Not long ago I wasn"t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and __1__
thinking.While on the Internet,I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__.His nickname
is Colorful Day and we __3__ on the Web.He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the
whole world had closed its door to him.
He was __5__ so fast that I couldn"t believe he was blind! But he continued to __6__: Five
years ago, I realized it was time to change my life.I had read about Helen Keller and understood
her life and __7__.So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
I visited his website which was well produced and vividly __9__.
I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said,"Owing to the new technology,
I can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光标), it will just read
it out to me.We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
I then asked, "Didn"t you have great difficulty with it?"
He hesitated and then began his __14__ with a smiling face," Yes, but I have faith in myself to
__15__ my colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn"t
find in another wise nonvirtual world.
The mom had died when the rescuers found her after the terrible earthquake.She was
covered by a destroyed house.Through gaps (缝隙) of those ruins,the rescuers could see
her last posture (姿势).It was something like an ancient person who was kowtowing
(叩头),but it just looked strange because she was out of shape by pressure.
The rescuers confirmed her death by touching her through the gaps of the ruins.They
shouted at the ruins again and again,knocked the bricks using various tools,but no reply
inside.
Then the rescuing team went to the next building.Suddenly the leader ran back,calling
"Come here." He came to the body,put his hands under the woman,feeling and touching,t
hen shoutedloudly and gladly,"There is someone,a baby,still living."
Through some efforts,rescuers cleaned up the ruins which blocked her.Under her body
lay her baby,who was covered by a small red quilt (棉被).He was about 3 or 4 months"
old.Since well protected by his mother"s body,he was safe.He was in a deep sleep when
the rescuer carried him out,and his lovely and peaceful face warmed everyone around him.
The doctor,along with the rescuing team,took the baby out of the quilt to check if the baby
was all right,and he found there was a mobile phone inthe quilt.The doctor looked at the
screen; a writtenmessage was already there:"My dear baby if you couldlive,don"t forget how
much I love you." As a doctor,he experienced much of this type of separation;but at this
moment,he cried.The mobile phone was passed,and every person who saw this message
shed (流出) tears.
( )1. A. reliable ( )2. A. admired ( )3. A. decision ( )4. A. stared ( )5. A. enjoyed ( )6. A. anxiously ( )7. A. climb ( )8. A. seem ( )9. A. Though ( )10. A. abrupt ( )11. A. plan ( )12. A. agenda ( )13. A. sales ( )14. A. wise ( )15. A. explicit ( )16. A. changed ( )17. A. hopeful ( )18. A. son"s ( )19. A. supposed ( )20. A. Good luck | B. enjoyable B. interviewed B. record B. shouted B. shared B. nervously B. jump B. fail B. Unless B. simple B. idea B. exercise B. skills B. kind B. helpful B. added B. amazing B. wife"s B. expected B. Best regards | C. valuable C. watched C. level C. glared C. discussed C. cheerfully C. drive C. expect C. Because C. positive C. ability C. work C. experiences C. mean C. enough C. devoted C. funny C. friend"s C. encouraged C. Thanks | D. unbelievable D. trained D. goal D. pointed D. reviewed D. impatiently D. step D. compete D. When D. considerate D. behaviour D. life D. experiments D. bad D. practical D. contributed D. disappointing D. customer"s D. determined D. Congratulations |
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All over my garden I"ve planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower. A close friend came for a visit the other day. I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away. That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn"t pick a single rose. I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn"t make a living out of them. Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no! To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so ironhearted as to destroy such a charming smile? My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth-it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people. | |||
1. The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ________. | |||
A. she can make money out of them B. her friends like them C. she enjoys the roses very much D. the roses sell well | |||
2. The underlined word "wafted" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to "________". | |||
A. given off B. lost C. destroyed D. thrown away | |||
3. Why did the writer"s close friend refuse to pick a single rose? | |||
A. Because the roses were not beautiful. B. Because she loved the roses very much. C. Because she did not like this kind of roses. D. Because the writer did not want to give her any. | |||
4. What is the best title for the passage? | |||
A. The Pity of People to the Roses B. A Lover of Flowers C. A Lovely Rose Garden D. The Smiling Face of the Earth |