something far – to place all his talents, resources, time, and energy in a trust for the world.
“You needn’t be if you’ve made mistakes. Just continue to try your . If you fall, pick yourself up and march on. If you cannot run, walk. If you cannot walk, crawl. The alone brings a continuing wave of joy in which every personal problem and every suffering is forgotten.” said Gandi.
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