"Today is the day I start the big diet (节食)," I told my wife as I raised my hand and __1__,
"No chocolate today!"
"Oh, has the hospital gift shop __2__ selling it?" she asked.
"No," I said. "I"ll just have to __3__ my strong determination."
But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there __4__. I knew my
promise would __5__ disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I"d always be eating a
piece of candy from the __6__ bag he often shared with me.
Benton was an eightyearold boy who was __7__ because of a kind of cancer, which caused
him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen __8__ old. For the next twentysix months, he was
in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed __9__ Benton could beat the disease,
until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he __10__ a headache and lost __11__ on his
right side. His mom __12__ him to the hospital.
Over the next several months, Benton came to our __13__ many more times. Each time he came,
we __14__ say hello, while Benton answered the __15__ by holding out a candy from his bag.
So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes
__16__ but not looking into this world.
"We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?" his mother asked.
Without thinking of my diet, I __17__ into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched.
It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece __18__ me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton"s __19__. As I __20__ it up, I opened the candy and ate it.
( )1. A. helpless ( )2. A. hadn"t ( )3. A. it ( )4. A. possibly ( )5. A. special ( )6. A. able ( )7. A. take care ( )8. A. start ( )9. A. my cigarette ( )10. A. sound ( )11. A. harm ( )12. A. approaching ( )13. A. even if ( )14. A. see ( )15. A. put it out ( )16. A. stopping ( )17. A. desire ( )18. A. owners ( )19. A. mixed ( )20. A. frightened | B. harmful B. shouldn"t B. her B. naturally B. extra B. glad B. find out B. manage B. my aunt B. voice B. damage B. passing B. as B. find B. gave it up B. resisting B. house B. renters B. covered B. excited | C. useless C. mustn"t C. this C. shortly C. high C. due C. make out C. run C. new renters C. noise C. kill C. opening C. because C. bear C. put it away C. feeling C. voice C. neighbours C. filled C. surprised | D. dangerous D. couldn"t D. that D. hardly D. low D. willing D. make sure D. stop D. the tank D. cry D. hurt D. entering D. as if D. hear D. gave it way D. keeping D. smell D. guests D. caught D. disappointed | ||||
阅读理解 | |||||||
Much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm (节奏). But he dutifully reviewed his lessons. Over the months he tried and tried, and often repeated to me "My mom"s going to hear me play some day." But he seemed hopeless, with no born ability. A real bad advertisement for my teaching! I was so happy when one day he stopped coming. Several weeks later my students were to have a recital (演奏会). To my surprise, Robby came, asking to play in the recital. "But, it is for current pupils; you dropped." "My mom was sick. But I have been practicing. I"ve just got to play!" I didn"t know what led me to agree, maybe... The recital came. I__put__Robby__up__last__to__play__before__my__"curtain__closer", by which, I could save the recital if... The recital went on well. Robby came up on stage, clothes wrinkled and his hair looked like he"d run an eggbeater through it. "How could his mom...?" Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. It was Mozart"s work! I was not prepared for what I heard next. Like in a dream, I was then woken up by the wild applause-everybody was on their feet! "I"ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How"d you do it?" Through the microphone Robby explained: "Well, Miss Hondorf, remember I told you my mom was sick? Actually she had cancer and died this morning. She was born deaf, and tonight was the first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special." My eyes were wet. He was not a student of mine, but a teacher! 1. We can infer from the underlined sentence that the writer ________. A. was fully confident that Robby would perform well in the recital B. thought that Robby would make the recital special C. thought that Robby wouldn"t play in the recital D. had no confidence in Robby at all in the recital 2. What made the boy succeed in the recital? A. Love for his mother. B. Musical talent. C. The writer"s help. D. Regular practice. 3. What made the writer think that Robby was her teacher, not a student? A. That he played better than her in the recital. B. That he loved his mother more than she did. C. That he never gave up. D. That the audience gave him more applause than her. 4. What is the highlight of the recital? A The writer"s performance. B. Robby"s performance. C. Robby and his mom"s story. D. The audience"s applause. | |||||||
完形填空 | |||||||
I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout(付款台) earlier today. All of the checkouts were 1 , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a(n) 2 ! She wasn"t happy with the number of checkouts 3 ; she wasn"t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn"t happy because this supermarket didn"t have a stand where she 4 scan her own shopping. I listened to her 5 looking around as I loaded my stuff onto the conveyor belt (传送带). I didn"t want 6 to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I"d felt like letting someone go 7 of me, it wouldn"t be such a woman! But then I 8 back. Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl, 9 her granddaughter. The girl"s part of the shopping 10 of some comic books. I couldn"t 11 it. I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt, 12 a space. "After you," I said to the woman and the girl, and 13 them to a big 14 . The woman was delighted, and even 15 to complain - until she was walking away. So, 16 bother having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny"s complaint like a sponge(海绵). She was learning how to 17 situations like that by listening to her granny. I"d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some 18 into the middle of it. We can all complain; we can all react 19 , but it doesn"t have to be like that. And, even if only for a few 20 , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way | |||||||
|