11．　　During the summer vacation, Zhang Hua took part in the 16th Natural English Competition, and at last he was listed in the top 10 and got valuable (1)      .
　　He never (2)      to go that far. And he had never thought about standing that high on the stage (舞台). (3)       at that moment, he was ready to challenge himself.
　　To take part in the competition, he prepared for it fully, (4)      a three-minute speech again and again and overcame stage fright (恐惧).
　　(5)      of his teammates, his good friend in his school, gave him lots of encouragement and(6)      during the competition. Her ideas were new and powerful. She was like his coach, who showed him(7)      to search for useful materials online and how to express his own ideas(8)      .
　　Thanks to the competition and the (9)      of his friend, he now feels more relaxed on stage and he isn't(10)      talking in public any more.

12．　　Last year, I worked near my mother's house and stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her do some housework and (1)      some food.
　　A week later, I noticed that the food ran out very(2)      . Then I began keeping an eye on my mum. To my(3)      , I found that she would put some food into a bag and go out with it every morning. And finally, I decided to (4)      her. I saw her taking the food to the street children and spending a lot of time talking and playing with them.
　　One day, I talked with a neighbor and (5)       that my mum was well-known in the area. The children were very friendly to her and even thought of her as their own mother. Why didn't she tell me about it?Was she(6)      that I would stop buying food if I knew the truth?When my mum got home, I gave her a big hug (拥抱) . I told her she didn't need to keep it a(7)      from me. And she told me(8)      about the children. Some of them lived with an old lady in a small house. Others slept on the street. (9)      she told me everything, I was so moved by her kindness.
　　I continued to buy food for my mum after that. But I (10)      added one more bag for her other "children".

14．　　One day, a man was walking by the corner of a street. There he met a little boy holding a bird cage and selling the birds inside. The man stopped and looked very sadly at the birds in front of him. The birds were screaming in the cage, giving a high cry and tying to fly away.
　　After standing for a moment, he said to the boy, "How much does your bird cost?I want…"
　　 "One, fifty cents, sir." the boy answered quickly.
　　"I am afraid that you are mistaken. I am not asking how much it is." The man said, "I would like to buy all of them. What I ask is how much you want for them."
　　Hearing this, the boy happily counted the number of the birds in the cage.
　　"Five dollars."
　　"Here you are!" The man passed the money. The boy counted excitedly. Suddenly he was surprised to find the cage was empty!
　　"Oh, my god, for what reason did you do that, sir?You don't even get a bird!" The boy asked the man who set the birds free.
　　"My boy, let me tell you why I did this." The man said, "I have no right to keep them. Every life should be free and they are our friends. So we should let them free."

15．　　Can you imagine a cloud floating in the middle of your room?Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird?Here, we have picked out four interesting inventions to share with you.
　　Talking Gloves
　　Four foreign students have created a pair of gloves, and it helps people to communicate with people who have hearing and speaking problems. The gloves are equipped with sensors (传感器). They recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smartphone. Then the smartphone changes the text to spoken words. Thus you can understand sign language easily.
　　Google Glasses
　　Google Glasses are like a computer built into a pair of glasses. Then the glasses allow you to surf the Internet and make calls without even lifting a finger. The glasses also have a camera and GPS mapping system. Users can take and share photos, check maps and surf the Internet just by looking up, down, left and right.
　　Indoor Clouds
　　That's a real world. An artist, Smilde managed to create a small but perfect white cloud in the middle of a room using a fog machine. But it required careful planning — the temperature, humidity (湿度) and lighting all had to be just right. The cloud only lasted for a short while, though.
　　Wingsuits
　　The suit realizes your dream of flying like a bird. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding(滑翔)through the air. It increases the surface area of the human body, which makes it easier for people to float in the air. Fliers wearing wingsuits can glide one kilometer in about 30 seconds.

16．　　Doctors say anger (怒气) can be very harmful, unless you learn how to deal with it. So what exactly do you know about anger? (1)      Some people express anger openly in a proper way. Others cry with anger, and shout loudly.
　　But other people keep their anger inside. They can't or will not express it. (2)      But many doctors think it is more dangerous to a person's health than expressing anger. They say that when a person is angry, some hormones (荷尔蒙) come out of the brain. They speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure or sugar into the blood, etc. As a result, the person feels excited and ready to act.
　　So is there any way? (3)      They think the first step is to realize that you are angry and to know the real cause of the anger, then decide whether the cause is serious to you. If it is, they say, "(4)      You should wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself in a proper way." Doctors say that another good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry. (5)      

17．　　China is a large country. It has special cultures with a very long history.
　　Chinese food plays (1)      important role for Chinese families. Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods (2)      (be) rice. Tea is a favorite drink. Chinese calendar is different from the one in (3)       (west) countries. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. And it also has some special (4)      (tradition) cultures. For example, sweeping the floor (5)      New year's Day sweeps away all the old year's bad (6)      (lucky). The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve﹣year cycle. Each year is (7)       (name) after an animal. For example, the year that begins in 2022 is the year of the tiger. Chinese is a little difficult language. Chinese writing(8)       (develop) for over 4, 000 years. It has thousands of characters. A character stands for a word and also a (9)       (mean). Besides Putonghua, Chinese people speak some other (10)      (form) of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects (方言).

18．阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容, 在下面的表格中填入与文章意思最符合的单词, 每空填一词, 并把所填内容填写在答题卡上相应位置．
　　What is the best-selling book in the world?Is it the Harry Potter series or Secret Garden?
　　According to the Guinness (吉尼斯) World Records, the Xinhua Dictionary is the world's most popular dictionary and the best-selling book.
　　In 1950 Chinese language experts, Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao, started to edit (编辑) the Xinhua Dictionary. There was a lot of discussion, research and paper work. People's Daily reported that some hand scripts (稿件) were checked again and again like compositions. After three years, with the hard work of all, the first Xinhua Dictionary finally appeared. Today, 567 million copies of the dictionary have been sold around the world. However, revisions (修订) to the dictionary go on to be made. So far, the Xinhua Dictionary has been revised 11 times.
　　In order to keep up with the times, some popular and widely used Internet words are also added to the dictionary. For example, in the 11th edition, the expressions "晒工资(show off salary)"and "晒照片(show off pictures" were included. All these efforts have made the "National Dictionary" of China.
　　The Xinhua Dictionary is so popular that it has become a useful tool not only for Chinese people but also for foreigners who are learning the Chinese language and culture.

19．理想(ideal)是人生导航的灯塔, 它指引我们成为对祖国和社会有用的人．近来, 某英文报刊将举行以"如何做一名有理想的时代新人"为主题的征文活动, 请你结合以下提示要点和自己的认识, 写一篇英文稿件．
写作要点:
(1)你的理想是什么?
(2)为什么有这样的理想? (不少于两点理由)
(3)你打算怎样实现自己的理想? (不少于两点做法)
写作要求:
(1)文中须包含以上要点;
(2)文中不能提及本人的真实姓名、地名和校名;
(3)词数80左右, 标题和开头语已给出, 不计入总词数．
参考词汇:ideal adj. & n. 理想的;理想
My Ideal
　　In the new times it's very important for us to be a middle school student with an ideal. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________