Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise,we accept these failures as a 1 part of the
learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers,we don"t 2 our children to have this
same right.
When I see a child 3 from this kind of pressure,I think of Donnie.
Donnie was my youngest third-grader. His 4 of failure kept him from classroom games
that other children enjoyed. He 5 answered questions-he was afraid he might be wrong. I tried
my best to build his 6 . But nothing changed until midterm,when Mary Anne,a student teacher,
was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty,and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie
included,all 7 her very much.
One morning,we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had copied the
problems with pains taking tidiness and filled answers in the first row. 8 with his progress, I 9
the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned,Donnie was in 10 .
He"d missed the third problem.
My student teacher looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face 11 . From the desk we
shared,she got a container filled with pencils.
"Look,Donnie," she said,kneeling beside him and gently 12 the tear-stained (弄脏的) face
from his arms."I"ve got something to 13 you. " She removed the pencils,one at a time, and
placed them on his desk.
"See these 14 , Donnie," she continued. "They belong to Mrs Lindstrom and me. See how
the erasers(橡皮) are 15 ? That"s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes
and try again. That"s what you 16 learn to do,too. "
She kissed him and stood up. "Here," she said. "I"ll leave one of these pencils on 17
desk so you"ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 18 teachers. " Donnie looked up
with love in his eyes and a smile.
The 19 became Donnie"s prized possession. That,together with Mary Anne"s frequent
encouragement,gradually 20 him that it"s all right to make mistakes as long as you erase them
and try again. |
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( )12. A. pushing
( )13. A. help
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( )15. A. made
( )16. A. may
( )17. A. my
( )18. A. still
( )19. A.pencil
( )20. A.warned | B. common
B. allow
B. take
B. lesson
B. often
B. self-improvement
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B. Pleased
B. offered
B. astonishment
B. brightened
B. picking
B. show
B. mistakes
B. tom
B. must
B. someone"s
B. also
B. words
B. informed | C. necessary
C. offer
C. fall
C. chance
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C. self-confidence
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C. Excited
C. missed
C. anger
C. pulled
C. holding
C. reward
C. marks
C. wom
C. ought
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C. even
C. mistake
C. persuaded | D. large
D. suggest
D. suffer
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D. self-learning
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D. parted
D. tears
D. loosened
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D. promise
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| 完形填空。 | A girl used to turn her cell phone off and put it by her photo on the desk every night before going to
bed. This habit has been with her ever since she 1 the phone.The girl had a boyfriend. When they
couldn"t
2 ,they would either call or send messages to each other. They both liked this type of 3 .
One night the boy really 4 the girl. When he called her,however,the girl"s cell phone was off
because she was already 5 . The next day,the boy asked the girl to 6 her cell phone on at night
because when he needed to find her and could not,he would be 7 . From that day on,the girl began
a new 8 . Her cell phone never 9 at night. Because she was afraid that she might not be able to
10 the phone ring in her sleep,she tried to 11 very alert. As days went on,she became thinner and
thinner. Slowly,a gap began to 12 between them. The girl wanted to revive their relationship. On one
night,she called the boy. However,what she got was a sweet female 13 :"Sorry,the subscriber you
dialed is power off. " The girl knew that her 14 had just been turned off.
After a long time,the girl had a new love. No matter how well they got along,the girl 15 to get
married. In the girl"s heart,she always 16 that boy"s words and the night 17 that phone was
power off.
One night,the girl fell ill. 18 calling her parents,she dialed the new boy"s cell phone. The boy was
already asleep but his cell phone was still 19 .
Later,the girl asked the boy," Why don"t you turn your cell phone off at night?"
The boy answered,"l"m afraid that if you need anything at night and aren"t able to find me,you will be
worried. "The girl finally 20 the boy. | ( )1. A. bought
( )2. A. meet
( )3. A. style
( )4. A. liked
( )5. A. sleepy
( )6. A. remain
( )7. A. delighted
( )8. A. friend
( )9. A. shuts down
( )10. A. see
( )11. A. leave
( )12. A. form
( )13. A. person
( )14. A. phone
( )15. A. pretended
( )16. A. realized
( )17. A. when
( )18. A. Apart from
( )19. A. on
( )20. A. refused | B. used
B. work
B. communication
B. missed
B. tired
B. exposed
B. relieved
B. habit
B. shows down
B. feel
B. take
B. fill
B. voice
B. power
B. agreed
B. understood
B. why
B. As a result of
B. off
B. married | C. had
C. eat
C. emotion
C. hated
C. asleep
C. leave
C. scared
C. career
C. breaks down
C. smell
C. stay
C. work
C. image
C. love
C. decided
C. remembered
C. where
C. In place of
C. away
C. visited | D. left
D. rest
D. habit
D. needed
D. alone
D. take
D. worried
D. hobby
D. steps down
D. hear
D. hold
D. disturb
D. photo
D. fan
D. refused
D. appreciated
D. which
D. Instead of
D. in
D. received | | 阅读理解。 | Goldie"s Secret
She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Comwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way,not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We"re moving house. ""No space for her any more with the baby coming. " "We never really wanted her,but what could we have done? She was a present. " People
find all soris of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever
seen.
I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy,it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner"s. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side,whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.
That"s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one" day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home,when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn"t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.
By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔)
the four puppies(幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn"t know what had happened
to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day,soon after the puppies were born,and
she just disappeared. " "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.
I must admit I do miss Goldie,but I"ve got Nugget now,and she looks just like her mother. And I"ve
leamt a good lesson: not to judge people. | | 1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Coldie came to the house? | A. Shocked.
B. Sympathetic.
C. Annoyed.
D. Upset. | | 2. In her first few days at the author"s house,Goldie _____ | A. felt worried
B. was angry
C. ate a little
D. sat by the fire | | 3. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ______. | A. saw her puppies
B. heard familiar barking
C. wanted to leave the author
D. found her way to her old home | | 4. The passage is organized in order of _____. | A. time
B. effectiveness
C. importance
D. complexity | | 阅读理解。 | Technology today has stolen away our voices and robbed our children of memories. I"ve been keeping count of how often people sing around the house these days. The fact is,they don"t.
My earliest memories are of my mother crooning lullabies(催眠曲) in a gentle low voice as she rocked each infant in tum. She said she " didn"t have a singing voice," but her low,wavering alto will always mean
comfort to me. Every
time I have sat through the night with a feverish body or held a pre-schooler through a nightmare,the
melodies returned, words appearing and disappearing like fragments of a dream but held together by the
hum(低声吟唱) of love.
Today,young mothers are routinely presented with lullaby tapes at the baby shower. When baby cries,
the idea goes,they will be able to switch on the high-tech audio system and the little one will drift off with
the voices of strangers in his ears,perfectly on pitch. If I had my way,new parents would learn the songs
themselves,throw out their stereos,and give their child the gift of their own sleepy voices through the
midnight hours.
These days,when we go on a trip,my daughters take along tiny personal stereos and headphones.
They are lost in their private worlds,and I can"t help wishing that at least here,in the car,my girls would be
forced to listen to their mother"s voice raised in lost-the-words again,sure I"m out-of-tune songs that they
might then pass down to another generation. Those sophisticated earphones have robbed them of
something I think every kid should carry from childhood car trips into adulthood.
I drove away from that party humming,and all the way home the good old songs kept tumbling out.
Dammit(该死) ,I thought,why did I ever stop singing in the car and start tuming on the radio instead?
Why don"t I sign anymore while I"m doing the dishes? I"m going to yank those stereo wires right out of
the wall when I get home. We"re going to sing grace before meals,sing coals around the piano,sing in the
shower instead of switching on that waterproof radio that stole away our voices and our souls. | | 1. The author hates today"s technology because____. | A. driving a car requires high concentration
B. children are learning pop songs from tapes
C. children have lost touch with good old songs
D. high-tech systems do not record the voices of aged people | | 2. The underlined sentence "the little one will drift off" in Paragraph 3 means that___. | A. the play of the high-tech system is of little use
B. the high-tech system will play on and on
C. the low voice will delight the baby
D. the baby will slowly go to sleep | | 3. To the author,the voices of strangers ______. | A. are not familiar to the baby
B. lack the motherly love the baby need
C. work better to stop the baby"s cry
D. surely sound more pleasant | | 4. What the author wishes to make her girls do is to ______ | A. help memorize the words while she is singing
B. take off their well-designed earphones
C. listen and learn the old songs from her
D. remember their childhood car trips | | 阅读理解。 | On May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad,New Mexico. She hadn"t seen
the sun for eighteen and a half weeks. Stefania was in a research program,and the scientists in the
program were studying body rhythms (节奏) . In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave,
30 feet in depth.
During her time in the cave,Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living
place had been very comfortable,but there had been nothing to tell her the time. She"d had no clock or
watches,no television or radio. There had been no natural light and the temperature had always been
kept at 21℃.
The results were very interesting. Stefania had been in the cave for over four months,but she thought
she had been there for only two. Her body clock had changed. She hadn"t kept to a 24-hour day. She
had stayed awake for 20-25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours. She had eaten fewer meals and had
lost 17 lbs in weight as a result ! She had also become rather depressed (抑郁) .
How had she spent her time in the cave? As part of the experiment she"d done some physical and
mental tests.She"d recorded her daily activities and the results of the tests on a computer. This computer
had been specially programmed for the project. Whenever she was free, she"d played cards,read books
and listened to music. She"d also learned French from tapes.
The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature,for example,the
pattem of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep. However,people are affected in different
ways. Some people wake up naturally at 5:00 am,but others don"t start to wake up till 9:00 0r 10:00 am. This affects the whole daily rhythm. As a result,the early risers are at their best in the late moming.
The late risers,on the other hand,are tired during the day and only come to life in the aftemoon or evening ! | | 1. Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because___. | A. she was asked to do research on mice
B. she wanted to experience loneliness
C. she was the subject of a study
D. she needed to record her life | | 2. What is a cause for the change of Stefania"s body clock? | A. Eating fewer meals.
B. Having more hours of sleep.
C. Lacking physical exercise.
D. Getting no natural light. | | 3. Where doos the text probably come from? | A. A novel.
B. A news story.
C. A pet magazine.
D. A travel guide. | 阅读理解。
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项。 | I was ten when I first sat with my grandmother behind the cashier(收银台)in her general store.
1.____ I quickly learned the importance of treating customers politely and saying "thank you. "
At first I was paid in candy. 2.____ I worked every day after school,and during the summer and
on weekends and holidays from 8 am to 7 pm. My father helped me set up a bank account. 3.____
By the time I was 12,my grandmother thought I had done such a good job that she promoted me to
selling cosmetics(化妆品) . I developed the ability to look customers directly in the eye. Even though
I was just a kid,women would ask me such things as "What color do you think I should wear?" I took
a real interest in their questions and was able to translate what they wanted into makeup (化妆) ideas.
4.____
The job taught me a valuable lesson: to be a successful salesperson,you didn"t need to be a rocket
scientist-you needed to be a great listener. 5._____ Except they are no longer women purchasing
cosmetics from me;instead,they are kids who tell me which toys they would like to see designed and
developed. | A. Later I received 50 cents an hour.
B. Before long,she let me sit there by myself.
C. I ended my selling a record amount of cosmetics.
D. Today I still carry that lesson with me: I listen to customers.
E. My grandma"s trust taught me how to handle responsibility.
F. Soon I found myself looking more beautiful than ever before.
G. Watching my money grow was more rewarding than anything I could have bought. |
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