When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to__36__ water to the runners, I remember being so __37__ to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I __38__ up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an __39 _. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. __40__ , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining(起决定性作用的)__ 41__ .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt __42__ because I was 15 years old, younger than him but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt __43_ for a second.
But then I __44__ something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had__45_ abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my _46_ was only to finish.
After a minute, it_47__ me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself at that moment. I turned my embarrassment into __48__ .
I __49__ that I would not give up running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare __50__ and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my __51 __.
In life we all have those moments when we __52__ ourselves with others. It’s only__53 .__ Don’t allow those moments to __54___ you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to __55__ anything you want in life.
| 小题1: | | A．bring out | B．pass out | C．take out | D．pick out |
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| 小题2: | | A．excited | B．worried | C．concerned | D．anxious |
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小题3:A gave B. made C. signed D. dressed
| 小题4: | | A．achievement | B．encouragement | C．interest | D．experience |
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| 小题5: | | A．At times | B．In time | C．In all | D．At all |
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| 小题6: | | A．victory | B．decision | C．moment | D．conclusion |
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| 小题7: | | A．embarrassed | B．annoyed | C．moved | D．thrilled |
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| 小题8: | | A．relaxed | B．defeated | C．puzzled | D．inspired |
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| 小题9: | | A．realized | B．lost | C．noticed | D．remembered |
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| 小题10: | | A．necessary | B．evident | C．common | D．different |
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| 小题11: | | A．motto | B．plan | C．goal | D．direction |
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| 小题12: | | A．worried | B．hit | C．reached | D．hurt |
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| 小题13: | | A．attraction | B．devotion | C．expectation | D．inspiration |
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| 小题14: | | A．hoped | B．promised | C．decided | D．suggested |
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| 小题15: | | A．slightly | B．hardly | C．clearly | D．properly |
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| 小题16: | | A．excitement | B．accomplishment | C．movement | D．judgment |
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| 小题17: | | A．introduce | B．relate | C．present | D．compare |
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| 小题18: | | A．important | B．natural | C．strange | D．ridiculous |
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| 小题19: | | A．weaken | B．wound | C．amuse | D．cheer |
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| 小题20: | | A．prevent | B．deliver | C．achieve | D．abandon |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:A
小题10:D
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:D
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:C |
试题分析：本文讲述的是在我们的人生中，会有很多与别人进行比较的时刻。我们要让这些比较成为激励我们成功的例子，而不应该让这些比较消弱我们的能力。
小题1:B 短语辨析。A拿出B传递C取出D挑选；我作为志愿者把水杯递给跑步的人。
小题2:A 形容词辨析。A兴奋B担心C担忧D焦虑的；我记得看见如此多不同的人，我是如此地兴奋。
小题3:C 固定搭配。Sign up for…报名参加；我认为自己也能做到，所以我也报名参加了下一年的比赛。
小题4:D 名词辨析。A成就B鼓励C兴趣D经历；我的第一次1万米比赛成为我终生难忘的经历。
小题5:A 短语辨析。A有时B及时C共计D根本；我一会走，一会跑。有时候，我不知道是否能够完成比赛。
小题6:C 名词辨析。A胜利B决定C时刻D结论；这时有了一个起决定性作用的的时刻。
小题7:A 上下文串联。根据48空前的embarrassment说明在这个时候我感觉很尴尬，被一个老人超过了。
小题8:B 词义辨析。A放松的B被打败的C困惑的D被鼓励的；我被一个老人超过，感觉被打败了。
小题9:A 动词辨析。A意识到B失去C注意到D记得；突然我意识到一些事情，他跑他的路，我走我的桥。
小题10:D 上下文串联。根据上句可知我们走的道路是不一样的，同时有不同的能力，经历，训练和目标。
小题11:C 名词辨析。A谮言B计划C目标D方向；我参加本次比赛的目标就是完成比赛。
小题12:B 固定句型。It hit sb that….我突然想起这是一个我可以学习的教训。
小题13:D 上下文串联。根据下文54空后的inspire，可知我把这个教训当成一个鼓励。
小题14:C 动词辨析。A希望B允诺C决定D建议；我决定不能放弃本次比赛。
小题15:D 副词辨析。A轻微地B几乎不C清楚地D恰当地；只要我进行恰当的准备，我会取得成功的。
小题16:B 名词辨析。A兴奋B成就C运动D判断；当我冲过终点线的时候，我为自己取得的成就而自豪。
小题17:D 动词辨析。A介绍B联系C呈现D比较；在生活中很多时候，我们都把自己和别人进行比较。
小题18:B 形容词辨析。A重要B自然C奇怪D荒谬的；和别人进行比较这是很正常的事情。
小题19:A 动词辨析。A消弱B使…受伤C娱乐D振奋；不要让这些比较的时候削弱我们，而是让它们让我们变得更坚强。
小题20:C 动词辨析。A预防B传递C实现D抛弃；经过适当的准备和培训，你可以改善你的最后结果来实现你在生活中想实现的任何事情。
点评：考生在选择答案时要根据上下文的复现或同现以及这些词之间的有机联系来确定答案。由于完形填空的文章是一个意义相关联的语篇，围绕一个话题论述，因此在行文中词语的重复、替代、复现和同现现象是不可避免的。根据这个原则，某一个空格所对应的答案很可能就是在上下文中复现或同现的相关词：原词、同义词、近义词、反义词等。 |
核心考点
试题【When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m ra】；主要考察你对
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[详细]举一反三
It was a quiet morning during the war. In a small valley, there was a little wooden building, which was an orphanage (孤儿院) that__16__ many young children who had lost their ___17__ in the war. Suddenly, a shell (炮弹) __18__ on the top of the orphanage’s building. Many children were ___19__. One little girl was badly hurt and bleeding. A runner was at once sent to __20__medical help.
When the doctor arrived, he_21_ that the girl’s greatest need at the moment was blood. He immediately checked the records in the__22__ to find someone who had the same blood type as the girl’s. A nurse soon __23__the children that had the same blood type together and asked who would be __24__ to donate blood to the girl. The children looked shocked, and no one said a word. Again with __25____ eyes, the doctor pleaded (恳求). __26__ a boy slowly raised his hand.
When the doctor injected the needle, the boy began to cry. The doctor tried to _27__ him, but in vain. Even when the needle was _28__ , the little boy was still crying. After the blood was given to the wounded girl, her___29__ got better. Then the doctor came to the boy, "Does it hurt?" "No, but I was afraid of dying." The doctor was __30_! "Why did you think you would die? "With __31_ in his eyes the boy replied, "Because I thought you would take all of my __32__ to save her! "The doctor didn’t know what to say! Then he asked, "__33_you thought you were going to die, why did you__34__to give her your blood?" With tears streaming down, he said in a___35__ voice, "Because she is my friend and I love her." There is no greater love in the world!
| 小题1: | | A．stored | B．hid | C．gained | D．housed |
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| 小题2: | | A．neighbors | B．friends | C．parents | D．teachers |
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| 小题3: | | A．fell | B．appeared | C．jumped | D．flew |
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| 小题4: | | A．ruined | B．wounded | C．harmed | D．lost |
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| 小题5: | | A．operate on | B．take over | C．get around | D．ask for |
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| 小题6: | | A．introduced | B．realized | C．predicted | D．promised |
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| 小题7: | | A．orphanage | B．hospital | C．school | D．store |
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| 小题8: | | A．recognized | B．turned | C．gathered | D．assumed |
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| 小题9: | | A．valuable | B．willing | C．regrettable | D．useful |
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| 小题10: | | A．anxious | B．curious | C．delightful | D．surprising |
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| 小题11: | | A．immediately | B．happily | C．finally | D．probably |
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| 小题12: | | A．stop | B．comfort | C．interrupt | D．support |
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| 小题13: | | A．disappeared | B．Pulled | C．Removed | D．finished |
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| 小题14: | | A．function | B．occasion | C．position | D．condition |
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| 小题15: | | A．shocked | B．frightened | C．pleased | D．worried |
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| 小题16: | | A．smiles | B．puzzle | C．hope | D．tears |
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| 小题17: | | A．energy | B．health | C．money | D．blood |
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| 小题18: | | A．If | B．Since | C．Though | D．Unless |
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| 小题19: | | A．expect | B．wish | C．agree | D．permit |
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| 小题20: | | A．soft | B．strange | C．tired | D．embarrassed |
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One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I 21 the car by the roadside and waited for her.
As I looked 22 the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old, 23 freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short 24 . The boy had a big smile on his face 25 he had just been set free from some sort of 26 . The boy would then fall to the grass, 27 , and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could again, still with a 28 on his face.
Kids, when they fall down, don"t view their falling down as failure, but 29 , they treat it as a learning experience. They try and try again until they 30 . While I was touched by the boy"s persistence, I was 31 touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so 32 and so natural — no signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged. His only 33 was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a 34 — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for 35 or was not worrying about whether 36 was watching. He didn"t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him 37 and that it would be 38 if he did fall. No, all that 39 to him was to accomplish the task, to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that 40 and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits（追求) in life.
| 小题1: | | A．drove | B．started | C．parked | D．broke |
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| 小题2: | | A．outside | B．down | C．toward | D．over |
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| 小题3: | | A．playing | B．smiling | C．rolling | D．running |
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| 小题4: | | A．way | B．length | C．time | D．distance |
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| 小题5: | | A．even if | B．as if | C．so long as | D．now that |
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| 小题6: | | A．park | B．cave | C．prison | D．castle |
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| 小题7: | | A．get up | B．take up | C．break down | D．lie down |
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| 小题8: | | A．tear | B．smile | C．pleasure | D．surprise |
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| 小题9: | | A．however | B．instead | C．therefore | D．anyhow |
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| 小题10: | | A．stop | B．win | C．achieve | D．succeed |
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| 小题11: | | A．luckily | B．apparently | C．actually | D．equally |
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| 小题12: | | A．confident | B．joyful | C．quiet | D．proud |
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| 小题13: | | A．worry | B．dream | C．aim | D．hope |
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| 小题14: | | A．boy | B．child | C．player | D．winner |
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| 小题15: | | A．chance | B．fortune | C．approval | D．trouble |
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| 小题16: | | A．someone | B．anyone | C．everyone | D．one |
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| 小题18: | | A．embarrassing | B．disappointing | C．frightening | D．amusing |
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| 小题19: | | A．happened | B．contributed | C．related | D．mattered |
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| 小题20: | | A．discovery | B．observation | C．story | D．incident |
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I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me years ago after mom passed away.
I have mixed feelings about having the clock. I love it because it was my mom’s, but it also holds some bad memories.
You see, it chimes. It counts out the hour and rings once on the half hour. Or at least it used to. Now you never know what number it will ring.
When my mother was at home dying from cancer, she asked for the clock to be unplugged. Hearing the hours count down really angered and frightened her.
Mom passed away. I decided I wanted to get the clock fixed so I could remember the good hours we had with her.
I took it to a local clock shop the other day.
“I know this has no particular value as a clock, but it was my mom’s and I need to get it fixed,” I said to the shop owner.
I went on to describe the problem.
“We get a lot of these in,” he told me. “Here’s what I do. We remove the clock works (机件) and replace it with a battery-operated movement (机芯) that chimes electronically,” he told me.
“You can’t fix this?”
“No, we don’t have the time nor the parts.”
I thanked him and went home. I called a few other places and was told the same thing.
“How incredibly sad,” I told the last one disappointedly.
How incredibly sad that we have become a society that replaces craftsmanship with convenience and easy fixes. We copy the original instead of creating something new. We duplicate (复制); we don’t originate (发明).
Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself.
Each of us is an original, one of a kind. But we find it so much easier to copy another style than to develop our own.
We are wannabes (崇拜别人的人) rather than hey-world-look-at-mes.
We fail to see the real value in who we are, so we spend our lives trying to be someone else.
小题1: Why did the author decide to get the clock fixed? | A．Because it was a really old and valuable clock. | | B．Because it was the only thing that her mother had left her. | | C．Because it brought her memories of being with her mother. | | D．Because it left the author with mixed feelings. |
小题2: What did the clock shop owners tell the author?| A．The parts that the clock needed were electronic. | | B．It would cost a lot to repair the clock. | | C．They had never repaired a clock like this before. | | D．They could only make the clock electronic. |
小题3: The author intends to ________.| A．criticize the irresponsible clock shop owners | | B．criticize people who do not value things with a history | | C．criticize people who do not have a creative attitude toward life | | D．criticize people’s ignorance of traditional craftsmanship |
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完型填空：（每小题1分，满分20分）
It was a cold winter morning. Half asleep at the train station, I stared into the distance, 41 for the train to take me to my 42 in Boston. The world was quiet. The very few people on the street kept to themselves, 43 their steaming cups of coffee.
Reaching into my pocket as the 44 was getting close, my hand searched for the $ 20 bill to pay my fare. The pocket was 45 ! I searched through my bag and then I felt 46 . Unless the money dropped from the sky, I’d be 47 there. “What’s the matter?” A short, elderly man stood before me. “Oh, nothing…. Well, I 48 my money and now I can’t pay for the ticket. I’m going to 49 my match class, and the train is leaving.”
“Here, use this.” The man held a $ 20 bill. I looked up, 5 0 . People just didn’t do that anymore. Everyone worried about their own 51 , rarely stopping to think about others, especially teenage strangers. “Thank you, but no, I can’t.”
“ 52 it – go!” The man pushed me 53 the train. I bought a round – trip ticket, and he refused the change I 54 to give him back. I did not know what to say – a million thoughts raced through my mind, yet I stood 55 .
For the train ride I was wordless. I began to see the world through 56 eyes. That man made a difference with such a simple 57 .
A week later I was at the train station again, with an extra 20$ 58 I saw the man. And there he was. “Excuse me, sir, I believe I owe you this.” I 59 the money into his hand. Failing to refuse, he said, “Just remember to do the same for someone in your shoes someday.” I smiled, content.
The elderly man is my hero. For many, heroes are famous, but my hero is a 60 stranger who taught me a lesson in life. I will never forget his kindness.
| 小题1: | | A．watching | B．looking | C．reaching | D．arranging |
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| 小题2: | | A．home | B．class | C．office | D．factory |
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| 小题3: | | A．serving | B．carrying | C．minding | D．making |
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| 小题4: | | A．chance | B．crowd | C．driver | D．train |
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| 小题5: | | A．deep | B．empty | C．messy | D．tight |
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| 小题6: | | A．hopeless | B．useless | C．relieved | D．dissatisfied |
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| 小题7: | | A．blocked | B．drawn | C．stuck | D．tied |
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| 小题8: | | A．wasted | B．counted | C．spent | D．lost |
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| 小题9: | | A．miss | B．skip | C．fail | D．stop |
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| 小题10: | | A．frightened | B．disturbed | C．surprised | D．concerned |
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| 小题11: | | A．problems | B．complaints | C．positions | D．challenges |
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| 小题12: | | A．Bring | B．Get | C．Catch | D．Take |
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| 小题13: | | A．in | B．beyond | C．toward | D．on |
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| 小题14: | | A．offered | B．managed | C．happened | D．attempted |
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| 小题15: | | A．nervously | B．silently | C．seriously | D．uncomfortably |
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| 小题16: | | A．curious | B．changed | C．bright | D．widened |
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| 小题17: | | A．task | B．act | C．example | D．performance |
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| 小题18: | | A．so that | B．even if | C．now that | D．in case |
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| 小题19: | | A．dropped | B．pushed | C．pressed | D．threw |
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| 小题20: | | A．giving | B．encouraging | C．promising | D．respecting |
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Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 37 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder (脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much 38 than others.
I hated going to school and I hated people 39 at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing straight and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the 40 and seeing an ugly hunchback (驼背).
My friends found me distant because I didn’t let others get 41 to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 42 Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school — a spot where no one would 43 me. That’s when I first heard her voice.
“Hi. Can I sit down?”
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No idea.”
“I bet they’re playing games and making friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our 44 started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my situation — until it was sunset.
Then suddenly, she saw my 45 . She just stared.
My heart sank. What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would 46 me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know 47 your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be sentenced(审判). I begged in my heart for
her to 48 , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answered weakly.
She bent and 49 my ears.
“Your back is hunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”
I was 50 .I looked into her eyes and her kindness touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to 51 myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend.
| 小题2: | | A．shorter | B．taller | C．weaker | D．slower |
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| 小题3: | | A．looking | B．smiling | C．aiming | D．glaring |
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| 小题4: | | A．street | B．sun | C．mirror | D．corner |
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| 小题5: | | A．closely | B．close | C．near | D．nearly |
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| 小题6: | | A．after | B．while | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题7: | | A．disturb | B．seek | C．comfort | D．ignore |
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| 小题8: | | A．games | B．performance | C．conversation | D．competition |
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| 小题9: | | A．face | B．back | C．eyes | D．wings |
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| 小题10: | | A．look up to | B．catch up with | C．look down upon | D．put up with |
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| 小题11: | | A．that | B．why | C．whether | D．how |
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| 小题12: | | A．relax | B．stop | C．leave | D．forbid |
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| 小题13: | | A．said | B．spoke | C．whispered | D．shouted |
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| 小题14: | | A．worried | B．astonished | C．ashamed | D．upset |
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| 小题15: | | A．control | B．hate | C．forgive | D．like |
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