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being sent away,this boy was the__2__student in his class.He was at the top in every__3__
always with high marks.
But the boy changed after__4__home and attending the boarding school.His grades started
__5__.He hated being in a__6__.He was lonely all the time.And there were especially dark
times when he__7__committing suicide (自***).All of this was because he felt__8__and no
one loved him.His parents started__9__about the boy.But they even did not know what was
__10__with him.So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and__11__him.
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school.The father started asking him some casual
questions about his classes,teachers and__12__.After some time his dad said,“Do you
know,son,why I am here today?”
The boy answered back,“To__13__my grades?”
“No,no,”his dad replied.“I am here to tell you that you
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for me.I want to see you__15__.I don’t care about grades.I care about you.I care about your
happiness.YOU ARE MY LIFE.”
These words__16__the boy’s eyes to be filled with tears.He__17__his dad.They didn’t
say anything to each other for a long time.
Now the boy had__18__he wanted.He knew there was someone on this earth who
cared for him deeply.He__19__the world to someone.And today this young man is in college
at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him__20__!
( )2.A.hardest
( )3.A.exam
( )4.A.coming
( )5.A.rising
( )6.A.group
( )7.A.led to
( )8.A.worthless
( )9.A.caring
( )10.A.crazy
( )11.A.talk with
( )12.A.family
( )13.A.realize
( )14.A.outstanding
( )15.A.happy
( )16.A.caused
( )17.A.answered
( )18.A.nothing
( )19.A.showed
( )20.A.sad
B.naughtiest
B.activity
B.returning
B.increasing
B.term
B.felt like
B.careless
B.turning
B.true
B.listen to
B.friends
B.analyze
B.important
B.excellent
B.wanted
B.ignored
B.something
B.meant
B.angry
C.brightest
C.game
C.leaving
C.reducing
C.company
C.thought back
C.concerned
C.worrying
C.possible
C.tell to
C.study
C.check
C.famous
C.interested
C.encouraged
C.hated
C.everything
C.intended
C.pleasant
D.dullest
D.class
D.reaching
D.dropping
D.party
D.looked for
D.annoyed
D.speaking
D.wrong
D.care about
D.grades
D.test
D.familiar
D.satisfied
D.forced
D.hugged
D.anything
D.expressed
D.joyful
It was a terribly rainy wet winter day.While I was walking from the library after getting
my University applications (申请) for next year at the end of my lunch break,a man was
walking towards me with two huge boxes
of brochures (小册子).
I thought,"What on earth is that man trying to do?Carry all those things?" Then all of a
sudden he dropped them all!It was a terrible mess with hundreds of brochures all over the
path in front of me!"Oh,no," I thought.The man sat down and started trying to pick all
of the brochures up.I couldn"t believe how many people walked on by without even
caring at all.
I thought,"I"m not going to be one of those people who don"t care about this man.I"m
going to help him."So,even though it was the end of my lunch break from work and I would
be late if I stopped to help him,I didn"t mind.If I explained what happened,I was sure my
boss wouldn"t mind too much.So,I helped him pick them all up.Then I asked if he would
like a hand in carrying a box to where he went.He said yes gratefully.
I carried one of the heavy boxes.The box I had to carry was very heavy-as I"m quite
a petite (娇小的) girl-but I didn"t complain.I just helped him with a big smile across my
face.We got there and he thanked me very much for helping him out.He also gave me one
of these lovely brochures about all the walks in and around the Bay of Plenty.
What is a better way to spend my lunchtime than helping someone?Luckily,I wasn"t that
late back to work,so nobody minded at all!
B.Acollegestudent.
C.Awaitress.
D.Acompanyworker.
B.themancarriedtwolargeboxesofbrochures
C.thebrochuresfelldowntotheground
D.manypeoplepickedupthebrochuresandwentaway
B.arrivelateforwork
C.beaskedtopayforthebrochures
D.beaskedtocarryaboxofbrochures
B.Hewroteherathankyouletter.
C.Heofferedherabrochure.
D.Hesmiledabigsmileather.
B.Carryingsomethinglightiswise.
C.Neverspeakwithastranger.
D.Helpingothersismuchfun.
__2__what I often tell him to do.
My son is 7 years old and he was__3__a show to be put on at his school.He was playing the role of
an angel.On the evening before the show,he asked me,"Mom,can we__4__angels?" As usual,I seized (抓住) the__5__to teach him to be positive and I said,"Yes,__6__only those who are perfect,and think and
talk positively can." He asked,"You must have seen them then?"
I was__7__for a few seconds,not knowing what to say.I was touched by his__8__that his mother was a perfect person.He looked into my eyes,__9__a positive answer.I chose to be__10__with him and told
him,"__11__.I"ve not been a good person all the time." I was almost__12__to admit this to him.I thought
that his__13__of a perfect mother would now surely be torn into pieces.But he__14__it positively and
said,"It"s alright.You know to try to be better__15__." I smiled as I replied,"That"s__16__.Sometimes,we might make a__17__,but when we do,we must always try to do better."
My son"s__18__struck me right in my heart and are always with me.I__19__a good lesson that day "to always try to be better".This will always__20__me in all situations where I"ll need to be positive.
( )2. A.saying
( )3. A.going through
( )4. A.describe
( )5. A.feeling
( )6. A.but
( )7. A.pleased
( )8. A.thought
( )9. A.making
( )10. A.wrong
( )11. A.N o
( )12. A.glad
( )13. A.description
( )14. A.finished
( )15. A.in the future
( )16. A.right
( )17. A.plan
( )18. A.words
( )19. A.taught
( )20. A.hurt
B. sharing
B. preparing for
B. draw
B. attitude
B. so
B. interested
B. behavior
B. expecting
B. angry
B. Sure
B. surprised
B. speech
B. took
B. again and again
B. fine
B. decision
B. performances
B. learnt
B. protect
C. doing
C. turning to
C. invite
C. chance
C. because
C. excited
C. dream
C. trying
C. strict
C. OK
C. relaxed
C. picture
C. caught
C. from now on
C. impossible
C. difference
C. joy
C. organized
C. help
D. explaining
D. looking for
D. see
D. method
D. if
D. quiet
D. story
D. choosing
D. honest
D. Great
D. embarrassed
D. idea
D. changed
D. at times
D. unnecessary
D. mistake
D. progress
D. created
D. find
__1__kings.He sat in front of the master and__2__telling him the purpose of his__3__.
The master listened__4__to the king.
He then told the king to go to the__5 where a rose plant and a cypress (柏树) plant
were growing side by side.He told the king,"They are your__6__.They can teach you what
you want to__7__."
The king went into the garden,and__8__the two plants but could not__9__what he
could learn from them.He went back to the master and asked,"What do you__10__,master?
I am not able to understand what and how these plants will teach me."
The master took the king to the plants and__11__,"This cypress plant has been next to the
rose plant for so many years.Never once has it wanted to become a rose plant.__12__,the rose
plant has never wanted to become a cypress plant.If man had been the cypress plant,he would
have__13__himself with the rose and felt jealous (忌妒的) at the__14__that the beautiful rose
plant was getting from all the people.__15__,if man were the rose plant,he would have__16__
the cypress plant enviously (羡慕地) thinking how__17__ the plant was without the__18__
of being disturbed by people all day!Both of the plants grew very well because they__19__all
their energy for their own__20__instead of using it to compete with the other."
( )2.A.forgot
( )3.A.transport
( )4.A.patiently
( )5.A.valley
( )6.A.enemies
( )7.A.design
( )8.A.saw
( )9.A.provide
( )10. A.hear
( )11. A.ordered
( )12. A.Similarly
( )13. A.covered
( )14. A.pack
( )15. A.Besides
( )16. A.looked at
( )17. A.heavy
( )18. A.duty
( )19. A.lost
( )20. A.growth
B.continued
B.visit
B.angrily
B.bank
B.families
B.learn
B.watched
B.show
B.find
B.explained
B.Frequently
B.compared
B.pay
B.However
B.waited for
B.useful
B.mistake
B.used
B.opinion
C.western
C.started
C.study
C.happily
C.garden
C.friends
C.build
C.noticed
C.understand
C.say
C.asked
C.Finally
C.marked
C.attention
C.Therefore
C.called on
C.peaceful
C.interest
C.lent
C.fun
D.suggested
D.test
D.worriedly
D.forest
D.teachers
D.notice
D.heard
D.remember
D.mean
D.requested
D.Luckily
D.dressed
D.message
D.Or
D.listened to
D.poor
D.trouble
D.received
D.victory
teaching knowledge.Of course I had some wonderful,serious students who would do well wherever they
were in life,but others worked hard to push themselves to the limit (限度).At night I went home
exhausted,often near tears.What gave me the idea I wanted to teach?
And then there was Matthew.
After school Matthew would come into my classroom to dust erasers or empty the wastepaper basket.
"Why do you come in to visit me?" I asked him one night.
"Because at home no one listens to me," was his reply.Later I found out that there were eleven children in his family,with Matthew near the middle.
One time when he came to see me,he said,"Miss Ausmus,the kids are saying that you and Mr D.like each other."
"Matthew,Mr D.is a nice man and we both teach some of the same students.He is not my boyfriend,
and it"s not something the children should be talking about anyway."
Another time,he said,"Will you wait for me so I can marry you when I grow up?"
"Sorry,Matthew,but that won"t work," I answered in a gentle way.
When my birthday arrived,his mother made me a cake.She delivered (递送) it after school,and as
Matthew was carrying it up the school steps,he tripped (绊倒),dropping the cake.I found him in tears.I
told him that bringing me a cake was very,very special,whether I was able to eat it or not.
After my second year of teaching,I said "goodbye" to Matthew and his family.
Years passed and in 1992,I went back to the little town to visit.Matthew"s parents still lived in the same house.His mother greeted me warmly."Janet,"she said,"Thanks for all the time you spent encouraging
Matthew.You taught him to believe in himself.You are the reason he went to college."
I had made a difference in the life of a young boy.But I wonder...did Matthew ever know the difference he made in mine?
B. Excited.
C. Frustrated.
D. Amused.
________.
B. made efforts to challenge their classmates
C. needed to be encouraged to learn
D. did everything they could to do well
B. Because he wondered if she liked Mr D.
C. Because he decided to marry her when he grew up.
D. Because he was going to celebrate her birthday.
B. sincere
C. confident
D. hardworking
B. He made her become enthusiastic about disciplining.
C. He gave her the courage to continue teaching.
D. He got her to understand what was true love.
busy markets and the smell of Thai dishes.I enjoyed my 2 there very much.However, there is one thing
that I wish I hadn’t done.
One day, I set off from my hotel to a temple that_3_me.It was a very 4 day.As I walked past some
buildings, I glanced between two 5 buildings.There, an old woman in traditional clothing 6 on the
dusty rubble (碎石). The terrible thought crossed my mind that she might be 7 . Feeling quite helpless, I 8 her. Her face was sunkissed.She looked quite beautiful but very ill. I 9 reached into my pocket to
find some 10 .Then I pushed it into her hand.It was enough for her to 11 for a few months.At this
moment, she opened her large, brown eyes and 12 the prize I’d given her.I felt like the“ 13 stranger”.
14 a common language, she looked at me with the wisdom and pity that could burn into a soul.She
weakly 15 the money.She stood up and walked away. I was 16 , with the money in my hand.It took
me at least a kilometer of walking to 17 I was quite the fool.She didn’t need money. 18 she needed
shade, a bottle of water or just some comfort.She was the one who taught me a good 19 .
That evening, I sat thinking over my “kindness”. This beautiful woman made me know that not everyone would 20 someone else’s money.We should be kind to others, but we should choose the right way.
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