point 1 , he used an illustration.
As he stood in front of the group, he said, "Okay, time for a quiz." He then pulled out a wide-mouth
jar and set it on the table. Then he 2 placed about a dozen fist-sized rocks, one by one, into the jar.
When the jar was filled to the 3 and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar 4 ?"
Everyone in the class said, "Yes."
"Really?" Then he 5 under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel (沙砾,石子), dumped some
in and 6 the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space 7 the big rocks.
Then he asked the group the same question. "Probably not." One of them answered. "Good!" he replied.
He reached under the table and 8 a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it
went into all the 9 left between the rocks and the gravel. 10 he asked the question. "No!" the class
shouted. "Good!" Then he grabbed a can of water and began to pour it in 11 the jar was filled to the
brim.
Then the expert in time-management looked at the class and asked, "What is the 12 of this
illustration?" It is such a seemingly easy question that one 13 student raised his hand and said, "It is,
however full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always 14 some more things in it."
"No," the speaker replied, "The truth it teaches us is that you will 15 get them in at all if you don"t put
the big rocks in first. 16 the big rocks in your life are, do things that you love and 17 for yourself.
In your schedule if you value the little stuff then you"ll fill your life with 18 things and you will never
have the real quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff. So, tonight, or in the morning,
when you are 19 on this short story, ask yourself what are the "big rocks" in your life? Then put those in
your 20 first."
( )2. A. carefully
( )3. A. edge
( )4. A. full
( )5. A. sent
( )6. A. delivered
( )7. A. beneath
( )8. A. put out
( )9. A. spaces
( )10. A. At last
( )11. A. unless
( )12. A. meaning
( )13. A. calm
( )14. A. add
( )15. A. never
( )16. A. Whether
( )17. A. conclude
( )18. A. more
( )19. A. reflecting
( )20. A. packet
B. firmly
B. bottom
B. pure
B. reached
B. shook
B. across
B. came out
B. caves
B. Shortly after
B. until
B. opinion
B. awkward
B. fit
B. even
B. However
B. encourage
B. little
B. counting
B. can
C. actively
C. wall
C. enough
C. managed
C. dropped
C. beyond
C. brought out
C. blanks
C. Later on
C. before
C. point
C. nervous
C. include
C. still
C. Whatever
C. fresh
C. much
C. deciding
C. jar
D. unwillingly
D. top
D. smooth
D. felt
D. held
D. between
D. set out
D. holes
D. Once more
D. while
D. comment
D. eager
D. collect
D. ever
D. Which
D. time
D. less
D. insisting
D. luggage
"Meow, meow, meow," is what I heard as I walked through the alley. I approached the noise and
noticed a tail sticking out from under a piece of wood. Under the wood was a 1 black and white cat.
I picked him up and 2 he must be freezing to death. I 3 home with the cat held in my jacket.
My new best friend, who soon became known as Little Bit, received his name because he was
almost 4 when I held him in my hands. He stood about five inches tall. Little Bit"s small size had a great
advantage - he 5 perfectly in the pocket of my jacket, which made 6 him everywhere very easy.
Any time I was home, he wouldn"t leave my 7 . He was always eager to play with me. When I fell
asleep at night, he would always 8 up around my head to ensure that I was warm.
Unfortunately, I grew up. My teenage life 9 my relationship with Little Bit. I lived at such a fast pace
that I stopped 10 time for him. My free time was spent with my friends instead. I would come in the
house on my phone and not 11 him at all. His meows became an annoyance to me, but it wasn"t his
12 that he wanted his best friend back.
Time had caused a 13 to Little Bit. His body began 14 down and by the time I realized
something was wrong with him, he had already lost his balance. He lay there and looked at me, and 15
this day I still remember the 16 look in his bright green eyes. I took him to the vet (兽医), but there
was nothing he could do. The last time I 17 him he wasn"t the same tiny cat I had found ten years
before. Little Bit filled my arms and he was put to sleep that day.
Little Bit"s 18 made me realize how much he meant to me. He was always there for me when I
needed him. I 19 our last years together and I feel sorry for not always being there for him. I will
always 20 the special memories we made.
( )2. A. agreed
( )3. A. left
( )4. A. weightless
( )5. A. grew
( )6. A. showing
( )7. A. mind
( )8. A. rise
( )9. A. weakened
( )10. A. making
( )11. A. overlook
( )12. A. desire
( )13. A. fear
( )14. A. dropping
( )15. A. on
( )16. A. shameful
( )17. A. helped
( )18. A. illness
( )19. A. regret
( )20. A. treasure
B. insisted
B. stayed
B. useless
B. fitted
B. keeping
B. heart
B. stand
B. fastened
B. losing
B. interrupt
B. purpose
B. loss
B. tearing
B. to
B. hateful
B. protected
B. death
B. bother
B. admire
C. realized
C. drove
C. breathless
C. played
C. taking
C. body
C. wake
C. deepened
C. wasting
C. acknowledge
C. fault
C. delay
C. calming
C. in
C. harmful
C. held
C. sadness
C. confuse
C. evaluate
D. proved
D. hurried
D. hopeless
D. existed
D. guiding
D. side
D. roll
D. sharpened
D. gaining
D. recognize
D. greed
D. concern
D. shutting
D. for
D. sorrowful
D. cured
D. pressure
D. dream
D. explore
Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain _1_ so
I decided I would leave the children in the _2_ before I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to _3_
anything and told them I would be back within a few_4_. Then I locked all the doors and _5_ them
happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had 6_! I could hardly believe my _7_. The
car doors were _8_ locked, the windows tightly shut and in the back seat _9_ only two coats. Being
_10_, I ran to the corner of the street _11 there was no sign of them. I _12_ up to an old lady nearby
and asked _13_ she had seen two small girls but she said "No"
Feeling quite sick with _14_, I sat on the driver"s seat, and tried to stop trembling. Suddenly, I _15 a
merry laugh behind me. I got out of the car, ran round to _16_ the boot and there inside were two very
red-faced and excited _17 . They had obviously pulled out the back seat, _18 behind it and then been
unable to push the _19 forward again. With tears in my eyes, I leaned forward and _20_ their ears.
( )2. A. car
( )3. A. ask
( )4. A. hours
( )5. A. had
( )6. A. disappeared
( )7. A. ears
( )8. A. too
( )9. A. hanged
( )10. A. stupid
( )11. A. where
( )12. A. jumped
( )13. A. that
( )14. A. fear
( )15. A. felt
( )16. A. shut
( )17. A. child
( )18. A. climbed
( )19. A. window
( )20. A. hit
B. bus
B. eat
B. minutes
B. made
B. died
B. words
B. again
B. put
B. proud
B. which
B. rushed
B. when
B. happiness
B. smelt
B. repair
B. boys
B. flew
B. door
B. pulled
C. house
C. read
C. seconds
C. left
C. quarrelled
C. eyes
C. already
C. had
C. frightened
C. that
C. drove
C. whether
C. excitement
C. saw
C. start
C. women
C. threw
C. seat
C. cut
D. school
D. touch
D. days
D. let
D. cried
D. brains
D. still
D. were
D. pleased
D. when
D. flew
D. how
D. anger
D. heard
D. open
D. girls
D. landed
D. boot
D. bit
a dozen passers-by. Very soon the thief was cornered at the turn of the road. My driver caught the thief
by the neck and put his hand into his trouser pocket, drawing out money, credit card, telephone book
and so on and put them back into my suitcase.
Half an hour later, the car was running at full speed on the express highway. I sat back and breathed a
long sigh of relief (松口气). But as I pulled out those stolen things from the suitcase and started to check
them, I became dumbfounded (惊呆了). Before my eyes were 200 yuan instead of 100. And a blood
test report of a 58-year-old woman appeared. I suddenly realized that the taxi driver must have mistaken
the thief"s belongs and put his into my suitcase. The pitiful and begging look of the poor young man flashed across my mind again. My heart began to sink.
Two years has passed since then. But this event keeps coming back to me. Was the young man a
habitual robber or a dutiful son who had been driven to desperation (铤而走险) to find money to save
his mother"s life? My heart aches for him. How I wish I had gone back that summer afternoon to return
the 200 yuan and say sorry to him. For the first time in my life, I realized that hate and love are very close.
B. His own blood test report has changed into an old woman"s.
C. An old woman had put her savings into his suitcase.
D. He was facing things that did not belong to himself.
B .The young man couldn"t afford to pay for his old mother"s medical treatment.
C. The young man"s mother asked him to do so.
D. Young people are likely to steal when they are poor.
B. People easily love and hate others.
C. Human beings are always a mixture of different feeling.
D. Don"t always hate others.
B. to entertain the readers with an interesting story
C. to impress the readers with an interesting story
D. to encourage the readers to help him find the thief
suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a
number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the
baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you are
on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, destroying your half prepared meal. You hang
up hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to bring
you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars
hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a
learner. She suddenly go into a panic (恐慌) and stopped her car. This made the driver following her
stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the
cake went right through the window and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a
truck-driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and
hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.
Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move
again. In the meanwhile, the truck-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs
were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It
was just one of those days!
B. accidents may happen anytime
C. troubles always come in groups
D. anyone may have trouble any day
B. your trouble is sure to come
C. you"d better just let it ring all the way
D. you should never go to answer it in a hurry
B. They helped the drivers to go on with their journey.
C. They tried to stop the people from arguing.
D. They would find out who should be responsible
B. such accidents are rather strange
C. no one can explain why such accidents happen
D. some drivers are too careless
A certain student passed all his examinations. Then he went to college to 1 his studies. There he
wrote down his 2 for a course (课程) in English, but after the first 3 , he didn"t go to it any more.
The English lecture r(讲师) 4 this student was always absent (缺席的) and thought he had 5 to
another course, so he was 6 when he saw the boy"s name on the list of students who wanted to take
the English 7 at the end of this year.
The lecturer had 8 a difficult paper, which followed his 9 closely, and he was eager (热切的)
to see 10 this student would answer the questions. He 11 the boy"s answers would be very bad,
but when the test papers 12 him and he examined them 13 , he was able to find only one small
mistake in them. As this surprised him greatly, he 14 the paper repeatedly but still couldn"t find more
than one mistake, so he 15 for the student to question him about it.
When he came and sat down, the lecturer asked him, "I 16 you came to my first lecture and
you"ve been absent from all the others. But I"ve examined your 17 carefully and I"ve found only one
small mistake in it. I"m curious (好奇的) to know your 18 ."
"I"m very 19 about that mistake," answered the student. "After the examination, I 20 what I
should have done. I would not have made that mistake if I had not been confused by your first lecture."
( )2. A. questions
( )3. A. week
( )4. A. astonished
( )5. A. led
( )6. A. surprised
( )7. A. test
( )8. A. discovered
( )9. A. ideas
( )10. A. when
( )11. A. hoped
( )12. A. showed
( )13. A. carelessly
( )14. A. enjoyed
( )15. A. cared
( )16. A. promise
( )17. A. lessons
( )18. A. wisdom
( )19. A. glad
( )20. A. realized
B. advice
B. lecture(讲座)
B. regretted
B. devoted
B. angry
B. subject
B. prepared
B. senses
B. what
B. proved
B. gave
B. carefully
B. kept
B. called
B. know
B. paper
B. experience
B. proud
B. understood
C. problems
C. meet
C. noticed
C. gone
C. pleased
C. note
C. gone
C. lectures
C. why
C. expected
C. handed
C. slowly
C. did
C. sent
C. advise
C. notebook
C. method
C. content
C. remembered
D. name
D. sight
D. believed
D. changed
D. unhappy
D. course
D. found
D. texts
D. how
D. wished
D. reached
D. happily
D. examined
D. looked
D. guess
D. exercises
D. explanation
D. sorry
D. suffered
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