Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength, which is seen to happen in our life.
A boy, who had lost his left arm in a car crash, began his lessons with an old Japanese Judo master (柔道
大师). But after three months of hard 1 , the old master had 2 him only one move. To know why, the
boy finally asked, "Should I be good enough to learn some more moves besides this one only?"
"But this is the only one you"ll ever need to 3 ," was the teacher"s reply. Not quite understanding but
believing in his teacher, the boy kept practicing.
Several months later, the Japanese master took the boy to his 4 competition. Surprising himself, the
boy easily won his first two matches. The third match seemed to be more difficult, 5 after some time, his
opponent (对手) became nervous and worried. The boy again used his one move to win the match, which had
him in the finals just as easily. Now his opponent was more 6 . For a while the boy seemed 7 . The judge
was about to stop the match for fear that he might get hurt. "No," the teacher 8 firmly (坚定地). The match
went on. Just at this moment, his opponent made a deadly 9 . He dropped his guard (防守), at which the boy
gave him a sudden turnover: the boy was the final winner. On the way home he was told 10 he could win: the
only one known defense (防卫) for that most difficult move in Judo was for his opponent to take hold of his
left arm. |
( )1. A. fighting
( )2. A. taught
( )3. A. ask
( )4. A. final
( )5. A. although
( )6. A. frightening
( )7. A. stronger
( )8. A. disagreed
( )9. A. decision
( )10. A. when | B. training
B. found
B. teach
B. first
B. because
B. famous
B. weaker
B. refused
B. attack
B. how | C. exercising
C. given
C. have
C. best
C. but
C. excited
C. good
C. laughed
C. mistake
C. why | D. thinking
D. left
D. mind
D. last
D. so that
D. experienced
D. better
D. agreed
D. record
D. what | | 完形填空。 | A man was looking for things of the old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl which
looked very 1 . The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer, the 2 of the cat,
was lying 3 the bowl. The man did not want the farmer to know that he was interested in the 4 . So he said
to him, "What a nice cat you have! Will you 5 it to me?"
The farmer asked," 6 will you give me for the cat?"
"Twenty dollars. Would that be enough?"
The farmer thought for a few minutes, then he 7 . After he paid the farmer, the man said, "My cat will
certainly feel 8 . May I take the bowl 9 the cat can drink with it?" But the farmer said, "I"m 10 I can"t give
you the bowl. Thanks to the bowl, I have sold twenty cats already." | ( )1. A. old
( )2. A. teacher
( )3. A. in
( )4. A. cat
( )5. A. sell
( )6. A. What
( )7. A. agreed
( )8. A. tired
( )9. A. while
( )10. A. sorry | B. new
B. servant
B. over
B. bowl
B. give
B. Where
B. refused
B. thirsty
B. until
B. happy | C. big
C. doctor
C. beside
C. bottle
C. pass
C. How much
C. replied
C. comfortable
C. so that
C. sad | D. small
D. owner
D. under
D. milk
D. return
D. What time
D. stopped
D. excited
D. though
D. grateful | | 完形填空。 | One day a woman got into her car and started driving home after work. Suddenly, 1 saw a yellow car
behind her. 2 was a man. When she turned left, the yellow car turned left. When she turned right, the yellow
car turned right, 3 . When she stopped 4 the traffic lights, the yellow car stopped behind her.
The woman was afraid, so she drove 5 to the police station. She was very 6 when she found the car
stopped behind her. At that time, a young man was standing outside the police station. The woman was very
happy 7 him. She knew that he was a policeman 8 he was wearing a police uniform (制服). She jumped
out of her car and ran to the policeman. She asked him to arrest (逮捕) the man in the yellow car, so the
policeman walked to the man.
The man 9 to run away when he saw the policeman. He just smiled 10 said to the woman, "I want to
give this purse (钱包) back to you, madam. I think you dropped it on the street." | ( )1. A. she
( )2. A. The worker
( )3. A. also
( )4. A. in
( )5. A. quickly
( )6. A. interested
( )7. A. see
( )8. A. after
( )9. A. didn’t try
( )10. A. but | B. her
B. The driver
B. either
B. on
B. slowly
B. interesting
B. sees
B. before
B. tried
B. so | C. hers
C. The doctor
C. too
C. to
C. easily
C. surprised
C. saw
C. because
C. tries
C. or | D. herself
D. The farmer
D. neither
D. at
D. happily
D. surprising
D. to see
D. when
D. doesn’t try
D. and | | 阅读理解。 | One morning, a blind (瞎的) boy sat on the steps of building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which
said, "I am blind, please help me."
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket
and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put
the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the
man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked,
"Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way."
What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it."
Do you think the first sign and second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting
some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but
the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that
they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who
need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way. | | 1. From the passage we know that _____. | A. the boy always has hat on his head.
B. the man is one of his friends.
C. the boy is blind and needs help.
D. the boy works for the man. | | 2. On the sign the man wrote some words which said, "_____." | A. He is blind. Please help him.
B. Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.
C. We are so lucky that we are not blind.
D. Treasure what we have. | | 3. According to the passage, which of the following is true? | A. The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sigh.
B. The man took away the few coins from the hat.
C. The boy pretended to be blind, for he didn"t want to go to school.
D. Nobody wanted to give coins to the boy. | | 4. The underlined word "recognized" in the passage means _____. | A. 知道
B. 懂得
C. 理解
D. 辨认出 | | 5. According to the writer, from this simple story we can learn: _____. | A. Be careful not to be blind.
B. Be creative. There is a better way!
C. Be kind to the blind!
D. Don"t always get, but offer (付出)! | | 完形填空。 | Mrs. Yuan is a writer. She is 1 and often helps the poor persons. It was a very cold 2 morning. On the
way to her office, she saw an old man 3 on the ground. She came to him and helped him to 4 and bought
some water and bread for him. The old man ate up the food quickly and 5 her very much. Then she asked,
"Where do you live, Grandpa?" "I have no 6 , madam," said the old man."I have to sleep outside 7 ." "How
old are you?" "Ninety-two, madam."Yuan became 8 and went on asking,"Why not live in the old people"s
house"" 9 I have a son," said the old man."They have 10 admitted (接纳) a person who has children. I have
a son." "Where is your son, then?" "He has no children, so the old people"s house admitted him." "It"s unfair!"
said Mrs.Yuan. | ( )1. A. strange
( )2. A. snowy
( )3. A. walking
( )4. A. hurry
( )5. A. thanked
( )6. A. farm
( )7. A. at noon
( )8. A. sad
( )9. A. As
( )10. A. never | B. kind
B. rain
B. running
B. look up
B. hated
B. trees
B. at night
B. sorry
B. Because
B. always | C. terrible
C. cloudy
C. jumping
C. sit up
C. liked
C. clothes
C. every morning
C. surprised
C. Since
C. often | D. healthy
D. sunny
D. lying
D. get on
D. loved
D. house
D. one morning
D. a number
D. While
D. sometimes |
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