松江区
I remember a psychiatrist（精神病医生）once said that if you ever feel sad, the best thing to do is do something for someone else because it gets you focused. It’s hard to be unhappy while serving someone else. A byproduct（副产品）of h__81__ others is feeling wonderful yourself.
I remember sitting in an airport one day, waiting for my flight. I was e__82__ because I had been upgraded（升级）to a first-class ticket. I had the best seat on the plane, seat 1A.
B__83__ boarding, I noticed a young lady who had several carry-on bags and was holding a crying baby. Having just finished reading a book on doing acts of kindness, I heard my conscience（良心）speak to me, “You guy, let her h__84__ your ticket.” I fought these words for a while but finally gave in.
“Excuse me, but it seems that you could use this first-class ticket more than me. I know how hard it can be flying with a k__85__. Why don’t we trade（交换）our tickets.”
“Are you sure?”
“Oh yeah. I really don’t mind. I’m just going to be working the whole time, anyway.”
“Well, thank you. That’s very kind of you,” she said as we e__86__ our tickets. As we boarded the plane, I was surprised at how good it made me feel to watch her sit down in seat 1A. In fact, at that time, seat 24B or wherever I was sitting didn’t seem that bad at all. During the flight I was so curious to see how she was doing that I could h__87__ stand（忍受）it. So I got up out of my seat, walked to the first-class section. There she was with her baby, both in big and comfortable seat 1A. And I felt like getting a million dollars. I’ve got to keep doing this kind of thing.
杨浦区
Friendship is a valuable gift, but good friends are often hard to find. Building friendships is a lifelong, but worthwhile job. A few points for making new friends：
? Take part in classes, clubs, or volunteer organizations. These activities will bring
you into contact with people who have c___81___ interests.
? Make yourself available. If you want to make friends, you first need to put
yourself out there somehow in order to meet people. If you just sit alone, friends might come to you – but that’s not likely. If you’re still in school, sit somewhere with other people. It doesn’t have to be a crowded table, but one with at least two other people. Remember, friends s___82___ come knocking on your door while you sit at home playing on your laptop. Keeping friends
Whether friendships are old or new, you should give enough care to them if you want them to l___83___. Even though it’s sometimes hard to spend time together, it’s important to keep in touch. Be understanding when plans change. If you find
yourselves fighting, try to look at things from the other person’s point of view. Some tips for keeping friends：
? Be a good listener. Take the time to really hear what they’re saying, and offer
a___84___ only if they ask for it.
? Respect the other person’s opinion, even when you don’t a___85___.
? Keep secrets safe. If your friend tells you something p___86___, don’t share it
with other people.
They need to know that they can trust you with their secrets.
? Show interest in your friend’s life. If your friend is involved in an activity that
they care about, show your support and interest. Offer to go to their e___87___. For example, if your friend plays a sport or is acting in a play, go to a game or performance to cheer them on.
徐汇区
It is never easy when a friend doesn’t tell the the truth. This is something that hurts the person who has been lived to and f___81___ it ends up hurting the person who did the lying as well. Lying is never something that is easy to forget or even to forgive. But it is something that you should try to understand so that you can be a better friend.
Usually, friends lie because of the way that they are feeling. If a friend feels
inferior to（比……差）another person, he might make up stories so that he can get more a ___82___. If your friend is lying to you for this reason, it might be a good idea to talk to your friend and make him understand that he doesn’t need to feel that way.
There are times when a friend might lie to try not getting into trouble. For example, if a friend knows he has been doing something you d___83___, or if he now regrets what he has said or done, he might want to lie about it so that you won’t be angry with him. The best way to deal with this situation is to get to the bottom of what might have happened, and make sure that you are being h___84___ with your friend about everything that you do and the fact that lying hurts.
S___85___, a friend lies for other reasons. One of these reasons might be to protect your feelings. For example, he might lie about h___86___ silly you look or what stupid words you have said. You must decide if truthfulness（真实）is more important than your feelings in this type of situation.
Many times, friends don’t like to hurt each other. Perhaps they know that the truth might make you mad at them, and they just don’t want to lose your f___87___. The best way to deal with lying is to talk to your friends calmly, and get the truth.
虹口区
“Au pair”, originally a French term, refers to a foreigner who lives with a family, so he/she can learn the family’s language and culture, while at the same time, he/she takes care of the family's children and/or cleans the house in return for food, accommodations and a small s__81__. In the past few years, many young Chinese have become au pairs in other countries, and many young foreigners have moved to
China to work as au pairs.
R__82__, the magazine women of China has interviewed three young Chinese, and three foreigners in China, each of whom shared his/her own experiences as an au pair, the following is from an au pair called Natalia Martinez Perez from Republic of Colombia.
I’m nineteen years old and come from Cali, a city in the Republic of Colombia. I have good relations with my brother and cousins, I love children and I consider myself to be a happy person, who is able to make others happy as well. My dream is to travel around the w__83__ and to learn about different cultures and languages.
I saw the beautiful scenery of China and I learned about Chinese culture from m__84__ and dramas that I watched. I practiced speaking Chinese whenever I had free time. I have always been interested in traveling to China since I fell in love with China and its culture. I respect the Chinese culture, and I want to know more about it. I was an au pair in some other countries before I moved to China in October 2015. When I heard about the chance to go to China, I immediately applied.
Now I live with my host family in Shanghai, the family has a daughter. I have d__85__ a good relationship with the girl, her parents and their relatives. The girl says she really likes me. She asks me to tell her a story before she goes to sleep each night. I teach the girl English after she finishes her homework. I teach her in various ways and she has showed a great interest in learning English. I cook Colombian food for the girl sometimes. And we also like to go shopping together.
Becoming an au pair has p__86__ a good chance for me to experience different cultures in different countries and think I'm having an a__87__ experience in China.
奉贤区
Once, a king had a great highway built for his people. Just before it was opened to the public,
the king decided to have a contest. He i___81__ his people to take part in the contest. Their challenge was to see w__82___ could travel the highway the best.
On the day of the contest, some people came to the highway in fine clothing; some had fancy hairstyles or brought great food. Some young men came in their sports clothes and ran
along the highway. People raveled the highway all day. But each one c__83__to the king that there was a large pile of stones in the way that had blocked his or her travels.
At the end of the day, a lonely traveler crossed the finishing line and walked over to the king.He was tired and d___84__, but
he showed the king great r__85___ and handed him a bag of gold. He explained: \ stopped along the way to clear a pile of
stones that was blocking the road. This bag of gold was under it all. I want you to return it to its rightful owner.\
The king replied:
\
are the
rightful
owner.
You've earned
this gold, for you won my contest.\
The man won the contest just b___86__ he was the only one who stopped to make the road smoother. Sometimes, the greatest prize comes not from helping y___87__, but from helping others. 嘉定区
Most of you have found the game in newspapers. Usually it has 15 letters and starts with C. Now that you have all these hints (提示), can you tell what it is? The answer is a “crossword puzzle(纵横字谜).”
You may not be familiar with it, but the game is certainly p 81 in the US. First invented in 1913 by a newspaper journalist named Arthur Wynne, crossword puzzles soon became part of the country’s well-known culture. Books and video games were made about crossword puzzles. D 82 were even put on trains for players to look up the words. And over 100 years later, crossword puzzles are still loved by American people.
At the end of last month, The New York Times published its l 83 puzzle in its history :a 50*50 square with 728 hints that was five times the size of the newspaper’s usual puzzles. It may take even skilled puzzle solvers days to finish it.
This kind of love for a game may be hard to understand, but Merl Regale, one of the most famous crossword creators in the US, explained it.” Crosswords are a dream e 84 that no one’s been able to take.” He once told the Washington Post,” the human mind wants a hint.”
Hints are the most important part of a puzzle. They lead you r 85 to the words. In a basic Christmas-themed puzzle, for example, one of the hints could be,” Santa fills it with presents for the children.” The word here is “stocking”. There can be difficult cultural
questions about subjects like native American history. In order to c 86 the puzzles, you have to be familiar with the names of places, people, foods and even farming tools. But the puzzle is not just there to frighten players with hard-to-get hints and difficult words. It’s a game after all, so fun comes first.
“You want to come up with an idea that’s fresh and interesting. And then you want to fill the crossword with as many good, lively, colorful words as you can,” Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times, told business insider.
This is why crosswords puzzles are not meant to be finished in a rush. “I put a lot of work into these jokes in the puzzles. I don’t want someone to get through it too f 87 .”Reagle once told Wired magazine. 崇明区
Can you remember where you were and what you were doing on Saturday. July 24, 2010? Probably not. However, at least 80,000 people around the world remember c____81___. They all shot videos about their lives on that particular day and uploaded （上传） them on the Internet. They hoped that their videos could be a p___82____of a film .
After people had uploaded the videos, two famous directors , Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald , chose some videos and remade them into a complete film. It took them more than one year. The r____83____ is Life in a Day. a 90-minute
documentary(纪录片) about lives of ordinary people. The film starts with people waking up, brushing their teeth and preparing breakfast. Then it shows what people around the world do d_84____the day.
To make the videos, people were given several basic questions: What do you love most? What do you fear most? Or simply, what's in your pocket? People could also choose to shoot anything about their d 85__ life. Most of the stories were exciting and interesting.
One brief scene shows a Japanese boy who lives with his father in an
apartment. When the boy says good morning to a picture of his mother on a table, we r ___86_____his mother has died. The film also introduces us to many other memorable characters: an American soldier, an Afghan news photographer, a shoeshine boy...
The producers also sent about 400 cameras to people in the developing world who might not have heard of the project or were not connected to the Internet.
The film has m___87_____ a lot of people, because everything shown in the film is so real and simple. It is about family, children, love, not being alone, not
wanting to live through a war, feeling frightened of illness and death. That's what life is.
青浦区
2017年初三二模英语汇总之首字母填空S
