Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since childhood, spent the
weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we"ve both always looked forward to the
few 1 a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up 2 into the night, talking about the people she
was 3 . She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with drugs and
was 4 other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me 5 she had been lying to her parents
about where she was going and even 6 out to see the guy. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she
deserved 7 , she didn"t believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have 8 .
I tried to 9 her that she was ruining her future and heading for big 10 , but she thought it acceptable to
have such a boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and 11 by the experience. It had been so frustrating,
I had come 12 to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just 13 too far apart to
continue our friendship-but I didn"t. I put the 14 of friendship to the final test. We"d been friends for far too
long. I had to hope that she 15 me enough to know that I was trying to save her from 16 herself. I wanted
to believe that our friendship could conquer 17 .
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 18 , and then she told she
had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of 19 running down
my face. It was one of the truly 20 moments in my life. |
( )1. A. instants
( )2. A. straight
( )3. A. hanging with
( )4. A. of
( )5. A. how
( )6. A. coming
( )7. A. worse
( )8. A. improved
( )9. A. recommend
( )10. A. chance
( )11. A. exhausted
( )12. A. almost
( )13. A. kept
( )14. A. power
( )15. A. praised
( )16. A. hurting
( )17. A. everybody
( )18. A. friendship
( )19. A. surprise
( )20. A. regretful | B. times
B. ahead
B. dealing with
B. above
B. why
B. stealing
B. higher
B. changed
B. advise
B. trouble
B. satisfied
B. forward
B. moved
B. difference
B. blamed
B. cheating
B. nobody
B. conversation
B. sorrow
B. rewarding | C. weeks
C. late
C. trading with
C. through
C. when
C. hurrying
C. better
C. strengthened
C. convince
C. destination
C. encouraged
C. close
C. settled
C. quality
C. valued
C. criticizing
C. something
C. relationship
C. joy
C. vital | D. scenes
D. long
D. comparing with
D. into
D. where
D. driving
D. poorer
D. disappeared
D. introduce
D. ambition
D. accustomed
D. nearby
D. grown
D. wisdom
D. followed
D. concerning
D. anything
D. decision
D. disappointment
D. urgent | | 阅读理解。 | Knowing how much her own children loved presents at Christmas, Ann Sutton always tried to seek help
for one or two poor families. With a social worker mother, the Sutton children had inherited her commitment
to service, and knew never to take their good fortune at Christmas for granted. This year, Kinzie, her seven-
year-old daughter was thrilled that Santa Claus would make a special visit to a 22-year-old mother named
Ashley who worked in a factory raising her 12-month-old son by herself.
The phone rang on Sunday. A representative from a local organization was calling to say that the aid Ann
had requested for Ashley had fallen through. No Santa Claus, no presents, nothing.
Ann saw the cheer vanish from her children"s faces at the news. Without a word, Kinzie ran into her
bedroom. She returned, her face set with determination. Opening up her piggy bank, she put all the coins onto
the table: $3.30. Everything she had.
"Mom," she told Ann, "I know it"s not much. But maybe this will buy a present for the baby."
At a breakfast meeting the next day, Ann told her coworkers about her daughter"s story. To her surprise,
staff members began to open their purses and empty their pockets to help Kinzie. By day"s end, the story of
Kinzie"s gift had spread beyond Ann"s office. She received a call from an unknown donor. If a seven-year-old
could give everything she had, he said, he should at least match her gift 100 to 1. He contributed $300.
On Christmas Eve, Ann drove through the pouring rain to the small trailer where the Ashleys lived. Then
she began to unload the gifts from the car, handing them to Ashley one by one.
Ashley was very moved. Reflecting on a little girl"s generosity, Ashley says she"ll one day be able to do
something similar for someone else in need. "Kinzie could have used that money for herself, but she gave it
away," Ashley says. "She"s the type of kid I"d like my son to grow up to be." | | 1. According to the text, Ann Sutton _____. | A. is making lots of money
B. is ready to help others
C. is only caring about herself
D. is a hard-working mother | | 2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text? | A. Ashley lived a hard life with her little son.
B. The Sutton children took Anne as an example to follow.
C. The coworkers of Ann helped Kinzie to realize her wish.
D. Ann Sutton tried to ask for help for her own children. | | 3. What can we learn about Kinzie? | A. She was afraid that Santa Claus would visit the Ashleys.
B. She should get some presents from her mother at Christmas.
C. She devoted all her coins to buying a present for the baby.
D. She was cheerful when hearing the aid had fallen through. | | 4. Which of the following can be inferred from the text? | A. It rained heavily on Christmas Eve.
B. Ann handed gifts to Ashley one by one.
C. Ashley hoped she would help someone else in need.
D. A good deed can influence many people"s behavior. | | 5. What would be the best title for the text? | A. A Young Girl"s Gift
B. A Mother"s Love
C. A Story of Young Girl
D. An Unknown Donor | | 完形填空。 | 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 |
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