I believe in miracles (奇迹) because I"ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. "There"s a 1 in my upper jaw," she said. "I told my own dentist it"s nothing, but he 2 I come to see you." Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would 3 to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the 4 of her mouth A careful examination later 5 that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer. During her next appointment, I explained to her the 6 of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, "I know you"re worried about me, but I"m just 7 ." I thought otherwise. After considerable 8 一on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to 9 me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon She saw him, but as I expected, 10 treatment. About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and 11 . "How are you?" I asked. "I"m just fine, honey," she responded 12 high spirits. "When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假 牙)?" Surprised to see her at all, I answered 13 , "Let me take a look in your mouth and we"ll see about it." I couldn"t believe my eyes. The cancer that had 14 nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone-only one small area of redness 15 . I had read of such things happening, but had 16 seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I"ve seen many others because they keep getting 17 to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle, 18 through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to 19 the miracles of one another. Since my first miracle, I"ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 20 we choose to find it. |
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A. whatever | B. pain B. suspected B. continue B. corner B. convinced B. importance B. sick B. support B. please B. provided B. elegant B. in B. confusedly B. reached B. faded B. also B. rarer B. so B. make B. wherever | C. wound C. promised C. attempt C. bottom C. considered C. seriousness C. fine C. approval C. encourage C. received C. optimistic C. with C. patiently C. spread C. expanded C. never C. happier C. yet C. keep C. whoever | D. cancer D. insisted D. manage D. surface D. concluded D. resolution D. glad D. effort D. astonish D. required D. humorous D. by D. confidently D. grown D. remained D. already D. closer D. for D. see D. whichever | 阅读理解。 | Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30, and at 6:30 she was expected to be chairing a meeting of the tennis club. At last, the traffic was moving. She swung quickly racing to her house. As she opened the door, she nearly tripped over Sheba. "Hey, Sheba," she said, "I"ve got no time for you now, but I"ll take you out as soon as I get back from tennis club." Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly breathe. Immediately, Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet (兽医). When she got there, the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into his office. "Listen, doctor, I"m really in a rush to get to a meeting-can I leave her with you, and go and get changed? I"ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I"ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?" "Sure," said the doctor. Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering the hallway, the phone by the door began to ring. "This is Dr. Sterne," said an anxious voice. "I want you to get out of.that house immediately," said the doctor"s voice. "I"m coming round right away, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!" At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived. "Where"s Sheba? Is she OK?" shouted Joanne. "She"s fine, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she"s OK now." Just then, the two policemen reappeared ffom the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could hardly walk. There was blood all over him. "My God," said Joanne, "how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?" "I think he must be a burglar," said the doctor. "I knew he was there because when I finally removed what was stuck in Sheba"s throat; it turned out to be three human fingers." | 1. What was Joanne supposed to do at 6:30? | [ ] | A To walk her dog. B. To see her doctor. C. To attend a club meeting. D. To play tennis with her friends. | 2. Joanne wanted to get back to her home again _____. | [ ] | A. to dress up for the meeting B. to phone the police station C. to catch the badly hurt burglar D. to wait for her dog to be cured | 3. From the passage, we can infer that _____. | [ ] | A. Sheba fought against the burglar B. the police found the burglar had broken in C. Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting D. the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog | 4. In this passage, the writer intends to tell us that the dog is _____. | [ ] | A. clever B. friendly C. frightening D. devoted | 完形填空。 | Wings of Angel I used to hate myself because I wasn"t "normal". Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 1 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder (脊髓病) and I knew l would always be much 2 than others. I hated going to school and hated people 3 at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing 4 and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the 5 and seeing an ugly hunchback (驼背). My friends found me 6 because I didn"t let others get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 7 Angela appeared. That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school-a spot where no one would 8 me. That"s when I first heard her voice. "Hi. Can I sit down?" I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face. "What are you looking at?" she asked. "Ants." "What are they doing?" "No 9 ." "I bet they"re playing games and Making friends. Don"t you think so?" That was how our 10 started and it didn"t stop. We talked about everything under the sun-the ants, the clouds, my little niche (处境)-until it was sunset. Then suddenly, she saw my 11 . She just stared. My heart 12 . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would 13 me now. She stood up, pointed at my back and said, "I know 14 your back is hunched." I closed my eyes like a crimiml waiting to be 15 . I begged in my heart for her to 16 , but she just kept on going. "I know what you"ve got in there. Do you?" "No," I answered 17 . She bent and whispered in my ears. "Your back is hunched because you"ve got a pair of wings from the angels." I was 18 . I looked into her eyes and her 19 touched my heart. From that day on, I started to leam to 20 myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend. | ( )1. A. them ( )2. A. sadder ( )3. A. looking ( )4. A. still ( )5. A. street ( )6. A. distant ( )7. A. after ( )8. A. disturb ( )9. A. wonder ( )10. A. connection ( )11. A. face ( )12. A. sank ( )13. A. care for ( )14. A. that ( )15. A. accused ( )16. A. relax ( )17. A. shyly ( )18. A. astonished ( )19. A. wisdom ( )20. A. control | B. it B. shorter B. smiling B. alone B. sun B. stubborn B. before B. seek B. idea B. competition B. back B. beat B. rely on B. how B. arrested B. leave B. weakly B. ashamed B. generosity B. like | C. me C. weaker C. aiming C. straight C. corner C. hopeless C. since C. interrupt C. sign C. conversation C. eyes C. broke C. look down upon C. whether C. punished C. stop C. proudly C. annoyed C. honesty C. comfort | D. her D. slower D. glaring D. together D. mirror D. unfortunate D. until D. ignore D. action D. comprchcnsion D. shoulders D. ached D. put up with D. why D. sentenced D. pause D. firmly D. amused D. kindness D. enjoy | 阅读理解。 | The Pillow At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my First volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovcrcd that "our family" was living in a trailer (拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced. We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house-something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen. On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family"s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were astonished when Josh respondcd, "I just want a bed." The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night.a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding. When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning. That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway. As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?" "A pillow," he replied. "What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask. "When you go to sleep, you put your head on it, "I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow. "Oh-that"s soft," he said, hugging it tightly. Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?" We know exactly what he means. | 1. The writer"s first volunteer project was _____. | [ ] | A. working on a poor trailer B. helping a poor family C. donating beds and bedding D. dealing with a housing problem | 2. On hearing Josh"s answer, the writer was shocked because _____. | [ ] | A. the family lived in a trailer B. he expected to get some toys C. he didn"t know what a bed was D.the boys had no bed to sleep in | 3. From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen _____ before. | [ ] | A. a trailer B. a truck C. a pillow D. a house | 4. By saying "Do you have a pillow?", the writer"s father means that _____. | [ ] | A. what they want to get may be unnecessary B. they should not waste money on small things C. they should do more volunteer work for the poor D. what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow | 完形填空。 | Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Schwartz. Whenever he smiles, it"s as if you"d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story. When James was a teenager, his father 1 him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the Great Depression. The 2 was to get James a job. He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the 3 had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 4 were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 5 a thickened air, and the workers, 6 the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 7 the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster. James could hardly 8 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn"t 9 at him, too. During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 10 if there was any work for his son. But 11 there was barely enough 12 for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he takes a job. Thus, for James, it was a 13 . He hated the place. He made a 14 that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought 15 to someone else, and he would never allow himself to 16 money off the sweat of others. "What will you do?" his mother, Eva, would ask him. "I don"t know," he 17 say. He ruled out law, because he didn"t like 18 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn"t take the 19 of blood. "What will you do?" 20 , my best professor I ever had became a teacher because he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody. | ( )1.A.sent ( )2.A.situation ( )3.A.lights ( )4.A.goods ( )5.A.creating ( )6.A.collecting ( )7.A.as ( )8.A.breathe ( )9.A.attack ( )10.A.doubting ( )11.A.also ( )12.A.time ( )13.A.comforting ( )14.A.request ( )15.A.harm ( )16.A.pay ( )17.A.should ( )18.A.police ( )19.A.sight ( )20.A.Generally | B.took B.condition B.doors B.workers B.sending B.pulling B.after B.see B.scold B.questioning B.still B.work B.regretting B.promise B.injury B.save B.would B.lawyers B.feel B.Luckily | C.carried C.idea C.chances C.machines C.taking C.drawing C.if C.walk C.rush C.asking C.yet C.office C.blessing C.plan C.damage C.make C.could C.judges C.sense C.Eventually | D.admitted D.way D.walls D.vehicles D.disturbing D.sewing D.though D.hear D.scream D.demanding D.even D.occupation D.forgiving D.arrangement D.inconvenience D.let D.might D.government D.scenery D.Basically |
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