Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1 : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2 money. This is how I 3 with giving away. If an idea of improving the window display of a neighborhood store 4 to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the 5 . If a car accident happens, I think the 6 will be needed, so I 7 them up and tell them about it, though I am not in 8 here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9 getting something back, though the 10 often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11 letter to my home, though it was 12 to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of 13 . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was 14 . I was told at the window that there were 15 boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long 16 list. As I was about to 17 , the postmaster appeared in the 18 . "Wasn"t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well, certainly you are going to have a box in this post office 19 we make one for you. You don"t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20 but complaints." |
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A. anything | B. research B. lack B. connected B. occurs B. headmaster B. soldiers B. turn B. trouble B. without B. goal B. immediate B. addressed B. apology B. providing B. some B. relating B. shout B. doorway B. now that B. everything | C. speech C. spend C. combined C. sticks C. storekeeper C. sellers C. call C. common C. for C. process C. special C. forgotten C. instruction C. doing C. no C. examining C. guess C. library C. even if C. nothing | D. discovery D. steal D. agreed D. leads D. policeman D. owners D. make D. charge D. to D. concern D. heavy D. remembered D. appreciation D. starting D. more D. waiting D. conduct D. yard D. as if D. something | 阅读理解。 | Almost a year after Michael Jackson"s death, the spirit of King of Pop appears to live on a 4-year-old Chinese boy, who is fast becoming internationally popular. Wang Yiming, who is known as Xiao Bao, has already been making waves across the world with his dance moves. A favorite of Chinese media, Xiao Bao draws curious crowds whenever he breaks into a dance routine, which his mother says happens almost every time he hears music. "When he was young, we just started playing music to him andhe started moving round like this," his mother said. "When he was just a couple of months old, we would let him listen to music and he would immediately stop crying and calm down," she told Reuters Television. Xiao Bao was born prematurely (早产), and doctors suggested moving his body to music would do good to him, but his parents were surprised by how quickly and interestedly he took to the rhythm. Dancing since he was two years old, he has now mastered the moonwalk and other Jackson moves, such as Beat It, Billie Jean and Dangerous. Before long, his passion turned into an obsession (着迷)-the family spends up t0 20 000 yuan a month on dance training with a professional and outfits including tailor-made suits, hats and shirts. Xiao Bao is serious about his dancing career and says he will not mind becoming famous one day. But his parents say that no matter how talented their son is, his schooling will be their first choice. | 1. What Xiao Bao"s mother said suggested that _____. | A. she didn"t expect her son to take up music B. Xiao Bao had a strong love for music C. she taught him music when Xiao Bao was young D. she was very sad at the beginning | 2. How did Xiao Bao"s parents feel when they saw his reaction to music? | A. Amazed. B. Happy. C. Angry. D. Anxious. | 3. We can learn from the passage that _____. | A. his parents taught him the moonwalk B. he began to perform on stage at two C. moonwalk moves were first done by Jackson D. his parents found him hard to please | 4. The underlined word "outfits" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _____. | A. clothes B. shoes C. bags D. tools | 完形填空。 | A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about the present-day 1 topic-Happiness. But the conversation soon turned into complaints about 2 in work and in life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 3 with a large pot of coffee and different types of 4 -plastic, glass, crystal, some nice-looking, some plain-looking, some expensive, some cheap-telling them to help 5 to the coffee. 6 all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "If you 7 , you might find all the nice-looking, expensive cups are taken up, with the plain and cheap ones 8 . While it is 9 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your 10 and stress. In fact, the cup itself adds no 11 to the coffee. What all of you 12 wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were 13 each other"s cups." "Now 14 this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in 15 are the cups. They are just tools to 16 and contain life, and the types of cups do not decide or 17 the quality of life we live. Sometimes, focusing on the cup makes us 18 to enjoy the coffee itself. So, don"t let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee 19 ." The 20 people don"t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. | ( )1. A. warm ( )2. A. progress ( )3. A. cooked ( )4. A. cups ( )5. A. them ( )6. A. Before ( )7. A. saw ( )8. A. left behind ( )9. A. helpful ( )10. A. habit ( )11. A. quality ( )12. A. nearly ( )13. A. looking ( )14. A. consider ( )15. A. school ( )16. A. check ( )17. A. correct ( )18. A. fail ( )19. A. too ( )20. A. busiest | B. hot B. plans B. passed B. plates B. themselves B. Since B. suggested B. got away B. normal B. courage B. weight B. finally B. eyeing B. repeat B. thought B. create B. change B. stop B. either B. cleverest | C. heavy C. disasters C. returned C. bowls C. you C. When C. proved C. put away C. safe C. fear C. colour C. really C. saying C. do C. society C. measure C. bring C. dislike C. also C. happiest | D. sensitive D. stress D. provided D. tables D. yourselves D. Because D. noticed D. sent back D. popular D. problem D. cost D. quickly D. feeling D. recite D. dream D. hold D. record D. struggle D. instead D. kindest | 完形填空。 | Thanksgiving Day was near. Lucy, the first grade teacher, gave her class a fun 1 -to draw a picture of somebody or something for which they were 2 . When the students 3 their assignment, she found most of them drew some pictures of their family, teachers, friends or neighbors. Douglas, however, made a different kind of picture. He was a 4 boy. He didn"t act the same as others. He always seemed to be shy and sad. He 5 played with other children during the break 6 they kindly invited him to. Lucy treated him very well. She always helped him and 7 him to be confident. Yes, his picture was different. He just drew a 8 . Nothing else. His abstract image 9 the imagination of his classmates. Whose hand could it be? One guessed it was a mother"s hand, for mother"s hand gives children warmth and 10 . Another child guessed it was a police officer"s hand, because the police 11 people and care for people. And so the discussion 12 . When the children were discussing it, Lucy paused at Douglas" desk, 13 down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy murmured, "It"s 14 , teacher." Douglas was most thankful for her hand. She was 15 and felt tears in her eyes. She thought of the times she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there. She 16 how often she had said to him, "Take my 17 , Douglas. We"ll go outside." or "Let me show you how to hold your pencil." The story speaks of 18 thankfulness. It also says something about teachers teaching and parents parenting and friends showing friendship. They might not always say " 19 " out, but they"ll remember the hand that you 20 out to give them love and be grateful to you always. | ( )1. A. assignment ( )2. A. sorry ( )3. A. gave in ( )4. A. strong ( )5. A. often ( )6. A. because ( )7. A. encouraged ( )8. A. hand ( )9. A. reduced ( )10. A. comfort ( )11. A. search ( )12. A. ended ( )13. A. broke ( )14. A. his ( )15. A. disappointed ( )16. A. forgot ( )17. A. hand ( )18. A. rather than ( )19. A. I"m sorry ( )20. A. get | B. question B. regretful B. handed in B. kind B. usually B. though B. discouraged B. face B. ruined B. praise B. question B. succeeded B. pulled B. yours B. annoyed B. regretted B. book B. more than B. Take care B. reach | C. suggestion C. thankful C. put off C. different C. seldom C. as C. cheered C. ear C. inspired C. sorrow C. meet C. continued C. looked C. my mother"s C. tired C. recalled C. lesson C. anything but C. I"m all right C. put | D. solution D. responsible D. called off D. humorous D. ever D. since D. praised D. leg D. used D. coldness D. protect D. failed D. bent D. my father"s D. touched D. understood D. gift D. nothing but D. Thank you D. make |
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