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about our daughter"s decision after she was __1__ injured in a car crash. Doctors __2__ on her for 20
hours and couldn"t save her life. Finally, the doctor in charge told us our daughter was brain dead. Did
we want to __3__ organ donation?
I was already in shock. The __4__ of donating my daughter"s organs was another shock and I was
__5__ about my 15yearold twin grandsons. They had just lost their mother and we had lost our daughter. The doctor __6__ the organ harvesting procedure, but I did not want to hear it.
We __7__ to organ donation and signed the legal papers. The twins said their last goodbye to their
mother and the images of their sorrow are __8__ in my mind until now. Two days later we received a
__9__ from the organ donor organization. Our daughter"s organs had __10__ three lives. Thanks to her
generosity, two strangers now see.
Weeks later, we received a certificate from the organ donor organization in __11__ of our daughter.
The twins received individual certificates and hardly glanced at them. I fully understood their __12__.
They did not want any certificates, they wanted their mother __13__ and we wanted our daughter.
The sadness associated with organ donation is a __14__ thing. First, it makes the ending of death all
too clear. Secondly, I find a measure of comfort in the __15__ that my daughter was an organ donor.
My daughter cared about others and this caring continued after her death.
Organ donation did not give me a sense of control, but it did give me a sense of giving. Nothing is
more caring than signing an organ donor card. I also know my family will find comfort in my daughter"s
generosity.
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| 语法填空 One day a rich man took his son on a trip to the country. He wanted to show his son how the poor lived so he could be thankful __1_ his wealth. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of 2 would be considered a very poor family. On their return the father asked his son 3 (explain) what he had learnt. The boy, who had remained silent and deep in thought on the journey home, 4 (reply) in a way that shocked his father. The boy said he wanted to become a farmer. He envied the farmers who had the beautiful night stars to give them light 5 his family had only expensive lanterns. His wish was to have a farm 6 he could go swimming in an endless river instead of the garden pool in their home. Finally he asked his father, " What makes us safer, large walls around our house 7 friends that will protect us?" The boy finished by saying, " 8 the trip I thought we were rich, but today I learnt who is 9 (true) rich." With this the boy got up and walked away, leaving his father sitting on their comfortable sofa, totally 10 (speech)． | |||||||
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| Stubbornness can push an entrepreneur (企业家) to hold on but it can also kill a business if it gets too extreme. Because I"m stubborn, I realized my dream of creating a petfood company. Our foods include organic fruits, vegetables and meats. At first we packaged our foods in transparent bags, as it was part of our guiding philosophy. To start the company in 2003, I visited every petfood store in Manhattan and some outside the city. In 2007 I moved the company to Muskego, Wis., and our earnings were almost $500,000 that year. But getting my products into stores was just the beginning. We were competing against much bigger petfood companies whose monthly marketing budgets were more than our yearly sales. So we invested in advertising and a website. With more customers came more feedback, much of which I dismissed. I was also receiving complaints about ice crystals (晶体) on the food, which form when the air temperature changes during transport. For this reason, most frozen foods are packaged in opaque (不透明的) bags or boxes. Studies have proved that ice crystals have little, if any, effect on either the quality or the taste of the food. So I ignored the complaints. After all, I told myself, we were better than competitors that wouldn"t even show their products. We didn"t hide anything. In 2007 our sales kept growing, but not as fast as those of our competitors. We were told that new consumers were choosing products packaged in opaque bags. When I visited the stores and forced myself to consider my products objectively, I had to agree:The ice crystals destroyed the look I wanted. We switched to opaque bags and tried to make the ice crystals smaller. Customers responded:In 2009 our products were sold in 2,500 stores across the country. 1. What was the author"s purpose of packaging their foods in transparent bags at first? A. To make their foods look attractive. B. To show their guiding philosophy to consumers. C. To make sure that their foods could be seen clearly. D. To show that their foods were environmentally friendly. 2. Why did the author invest in advertising and a website? A. Because few people knew about their products. B. Because his company faced great challenges. C. Because he wanted to move his company to Muskego. D. Because his company was about to close down. 3. According to the passage, ice crystals ________. A. only appear in frozen foods B. may make pets feel uncomfortable C. won"t form if pet food is transported well D. have little effect on the quality of pet food 4. The author"s company switched to opaque bags because ________. A. consumers disliked seeing ice crystals B. opaque bags helped reduce ice crystals C. foods in opaque bags are easy to keep fresh D. opaque bags are cheaper than transparent ones 5. This passage was written mainly to show that ________. A. people shouldn"t let stubbornness stop them from taking advice B. stubbornness can make people succeed or fail C. the road leading to success is full of difficulties D. stubbornness always leads to failure | |||||||
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| Once there was a group of men-a young hotblooded man and a big number of old folks, doing a timber(木料) job in a jungle. This young man was very 1 .He always continued to work through his break time and 2 that those old folks were wasting time, having to 3 several times a day to drink and chat.As time went by, this young man noticed that even though he worked through break time and hardly took a 4 , those old folks were chopping the same 5 of trees as he did and sometimes did more.It was as if they worked through the break time as he did.So he 6 to work harder the next day.Unfortunately the results were even worse. One day, one of the old folks 7 him for a drink during their break time.That young man refused and said that he had no 8 time! Then the old man smiled and said, "It is just a waste of effort to 9 chopping trees without resharpening your axe(斧子).Sooner or later you will 10 or be so tired as you have spent too much energy." Suddenly the young man 11 that actually during break times while those old folks were having a chat, they were 12 resharpening their axes at the same time!And that"s how they could 13 faster than him, yet spending less time! What we 14 is efficiency by making use of our skill and ability 15 .Only then can we have more time to do other things.Otherwise we will always keep saying...I have no time! | |||||||
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