（2018全国一卷）
During my second year at the city college，I was told that the education department was offering a \ 41 the idea of taking the class because，after all ,who doesn't want to 42 a few dollars? More than that, I'd always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t 43 enough about free credits, news about our 44 was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which 45 I would be learning from one of the game's 46 .I could hardly wait to 47 him.
Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this 48 was no game for him: he meant business. In his introduction, he made it 49 that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to 50 the class ,among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to 51 what we would learn in class to our future professions and, 52 ,to our lives. I managed to get an A in that 53 and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the 54 . Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I'm still putting to use what he 55 me:“The absolute most important 56 that you learn when you play chess is how to make good 57 .On every single move you have to 58 a situation ,process what your opponent(对手）is doing and 59 the best move from among all your options.”These words still ring true today in my 60 as a journalist.
41. A. put forward 42. A. waste 43. A. excited 44. A. title 45. A. urged 46. A. fastest
B. jumped at B. worried
C. tried out C. moved C. held C. best C. honor C. skip C. apply C. course
D. turned down D. tired D. instructor D. meant D. rarest D. beat D. job D. observe D. compare D. normally D. experiment D. situation D. promised D. skill D. comments D. control D. evaluate D. behavior
B. earn C. save D. pay B. competitor B. demanded B. easiest B. meet
C. textbook
47.A. interview 48. A. chance 50. A. attend 51. A. add 53. A. game 55. A. taught 56. A. fact 57. A. grades 58. A. analyze 60. A. role
C. challenge
B. qualification B. pass B. expose
52. A. eventually 54. A. criterion
B. naturally C. directly B. presentation B. classroom B. wrote B. step
C. department C. questioned C. manner C. rebuild C. block
B. decisions B. describe B. signal
B. desire
C. impressions
59. A. announce
C. concern
（2018全国二卷）
Two weeks earlier, my son, Ben, had got in touch , he’d moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I’d 41 seen him . So imagine my 42 when he emailed me saying he wanted to come to visit me.
I was 43 ! I arrived early at Byron Bay where we were supposed to 44 . The bay was 45 in sunshine, and there was a group of kayakers around 150m off the shore. Getting a little 46 . I realized one kayak（皮划艇）was in 47 . “Something’s not 48 !” I took off my T-shirt and 49 into the water. I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle. He was 50 violently. Linking arms with one of the instructors . I helped 51 the young man out of the water. He was unconscious and as I looked at his face, something 52 to me. Those brown eyes were very 53 . “What’s his name ?” I asked the instructor. “Ben,” he replied, and immediately I 54 . That stranger was my son!
The instructors called for an ambulance. 55 ,after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to 57 to me. “I just want to say thank you,” he said, “You 58 my life !”
I still can’t believe what a 59 it was. I’m just so glad I was there 60 to help my son.
41.A. also
B. often B. relief B. shocked B. stay B. clean B. closer B. advance B. right B. sank B. fighting B. persuade B. occurred B. pleasant B. hesitated B. Frankly B. relax B. turned B. honored B. change B. in time
C. even C. anger C. thrilled C. meet C. deep C. heavier C. question C. fair
C. dived C. shouting C. carry C. applied C. attractive C. doubted C. Sadly C. speak C. listened C. saved C. pity C. for sure
D. last D. worry D. ashamed D. settle D. formed D. wiser D. battle D. fit D. fell D. shaking D. keep D. appealed D. familiar D. knew D. Suddenly D. leave D. pointed D. guided D. pain D. on purpose
42.A. delight 43.A. scared 44.A. talk
45.A. bathed 46.A. faster 47.A. trouble 48.A. real
49.A. stared 50.A. arguing 51.A. lead
52.A. happened 53.A. sharp 54.A. agreed 55.A. Fortunately 56.A. return 57.A. joked 58.A. created 59.A. coincidence 60.A. on board
be allowed to 56 and later the family met up for dinner. We chatted about everything and then Ben
（2018全国三卷）
When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say \ 41 number!\move on But when Dennis Williams 42 a text that clearly wasn't intended for him, he did something 43 . On March 19,Dennis got a group text 44 him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the 45 of a baby. \But I think someone was mistaken,\Dennis 46 . The baby was born and update texts were 47 quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her 48 , she didn't seem to realized that she was 49 the baby 's photos with a complete stranger.“Well, I don't 50 you all but I will get there to take pictures with the baby”, replied Dennis before asking which room the new 51 were in. Much to the family's surprise, Dennis stuck to his 52 ! He turned up at the hospital 53 gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy. Limdsey's husband was totally 54 by the unexpected visit. “I don't think we would have randomly invited him over but we 55 it and the gifts.”
Teresa 56 a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website 57 by the touching words: “What a 58 this young man was to our family! He was so 59 and kind to do this. “The post has since gained the 60 of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184, 000 shares and 61 ,500 likes in just three days.
41. A. unlucky 42. A. received 43. A. reasonable 44. A. convincing 45. A. wake-up 46. A. responded 47. A. coming in 48. A. opinion 50. A. accept 51. A. parents 52. A. dream 53. A. bearing 55. A. admit 56. A. found 58. A. pity 59. A. smart
49. A. comparing
B. secret B. translated B. special B. recovery
C. new
D. wrong D. printed D. practical D. warning D. arrival D. repeated D. effort D. sharing D. bother D. visitors D. principle D. making D. defeated D. expect D. posted D. accompanied D. problem D. fair D. trust
C. copied
C. necessary C. growth
B. reminding C. informing B. interrupted C. predicted B. anxiety B. know
C. excitement C. believe C. agenda
B. setting out C. passing down D. moving around B. exchanging C. discussing B. doctors B. promise
C. patients
B. collecting C. opening
C. astonished C. appreciate C. developed C. relief C. sweet C. control
B. need
54. A. discouraged B. relaxed
B. selected B. blessing B. calm
B. attention
57. A. confirmed B. simplified C. clarified
60. A. sympathy