"Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!" Four darling children sat by my feet,
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expectantly.
Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping. "Terrific," the director said, stepping up the stage from the
aisle(过道). "Except, could you kids face the audience a bit more?"
The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play.
"Perfect," the director said. "Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren." A pang of sadness hit me.
If only I could read to my real grandchild!
I had a granddaughter, but I"d never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a
relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be a
grandmother to her-but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over the
years, I asked around town to try and find my son"s exwife(前妻), but it seemed that she didn"t want
to be found.
I"d just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in the
play. At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the day of the
show arrived. The performance was great. "You all looked so natural up there," one of my friends said.
Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments(茶点). I walked over to one of the girls
in the play, Rehearsals had been such a whirlwind(一片忙乱) that we never really got to talk. "How"s
my granddaughter?" I joked.
"Fine!" she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name.
I wasn"t sure I heard the girl"s answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. "What"s
your mother"s name?"
She told me, I was still in shock. "And what"s your father"s name?" I asked. She told me. It was my
son.
She"d only started going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, we"ve stayed
close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma.
B. Playing a game.
C. Preparing for a play.
D. Acting in a movie.
B. The director"s words hurt her so badly.
C. She wished that she had a real grandchild.
D. The director wasn"t content with her performance.
B. Lena treated the author as a friend.
C. The author got to know who Lena was.
D. Lena mistook the author for her grandmother.
B. contrast and conclusion
C. cause and effect
D. questions and answers
答案
举一反三
When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I never had a father, though in my neighborhood
that"s not__1__. I know some kids just like me. You have to__2__yourself. There are fights and killings
all the time. I have friends who ended up in jail or pregnant. I could have ended up that way, too, __3__
Mr. Clark and my mom wouldn"t let that happen.
Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, I did so well
that in sixth grade, I entered the__4__class, and Mr. Clark was the teacher. I felt so__5__to have him
for a second year!
He took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera. Before the show, he__6__us to dinner at a
restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We didn"t want to let him__7__, so we listened
to him attentively.
__8__of us were surprised when Mr. Clark was selected as Disney"s 2000 Teacher of the Year.
When he learned he"d won, he said he would__9__three names out of a hat; he would go to Los
Angeles to get the__10__with those students. But__11__it came time to draw names, Mr. Clark said,
"You"re all going."
He got__12__to fly all 37 of us out to Disneyland in California and put us up at the Hilton. People
were__13__, but Mr. Clark really cared about us. There"s no way I can__14__ most teachers doing
that. No way. But he saw something in us that nobody else saw.
On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn"t want his class to__15__. In the new school
year, we were all happy when Mr.Clark__16__in our class once again. He"s been a __17__in our lives.
In 2003, Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to__18__school supplies and visit
orphanages. It may be the most amazing__19__of my life. It"s now my__20__to one day start a group
of women"s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.
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| I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count. "Well, I had to give it to her-She was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms.I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply, "I am just too short." The coach told her that at 5"5" she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team-much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop her except one thing-her own attitude. The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. The author was probably the girl"s __________. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. neighbor B. friend C. mother D. teacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Why was the girl heartbroken? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. She was considered too short to be a top player. B. Her coach stopped her training because of her height. C. She couldn"t be on a college basketball team. D. She wouldn"t be admitted by an ideal college. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. We can learn from the passage that__________. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. her family wouldn"t like to pay her college fees B. her father forced her to play basketball in college C. being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college D. she wouldn"t like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Which word can best describe her father? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Encouraging. B. Optimistic. C. Stubborn. D. Cruel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Which proverb best matches the story? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Practice makes perfect. B. Rome was not built in a day. C. Where there is a will, there is a way. D. Pride comes before a fall. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it.But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the __1__ side is as much interesting.It may be a discussion of the way to __2__ in good health, or __3__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society.If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to __4__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text __5__ the title.Therefore, the scissors would __6__ before they start, __7__ halfway done when I find out the __8__ result. Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __9__.You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be __10__ up. But you know the future is unpredictable-the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left __11__.Thus you are __12__ in a difficult position and feel sad.How __13__ that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once?It may happen that your life __14__ greatly on your preference of one choice to the other. In fact that is what __15__ is like:we are often __16__ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting.It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only __17__ we get into another.The __18__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind.I __19__ remember a philosopher"s remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life."So a casual __20__ may not be a bad one. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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