假如你是李夏。你看到美国留学生Sharon在网上发贴，希望有人能帮助她提高普通话(Mandarin)水平，她可以教英语作为回报。请根据以下提示用英语给她写一封电子邮件。

1．表达给她提供帮助的意愿；             

2．说明你能胜任辅导的理由；

3．给出讲好普通话的两点建议；          

4．提出你学习英语的具体需求。

注意：

1．词数100左右，开头语已为你写好；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

Hi Sharon,

This is Li Xia. I learned from your post that you want to improve your Mandarin  

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A. originally        B. cultivated       C. served         D. documented    E. unlike    F. consists          G. support         H. habit          I. relatively       J. private   K. presentation

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and (41)_______ of matcha, powdered green tea. In Japanese, it is called chanoyu or chado. The manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance, is called otem. The tea ceremony is a ritual way of preparing and drinking tea. The custom has been strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism.

Tea was (42)_______ brought to Japan in the 9^th century, by the Buddhist monk Eichu, who had returned to Japan from China. This is the first (43)_______ evidence of tea in Japan . By imperial order in the year 816, tea plantations began to be (44)_______ in the Kinki region of Japan. However, the interest in tea in Japan faded after this.

Nowadays, the ceremony is a (45)_______ popular kind of hobby. Many Japanese, who are interested in their own culture, take tea ceremony lessons with a teacher. Tea ceremonies are held in traditional Japanese rooms in cultural community centers or (46)_______ houses. The ceremony itself (47)_______ of many rituals that have to be learned by heart. Almost each hand movement is prescribed. Basically the tea is first prepared by the host, and then drunk by the guests. The tea is bitter green tea made of powdered tea leaves.

Green tea is drunk everywhere and at any time of the day. (48)_______ English tea, Japanese green tea is (49)_______ in cups without a handle and is never drunk with sugar or cream. The most polite way of drinking green tea is to hold the cup with one hand and (50)_______ it from below with the other hand.

When it comes to preschool education, there are two lines of thought. One says that preschoolers need to be taught early academic skills in order to get a leg up on future school achievement. Another says the focus should be on social and emotional development. But, new research from Penn State University says a high quality preschool program should do both.

Karen Bierman, Penn State Professor of Psychology, and her team studied 350 preschoolers. Half were taught the traditional curriculum(课程）. The other half were given the basic curriculum as well as social and emotional teaching.

The results show that the half students taught with a curriculum that includes social lesson, such as sharing, listening and self-control, score higher in both the social and academic areas of school readiness than the other half students.

The other finding is that when you work on both academic and social-emotional skills, you get stronger gains in both areas. “You get the combined power when you put both together, so neither area is weakened.” she says.

Clearly, knowing how to share, develop healthy friendships, and learn side-by-side with others is important to a child’s academic achievement in the classroom. But, Bierman says the importance of social and emotional education goes beyond that. Preschool is prime time for the development of self-regulation, which not only tells a child not to hit another child, but also tells a child how to set personal goals and focus himself enough to follow through with those goals. And the ability to regulate behavior is what helps children get motivated at school. “When they get upset, bored, or frustrated, it doesn’t defeat them.” she says.

Goal-oriented (面向目标的) and motivated learning is best taught in preschool, Biernam says, when the prefrontal part of the brain, which controls decision-making, is at the height of development. “ First grade teachers can teach letter names, but preschool is when that behavior is peaking and language is just beginning to develop,” she says.

32.  Karen Bierman and her team carried out the research by ______.

A  tracking 350 preschoolers for years.

B  separating children into two equal groups.

C  working out a high quality preschool program.

D  analyzing the importance of social and emotional teaching.

33.  The underlined words “ prime time” in the text probably refer to ______.

A．the best time                    B．the only time

C．the earliest time                    D．the suitable time

34.  According to the text, self-regulation can help children ______.

A．be willing to study              B．become emotionless

C．memorize letter names            D．learn language quickly  

35.  What’s the best title for the text?

A. Preschool learning: more than ABCs and 123s

B. Karen Bierman: freeing kids from boring learning.

C. Learning self-regulation in preschool: why it matters?

D. Academic and social-emotional skills: which is more important?

   A cruise ship 61________(carry) 456 people capsized(翻) on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. Officials say so far only 15 people 62_________(survive). 63_________ is reported that the ship sank within a few 64________(minute), while many people were asleep. Most of those 65________ board were tourists aged between 50 and 80 travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing. There is no doubt 66_________ for some of those on the Eastern Star it would have been the trip of a lifetime. One survivor, 67_________ tour guide said the ship began to shake 68_________(violent) and capsized all of a sudden. A 65-year-old woman was among those 69_________(save) from the ship by brave divers. She said she tried to hold on to 70________ she could find to keep her head above water in the darkness until divers came to her rescue.

Goldie's Secret

    She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. “We're moving house’’; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

    I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.

    That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.

By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.

I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.

25. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

   A. Shocked.          B. Sympathetic.    C. Annoyed.      D. Upset.

26. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie        .

   A. felt worried        B. was angry      C. ate a little     D. sat by the fire

27. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she       .

   A. saw her puppies                     B. heard familiar barking

   C. wanted to leave the author             D. found her way to her old home

28. The passage is organized in order of ­        .

   A. time             B. effectiveness    C. importance     D. complexity

 It was announced that only when the fire was under control ____ to return to their homes

  A. the residents would be permitted B. had the residents been permitted

  C.       the residents had been permitted    D. would the residents be permitted

 Grandparents Answer a Call

As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, Mildred Garza never pleased to move away,. Even when her daughter and son asked her to move to San Antonio to help their children, she politely refused . Only after a year of friendly discussion did Ms Gaf finally say yes. That was four years ago. Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.
   No statistics show the number of grandparents like Garza who are moving closer to the children and grandchildren. Yet there is evidence suggesting that the trend is growing. Even President Obama’s mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters. According to a study grandparents com. 83 percent of the people said Mrs. Robinson ‘s decision will influence the grandparents in the American family. Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of Obama’s family.
  “in the 1960s we were all a little wild and couldn’t get away from home far enough or fast enough to prove we could do it on our own,”says Christine Crosby, publisher of grate manazine for grandparents .We now realize how important family is and how important”” to be near them, especially when you’re raising children.”
   Moving is not for everyone. Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead. Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

32. Why was Garza’s move a success?
A．It strengthened her family ties. 
B．It improved her living conditions.
C．It enabled her to make more friends.
D．It helped her to know more new places.
33.What was the reaction of the public to Mrs. Robinson’s decision?
A．17% expressed their support for it.
B．Few people responded sympathetically.
C．83% believed it had a bad influence.
D．The majority thought it was a trend.
34. What did Crosby say about people in the 1960s?
A．They were unsure of raise more children.
B．They were eager to raise more children.
C．They wanted to live away from their parents.
D．They had little respect for their grandparent.
35. What does the author suggest the grandparents do in the lasr paragraph?
   A. Make decisions in the best interests' of their own
   B. Ask their children to pay more visits to them
   C. Sacrifice for their struggling children 
   D. Get to know themselves better

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

A recent survey show that most students often communicate with our parents. But there are still some thinking that embarrassing to share their ideas with them. Actually everyone should attach importance to family communication. It can be strengthen the bond of the whole family or bridge the gap between children and parents. Besides, share your personal problems and emotions will greatly help reduce the pressure on you and build up your confidence. As for my family, we had a special dinner together every Saturday evening, over that everyone takes turns to share one problem. Then others try to suggest solutions. In this way the whole family can enjoy every single bit of life. I think my family will stick out the tradition forever.

       Hippos（河马）have always attracted people's interest. Modern hippos in Walt Disney movies can dance lightly. A stone hippo in a 13th-century church in France has wings. And in ancient Egyptian fairy tales, the hippo was a goddess that guided the dead to the afterworld.

       Despite their popular appeal, hippos, as well as other animals, have difficulty when their needs conflict with those of humans. The early Egyptians liked to hunt hippos for their teeth and because they were dangerous animals. Amulets（护身符）to protect babies from demons（恶魔）were made from hippo bones.

       About 4,000 years ago, there were so many hippos in Egypt that they caused serious crop damage. Egyptian farmers killed them routinely, and by the beginning of the 19th century, all the hippos in Africa had been killed.

       People used to see hippos fight in the arenas（角斗场）of ancient Rome. After the fall of the Roman Empire, hippos weren't seen in Europe again until a few zoos began to exhibit them in the mid 1800s.

       All the various uses and abuses of hippos through the centuries have made their population fall greatly. Where they do occur, mostly in national parks, they live in such high density that they make the grasslands bare. This causes other grass-eating animals to go farther for food, and hippos, which can't live far from water, destroy their own feeding grounds.

32. In Africa, hippos became extinct _____.

       A. around the 1850s                        B. in the 13th century

       C. about 4,000 years ago                       D. in the early 19th century

33. Apart from protecting crops, what's the main reason for people to kill hippos?

       A. To save other animals.               

       B. To satisfy personal demands.

       C. To look for guidance after death.

       D. To follow the routine established by the Egyptians.

34. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by _____?

A. concentration       B. altitude           C. level          D. temperature

35. What problems do hippos lead to?

       A. They eat up the grass in their habitats.

       B. They always destroy other animals' food.

       C. They stop other animals from drinking water.

       D. They grow too quickly for the land to support.

One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装)

On September 11^th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying,“ I promised you a gift, and here it is.” what an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it!

One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it . Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days. I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as“ hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.

Christmas was coming.“ Don’t expect any presents this year,” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with teas. I’d never seen him cry before.

The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home!”

“Thank God!” I heard Mum cry.

From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!

28. What happened to the author on September 11^th ,1958 ?

    A. He became four years old.            B. He got a Christmas gift.

    C. He got a baby brother.               D. He received a doll.

29.What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean？

    A. Fearful                              B. Boring

    C. Difficult                            D. Impossible.

30.Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

    A. Excitement.                          B. Sadness.

    C. Happiness.                           D. Disappointment.

31.What is the passage mainly about ?

    A. A sad Christmas day.                 B. Life with a lovely baby.

    C. Memories of a happy family.          D. A special Christmas gift.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

One day King Arthur saw a happy beggar (乞丐) and wondered why the beggar was so happy, because that the king didn’t feel happy though she could have whatever he wants. From this we can see that one’s happiness doesn’t depend whether he is rich nor poor. Happy is just a state of mind. As long as one thinks he’s satisfied, he is happy.

There are many different opinion about happiness. To some, happiness is being surround by their family members and friends. To others, happiness means achieving success in something, such as meet a goal. To those who have been injured, happiness can simple mean a day without suffering, or just being alive.

For Children

Museum: Children’s Museum, Sundays, 89 North Street, 67641235

Story time: Children’s Library, 106 Green Street, Wednesdays during 9:30 a.m -5:00p.m.66599624

Sports: Soccer Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16 Yangtze Road, 96725643

Basketball Club, Wednesdays and Fridays, 79071632

Cinema: New films for children, 99 Brick Road, 69001354

25. If children want to watch new films，they should go to________.

A. 16 Yangtze Road    B. 89 North Main Street

C. 106 Green Street    D. 99 Brick Road

26. If you dial 66387901，you can __________.

A. ask for some hotel information

B. do some shopping

C. have a good story time...

D. order fast food in a restaurant

27. Lily’s father is ill．She should dial________.

A. 800-120-9847    B. 79210583

C. 6878745l    D. 96725643

28. You can not get any information about________ from the two notices．

A. looking for a hotel    B. doing eye exercises

C. eating fast food    D. taking a taxi

假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：把缺词处叫个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

John Brown is a London taxi driver who love going to the theatre. Last week his mother

gave her two tickets for a play. The tickets were on Sunday evening. But John read some

reviews of the play, that all said was a terribly one! He wouldn’t go to see a play that no one

liked it .So two hours before the play started, he left the ticket on the back seat of his taxi.

Perhaps someone who wanted see the play would take them. However, while John went back home, the tickets were still there. In the fact, there were four tickets on the seat. Someone has placed another pair of tickets on top of them!

The Arctic will soon be free from ice, experts say. The change is bound to take place, but the global warming and climate change are changing the earth’s landscape (地形) rapidly，causing panic worldwide.

   Experts say that the Arctic sea ice is melting (融化) quite faster than expected and it can affect not just the region, but Earth in general. A scientist even says that next year, or maybe the year after that, the Arctic will be free of ice.

    Peter Wadhams, a scientist, said that the melting trend led to his statement. “Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover. Next year or the year after that, I think it will be free of ice in summer and by that I mean the central Arctic will be ice-free,” Peter Wadhams, director of the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge, said in an interview with the Guardian. “You will be able to cross over the North Pole by ship,” Peter Wadhams added. He strongly believes that although some pieces of ice will remain, the Arctic basin may be free of sea ice in the next two years starting in the summer of 2017.

Wadhams’ study says that melting sea ice will have a great influence on the planet since the sea ice is more capable of reflecting (反射) sunlight compared to water that can only reflect 10% of the sunlight. Once the sea ice melts, the water can only reflect a small amount of sunlight. This means that the Earth will receive and absorb more sunlight, making the planet even hotter.

The year 2016 has already broken records of the hottest temperature ever recorded and the trend doesn’t seem to show any decrease in global warming. “It doesn’t look like the ice is healing and growing back,” Tom Wagner, NASA’s manager for cryosphere (冰冻圈) research said in a statement.

Like Wadhams, scientists and researchers all over the world are lecturing around to educate people to help lighten global warming that has already changed the planet’s landscape.

32. What does the author think of global warming and climate change?

 A. Indifferent        B. Anxious          C. Unbelievable      D. Misunderstood

33. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

 A. What experts say has caused worldwide fear and great anxiety.

 B. The speed of the Arctic sea ice being melted is beyond expectation.

 C. The melting of the Arctic sea ice only has a great effect on this region.

 D. It’s impossible that the Arctic will be free from ice in one or two years.

34. Why would the Earth become even hotter if the sea ice melted? Because_____.

 A. more water will cover the earth.               B. there are more hours of daylight.

 C. the water will reflect more sunlight.            D. more heat would be taken in by the earth.

35. What is the passage mainly about?

 A. According to some experts, the Arctic may be free from ice soon because of global warming and climate change.

 B. The Arctic melting sea ice will affect the planet greatly.

 C. The Arctic will be free from ice in two years.

 D. Global warming are changing the earth’s landscape quickly.

When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).

In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的) .

My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.

We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.

Happiness isn’t about what happens to us—it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possess.

28.As one grows older, one ______.

     A. tends to believe responsibility means happiness

    B. associates his/her happiness less with others

    C. will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness

    D. feels it harder to experience happiness

29.What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?

     A. She cares little about her own health.

    B. She is easily satisfied by things in daily life.

    C. She enjoys the freedom of traveling.

    D. She prefers getting pleasure from housework.

30.People who equal happiness with wealth and success ______.

     A. pay too much attention to their right to happiness

    B. consider pressure something blocking their way

    C. are at a loss to make correct choices

    D. are more likely to be happy

31.Which of the following can best explain the main idea of the passage?

     A. God helps those who help themselves.

    B. Each man is the master of his own fate.

    C. Happy is he who is content.

    D. Success leads to happiness.

       假定你是李华，今年暑假参加了“美国七日游”的夏令营活动。活动期间，新结识的美国朋友David给了你很多帮助。请你根据以下提示，给David写一封信，内容包括：

1.      对他的帮助表示感谢；

2.      参加夏令营的感受和收获；

3.      邀请他参加明年在中国举办的夏令营。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2. 信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Dear David,

       Long time no see! I miss you very much._________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

       I am looking forward to your reply.

                                                                                                                       Yours sincerely,

                                                                     Li Hua

What would work be like if you had no boss?Imagine you could make all your own decisions and no one told you what to do.

A Swedish software company,Crisp,decided to get rid of their CEO.First,they needed to find out what a CEO actually did.Then they shared those duties among staff and board members,which is exactly what they did.And the employees believes it's been a good change.An employee named Heinrik Kniberg says the company can now act faster,"If you want to get something done,you stand up and start driving that.Workers are also more active and satisfied."And any big decisions are made during the all-member meetings several times a year.

So,if it's working well for Crisp,could this model become more widespread? Online retailer（零售商）Zappos tried out a similar plan but had unpleasant results.Almost a fifth of its staff decided to leave,and CEO Tony Hsieh admitted that "self-management is not for everyone".Mr Houston,founder of file-sharing service Drew Dropbox,says that total freedom doesn't always feel good,because you no longer know what you're supposed to do,what is important and you're bumping up against other people."

Would you like to work somewhere with no boss?

13. Why can the software company Crisp act faster now?

A. Because workers feel more satisfied.

B. Because workers can get things done directly.

C. Because things are decided by all members.

D. Because workers share CEO's duties.

14. The passage mainly talks about      .

A. whether a company can go without a boss

B. whether workers can work independently

C. whether people can accept a no-boss company

D. whether people can enjoy total freedom

15. What's the author's attitude towards the no-boss model?

A. Positive.    B. Negative.

C. Objective    D. Subjective.

That morning, I got on the train as always. I was a publishing director and was reading my newspaper     . But that day, I read it very     . I thought I must be tired. At the office, I sat down, turned on my      and found I couldn’t read the message on the screen.

 Eventually, worried     drove me to hospital. There, confirmation came that I suffered from aphasia(失语症), a condition that     it’s difficult or impossible to receive and produce language.

 I was back at home a week later, and my    was to get better and return to work in a couple of months. I started    a speech therapist(治疗专家) three times a week, and was given homework to help   my vocabulary and grammar. After a month, my own speech became     —“Could you pass the salt?” “Shall we go for a walk?” — but I couldn’t have a conversation. I couldn’t read the newspaper.

 For 25 years, I was used to a(n)      day of meetings, and bringing three manuscripts home with me each night. I didn’t feel      to say goodbye to my old self.

 In the darkest months, I devoted myself to    . I would spend hours writing a description of something      like a pencil. I couldn’t    novels or newspapers, so I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines easier to        . My speech came back, and I learned how to read again,      much more slowly. I spent more time with my family, and     myself to slow down.

 Now, 10 years later, my relationship with my    is deeper than ever. We have     to be very patient with each other. I’m no longer a high-achieving publisher or someone who    10 books a week. I’m a family man with aphasia, and if I read 10 books a year, that’s good.

35． A. once again B. as usual C. in time         D. at last

36． A. smoothly B. patiently C. worriedly     D. slowly

37． A. radio B. computer C. phone         D. typewriter

38． A. friends B. coaches C. colleagues     D. roommates

39．A. Means      B. proves C. explains         D. admits

40． A. discovery B. goal C. ability         D. reason

41．A. Seeing   B. teaching C. describing     D. greeting

42．A. receive  B. repeat C. reunite         D. rebuild

43．A. easy      B. delightful     C. functional     D. fast

44．A. exciting B. busy C. interesting     D. short

45．A. afraid B. anxious C. ready         D. right

46．A. trying B. preparing C. focusing         D. asking

47． A. similar B. strange C. special         D. simple

48．A. produce B. recognize C. manage         D. arrange

49．A. create B. understand C. write         D. believe

50．A. since B. though C. unless          D. when

51．A. allowed B. expected C. advised          D. ordered

52．A. books B. illness C. doctors          D. family

53．A. decided B. chosen C. continued      D. learned

54． A. sells B. delivers C. reads          D. collects

In Canada, volunteering is extremely common among people of all ages. They believe that being helpful is one of the most important____41____(quality) to have. There are many forms of voluntary work and opportunities to help are everywhere,____42____(include) schools or people’s gardens.

I’m volunteering for a foundation to assist the teacher there. I’m in charge of____43____preschool class, where students are aged from 3 to 6. When I first started, I was quite nervous as I’d never worked with little kids before. As time went on, I____44____(become) more familiar with them. One teacher asked me to help the____45____(young)girl in the class draw a picture_____46_____(base) on the word “grateful”. As I was drawing and talking with her, I___47___  (gradual) felt warm and peaceful, and I realized____48____was not that difficult to work with children. When the class was over, I felt really excited and even a bit proud of ___49___ had been done.

Volunteering gives us not only an opportunity to change someone’s life but also the satisfaction of helping others. It is also a great way to develop social skills and____50____(value) experience for our future.

 I________ along the street looking for a place to park when the accident________.

A．went; was occurring      B．went；occurred

C．was going; occurred       D．was going; had occurred