完形填空。 Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white

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     Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house.
No card came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not  1 at all. After a while I stopped trying to  2  the
sender"s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
     However, I never  3  imagining who the giver night be. Some of my happiest  4  were spent day
dreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She"d ask me if there was someone for
whom I had shown special   5 . Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I"d delivered during
the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a   6 I had run into.
     One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely   7   in my
upcoming graduation dance, and I didn"t   8   if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, despite her own
sadness, would not let me   9 any of those things. She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel
  10 . In truth, my mother wanted her children to see  11  much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect
with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘) .
     My mother died ten days after I was married. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year the gardenia
stopped  12 .

答案

举一反三

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(     )1. A. careful
(     )2. A. take out
(     )3. A. stopped
(     )4. A. moments
(     )5. A. practice
(     )6. A. visitor
(     )7. A. uncomfortable
(     )8. A. want
(     )9. A. leave
(     )10. A. needed
(     )11. A. herself
(     )12. A. coming

B. helpful
B. work out
B. began
B. festivals
B. housework
B. child
B. uninterested
B. hope
B. miss
B. noticed
B. myself
B. sending

C. exciting
C. find out
C. kept
C. seasons
C. kindness
C. lady
C. unbelievable
C. know
C. have
C. loved
C. ourselves
C. giving

D. interesting
D. put out
D. loved
D. holidays
D. exercise
D. boy
D. unimportant
D. care
D. hear
D. moved
D. themselves
D. growing

1-6 BCAACD 7-12 BDBCDA

阅读理解。

     Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble.  I"m not a bad person; I have a hard time
learning when to keep my mouth closed.
     My mom has told me again and again, " Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me.  If you continue
to be this rude, you will get into big trouble. "
     It"s been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something l didn"t want to hear.
I used to feel it was my duty to stand up for myself.
     One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate talking behind me. It
was Nathaniel, talking to himself as usual.
      I said ever so nicely, "Nathaniel, would you be quiet?"
     Wathaniel continued talking to himself.  I quickly shouted " Nathaniel,  shut up ! "
      For the next five minutes, we threw hurtful words hack and forth at each other.
       "At least I don"t have an ugly lazy eye like you!"  I shouted.
      I knew this would upset him deep inside. Jt would hurt his feelings and shut him up.
     What I said filled him with anger.  He tried co reach over my seat and grab me as he shouted,  "That"s it!
That"s it ! "
     Surprised at his reaction, I sat back in my seat. Never had I seen Nathaniel act like this before.
      Later on, we were taken to the principal"s ofrice.
     There, Mr. Black, the principal, told us to discuss the matter. It wasn"t until then that I finally found chat
when I hurt someone physically, the wounds eventually heal.  But when I hurt them with my words,
sometimes the pain (痛苦) never goes away.
     At the end of the discussion, I said sorry to Nathaniel. When I headed back to my room, I spent some
time praying.  I began to think about how often what I said hurt others. But I believe that as l keep praying
and asking God to help me, he"ll tell me when to keep my mouth closed.

1. What"s the writer"s name?

A. Nathaniel.
B. Robert
C. Black.
D. Creen.

2. One day in English class, Nathaniel ________ when the ocher classmates worked on their homework.

A. read the text
B. listened to the others
C. talked to himself
D. kept silent

3. What"s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word heal?

A. 愈合
B. 痛苦
C. 和好
D. 伤害

4. In the text the writer tried to tell us that ________.

A. when you hurt someone, the pain never goes away
B. we should try to help each other at school
C. t is one"s duty to stand up for himself
D. words cause more pain than wounds

阅读理解。

Here are two letters to George and his replies.

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Dear George,
I"m fourteen and I"m much shorter for my age. What"s worse, I"m very fat. I want to be 55 kg and to be
taller and then I can go to the school basketball team and enjoy myself. Can you help me?

Bob

Dear Bob,
Don"t worry if you"re shorter than your friends.Teenagers grow at different times. It doesn"t matter how
heavy you are. You are still the same person.Plan your meals with your mum,and she can help you lose
weight. Also,try taking more exercise.

George

阅读理解。

     Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out
ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by
genes. However, of all the factors,wealth and age are the top two.
     Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each
extra dollar makes less and less difference.
     Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier.  But the link between money and happiness
is complex (复杂的).  In the past half-century, the average income (平均收入)  has sharply increased in
developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met,
money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
     "Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better," say some experts, which helps
explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept
relatively poorly-paid jobs.
      In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires (***) , not just for money,
but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than
those who felt a smaller gap (差距).  Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better
than income alone.  "the gap measures just blow away the measures of only income." says Michalos.
     Another factor that has to do with happiness is age.  Old age may not be so bad "Civen all the problems of
aging,  how could the elderly be more satisfied?" asks Professor Laura Carstensen.  In one survey, Carstensen
interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire.
She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest
older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they"re more realistic about their time
running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don"t.
    "People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever," she says.  "A
goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional
responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20. "

1. Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs _________.

A. make them feel much better
B. provide chances to make friends
C. improve their social position
D. satisfy their professional interests

2. Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if _________.

A. the gap between reality and desire is bigger
B. they have a stronger desire for friendship
C. the hope for good health is much greater
D. their income is far below their expectation

3. We can infer from the passage that older people _________.

A. would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people
B. are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others
C. express their positive opinions just as some young people do
D. find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic

4. According to the passage, the feeling of happiness _________.

A. increases gradually with age
B. is controlled partly by desires
C. has little to do with wealth
D. is decided mostly by genes

根据短文内容，用方框中所给词填空。

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always quiet name listen friend practice good

完形填空。

     My hero is my father, Peter Murawski, because without my dad, my life would be nothing. My dad works
to support the  1 . Not only does he put in the normal weekday, he also works a night shift to add money to
the family budget so that we can have a roof over our heads, food on the table, heat, electricity, cable and in
the future, a college education. Dad doesn"t get home  2 midnight and he gets up every morning at 6:00. In the
moming, my dad wakes me up. Then he goes downstairs to make lunch for us. He makes sure we get off to
school and is there to give us a  3 if one of us misses the bus. After that, Dad goes to work; he spends eight
hours staring at a computer screen. When he returns home, Dad usually  4 has an hour or so before he has to
leave for his other jobs. I help by fixing dinner, but sometimes he doesn"t even have time to.  5 .
     On the weekends, you would think that Dad would want to  6 , but he"s still up at the crack of dawn.
What is he doing? He"s either working in the yard  7 making repairs to the house.
     Every once in a long while Dad will stop and rest. He"ll  8  to a nice family dinner or lounge in his big
comfortable chair to watch football or channel surf. At these times my dad gets the energy he needs to keep
up his lifestyle, sacrificing (牺牲) all his  9  for the family.
     My dad is a real  10  of what you can do for your family if you really love them. He puts us first and never
stops to think of  11 . He deserves to be rewarded, yet if I mentioned that to him, he"d say that the  12 of his
children are enough for him.

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