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Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Hope
Nothing in my life had prepared me for what I had to do. Choosing my words carefully, and fighting to stay calm, I told my 4-year-ofd daughter that her grandmother had suffered a stroke(中风), that she was unconscious, and that the doctors said she would probably never wake up. As she moved closer to me. Ameba looked at me, eyes bright, and said, “Maybe Grandma will be okay.” “Maybe she will,” I said, keeping back the tears. But I knew better. I was tying up to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, from our Florida home in the morning to say good-bye to my mom.
The rest of that awful week, I joined my brother, and father sitting by my mother’s side in the hospital room. I held her hand and talked to her. I told her that we still needed her. I told her that it wasn’t time to leave yet. I told her how much I loved her. And I told her that her little granddaughter, Amelia, believed that she’d get better. The doctors, with all their years of training and experience, offered no hope for recovery. The damage was simply too extensive.
A couple of weeks later, an odd thing happened. Mom woke up! And then she persevered through a long and tough process of restoration to health. during which she had to learn to walk, read, and write all over again, and eventually returned home to Dad. The only one who wasn’t shocked was Amelia. The doctors couldn’t explain it. Amelia didn’t need to. Hope came as naturally to her as breathing.
So why are we so afraid to hope sometimes? Maybe it’s because over the years, life’s disappointments can turn us to disillusionment(理想破灭). How many times have yoheard someone say: “Hope for the best, expect the worst”? That’s not really hope at all.
Hope is being able to look at our world with all of the joy and wonder of a child.
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V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 演讲前，花点时间看一下提纲，你会更自信。(spend)
73. 两年后这个主题公园将对公众开放，但是它是否会盈利尚未确定。(remain)
74. 诗歌大赛吸引了大批观众，他们从中领略到了汉语的魅力。(which)
75. 不管那个推销员如何极力鼓动，我还是能保持冷静没有买那套位于城东的房子。(No natter)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
某英文网站正举办征文活动，题目是The Most Useful Skill I Have Ever Learned，请以此写一篇征文。你的文章比须包括：
● 这项技能是什么?你是通过什么方式学会的?
● 举例说明为什么你觉得它最有用。
(注：文中不得出现真实的姓名及学校名称)
I. Listening Comprehension
1-5 DCABB 6-10 DCDAD 11-13 ABC 14-16 CBB 17-20 ADAC
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
21. hired 22. will open 23. to bring 24. raises 25. when/if
26. healthier 27. which 28. among/from 29. so 30. a
31-35 EKIHG 36-40 JDABC
III. Reading Comprehension
41-45 CAACD 46-50 ABBCD
51-55 DBABC 56-59 CDAC
60-62 BAD 63-66 CDAD 67-70 EBAC
IV. Summary writing
Doctors were pessimistic about my mother’s stroke while my little daughter, Amelia, full of hope. I passed on Amelia’s hope when our family gathered to bid farewell to her in hospital. Incredibly, she recovered and came back home after a period of restoration. Everyone was astonished except Ameba. Hope does bring people in trouble amazement. (55 words)
V. Translation
72. Before making a speech, spend some time taking a look at the outline so that yowill be more confident.
73. This theme park will be open to the public in two years, but whether it will make profits remains to be seen.
74. Poetry contest attracted a large audience, from which they had a taste of the charm of Chinese.
75.No matter how hard the salesman urged me, I still kept cool and didn't buy the flat located east of the
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