I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head．Now I am thirty two．I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is．It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难） can do strange things to people．It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind．I believe in life now．I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise．I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes．I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left．
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was luck. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it --which I didn’t see, made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself．That was basic．If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life．When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone．That is part of it．But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit．
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance．It had to start with the simplest things．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt．"I can't use this．" I said．"Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around．" The words stuck in my head．"Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went．This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball．At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball．We called it ground ball．
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time．I had to learn my limitations．It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure．I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress．
1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash．
B. the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen．
C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had．
D. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see．
2.What's the most difficult thing for the author?
A. How to adjust himself to reality．
B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life．
C. Learning to manage his life alone．
D. How to invent a successful variation of baseball．
3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author __________
A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life．
B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair．
C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties．
D. would sit in a chair and stay at home．
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. A Miserable Life B. Struggle Against Difficulties
C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person D. An Unforgettable Experience
（题文）假定你是李华，是某外语特色高中的一名学生。下个月，来自世界各地的中学生将到你校参加一个国际交流活动，学校将选拔一批志愿者参与接待工作，请根据以下提示用英语给校长写一封申请信：
个人情况：年龄、性别和性格等；
申请原因：英语口语好、有责任感、擅长沟通和团队合作；
希望获准。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头语已为你写好；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear headmaster,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有2处.涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:此行缺一个词在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/\），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，在该词下面写出改正后的词。
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 。
Last weekend, there was art festival in our school. Our headmaster plan to make it a feature of our school. I was so excited, for it was the first time for me to join in it.
Early in the morning, I saw such many people come to our school, made it so lively. The students gave a warm welcome to the guest. I walked around or appreciated the paintings. All of the works were from the students and I was very impressed by it. There were also some handcrafts, that were so creative. Though they were busy with their study most of the time, some students still managed to develop their hobbies. I should learn to them and develop a hobby as well as.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Born in England in 1944, Ian Wilmut 1.(know)as the leader of the research group that first cloned a female lamb 2.(call)Dolly in 1996. Dolly became famous and pictures of her appeared on the 3.(cover)of magazines all over the world. The 4.(possible)of reproduction without a male and female being involved also made her the focus of a moral debate. For scientists, however, the cloning of dolly using the DNA of an adult cell was a breakthrough5.showed the cloning of special animals was possible.
However, 6.Wilmut thinks unlikely is human cloning. He says 7.(undertake)the procedure with humans would require 29 surrogate(替代的)mothers and 300 eggs. Of those 29,28 would be bound 8.(experience)failure and suffer physically and emotionally. He says he is also concerned about the psychological and 9.(society)consequences a cloned might have to go through. For these reasons, he is not 10.favor of it.
America is a fast-paced society, which may seem very troubling to foreign visitors. One’s first _____ is likely to be that everyone is in a rush. City people always seem to be ______ and are very impatient if they are delayed even for a brief moment.
______, this may seem unfriendly to you. _____, drivers will rush you; storekeepers will be in a hurry as they _____ you; people will push you _____ walking along the street. You will ____ brief conversations with people when you shop or dine there as people seem to be on the go.
Do not ____ that because Americans are in such a hurry they are ______. To them, that is just part of their _____ of life. Americans who live in cities often think that everyone is _____ in a hurry to get things done so they naturally ____ others to behave similarly. _____, when they discover that you are a stranger, most Americans become quite kind and will take great _____ to help you. Many of them first came to the city _____ strangers and they remember how frightening a new city can be. If you need help, _____ a friendly-looking person and say, “I am a stranger here. Can you help me?”
Most people will stop, ____ you, and help you find your way. But you must let them know that you need help. Otherwise they are _____ to pass you by, not noticing that you are new the city and ____ help. If, occasionally, you find someone too rushed to give you help, don’t be _____; just ask someone else. Most Americans enjoy helping a stranger.
1.A. concept B. discovery C. experience D. impression
2.A. walking B. hurrying C. jogging D. dragging
3.A. Immediately B. Eventually C. At first D. First of all
4.A. For example B. In short C. On the contrary D. On the other hand
5.A. occupy B. hire C. employ D. serve
6.A. because B. while C. although D. before
7.A. wear B. enjoy C. miss D. trust
8.A. think B. annoy C. convince D. doubt
9.A. unhappy B. unexpected C. uncertain D. unfriendly
10.A. means B. way C. method D. approach
11.A. equally B. gradually C. apparently D. properly
12.A. forbid B. limit C. expect D. select
13.A. Otherwise B. Therefore C. Besides D. However
14.A. temper B. care C. step D. energy
15.A. with B. at C. as D. to
16.A. choose B. reject C. dismiss D. avoid
17.A. point at B. smile at C. laugh at D. glance at
18.A. likely B. unable C. possible D. probable
19.A. in terms of B. in favor of C. in spite of D. in need of
20.A. tired B. embarrassed C. discouraged D. surprised
What’s your favorite weather? Do you like sunny or rainy days? Many people like sunshine (阳光) a lot. 1.. They think rain makes them feel sad. For a long vacation, they like going to the beach to enjoy sunshine.2.. I like sunshine very much, but I also enjoy rain.
3.. It can make me feel quiet. On rainy days, I like listening to music and doing some reading, or just looking at the rain and daydreaming (做白日梦).4. I think it’s a good way to relax when it rains.
5.. I hope you can feel happy no matter (无论) it rains or it’s sunny.
A. When you daydream, you don’t have to think about other things.
B. Sunshine can make them feel good and happy.
C. When it rains, the ground is wet and muddy.
D. They don’t like rain.
E. Sunshine can make one run around and rain can make one keep quiet.
F. I enjoy the sound (声音) of rain.
G. They also like rain.
