Our teacher gave us a task called "secret friends" for the coming week.We were supposed to do
nice things 1 our friends without letting them know who was doing it.We could leave 2 notes or
cards either on their desks or in their backpacks.Before doing the task, with our eyes closed, from a
basket, we 3 a name of a classmate who we were to secretly befriened over the next five days.
Soon, the task was turned into a competition of giving 4 instead of notes.Everyone was getting
cool presents except me.My friend followed the teacher"s 5 without a fault.I received nothing but
handmade cards with nice words about me.
On the last morning, I finally got a package.When I 6 it, the girls around all 7 .It was perfumed powder, an "old lady" gift.My face went red.
I tried to forget about the 8 gift, but when the same girls 9 it again during the break in the
bathroom, I joined in, "How stupid! My grandmother wouldn"t 10 want it." The girls laughed at my
11 and left the bathroom.Washing my hands, I let the water run through my fingers 12 I thought
about my words.It wasn"t 13 like me to say things like that.
"I"m your secret friend." It was Rochelle. "I" m sorry about the gift," she whispered to me, tears
14 down her face.
From a poor family, she was a 15 at school for those with rich parents.Yet she just took all
the 16 and the horrible treatment silently.
I was sick to my stomach as my 17 words ran through my mind.She had heard everything.
How could I have been so cruel?
Later I learned she had felt bad all week about not being able to leave me any cool present and her
mum had given up her only luxury(奢侈品).
And I had 18 everything for her.
I told her that I had only said those things to try to 19 .
"We aren"t that different from each other, are we?" She smiled 20 .Her simple words, spoken
from her heart, found their way straight into mine.
( )2.A.outstanding
( )3.A.pushed
( )4.A.chances
( )5.A.directions
( )6.A.discovered
( )7.A.laughed
( )8.A.special
( )9.A.saw
( )10.A.even
( )11.A.feeling
( )12.A.if
( )13.A.normally
( )14.A.dashing
( )15.A.goal
( )16.A.teasing
( )17.A.powerful
( )18.A.broken
( )19.A.turn off
( )20.A.optimistically
B.encouraging
B.found
B.gifts
B.example
B.grasped
B.blamed
B.embarrassing
B.showed
B.just
B.suffering
B.since
B.properly
B.streaming
B.centre
B.challenge
B.tense
B.changed
B.fit in
B.persuasively
C.reminding
C.drew
C.help
C.patterns
C.held
C.shouted
C.delicious
C.mentioned
C.hardly
C.remarks
C.because
C.perfectly
C.getting
C.wonder
C.puzzle
C.scary
C.ruined
C.take off
C.honestly
D.frightening
D.threw
D.hope
D.admission
D.opened
D.commented
D.worrying
D.suggested
D.only
D.reactions
D.as
D.carefully
D.smoothing
D.target
D.ignoring
D.hurtful
D.disturbed
D.get in
D.understandingly
path.I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn"t covered by water or
mud.As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for the attack.It was so
unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpected.I was surprised as well as unhurt though I
had been struck four or five times.I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me.Had
I been hurt I wouldn"t have found it amusing.And I was laughing.After all, I was being attacked by
a butterfly!
Having stopped, laughing, I took a step forward.My attacker rushed me again.He charged
towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vain.For a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker paused.I wasn"t sure what to do.After all, it"s just not every day that one is attacked by a butterfly.I stepped back to look the situation over.My attacker moved back to land on the
ground.That"s when I discovered why my attacker was charging me only moments earlier.He had a
mate and she was dying.
Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her.I could only admire the
love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate.He had taken it up on himself to attack
me for his mate"s sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large.He did so just to give
her those extra few precious moments of life, should I have been careless enough to step on her.His
courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate"s
safety seemed admirable.I couldn"t do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult
side of the pool.He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed.
Since then, I"ve always tried to remember the courage of that butterfly whenever I see huge barriers
facing me.
B.To look over the bad situation.
C.To avoid getting his shoes dirty.
D.To escape a sudden attack.
B.Discovering the energetic butterfly.
C.Being attacked by a butterfly.
D.Being stepped on by his mate.
B.what he should do when faced with trouble
C.how he should deal with attacks
D.people should protect butterflies
B.Amusing.
C.Careless.
D.Aggressive.
Go home and love your 2 and love your friends. Love them without measure".
A 3 story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she
felt 4 . Late in the afternoon she gathered 5 to see her employer. To her 6 the boss agreed to a
raise.
The woman 7 her home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Her husband
had come home early and prepared a festive meal. She 8 if he somehow knew that she would not
get 9 .
She found him in the kitchen and 10 him the good news. They hugged and kissed, then sat down
to the 11 meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It read, " 12 ,
darling! I knew you"d get the raise! These things will tell you how much I 13 you."
Following the supper, her husband went into the kitchen to 14 . She noticed that a second 15
had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read, "Don"t worry about not getting the 16 !
You deserve (应得) it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you."
Someone has said that the measure of love is when you love without 17 . What this man feels for
his wife is 18 acceptance and love, 19 she succeeds or fails. His love 20 her victories and
soothes her wounds. He stands with her, no matter what life throws in their direction.
( )2.A. parents
( )3.A. sad
( )4.A. nervous
( )5.A. energy
( )6.A. worry
( )7.A. reached
( )8.A. considered
( )9.A. turned down
( )10.A. declared
( )11.A. optimistic
( )12.A. Good luck
( )13.A. respect
( )14.A. bring up
( )15.A. letter
( )16.A. award
( )17.A. measure
( )18.A. instant
( )19.A. either
( )20.A. celebrates
B. children
B. pleasant
B. excited
B. strength
B. disappointment
B. got
B. argued
B. turned off
B. told
B. wonderful
B. Cheers
B. admire
B. clean up
B. notice
B. promotion
B. intention
B. appropriate
B. whether
B. admits
C. wife
C. frightening
C. desperate
C. power
C. delight
C. arrived
C. wondered
C. turned over
C. informed
C. successful
C. Congratulations
C. envy
C. make up
C. note
C. raise
C. discussion
C. necessary
C. when
C. encourages
D. family
D. moving
D. dangerous
D. courage
D. horror
D. returned
D. thought
D. turned out
D. proved
D. convenient
D. Help yourself
D. love
D. dress up
D. poster
D. reward
D. doubt
D. total
D. no matter
D. believes in
of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the
manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of
bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last
December in New Delhi, India.
When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now,
after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will
complete his trip in Pakistan.
B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road
D. An American Achieving His Aims
B. India, China, and Pakistan
C. Pakistan, China, and India
D. China, Pakistan, and India
B. The famous sights in Xi’an .
C. His interest in Chinese silk.
D. His childhood dreams about bicycles .
A. clever
B. friendly
. hardworking
D. strong-mindedC
Some years ago I took on a task in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I
wanted to do was to show that everybody has the capacity to be self sufficient and all we have to do is to activate(激励)them. I asked the country to pick up a group of people who were on public welfare,
people from different racial groups and different family groups. I would then see them as a group for three
hours every Friday. I also asked for a little petty cash to work with, as I needed it.
The first thing I said after I shook hands with everybody was, “I’d like to know what your dreams
are.” Everyone looked at me as if I were kind of fool.
One woman said to me, “I don’t know what you can do with dreams. The rats are eating up my
kids.”
“Oh,” I said, “That’s terrible. No, of course, you are very much involved with the rats and your
kids. How can that be helped?”
“Well, I could use a new screen door because there are holes in my screen door.” I asked, “Is there
anybody around here who know how to fix a screen door?”
There was a man in the group and he said, “A long time ago I used to do things like that but now I
have a terribly bad back, but I’ll try.”
I told him I had some money if he would go to the store and but some screening and go and fix the
lady’s screen door. “Do you think you can do that?”
“Yes, I’ll try.”
The next week, when the group was seated. I said to the woman, “Well, is your screen door fixed?”
“Oh, yes.” she said.
“Then we can start dreaming, can’t we?” she sort of smiled at me.
I said to the man who did the work, “How do you feel?”
He said, “Well, you know, it’s very funny thing. I’m beginning to feel a lot better.”
That helped the group to begin to dream. These seemingly small successes allowed the group to see
that dreams were not insane. These small steps began to get people to see and feel that something really
could happen.
Everyone found something. The man who put in the screen door became a handyman. In 12 weeks, I
had all those people off public welfare. I’ve not only done that once, I’ve done that in many times.
B.Everyone should not have depended on public welfare.
C.Everyone has the ability to live on without getting public welfare.
D.The county should gather people from different racial groups together.
B.The people the author worked with were very wealthy.
C.The author usually met the people four times a month.
D.The people the author worked with had no dreams at all.
B.The rats are crazy and have the children as food.
C.The rats are giving the kids and the mother much trouble.
D.The kids are too weak and even are nearly eaten by the rats.
B.Small success can be parts of your dream.
C.I have had those people off public welfare.
D.Your dream comes before it becomes a reality.
I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was a kid, when I 1 becoming a doctor.
My mother was a 2 . Through her work, she observed that 3 people spent a lot more time 4
than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two or three 5 TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each week from the Detroit Public Library and 6 written book report to her. She would mark them up with check marks and 7
the important parts. Years later we realized it was a 8 to see her marks on our written book reports.
Mother was actually illiterate (文盲). Although we had no money, 9 the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for 10 . I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from an A-student to a B-student and to a C-student, but I didn’t
11 . I was cool.
One night my mother came home after her several jobs and I 12 about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you the money I 13 this week by rubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With 14 left over, you can have all that you want.” I was very 15 with that arrangement. But once I got through 16 money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a(n) 17 over our heads and any kind of food on
the table. I was also 18 that immediate satisfaction didn’t get me anywhere. Success 19 intellectual
preparation. I went back to my studies and became a A-student again, and 20 I realized my dream and I became a doctor.