Love in a Box
When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment. On a Friday night I 1
at the dinner table, "My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our Valentines (情人节) on
Monday."
Mother said, "We"ll see", and she continued eating.
What did "We"ll see" mean? I had to have that box 2 my second grade Valentine"s Day would be a
disaster. Maybe they didn"t love me enough to help me with my 3 .
All Saturday I waited 4 and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased, but I 5 an enquiry about
the box might 6 anger or loud voice, for in my house children only ask once. More than that 7 trouble.
Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen. The table was covered with colorful 8 of
different kinds. A(n) 9 shoebox rested on top of it. 10 flooded through me when Daddy said, "Let"s get
started 11 your project."
In the next hour my father 12 the shoebox into an impressive valentine box. Colorful paper covered the
ugly cardboard with red hearts 13 to what I considered all the right places. He sang while he worked. When
he finished, he was so delighted that a 14 smile spread over his face. "What do you think of that?" he asked.
I answered him with a hug.
But inside, 15 danced all the way to my heart. It was the first time that my father devoted so much 16
to me, for his world consisted of work only.
The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards, and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter
filled our classroom until dismissal time 17 .
On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to 18 . The love that filled it meant more to
me than all inside.
The valentine box became a symbol of his love that 19 through decades of other Valentine"s Days. He
gave me other gifts through the years, but none 20 compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old,
empty shoebox. |
( )1.A.announced
( )2.A.and
( )3.A.design
( )4.A.sadly
( )5.A.found
( )6.A.start
( )7.A.invited
( )8.A.boxes
( )9.A.new
( )10.A.Relaxation
( )11.A.by
( )12.A.folded
( )13.A.joined
( )14.A.slight
( )15.A.joy
( )16.A.money
( )17.A.reached
( )18.A.accept
( )19.A.carried
( )20.A.ever | B.appeared
B.however
B.plan
B.anxiously
B.realized
B.cause
B.took
B.gifts
B.big
B.Relief
B.at
B.packed
B.attached
B.brief
B.fun
B.time
B.set
B.respect
B.kept
B.even | C.served
C.or
C.idea
C.disappointedly
C.knew
C.mark
C.saved
C.paper
C.attractive
C.Cheer
C.in
C.changed
C.linked
C.broad
C.interest
C.support
C.spent
C.admire
C.spread
C.yet | D.sat
D.so
D.project
D.patiently
D.imagined
D.produce
D.had
D.food
D.empty
D.Calm
D.on
D.pressed
D.connected
D.confident
D.amusement
D.hope
D.came
D.recognize
D.lasted
D.still | | 完形填空。 | Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each
passing day everyone became more 1 waiting for the final school bell. Upon its 2 everyone would run for
their coats and go hone, everyone except David.
David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often 3 what kind of home life David had, and what kind
of mother could send her son to school dressed so 4 for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or
gloves. But something made David 5 I can still remember he was always 6 a smile and willing to help. He
always 7 after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much He 8 just smile and
ask what else he could do,then thank me for letting him stay and slowly 9 home.
Weeks passed and the 10 over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of 11 before
the holiday break. I smiled in 12 as the last of them hurried out the door. Turning around I saw David 13
standing by my desk.
"I have something for you" he said 14 from behind his back a small box. 15 it to me, he said anxiously.
"Open it" I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lift the lid and to my 16 saw nothing
I looked at David"s smiling face add back into the box and said. "The box is nice, David, but it" s 17 ".
"Oh no it isn"t" said David "It"s full of love, my mum told me before she died that love was something you
couldn"t see or touch unless you know it"s there".
Tears filled my eyes 18 looked at the proud dirty race that I had rarely given 19 to. After that Christmas,
David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning 20 the little empty box set on my desk. | ( )1.A.anxious
( )2.A.warning
( )3.A.scolded
( )4.A.modestly
( )5.A.popular
( )6.A.expressing
( )7.A.practised
( )8.A.would
( )9.A.aim at
( )10.A.argument
( )11.A.school
( )12.A.relief
( )13.A. weakly
( )14.A.searched
( )15.A.Holding
( )16.A.delight
( )17.A.cheap
( )18.A.as
( )19.A.advice
( )20.A.from | B.courageous
B.ringing
B.wondered
B.naturally
B.upset
B.delivering
B.wandered
B.should
B.turn to
B.excitement
B.year
B.return
B.sadly
B.found
B.Handing
B.expectation
B.empty
B.until
B.support
B.behind | C.serious
C.calling
C.realized
C.inaccurately
C.specia
C.wearing
C.studied
C.might
C.put off
C.movement
C.education
C.vain
C.quietly
C.raised
C.Sending
C.appreciation
C.useless
C.because
C.attention
C.over | D.cautious
D.yelling
D.learned
D.inappropriately
D.funny
D.sharing
D.stayed
D.could
D.head for
D.program
D.program
D.control
D.helplessly
D.pulled
D.Leaving
D.surprise
D.improper
D.though
D.command
D.towards | | 完形填空。 | Once upon a time there lived an old man in a nice cottage with a large garden. The old man was seen 1
his flowers all the time. They were so well-tended that every passer-by could not but 2 for a glance.
One day a young man went by the garden. He gazed at the splendid garden, 3 in admiration at the beauty
of these sceneries. Then, suddenly he 4 the old gardener was blind. 5 , the young man asked, "Why are
you busy tending these flowers every day which you can"t 6 in fact?" The old man smiled and answered that
"I can tell you 7 reasons. First I was a 8 when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, although I
can"t see these flowers, yet I can 9 them. Third, I can smell sweetness of them. As to the last one, that"s
10 ."
"Me? But you don"t know me," responded the young man 11 .
"Yeah, it"s 12 that I don"t know you. But I know everyone knows flowers and would never 13 them down.
I know the beauty of my garden will get many people into a good 14 . In the meantime, it also 15 a chance to
me to have a word with you here and to enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us."
The old man"s 16 astonished me. The blind man grows flowers and 17 them as a link of minds so as to
make 18 enjoy the sunshine in spring. Isn"t it one kind of happiness?
I believe every flower has 19 with which they can see the kindness of the man"s heart. The blind man grows
flowers in his heart. Though 20 to see the beauty of blossoming, he surely can hear the voice of it, I suppose. | ( )1. A. loving
( )2. A. stop
( )3. A. kept
( )4. A. realized
( )5. A. Excited
( )6. A. feel
( )7. A. one
( )8. A. gardener
( )9. A. taste
( )10. A. it
( )11. A. with pleasure
( )12. A. true
( )13. A. put
( )14. A. mind
( )15. A. introduces
( )16. A. words
( )17. A. treats
( )18. A. anybody
( )19. A. ears
( )20. A. refusing | B. watering
B. stay
B. dropped
B. noticed
B. Frightened
B. see
B. two
B. teacher
B. plant
B. me
B. in surprise
B. possible
B. turn
B. life
B. offers
B. behavior
B. acts
B. somebody
B. soul
B. trying | C. tending
C. live
C. fallen
C. felt
C. Shocked
C. hear
C. three
C. farmer
C. touch
C. them
C. with hope
C. a pity
C. get
C. future
C. stands
C. story
C. works
C. everybody
C. eyes
C. pretending | D. planting
D. run
D. lost
D. thought
D. Satisfied
D. eat
D. four
D. painter
D. appreciate
D. you
D. in anger
D. a shame
D. knock
D. mood
D. leaves
D. attitudes
D. serves
D. nobody
D. heart
D. failing | | 完形填空。 | Sarah came running in. "Look what l found." Over the top of the paper I was reading came a long object
that caused me to 1 . It was a snake skin.
"Isn"t it 2 ?" said my wide-eyed seven-year-old.
I stared at it thinking to myself that it really wasn"t 3 beautiful, but I have learned never to appear
uninterested 4 tired of children.
" 5 does a snake shed its skin?" Sarah asked.
I also try to seize every 6 to teach my children there is almost something beyond the obvious. "Snakes
shed their skin because they 7 to renew themselves," I explained. As is so often the 8 in my family, the
original subject leads to 9 and another, until we are discussing something quite 10 .
"Why do they need to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
Robert replied humorously. "Because they don"t like 11 they are and they want to be someone else."
Sarah and I politely 12 her brother.
"We often need to shed our skins," I said to my now 13 daughter. "This snake no longer needs this skin.
Probably he doesn"t think he looks as 14 in it as he once did. Like buying a new suit."
Of course, I"m sure this explanation won"t 15 naturalists (博物学家). But Sarah was understanding. As
we 16 , I knew that she began to understand that renewal is part of 17 and see what we need to keep and
what we need to 18 . I was careful to point out that this is a 19 process, not one to be forced.
"Snakes don"t peel off their skin when they feel like it," I explained. "It 20 as a natural result of their
growth." "I see, Dad," said Sarah and jumped off my lap, grabbed the snake skin, and ran off. | ( )1.A.run
( )2.A.terrible
( )3.A.so
( )4.A.and
( )5.A.Why
( )6.A.object
( )7.A.need
( )8.A.situation
( )9.A.other
( )10.A.opposite
( )11.A.that
( )12.A.accepted
( )13.A.thinking
( )14.A.clever
( )15.A.satisfy
( )16.A.walked
( )17.A.study
( )18.A.remove
( )19.A.forced
( )20.A.happens | B.think
B.ugly
B.such
B.or
B.How
B.subject
B.like
B.truth
B.others
B.pleasant
B.how
B.ignored
B.reading
B.bright
B.excite
B.talked
B.family
B.add
B.difficult
B.changes | C jump
C interesting
C much
C.but
C.When
C.opportunity
C.hate
C.case
C.some
C.impossible
C.who
C.received
C.writing
C.smart
C.interest
C.ran
C.education
C.take
C.natural
C.begins | D.rise
D.beautiful
D.how
D.as
D.Where
D.turn
D.desire
D.fact
D.another
D.different
D.which
D.refused
D.looking
D.kind
D.disappoint
D.read
D.progress
D.make
D.wonderful
D.ends | | 完形填空。 | I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled (searched) in my pockets to see if
there were any cigarettes, which 1 their search. I found 2 and because of my shaking hands, I could 3
get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. I looked 4 the bars at my jailer (看守监狱的
人). He did not make eye contact with me. I 5 to him "Have you got a light?" He looked at me, shrugged and
came over to light my cigarette. 6 he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently (无意中) locked
with mine. At that moment, I 7 . I don"t know why I did that. Perhaps it was 8 , perhaps it was because,
when you get very close, one to another, it is very 9 not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it
was 10 a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn"t want
to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but 11 , looking
at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
I 12 smiling at him, now aware of him as a(n) 13 and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to
have a new 14 too. "Do you have kids?" he asked. "Yes, here, here." I took out my wallet and nervously
fumbled for the 15 of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans
and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I"d never see my family again, never have
the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. 16 without another word, he 17 my cell (牢房)
and silently led me out. Out of the jail,quietly and by back routes,out of the town. There, at the edge of town,
he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town. "My life was 18 by a smile." Yes,
the smile-the unaffected, unplanned, 19 connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and
that part of me could 20 each other, we wouldn"t be enemies. We couldn"t have hate or envy or fear. | ( )1. A. had lost
( )2. A. them
( )3. A. barely
( )4. A. on
( )5. A. gave out
( )6. A. As
( )7. A. cried
( )8. A. anger
( )9. A. easy
( )10. A. even though
( )11. A. went away
( )12. A. kept
( )13. A. stranger
( )14. A. dimension
( )15. A. cigarettes
( )16. A. Intentionally
( )17. A. unfolded
( )18. A. misled
( )19. A. surprising
( )20. A. like | B. had given
B. it
B. quickly
B. through
B. let out
B. before
B. shook
B. nervousness
B. hard
B. as well as
B. dropped out
B. stopped
B. enemy
B. suggestion
B. bags
B. Unconsciously
B. unlocked
B. destroyed
B. natural
B. expect | C. had escaped
C. that
C. possibly
C. at
C. called out
C. after
C. refused
C. bitterness
C. glad
C. as though
C. stayed far
C. began
C. opponent
C. impression
C. pictures
C. Unwillingly
C. uncontrolled
C. saved
C. different
C. notice | D. had reached
D. one
D. 1ikely
D. up
D. screamed out
D. until
D. smiled
D. sympathy
D. embarrassed
D. as long as
D. stayed near
D. forgot
D. person
D. concept
D. wallet
D. Suddenly
D. undefended
D. ignored
D. frequent
D. recognize |
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