1．　　When I was a boy, a tree (1)       by my father. He took me (2)       the yard, and told me it was a redbud tree. He told me what we could do (3)       sure the tree would be big and strong one day. "One day," he said, "your boys(4)       this tree." (5)       I was only eight at the time, I was taller than this tree. Was it going to grow (6)       enough for my sons to climb?I had to see that!
　　Well, a young boy's attention (注意力) was drawn here and there easily, so the tree soon "got lost" among many (7)       things in my inquisitive (好奇的) mind. (8)       goes by quickly, and I now find (9)       well beyond my father's age when we planted that tree. I was always "too busy", and (10)       have those sons who were to climb that tree. As a matter of fact, I'd seldom even thought of the tree in many years.
　　Things have a strange way of coming about. I recently thought of the old neighborhood (11)       that tree came to mind. I wanted to see what had happened to it. The neighborhood had changed a lot over the years, but I had no trouble (12)       the old house and the tree. That redbud tree was much taller than my house and protected it like (13)       umbrella. Although it wasn't there for "my boys" to climb, there was a swing (秋千) hanging from the big branch of the tree.
　　As I drove away, that visit brought many things I'd forgotten over the years to my mind. But one thought impressed me (14)      . I realized I had spent (15)       time "being busy" in the course of my life.

2．　　A man had a cat that climbed up a tree and then was afraid to come down. He (1)       warm milk to it, but it would not come down.
　　The tree was not strong enough to climb. So the man decided to tie a rope to his (2)       and pull it until the tree bent (弯曲) down. He believed that he could then reach up and get the cat (3)      .
　　While he was checking his progress, he then thought if he went just a little bit (4)      , the tree would be bent low enough for him to reach the cat. But as he moved the cat a little further forward, the rope broke.
　　The tree went "boing" (弹开) and the cat was nowhere to be found.
　　The man felt (5)      . He asked people he met if (是否) they (6)       a little cat. Nobody did.
　　A few days later, he met his neighbor at a store. He happened to look into her shopping basket and was (7)       to see cat food.
　　This woman was a cat (8)       and everyone knew it, so he asked her, "Why are you buying cat food? I know you don't like cats." The woman then told him how her little girl begged (恳求) her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days ago, the child begged again, so the woman finally (9)       her little girl, "Well, I'll let you keep a cat if it falls from the sky."
　　She told the man, "I watched my child go out in the yard, and look straight into the (10)      . And a cat suddenly came flying through the air, and landed right in front of her."

3．　　Long long ago, a king dressed up and went to a local village. He put a large stone in the middle of the main road and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he stayed behind a huge tree and watched.
　　The first person down the street was a milkman with his car. He crashed into the stone and the milk spread all over the ground. "What fool put this stone here?" he shouted. He picked himself up and angrily went away.
　　After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over (绊倒) the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and walked away in tears. She and her friends didn't think about moving the stone out of the road.
　　The king watched all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody was pleased to move it. The king wanted to know, "Is there no one in this village who feels any responsibility (责任) to keep their neighbors from harm?"
　　Just then, the king saw a young girl coming along. She was the daughter of a local farmer. She worked all day and was very tired. But when she saw the stone, she said to herself, "This stone is a danger to anyone who comes down the road after dark, I'll move it out of the way. "
　　After a lot of effort, the girl finally succeeded in moving the stone to the side of the road. Imagine her surprise when she saw the gold coins under the stone!
　　Just then, the king came out from behind the tree. "Oh, sir, " the girl said, "Is this gold yours?If not, we surely must find the owner, for he or she will certainty miss it. "
　　The king said, "My dear, the gold is mine, but now the gold is yours, because you are the only person that has learned the lesson I want to teach my people. Nothing good can come to a nation whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems. "

4．　　FREE SOLO is a film, which won the Best Documentary (纪录片) of Oscar in 2019. In fact, Free Soloing is an extreme sport which is a rock climbing without a rope or any safety protection. Imagine an Olympic gold medal level athletic achievement, if you don't get that gold medal, you are going to die. This is pretty much what free soloing is like. You have to do it perfectly, without any mistakes. Quite a few climbers fell and died in the mountains during the free soloing because it's full of super great risk.
　　The film shows us that a rock climber called Alex Honnold performs a free solo climbing EI Capitan. Alex was born on August 17, 1985, in America. He began to learn how to free solo at the age of 19. Later he made free soloing a big part of his life.
　　EI Capitan is a 3, 200﹣foot﹣high (over 900 metres high) sheer granite (陡峭的花岗岩) in Yosemite National Park, in California. Nobody succeeded in free soloing it but Alex wanted to be the first one. He spent years getting ready for it. He says that during free soloing the big challenge is controlling his mind especially the fear of death. He also thinks that a climber has to give something 100% focus (专注) because his life depends on it, or he will lose his life.
　　Finally Alex had the best day of his life. On June 3, 2017, Alex became the first and only person to free solo EI Capitan. It took him 3 hours and fifty-six minutes to stand on the top of EI Capitan.
　　Alex is not only a wonderful a free solo climber but also has set up Honnold Foundation. It supports projects toward a clean, healthy, efficient and globally future.

5．Here's a list of some tourist attractions that have reopened to help you have a great time.

6．　　A China Eastern Airlines plane with 132 people aboard crashed in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on 21st March, 2022. After flight (飞行) recorder of the plane was found.
　　A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in a plane for the purpose of facilitating (使便利)the investigation of aviation (航空) accidents and incidents. Flight recorders are also known by the misnomer black box — they are, in fact, painted bright orange in color to aid in their recovery after accidents.
　　A black box is an electronic device in a plane that records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence (证据) about accidents. They are a group of data collection devices fixed in the tail of a plane.
　　The black box is the size of a shoe box. It is made up of two separate pieces of equipment (单独的设备): the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). FDRs record things like airspeed, altitude, vertical acceleration and fuel flow and so on. CVRs track the crew's interactions with each other and air traffic control, but also background noise that can give vital clues (线索) to investigators.
　　The black box can work for 30 days without any electricity. It can withstand a temperature of 1100 ℃. When this box is lost anywhere, it keeps on emitting (发射) the waves along with a beep sound for about 30 days.

7．　　There are many beautiful sounds in the world. You can hear the songs of birds and the laughter of people. You can listen to cool music and news reports. (1)       They bring you a world of sounds.
　　However, many people can't hear any sound at all. (2)       Others can hear well in their childhood, but too many loud sounds hurt their ears and they go deaf later on. Also, many people in China can't hear ordinary sounds clearly. Lots of them are children. About six children of every one thousand have hearing problems when they are born.
　　(3)       For example, too much earwax (耳垢) is not good for your hearing. If you find you have too much earwax, ask your parents to help you clean it out And noise louder than 85 decibels (分贝) can hurt your hearing and make you lose your hearing for a short time or even forever.
　　Hearing is important. (4)       Don't forget to do the following:
　　Try to stay away from places with too much noise. If you have to go, wear earplugs. (5)      
　　When swimming, remember to put earplugs into your ears to stop the water from getting in. Never put anything sharp into your ears.
　　Keep these things in mind. Then you won't be saying "WHAT?WHAT?" when you are older.
A. Some of them are born deaf.
B. That's all because of your ears!
C. A lot of things can cause hearing problems.
D. A pair of good earplugs can reduce the noise by 30 decibels.
E. It helps do your best to give your ears special care.

8．　　William is a (1)d       man because his feet were badly hurt in a car accident when he was a small boy. After the accident, he had to stay in hospital for several years. However, nothing could help cure his feet. Finally, he (2)a       the fact that he lost his feet and wouldn't walk any more.
　　In his childhood, he liked watching cartoons and drawing pictures of them because they brought him a lot of (3)j      . More importantly, cartoon (4)c       raise his spirits, such as The Ugly Ducking. So he decided to learn how to make cartoons and try to give people happiness and laughter. With the help of some computer (5)p       , he can make cartoons including doing the voices and recording the sound effects. Now many people enjoy his cartoons and he is a successful animator.

14．作为社区的志愿者(community volunteers), 你和你的同学4月2日去了阳光敬老院(Sunshine Nursing Home)开展了志愿者活动(送水果、打扫、聊天等), 假设你是学校英语报的记者, 请写一篇新闻报道:
1. 当天活动的时间、地点、人物、活动;
2. 老人们的反应或感受;
3. 你的感受．
要求:
1. 所写内容必须包括所提供的信息．
2. 字数80词左右．
3. 不能透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息, 否则不予评分．
　　As community volunteer, my classmates and I went to __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________