Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2018·陕西西安地区八校联考)
I can never forget the stamp incident which happened when I was a primary school pupil.
My best friend，Apple，was a stamp-collector.He tried every way to get stamps and spent every penny he had on them.Once he obtained a beautiful or precious stamp he would be more than happy.I was always his companion in his search for stamps.
One day Apple whispered to me mysteriously that he had found a most wonderful stamp on a letter addressed to our young arithmetic teacher，who was a very pretty and kind-hearted girl.Apple wanted that stamp badly and the idea of stealing the letter occurred to him.I was frightened and begged him not to do that.
That evening Apple hurried to my home and showed me a letter.It was a man’s handwriting.In the letter，the man implored our teacher to forgive him and asked her to meet him at the gate of Central Park at eight that evening.If not，he’d take it that she would never forgive him，and it meant the end of their relationship.
“The teacher asked me if there was any letter for her this afternoon.You see，she knows I am a stamp-collector and always wander about the place where letters are delivered.When I said ‘No’，she looked rather sad，” Apple told me.We were completely at a loss.Too frightened to go to the teacher，we decided to go to the meeting place ourselves.
At the park gate，we saw a tall young man with glasses，walking back and forth as if he was waiting for someone.I did not know how long we had been there.Finally，the man left，looking very worried and disappointed.
A few days later，Apple ran to me with stamps in his hand and tears in his eyes.He told me that these were from our teacher.She said that she once had a friend who was a stamp-collector too，but she had lost him forever，so the stamps she had collected for him were no longer useful.
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1．How did the author feel about Apple’s plan that day?
A．Excited. B．Scared.
C．Anxious. D．Regretful.
2．Why did the man write to the author’s teacher?
A．To apologize to her.
B．To ask about the letter.
C．To show his forgiveness.
D．To end their relationship.
3．What happened to the teacher and the man at last?
A．They stopped collecting stamps.
B．They forgave Apple.
C．They solved their problem.
D．They broke up.
4．What could be the most appropriate ending paragraph for the text?
A．From then on，Apple would never collect any more stamps，neither did I.
B．From then on，Apple and I would try to avoid meeting that man at our school.
C．From then on，the man would ask Apple to send messages to my teacher.
D．From then on，my teacher would give all the stamps on her letters to Apple.
Ⅱ.完形填空
Yesterday，our teacher asked us when a man could be referred to as an old man.David stood up and said people with wrinkles could be called old people.However，Mary didn’t 5 ，for some people may gain wrinkles at an early age owing to their 6 lives.Then Lily expressed her idea that those reaching their 60s or more could be called old people.However，Emily expressed her 7 and said some old people may still be energetic and trying to pursue their dreams，which makes them appear 8 .The class was over and we still didn’t reach any 9 ，so the teacher asked us to think about it after class.
The 10 has reminded me of the saying of J．Barrymore that a man isn’t old as long as he is 11 something.
My grandma is such a woman who pursues her dream 12 when she’s 70 now.She has 13 her dream of being a painter since she was a little child. 14 ，because her family was poor，she had to 15 her dream and stepped into the 16 to raise money so as to support her family.Though she has 17 abandoned her dream，she could hardly find any 18 to realize it because of the tough work. 19 ，chance came when she retired from her work.She began taking her painting lessons 20 she had all-white hair and lots of wrinkles.At first，I was 21 her idea of attending school at so old an age，but after seeing her paint happily and enjoyably，I 22 feeling it a good choice.She seems 23 and looks fine.
So if we have our dreams and seek for them，we aren’t old.It’s when we don’t know what we want and let 24 be the center point of our lives that we can finally be regarded as the old. 5．A.respond B．agree
C．identify D．understand
6．A.negative B．boring
