青少年处于青春叛逆期，往往容易和父母之间发生争执或冲突。讲述生活中的一个事例，并说明事后你在思想和行动上得到了怎样的升华与提高。文章的开头已给出。词数120左右。

As adolescents, we may come across occasions when we have quarrels or even conflicts with our parents over a variety of things. I remember……

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。

One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.  36  the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I  37  the bird before I saw it.

“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.

“It’s coming from the  38  .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little  39  .”

I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s  40   I saw the sparrow. It was flying  41  just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly  42  to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but  43  and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head 44  the ceiling.

I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the  45  open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet  46   it could get outside, but that only seemed to  47  it more.

“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita  48  .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”

We went back into the house, where we  49  to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was  50  and our uninvited guest was gone.

I’ve  51  that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were  52  to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the  53  that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make  54  without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much  55  .

36.A. Still              B. Somehow          C. Instead              D. Perhaps

【答案】B

【解析】不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。

37.A. heard            B. caught               C. searched           D. observed

【答案】A

【解析】根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。

38.A. house           B. backyard           C. garage               D. basement

【答案】C

【解析】根据36题所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。

39.A. birds            B. guests               C. cats                  D. kids

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子

40.A. when            B. how                  C. why                  D. whether

【答案】A

【解析】when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”

41.A. quickly         B. anxiously           C. cautiously          D. slowly

【答案】B

【解析】anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。

42. A. deciding       B. hesitating           C. trying                D. choosing

【答案】C

【解析】try to get out努力要出去。

43. A. up               B. backward          C. forward            D. down

【答案】D

【解析】但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。

44. A. against         B. off                    C. along                D. into

【答案】A

【解析】bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板

45. A. free             B. small                 C. wide                 D. dark

【答案】B

【解析】门和天花板之间的空间很小。

46. A. in case         B. even if               C. as though          D. so that

【答案】D

【解析】so that 引导目的状语从句。

47. A. puzzle          B. confuse             C. frighten             D. disturb

【答案】C

【解析】但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人

48. A. suggested     B. explained           C. insisted             D. demanded

【答案】A

【解析】why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。

49. A. attempted     B. continued          C. refused             D. failed

【答案】B

【解析】continue to do sth继续干某事

50. A. fierce           B. empty               C. safe                  D. silent

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静

51.A. looked after   B. worried about    C. thought about    D. brought up

【答案】C

【解析】Ａ．照看　Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考  Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。

52. A. forced         B. determined         C. born                 D. urged

【答案】C

【解析】be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”

53. A. idea             B. possibility          C. challenge           D. problem

【答案】B

【解析】我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。

54. A. progress      B. peace                C. decisions           D. efforts

【答案】A

【解析】make progress取得进步

55. A. panic           B. pressure            C. loss                  D. trouble

【答案】D

【解析】save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。

完形填空(Cloze Test)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The Canadian people are made up of different national races. The first known settlers of the country were the Indians.

　　It is believed that the Indians entered this continent ___1___ the Berlin Strait from eastern Asia at ___2___ 10,000 years ago. When Europeans first ___3___ the country, Indians were living in ___4___ of the forested areas. There were only a few Indians in the provinces ___5___ the Atlantic Ocean.

　　The second ___6___ of people to enter Canada were the Eskimos. They ___7___ the Berlin Strait from Asia less than 3,000 years ago. There are few ___8___ of their early movements.

　　The first white settlers in Canada were the French. They came in greatest ___9___ to Quebec, but also to Nova Scotia, where they cleared（清除）farms ___10___ the southern side of the Bay of Fundy（芬迪湾，位于加拿大和美国之间）.

　　The French built their citadel（城堡）at Quebec City, and cleared farms out of the forests in the area. By the ___11___ of the British conquest（征服）in 1763, there were about 60,000 Frenchmen in Canada, living chiefly ___12___ Quebec and Montreal.

　　There were not many British people in Canada until American Revolution ___13___ large numbers northward.

　　Throughout the 19th century, thousands of British people came to Canada. The descendants（后代）of these peoples from England, Scotland and Ireland now ___14___ up about half of the population. Around the turn of the century, people came ___15___ increasing numbers from Europe and the largest numbers came from Central and Eastern--Germans, Czechs, Poles, Romanians and Ukrainians.

今年，你将高三毕业。为使即将升入本校的高一新生的高中生活更顺利，学校的《英语学习园地》请你给他们留言，提出一些中肯的建议。请根据下面的提示，用英语写一篇短文。

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