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I grew up poor-living with my wonderful mother.We had little money,but plenty of
love and attention.I was 1 and energetic.I understood that no matter how poor a person
was,he could still 2 a dream.
My dream was 3.By the time I was sixteen,I started playing baseball.I could throw a
ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and 4 anything that moved on the football field.I was also
5 :my high school coach was John,who not only believed in me,but also taught me 6 to
believe in myself.He 7 me the difference between aving a dream and remaining true
to that dream.One particular 8 with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job.This meant a chance for money in my
pocket money for a new bike,new clothes and the 9 of savings for a house for my mother.
Then I realized I would have to 10 up summer baseball to handle the work schedule,and
meant I would have to tell John I wouldn"t be playing.
When I told John,he was 11 as I expected him to be."You have your whole life to work,"
he said,"Your 12 days are limited.You can"t afford to waste them." I stood before him with
my head 13,trying to think of the 14 that would exp
lain to him why my dream of buying mymom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his 15 in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job,son?" he asked."3.5 dollars an hour," I
replied.
"Well," he asked,"is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?"
That simple question made 16 for me the difference between 17 something right now
and having a 18.I decided myself to play sports that summer and 19 the year I was hired
by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball,and was 20 a $20 000 contract(合同).In 1999,I
bought my mother the house of my dream!
( )2.A.live
( )3.A.athletics
( )4.A.kick
( )5.A.right
( )6.A.how
( )7.A.gave
( )8.A.accident
( )9.A.aim
( )10.A.keep
( )11.A.mad
( )12.A.living
( )13.A.moving
( )14.A.answers
( )15.A.sadness
( )16.A.direct
( )17.A.wanting
( )18.A.wish
( )19.A.by
( )20.A.paid
B.afford
B.music
B.play
B.popular
B.why
B.taught
B.matter
B.idea
B.end
B.mournful
B.playing
B.nodding
B.excuses
B.regret
B.clear
B.changing
B.goal
B.for
B.got
C.make
C.business
C.pass
C.lucky
C.when
C.brought
C.problem
C.start
C.give
C.frightened
C.working
C.shaking
C.words
C.hopelessness
C.straight
C.dreaming
C.score
C.over
C.offered
D.need
D.money
D.hit
D.confident
D.whether
D.asked
D.experience
D.purpose
D.pick
D.shameful
D.learning
D.hanging
D.ways
D.disappointment
D.bare
D.enjoying
D.desire
D.with
D.presented
答案
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举一反三
"Posh Spice" girl,who makes it possible.She was the person who turned him from a
footballer into a global attractor.Even now that he has left Manchester United for Real
Madrid,instead of Barcelona or Milan,it might be because of her.
"Posh Spice" has become a name for Victoria.The Collins Dictionary even has the
term "Posh and Becks" (Victoria and David Beckham).
Before meeting Victoria Adams,Beckham was a good-looking and likeable footballer
with a bright future at Manchester United,but that was about all.
Since he married her in 1999,he has become the most famous player British sport has
ever produced,and,some say,the most influential man in the country."When they got
together,she was clearly the more popular of the two," said Andrew Parker,a sports expert
at Warwick University in Britain."She certainly introduced him to a new circle of people
and,all of a sudden,he was a top list celebrity(名人)."
It"s believed that,behind the high walls and iron gates of their "Beckham Palace",it is
Victoria who decides everything.
When their baby boy,Brooklyn,fell in 2000.Beckham left a United training session to
look after him,and this led to his being dropped from the team.Many were sure it was
Victoria who had asked her husband to stay at home.During a trip to the United States
this year,Victoria has worked hard to push her husband to the US public.They would not
have recognized him if they met him in a car park.
She may appear to have taken a back seat,but Victoria is still at the forefront of the
"Posh and Beck" project.
B.Victoria listens to her husband
C.Beckham and Victoria discuss and do everything together
D.Beckham has no mind of his own
B.was completely unknown
C.was an ordinary football player
D.was not so influential
B.People liked to see Beckham and Victoria get together.
C To a large degree,Beckham owes his popularity to Victoria.
D.Sports experts used to think little of Beckham.
B.In 2000,Beckham was dropped from his team because he spent a holiday in the US.
C.Beckham is now playing for Real Madrid.
D.Brooklyn was born in 2000.
motorway at around 70 mph when somehow I couldn"t __1__ my car. I was involved in
a scary collision with a smaller car, which had a family with three young children. __2__,
no one was hurt but the experience was very frightening.
There was so much smoke that my first __3__ was to just get out of my car as fast as
possible. I could __4__ the children from the car behind me screaming and crying as I
was trying to get out of my car. When I got out, I could see their mum was trying to __5__
her crying children and move them away from the smoking car at the same time. I kept
thinking "Oh my god, these children are so young" and I felt so __6__ that I"d collided
with them.
I thought it would be __7__ that the parents would be so angry and upset at me. But
instead of being angry, the mum simply said to me, "Come here. You need to join in our hug."
It was such a wonderful, warm __8__ from someone whose family had just been hit by
me! I can"t tell you how __9__ I was by that.
While this was happening, the father was trying to get the children"s coats out of the back
of his car __10__ it was freezing. He didn"t see what had happened but when he came
back, he asked me if I was okay and then gave me a hug too! I couldn"t __11__ it! I
remember thinking how lucky those children were to be __12__ by such amazing parents who
would comfort a stranger in the middle of their own fear and panic!
( )2.A.Hopefully
( )3.A.thought
( )4.A.sense
( )5.A.impress
( )6.A.disappointed
( )7.A.illegal
( )8.A.reward
( )9.A.moved
( )10A.unless
( )11.A.possess
( )12.A.taken up
B．Fortunately
B．plan
B．keep
B．conserve
B．sensitive
B．natural
B．gift
B．satisfied
B．when
B．believe
B．picked up
C．Regretfully
C．decision
C．observe
C．comfort
C．despaired
C．necessary
C．gesture
C．embarrassed
C．though
C．forgive
C．brought up
D．Thankfully
D．intention
D．hear
D．please
D．guilty
D．impossible
D．lesson
D．annoyed
D．because
D．receive
D．built up
Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he
was always tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), Thomas
would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or
risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren"t bad enough, he had no
health insurance.
After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he"d better find a way to fight back. He
left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic
Rockstar, and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their
loved ones-a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.
Jason Swencki"s son, Kody, was diagnosed with diabetes at six. Father and son visit the
online children"s forums(论坛) together most evenings. "Kody gets so excited, writing to kids
from all over," says Swencki, one of the site"s volunteers. "They know what he"s going through,
so he doesn"t feel alone."
Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United
States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.
These days, Thomas"s main focus is his charity(慈善机构), Fight It, which provides medicines
and supplies to people-225 to date-who can"t afford a diabetic"s huge expenses. Fightit.org has
raised about $ 23,000-in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic
Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.
Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause,
while still doing his fulltime job waiting tables. "Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting
money into finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar"s original members. "But Christopher
is the only person I know saying people need help now."
B．He studies the leading cause of diabetes.
C．He has a positive attitude to this disease.
D．He encourages diabetics by writing articles.
B．volunteers to find jobs
C．children to amuse themselves
D．rock stars to share resources
B．benefits from diabeticrockstar.com
C．helps create the online kid"s forums
D．writes children"s stories online
B．It organizes parties for volunteer once a year.
C．It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.
D．It owns a wellknown medical website.
B．employs 22 people for his website
C．helps diabetics in his own way
D．tries to find a cure for diabetes
territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.
The first thing they prayed for was__2__. The next morning, the first man saw a
fruitbearing tree on his side of the island, and he was able to eat its fruit. After a week,
the first man became __3__ and decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship
was destroyed and only a woman__4__ and swam to his side of the island. But on the
other side of the island, there was nothing.
Soon later the first man prayed for a house, clothes and more food. The next day,
like magic,__5__ of these things were given to him. However, the second man__6__ had
nothing.
___7___,_the first man prayed for a ship, and in the morning he found a ship at his
side of the island. The first man__8__ the ship with his wife and decided to leave the
second man on the island. As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice,
"Why are you leaving your __9__ on the island?"
"My blessings are mine alone since I was the one who prayed for them," the first man
answered."His prayers were all unanswered and so he doesn"t__10__anything."
"You are mistaken!" the voice __11__ him. "He had only one prayer, which I answered.
If not for that, you wouldn"t have received any of my blessings."
"Tell me," the first man asked the voice, "what did he pray for that I should__12__him
anything?"
"He prayed that all your prayers would be answered."
( )2.A.drink
( )3.A.alone
( )4.A.survived
( )5.A.some
( )6.A.even
( )7.A.Finally
( )8.A.purchased
( )9.A.relative
( )10.A.attain
( )11.A.blamed
( )12.A.offer
B．food
B．sorrow
B．remained
B．most
B．still
B．Immediately
B．possessed
B．companion
B．demand
B．comforted
B．pay
C．shelter
C．lonely
C．lived
C．none
C．ever
C．Generally
C．boarded
C．colleague
C．deserve
C．punished
C．return
D．meal
D．homesick
D．struggled
D．all
D．instead
D．Suddenly
D．rented
D．hero
D．abandon
D．abused
D．owe
my father would tell me about his stay in Canada and tours to Europe in the 1970s,with
great interest.
My big moment finally came in the summer of 1998 when I was able to accompany my
parents to Europe,where my father was to attend a meeting.We planned to travel to Belgium,
Netherlands and West Germany.
I have vivid memories even today of going to Mumbai airport at night all excited about
finally going abroad.I had heard several great things about Lufthansa till then but now I finally
got to experience them first hand,during the flight to Frankfurt.We flew business class and
even today I can remember the excellent service by the Lufthansa crew.The flight was really
smooth and thoroughly enjoyable,even for someone like me,who is otherwise scared of flying.
After spending almost two weeks in Europe,we took the Lufthansa airport express
from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt airport,for our return flight.What a journey that was! All along
the Rhine (莱茵河),it was simply an unforgettable experience.I was in a sombre mood
on the flight back to Mumbai as it marked the end of a wonderful vacation,but the Lufthansa
crew members were able to change it into a most enjoyable experience yet again,with the
quality of their service.
Being the first airline to take me overseas,Lufthansa will always hold a special place in
my heart.Even today,I continue to enjoy flights on Lufthansa and simply cannot dream of
choosing any other airline.Flying,in general,for me,has always been an ordeal (terrible and
painful experience)．Flying on Lufthansa,however,is something I always have and always
will look forward to.
A．India.
B．Canada.
C．Belgium.
D．Germany.
B．Once staying in Canada.
C．Once traveling to Canada with his father.
D．His father"s stories about his traveling experiences.
B．Both their going and return are by air.
C．They traveled in spring that year.
D．They stayed in Europe for nearly two months.
B．a city in Europe
C．an airline company
D．a travel agency
B．sad
C．angry
D．enjoyable
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