五、短文填空。(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Once upon a time, there was a group of friends who loved hiking(远足). They often went on hikes in the mountains to explore(探索) the 1 (nature) world.
One day, they decided to climb a strange mountain. In 2 beginning, everything seemed to be smooth. The sun was shining brightly and they were chatting and laughing as they walked. Tom was the most 3 (humour) one among them. He 4 (easy) made everyone laugh with his jokes so that their journey seemed easy. But as they went higher, the wind 5 (blow) harder.
Suddenly, they found they took a wrong path. They were getting a bit 6 (help).
Jack, who 7 (lead) the group at that time, started to feel worried. He remembered that he once read about this place before and knew they were in trouble. While they were trying to find out what to do, it started to rain 8 (heavy). They were all getting wet and cold. It wasn’t the worst. The muddy(泥泞的) ground made it difficult 9 them to move forwards!
It took them a long time to find their way back down the mountain. They learnt that they should always be more careful 10 get prepared. They told themselves that they would not make the same mistake again.
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六、阅读表达。(共3小题;第1、2小题2分,第3小题3分,满分7分)
阅读下面短文,用英语回答短文后的问题。
In his lovely piece of writing “Why Write?”, the writer Paul Auster shared a story about growing up as an eight-year-old boy in New York City. He was crazy about baseball, especially the New York Yankees. The only thing he remembered about attending his first major league baseball game was that he saw his hero Willie Mays after the game. The young Auster gathered his courage and went close to his hero. “Mr Mays,” he said, “could I please have your autograph(亲笔签名)?”
“Sure, kid, sure,” Mays replied kindly. “Have you got a pencil?”
Auster didn’t have a pencil with him. Neither did his father or his mother or anyone else in his group have one.
Mays waited patiently, but when it became clear that no one present had anything to write with, he said, “Sorry, kid. We’ve got no pencil. I can’t give you my autograph.”
From that day on, Auster made it a habit to never leave the house without a pencil in his pocket. “It’s not that I had any special plans for that pencil,” Auster wrote, “but I didn’t want to be unprepared. I had been caught empty-handed once, and I wasn’t about to let it happen again. The years have taught me this: If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel like starting to use it. That’s how I became a writer.”
What is your pencil? What is so important that without it you may feel unprepared? I know some cartoonists always carry pens and paper and some photographers always have a camera. They are always prepared.
Pick your “pencil” and don’t leave home without it.
1. To get Willie Mays’ autograph, what did Auster need?
2. What habit did Auster form after that day?
3. What do you think of Auster’s habit? Why do you think so?