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wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate
(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing
hours, too good not to share.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about
our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable
social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would
sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle
today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out
of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too,
were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was
in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry
later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met
every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs
disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine.
We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears,
sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we
seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I
must tell…." We have never met.
It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only
fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be my own best friend.
to _____.
B. go to her friend"s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other
B. be left alone
C. stay with her best friend
D. break the silence
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试题【阅读理解。 When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, w】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the
eye, the doctors stitched (缝合) the eyeball together where it was 2 , leaving a big
ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt 3 , but my mother, in all of
her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed 4 , my
face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲), 5 my scarred, sightless, cloudy and
gray eye lived on with me. As I grew,this sightless eye in so many ways 6 me.
I walked with my face looking at the 7 so that people would not see the 8 me.
Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and 9 the
world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your 10 soul."
She continued this 11 whenever I was trying to hide.
Mama"s words were of great help for me to face the world 12 . As a teenager, even
though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometime when I held my
head up high and let people know me, they 13 me. In high school, I was 14 both
academically and socially. I was 15 elected class president. My mother"s words helped
me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them 16 the intelligence
and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn"t see it on the 17 .
Now I"m a happy wife and great mother. The message "Hold your head up high" has
been 18 many times in my 19 home. Each of my children has felt 20 invitation, and
the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.
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| Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. Then I was born in El Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles. Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how fortunate we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They influenced us with the concepts of family, faith and nationalism. I got my first real job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard- box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He rented space in a little shopping mall and gave his shop the fancy name of Mr Ben"s Coiffure. The owner of the shopping center gave Dad a discount on his rent for cleaning the parking lot three nights a week, which meant getting up at 3 a.m.. To pick up rubbish, Dad used a little machine that looked like a lawn mower. Mom and I emptied garbage cans and picked up litter by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I"d sleep in the car on the way home. I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have lasted a lifetime. I acquired discipline and a strong work ethic (道德), and learned at an early age the importance of balancing life"s competing interests-in my case, school, homework and a job. This really helped during my senior year of a high school, when I worked 40 hours a week flipping burgers at a fast-food joint while taking a full load of college preparation courses. The hard work paid off. I attended the US Military Academy and went on to receive graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard. Later, I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California State Assembly (州议会). In these jobs and in everything else I"ve done, I have never forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is dignity in all work and that if people are working to provide for themselves and their families that is something we should honor. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. didn"t like living in the USA B. lived a poor but happy life C. were lucky to move to the USA D. had many ways to make money | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. When he recovered，to make a living my father _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. ran a small shopping mall B. did a part-time job C. worked as a barber D. became a street cleaner | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Working in the parking lot for two years had taught me _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. how to obey school discipline B. how to do two things well at a time C. that discipline and work were of equal value D. that I must do as many things as possible at a time | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. The author tells us in the last paragraph that we should be proud of those who _____. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. have done all kinds of jobs B. are cleaning the parking lot C. have achieved a lot in their lives D. are bearing their responsibilities | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Growing old is something that nobody can understand until they experience it for themselves. I may not be "old" but I am certainly beginning to 1 it? turned 18 just over a week ago. I am now an adult. As a child you 2 adults-or "grown-ups" as I used to call them-to always be in control to know what is right and wrong. 3 as a teenager, I thought that when I reached 18 I would be far more 4 in many aspects of life. But now that I am 18, 1 know that is not true. It is clear to me now that you do not 5 learning when you are 18．Every day you learn something 6 , no matter what your age. However, I do understand when you become an adult you have to 7 more responsibility. Whereas before I seldom had to clean the dishes, set the table or help out around the house, now I do all of those. I have already 8 myself the nickname "housekeeper". I can even drive now, which is pretty 9 , because of the frequency of accidents. But that"s not to say that 18 is not 10 to be. Not only can I drink alcohol, but I can also 11 . In fact, being 18 has made me really interested in politics because it now means that I can change things on 12 Day. More and more of my friends want to become politicians, and it is great to think that they can change things for the better. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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