I learned all about taking responsibility from my mother’s tough love. My mom ha

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I learned all about taking responsibility from my mother’s tough love. My mom had a wonderful way of helping you        up and realize that your life is going to be what you make it.
She had this circular way of      you took responsibility for your decisions and the person you would      . She would say,“ It" s your      .”      “What you want and what you get are sometimes two       different things.” And then, “No one ever said life was fair.” And she would      these comments together in such a way that you could never      an argument, and yet, the      was that you realized your life is going to be what you make it.
So I might go to my mom and say, “I’d like to      football”. And she would say, “Well, it"s your life. If you want to go out there and get      and hurt and break your knees and limp around the rest of your life, that" s fine.” That is      I would say, “Well, you know, that won’t       . I" m really fast.” And she would reply, “Well, we don’t really have the money.” And then I would     , “Yes but that" s not fair.” And she would reply, “ Well, life isn’t      .” Then I would say, “But I’ve been itching to." And she would reply, “Yes, but what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
It was the combination of these       that allowed my mother to lead me down the right path under her      but let me feel as if I was making the decisions      my own. The sum total of that    was, in the end, you’re      for the life you lead. That" s the best advice I’ve ever gotten.

小题1:

A．light

B．open

C．grow

D．keep

小题2:

A．promising

B．ensuring

C．ignoring

D．noticing

小题3:

A．protect

B．envy

C．refuse

D．become

小题4:

A．fault

B．life

C．progress

D．turn

小题5:

A．Then

B．But

C．Now

D．However

小题6:

A．increasingly

B．approximately

C．completely

D．occasionally

小题7:

A．combine

B．remind

C．answer

D．publish

小题8:

A．lose

B．doubt

C．win

D．raise

小题9:

A．belief

B．reason

C．mistake

D．result

小题10:

A．quit

B．play

C．buy

D．watch

小题11:

A．beaten up

B．dressed up

C．divided

D．closed up

小题12:

A．what

B．how

C．when

D．which

小题13:

A．fail

B．work

C．last

D．happen

小题14:

A．take

B．go

C．make

D．catch

小题15:

A．fair

B．cosy

C．hard

D．special

小题16:

A．comments

B．descriptions

C．techniques

D．messages

小题17:

A．temper

B．influence

C．activity

D．success

小题18:

A．for

B．on

C．over

D．beyond

小题19:

A．mind

B．account

C．deal

D．advice

小题20:

A．famous

B．responsible

C．sorry

D．thankful

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:D
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:A
小题17:B
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:B　　

解析

试题分析：文章介绍了妈妈独特的教育风格，她不会直接让孩子怎么做，而是通过迂回的方法，让孩子自己决定该怎么做，告诉孩子人生是不公平的，每个人要对自己的生活负责。
小题1:考查动词辨析：A. light点燃，发光，发亮，B. open开，C. grow成长，D. keep保持，从下文的：that your life is going to be what you make it.可知妈妈有很好的办法可以帮助你成长，选C
小题2:考查动词辨析：A. promising许诺，B. ensuring确保，C. ignoring忽视，D. noticing注意，她用迂回的办法可以确保你对决定和你要变成的人负责，选B
小题3:考查动词辨析：A. protect保护，B. envy嫉妒，C. refuse拒绝，D. become变成，她用迂回的办法可以确保你对决定和你要变成的人负责，选D
小题4:考查名词辨析：A. fault过失，B. life生活，C. progress 进展，D. turn顺序，她会说：“这就是你的生活”，选B
小题5:考查词义辨析：A. Then那时，那儿，其次，这儿B. But但是，C. Now现在，D. However然而，下面是妈妈要说另一个观点，用then“其次”，选A
小题6:考查副词辨析：A. increasingly日益增加的，B. approximately大约的，C. completely完全地，D. occasionally偶尔地，从下文的：but what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”可知你想要的，和你要得到的是两个完全不同的东西，C
小题7:考查动词辨析：A. combine结合，B. remind提醒，C. answer回答，D. publish出版，她会将这些话结合在一起，选A
小题8:考查动词辨析：A. lose失去，B. doubt怀疑，C. win赢得，D. raise饲养，提高，她会用一种方式，你永远不可能赢得一次争论，选C
小题9:考查名词辨析：A. belief信念，B. reason 原因，C. mistake错误，D. result结果，结果是你会意识到你的生活就是你会做到什么。选D
小题10:考查动词辨析：A. quit放弃，B. play玩，C. buy买D. watch观看，play football踢足球，选B
小题11:考查动词辨析：A. beaten up痛殴，毒打B. dressed up打扮，C. divided分配，D. closed up关闭，从下午文的：hurt and break your knees可知去踢足球会被打，选A
小题12:考查疑问词辨析：A. what什么，B. how 怎样，C. when什么时候，D. which哪个，这时我会说:….，选C
小题13:考查动词辨析：A. fail失败，B. work工作，C. last持续，D. happen发生，从下文的：I" m really fast.”可知作者认为这不会发生的，选D
小题14:考查动词辨析：A. take拿，B. go去，C. make制作，D. catch捕捉，抓，然后我会继续说，选B
小题15:考查形容词辨析：A. fair公平的，B. cosy舒服的，C. hard 困难的，D. special特殊的，从上文的：“Yes but that" s not fair.”可知妈妈会说：“人生就是不公平的”，选A
小题16:考查名词辨析：A. comments评论，B. descriptions描述，C. techniques技术，D. messages信息，从上文的：And she would 17 these comments together in such a way that you could never 18 an argument,可知这就是她结合起来的评论，选A
小题17:考查名词辨析：A. temper脾气，B. influence影响，C. activity活动，D. success成功，让我在她的影响下朝着正确的道路走，选B
小题18:考查介词辨析：A. for为了，B. on在…上面，C. over越过，在…上面，D. beyond超过，让我感觉我是在自己做决定，选B
小题19:考查名词辨析：A. mind思维，B. account账户，描述，C. deal交易，D. advice建议，从下文的句子：That" s the best advice I’ve ever gotten.可知最后建议总的来说是你要对你过的生活负责，选D
小题20:考查形容词辨析：A. famous著名， B. responsible负责，C. sorry对不起，D. thankful感谢，最后建议总的来说是你要对你过的生活负责，选B

举一反三

I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn"t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic; motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. "I"m awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn"t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
小题1:The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________

A．she might be recognized

B．asking for help looked silly

C．she was normal and independent

D．being found blind was embarrassing

小题2:After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.

A．began to run

B．hit a person as usual

C．hit a lamppost by accident

D．was caught by something

小题3:At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.

A．stopped a big lorry

B．stopped the wrong bus

C．made no attempt to stop the bus

D．was not noticed by other people

小题4:What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus? _________

A．Other vehicles also stopped there.

B．It was unreliable for making judgments.

C．More lorries than buses responded to the girl.

D．It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus

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It was already late when we set out for the next town,       according to the map was about fifteen miles away on the other side of the
There we felt     that we would find a bed     the night. Darkness fell soon after we left the village, but luckily we met       as we drove fast along the narrow winding road that       the hills. As we climbed      , it became colder and rain began to fall,       it difficult at times to see the road. I asked John, my companion, to drive more      .
After we had traveled for about twenty miles, there was still no sign of the town which was    on the map. We were beginning to get     . Then without warning the car stopped. A quick    showed that we had run out of petrol. Although we had little food with us, we decided to      the night in the car.
Our meal was soon over. I tried to go to sleep at once,    John, who was a     sleeper, got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk       the hills. Soon he came back. From the top of the hill he had seen, in the valley below, the      of the town we were looking for. We at once unloaded all our luggage and with a great effort,    to push the car to the top of the hill. Then we went back to the luggage, loaded the car again and set off down the hill.   less than a quarter of an hour we were in the town, where we found a         quite easily.

小题1:

A．which

B．it

C．where

D．that

小题2:

A．rivers

B．villages

C．towns

D．hills

小题3:

A．surprised

B．sure

C．pleased

D．afraid

小题4:

A．at

B．in

C．through

D．for

小题5:

A．everybody

B．somebody

C．nobody

D．anybody

小题6:

A．got to

B．arrived

C．led to

D．belonged to

小题7:

A．taller

B．faster

C．lower

D．higher

小题8:

A．getting

B．thinking

C．causing

D．making

小题9:

A．certainly

B．slowly

C．carefully

D．surely

小题10:

A．set

B．marked

C．built

D．drawn

小题11:

A．worried

B．excited

C．cold

D．warm

小题12:

A．attention

B．operation

C．examination

D．information

小题13:

A．live

B．spend

C．spare

D．stay

小题14:

A．since

B．though

C．so

D．but

小题15:

A．poor

B．fast

C．quick

D．heavy

小题16:

A．across

B．through

C．down

D．up

小题17:

A．map

B．lights

C．bus

D．situation

小题18:

A．ought

B．tried

C．managed

D．succeeded

小题19:

A．For

B．In

C．Since

D．At

小题20:

A．hotel

B．friend

C．policeman

D．cinema

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every fast-food employee knows that the drive-through window is the worst position. The window sticks with constant ice; the roar of engines hurts your     ; your words are lost in the howling wind.
On a        afternoon, everything changed.
Every once in a while, the sub-zero temperatures seal a        windows shut. Drivers don’t exactly enjoy having to stand outside in the cold,       their orders into a speaker box, when they expect to drive through on their heated leather seats. In such cases, most customers tend to show their annoyance to the employees.
This woman was       .
“I’ll get the next car’s        as well,” she said as she came up to the window to pay. She stood outside,        much snow on her hair. Though she was obviously freezing, her bright        lit up her face like a fire.
“You can’t        their drinks,” I said, confused and tired.
“No, but I’ll buy them,” she said. “Pay it forward and all that.”
Completely puzzled, I charged her as       , and when the next customer arrived at the window I explained what had just happened. I watched as his         changed — first angry to be out in the cold, then        at the random act of kindness, and finally, delighted by his     .
“I suppose I’ll pay for the next order then,” he replied, nodding and waving at the impatient driver       him. He        over the cash and received his pre-paid hot drink.
The trend continued. Customers arrived annoyed, only to leave        and pleased. Some were shocked to spend much more than they had expected,        others ended up receiving their order for less than half the price.
Five vehicles passed, then ten, then twenty. No one refused to pay. Customers stood at my window          a fist-full of change to buy drinks for a complete stranger. Cars drove off, honking (鸣笛) and          their thanks.
It only takes one customer, one person, to change the entire        of traffic. It only takes one moment, one smile, to warm up even the coldest of days.

小题1:

A．ears

B．hands

C．feet

D．back

小题2:

A．freezing

B．sunny

C．warm

D．usual

小题3:

A．truck’s

B．vehicle’s

C．car’s

D．lorry’s

小题4:

A．offering

B．throwing

C．screaming

D．cancelling

小题5:

A．polite

B．angry

C．popular

D．different

小题6:

A．number

B．coffee

C．fee

D．order

小题7:

A．covering

B．increasing

C．gathering

D．falling

小题8:

A．eyes

B．smile

C．hair

D．annoyance

小题9:

A．pay

B．take

C．buy

D．bring

小题10:

A．instructed

B．requested

C．directed

D．suggested

小题11:

A．gesture

B．expression

C．figure

D．feeling

小题12:

A．inspired

B．upset

C．surprised

D．disappointed

小题13:

A．turn

B．sense

C．deed

D．luck

小题14:

A．beyond

B．before

C．beside

D．behind

小题15:

A．took

B．looked

C．handed

D．thought

小题16:

A．shy

B．calm

C．anxious

D．regretful

小题17:

A．while

B．since

C．as

D．unless

小题18:

A．making

B．emptying

C．lying

D．holding

小题19:

A．explaining

B．sending

C．introducing

D．casting

小题20:

A．jam

B．row

C．flow

D．line

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Three boys and three girls boarded the bus to Fort Lauderdale, dreaming of golden beaches as the gray cold of New York disappeared behind them. They noticed an old man, who sat in front of them, dressed in a plain, ill-fitting suit, never     , and his dusty face     his age.
He was    in his seat like a stone, and the young people began to      about him, trying to     his life and his age. Deep into the night, outside Washington, one of the girls went up to him and introduced herself. “Want some wine?” He took    the glass and drank.
Slowly and       he told his story. His name was Vingo, he had been in     in New York for the past four years, and now he was going home. “When I was in prison I wrote to my wife,” he said. “I told her that I was going to be away for a long time, and that if she couldn"t     it, if the kids kept asking questions, if it     too much, she could just forget me, I"d understand.”
“Last week, knowing I would be     , I wrote her again. We used to live in Brunswick and there"s a big oak tree just as you come into town. I told her that if she would     me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I"d     and come home with her. If she didn"t       me, forget it, no handkerchief, and I"d go on through.”
　　“Wow,” the girl exclaimed. She told the others, and soon all of them put their faces against the window, waiting for the       of Brunswick.
Then Brunswick was ten miles, and then five. Then, suddenly, all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming       , all except Vingo. Vingo sat there     , looking at the oak tree. It was almost        with yellow handkerchiefs, 20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds, a tree that stood like a huge flag of      , blowing in the wind. As the young people shouted, the old man rose and      his way to the front of the bus to go home.

小题1:

A．moving

B．leaning

C．stopping

D．heading

小题2:

A．proved

B．masked

C．betrayed

D．abandoned

小题3:

A．rooted

B．annoyed

C．relaxed

D．alarmed

小题4:

A．hear

B．care

C．wonder

D．speak

小题5:

A．bother

B．describe

C．imagine

D．know

小题6:

A．away

B．in

C．out

D．over

小题7:

A．terribly

B．eagerly

C．painfully

D．casually

小题8:

A．hospital

B．prison

C．company

D．work

小题9:

A．support

B．believe

C．stand

D．ignore

小题10:

A．lasted

B．influenced

C．cost

D．hurt

小题11:

A．hopeless

B．convenient

C．successful

D．free

小题12:

A．take

B．refuse

C．call

D．write

小题13:

A．get out

B．get off

C．get on

D．get in

小题14:

A．remember

B．believe

C．miss

D．accept

小题15:

A．entrance

B．beauty

C．existence

D．approach

小题16:

A．amazingly

B．joyfully

C．definitely

D．desperately

小题17:

A．shocked

B．puzzled

C．terrified

D．depressed

小题18:

A．covered

B．surrounded

C．spotted

D．dotted

小题19:

A．wishes

B．welcome

C．victory

D．success

小题20:

A．felt

B．forced

C．made

D．pushed

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Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans．With each passing day everyone became more ____ waiting for the final school bell．Upon its ____ everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.
David was a small boy in ragged clothes．I had often ____ what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so ____ for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves．But something made David ____．I can still remember he was always ____ a smile and willing to help．He always ____ after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor．We never talked much．He ____ just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly ____ home.
Weeks passed and the ____ over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of ____ before the holiday break．I smiled in ___ as the last of them hurried out the door．Turning around I saw David ____ standing by my desk.
“I have something for you，” he said and ____ from behind his back a small box．____ it to me, he said anxiously, “Open it.” I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it．I lifted the lid and to my ____ saw nothing．I looked at David’s smiling face and back into the box and said, “The box is nice, David, but it’s ____.”
“Oh no it isn’t，” said David．“It’s full of love．My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”
Tears filled my eyes ____ I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given ____ to．After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning ___ the little empty box set on my desk.

小题1:

A．anxious

B．courageous

C．serious

D．cautious

小题2:

A．warning

B．ringing

C．calling

D．yelling

小题3:

A．scolded

B．wondered

C．realized

D．learned

小题4:

A．modestly

B．naturally

C．inaccurately

D．inappropriately

小题5:

A．popular

B．upset

C．special

D．funny

小题6:

A．expressing

B．delivering

C．wearing

D．sharing

小题7:

A．practiced

B．wandered

C．studied

D．stayed

小题8:

A．would

B．should

C．might

D．could

小题9:

A．aim at

B．turn to

C．put off

D．head for

小题10:

A．argument

B．excitement

C．movement

D．judgment

小题11:

A．school

B．year

C．education

D．program

小题12:

A．relief

B．return

C．vain

D．control

小题13:

A．weakly

B．sadly

C．quietly

D．helplessly

小题14:

A．searched

B．found

C．raised

D．pulled

小题15:

A．Holding

B．Handing

C．Sending

D．Leaving

小题16:

A．delight

B．expectation

C．appreciation

D．surprise

小题17:

A．cheap

B．empty

C．useless

D．improper

小题18:

A．as

B．until

C．because

D．though

小题19:

A．advice

B．support

C．attention

D．command

小题20:

A．from

B．behind

C．over

D．towards

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