Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett"s jeans and shirt full of burn holes. Tired and defeated, I 1 to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had 2 . He often got almost everything in the house out of 3 . Many windows in our house needed repairing due to his breaking 4 to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the emotional 5 Brett had done to our once quiet home. Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett as 6 as possible, but inside I was shouting, "I don"t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can"t 7 him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued 8 him as before. When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping 9 teens (少年). At the 10 ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had 11 the most to him or her. Brett spoke 12 to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always there, no matter 13 . My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, 14 troubled enough by me, always 15 me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it." 16 , I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me 17 . At that moment, tears 18 in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for 19 . Although I had struggled with silent 20 toward my stepson (继子), Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our life, but we can love them. |
( )1. A. sat ( )2. A. ruined ( )3. A. danger ( )4. A. off ( )5. A. pain ( )6. A. patiently ( )7. A. forgive ( )8. A. parenting ( )9. A. lazy ( )10. A. opening ( )11. A. afforded ( )12. A. lovingly ( )13. A. where ( )14. A. unless ( )15. A. cost ( )16. A. Astonished ( )17. A. surely ( )18. A. fell ( )19. A. pity ( )20. A. love | B. sank B. lost B. place B. in B. injury B. willingly B. educate B. pardoning B. troublesome B. official B. meant B. sadly B. how B. although B. lent B. Puzzled B. roughly B. flowed B. happiness B. anxiety | C. bent C. torn C. trouble C. up C. damage C. strictly C. stand C. comforting C. disappointing C. victory C. supplied C. proudly C. what C. because C. taught C. Encouraged C. tightly C. moved C. luck C. anger | D. dropped D. broken D. order D. away D. harm D. rudely D. control D. feeding D. careless D. graduation D. owed D. nervously D. who D. when D. showed D. Interested D. fiercely D. gathered D. success D. care | 阅读理解。 阅读下面短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。 | [1] Until that day when he was told that he was likely to get a bone cancer, Bruce Feiler had been living a happy life. He was a bestselling author of many books. He had a loving marriage and twin three-year-old girls. His doctor"s sudden bad news left him shocked."Would my daughters wonder who I was if I died? Would they wonder what I thought?" Feiler recalls. [2] One day, Feiler got a big idea: he would get a group of trusted men to serve as surrogate (代理) fathers after his death. His new book, The Council of Dads, recalls that moment:"I started making a list of men from all parts of my life. These are the men who know me best, men who traveled with me, studied with me, men who know my voice..." And each man should have one or two things in common with Feiler. [3] Feiler made his first request to Shumlin, a farmer. The two became friends just after high school. Feiler chose him because he was an adventurer who always said "yes" to life. [4] Other dads on Feiler"s list include Ben, a teacher who would invite the kids to seek the truth of life and another man, named Henry, who believes in the power of friendship. [5] David Black, the editor and close friend who helped Feiler become a well-known writer, also made the cut. "I work to help people"s dreams come true," he recalls. "That"s in part what Feiler asked of me, to be a member of the Council." [6] However, the diagnosis (诊断) that led Feiler to has proved wrong. Today, Feiler is cancer-free. But he says his idea has caught on, and he believes that his book, The Council of Dads, and the website councilofdads. com is inspiring similar groups to form wherever dads seek strength in the fellowship of fathers. | 1. What is the best title of the text? (no more than 5 words) __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one? That" the reason why Bruce Feiler chose me as one of the fathers. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with proper words.(no more than 8 words) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What personalities should a surrogate father have in Bruce"s opinion? List three of them. (no more than 5 words for each) (1) ________________________________________________________________________________ (2) ________________________________________________________________________________ (3) ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese. ____________________________________________________________________________________ | 完形填空。 | I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times. I was joyfully expecting my first child at the same time that my mother was 1 her battle with a brain tumor (瘤). For ten years, my fiercely independent and 2 mother had fought, but none of the treatments had been successful. 3 , she never lost her ability to smile. But now, finally, she became totally 4 -unable to speak, walk, eat or dress on her own. As she grew closer and closer to death, my 5 grew closer and closer to life inside me. My biggest 6 was that their lives would never connect. I was sad not only at the 7 loss of my mother, but that she and my baby would never know each other. Her doctor did not 8 any hope; they told us her time was up. We brought Mother 9 to her own bed in her own house. As 10 as I could, I sat beside her and talked to her about the baby moving inside me. On February 3, 989, at about the same time my labor (分娩) 11 , Mother opened her eyes. When they told me this at the 12 , I called her home, "Mom, listen. The baby is coming! You"re going to have a new grandchild!" "Yes! Yes! I know!" Four beautiful words! The first 13 words she"d spoken in months! When I 14 again an hour later, the nurse at her house told the 15 message: Mom sat up, smiling, with her oxygen tubes removed. When I brought Jacob home. Mom was sitting in her chair and 16 to welcome him. Tears of joy blocked my vision as I 17 my son in her arms and she clucked (发出咯咯声) at him. They 18 . Then she quietly clipped hack into a coma (昏迷) and 19 peacefully. Memories of my son"s birth will always be 20 for me, but it was then that I learned love has the power to overcome any worries and any sorrow. And love can last forever. | ( )1. A.attending ( )2. A.courageous ( )3. A.So ( )4. A.tired ( )5. A.sorrow ( )6. A.problem ( )7. A.coming ( )8. A.admit ( )9. A.up ( )10. A.soon ( )11. A.started ( )12. A.office ( )13. A, common ( )14. A.got up ( )15. A.impossible ( )16. A.likely ( )17. A. hugged ( )18. A.joined ( )19. A.passed away ( )20. A.proud | B. losing B. interesting B. Again B. blind B. love B. dream B. disappearing B. hold B. away B. fast B. failed B. hospital B. caring B. woke up B. possible B. ready B. threw B. knew B. turned over B. frightening | C. defending C. funny C. Instead C. disabled C. baby C. surprise C. falling C. drop C. about C. early C. ended C. house C. clear C. called up C. necessary C. free C. took C. nodded C. settled down C. bittersweet | D. defeating D. lucky D. Still D. depressed D. body D. fear D. unexpecting D. permit D. home D. often D. continued D. station D. correct D. looked up D. terrible D. nervous D. laid D. cried D. gave out D. exciting | 阅读理解。 | Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man-no taller than my eight-year-old son-I thought as I stared at the shriveled (皱缩的) body. But the shocking thing was his face-twisted from swelling. He told me he"d been hunting for a room since noon but with no success." I guess it"s my face…, but my doctor says with a few more treatments …" I told him we would find him a bed. When I had finished the dishes, he told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was hopelessly disabled from a back injury. He didn"t tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence began with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. The next morning before he left for his bus, he asked if he could come back and stay the next time he had a treatment. I told him he was welcome to come again. In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. When I received these little gifts, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning." Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away. You can lose roomers by accommodating such people!" Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude. | 1. The first time I met the man, _____. | A. I felt pity for his look B. he frightened my kid C. he was in need of something to eat D. he was looking for a place to stay overnight | 2. The next-door neighbor refused the man because _____. | A. he might lose roomers B. the man was poor C. he had no spare room D. the man didn"t bring him gifts | 3. Which of the following is NOT true about the man? | A. He developed skin cancer. B. He fished to support a large family. C. God helped him to get over his disease. D. He didn"t complain about his sufferings. | 4. What attitude did the man have toward life? | A. Grateful. B. Confident. C. Regretful. D. Passive. | 5. What might be the best title of the passage? | A. Never judge a book by its cover B. Give others a hand C. Be the architect of life D. Accept good and bad with gratitude |
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