as well. Gardeners will want to mix plenty of soil fertilizers into the ground as sunflowers tend to be heavy feeders.
Sunflowers can be slow starters and the tiny new plants don't seem to grow very rapidly. Gardeners should protect the new plants as they begin to grow. Once they get going, sunflowers are able to out-grow many weeds, making them easier to grow in the home vegetable garden than many other plants.
Most pests and diseases are not a bother to the sunflower, however, more than one gardener has said that their lovely looking plants were ravaged overnight by hungry squirrels, mice or birds. To preserve their harvest, gardeners can cover the ripening seed head with stockings or net cloth to help keep the destroyers off the seeds.
Planting sunflower seeds is easy and can help even the smallest gardener feel successful in their gardening attempts.
28．What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to plant sunflowers. B. Different kinds of sunflowers.
C. Ways to preserve sunflowers. D. Tips on making your garden bright. 29．Why should enough space be left between sunflowers?
A. To prevent birds from eating sunflower seeds. B. To offer the sunflowers enough sunlight.
C. To protect the ripe seed heads before harvest. D. To help the sunflowers grow stronger.
30．Why do children love to grow sunflowers in their garden?
A. They want to decorate their garden with sunflowers. B. The seeds are easy to plant and unnecessary to sort. C. Sunflowers don’t need too much soil fertilizer. D. Tiny new sunflowers can grow very fast
31．Which of the following can replace the underlined word “ravaged” in Paragraph 5?
A. Destroyed. B. Covered. C. Surrounded. D. Removed.
D
Why do some parents tend to hold back their disabled children from experiencing life? Even when they are grown, the parents will not allow certain things to happen. It's true that they do have a certain amount of responsibility in protecting their severely disabled adult child, but at what point do they bee overly protective?
Parents want to create a safe haven, a place where they know that nothing bad will happen to their beloved child. This seems to be a respectable and notable act in caring for a person with a disability, but it can have a side effect. When protecting their child from suspected hardships, not wanting anything bad to happen to them, they very well may be preventing good things from happening to them.
In life we all make mistakes, it is how we are able to grow and strengthen our character. Parents may feel that in certain instances their child will get hurt or mistreated in some way, so they build walls in their own minds convincing themselves of the need to shelter. However, the disabled, yes even the “severely disabled” deserve to make personal mistakes as well. Even more, they have the right to succeed.
Parents should do everything and anything within their power to see their disabled children lead a somewhat “normal” life. Parents should help their children, not hold them down. This could make them think they are unworthy and that their parents do not believe in them.
Whatever it may be, let them at least try. If they want to attend college, so be it. Parents should find out all they can, and be involved in every detail. Get to know the aides, experience it with them. If they want to dare and someday marry, so be it. Don't shut them out and form bad or critical opinions about them just because you are afraid. Unite as a family and make it work.
32．What side effect will it have when the parents overprotect their disabled children?
A. Their children will never grow up in the future.
B. Their children will find no shelter when they grow up.
C. Their children will bee less confident when facing troubles. D. Their children will less likely meet with good things.
33．What attitude does the author hold towards the parents who overprotect their disabled
children?
A. Supportive. B. Objective. C. Critical. D. Uninterested. 34．What does the suggestions in the last paragraph imply ?
A. parents should be a bridge, not a brick wall
B. parents should act as their children’s best friends C. parents should encourage their children to get married
D. parents should live in harmony with their disabled children 35．What is the best title of this passage?
A. Living Within Parents’ Power
B. Letting Your Disabled Child Succeed
C. Getting out of a Brick Wall in Their Life D. Helping Your Disabled Child out of Trouble 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Improve Speed Reading Skills
Speed reading is one of many skills that can improve your reading prehension and shorten your study time.____36．.
Look at groups of words,not single words.
_____37．.However, if you can get into the habit of reading groups or chunks of words at one time, then you can read much faster. Start by trying to look at a group of three or four words at once, then work up to looking at an entire line of words. Focus on words that give the sentence meaning, such as the nouns and verbs and pay less attention to the filler words, such as “A, the, and, etc.”
Scan for keywords.
Scanning is a highly effective way of extracting answers from a text without really reading it. If you know exactly what you are looking for-a name, a date, a statistic, or a specific word-you can find it quickly by skipping over large chunks of the text. To scan, first visualize the word, number, or phrase you would like to find____38．. The information you are looking for should pop out at you.
______39． .
You can train yourself to read faster by timing yourself as you go. Start by getting your base time. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, and speed read as you normally do.______40．__. Do not count the words, just the pages or paragraphs. Record your figures: for instance, you might write “15min/6.5 pages.” A. Race the clock
B. Check your prehension.
C. Then, run your eyes rapidly over the text. D. Here are some Speed Reading Techniques.
E. When the timer goes off, check to see how far you have got.
F. If you read a text one word at a time, then this will slow your reading speed way down. G. One of the reasons you read slowly is that you have to pause sometimes to understand what a passage is saying. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
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。
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项（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。
It was an unforgettable experience. We sat in a boat waiting for Ofai. He was swimming under water .There were many beautiful shells at the bottom. If he could ever find some and bring them _______41.______, he would make a lot of money. It was a good and fast way to bee rich. My uncle Harry was with us to take care of us. Suddenly I saw Ofai _____42._______ his arms. Then I could see a large shark fish ___43._____ under the water. All at once I was ______44._____ and held my breath.
“A shark!” cried my uncle. An anxious expression suddenly ____45.________on his face. He was thinking of how to save Ofai. We ____46._____ at my uncle and waited for him to take____47._____.
The fish came near. Now we could see him better. He was of a yellow-brown color and as big as our boat. What could we do to help Ofai? He had been under water for more than an hour. So by now he must be very ____48.______ and it was difficult for him to swim fast enough to ____49.______ the trouble. Thinking that Ofai’s life was at great risk, my uncle could _____50.______ it no longer. Without _____51._____ he took his knife and jumped into the water. Down he went after the man-eating fish. The shark was ____52._______ straight for Ofai. Then, suddenly, the fish turned. My uncle’s strong arm had ___53._____ the knife deep into the side of the great fish. The water turned red as blood ran from the shark.
Now Ofai had time to reach the top. At last he was safe in the boat. But the fish was ____54.____.He turned to ___55._____ the man who had hurt him. As he swam to my uncle, he opened his great mouth. Again the knife went forward. This time it cut deep into the shark’s nose.
For a minute the shark lay ___56._____.Now Uncle was able to swim to the top. Ofai quickly pulled him into the boat. It wasn’t long before the shark came to ___57._____.He hit the boat with such a hard ____58.____ that the sides were almost pushed in. We rowed as hard as possible and finally we were safe on the seashore.
It was my uncle’s ____59.____ and ability that saved Ofai and all of us. We learned a lesson from this experience that courage ____60.____ everything in time of great danger. We will always keep this experience in mind.
41．A. down B. up C. in D. forward 42．A. wave B. rise C. hold D. extend
43．A. lying B. crawling C. moving D. jumping 44．A. annoyed B. excited C. astonished D. frightened 45．A. appeared B. existed C. reflected D. flashed 46．A. called B. stared C. laughed D. shouted 47．A. measure B. step C. action D. advice
48．A. tired B. excited C. disappointed D. satisfied 49．A. put up with B. break away from C. get along with D. get out of 50．A. make B. stand C. hold D. accept
51．A. difficulty B. permission C. delay D. preparation 52．A. waiting B. heading C. fighting D. looking 53．A. turned B. passed C. took D. sent
54．A. sad B. calm C. brave D. angry 55．A. see B. help C. attack D. protect
56．A. quiet B. frightened C. still D. discouraged 57．A. life B. notice C. mind D. an end 58．A. movement B. weight C. crash D. blow 59．A. courage B. kindness C. cleverness D. enthusiasm
60．A. matters B. means
C. suggests D. predicts
第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共50分）
注意：将答案写在答题纸上。写在本试卷上无效。 第三部分：英语知识运用 (共四节，满分45分)
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Recently, educators and parents bee concerned about the poor performance of boys in school. The so-called “boy crisis” in education refers ____61． both their academic performance and their behavior. In both areas boys’ results are much _____62． (bad) than girls’. USA data shows that boys rank behind girls in almost all areas of schooling. They earn lower _____63． (grade) overall in primary school and high school. They are behind girls in reading and writing, and 30 percent of them are in bottom quarter of standardized tests, ____64．(pare) with 19 percent of girls.
Although the causes of the “boy crisis” are not ____65． (full) understood, some experts believed that the same-sex classrooms and schools may help solve the problem. The idea is___66．(remove) some of the distractions(分心) caused by the opposite sex, in order to improve students’ concentration and hopefully their grades. The first Chinese school to experiment with this idea ___67． (be) Shanghai No.8 Middle School, ___68．began “boys-only” classes in September, 2018. Although it is too early to tell if the reform has made __69.____difference, its supporters argue that the results are ____70． (promise).
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
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(Λ)，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。
I’m more than happy to hear you. You told me you were having trouble learn Chinese and wanted some advices from me.
Firstly, why not to learn to sing Chinese songs? It’s a good way to learn Chinese and can make you feel relaxing. Secondly, you can make some Chinese friends. Although you get along well with it, they will help you to learn Chinese. Beside, it will be helpful if you watched some Chinese TV programmes and read some Chinese novels. Finally, joining a club is also the good way to learn Chinese. In this way, you will get more chances to practice Chinese.
I hope the suggestions will be useful.