I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a 1 fall. I landed
on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the
eye, the doctors stitched (缝合) the eyeball together where it was 2 , leaving a big
ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt 3 , but my mother, in all of
her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed 4 , my
face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲), 5 my scarred, sightless, cloudy and
gray eye lived on with me. As I grew,this sightless eye in so many ways 6 me.
I walked with my face looking at the 7 so that people would not see the 8 me.
Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and 9 the
world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your 10 soul."
She continued this 11 whenever I was trying to hide.
Mama"s words were of great help for me to face the world 12 . As a teenager, even
though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometime when I held my
head up high and let people know me, they 13 me. In high school, I was 14 both
academically and socially. I was 15 elected class president. My mother"s words helped
me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them 16 the intelligence
and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn"t see it on the 17 .
Now I"m a happy wife and great mother. The message "Hold your head up high" has
been 18 many times in my 19 home. Each of my children has felt 20 invitation, and
the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation. |
( )1.A.surprising
( )2.A.separated
( )3.A.failed
( )4.A.quickly
( )5.A.then
( )6.A.protected
( )7.A.floor
( )8.A.shy
( )9.A.deal with
( )10.A.different
( )11.A.sentence
( )12.A.bravely
( )13.A.disliked
( )14.A.comfortable
( )15.A.nearly
( )16.A.touch
( )17.A.surface
( )18.A.discussed
( )19.A.brave
( )20.A.their | B.sudden
B.destroyed
B.tried
B.entirely
B.if
B.affected
B.world
B.elderly
B.see
B.beautiful
B.passage
B.proudly
B.liked
B.valuable
B.even
B.observe
B.outing
B.heard
B.peaceful
B.my | C.big
C.cut
C.succeeded
C.carefully
C.still
C.stopped
C.front
C.ugly
C.laugh at
C.lonely
C.opinion
C.simply
C.hated
C.successful
C.hardly
C.watch
C.head
C.talked
C.sweet
C.its | D.bad
D.hurt
D.managed
D.slowly
D.so
D.interrupted
D.people
D.strange
D.face
D.honest
D.message
D.fairly
D.noticed
D.special
D.still
D.recognize
D.scar
D.written
D.exciting
D.her | | 阅读理解。 | Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. Then I was born in El Paso, Texas,
and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.
Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my
four brothers and sisters how fortunate we were to live in a great country with limitless
opportunities. They influenced us with the concepts of family, faith and nationalism.
I got my first real job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-
box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He rented space in a little shopping mall
and gave his shop the fancy name of Mr Ben"s Coiffure.
The owner of the shopping center gave Dad a discount on his rent for cleaning the
parking lot three nights a week, which meant getting up at 3 a.m.. To pick up rubbish,
Dad used a little machine that looked like a lawn mower. Mom and I emptied garbage
cans and picked up litter by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I"d sleep
in the car on the way home.
I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have lasted a lifetime. I acquired
discipline and a strong work ethic (道德), and learned at an early age the importance of
balancing life"s competing interests-in my case, school, homework and a job. This really
helped during my senior year of a high school, when I worked 40 hours a week flipping
burgers at a fast-food joint while taking a full load of college preparation courses.
The hard work paid off. I attended the US Military Academy and went on to receive
graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard. Later, I joined a big Los Angeles
law firm and was elected to the California State Assembly (州议会). In these jobs and
in everything else I"ve done, I have never forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The
experience taught me that there is dignity in all work and that if people are working to
provide for themselves and their families that is something we should honor. | | 1. Before my father got injured，we _____. | | [ ] | A. didn"t like living in the USA
B. lived a poor but happy life
C. were lucky to move to the USA
D. had many ways to make money | | 2. When he recovered，to make a living my father _____. | | [ ] | A. ran a small shopping mall
B. did a part-time job
C. worked as a barber
D. became a street cleaner | | 3. Working in the parking lot for two years had taught me _____. | | [ ] | A. how to obey school discipline
B. how to do two things well at a time
C. that discipline and work were of equal value
D. that I must do as many things as possible at a time | | 4. The author tells us in the last paragraph that we should be proud of those who _____. | | [ ] | A. have done all kinds of jobs
B. are cleaning the parking lot
C. have achieved a lot in their lives
D. are bearing their responsibilities | Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.
Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. | Growing old is something that nobody can understand until they experience it for themselves. I may not be
"old" but I am certainly beginning to 1 it? turned 18 just over a week ago. I am now an adult.
As a child you 2 adults-or "grown-ups" as I used to call them-to always be in control to know what is
right and wrong. 3 as a teenager, I thought that when I reached 18 I would be far more 4 in many
aspects of life. But now that I am 18, 1 know that is not true. It is clear to me now that you do not 5 learning
when you are 18．Every day you learn something 6 , no matter what your age. However, I do understand
when you become an adult you have to 7 more responsibility.
Whereas before I seldom had to clean the dishes, set the table or help out around the house, now I do all of
those. I have already 8 myself the nickname "housekeeper".
I can even drive now, which is pretty 9 , because of the frequency of accidents. But that"s not to say that
18 is not 10 to be. Not only can I drink alcohol, but I can also 11 . In fact, being 18 has made me really
interested in politics because it now means that I can change things on 12 Day. More and more of my friends
want to become politicians, and it is great to think that they can change things for the better. | ( )1. A. dislike
( )2. A. expect
( )3. A. Even
( )4. A. comfortable
( )5. A. continue
( )6. A. interested
( )7. A. take on
( )8. A. honored
( )9. A. scary
( )10. A. adventurous
( )11. A. elect
( )12. A. Labor | B. feel
B. criticize
B. But
B. interested
B. desire
B. unique
B. put on
B. chosen
B. amazing
B. tough
B. vote
B. Independence | C. learn
C. deny
C. So
C. assured
C. stop
C. valuable
C. take up
C. earned
C. fascinating
C. good
C. volunteer
C. Christmas | D. love
D. know
D. Since
D. contented
D. refuse
D. new
D. put up
D. won
D. difficult
D. annoying
D. involve
D. Election | | 阅读理解。 | When I was a boy every holiday that I had seemed perfect. My parents took me by train or by car to a
hotel by the sea. All day, I seem to remember. I played on the sands with strange exciting children. We make
sandcastles with huge yellow walls, and watched the incoming tide destroy them; we splashed each other in
the water and shrieked with excitement. When the tide went out, we climbed over the slippery rocks and
stared down at the fish and the seaweed in the rock-pools.
In those far-off days the sun seemed to shine constantly and the water was always warm. Sometimes we
left the beach and walked in the country, exploring ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees that
overhung streams. There were always sweets in one"s pockets or convenient places where one could buy ice-
creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
Although I am now an adult, my idea of a good holiday is much the same as it was. I still like the sun and
the warm sand and the sound of waves breaking on the beach. I no longer wish to build sandcastles and I
dislike sweets instantly, but I look forward to sitting down to a good meal and a bottle of wine in the evening.
I think, too, that I prefer spending my holiday abroad. I want to smell different smells; I want to see
different kinds of trees, flowers and birds; and I also want to see people with different colored skins, wearing
different kinds of clothes. Above all, I want to hear a different language spoken and listen to different musical
rhythms from those I am used to.
But I still need my companions-not, of course, to play on the sands and eat ices with, but to drink with and
talk to on warm moonlit nights.
Sometimes I wonder what my perfect holiday will be when I am old. All I shall want to do then, I expect,
will be to lie in bed, reading books about children who make sandcastles with huge yellow walls, who watch
the incoming tide, who make themselves sick on too many ices… | | 1. Where did the author mostly spend his holidays when he was young? | | [ ] | A. In the countryside.
B. On the beach.
C. In the mountains.
D. On the sea. | | 2. What does the underlined word "shrieked" in Paragraph 1 mean? | | [ ] | A. shouted
B. swam
C. struggled
D. surfed | | 3. What now interests the author as an adult is _____. | | [ ] | A. to enjoy a nice dinner
B. to spend his holiday sunbathing
C. to chat with someone
D. to experience a foreign culture | | 4. When the author grows old, he expects that _____. | | [ ] | A. he will read more books about children
B. he will lie in bed without worrying about anything
C. he will bring back wonderful childhood memories from a book
D. he will make sandcastles with his children | 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用
括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为1-10的相应位置上。 | Dr Wayne W. Dyer (called the "father of motivation" by his fans) wrote, "There is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way." There is no use 1.______ (say) "Some day 2.______ I achieve these goals, get this
car, build this house, and have this business, I will be really happy." Life doesn"t work that way. If you wait
for certain things 3.______ (happen) and depend on life to make you happy, you will always feel unfulfilled.
4.______ will always be something missing. Long-term happiness is based 5.______ honesty, self-esteem,
productive work, and making other people happy.
Long-term happiness is 6.______ process of moving towards worthwhile goals and adding to the welfare
and happiness of others. It means reaching your goals and then challenging yourself to higher and 7.______
(good) things. It 8.______ means always trying to learn and grow. Work 9.______ (honest) and productively,
and contribute real values to others. In the long run, that"s 10.______ happiness is about. | 最新试题
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