Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay. She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired the picture. "Red Stocking B.B Club of Cincinnati," the card read, under the reddish brown color photo of lo men with their socks pulled up to their knees. As a collector and seller, it"s her job to spot old items that might have value today. It"s what Bernice, 72, and her husband, Al Gallego, 80, have been doing since 1974 at their California antique (古玩) store. | | Cloze test. | Mrs. Pillar was one of my second grade teachers. She was a great teacher. However, I will always remain grateful to her for what she did for me more than a decade later. As a freshman in college, I was involved in a near fatal " 1 " when I walked into a robbery at a convenience store. One of the thieves 2 me in the head, pumping a bullet into my brain. The thieves, as well as most people, thought that I was dead. 3 , they were wrong. However, it was a severe and difficult battle getting back into the mainstream of life. I had to 4 of college to be hospitalized. Even after I was discharged from the hospital, I 5 many hours of intensive therapy (治疗). I had to relearn practically everything, including walking, talking, 6 yes, math. To help with that task, Mrs. Pillar volunteered to come to the hospital and later to my house once a week, to work with me. At first, the material that she presented appeared, to most people, to be very 7 math skills. Then, as time progressed, and I made 8 , my "homework" became progressively more difficult. I remember very 9 how she would come to my home on Sundays, sit with me at kitchen table, and throw various coins on the table. She would ask me to show her 38 cents, 17 cents, 63 cents. It was 10 for me, but she also made it fun. After a year and a half, I had progressed sufficiently, both 11 and mentally, to learn to college. Once there, I 12 therapy regularly, and four years later I graduated from the University of Texas at the top of my class. Following that, I went to graduate school. | ( )1.A. event ( )2.A. patted ( )3.A. Obviously ( )4.A. wear our ( )5.A. cost ( )6.A. but ( )7.A. basic ( )8.A. decision ( ) 9.A. vividly ( )10.A. simple ( )11.A. bodily ( )12.A. stopped | B. accident B. slapped B. Generally B. die out B. took B. and B. advanced B. choice B. colorfully B. interesting B. physically B. paused | C. affair C. shot C. Occasionally C. give out C. endured C. or C. unique C. contribution C. suddenly C. fresh C. psychologically C. continued | D. business D. hit D. Namely D. drop out D. enjoyed D. nor D. complex D. progress D. valuably D. challenging D. attitudinally D. enhanced | 完形填空。 | One summer in college, I was invited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp. I first 1 a boy under the tree on the first day of camp. His obvious 2 and shyness made him appear weak and lonely. Nearby, 200 13 campers were playing and joking, but the boy seemed to want to be anywhere 4 where he was. I was instructed to care more about campers who might feel 5 . So I 6 him and said, "Hi, I"m Kevin. It"s nice to meet you. How are you?" 7 a shaky voice he 8 answered, "Okay, I guess." I calmly asked him to join in the activities and 9 some new people. He quietly replied, "No, this is not really my thing." I could 10 that this whole experience was 11 to him. But I somehow knew it wouldn"t be right to 12 him, either. It was going to take more time and 13 . The next day, I was leading camp songs for the campers. They eagerly participated. But the boy was just sitting alone, 14 out the window. That evening at our nightly staff meeting, I made my 15 about him known. I asked them to pay special attention and spend time with him 16 they could. The days flew by fast. When the "last dance" came, surprisingly, the boy from under the tree was now a shirtless dancing 17 . He owned the dance floor 18 meaningful time with others. I couldn"t believe it was him. In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of 19 every day. You may never know how much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tell this story as 20 as I can, and I advise others to look out for their own "boy under the tree." | ( )1.A. learned ( )2.A. anger ( )3.A. ambitious ( )4.A. other than ( )5.A. left out ( )6.A. passed ( )7.A. At ( )8.A. unfortunately ( )9.A. help ( )10.A. sense ( )11.A. familiar ( )12.A. push ( )13.A. effects ( )14.A. observing ( )15.A. trouble ( )16.A. unless ( )17.A. wonder ( )18.A. sparing ( )19.A. himself ( )20.A. soon | B. recognized B. discomfort B. curious B. just as B. put out B. left B. In B. tmwillingly B. interview B. suggest B. similar B. pull B. exercises B. examining B. concern B. before B. danger B. saving B. yourself B. far | C. noticed C. excitement C. anxious C. or rather C. made out C. visited C. On C. unconsciously C. find C. consider C. strange C. pardon C. efforts C. admiring C. devotion C. when C. scene C. spreading C. themselves C. often | D. heard D. satisfaction D. eager D. as well as D. let out D. approached D. By D. uninterestingly D. meet D. prove D. typical D. punish D. expenses D. staring D. understanding D. since D. instructor D. sharing D. itself D. long | 阅读理解。 | Chen Yurong, 55, an average woman in Wuhan, Hubei province, who was diagnosed with a fatty liver (肝), walked 10 kilometers a day for seven months, despite wind and rain, so she could donate part of a healthy liver to her son. After wearing out four pairs of shoes and losing eight kilograms, her fatty liver condition disappeared. One doctor called it a "miracle" (奇迹). Her 31-year-old son, Ye Haibin, suffered from severe Wilson"s disease, a rare disorder that causes body to keep copper. Doctors said only a liver transplant could lengthen his life. Despite her age and the knowledge that about one in 1 000 liver donators die after the transplant, Chen said she did not hesitate to donate part of her liver. "In order to give my young granddaughter a complete family, I"d like to do everything to save my son, including doing exercise and eating less", Chen said. The transplant was performed on November 3, 2009. The surgery lasted more than 14 hours and saved her son from life threatening liver disease. State-owned CCTV broadcast the transplant live and she has been widely praised in China.
| However, the 55-year-old mother said she never expected such attention, which did bring her hope and help from many others-even strangers. Despite giving up part of her liver, Chen, like before, gets up at 6 am to help her son wash and take his medicine. Moved by Chen Yurong"s love for her son and her determination and effort, the hospital paid the entire medical bill, which would have added up to 600 000 yuan (US $85 715). The great mother, Chen Yurong was honored as the most touching figure in China for 2009. | 完形填空。 | Tina and Thomas Sjogren were the fourth and fifth people to reach the earth"s three poles. Years ago, the couple were 1 across the North Atlantic on their way to Europe. Tina looked out of her window and was 2 by the vast amount of space in Greenland. "The sky outside the window burst into different 3 , and auroras (极光) flew all around us. I 4 what it would be like to step down there and start walking 5 , all alone in such a place." She thought, "If this is what Iceland and Greenland are like, how 6 then must the Arctic be?" She turned to her husband, 7 him awake and said, "Honey, let"s go to the Poles!" Tina"s 8 would not be their first adventure. They had already climbed Mount Qomolangma. The pair soon made a 9 to visit both the North and South Poles on skis, travelling 10 . On February 2, 2002, they reached the South Pole. Their journey 11 2 000 kilometres. After just 35 days of recovery and preparation, they 12 again. "You are so 13 after the long expedition to the South Pole, so you don"t know if you could do 14 right away." On May 29, after travelling for the whole morning, as the couple watched with weak 15 , the numbers on their GPS showed that their goal had 16 been achieved. They had made it. Without the 17 of dogs or supplies dropped from planes, it was only their strength and willpower that 18 them to ski and swim their way. They got valuable experience but that did not come without a 19 . If you go on an adventure, there"s always the risk of something going wrong. 20 , you will learn from it. | ( )1.A. flying ( )2.A. frightened ( )3.A. shapes ( )4.A. remembered ( )5.A. carefully ( )6.A. cold ( )7.A. shook ( )8.A. idea ( )9.A. suggestion ( )10.A. non-stop ( )11.A. covered ( )12.A. broke down ( )13.A. excited ( )14.A. more ( )15.A. torchlight ( )16.A. surprisingly ( )17.A. reward ( )18.A. attracted ( )19.A. price ( )20.A. Therefore | B. exploring B. bored B. colors B. wondered B. quickly B. bright B. knocked B. advice B. plan B. unsupported B. included B. settled down B. disappointed B. another B. sunlight B. luckily B. burden B. allowed B. success B. Instead | C. swimming C. amazed C. sounds C. enjoyed C. aimlessly C. wonderful C kept C. order C. proposal C. unreturned C. lasted C. set out C. confused C. one C. breath C. accidentally C help C. taught C. mistake C. Otherwise | D. sailing D. amused D. waves D. doubted D. freely D. terrible D. beat D. offer D. change D. unprepared D. crossed D. came back D. tired D. others D. eyesight D. eventually D. company D. forced D. change D. However |
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