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to be a loving husband and father.Totally loving.No ifs,ands or buts.
The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio.The speaker was quoting a Biblical
passage about husbands and their wives.Then he went on to say,"Love is an act of will.A person can
choose to love." To myself,I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband.Well,for two weeks that would change.
And it did.Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said,"That new yellow sweater looks
great on you.""Oh,Tom,you noticed",she said,surprised and pleased.Maybe a little puzzled.After the long
drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I
thought "Evelyn"s been alone here with the kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me. " We
walked on the beach while the children flew their kites.
So it went.Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director；a visit to the shell
museum though I usually hate museums.Relaxed and happy,that"s how the whole vacation passed.I made
a new promise to keep on remembering to choose love.
There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment,however.Evelyn and I still laugh about it
today.On the last night at our cottage,preparing for bed,Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression.
"What"s the matter?" I asked her.
"Tom," she said in a voice filled with distress,"I don"t?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well...that checkup I had several weeks ago...our doctor...did he tell you something about me?Tom,
you"ve been so good to me...am I dying?"
It took a moment for it all to be understood.Then I burst out laughing.
"No,honey," I said,wrapping her in my arms."You"re not dying；I"m just starting to live."
B．Independently
C．Impressively
D．Unconditionally
B．with Evelyn
C．alone
D．with his children
B．he had made a lot of money in his Wall Street firm
C．she looked lovely in her new clothes
D．the doctor said his wife was seriously ill
refer to?
B．She insisted on visiting a museum,which he hated.
C．He knew something about her illness but didn"t tell her.
D．He was so good to her that she thought she must be dying.
B．he is just beginning to enjoy life as a loving husband
C．he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change
D．he is beginning to feel regret for what he did to his wife before
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试题【阅读理解 I made a promise to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottag】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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__1__to do is not the important thing.Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a__2__hole behind their house.As they were working,a couple of older
boys stopped by to__3__.
"What are you doing?"asked one of the visitors.
"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers__4__excitedly.
The older boys began to laugh,__5__the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth
was__6__.After a long__7__,one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders,worms and a wide variety
of insects.He__8__the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing (嘲笑)__9__.
Then he said quietly and__10__,"Even if we don"t dig all the way through the earth,look what we have
found along the way!"
Their__11__was far too ambitious,but it did__12__them to dig.And that is what a goal is for-to cause
us to move in the__13__we have chosen；__14__to set us to digging!
But not every goal will be fully__15__.Not every job will end successfully.Not every relationship will
endure.Not every hope will come to pass.Not every love will last.Not every endeavor will be completed.
Not every dream will be__16__.
But when you__17__your aim,perhaps you can say,"Yes,__18__look at what I found along the way!
Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!"
It is in the__19__that life is lived.And I believe it is joy in the journey,in the end,that truly__20__.
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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually | ||||
| 1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because. | ||||
| A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single C. he finds mor  e fun in dating than in mar riageD. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement | ||||
| 2. Raising children, in the author"s opinion, is. | ||||
| A. a moral duty B. a thankless job C. a rewarding task D. a source of inevitable pain | ||||
| 3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems form -. | ||||
| A. hatred B. misunderstanding C. prejudice D. ignorance | ||||
| 4. To understand what true happiness in, one must______. | ||||
| A. have as much fun as possible during one"s 1ifetime. B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain C. put up with pain under all circumstances D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun | ||||
| 5. What is the author trying to tell us? | ||||
| A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain. B. One must know how to attain happiness. C. It is important to make commitments. D. It is pain that leads to happiness. | ||||
| 短文填词 We middle school students have had many tests and exams.We have both achieved success and suffered________1.________ failure.Different students take different attitudes to failure.Some fall in low spirits when they do p______ in the exams.2.________They lose heart and interest in study,________(显得) 3.________disappointed. Others take a positive attitude in face of failure.They________(鼓励) themselves to be selfconfident. 4.________They try to find out the causes________that they 5.________will avoid________the same mistakes again.I stand 6.________by those who dare to challenge themselves. Great men may fail dozens of times b________they succeed.So in my 7.________opinion,it doesn"t matter w________we succeed or 8.________not.What c________is what attitudes we are to take. 9.________Faced with failure,we should________(记住) 10.________ the proverb by heart "Failure is the mother of success." | ||||
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| I once had a teacher whose husband died suddenly of heart attack.About a week after his death,she __1__some of her thoughts with a classroom of students.As the late afternoon sunlight shone__2__the classroom windows,and when the class was nearly over,she__3__a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down. With a__4__look on her face,she paused and said,"__5__class is over,I"d like to share with all of you a deep__6__which I feel is very important.Each of us is put here on__7__to learn,share,love,appreciate and give of ourselves.__8__of us knows when this fantastic experience will__9__.It can be taken away at any moment.Perhaps this is the God"s__10__of telling us that we must make the__11__of every single day." Her eyes were beginning to__12__,but she went on,"So I would like you all to make me a__13__: From now on,on your way to school,or on your way home,find something beautiful to__14__.It doesn"t have to be something you see.It could be a__15__of freshly baked bread floating out of someone"s house, or it could be the sound of the soft__16__rustling ( 使发出沙沙声) the leaves in the trees...Please look for these things,and__17__them,for at anytime they can all be taken away..." The class was completely__18__.We all picked up our books and went out of the room silently.That__19 __,I observed many more beautiful things on my way home from school than usual. Remember:Life is not__20__by the number of breaths we take,but by the moments that take our breath away. | ||||
| ( )1. A.learned ( )2．A.onto ( )3．A.moved ( )4．A.surprised ( )5．A.After ( )6．A.feeling ( )7．A.business ( )8．A.None ( )9．A.happen ( )10．A.way ( )11．A.least ( )12. A.ache ( )13．A.promise ( )14．A.buy ( )15．A.smell ( )16．A.wind ( )17．A.get ( )18．A.puzzled ( )19．A.morning ( )20．A.wasted | B．shared B．into B．brushed B．worried B．Unless B．understanding B．time B．All B．begin B．signal B．worst B．water B．choice B．enjoy B．gift B．hand B．appreciate B．excited B．night B．measured | C．argued C．across C．swept C．gentle C．Before C．love C．duty C．Each C．end C．plan C．lowest C．shine C．wish C．take C．taste C．light C．hide C．quiet C．noon C．saved | D．discussed D．through D．pulled D．strange D．If D．memory D．earth D．Neither D．gain D．arrangement D．most D．dry D．rule D．learn D．sight D．color D．follow D．anxious D．afternoon D．lost | |
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| If you have ever been discouraged because of failure,please read on.For often,achieving what you__1__ to do is not the important thing.Let me explain. Two brothers decided to dig a__2__hole behind their house.As they were working,a couple of older boys stopped by to__3__. "What are you doing?"asked one of the visitors. "We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers__4__excitedly. The older boys began to laugh,__5__the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was__6__.After a long__7__,one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders,worms and a wide variety of insects.He__8__the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing (嘲笑)__9__. Then he said quietly and__10__,"Even if we don"t dig all the way through the earth,look what we have found along the way!" Their__11__was far too ambitious,but it did__12__them to dig.And that is what a goal is for-to cause us to move in the__13__we have chosen; __14__to set us to digging! But not every goal will be fully__15__.Not every job will end successfully.Not every relationship will endure.Not every hope will come to pass.Not every love will last.Not every endeavor will be completed.Not every dream will be__16__. But when you__17__your aim,perhaps you can say,"Yes,__18__look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!" It is in the__19__that life is lived.And I believe it is joy in the journey,in the end,that truly__20__. | ||||
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