One day I pulled up to my apartment building and noticed there was a father and daughter
__1__ some things from a moving truck. Normally I"m shy away from contact with __2__.
That particular day, though, something was in me; I can"t explain __3__, but I felt like I should
just help these people, even __4__ something as seemingly unimportant as unloading a truck.
So I __5__ and introduced myself, welcomed them to the town, and asked them to give me
a(n) __6__ to put some proper shoes on. After I had flipflops(夹趾拖鞋)on, I went over and
helped them move all of their __7__ into the apartment.
After we finished, we talked some and I got to know my new __8__. It might seem unimportant,
but it seems like people are less __9__ and friendly to their neighbors these days; I wanted to
__10__ that, at least in my small __11__ block. So we did talk,and they"re from Florida, just
like me.
At that __12__ time in my life, I was going through a really difficult __13__ with my girlfriend
of 7 years. I didn"t feel like helping anyone or doing anything __14__, but I figured why not?And
I"m glad I did. Also, as __15__ would have it, their daughter is my age(college student)and we
each had a mutual(相互的)__16__in one another. This developed into a friendship, and in the
coming months, probably more.
The __17__ was the act itself, though. I got to know my new neighbors and made some new
friends in the __18__. And I felt really good about it. Since then, I"ve tried __19__ my comfort
zone to perform other unplanned acts of __20__. So far, so good.I"d encourage everyone else
to do the same!
( )2.A.teachers
( )3.A.which
( )4.A.with
( )5.A.came up
( )6.A.moment
( )7.A.treasure
( )8.A.neighbors
( )9.A.open
( )10.A.change
( )11.A.house
( )12.A.particular
( )13.A.breakout
( )14.A.primitive
( )15.A.luck
( )16.A.choice
( )17.A.award
( )18.A.game
( )19.A.expanding
( )20.A.success
B．strangers
B．why
B．about
B．came on
B．hand
B．goods
B．girlfriend
B．afraid
B．accept
B．school
B．common
B．breakup
B．positive
B．accident
B．habit
B．chance
B．process
B．decreasing
B．courage
C．friends
C．what
C．for
C．came out
C．hour
C．furniture
C．students
C．curious
C．receive
C．apartment
C．normal
C．breakthrough
C．meaningless
C．success
C．love
C．reward
C．program
C．reducing
C．kindness
D．parents
D．when
D．on
D．came back
D．break
D．belongings
D．classmates
D．lucky
D．observe
D．company
D．usual
D．breakdown
D．important
D．result
D．interest
D．prize
D．direction
D．closing
D．consideration
By the third year of teaching I"d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday
and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made
me__1__. I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked__2__through the cold into the overly heated school building.
Twentytwo smiling faces__3__me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to __4__ their smiles.
Back into the classroom, they__5__, comparing plans for the__6__. I had to remove one student
from each arm__7__I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my
roll book(点名册) my desk was covered with__8__and gifts followed by a__9__of "Merry
Christmas" wishes.
"Oh, thank you," I must have__10__a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except
my__11__mood(情绪). It was kind of them to__12__me. After a while, I heard a small nervous
__13__say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing__14__by my desk, holding a small,
round gift. "This is for you."
"Thank you, Sweetheart." I laid it on my desk with the others."Um, could you__15__it now?"
I gently tore at the paper and tape. "__16__," he said, "it"s breakable." Slowly I opened a small,
green Christmas tree ornament(装饰物), complete with a hook already__17__. It dawned on me
what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep
my__18__back.
Later that day, I sat__19__the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that
he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I__20__pull a green Christmas ball
from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
( )2.A.eagerly
( )3.A.watched
( )4.A.return
( )5.A.calmed
( )6.A.study
( )7.A.before
( )8.A.letters
( )9.A.knowledge
( )10.A.confirmed
( )11.A.pleased
( )12.A.talk about
( )13.A.call
( )14.A.shyly
( )15.A.classify
( )16.A.Careful
( )17.A.exposed
( )18.A.trees
( )19.A.looking into
( )20.A.anxiously
B．aimlessly
B．greeted
B．forget
B．settled
B．weekend
B．when
B．books
B．collection
B．assessed
B．low
B．think of
B．sound
B．bravely
B．collect
B．Dangerous
B．adapted
B．hooks
B．turning over
B．hurriedly
C．gently
C．delighted
C．ignore
C．chatted
C．vacation
C．after
C．chalks
C．series
C．responded
C．thrilled
C．turn to
C．shout
C．rudely
C．open
C．Patient
C．adjusted
C．gifts
C．giving away
C．delicately
D．heavily
D．warned
D．refuse
D．argued
D．lesson
D．because
D．cards
D．bunch
D．explained
D．angry
D．connect with
D．voice
D．sadly
D．arrange
D．Hasty
D．attached
D．tears
D．packing up
D．casually
"Two books per visit per week,"said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.
Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in
the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however__2__
things seemed, everything__3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a
striking contrast (对比) to my everyday experiences.
Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front
of another librarian.This librarian was__5__.
"What did she say?" I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often
__6__as my interpreter.
"She said "Can I help you?""
"Ask if they have any books in__7__," I requested.
"No, they don"t." translated my daughter.
While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to__8__ books.The
interview was short－the job didn"t require much English, just a__9__ of the alphabet.I started
the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was__10__ from me,
mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for
Beginners and began studying it on my own.__11__ English letters started forming words
I could__12__, words combined into phrases, and-oh,__13__!-I was reading.It was a slow
process, supported by dictionaries and __14__ by tears, but it was progress.Afterwards I got
promoted to the front desk-__15__ books in and out and answering simple questions.
Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from
all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their
__16__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them,__17__ they are people like me.I fully
understand the __18__roads on which they have stepped."They"ve come to the right place," I
think to__19__.Then I smile and say-just the__20__ a librarian said to me a long time ago "
Can I help you?"
( )2.A.attractive
( )3.A.went out
( )4.A.rewarding
( )5.A.chatting
( )6.A.introduced
( )7.A.Spanish
( )8.A.shelve
( )9.A.list
( )10.A.vague
( )11.A.All of a sudden
( )12.A.recognize
( )13.A.challenge
( )14.A.inspired
( )15.A.checking
( )16.A.rough
( )17.A.though
( )18.A.difficult
( )19.A.me
( )20.A.means
B．dull
B．turned out
B．affecting
B．staring
B．instructed
B．French
B．register
B．knowledge
B．simple
B．In no time
B．realize
B．wonder
B．accompanied
B．classifying
B．elegant
B．until
B．Smooth
B．myself
B．approach
C．terrible
C．ended in
C．completing
C．reading
C．guided
C．Russian
C．record
C．line
C．hidden
C．Step by step
C．define
C．opportunity
C．blocked
C．borrowing
C．polite
C．for
C．endless
C．them
C．method
D．strange
D．came up
D．denying
D．smiling
D．served
D．German
D．mark
D．competence
D．clear
D．Now and then
D．interpret
D．news
D．excited
D．lending
D．shy
D．unless
D．straight
D．themselves
D．way
young man came to the United States in 1975, where he studied for a Master"s in Arts. Although
studying took up much of his time, he traveled throughout the US and Canada climbing many
different types of rock walls. Thus, he made friends with many people with the same interest.
However, on Thanksgiving Day in 1979, a car driven by a drunk driver lost control and
suddenly turned into his lane(车道), striking the head of his vehicle. The injuries to both of his
legs and feet resulted in the removal of one of his kneecaps(膝盖骨), and the amputation(截去
)of his right foot.
It wasn"t easy, but after some time, with great effort and strong will, Tom rebuilt his hope
for life. The report of his story moved the whole nation of America. Eventually he earned another
master"s degree and founded the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group. This
program"s success sent Tom around the world to spread his message that "it is not the falling
down, but the getting back up that matters". He became a professor in Adventure Education
at Prescott College in Arizona, where he taught the top outdoor leadership program in the nation.
After 25 years of experience as a mountaineer, on May 27, 1998, Tom achieved his greatest
accomplishment so far:reaching the peak of Mt. Everest. Tom was actually the first person with
a disability to ever climb and stand on the peak of Mt. Everest. He realized that reaching the peak
of Mt. Everest could do nothing to change his disability, but it could do a lot to change attitudes.
Tom Whittaker wanted people to realize that disability is as much an attitude as it is a condition.
B．To take his master"s degree.
C．To become a professional mountaineer.
D．To meet other mountaineers in the US.
B．That he was driving on a wrong lane.
C．That a drunk driver ran his car into Tom"s.
D．That he got drunk on Thanksgiving Day.
B．Two years before he went to the US.
C．Shortly after he arrived in the US.
D．After he recovered from the car accident.
B．physical disability often determines a person"s fate
C．disabled people are more determined than healthy people
D．few disabled people have an interest in climbing mountains
Not long ago I wasn"t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and __1__
thinking.While on the Internet,I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__.His nickname
is Colorful Day and we __3__ on the Web.He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the
whole world had closed its door to him.
He was __5__ so fast that I couldn"t believe he was blind! But he continued to __6__: Five
years ago, I realized it was time to change my life.I had read about Helen Keller and understood
her life and __7__.So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
I visited his website which was well produced and vividly __9__.
I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said,"Owing to the new technology,
I can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光标), it will just read
it out to me.We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
I then asked, "Didn"t you have great difficulty with it?"
He hesitated and then began his __14__ with a smiling face," Yes, but I have faith in myself to
__15__ my colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn"t
find in another wise nonvirtual world.
( )2.A.turned out
( )3.A.argued
( )4.A.eyesight
( )5.A.speaking
( )6.A.follow
( )7.A.friendship
( )8.A.as well as
( )9.A.offered
( )10.A.try
( )11.A.designed
( )12.A.Whether
( )13.A.send
( )14.A.webpage
( )15.A.create
( )16.A.moment
( )17.A.hopeful
( )18.A.but
( )19.A.eagerness
( )20.A.touch
B．stood out
B．interviewed
B．hearing
B．saying
B．write
B．marriage
B．such as
B．presented
B．come
B．distinguished
B．However
B．access
B．speech
B．produce
B．privilege
B．disappointed
B．and
B．expectations
B．feel
C．came out
C．told
C．courage
C．typing
C．read
C．happiness
C．like
C．delivered
C．work
C．planned
C．Whatever
C．communicate
C．words
C．recognize
C．opportunity
C．pleasant
C．so
C．richness
C．experience
D．looked out
D．chatted
D．confident
D．spelling
D．copy
D．hardships
D．as
D．found
D．manage
D．imagined
D．Wherever
D．exchange
D．opinions
D．organize
D．occasion
D．optimistic
D．then
D．nervousness
D．suffer
different from what I knew.My host family lived in a huge house I could only describe as a
"castle"．In Germany I had lived in a small apartment together with my mom.Soon I found
out that the "castle" was actually rather small in our neighborhood.
Everybody there was very friendly and polite.They greeted youwhen they were walking
by at least 3 feet away from you.They must not have seen a German au pair before,for most
people I met asked me all kinds of questions about Germany.I enjoyed answering their various
strange questions.I made a lot of friends and I started to hang out with them.
Of course,there were a numbor of new things,and it took me the whole year to find them
all out.I never got homesick.Perhaps it was because I did not have too many negative
(负面的) experiences and felt loved and welcomed there.
However,I had undergone some painful experience back in Germany.I was frustrated
by the way people would run me over and not even say "Sorry." Taking up my studies at
the TUDresden I felt lonely.Everybody here seemed to be withdrawn(离群的)and I missed
ewerything I had in Cincinnati.Germany was so "cold"．I found it so much harder to make
new friends.After six months I got a roommate and only two good friends.I also flew back to
Cincinnati several times for long periods.I felt that without those visits I was not able to make it.
Now I am over this German culture shock.It almost took me an entire year.I am still going
back and forward between Dresden and Cincinnati four times a year.
B．some people were not very kind to her
C．many people were curious about her motherland
D．she lived in the biggest house in the neighborhood
B．hard
C．painful
D．strange
B．accepted
C．expected
D．suffered
B．She never went back to Cincinnati after she came back to Germany.
C．She seldom hung out with her American friends as she was too busy.
D．She did miss her friends in Cincinnati when she was at the TUDresden.
B．My culture shock experience
C．Advantages of living in USA
D．How to be an au pair in USA
- 1《于园》 于园在瓜州步五里铺，富人于五所园也。非显者刺，则门钥不得出。葆生叔同知瓜州，携余往，主人处处款之。
- 2一束初速不计的电子流在经U=5000V的加速电压加速后，在距两极板等距处垂直进入平行板间的匀强电场，如图所示，若板间距离
- 3阅读现代京剧《沙家浜》的选段《智斗》，完成下面的题。 主要人物：阿庆嫂——春来茶馆的老板娘，中共地下工作者
- 4下列命题中，真命题的个数为（ ）（1）在△ABC中，若A＞B，则sinA＞sinB；（2）已知AB=(3，4)，CD=
- 5计算：（1）123=______，（2）23=______．
- 6打响武装反抗国民党反动统治第一枪的是（ ）A．广州起义B．秋收起义C．南昌起义D．百色起义
- 7解不等式组：。
- 8用显微镜观察微小物体时，目镜上有“5×”字样，物镜上标有“40×”字样，观察到的物体的实际放大倍数是
- 9完形填空 You have waited 45 minutes for the valuable 10 minu
- 10(2013·高考辽宁卷)阅读下面这首宋诗，完成(1)～(2)题。竹轩诗兴张 镃柴门风卷却吹开，狭径初成竹旋栽。梢影细从茶
- 1张明与李强共同清点一批图书，已知张明清点完200本图书所用的时间与李强清点完300本图书所用的时间相同，且李强平均每分钟
- 2如图平行四边形ABCD中，AE⊥BC，AF⊥CD，∠EAF=45°，且AE+AF=22，则平行四边形ABCD的周长是（
- 3下列关于“两极格局”的表述不正确的是 A．其雏形在二战结束初期开始出现 B．两大集团的斗争方式主要是“冷战” C．客观
- 4如图所示的电路中，A、B两点间的电压是6V，电阻R1=15Ω，R2=5Ω．求：电路的总电阻R和总电流I是多少？
- 5【题文】下列说法与朱元璋有关的是A．废除了丞相制度B．创立军机处以加强君权C．开创内阁制以辅助丞相D．结束科举制以促进民
- 6依次填入下列横线处的词语，最恰当的一项是[ ]①为了________美丽的延命菊，我们俩在山坡游荡。②那人东张西
- 7已知等差数列{an}满足a1+a2+a3+…+a11=0，则有[ ]A．B．C．D．a6=6
- 8我们党的群众路线是 [ ]①一切为了群众②一切依靠群众③从群众中来④到群众中去 A．①B．①②C．①②③D．①
- 9孟子说："民为贵，社稷次之，君为轻。"说明他已经（）A．认识到人民群众是历史的创造者B．认识到君主必须依靠人民群众的重要
- 10在网络技术快速发展的今天，通过网络实现了多种形式的有偿信息服务，这主要是因为A．信息可以多次使用B．信息可以供人享用C．