I have learned to expect gifts from God in the form of people. People who I meet for a few seconds, a
few hours or even for 1 .
My wife and I 2 a short train ride on an old train. It was 3 of her birthday plan. I was expecting to
meet someone new who would 4 at our table. That was to be my 5 for that day.
We weren"t seated for two minutes 6 I heard, "Would you mind if I 7 you?" I replied, " 8 . I was
expecting you!"
He was in his early sixties and 9 introduced himself. But for the following 45 minutes, he never stopped
10 loudly. If there was a pause in the conversation, it was because 11 on the train was giving us some
backgroud information about the old train. 12 , this gentleman kept speaking to us about himself. Some things
he said were very interesting, but most was a complaint about his experience as a 13 and different types of
law. He never asked 14 of us what we did.
So, if 15 did send him, what was the message this time?
He needed 16 and I needed to be reminded how important it was to listen to pelple, 17 for a few seconds,
a few hours or for a lifetime. Perhaps I was sent to him. Maybe he was 18 to God to meet someone who 19 .
God gave us two ears and one mouth, because we need to listen 20 as much as we speak. |
( )1.A.a lifetime
( )2.A.put
( )3.A.part
( )4.A.explain
( )5.A.inspiration
( )6.A.after
( )7.A.seatcd
( )8.A.Go ahead
( )9.A.formally
( )10.A.complaining
( )11.A.a tour guide
( )12.A.However
( )13.A.supporter
( )14.A.each
( )15.A.someone
( )16.A.to improve
( )17.A.once
( )18.A.praying
( )19.A.should listen
( )20.A.much more | B.a few months
B.enjoyed
B.gift
B.glare
B.expectation
B.when
B.joined in
B.Never mind
B.politely
B.weeping
B.a conductor
B.Sometimes
B.professor
B.every
B.God
B.to talk
B.by contrast
B.talking
B.maybe listen
B.twice | C.several years
C.took
C.dream
C.come
C.gift
C.suddenly
C.talked with
C.Forget it
C.immediately
C.talking
C.a consumer
C.Moreover
C.mayor
C.either
C.my wife
C.to control
C.if only
C.desiring
C.must listen
C.with two | D.a long time
D.planned
D.intention
D.sit
D.conversation
D.before
D.joined
D.With pleasure
D.intelligently
D.laughing
D.a trairier
D.Otherwise
D.lawyer
D.one
D.the train
D.to target
D.other than
D.begging
D.would listen
D.a lot more |
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| 完形填空。 | Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking about the
golden chain when I had to help people who 1 their way and parked in front of my house.
I was growmg tired of helping so many people. Almost every 2 I was awaken during a sound night"s
sleep and had to 3 someone out. Many times I was 4 by some penniless motorists who did not even
thank me for the helps that they received and some even complained that I could have done 5 .
One day, a young man with a week-old beard climbed out of a 6 automobile. He had no money and
no food.He asked if I could give him some 7 , offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that if he wanted
to work for me, he could cut the grass, but 8 the work wasn"t necessary.
Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard. After working all day, he sat 9 to cool himself. I thanked
him for his work and gave him the money he 10 . I then offered him some 11 money for a task particularly
well done, but he shook his head, 12 .
I never saw him again. He probably thinks I helped him out that day, but that is not 13 it was. I didn"t
help him. He helped me to 14 people again to repay their trust in me. He helped me to once again want to do
something for those who are 15 . I wish I could thank him for 16 some of my belief in the basic 17 of
others and for giving me back a little of the 18 I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt part of a golden
chain of kindness that 19 us to others.
I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my 20 . | ( )1.A.fought
( )2.A.morning
( )3.A.bring
( )4.A.taken for granted
( )5.A.less
( )6.A.fashionable
( )7.A.money
( )8.A.actually
( )9.A.in the sun
( )10.A.asked
( )11.A.old
( )12.A.accepted
( )13.A.the situation
( )14.A.believe in
( )15.A.in trouble
( )16.A.forgetting
( )17.A.goodness
( )18.A.weakness
( )19.A.adapts
( )20.A.heart | B.found
B.afternoon
B.help
B.put up with
B.more
B.famous
B.food
B.specially
B.in the shade
B.begged
B.extra
B.received
B.the thing
B.watch over
B.in danger
B.losing
B.happiness
B.strength
B.adjusts
B.soul | C.made
C.night
C.carry
C.turned down
C.worse
C.flashy
C.help
C.particularly
C.in the field
C.needed
C.small
C.refused
C.the issue
C.look after
C.in tears
C.restoring
C.pleasure
C.optimism
C.devotes
C.head | D.lost
D.evening
D.drive
D.taken up with
D.enough
D.shabby
D.work
D.generally
D.in the car
D.charged
D.good
D.denied
D.the way
D.care about
D.in fear
D.finding
D.nature
D.pessimism
D.connects
D.mouth | | 阅读理解。 | A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy
very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and put it back into the cupboard in the bathroom.
However, his wife, busy in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened
to contain a kind of medicine for adults with poisonous and side effects. When the child broke down, the
mother hurried him to the hospital. But he finally died. The mother was shocked. She was terrified how she
was going to face her husband.
When the desperate father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and voiced
just five words. The husband just said "I am with you, Darling". The husband"s totally unexpected reaction is
a positive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. she had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was comfort and
sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
If evervone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually
not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether
in a relationshlp, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human
relationship. | | 1. The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because _____. | | [ ] | A. the husband was careless
B. the husband was busy
C. the wife wasn"t infomed of the matter
D. the wife ignored the matter | | 2. What do we know about the bottle? _____. | | [ ] | A. It contained poison only for adults
B. It appeared like a nice drink
C. It was broken by the child
D. It was kept in the kitchen | | 3. The husband"s attitude towards his wife can be described as _____. | | [ ] | A. optimistic
B. confident
C. considerate
D. generous | | 4. What did the writer intend to tell us about life? _____. | | [ ] | A. Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life
B. It is always useless finding who is responsible
C. Think of nothing and life will be easy
D. Life should give way to responsibility | | 阅读理解。 | Until quite rccently, I knew only three things about my father: I knew his name, David S. Johnson, Jr.
I knew he was an only child, and I"d been told he was killed on April 12, 1945, somewhere in Germany.
I used to come to visit my Granny. "Daddy David and his two friends were out in the fields, making
sure the way was safe for the others to follow," she told me. "All of a sudden there was an explosion. All
three of them were killed." Granny was looking down, stroking one thin hand with the other. Then there
were no words but silence.
I began my search and collection for information about my father as my 50th birthday and the 50th
anniversary of his death drew near. I was told that the explosion had blown him to bits and I had great
difficulty collecting anything I could find about him bit by bit. Bits of information about him began falling
into my hands, my mind and my heart. Longing to know my father kept me connected to him. It was time
to transform my longing into knowledge.
Once upon a time, he was alive, and my mother and father were in love. They were married, and they
had a child, my brother, David. Then my father left for the war.
I was born in January 1945. On February 15 my father wrote me a letter of welcome. The letter is kept
in my baby book, "Dear Susan, you have a very good family. Your dad is sort of a less able person. Your
mother is the most wonderful person I"ve ever known. I"ve always amazed at my great good fortune to
have loved her and been loved by her. If you follow her words and examples, you may expect to meet life
in the best possible way, and your path will always be the right one. Your father, Dave."
Black on white paper, the words are from my father. From them I grow into a person of loyalty and love.
How I long for stories that will bring him to life! | | 1. The writer got to know her father"s story of death from _____. | | [ ] | A. her father"s friends
B. someone in Germany
C. her grandmother
D. a little child | | 2. The author meet difficulty finding information about her father because _____. | | [ ] | A. it was too late for her to start the search
B. the explosion left little about her father
C. she only found pieces of hands and legs
D. she didn"t have enough knowledge to do it | | 3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? | | [ ] | A. Her parents had only one child
B. Her father died before her birth
C. Her father was a disabled man
D. The writer never saw her father | | 4. We know from the last paragraph that the author _____. | | [ ] | A. still hates her father for having left
B. is curious about her father"s death
C. shows much respect for her father
D. is sure that her father may survive | | Cloze test. | This is a true story about something that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer-
Care Executive (客服主管). The following complaint was received by General Motors "...It may sound crazy,
but it"s a fact that every time I buy a 1 ice cream, and come back from the store, my car won"t start. If I get
any other kind of ice cream, the car starts 2 fine. Why?" The executive was 3 about the letter, but sent an
engineer to check it out anyway.
The 4 made three visits to the store with the customer. The first time, he got chocolate ice cream. The car
started. The second time, he ordered strawberry. The car started. The third time he got vanilla. The car failed to
start. The engineer 5 to believe that the man"s car was allergic (过敏的) to vanilla ice cream. He 6 his visits,
and noted all sorts of data: the types of gas used and the time it took to drive back and forth.
Soon he came a clue: it took the man less 7 to buy vanilla than any other flavor (味道). Why? The answer
was in the layout (布局) of the store. Vanilla, as the most 8 flavor, was in the front of the store for quick
pickup. All the other flavors were kept further back, where it took longer to buy them.
Time was now the 9 not the vanilla ice cream! The engineer quickly put forward an answer:"engine
trouble." The extra time taken to get any other flavor 10 the engine to cool down longer. When the man got
vanilla, the engine was still too hot to start.
Even crazy-looking problems can be real. What really 11 is your attitude to the problem.
Don"t just say something is "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort into 12 it out. If you look closer,
you may discover that it"s possible after all. | ( )1. A. chocolate
( )2. A. just
( )3. A. worried
( )4. A. customer
( )5. A. pretended
( )6. A. stopped
( )7. A. time
( )8. A. strange
( )9. A. effect
( )10. A. prevented
( )11. A. matters
( )12. A. looking | B. strawberry
B. only
B. crazy
B. engineer
B. decided
B. continued
B. effort
B. familiar
B. reason
B. encouraged
B. impresses
B. figuring | C. vanilla
C. still
C. doubtful
C. executive
C. struggled
C. valued
C. cost
C. terrible
C. problem
C. let
C. bothers
C. trying | D. banana
D. ever
D. cheerful
D. shopkeeper
D. refused
D. repeated
D. speed
D. popular
D. solution
D. allowed
D. concerns
D. testing | Direaions: Read the following Passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage
and required words limit. | Imagine eating the dishes of 102 different countries in as many consecutive (连续的) days. That"s what
Noah Galuten has done. He raced around the Southland (the name given to the towns and cities that surround
Los Angeles county in California) for almost four months, indulging in (沉迷于) lunches, dinners and a few
breakfast without a break.
Although he"s not chef (厨师), Galuten grew up around good food. His mother mainly cooked Italian food,
and he recalled standing on a stool (板凳) making sauce when he was six years old. He also cooked dinners
for friends during his college years. And he had experimented and adapted food from many cultures.
Galuten"s food journey began after he graduated from college. Unemployed and back in Los Angeles, he
decided to try something that he had a passion for. And he hoped it would help him "keep his mind off his
unemployment depression.
Then he set up a blog and began his food journey. The requirement was to eat one dish at each place. After
each meal, he would write a biog about the food, the cost, the environment and the company. It was indeed an
incredible challenge. Sometimes Galuten searched online and contacted a friend of a friend for a restaurant tip
or seeking out local food companies, he mostly dined at inexpensive restaurants.
His journey also used up his savings. Galuten figured that he spent about $11,000 during the 102-day
experiment, including groceries, meals, gasoline, rent and other living cost. Now that he has used up all his
money and is $4,000 in debt, he is seriously joy-hunting.
But he pointed out, "I feel very happy now, although I am in debt. It"s not to say that a lack of money has
caused my happiness, because the feeling is not related to money at all. It"s more about doing that is important
to you and sticking to what makes you happy, then making it the focus of your life." | 1. What led Galuten to start his daily food journey? (no more than 10 words)
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2. How did Galuten collect information for his food journey? (no more than 8 words)
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3. What canwe leam from Galuten"s words in the last paragraph? (no more than12 words)
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4. What is the passage mainly about? (no more than words)
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