Recently I gave my adult students homework. It was to "go to someone you love and tell them you love them. It has to be someone you have  36  said those words to before or at least haven't  37  those words with for a long time. "

       Since most of the men were over 35 and were raised in the  38  of men that were taught  39  feelings is not "manly", this was very  40  homework for some.

       In our next  41 , I asked if someone wanted to share his story with us. I fully _42 one of the women to volunteer, as was  43  the case, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand. As he  44 out of his chair (all 1.85 meters of him), he began by saying, "Dennis, I was quite  45  with you last week when you gave us this homework.  46  were you to tell me to do something so personal? But as I began driving home my heart started talking to me, telling me that I knew  47  who I needed to say 'I love you' to. "

       "My father and I had a severe  48  five years ago, and since then we had  49  seeing each other unless we had to at Christmas. But even then, we hardly  50  to each other. So last Tuesday I drove to my parents' house after work and said, 'Dad, I just  51 to tell you that I love you. '"

       "Dad reached out and  52  me and said, 'I love you too, son, but I've never been able to say it.' Two days after my visit, my dad had a heart attack and I don't know if he will  53  it. So, I'm here to tell all of you that my  54  in this is: Don't wait to do the thing  55  it is too late. Take the time to do what you need to do and do it now!"

1.A. ever               B. always                  C. never                D. even

2.A. said               B. shared            C. talked            D. discussed

3.A. year               B. occasion            C. period            D. generation

4.A. explaining      B. hurting              C. devoting            D. expressing

5.A. interesting      B. threatening       C. interested          D. exciting

6.A. class                     B. term                 C. holiday             D. week

7.A. asked             B. disliked             C. advised             D. expected

8.A. often              B. probably           C. not                   D. seldom

9.A. sat                 B. rose                  C. jump                 D. struggle

10.A. bored           B. amused             C. curious              D. angry

11.A. How                    B. Why                 C. Who                 D. What

12.A. exactly         B. immediately      C. directly             D. simply

13.A. condition             B. discussion       C. disagreement     D. experiment

14.A. hated            B. avoided             C. reduced             D. continued

15.A. spoke           B. smiled            C. looked                  D. turned

16.A. dropped out  B. ran across          C. came over      D. came across

17.A. touched        B. tested                C. inspired             D. hugged

18.A. get               B. make                C. deserve             D. overcame

19.A. sense            B. point                 C. thought             D. message

20.A. until                    B. when                C. before            D. as

 

、Amy thought it was __________ to read English newspapers every day so she subscribed to（訂閱）the 21^st Century.

A. worth                     B. worthwhile                          C. worthless                             D. worthy

 

________ tomorrow, I would take a bus to school.

A．If it rains                              B．If it was to rain

C．Should it rain                           D．Rained it

 

閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫(xiě)一篇150詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文。

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs．He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees．

The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning planting trees．He believed in “No pains, no gains”．He never watered his new trees, which was beyond many people．Once I asked why．He answered that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each following tree generation will grow weaker and weaker．So you have to make things tough for them．He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water．I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured．

So he never watered his trees. He’d plant an oak(橡樹(shù)) and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and strong now. Those trees wake up in the morning and beat their chests and drink their coffee black.

[寫(xiě)作內(nèi)容]

1. 以約30詞概括短文內(nèi)容要點(diǎn); 

2. 以約120詞就 “個(gè)人成長(zhǎng)需要艱難生活的磨礪””這一話題發(fā)表你的看法，并包含以下要點(diǎn)：

1) 你是否贊同Dr. Gibbs 的做法，為什么？

2) 敘述當(dāng)前父母溺愛(ài)子女的現(xiàn)象和由此造成的后果；

3) 假如你是父母一方，你會(huì)如何磨礪自己的孩子？

[寫(xiě)作要求]

1.可以使用實(shí)例或其他論述方法支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但不得直接引用原文中句子;

2. 文中不能出現(xiàn)考生真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

[評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)]  概括準(zhǔn)確，語(yǔ)言規(guī)范，內(nèi)容合適，篇章連貫。

 

 

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk..
Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed（解散）. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (負(fù)責(zé)任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized（強(qiáng)調(diào)） the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating（欺騙） themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously（認(rèn)真地） about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.
Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued（繼續(xù)） to believe that I had cheated on the test.
【小題1】The story took place（發(fā)生） exactly ____ .

A．in the teacher’s office	B．in an exam room
C．in the school	D．in the language lab

【小題2】The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____ .

A．she had not brought a pen with her

B．she had lost her own on her way to school

C．there was something wrong with her own

D．her own had been taken away by someone

【小題3】The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____ .

A．to go on writing his paper	B．to stop whispering
C．to leave the room immediately	D．to stay behind after the exam

【小題4】The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was(were) ____ .

A．honesty

B．sense of duty

C．seriousness

D．a(chǎn)ll of the above

【小題5】The boy knew everything ____ .

A．the moment he was asked to stay behind

B．when the teacher started talking about honesty

C．only some time later

D．when he was walking out of the room