You Are Going Places One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I work at a local restaurant in town as a cashier, seater and waiter. I went to work feeling 1 . And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening. It" s the same thing over and over again. 2 with customers who complain about their food and where they are 3 is too big or too small. Little things like that tend to 4 a lot of us 5 but we manage to deal with it. Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very 6 near where I keep the dirty 7 in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming in and 8 running all over the house, it was crazy. 9 these elderly women were watching 10 I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers. When they 11 their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, what 12 I was in and what I planned to do in the future. 13 they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a 14 and gentle voice, "You are going places. And that was it. They left the 15 and I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me 16 to believe in myself. They 17 my spirit from being down and gave me a 18 to keep on working hard. People used to tell me that I couldn"t have a career in 19 until I had a degree. I"m now a co-anchor (联合主 持人) of a student-produced television 20 . And the best thing is: I"m only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school. |
( )1. A. tired ( )2. A. Dealing ( )3. A. sat ( )4. A. attract ( )5. A. employees ( )6. A. table ( )7. A. dishes ( )8. A. men ( )9. A. And ( )10. A. what ( )11. A. finished ( )12. A. place ( )13. A. Before ( )14. A. confident ( )15. A. kitchen ( )16. A. ability ( )17. A. put down ( )18. A. cause ( )19. A. television ( )20. A. company | B. excited B. Helping B. seated B. avoid B. customers B. box B. rooms B. women B. Otherwise B. how B. completed B. grade B. While B. loud B. house B. courage B. picked up B. reason B. government B. station | C. up C. Talking C. laid C. adjust C. boss C. spot C. clothes C. servers C. But C. where C. ordered C. mark C. As C. low C. restaurant C. imagination C. took over C. present C. school C. show | D. down D. Meeting D. seating D. annoy D. employers D. kitchen D. chairs D. people D. So D. why D. got D. position D. After D. pleasant D. table D. time D. pointed out D. permission D. restaurant D. advertisement | 完型填空。 | When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born. I loved this bird; I would 1 him for hours. He would 2 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 3 and float there beautifully. Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move 4 into the grasses. We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 5 "pink-colored feet"; meksikatsi and I became very good friends. The bird had a very particular significance to me 6 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too. I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 7 was impossible. And most of the things that I 8 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people. When I was ten years old, something unexpected 9 my life suddenly. I found myself become an 10 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 11 position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 12 two cultures. A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what 13 people have called that bird for thousands of years. Meksikatsi, he said, was really "duck". I was very 14 with English. I could not understand it. First of all, the bird did not look like "duck", and when it made a 15 , it did not sound like "duck", I was even more 16 when I found out that the meaning of the verb "to duck" came from the bird. As I 17 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 18 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning. I 19 that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 20 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world. | ( )1.A. keep ( )2.A. jump ( )3 .A. nest ( )4.A. quickly ( )5.A. means ( )6.A. though ( )7.A. communication ( )8.A. dreamed ( )9 .A. improved ( )10.A. educated ( )11.A. weak ( )12.A. between ( )13.A. most ( )14.A. desperate ( )15.A. noise ( )16.A. ashamed ( )17.A. tried ( )18 .A. evidence ( )19.A. identified ( )20.A. concepts | B. watch B. dive B. hill B. naturally B. reads B. because B. imagination B. worried B. enriched B. adopted B. comfortable B. against B. few B. bored B. call B. confused B. came B. distinction B. confirmed B. regulations | C. follow C. circle C. water C. freely C. shows C. while C. belief C. knew C. changed C. outgoing C. terrible C. without C. their C. uncomfortable C. decision C. embarrassed C. determined C. profit C. realized C. messages | D. search D. wander D. road D. quietly D. states D. until D. flight D. argued D. ruined D. independent D. central D. beyond D. my D. disappointed D. choice D. frightened D. expected D. sense D. predicted D. evaluations | 完形填空。 | My 8-year-old daughter is experimenting with kindness and smiles. She has been making her own colourful smile cards and 1 packs her pockets with them when we go out. She makes them very 2 . And she takes great pride in her 3 , which she really loves. Last Sunday, I 4 her shopping with me. My daughter packed her pockets with 20 of her 5 smile cards. She was 6 to see John, who is an elderly man. We see him from time to time and he is very happy and 7 . So we can"t help feeling good 8 to him. John wasn"t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter 9 it would be a good idea to distribute her smile cards to others in the shop. As much as I have taught her about stranger danger, I have also talked to her about strangers being potential 10 . So, after asking my 11 , she proceeded to give her cards to various people. The biggest 12 I think she got from our shopping trip came when she had run out of cards. She was 13 by a woman with two babies. Then the babies were crying and the woman was looking 14 . My daughter smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. She came to me and said, "Mom, I just realized 15 . You don"t need cards to make someone 16 . All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their 17 and they will smile back." What a beautiful lesson my daughter 18 me of. It is so 19 for us to make eye contact with people every day. To make a joke or to 20 a friendly words or two to a stranger or to say hello to a stranger …… and you are never too young (or old) to experiment with kindness and smiles. | ( )1. A. barely ( )2. A. simply ( )3. A. reward ( )4. A. took ( )5. A. homemade ( )6. A. coming ( )7. A. shy ( )8. A. waving ( )9. A. suggested ( )10. A. relatives ( )11. A. expectation ( )12. A. lesson ( )13. A. running ( )14. A. satisfied ( )15. A. everything ( )16. A. joke ( )17. A. eyes ( )18. A. reminded ( )19. A. popular ( )20. A. speak | B. never B. equally B. work B. brought B. complex B. learning B. friendly B. shouting B. discovered B. friends B. goal B. prize B. jumping B. tired B. nothing B. smile B. clothes B. thought B. different B. lend | C. sometimes C. carefully C. remark C. carried C. rough C. hoping C. rich C. turning C. promised C. enemies C. permission C. wonder C. walking C. shocked C. anything C. respond C. ears C. asked C. funny C. offer | D. often D. directly D. appearance D. made D. famous D. pretending D. strict D. talking D. decided D. competitors D. instruction D. trouble D. sitting D. worried D. something D. hide D. fingers D. convinced D. easy D. write | 阅读理解。 | Slowly I climbed into the driver"s seat of the old brown pontiac. "Hi, Miss Caroline!" cried the three passengers, my friend Annie and her two children. No, I"m not Annie"s driver. I"m just a friend. Let me explain. I"m 68, retired and live alone. Annie"s 27, works as a part-time bank teller and is married with two kids. We"re different, but we have one very important need in common-a car. I couldn"t afford to fix my own car and the bus didn"t go everywhere I needed to go. A friend had a suggestion. "My daughter Annie"s been using my old pontiac while her husband job-hunts," he said, "He got laid off and I know they could use help with gas. Maybe you two could share the car." Share a car? We Americans are pretty territorial about our automobiles. Still, need overrode (压倒) nervousness and I gave Annie a call. We quickly worked out a schedule. Three days a week for me, the rest for her. Having wheels again was a huge help. Soon the car brought something more. Driving each other home on the days we switched, Annie and I talked about everything. She had plenty of worries. Besides her finances, her dad"s health was failing. However, she lifted my spirits! She once said, "Life doesn"t always turn out the way I want, but I trust things will work out. And they do. Just like this car!" Annie and her family moved to Los Angeles. I still borrow the pontiac from her dad, who is healthy once again. Now, whenever I drive the car, I think about Annie, and about how a simple exchange born of economic need can become such a blessing. Like Annie says, life doesn"t always turn out the way we want. But that doesn"t mean it doesn"t turn out good. | 1. What did the writer have in common with Annie? | A. They were both in financial difficulty. B. They both lacked love and care in life. C. They had both been searching for a job. D. They were both too poor to own a car. | 2. Who was the real owner of the old brown pontiac? | A. The writer. B. Annie. C. A bank teller. D. Annie"s father. | 3. Annie impressed the writer much mainly because _____. | A. she had a deep love for her dad B. she had many worries in her life C. she had a positive attitude to life D. she knew how to lift others" spirits | 完型填空。 | It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen 1 in almost a month. Every day, my husband would 2 about the hard process of trying to get water to the fields. 3 we didn"t see some rain soon. we would lose everything. On this day that I learned the true lesson of 4 and witnessed a great miracle. I was in the kitchen 5 I saw my son, Billy, walking toward the 6 . He was walking with 7 , trying to be as quiet as possible. Minutes after he 8 into the woods, he came running back, I went back to make sandwiches, 9 that whatever he had been doing was completed. Moments later, 10 , he was once more walking slowly toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour. 11 , I couldn"t help following him and saw the most amazing 12 . Several large deer stood in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost 13 for him to get away. A huge deer was 14 close. 15 the deer didn"t even move as Billy knelt down. I saw a tiny deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from 16 , and lifting its head to lap up the water cupped in Billy"s hands. When the water was 17 , Billy ran back to get more. It then became 18 to me. I stood on the edge of the woods, watching the 19 boy working so hard to save another life. As my tears began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops. It was as if the God himself was 20 with pride. The rain that day saved our farm just like the actions of one little boy who saved another. | ( )1. A. water ( )2. A. set ( )3. A. Before ( )4. A. determination ( )5. A. while ( )6. A. fields ( )7. A. care ( )8. A. jumped ( )9. A. thinking ( )10. A. though ( )11. A. Actually ( )12. A. sign ( )13. A. reminded ( )14. A. mildly ( )15. A. And ( )16. A. pain ( )17. A. gone ( )18. A. upset ( )19. A. honest ( )20. A. raining | B. storm B. think B. Unless B. interest B. after B. woods B. respect B. rushed B. wondering B. besides B. Finally B. scenery B. screamed B. powerfully B. Otherwise B. illness B. shallow B. acceptable B. clever B. weeping | C. deer C. know C. Until C. love C. when C. house C. doubt C. wandered C. worrying C. however C. Quietly C. sight C. made C. dangerously C. Thus C. heat C. less C. clear C. naughty C. singing | D. rain D. talk D. If D. freedom D. that D. garden D. courage D. disappeared D. learning D. therefore D. surprisingly D. screen D. burst D. surprisingly D. But D. thirst D. small D. puzzling D. kind D. appearing |
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