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had recently moved into a nursing home and didn"t have room for 1 things. She insisted that she didn"t
need a thing.
2 , I came up with an idea. In her 3 card, I sent her a gift certificate (礼券) for "A letter a 4 for
the next year!" It was a big 5 . I knew that she"d love to 6 what was going on in my life.
The letter gift certificate was a big 7 . She got fifty-two letters that first year. Some were 8 and
filled with homesickness. Others were short and newsy. More than once what she 9 was just a funny
card with a few short 10 . All showed her that I was thinking of her regularly.
11 her next birthday came around, she asked for another letter gift certificate. 12 , that"s also
what she wanted next eight birthdays.
For nine years I wrote her. She was rarely able to 13 back. I flew home annually to 14 and soon
realized that the entire nursing home staff knew all the details of my 15 , as more and more often they
were 16 the letters to her.
My 17 letter arrived the day after her death. I felt I had given her the best gift I could. What I hadn"t counted on (指望) was how her gift would come full circle to me.
Months later, while 18 her things, my dad found a box full of letters from me. Those letters were
filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten. She 19 those memories for me in my letters. Sometimes our gifts to others come back to us in 20 ways.
( )2. A. Finally
( )3. A. invitation
( )4. A. month
( )5. A. lie
( )6. A. face
( )7. A. joke
( )8. A. long
( )9. A. sold
( )10. A. notes
( )11. A. Although
( )12. A. In fact
( )13. A. turn
( )14. A. work
( )15. A. life
( )16. A. writing
( )17. A. short
( )18. A. seeing through
( )19. A. saved
( )20. A. practical
B. Hopefully
B. Christmas
B. week
B. deal
B. feel
B. hit
B. boring
B. sent
B. questions
B. As
B. In general
B. write
B. hunt
B. husband
B. sending
B. handwriting
B. going through
B. lost
B. funny
C. Fortunately
C. greeting
C. day
C. problem
C. hear
C. mistake
C. interesting
C. received
C. tips
C. If
C. After all
C. step
C. visit
C. vacation
C. handing
C. open
C. throwing away
C. broke
C. unexpected
D. Surprisingly
D. birthday
D. season
D. promise
D. tell
D. challenge
D. formal
D. held
D. lines
D. Unless
D. Above all
D. look
D. cook
D. business
D. reading
D. last
D. taking away
D. refreshed
D. similar
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you would rather not have anyone else know about. For example, if in the past, someone in Dad"s family
had been arrested for stealing a horse, it would be "a skeleton in his family"s closet". He really wouldn"t
want any neighbor to know about it. "
"Why pick on my family?" Jessica"s father said with anger. "Your family history isn"t so good, you
know. Wasn"t your great-great-grandfather a prisoner who was transported to Australia for his crimes? " "Yes, but people these days say that you are not a real Australian unless your ancestors arrived as
prisoners." "Gosh, sorry I asked. I think I understand now," Jessica cut in before things grew worse.
After dinner, the house was very quiet. Jessica"s parents were still angry each other. Her mother was
ironing clothes and every now and then she glared at her husband, who hid behind newspaper pretending
to read. When she finished, she gathered the freshly pressed clothes in her arms and walked to Jessica"s
closet. Just as she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the dark
depths and a bundle of white bones fell to the floor. Jessica"s mother sank into a faint (晕倒), waking
only when Jessica"s put a cold, wet cloth on her forehead. She looked up to see the worried faces of her
husband and daughter.
"What happened? Where am I?" she asked. "You just destroyed the school"s skeleton, Mum,"
explained Jessica. "I brought it home to help me with my health project. I meant to tell you, but it seemed
that as soon as I mentioned skeletons and closets, it caused a problem between you and Dad. " Jessica
looked in amazement as her parents began to laugh madly. "They"re both crazy," she thought.
B. a family secret
C. a family story
D. a family treasure
B. They were the earliest people living in Australia.
C. They were involved in some crimes in Australia.
D. They were not regarded as criminals in their days.
B. frightened
C. injured
D. surprised
B. She planned to keep it for fun.
C. She needed it for her school task.
D. She intended to scare her parents.
B. they were overexcited
C. they realized their misunderstanding
D. they both thought they had won the quarrel
shoes, relaxed and then said goodnight to the rest of the girls and headed out of the door.
It was so cold and I could see the ice crystals in the air. As I approached my car, I saw one of my
coworkers standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a
ride home, and besides, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest night in January.
We chatted as I drove and before we knew it, we arrived at her house. As she headed up the steps
to her door she turned around. "Do you know how to get to your house from here?" "How hard can it
be? I"ll just backtrack the way I came."
I started driving. Nothing looked familiar, but at first that didn"t bother me since I"d never been to this
neighborhood before. I kept driving, and soon I sensed that something was wrong. I recognized nothing,
not the neighborhoods, not even the street names. My husband would be worried about me. I looked
down at my watch. It was now 2:30. I"d left work at 11:30 pm.
I stopped my car. I thought I"d better take stock of my situation. My gas gauge (汽油量表) was
slowly going down. In total defeat I put my head down on the steering wheel and asked for help. I lifted
my head. I saw a shadow down the road in front of me. It was a car. What was a car doing in the middle
of nowhere at 2:30 in the morning?
Hesitantly, I got out of my car and knocked on the window of the other car. An elderly man slowly
rolled his window down.
I said, "I"m lost and don"t know how to get back into town."
In silence, he started driving. I drove behind him.
Finally I recognized a familiar street. As I turned to head home, I lost sight of my guiding angel. When
I pulled into my driveway the warning light for my gas tank turned on.
B. used to go home by bus
C. worked in a woman"s hospital
D. had been working at night for a week
B. To check whether there was gas.
C. To prevent the car breaking down.
D. To turn to somebody for help.
B. He led her by driving in front.
C. He called the police to help her.
D. He sent her to her home with his car.
B. her husband was waiting for her anxiously
C. the oil in her car was just going to run out
D. she was totally frozen on the cold night
B. Meeting a friendly old man in trouble.
C. Giving a ride to my coworker at night.
D. Losing my way on a cold winter night.
we had a 1 over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always 2 . Not
knowing we were poor, my kids (孩子们) just thought I was 3 I"ve always been glad about that.
It was Christmas time, and although there wasn"t 4 for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a
family party. But the big 5 for the kids was the fun of Christmas 6 .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking 7 what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately. I had
saved $120 for 8 to share by all five of us.
The big 9 arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and 10 them to look for gifts of about four
dollars each. Then everyone scattered (散开). We had two hours to shop; then we would 11 back at
the "Santa"s Workshop".
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, 12 my younger daughter, Ginger. Who was
unusually 13 . She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies - fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but
I didn"t say anything 14 we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, 15 to be
angry again. This is what she told me:
"I was looking 16 thinking of what to buy, and I 17 to read the little cards on the "Giving Trees."
One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she 18 for Christmas was a doll (玩具娃娃). So I took
the card off the tree and 19 the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn"t have anything."
I never felt so 20 as I did that day
( )2. A. enough
( )3. A. strict
( )4. A. time
( )5. A. surprise
( )6. A. parties
( )7. A. one by one
( )8. A. presents
( )9. A. cheque
( )10. A. invited
( )11. A. move
( )12. A. except
( )13. A. happy
( )14. A. while
( )15. A. hoping
( )16. A. forward
( )17. A. failed
( )18. A. got
( )19. A. bought
( )20. A. patient
B. more
B. kind
B. money
B. excitement
B. greetings
B. every other one
B. bills
B. tree
B. begged
B. meet
B. regarding
B. ashamed
B. until
B. afraid
B. around
B. hated
B. played
B. fetched
B. bitter
C. little
C. busy
C. effort
C. improvement
C. shopping
C. the other
C. toys
C. day
C. forced
C. draw
C. including
C. quiet
C. since
C. waiting
C. out
C. forgot
C. wanted
C. made
C. angry
D. less
D. serious
D. room
D. problem
D. raveling
D. each other
D. clothes
D. chance
D. reminded
D. stay
D. besides
D. excited
D. after
D. ready
D. over
D. stopped
D. did
D. searched
D. rich
first day that she loved them all the same,. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy
named Teddy Stoddard. He didn"t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She
did not like him.
Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his
mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students,
Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mother"s perfume (香水).
Teddy said,"Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to." After the children left she
cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she
began to teach children.
Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The boy"s mind seemed to come alive. The more
she encouraged him, the faster he improved. By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the
smartest children in the class.
Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third
in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. He went to college. Mrs.
Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, M.D.(医学
博士).
The story doesn"t end there. On his wedding day, Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson"s ear,
"Thank you, Mrs. Thompson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I
could make a difference."
Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back, "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the
one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn"t know how to teach until I met you."
B. She told the class something untrue about herself.
C. She made Teddy feel ashamed.
D. She asked the children to play with Teddy.
B. He enjoyed playing with others.
C. He often told lies.
D. He was good at math.
B. She cared more about educating students.
C. She taught fewer school subjects.
D. She became stricter with her students.
B. She had taught him how to judge people.
C. She had kept in touch with him.
D. She had given him encouragement.
A good heart
Dikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown
University on a scholarship (奖学金) to study medicine - but Coach (教练) John Thompson got a look
at Dikembe and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen of the United
States. But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others. He built a
new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo. A friend has said of this good-hearted man: "Mutombo
believes that God has given him this chance to do great things."
Success and kindness
After her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of music and art
with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children"s videos (录象) in her own
house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more than $20
million in sales. And she is using her success to help others - producing child safety videos with John
Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julie says of her new program: "I
believe it"s the most important thing that I have ever done. I believe that children have the right to live in a
world that is safe."
Bravery and courage
A few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subway station with his two little girls
when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks,
pulled the man into the space between the rails (铁轨), and held him as the train passed right above their
heads. He insists he"s not a hero. He says: "We have got to show each other some love."
B. His willingness to help the needy.
C. Being a star in the NBA.
D. Being a student of medicine.
B. a way of showing his respect to the NBA
C. helpful to his personal development
D. something he should do for his homeland
B. Look for missing and exploited children.
C. Produce safety equipment for children.
D. Make videos to help protect children.
B. He saved a person without considering his own safety.
C. He helped a man get across the rails.
D. He stopped a man from destroying the rails.
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