Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man.He gained much __1__ while traveling
throughout the world.Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger
and thumb on his right hand.He became so __2__ that he was afraid he would spend his life __3__ and
would no longer be able to use his life in a(n)__4__ way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting __5__.He realized that he still had partial
__6__ of his right hand and could write with __7__.Then, he had an idea, "Why not write to other people who need encouragement?"
He __8__ where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters.He thought of
people in __9__.Many of them had hope of regaining their __10__.Others would keep feeling depressed
and remain put away for the rest of their lives.He decided that he must try to __11__ them.So he wrote
to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners.The prison minister replied that writing to the
prisoners would be __12__.However, it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
__13__ with the intention, the man began sending __14__ messages of God"s love, hope, strength,
and encouragement.He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the __15__.He poured his
heart and soul into his words, __16__ his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any __17__.Frequently, he felt
discouraged, wondering if anyone __18__ read his letters.However, this was his __19__ chance, so he
determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, "Please write on the best paper you
can afford.Your letters are passed from cell (小牢房)to cell until they almost fall to __20__!"
We all have unique experiences, abilities and talents.We can discover ways to reach others in need of
encouragement and strength. |
( )1. A. wealth
( )2. A. depressed
( )3. A. writing
( )4. A. abnormal
( )5. A. presents
( )6. A. sense
( )7. A. affection
( )8. A. estimated
( )9. A. hospitals
( )10. A. families
( )11. A. release
( )12. A. acceptable
( )13. A. Faced
( )14. A. holy
( )15. A. point
( )16. A. sharing
( )17. A. success
( )18. A. curiously
( )19. A. only
( )20. A. ruin | B. faith
B. embarrassed
B. suffering
B. regular
B. e-mails
B. strength
B. caution
B. doubted
B. churches
B. letters
B. reach
B. reasonable
B. Filled
B. daily
B. worst
B. learning
B. reply
B. patiently
B. better
B. pieces | C. experience
C. ashamed
C. weeping
C. comfortable
C. letters
C. shape
C. difficulty
C. assumed
C. prisons
C. freedom
C. defend
C. prohibited
C. Satisfied
C. one-way
C. degree
C. gaining
C. help
C. carefully
C. extra
C. the ground | D. confidence
D. thrilled
D. wandering
D. meaningful
D. prizes
D. function
D. confidence
D. wondered
D. charities
D. conscience
D. know
D. considered
D. Impressed
D. round-way
D. limit
D. enriching
D. progress
D. actually
D. lost
D. the bottom |
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| 完形填空 | The Pecan Thief
When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather" s farm in Kansas.Grandpa had sent me into
the 1 to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.
Pecan picking was really 2 work and my little basket was only half full.I wasn" t about to 3
Grandpa down.Just then something caught my 4 .A large brown squirrel was a few feet away.I watched
as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and 5 in a large hole in the trunk.A moment later the squirrel 6 out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut.Once again, he took the pecan back to
his hiding place.
Not so 7 anymore, I thought.I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole.It was 8 with
pecans!Golden pecans were right there for taking.This was my 9 . Handful by handful, I scooped all of
those pecans into my basket.Now it was full! I was so_10_of myself.I couldn" t wait to show Grandpa
all the pecans. 11 , I ran back and shouted, "Look at all the pecans!" He looked into the basket and
said, "Well, well, how did you find so many?" I told him how I" d 12 the squirrel and taken the pecans
from his hiding place.
Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I" d been in observing the squirrel and his habits.Then he did
something that__13__me.He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently__14__my shoulders.
"That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter__15__of food, " he said."Now that all of his
pecans are gone, don" t you think that little squirrel will__16__the cold winter?"
"I didn"t think about that, " I said.
"I know, " Grandpa said."But a good man should never take__17__of someone else" s hard work."
Suddenly I felt a bit__18__.The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t__19__my mind.There was
only one thing I could do.I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
I didn"t eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling-the __20__of knowing I
had done just the right thing. | ( )1. A. rooms
( )2. A. hard
( )3. A. let
( )4. A. sweater
( )5. A. joined
( )6. A. jumped
( )7. A. strange
( )8. A. covered
( )9. A. time
( )10. A. afraid
( )11. A. Otherwise
( )12. A. driven
( )13. A. annoyed
( )14. A. off
( )15. A. supply
( )16. A. escape
( )17. A. place
( )18. A. guilty
( )19. A. open
( )20. A. inspiration | B. woods
B. dirty
B. settle
B. basket
B. lived
B. held
B. secret
B. filled
B. choice
B. ashamed
B. However
B. followed
B. satisfied
B. beside
B. cost
B. spend
B. notice
B. unconfident
B. leave
B. expectation | C. holes
C. light
C. have
C. eye
C. discovered
C. stood
C. anxious
C. rebuilt
C. chance
C. careful
C. Besides
C. protected
C. surprised
C. over
C. support
C. survive
C. advantage
C. embarrassed
C. cross
C. impression | D. roads
D. easy
D. keep
D. hand
D. disappeared
D. found
D. patient
D. decorated
D. achievement
D. proud
D. Therefore
D. caught
D. delighted
D. around
D. preparation
D. flee
D. charge
D. nervous
D. occupy
D. satisfaction | | 阅读理解 | My Best Enemy
Once again, I was in a new school.So was a girl in my class named Lisa.That"s where the similarity
ended.
I was tall and she was small.My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style.Her
natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great.I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while
she was 11 and the youngest.I was awkward and shy.She wasn"t.I couldn"t standher, considering her my
enemy.But she liked me and wanted to be friends with me.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes-I was too shocked to answer any other way.My family
had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships.But this girl who
wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all night bookstore, a movie theater and
a park.As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, I tried to guess which house
might be hers.Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the threestory house with a front porch?I got
very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building.She lived on the fourth floor in a tworoom
place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was my next surprise.I had never played with them.We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories
about the Barbies.We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had
wild imaginations.We had a great time that afternoon.
Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood.The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines; the
movie theater gave her free tickets...Soon I was included in her magic world.We slept over at each other"s house and spent every free moment together.
Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence (青春期) and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends:your worst enemy
can turn out to be your best friend.
1. The writer and Lisa were similar in the way that________.
A. they were both new students
B. they had the same hairstyle
C. they were both tall
D. they were of the same age
2. One day Lisa invited the writer________.
A. to go to the movie
B. to go to her home
C. to go to walk in a park
D. to go to a pizza place
3. In the passage the writer described Lisa as a girl who was________.
A. awkward and shy
B. rich and happy
C. quiet and lonely
D. friendly and lovely
4. Which of the following did the writer learn from Lisa?
A. How to make up stories.
B. How to deal with enemies.
C. How to make friends.
D. How to live a better life. | | 阅读理解 | I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my
adulteducation classes.He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice.The first time
he had lost his fiveyearold daughter.He and his wife thought they couldn"t bear that first loss; but, as he
said, "Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days."
This double bereavement was almost too much to bear."I couldn"t take it, " this father told us"I
couldn"t sleep, eat, rest or relax.My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone."At last he
went to doctors; one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip, but neither helped.
He said, "My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice (大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being
drawn tighter and tighter." The tension of grief (悲伤)-if you have ever been paralyzed (使瘫痪) by
sorrow, you know what he meant.
"But thank God, I had one child left-a fouryearold son.He gave me the solution to my problem.One
afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked, "Daddy, will you build a boat for me?" I was
in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything.But my son is a persistent little fellow!
I had to give in.Building that toy boat took me about three hours.By the time it was finished, I realized that
those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months!I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and
thinking.In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring.So I determined to keep busy."
"The following night, I made a list of jobs that ought to be done.Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly, I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention.During the last two years I have
completed most of them.I am busy so that I have no time for worry."
No time for worry!That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hour"s
a day at the height of the war.When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said, "I
am too busy.I have no time for worry."
1. The underlined word "bereavement" in the second paragraph refers to________.
A. having lost a loved one
B. having lost a valuable article
C. having lost a profitmaking business
D. having lost a wellpaid job
2. Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because________.
A. he couldn"t earn enough money to support his family
B. he was suffering from sleeplessness disease
C. he couldn"t get out of mental pressure
D. he felt tired of adulteducation classes
3. Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because________.
A. he hadn"t been able to spare time to mend them
B. he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them
C. the items had actually been broken and needed attention
D. repairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind
4. At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to________.
A. prove that he followed Churchill"s example
B. support his student"s solution to his problem
C. show that he was successful in his career
D. clarify how his conclusion was reached | | 完形填空 | My wife and I had just finished the 150mile trip home from our daughter"s college.It was the first time
in our lives that we would __1__ for any length of time.We wondered how other people had __2__ it.
Later in bed, I __3__ the time I started college.My father had driven me, too.My mother had to stay
home to keep the __4__from getting into the crops.I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to
__5__ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad.I didn"t want to get to the city __6__.I shook hands with my
father in the truck and he didn"t say a word.But I knew he was going to make a little __7__.He finally
said, "I never went to college and __8__of your brothers did.I can"t say don"t do this or that, because
everything is __9__and I don"t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __10__.When you
get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard." I knew that soon I would be __11__in the big town and
I would be __12__the life home.
Then my father__13__the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often.I knew that he would miss it but I
must__14__it.He just said, "This can help you __15__you will let it."
When I finished school I took the Bible __16__to my father.But he said he wanted me to __17__it.
Now, too late, I remember.It would have been so __18__ to give it to my daughter when she got out
of the car.But I didn"t.My father could give me only a Bible, but I don"t really believe now that I gave her
half as __19__as my father gave me.So the next morning I__20__up the book and sent it to her.I wrote
a note."This can help you." I said, "if you will let it." | ( )1. A. worry
( )2. A. left
( )3. A. wasted
( )4. A. policemen
( )5. A. graduate from
( )6. A. very late
( )7. A. speech
( )8. A. some
( )9. A. impossible
( )10. A. work out
( )11. A. happy
( )12. A. losing
( )13. A. brought about
( )14. A. refuse
( )15. A. if
( )16. A. down
( )17. A. keep
( )18. A. popular
( )19. A. much
( )20. A. set | B. separate
B. stood
B. spent
B. workers
B. go away to
B. far away
B. living
B. one
B. different
B. die out
B. alone
B. spending
B. brought out
B. mark
B. unless
B. up
B. return
B. strange
B. many
B. turned | C. stay
C. enjoyed
C. remembered
C. cattle
C. be dismissed from
C. too soon
C. promise
C. none
C. difficult
C. hold out
C. free
C. missing
C. brought up
C. follow
C. but
C. back
C. post
C. ready
C. far
C. gave | D. travel
D. tried
D. killed
D. soldiers
D. set up
D. once again
D. progress
D. all
D. favorite
D. break out
D. lost
D. living
D. brought down
D. take
D. though
D. away
D. sell
D. nice
D. good
D. wrapped | | 阅读理解 | During my high school years, the most important thing was what I was wearing to the Friday night
dance and who I was taking.Although college was talked about, it was the least of my worries.
When I was graduating eighth grade and starting high school, my older brother was graduating twelfth
grade and going onto college.For my graduation, he gave me a card in which he wrote, "Enjoy your four
years...They go by fast." I remember not believing him then, but looking back...He was right.Those four
years shaped who I was as a person, pushed me to my limit and encouraged me to become an adult.
However, I was so completely absorbed in my junior and senior years of high school, that when
someone spoke of college I brushed it off.I wasn"t ready to leave my comfort zone of having all of my
closest friends together and knowing what every single day was going to be like.Studying was something
I did only AFTER I nailed my halftime dance performance.I knew my parents wanted me to go to college, so I told them I would go to community college (社区学院) and I didn"t worry about my SAT (美国大
学入学考试) scores.
When my senior year passed and everyone graduated and went off to their own colleges, I started to
wish I had done the same.My friends were living away, meeting new people, and discovering new places, while I was living at home and driving to and from class every day.It seemed exactly like high school.I
hated it!I thought college was supposed to be different!Why didn"t I take more time to research colleges
and do the same?I ended up loving college and wishing I had four years to enjoy the campus (大学校园) atmosphere instead of two.
My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and look into
all of your choices well ahead of time.Now I have graduated and I am working fulltime and I would do
anything to go back to my high school days for a second chance!
1. Why didn"t the author worry about his SAT scores?
A. He wanted to go to community college.
B. He had been admitted for his gift in dance.
C. He was well prepared for the exam.
D. He believed his brother would help him.
2. When in high school, the author________.
A. drove to and from class every day
B. buried himself in his study all the time
C. enjoyed talking about future college life
D. lived in the school except on holidays
3. What did the author"s brother mean by "Enjoy your four years...They go by fast."?
A. He wished the author to have more dance.
B. He advised the author to value the years.
C. He encouraged the author to leave his comfort zone.
D. He suggested the author aim at a community college.
4. Talking of his high school years, the author feels________.
A. regretful
B. lonely
C. angry
D. pleased |
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