"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappoi

     "Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can   1   ,
one day something good will happen. And you"ll   2   that it wouldn"t have happened if not for that   3   
disappointment."
     Mother was   4  , as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job
in    5  , then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked (搭便车) to Chicago and knocked on
the door of every station-and got   6    every time.
     In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn"t risk    7    inexperienced people. "Go out in
the sticks and find a small station that"ll give you a   8    ," she said.
     I hitchhiked home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and    9    a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since
Dixon was where I had played high school football, I    10  . The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn"t hired.     
     My disappointment    11   have shown. "Everything happens for the   12  ," Mom reminded me. Dad
offered me the car for job hunting. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a
wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired a(n)   13  .  
     As I left his office, my   14   boiled over. I asked a1oud,"   15   can a fellow get to be a sports
announcer if he can"t get a job in a radio station?"
     I was waiting for the elevator   16   I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports?
Do you know anything about football?" Then he let me stand   17   a microphone and asked me to
broadcast an imaginary   18  .
     On my way home, as I had many times   19   my graduation, I thought of my mother"s words. I often
wonder what    20   my life might have taken if I"d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

(     )1. A. turn on      (     )2. A. hope         (     )3. A. present      (     )4. A. right        (     )5. A. camera       (     )6. A. kept away   (     )7. A. hiring       (     )8. A. choice      (     )9. A. ordered     (     )10. A. meant       (     )11. A. could       (     )12. A. moment     (     )13. A. reporter     (     )14. A. frustration (     )15. A. Why        (     )16. A. when        (     )17. A. upon        (     )18. A. story       (     )19. A. until       (     )20. A. direction	B. get on     B. realize   B. first       B. impolite B. bicycle     B. held on      B. reading     B. step       B. enjoyed       B. happened     B. must         B. extra       B. writer     B. excitement B. What        B. while        B. beyond       B. game       B. later       B. situation	C. carry on   C. recognize   C. recent     C. wrong       C. typewriter C. turned down C. writing     C. measure     C. wanted     C. seemed     C. need       C. heart       C. announcer   C. joy     C. Whether     C. which     C. before     C. memory     C. since       C. position	D. look on     D. prove       D. previous     D. perfect     D. radio       D. left behind D. meeting     D. chance       D. chose       D. applied     D. should       D. best         D. editor       D. surprise     D. How         D. if           D. after       D. bottom       D. ago         D. approach
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It was a normal Saturday morning, and everyone was in a good mood. The year was 2000 and I was then only 6 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday though. We were just eating breakfast when we received a phone call. We received phone calls all the time, so it was nothing new to me. However, this phone call was an important one. I soon heard and saw my mother crying on the couch(沙发)with my father comforting her. My brother, sister, and I didn"t know what had happened, as they had not told us yet. Later, I was told that my grandfather was in the hospital because he had a heart attack. I did not know what to think. I had never heard of a heart attack, but I figured (认为) that it must be serious if he was in the hospital.      My grandfather and grandmother lived far away from us and we did not get to see them often. It was a long trip. My mother rushed to the hospital while my father stayed at home with my brother, sister and me.      I do not think my young sister was really understanding it all yet. My mother returned a little later with bad news. My grandfather had died before she got there. I was speechless. I had loved my grandfather greatly. He was the one who taught me how to fish and enjoy the outdoors.
1. Why didn"t the morning phone call surprise the author?
A. Because he/she was only 6 years old. B. Because the phone call was a case as usual. C. Because he/she was just eating breakfast. D. Because it was a normal Saturday morning.
2. The author"s mother began to cry       .
A. after the father comforted her on the couch B. before she received the important phone call C. when she knew her father was in the hospital D. as her children didn’t understand what had happened
3. The author"s family seldom got to see the grandparents because       .
A. they had no spare time                 B. the old couple lived too far away C. the old couple were often in hospital D. they didn"t have a private car
4. We can know from the passage that       .
A. both the father and the mother went to the hospital B. the author cared much about his/her grandfather C. people with a heart attack should be in hospital at once D. the mother was in time for having a word with her father
5. It can be inferred from the passage that       .
A. the author"s family was poor in 2000 B. the author"s father wasn"t sad at all C. the author"s sister knew a heat attack was a serious disease D. there were three children in the author"s family
阅读理解
If I left the decisions up to my daughter, she"d never play competitive sports. In her first season of  forced sports, when she was four years old, she cried every time she kicked the soccer ball. She stopped on the way from the parking lot to the soccer field, wailing that her legs hurt. And worse, she cried, "I"m sweating!"      A few years have passed, and she just completed her fourth soccer season. She"s starting her second year of softball. Sports trophies (奖杯) line her window platform.      I learned from the years of football, soccer and baseball in my son"s youth that kids need to experience being on a team, and they might not beg you to sign them up. You might have to force it on them.      They need to learn about sacrificing, and about commitment. If you read parenting articles out there, you"ll find plenty of folks who shy away from competitive sports because they want their kid to always feel like a winner. I don"t know what kind of idyllic (田园的) life these parents must be leading, but in my world, I"m thinking I need to sign my kids up for something that will teach them about life"s devastating disappointments.      Hence, I think my daughter picked up some good life lessons when her team lost almost every game in the last season. Sometimes life is like that. Sometimes you get a bad call, the people on your team suck, you"re tired and don"t feel like playing, the coach is mean to you, someone scratches your face and steals the ball. And the next week, you put on your uniform, and try your best.
1. What attitude does the author have towards competitive sports?
A. He supports children in taking part in competitive sports. B. He doesn"t like competitive sports himself. C. He doubts whether competitive sports can really benefit children. D. He believes competitive sports are not suitable for young children.
2. What do we know about the author"s daughter?
A. She hates the author signing her up for competitive sports. B. She hasn"t realized the importance of competitive sports. C. She wants to give up competitive sports.     D. She now likes competitive sports.
3. What should we do if a child doesn"t like competitive sports, according to the author?
A. Get him interested in sports first. B. Sign him up for competitive sports. C. Leave him alone. D. Give him some trophies first.
4. In what way is life similar to sports?
A. They both mean a lot to children. B. They both need great courage. C. They are both full of hard times. D. They both can teach children good lessons.
5. We can infer from the fourth paragraph that competitive sports       .
A. can destroy a child"s feeling of success B. are sometimes too cruel to children C. have already been accepted by most parents D. can prepare kids for the realities of life
阅读理解。
Introductory Chemistry was taught at Duke University for many years by professor Bonk. One year, two guys took the class and did pretty well on all the quizzes and mid-terms. They each had a solid A. These two friends were so confident in going into the final that the weekend before finals week, despite the Chemistry final being on Monday, they decided to go to the University of Virginia to party with some friends.      They had a great time there. However, with their hangovers (宿醉) and tiredness, they overslept all day Sunday and didn"t make it back to Duke until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, they found professor Bonk after the final and explained to him how they missed the final. They told him they went up to the University of Virginia for the weekend and had planned to come back in time to study, but they had a flat tire on the way back and didn"t have a spare. So they were late getting back to campus.      Bonk thought this over and agreed that they could take the final the following day. The two guys, happily and relieved, studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet. He told them to begin.      They looked at the first problem which was something simple about solution (溶解). It was worth 5 points. "Cool," they thought, "this is going to be an easy final". They then turned the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on it. The question contained only two words: (95 points) Which tire?
1. The two guys decided to go to the University of Virginia because___________.
A. they were afraid of the final B. there was a party there C. the final would be held there D. they thought they can pass the final easily
2. When did they take the final at last?
A. On Sunday       B. On Monday     C. On Tuesday       D. On Saturday
3. From the passage we know____________.
A. the two guys came back to campus late on purpose B. Bonk wasn"t strict with the two guys C. repairing the flat tire took the two guys a lot of time D. Bonk didn"t believe the two guys" explanation
4. After the final, they_____________.
A. may apologize to professor Bonk B. must have the same scores C. wouldn"t be confident in their Chemistry D. would feel happy and relieved
5. From the passage we can get a lesson that____________.                        .
A. he who makes no mistakes makes nothing B. he is wise that is honest C. one never loses anything by politeness D. think twice before you do
完形填空。
When I come across a good article while 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 more 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 (剪刀) 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 to be   10   up.  But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预测的)-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 come that nice chances and brilliant   13   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 the thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our 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 a divided mind. I    19   remember a philosopher"s remarks that "When one door shuts, another opens in life". So a casual (随意的) 20   may not be a bad one.
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A. treatment B. same   B. keep   B. news   B. reduce B. for   B. handle B. but   B. regretful B. strength B. held   B. alone B. attracted B. ideas       B. changes B. society B. supplied B. after B. next   B. also   B. action C. either C. form   C. a theory C. prevent C. without C. prepare C. so     C. surprising C. attention C. made   C. about C. caught C. feelings C. progresses C. nature C. connected C. until C. above C. once   C. choice D. opposite   D. bring       D. a report   D. cause       D. off         D. stay       D. for         D. impossible D. patience   D. picked     D. behind     D. struck     D. beliefs     D. goes       D. life       D. fixed       D. as         D. former     D. almost     D. remark     阅读理解。      Pango was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries. Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there were some people elsewher e who liked to eat frog"s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.      This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were   no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money.  For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn"t last long.      The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.      The villagers decided that they couldn"t just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak.  They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides (***虫剂)and medicines. Soon there was no money left.       Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn"t been useless. They had been doing an important job-eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.      Now, the people are still poor. But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning. 1. From Paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers ________. A. worked very hard for centuries                 B. dreamed of having a better life C. were poor but somewhat content               D. lived a different life from their forefathers 2. Why did the villagers agree to sell frogs? A. The frogs were easy money.                 B. They needed money to buy visitors. C. They wanted to please the visitors.             D. The frogs made too much noise. 3. What might be the cause of the children"s sickness? A. The crops didn"t do well.                     B. There were too many insects. C. The visitors brought in diseases.               D. The pesticides were overused. 4. What can we infer from the last sentence of the text? A. Happiness comes from peaceful life in the country. B. Health is more important than money. C. The harmony between man and nature is important. D. Good old days will never be forgotten.