The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with__1__in spite of the terrible surroundings.The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __2__great losses. I felt sorry especially for the__3__, but I__4__to be hopeless.I decided that where I was, I could do__5__to help them.I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who__6__my knock, "I know that you are__7__and give the birds that come to your yard a little__8__.Please consider me your bird.Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your__9__.I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the__10__children." No one seemed to__11__giving me a handful of rice, even__12__they had little themselves.On Sunday, I would go to the__13__and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to__14__to the children. One day, I came to a house that had__15__to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and__16__gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice!I began to ask for__17__and rice from the other "bird feeders", and they gave them to me.Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even__18__only this small way.The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to them for food and clothing. "Consider me your bird." My__19__idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was__20__some peace. |
( )1. A. sorrow ( )2. A. suffered ( )3. A. peasants ( )4. A. wanted ( )5. A. something ( )6. A. said ( )7. A. glad ( )8. A. water ( )9. A. temple ( )10. A. brave ( )11. A. mind ( )12. A. where ( )13. A. village ( )14. A. give in ( )15. A. much ( )16. A. every ( )17. A. help ( )18. A. by ( )19. A. foolish ( )20. A. creating | B. hope B. survived B. citizens B. failed B. everything B. replied B. kind B. money B. room B. hungry B. escape B. that B. hometown B. give up B. little B. each B. clothing B. with B. childish B. mending | C. comfort C. covered C. villagers C. refused C. anything C. answered C. rich C. nest C. door C. promising C. practice C. so C. temple C. give away C. many C. neither C. food C. on C. clever C. developing | D. happiness D. made D. children D. stopped D. nothing D. spoke D. friendly D. rice D. garden D. nervous D. enjoy D. when D. house D. give out D. few D. none D. change D. in D. useful D. managing |
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短文填词 A traveler was staying in an Egyptian village.One day, she held up her________(相机) to take pictures of the children.Suddenly the young o________began to shout at her.Her face turned red and she ________(道歉) to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed________person would lose his soul if his picture was taken.She explained________him the operation of a camera for s________time.Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn"t.When she believed that he didn"t________(害怕) any l________, the traveler then let him speak.With a smile, he said, "The children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take________the lens (镜头) cap!" The traveler was embarrassed with her mouth w________open. | 完形填空 | In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23yearold son, Daniel.In a few hours he would be flying to France to __1__ a different life.It was a transitional (过渡的) time in Daniel"s life.I wanted to __2__ him some words of significance.But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the __3__ time I had let such moments pass. When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten.He asked, "What is it going to be like, Dad?Can I do it?" Then he walked __4__ the steps of the bus and disappeared inside.The bus drove away and I said nothing.A decade later, a similar __5__ played itself out. I drove him to college.As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him __6__ and confidence as he started this new stage of life.Again, words __7__ me. Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those __8__ opportunities.How many times have I let such moments __9__?I don"t find a quiet moment to tell him what he has __10__ to me.Or what he might __11__ to face in the years ahead.Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything. What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him?__12__ as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter.My father and I loved each other.Yet I always __13__ never hearing him put his __14__ into words.Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten.Why is it so __15__ to tell a son something from the heart? My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly."Daniel, "I said, "if I could have picked, I would have picked you." That"s all I could say.He hugged me.For a moment, the world __16__, and there were just Daniel and me.He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn"t understand what he was saying.All I was __17__ of was the stubble (短须) on his chin as his face pressed __18__ mine.What I had said to Daniel was __19__.It was nothing.And yet, it was __20__. | ( )1. A.experience ( )2. A.show ( )3. A.last ( )4. A.upward ( )5. A.sign ( )6. A.interest ( )7. A.failed ( )8. A.future ( )9. A.last ( )10. A.counted ( )11. A.think ( )12. A.But ( )13. A.wondered ( )14. A.views ( )15. A.important ( )16. A.disappeared ( )17. A.sensitive ( )18. A.by ( )19. A.clumsy ( )20. A.none | B. spend B. give B. first B. into B. scene B. instruction B. discouraged B. embarrassing B. pass B. meant B. want B. And B. regretted B. actions B. essential B. changed B. convinced B. against B. gentle B. all | C. enjoy C. make C. very C. down C. scenery C. courage C. struck C. obvious C. fly C. valued C. expect C. Instead C. minded C. feelings C. hard C. progressed C. aware C. on C. absurd C. anything | D. shape D. instruct D. next D. up D. sight D. direction D. troubled D. lost D. remain D. cared D. wish D. So D. tried D. attitudes D. complex D. advanced D. tired D. with D. moving D. everything | 短文填词 There is a story which tells us about a good shop assistant. A medicalstudent had to read a textbook________was too________(昂贵) for him to buy.He couldn"t get one from the library and the o________copy he could read was in a bookshop.So every afternoon, he went there to read a little________a time.One day, however, he couldn"t find the book from its________(通常) place and was about to leave when he n________an assistant signing to him.To his s________, the assistant pointed to the book, which was in a________(角落). "I put it there so as not to be sold out, " said the assistant. Then he left the student to c________his reading.Undoubtedly, time spent in________a bookshop can be enjoyable. | 短文填词 A man had to go to court (法院) after he broke the law.He asked his lawyer w________judge would be hearing his case.His lawyer asked, "What do you want his name ________?"The man answered, "I can send him some ________(贵重) gifts." The lawyer got angry, ________(说), "If you should do that, you are sure to l________the case." Some weeks later the case was heard and the man won it________the end. As he was leaving the court, he said to his lawyer, "My present to the judge was q________a success, wasn"t it?" The lawyer was even________surprised when he heard this.He asked, "Did you really send him some gifts ________I told you not to?""Yes, but I put my enemy"s name________the card." answered the man. | 完形填空 | Love in a Box When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment.On a Friday night I __1__at the dinner table, "My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our Valentines (情人节) on Monday." Mother said, "We"ll see", and she continued eating. What did "We"ll see" mean?I had to have that box__2__my second grade Valentine"s Day would be a disaster.Maybe they didn"t love me enough to help me with my__3__. All Saturday I waited__4__and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased, but I__5__an enquiry about the box might__6__anger or loud voice, for in my house children only ask once.More than that __7__trouble. Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen.The table was covered with colorful __8__of different kinds.A(n)__9__shoebox rested on top of it.__10__flooded through me when Daddy said, "Let"s get started__11__your project." In the next hour my father__12__the shoebox into an impressive valentine box.Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts__13__to what I considered all the right places.He sang while he worke d.When he finished, he was so delighted that a__14__smile spread over his face."What do you think of that?" he asked. I answered him with a hug. But inside, __15__danced all the way to my heart.It was the first time that my father devoted so much__16__to me, for his world consisted of work only. The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards, and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time__17__. On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to__18__.The love that filled it meant more to me than all inside. The valentine box became a symbol of his love that__19__through decades of other Valentine"s Days.He gave me other gifts through the years, but none__20__compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old, empty shoebox. | ( )1. A. announced ( )2. A. and ( )3. A. design ( )4. A. sadly ( )5. A. found ( )6. A. start ( )7. A. invited ( )8. A. boxes ( )9. A. new ( )10. A. Relaxation ( )11. A. by ( )12. A. folded ( )13. A. joined ( )14. A. slight ( )15. A. joy ( )16. A. money ( )17. A. reached ( )18. A. accept ( )19. A. carried ( )20. A. ever | B. appeared B. however B. plan B. anxiously B. realized B. cause B. took B. gifts B. big B. Relief B. at B. packed B. attached B. brief B. fun B. time B. set B. respect B. kept B. even | C. served C. or C. idea C. disappointedly C. knew C. mark C. saved C. paper C. attractive C. Cheer C. in C. changed C. linked C. broad C. interest C. support C. spent C. admire C. spread C. yet | D. sat D. so D. project D. patiently D. imagined D. produce D. had D. food D. empty D. Calm D. on D. pressed D. connected D. confident D. amusement D. hope D. came D. recognize D. lasted D. still |
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