The afternoon on December 25 in the waiting room, I was the nurse on duty. When I felt sad about
having to 1 on Christmas Day, a woman and four small children showed up at my desk.
"Are you all sick ?" I asked. "Yes." the woman said 2 and lowered her head. But when itcame to
telling me about their 3 , things got a little surprising. They all seemed to be well and there was
nothing 4 with their body.
Why did they tell a 5 that they were all sick? I did not say anything but 6 that it
might be a little time before a doctor could 7 them . The mother said, "Take your time. We can 8
here. It"s so warm." When she finished the register chart, I noticed she didn"t write down theiraddress-
were they 9 ?
I looked at the 10 around the Christmas tree. The children were excited and 11 to be healthy.
The littlest one was pointing at the Christmas tree and said something to the mother. Then I wassure that
they came here not because of 12 but only for warmth.
I went back to the nurses" station and 13 the homeless family. The nurses, 14 about working on
Christmas Day like me, turned to feel sorry for the family and decided to 15 .We bought delicious food
in the hospital restaurant and 16 a big dinner for our guests. Weneeded 17 . So we put apples in a
basket and collected candies and clothes. Just as we were
seriously prepared to meet the physical needs of the 18 , our team worked to meet the needs of a
family who just wanted to be 19 on Christmas Day.
Later, as the family was to 20 , the youngest child ran to me and said, "Thank you very much.Good
bye. " |
( )1. A. choose
( )2. A. angrily
( )3. A. plans
( )4. A. wrong
( )5. A. story
( )6. A. explained
( )7. A. visit
( )8. A. sleep
( )9. A. careless
( )10. A. family
( )11. A. seemed
( )12. A. fun
( )13. A. introduce
( )14. A. writing
( )15. A. leave
( )16. A. prepared
( )17. A. vegetables
( )18. A. doctors
( )19. A. satisfied
( )20. A. watch | B. work
B. joyfully
B. jobs
B. new
B. lie
B. agree
B. educate
B. eat
B. homeless
B. team
B. wanted
B. hunger
B. mentioned
B. learning
B. stop
B. cooked
B. materials
B. patients
B. excited
B. sing | C. shop
C. weakly
C. habits
C. special
C. joke
C. promised
C. see
C. dance
C. impolite
C. class
C. decided
C. illness
C. reported
C. worrying
C. watch
C. ordered
C. presents
C. leader
C. warm
C. win | D. clean
D. loudly
D. problems
D. strange
D. secret
D. replied
D. encourage
D. wait
D. unhappy
D. police
D. happened
D. tiredness
D. greeted
D. complaining
D. help
D. started
D. fruits
D. nurses
D. full
D. leave | | 完形填空 | When I entered Be rkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship.Having been a Straight－A student, I
believed I could_1_tough subjects and really learn something.One such course was World Literature
given by Professor Jayne.I was extremely interested in the ideas he_2_in class.
When I took the first exam, I was _3_to find a 77, C－plus, on my test paper, _4_E nglish was
my best subject.I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained_5_.
I decided to try harder, although I didn"t know what that_6_because school had always been easy
for me.I read the books more carefully, but got another 77.Again, I_7_with Professor Jayne.Again, he
listened patiently but wouldn"t change his_8_.
One mo re test before the final exam.One more_9_to imp rove my grade.So I redoubled my efforts
and, for the first time, 10 the meaning of the word "thorough". But my 11 did no good and
everything 12 as before.
The last hurdle (障碍) was the final.No matter what 13 I got, it wouldn"t cancel three C－pluses.
I might as well kiss the 14 goodbye.
I stopped working hard.I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would.The night before the
final, I even 15 myself to a movie.The next day I decided for once I"d have 16 with a test.
A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne"s office.He 17 to
be expecting me."If I gave you the A you 18 , you wouldn"t continue to work as hard."
I stared at him, 19 that his analysis and strategy (策略) were correct.I had worked my head 20 ,
as I had never done before.
I was speechless when my course grade arrived:A－plus.It was the only A－plus given.The next
year I received my scholarship.I"ve always remembered Professor Jayne"s lesson:you alone must set
your own standard of excellence. | ( )1. A. take
( )2. A. sought
( )3. A. shocked
( )4. A. but
( )5. A. unchanged
( )6. A. reflected
( )7. A. quarreled
( )8. A. attitude
( )9. A. choice
( )10. A. memorized
( )11. A. ambition
( )12. A. stayed
( )13. A. grade
( )14. A. scholarship
( )15. A. helped
( )16. A. fun
( )17. A. happened
( )18. A. valued
( )19. A. remembering
( )20. A. out | B. discuss
B. presented
B. worried
B. so
B. unpleasant
B. meant
B. reasoned
B. mind
B. step
B. considered
B. confidence
B. went
B. answer
B. course
B. favored
B. luck
B. proved
B. imagined
B. guessing | C. cover
C. exchanged
C. scared
C. for
C. unfriendly
C. improved
C. bargained
C. plan
C. chance
C. accepted
C. effort
C. worked
C. lesson
C. degree
C. treated
C. problems
C. pretended
C. expected
C. supposing
C. on | D. get
D. obtained
D. anxious
D. or
D. unmoved
D. affected
D. chatted
D. view
D. measure
D. learned
D. method
D. changed
D. comment
D. subject
D. relaxed
D. tricks
D. seemed
D. welcomed
D. realizing
D. off | | 阅读理解 | Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic!
Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were!Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into
opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, " wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.It is the paste
that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough.It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!"
when others shout,  "No, you can"t."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist (遗传学家) who
won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted.Yet she didn"t let_up on her experiments.Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power.If we connot do
what we love as a fulltime career, we can treat it as a part－time interest, like the head of state who
paints, the nun (修女) who runs marathons, and the official who handcrafts (手工制作) furniture.
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might－have－beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as
we go after "what－can－be".
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in the fragrance
of a back－yard garden, the crayoned (蜡笔的) picture of a six－year－old, the enchanging, beauty
of a rainbow.It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lift in our steps and
smoothes the wrinkles from our souls. | | 1. What can be the best title of this passage? | A. Find pleasure in what you are doing
B. Wake up your life
C. To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul
D. No pains, no gains | | 2. What conclusion does the writer draw through the experience of finding a job? | A. Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.
B. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
C. We can"t afford to waste tears on "might－have－beens".
D. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends. | | 3. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage? | A. No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.
B. Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.
C. We should make great efforts to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.
D. Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize. | | 4. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase "let up"? | A. continue
B. make less effort
C. make great effort
D. stop | | 5. We can learn from the last paragraph that it is________that makes our life meaningful. | A. love of gardening
B. love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six－year－old child
C. love of life
D. love of beautiful rainbow | | 完形填空 | Two teenagers who were lost at sea off the United States for six days were saved yesterday.
Driscoll,15,and his best friend,18－year－old Josh Long,were_1_on Saturday about 11 km off
Cape Fear in North Carolina.That was six days and more than 100 miles (161 km) from where they
had_2_from Sullivan"s Island,South Carolina,on April 24.
The boys had_3_a lot of water and were tired,but in pretty_4_shape.
They set out_5_on a 4.3－metre sailboat on a_6_day when the National Weather Service had
warned small boats to stay out of the water.They_7_they were in trouble almost_8_and tried to swim
bac k to the shore,_9_the boat along with them.
Within 10 ,they were far out at sea.
"We lost our fishing equipment on the second day,"Driscoll said."So we couldn"t 11 any fish."
The boys" hopes 12 with each day.They stood on their boat 13 they saw another boat, 14
and shouting.One night they were woken up by 15 coming into the boat.A large ship was very close
to them.
"It was like some huge 16 in the water,"Driscoll said.
At one point,the boys thought they had gone across the Atlantic Ocean and were close to Africa.
17 , they were 179 km north of their 18 point.A coast guard boat set out to look for them.
The boys got up and made some 19 .This time,they were heard.
"What we have is a completely surprising story of 20 that"s going to be studied for years to come,"
said Richard Goerling,Long"s uncle."I think the boys have a book to write." | ( )1. A. seen
( )2. A. took off
( )3. A. drunk
( )4. A. good
( )5. A. traveling
( )6. A. fine
( )7. A. realized
( )8. A. immediately
( )9. A. driving
( )10. A. weeks
( )11. A. buy
( )12. A. declined
( )13. A. every time
( )14. A. screaming
( )15. A. a shark
( )16. A. glacier
( )17. A. Instead
( )18. A. ending
( )19. A. fire
( )20. A. voyage | B. watched
B. set off
B. lost
B. healthy
B. racing
B. rainy
B. recognized
B. soon
B. sailing
B. hours
B. take
B. reduced
B. the moment
B. waving
B. a mouse
B. tower
B. Therefore
B. starting
B. noise
B. struggle | C. noticed
C. broke off
C. saved
C. poor
C. fishing
C. windy
C. considered
C. eventually
C. pushing
C. minutes
C. catch
C. increased
C. instantly
C. spreading
C. water
C. creature
C. Otherwise
C. challenging
C. balloons
C. survival | D. found
D. cut off
D. got
D. thin
D. swimming
D. snowy
D. concerned
D. similarly
D. pulling
D. seconds
D. sell
D. faded
D. for the first time
D. signing
D. some noise
D. building
D. Furthermore
D. endangering
D. flags
D. sailing | | 完形填空 | My wife and I had just finished the 150－mile trip home from our daughter"s college.It was the first
time in our liv es 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 so on 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. interesting
( )2. A. free
( )3. A. point
( )4. A. brought
( )5. A. always
( )6. A. known
( )7. A. doubt
( )8. A. meet
( )9. A. collect
( )10. A. chance
( )11. A. doctor
( )12. A. prevented
( )13. A. decided
( )14. A. at
( )15. A. highs and lows
( )16. A. lonely
( )17. A. manner
( )18. A. position
( )19. A. Virtually
( )20. A. athletics | B. anxious
B. safe
B. sense
B. figured
B. seldom
B. attracted
B. hope
B. keep
B. buy
B. change
B. teenager
B. protected
B. intended
B. into
B. pros and cons
B. afraid
B. habit
B. heart
B. Hopefully
B. acting | C. popular
C. absent
C. subject
C. held
C. almost
C. preferred
C. fear
C. leave
C. try
C. decision
C. amateur
C. discouraged
C. continued
C. on
C. causes and effects
C. confused
C. spread
C. attitude
C. Similarly
C. academics | D . eager
D. different
D. promise
D. kept
D. already
D. rejected
D. danger
D. move
D. check
D. advance
D. athlete
D. sheltered
D. pretended
D. from
D. days and nights
D. depressed
D. practice
D. speech
D. Luc kily
D. promotion |
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