精品 教育 试卷 习题 文档 own 30_ dream a reality. I arrived at my local table tennis club

cautiously, a

breathtakingly out-of-shape 31 kind face

32 me to hit with him. After 20 minutes I was tired, went home happy. My knee didn’t burst inward.

Months passed, and almost miraculously, my stamina (耐力) 34 . Players started to 35 my shots. Some nights I play so joyfully, that I can almost believe this sport is the fountain of youth.

16. A. Boring B. Different 17. A. young B. kind 18. A. observer B. listener 19. A. dream B. chance 20. A. taken 21. A. fail 22. A. repair 23. A. fought 24. A. awkward 25. A. pants 26. A. dreams

B. taken up B. survive B. research B. advised B. acceptable B. beds B. goals

C. Ordinary C. tired C. reader C. miracle C. taken over C. quit

C. transplant C. pushed C. lonely C. shoes C. focuses C. sport C. safer C. belief C. tennis C. athlete C. invited C. or

C. continued C. save

D. Glorious D. poor D. chatter D. challenge D. taken on D. hesitate D. bandage D. voted D. painful D. sofas

D. directions D. message D. harder

D. confidence D. Ping-Pong D. hostess D. persuaded D. but D. settled D. praise

33_ I

_in a sea of men. A man with a

27. A. business B. idea

28. A. better B. healthier 29. A. power B. hope 30. A. football B. basketball 31. A. woman B. member 32. A. asked 33. A. so

34. A. formed 35. A. learn

B. allowed B. till B. improved B. correct

第二部分 阅读理解（共 20 小题：每小题 2.5 分，满分 50 分）

精品 教育 试卷 习题 文档 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A

Here's a list of books I'm looking forward to this fall season. Not all of them will rise to the level of the advertisement, but it's an abundant crop. “ Home After Dark” by David Small (Liveright, Sept. 11 )

In 2017, Small published a celebrated graphic memoir (回忆录) called \about a motherless

13-year-old boy brought up in an unhappy home in California. This is a tale told in

精品 教育 试卷 习题 文档 few words and many striking images. On Sept. 11 at 3p.m, Small will be at

Amazonbooks at Union Market. More information at www. amazon.com/graph- tale.

“ Waiting for Eden” by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf, Sept. 25)

This brief novel is related by a dead soldier who is watching over a horribly burned partner in a Texas hospital. That sounds embarrassingly emotional, but Ackerman, who served in a Navy in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. More information at www. amazon. com/military-essay.

“All You Can Ever Know” by Nicole Chung (Catapult, Oct. 2)

Chung, the editor of the literary magazine Catapult, was adopted as a baby by a white family in Oregon. In this memoir, she writes about her childhood, her Asian American identity and her search for the Korean parents who gave her up. More information at www. amazon. com /politics-prose. “ Unsheltered” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, Oct. 16)

Alternating between past and present, this novel tells the story of a woman investigating a late-19th-century science teacher who was caught up in the controversy over Darwinism. Like her other novels, this one promises to explore social and scientific problems. Visit www. amazon. com/tech-science for more information.

36. If you hope for a signature of the author, you will probably buy a copy of

_.

B. Waiting for Eden D. Unsheltered

A. All You Can Ever Know C. Home After Dark

37. Who joined the army and was sent to the Middle East? A. Elliot Ackerman.

C. Barbara Kingsolver.

B. David Small. D. Nicole Chung.

精品 教育 试卷 习题 文档 38. If you want to read a book about seeking roots, you can surf A. www. amazon. com/graph-tale

B. www. amazon. com/politics-prose

.

C. www. amazon. com/military-essay D. www. amazon. com/tech-science 39. Which of the statements is true about “Unsheltered”? A. It interprets the past and present of Darwinism.

B. It is set in the late nineteenth century only.

C. It is contradictory to the author’s other novels in themes.

D. The science teacher in it was involved in the argument about Darwinism. 40. In which section of the newspaper can we read this passage? A. Social issues. B. Literature

C. Recreation

D. Education