When Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she
told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them
all the same.
But that was impossible, because there in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.
Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he didn"t play well with the
other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. And Teddy could
be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his
papers with a broad red pen, making bold X"s and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.
One day Mrs. Thompson was reviewing each child"s past records and she put Teddy"s off until
last. However, when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise.
Teddy"s first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh...he is a joy to be
around."
His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but
he is troubled because his mother has a serious illness and life at home must be a struggle."
His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother"s death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best
but his father doesn"t show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren"t
taken."
Teddy"s fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn"t show much interest in
school."
By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself. She felt even
worse when her students brought her Christmas presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright
paper, except for Teddy"s. His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that he
got from a grocery bag.
Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents. Some of the children
started to laugh when she found a rhinestone(人造钻石) necklace with some of the stones missing.
But she stopped the children"s laughter when she said aloud how pretty the necklace was and put it
on.
Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, "Mrs. Thompson, today
you looked just like my Mom used to." After the children left she cried. From that very day,
Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to
come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy
had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the
children the same, Teddy became one her "teacher"s pets."
B. dirty and unpleasant
C. quiet and shy
D. sensitive and pitiful
B. Teddy was not interested in school.
C. Teddy changed for a reason.
D. Teddy was born in a poor family.
B. carefully
C. especially
D. awkwardly
B.A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
C.It is the art of the teacher to awaken joy in difficult situation.
D.The best teachers are those who don"t stop teaching when the bell rings.
for children with various handicaps (残疾).They participated in the same programs along with
us in classes __1__ gym,biology,history,and I never heard anyone with a(n) __2__ get teased or
made fun of.
I was close __3__ with a darling girl named Vanessa who had Down syndrome (唐氏综合症)
.I was __4__ to see Jeff,another boy with Down syndrome working at a local store a few years
after we__5__.
Three years after I graduated from Murray High School,my __6__ was a senior student and was
chosen as a finalist for Homecoming Queen.Among the 10 __7__ were two girls with disabilities.
Shellie had Down syndrome,and April suffered from mental disabilities due to a __8__ trouble she
had in her childhood.Since __9__ education students usually stayed for a few extra years,I too
knew Shellie when I __10__ Murray High.
The finalists went to the gym floor together with their __11__ or friends.When Shellie and
April __12__ out,the crowd rose to their feet,__13__and clapping.
Shellie"s parents tried to prepare her for the possibility of not __14__,but it was unnecessary.
Murray High School __15__a lovely girl with Down syndrome their 1997 Homecoming Queen that
night.And you know what? There wasn"t a dry __16__ in the audience.I"ll never __17__ Shellie"s
little face,shining beneath her bright crown.April"s face was shinning too,__18__she was crowned
an attendant.
Whenever I feel that all of the __19__ things that happen in the world seem to be winning,I just
open my old sheet of newspaper of that day and __20__ the whole story again.Hope in humanity
makes everything feel better.
( )2.A.gift
( )3.A.neighbors
( )4.A.afraid
( )5.A.separated
( )6.A.elder brother
( )7.A.competitors
( )8.A.brain
( )9.A.normal
( )10.A.left
( )11.A.parents
( )12.A.cried
( )13.A.shouting
( )14.A.running
( )15.A.crowned
( )16.A.eye
( )17.A.see
( )18.A.while
( )19.A.nice
( )20.A.recite
B.ability
B.relatives
B.proud
B.practised
B.little brother
B.volunteers
B.breast
B.young
B.visited
B.classmates
B.walked
B.cheering
B.understanding
B.treated
B.hand
B.forget
B.though
B.impossible
B.write
C.difficulty
C.friends
C.likely
C.graduated
C.elder sister
C.judges
C.leg
C.excellent
C.attended
C.teachers
C.looked
C. laughing
C.winning
C.taught
C.foot
C.imagine
C.as
C.terrible
C.read
D.disability
D.workmates
D.lucky
D.married
D.little sister
D.patients
D.waist
D.special
D.reached
D.brothers
D.stood
D.dancing
D.caring
D.acc epted
D.body
D.recognize
D.if
D.important
D.edit
unreadable handwriting.So I started taking my laptop to school and using it instead of paper,
books and __1__.At first I thought I was in heaven.Writing essays had become so __2__.
Copying notes took seconds.I don"t have to worry about spelling __3__ and whether I have
__4__ to carry my textbooks.I was always organized,as I could not leave my books at home
anymore as they were __5__ in my machine,so you would think that it was __6__ as a learning tool.
Unfortunately,soon I completely__7__all my ability to write,which is very limiting when still at
school.My spelling became worse as I no longer had to think about it __8__ the computer"s auto
corrector.However,this wasn"t what __9__ me the most.It was the fact that I was no longer
learning what I used to in class.The simple act of writing something down was a way of learning
for me,and a laptop could never __10__that.Exams started to become __11__as I no longer knew
all the words and phrases,because I __12__wasn"t learning it just by typing it down.Also each
lesson was at least five minutes shorter because of the time needed to __13__ at the beginning of the
class and pack away at the end of lessons.Finding and learning notes in your computer is also less
__14__.Furthermore,a computer does not have the same __15__ of use as paper,as paper doesn"t
have to be fully __16__.Finally I couldn"t focus on my class __17__ I had the whole Internet at my
fingertips.So during lessons I would often search the Internet and have __18__.
As you can see,the __19__ are far more than the benefits.__20__ I stopped taking my computer
to lessons.Now I perform better at school.
( )2.A.serious
( )3.A.checkers
( )4.A.decided
( )5.A.saved
( )6.A.particular
( )7.A.enjoyed
( )8.A.regardless of
( )9.A.bothered
( )10.A.mix
( )11.A.more interesting
( )12.A.simply
( )13.A.get across
( )14.A.useful
( )15.A.importance
( )16.A.searched
( )17.A.expecting
( )18.A.fun
( )19.A.excitements
( )20.A.Instead
B.funny
B.speeds
B.forgotten
B.taken
B.decisive
B.dropped
B.due to
B.puzzled
B.change
B.stronger
B.carelessly
B.start up
B.valuable
B.convenience
B.analyzed
B.sensing
B.luck
B.negatives
B.Yet
C.easy
C.tests
C.dreamed
C.made
C.beneficial
C.ignored
C.in spite of
C.shocked
C.replace
C.more regular
C.finally
C.give out
C.effective
C.difference
C.charged
C.believing
C.success
C.dangers
C.Therefore
D.unusual
D.mistakes
D.learned
D.prepared
D.exact
D.lost
D.in case of
D.interested
D.avoid
D.harder
D.slowly
D.round up
D.careful
D.guidance
D.occupied
D.knowing
D.advantage
D.terms
D.While
It was when my now 19yearold daughter Shanna was in Grade 3.All students in her class
were given a small pot with a __1__ seed to plant.
Once the bean plants had __2__,their teacher allowed the kids to __3__ move it from school
to home.Once home,Shanna looked around for the __4__ location and settled it on a sunny
south window sill (窗台) and then __5__ declared,"Soon I can feed the whole family!"
Shanna"s sisters were envious and even our cat looked __6__,which should have been a warning
to me __7__ when I woke up the next morning,I saw that the bean plant had been unkindly knocked
__8__ the window sill.Its leaves were broken and except for a thread of stem that still __9__ the
roots to the flowering top;it was quite unrecognizable from the day before.It seemed to be __10__.
I feared for what I had to tell Shanna but her __11__ was not what I expected.She said,"Everything will be okay,Mom;the plant will get __12__."
Quickly she took the first aid kit (急救箱) from the bathroom,__13__ with bandages and a deep
belief that the sad looking,neardead bean plant would live and even produce __14__ !
I went along with it and __15__ her to wrap bandages.Days later,to my __16__,the bean plant
was standing tall and looking lively.We were able to __17__ the bandages.
My daughter never quite understood my __18__ over the meaning of the bean plant.I work with
kids that all greatly need people to trust them.Now whatever I have been told about children and their
behavior,I __19__ everyone with the same eyes and heart that my daughter used on her __20__ bean
plant.
Later that week,I came across a sentence:From a little spark,may burst a flame.
( )2.A.died
( )3.A.quietly
( )4.A.precise
( )5.A.slowly
( )6.A.puzzled
( )7.A.if
( )8.A.off
( )9.A.fastened
( )10.A .growing
( )11.A.eagerness
( )12.A.better
( )13.A.approaching
( )14.A.leaves
( )15.A.advised
( )16.A.horror
( )17.A.fold
( )18.A.confusion
( )19.A.leave
( )20.A.broken
B.reproduced
B.gradually
B.perfect
B.nervously
B.disappointed
B.because
B.around
B.fixed
B.developing
B.reaction
B.smaller
B.dealing
B.fruits
B.allowed
B.regret
B.remove
B.misery
B.see
B.ruined
C.stretched
C.carefully
C.exact
C.seriously
C.pleased
C.though
C.back
C.connected
C.rotting
C.concern
C.weaker
C.recovering
C.seeds
C.told
C.sorrow
C.cut
C.excitement
C.teach
C.wounded
D.flowered
D.secretly
D.central
D.proudly
D.interested
D.unless
D.out
D.tied
D.dying
D.anxiety
D.greener
D.returning
D.roots
D.helped
D.surprise
D.tear
D.curiosity
D.save
D.marked
leader of the pack was a grayandwhite dog.The soldiers called him Nubs.Nubs was shaking
and __1__ able to stand.Marine major Brian Dennis looked closer and saw that there was a
knife wound __2__ his chest.Dennis couldn’t stand seeing the dog __3__.He and his men
immediately treated the wound,and gave Nubs oral medicine.Nubs__4__but was still in pain.
The next day,the team had to__5__.Ten days later,Dennis’s unit was back,and so was
Nubs.He was still___6__,but the men fed him and played with him.Before long the unit once
again__7__an outpost (前哨) 70 miles away.Nubs,slowly but determinedly,__8__them
far into the trackless wasteland until the men lost__9__of him.Two days later,beyond Dennis’s
__10__,he saw Nubs just outside the outpost.The dog had tracked him across 70 miles of frozen
desert to__11__with the friend who had saved his life.From then on Nubs and the men slept in
the same place,and ran around in the same ruins.Until an order came down from above that
they were not__12__to have pets,Dennis__13__to make sure the dog would continue to live
the__14__life.So he quickly raised $4,000 from his family and friends to fly Nubs to__15__.
A month later,when Dennis and the dog were__16__in California,at first Nubs didn’t recognize
the guy.__17__within minutes,the dog jumped into Dennis’s arms,jumping up again and again
to__18 his friend’s face.A little__19__and concern in the middle of war will not save a violent
world.But small stories,like the story of a soldier and a dog,hold a promise of a(n) _20_world.
( )2.A.in
( )3.A.stand
( )4.A.pulled through
( )5.A.leave
( )6.A.hungry
( )7.A.took up
( )8.A.watched
( )9.A.touch
( )10.A.ability
( )11.A.part
( )12.A.asked
( )13.A.decided
( )14.A.moving
( )15.A.London
( )16.A.found
( )17.A.So
( )18.A.lick
( )19.A.pity
( )20.A.equal
B.on
B.starve
B.fell asleep
B.rest
B.tired
B.took over
B.followed
B.sight
B.surprise
B.fight
B.suggested
B.agreed
B.good
B.America
B.interviewed
B.And
B.touch
B.mercy
B.harmonious
C.at
C.bleed
C.woke up
C.pass
C.dirty
C.left for
C.accompanied
C.footprint
C.imagination
C.meet
C.required
C.accepted
C.safe
C.Iraq
C.linked
C.But
C.bite
C.care
C.prosperous
D.behind
D.suffer
D.fell down
D.remain
D.weak
D.returned from
D.barked
D.smell
D.understanding
D.break
D.allowed
D.proposed
D.interesting
D.Syria
D.reunited
D.Though
D.clean
D.contribution
D.amazing
cut short and he was stuck on the 1 just like us humans. When the weather turned nice, I took
Chico outside. I sat him on a branch of a tree, hoping to make him 2 . At first he seemed 3 . He
walked back and forth on the branch looking anxious or nervous. He didn"t even flap his wings in an
attempt to fly. Somehow he knew he was 4 .
One day Chico got especially excited . He paced back and forth and made an incredible amount
of 5 . Then all of a sudden he stopped and let out an even louder scream. He started 6 flapping
his wings for the first time ever-then he lifted off the 7 like a space shuttle! I was amazed and 8 .
Little did I know his feathers had been growing back, and Chico had been 9 until the moment was
ripe for escape!
Two days later Chico 10 . First I tried to trick him back with food, but he would not come near
me. Then I took his 11 and put it away-still he would not come. Finally, I made him a firm promise
that I would let him 12 every day the weather was nice if he did come back. 13 , he flew onto
my shoulder.
From that day on, whenever the weather was good I would let him out early and he would fly around
and be back before dark. The 14 lasted for two months before suddenly Chico became 15 . The
vet said that he had been infected with a disease from the pigeons in the neighborhood. Within a few
days he died.
I was very sad. The 16 crossed my mind that if I had not set him free to fly, he would be still alive.
But what 17 is there in being a bird if you can"t fly?
Chico made his first break for 18 on a late Monday afternoon in April. When will you make yours?
You too can take a 19 when the conditions are right, knowing you too, in your own way, were built
to fly. If you don"t 20 , what will be the purpose of your life?
( )1. A. floor ( )2. A. smarter ( )3. A. disappointed ( )4. A. incapable ( )5. A. noise ( )6. A. slowly ( )7. A. ground ( )8. A. moved ( )9. A. struggling ( )10. A. left ( )11. A. cage ( )12. A. in ( )13. A. As usually ( )14. A. action ( )15. A. active ( )16. A. fact ( )17. A. sense ( )18. A. life ( )19. A. break ( )20. A. keep yourself busy | B. earth B. healthier B. determined B. disabled B. progress B. gently B. tree B. shocked B. pacing B. returned B. feather B. out B. At that moment B. attempt B. injured B. concern B. mistake B. freedom B. holiday B. cheer yourself up | C. scene C. happier C. frightened C. wrong C. energy C. madly C. cage C. delighted C. flying C. survived C. chain C. off C. Once in a while C. routine C. sad C. thought C. interest C. fun C. chance C. let yourself down | D. road D. stronger D. confused D. stupid D. consideration D. gracefully D. branch D. excited D. waiting D. recovered D. food D. alone D. At the same time D. effort D. ill D. detail D. problem D. food D. look D. set yourself free |