My father died when I was a few months old. After his death, my mother moved back to Louisville,
Kentucky, where 1 had grown up. We lived in a small house with her older sister, Marion, and their
mother. This was a time when being a single 2 was still considered unusual.
When I was small, there was a children"s book called The Happy Family, and it was a real piece of work.
Dad worked all day long at the office, Mom cooked in the kitchen, and brother and sister always had friends
sleeping over. The image of the family in this book was typical (典型的) of the time. It looked 3 like
my family, but luckily that wasn"t the way I heard it. The way my Aunt Marion read it to me made the story
really 4 .
Kind-hearted and open-minded, my aunt was the one who played baseball with me, who took me
horseback riding, who took me to the father-son dinners and who gave me lessons on how to drive.
Believing that anything 5 was probably good for me, she 6 to get a loan (贷款) so that I could go
to Africa to work as a volunteer, which was my most important experience.
As a young girl, Aunt Marion always planned to have a large number of children of her own, but she
never got married. This 7 that she was free to spend all her time taking care of me. Many people say
we have a lot in common. She always 8 me to do my best. She never 9 to make me believe that
I could do anything with my life that I wanted, if I only tried hard enough.
For more than sixty years, Aunt Marion didn"t and still doesn"t think of herself. 10 she is forced to
come up to the front, my aunt will stand in the back in family photos, and she doesn"t think that her efforts
have made much 11 . I honor my aunt, who taught me the things my 12 couldn"t. So every June for the
past 40 years, in growing thanUulness to my Aunt Marion, I"ve sent her a Father"s Day card. |
( )1. A. I
( )2. A. man
( )3. A. nothing
( )4. A. surprising
( )5. A. interesting
( )6. A. decided
( )7. A. said
( )8. A. allowed
( )9. A. hoped
( )10. A. Unless
( )11. A. difference
( )12. A. teachers | B. she
B. family
B. anything
B. boring
B. pleasant
B. afforded
B. meant
B. expected
B. agreed
B. Although
B. progress
B. mother | C. he
C. parent
C. everything
C. sad
C. impossible
C. offered
C. proved
C. invited
C. stopped
C. Since
C. trouble
C. father | D. we
D. child
D. something
D. funny
D. unusual
D. prepared
D. showed
D. forced
D. failed
D. Before
D. sense
D. friends | | 阅读理解。 |  | When you cough or sneeze, you"d better turn your head away from others and
cover your mouth with the full part of your hand. And then, you should say, "Excuse
me".
This seems so simple, but it is surprising how many kids have never been told to
do this. Actually, I notice adults all the time who cough and sneeze in public without
placing a hand over the mouth. One important thing I point out to the kids is that after
they sneeze or cough on their hands, they should wash their hands as soon as possible.
If not, they will be passing those germs (细菌) along to everything and everyone they
touch. |  | If you come to a door and someone is following you, hold the door. If the door
opens by pulling, pull it open, stand to the side, and allow the other person to pass
through first, thenyou can walk through. If the door opens by pushing, hold the door
after you pass through.
After a few weeks of seeing kids try to get through doors in the school and
watching them enter restaurants as the door hit other people, I knew I had to discuss
the problem with my students. Teaching them small acts of kindness, such as letting
someone else go through a door first as they hold it open, may seem unimportant, but
it can go a long way toward helping students realize how to be polite and thank others.
Once they"ve been told, they"re halfway there. |  | When we have to go up moving stairs,we will stand to the right. That will give
others who are in a hurry a choice of walking up the left-hand side of the moving stais.
When we are going to entera lift,the underground,or a doorway, we will wait for
others to exit before we enter.
After college when I moved to London, I was surprised at how polite everyone was
in the subways. I was even more touched when I traveled to Japan. In both places,
people made effort to make way for others. On moving stairs, everyone stood to the
right and walked to the left. On lifts, everyone would stand over to the side and allow
others to exit before they would begin to enter. | | 选词填空。 | | time have sea and like spend cool | | 完形填空。 | 
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house.
No card came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not 1 at all. After a while I stopped trying to 2 the
sender"s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
However, I never 3 imagining who the giver night be. Some of my happiest 4 were spent day
dreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She"d ask me if there was someone for
whom I had shown special 5 . Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I"d delivered during
the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a 6 I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely 7 in my
upcoming graduation dance, and I didn"t 8 if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, despite her own
sadness, would not let me 9 any of those things. She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel
10 . In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 11 much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect
with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘) .
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year the gardenia
stopped 12 . | ( )1. A. careful
( )2. A. take out
( )3. A. stopped
( )4. A. moments
( )5. A. practice
( )6. A. visitor
( )7. A. uncomfortable
( )8. A. want
( )9. A. leave
( )10. A. needed
( )11. A. herself
( )12. A. coming | B. helpful
B. work out
B. began
B. festivals
B. housework
B. child
B. uninterested
B. hope
B. miss
B. noticed
B. myself
B. sending | C. exciting
C. find out
C. kept
C. seasons
C. kindness
C. lady
C. unbelievable
C. know
C. have
C. loved
C. ourselves
C. giving | D. interesting
D. put out
D. loved
D. holidays
D. exercise
D. boy
D. unimportant
D. care
D. hear
D. moved
D. themselves
D. growing | | 阅读理解。 | Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble. I"m not a bad person; I have a hard time
learning when to keep my mouth closed.
My mom has told me again and again, " Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me. If you continue
to be this rude, you will get into big trouble. "
It"s been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something l didn"t want to hear.
I used to feel it was my duty to stand up for myself.
One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate talking behind me. It
was Nathaniel, talking to himself as usual.
I said ever so nicely, "Nathaniel, would you be quiet?"
Wathaniel continued talking to himself. I quickly shouted " Nathaniel, shut up ! "
For the next five minutes, we threw hurtful words hack and forth at each other.
"At least I don"t have an ugly lazy eye like you!" I shouted.
I knew this would upset him deep inside. Jt would hurt his feelings and shut him up.
What I said filled him with anger. He tried co reach over my seat and grab me as he shouted, "That"s it!
That"s it ! "
Surprised at his reaction, I sat back in my seat. Never had I seen Nathaniel act like this before.
Later on, we were taken to the principal"s ofrice.
There, Mr. Black, the principal, told us to discuss the matter. It wasn"t until then that I finally found chat
when I hurt someone physically, the wounds eventually heal. But when I hurt them with my words,
sometimes the pain (痛苦) never goes away.
At the end of the discussion, I said sorry to Nathaniel. When I headed back to my room, I spent some
time praying. I began to think about how often what I said hurt others. But I believe that as l keep praying
and asking God to help me, he"ll tell me when to keep my mouth closed. | | 1. What"s the writer"s name? | A. Nathaniel.
B. Robert
C. Black.
D. Creen. | | 2. One day in English class, Nathaniel ________ when the ocher classmates worked on their homework. | A. read the text
B. listened to the others
C. talked to himself
D. kept silent | | 3. What"s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word heal? | A. 愈合
B. 痛苦
C. 和好
D. 伤害 | | 4. In the text the writer tried to tell us that ________. | A. when you hurt someone, the pain never goes away
B. we should try to help each other at school
C. t is one"s duty to stand up for himself
D. words cause more pain than wounds |
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