C) Read the passage and fill the blanks with proper words (14分)

I didn't cry when I learned I was the parent of a disabled (残疾的）child.

"Go ahead and cry," the doctor advised kindly, but I couldn't cry then, nor during the days that followed.

When Jenny was old enough, I sent her to a kindergarten. On the first morning, Jenny spent hours playing by herself. It seemed that she felt very1   86 .

However, to my joy, Jenny's classmates always encouraged, her, ‘you got all your spelling words right today!" In fact her spelling list was thee 87    Lateshefaced a very painful problem—at the end of the term, there was a game which had something to do with physical education. But Jenny was waybehind in it:   

My husband and I were anxious (忧虑）about the day. I wanted to keep her home. Whylet Jenny fail in a gymnasium filled with parents, students and teachers? What a simple s88    ! But my heart wouldn't let me off that easily. So I pushed a pale, unwilling Jenny onto the school bus.

At the kindergarten, I was quite worried because of her s    89  action. Jenny would probably hold up (阻碍）her team. The game went on well until it was time for the sack (麻袋）race. Surely Jenny would find it difficult. Now each child had to climb into a sack, jump to the finishing line, return and climb out of the sack. Inoticed Jenny standing near the end of her line of players.

But as it was her turn to join, ac90     place in her team. The tallest boy behind Jenny placed his hands on her waist (腰).Two otherboys stood ahead of her. The moment the player before Jenny stepped out from the sack, those two boys picked up the sack quickly and held it open while the tall boy lifted Jenny and dropped her into it. A girl in front of Jenny took her hand ands 91    her until Jenny gained her balance. Then she jumped forward, smiling and proud.

In the cheers of teachers, schoolmates and parents, I silently thanked Heaven for the warm, understanding people in life who make itp 92   for my disabled daughter to be like her fellow human beings. Then I finally cried.

D)Answer the questions(12分)

A different kind of alarm clock

When Matty Sallin, 34, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.

"To get up in time, many people have to use an alarm clock every morning. But the sound of the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant," he says. So before he started to design the new clock, he asked different people what they'd like to wake up to in the morning. A lot of them said, "The smell of bacon (培根肉）

So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital (数码的）clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, "There's no danger of burning, because I built it carefully. It uses special light bulbs (灯泡）instead of a fire for cooking and turns off automatically after ten minutes." Just a few easy steps are required to set the "alarm".

"What you do is to put a few pieces of bacon meat inside the box the night before, and then you set the alarm" says Sallin. "If you set the alarm for 8:00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs turn off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.

"So the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up. There will be no more noisy alarms," says Sallin. "Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it."

When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. "I wanted to make a lift in my back yard and a special tree house" he says. "But I never really thought I'd become an inventor!"

Sallin got an A for his alarm clock and went on to invent other things—but people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybe he can build a successful business out of it.

93.What was Matty Sallin?

94.How many people worked together on the new alarm clock?

95.How long did it take to cook the bacon?

96.Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of a fire?

Because________________ ____________

97.What's special about Sallin's alarm clock?

___ ________ wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.

What do you think of the new alarm clock? 

VII.Writing(共20分)

99.Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic  ______has helped/me to learn a lot，

以________ 使我受益匪浅为题写一篇不少于60字的短文，标点符号不占格

注意 短文不得出现考生的姓名、学校 及相关信息，否则不予评分

Use the following points as a reference.    (以下问题仅供参考)

  • What has helped you to learn a lot?
  • When did you first take it up?
  • How did it help you? Give some examples.