One summer in college, I was invited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp.
I first 1 a boy under the tree on the first day of camp. His obvious 2 and shyness made him
appear weak and lonely. Nearby, 200 3 campers were playing and joking, but the boy seemed to
want to be anywhere 4 where he was.
I was instructed to care more about campers who might feel 5 . So I 6 him and said, "Hi, I"m
Kevin. It"s nice to meet you. How are you?"
7 a shaky voice he 8 answered, "Okay, I guess."
I calmly asked him to join in the activities and 9 some new people. He quietly replied, "No, this is
not really my thing."
I could 10 that this whole experience was 11 to him. But I somehow knew it wouldn"t be right
to 12 him, either. It was going to take more time and 13 .
The next day, I was leading camp songs for the campers. They eagerly participated. But the boy was
just sitting alone, 14 out the window.
That evening at our nightly staff meeting, I made my 50 about him known. I asked them to pay
special attention and spend time with him 51 they could.
The days flew by fast. When the "last dance" came, surprisingly, the boy from under the tree was now
a shirtless dancing 52 . He owned the dance floor 53 meaningful time with others. I couldn"t" believe
it was him.
In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of 54 every day. You may never know how
much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tell this story as 55 as I can, and I advise others to
look out for their own "boy under the tree." |
( )1. A. noticed
( )2. A. anger
( )3. A. ambitious
( )4. A. or rather
( )5. A. left out
( )6. A. passed
( )7. A. At
( )8. A. unfortunately
( )9. A. meet
( )10. A. consider
( )11. A. familiar
( )12. A. push
( )13. A. effects
( )14. A. observing
( )15. A. concern
( )16. A. unless
( )17. A. wonder
( )18. A. sparing
( )19. A. himself
( )20. A. often | B. recognized
B. discomfort
B. curious
B. just as
B. put out
B. left
B. By
B. unwillingly
B. interview
B. suggest
B. strange
B. pull
B. exercises
B. staring
B. trouble
B. before
B. danger
B. saving
B. yourself
B. far | C. learned
C. excitement
C. anxious
C. other than
C. made out
C. approached
C. On
C. unconsciously
C. find
C. sense
C. similar
C. pardon
C. expenses
C. admiring
C. devotion
C. when
C. scene
C. spreading
C. themselves
C. soon | D. heard
D. satisfaction
D. eager
D. as well as
D. let out
D. visited
D. In
D. uninterestingly
D. help
D. prove
D. typical
D. punish
D. efforts
D. examining
D. understanding
D. since
D. instructor
D. sharing
D. itself
D. long |
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| 完形填空。 | I was with my oldest son and we were on the lookout for an open parking space in our jam-packed
shopping center. We spotted a(n) 1 one in the next row of spaces, and I drove our van around the turn,
all the while hoping no one else would spot it and grab it 2 I could. And, as luck would have it, a lady
was 3 her shopping cart right in front of us, and it looked like 4 was getting away from her, filled with
bags and cartons of soda underneath. She herself was carrying three extra bags in her hands while trying
to push the cart  5 a strong spring wind, and looked 6 . Suddenly the cart hit a bump and everything
fell off.
At that point I felt something sudden in me. I pulled the van into an unloading 7 and told my son to
wait for a moment. I rushed over to her and the 8 thing she did was to apologize several times. I helped
her 9 everything up, took the extra bags 10 from her hands, and walked her to her car. She told me she was trying to 11 home to her son"s thirteenth birthday party and her whole day had been "just one of those days". I helped her load the 12 , and she stopped and looked at me and just said, "Thank you so much".
I smiled and said, "I am a mother of three and do you think 13 has ever helped me out? I am just returning the 14 ." She smiled and said, "God bless you" and got in her car.
I walked the row over to my van 15 my son was waiting and had been 16 . "Who was that, Mom?"
he asked me. "She was a 17 too, trying to get home for her son"s birthday party. She needed our help," I
said. And I just knew he 18 with that clarity children all seem to have. We found a good 19 and walked
together towards the store. As we were walking, my son took my hand. It was the most touching 20 of all, and I realized more than ever that our children are always watching. | ( )1.A. typical
( )2.A. before
( )3.A. driving
( )4.A. there
( )5.A. beyond
( )6.A. exhausted
( )7.A. seat
( )8.A. first
( )9.A. set
( )10.A. smoothly
( )11.A. walk
( )12.A. groceries
( )13.A. no one
( )14.A. visit
( )15.A. which
( )16.A. inspecting
( )17.A. driver
( )18.A. realized
( )19.A. spot
( )20.A. signal | B. enjoyable
B. because
B. wheeling
B. she
B. against
B. disappointed
B. size
B. next
B. build
B. casually
B. hurry
B. souvenirs
B. someone
B. favor
B. when
B. learning
B. mom
B. behaved
B. area
B. gesture | C. expensive
C. unless
C. carrying
C. it
C. between
C. an noyed
C. measure
C. last
C. keep
C. firmly
C. leave
C. furniture
C. everyone
C. pleasure
C. who
C. watching
C. customer
C. imagined
C. target
C. tradition | D. perfect
D. though
D. searching
D. I
D. without
D. ashamed
D. zone
D. latest
D. gather
D. hesitantly
D. catch
D. equipment
D. anyone
D. gift
D. where
D. thinking
D. woman
D. understood
D. scene
D. speech | | 完形填空 | The night was dark, though sometimes the moving clouds allowed a star or two to be seen in the
sky. The poor men held on to any bit of wood they could find. They called to the Marie for 1 , but
she was far 2 the reach of the human voice. At one o"clock in the morning, the water was getting 3 ,
and a strong 4 had begun to blow. Suddenly 5 were seen in the distance; another ship! The shouts
of the swimmers were heard on board, and willing hands pulled them out of the water.
The 6 of the ship that had so fortunately arrived on the scene in time to 7 their lives was the
Ellen. What had brought her to the exact spot through the 8 and the pathless sea? Her captain had
known 9 about the wreck (沉船) and had indeed tried to sail away from it. But let him speak for
himself.
"I was forced by the wind," he said long afterwards, "to 10 my course (航道). Just as I did it, a
small 11 flew across the ship once or twice and then 12 at my face. I took no 13 of this until
exactly the same thing happened at a 14 time, which caused me to think it rather 15 , and while I
was thus 16 it, the same bird for the third time, made its appearance and flew 17 in the same way
as before. I was then 18 to change my course back to the original (原来的) one. I had not gone far
19 I heard strange noises; and when I tried to 20 where they came from, I found I was in the
middle of people who had been shipwrecked. I immediately did my best to save them. | ( )1. A. food
( )2. A. between
( )3. A. colder
( )4. A. smoke
( )5. A. people
( )6. A. captain
( )7. A. make
( )8. A. light
( )9. A. everything
( )10. A. continue
( )11. A. light
( )12. A. flew
( )13. A. notice
( )14. A. good
( )15. A. unusual
( )16. A. searching
( )17. A. back
( )18. A. decided
( )19. A. when
( )20. A. make sure | B. help
B. out
B. deeper
B. wave
B. houses
B. owner
B. lose
B. wind
B. anything
B. turn
B. fly
B. stopped
B. attention
B. second
B. funny
B. expecting
B. up
B. advised
B. while
B. search for | C. rest
C. beyond
C. saltier
C. sand
C. ships
C. name
C. keep
C. darkness
C. something
C. change
C. bird
C. stayed
C. look
C. third
C. common
C. considering
C. about
C. persuaded
C. as
C. listen to | D. stop
D. in
D. warmer
D. wind
D. lights
D. person
D. save
D. water
D. nothing
D. sail
D. plane
D. looked
D. interest
D. long
D. interesting
D. studying
D. down
D. invited
D. after
D. look out | | 阅读理解 | I work in a major U.S. factory. We make refrigerators. Four thousand five hundred new refrigerators
every day. It is a union workshop and it"s gradually shrinking as many blue collar factories seem to be but
that is not what this story is about. This story is about one man who works in this huge factory.
I"ve seen him around for years but never paid much attention. He always seemed just a little strange.
A little short. A little... scruffy (肮脏的). Always the same old red ball cap. And always a garbage bag
in one hand. He walks around this big old factory on his breaks and his lunch time collecting aluminum
(铝) cans. Day after day, month after month on hot days and cold days. Over the years I"ve followed
him as he walked to his old pickup truck on the coldest day with snow blowing and everyone with their
collars turned up and their hands in their pockets. He would be there with a 40 gallon garbage bag full of
aluminum cans. He"d toss it into the back of his truck and jump in and I"d reach my car and jump in and
we"d all race to the exit of this big half empty parking lot.
Today I was working on a broken machine in this factory and the can man came by with his bag
picking up cans. Our manager was standing there because the machine I was working on had been
"down" for a couple of hours and he was getting worried that we might run out of the parts for one of
the assembly lines(装配线). I was finishing and I stood up just as the manager asked the can man what
he did with all those cans. I"d never thought to ask him that question because I always just assumed he
cashed them at the recycle center. The can man said: "I give them to my neighbor. He"s disabled and
can"t hold a job." I blurted out: "You mean you"ve been collecting all those cans for all these years to
give to your neighbor?" "It isn"t much," he said, "but I give them to him. He can"t hold a job." Right then
and there in that factory I found myself staring at him. He was wearing a T-shirt and an old red ball cap
and he had a garbage bag full of aluminum cans in his hand! I don"t even know his name, but I thank him
for the lesson he"s taught me. | | 1. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. | A. the author didn"t like the can man before knowing about his story
B. making friends at work was not encouraged
C. the author drove a very old pickup truck
D. aluminum cans couldn"t be recycled | | 2. Which of the following is true according to the passage? | A. The manager was angry seeing the man picking up cans in the factory.
B. The author thought the can man sold the cans for extra money.
C. The manager was worried because he might be short of cans.
D. People in the factory all looked down upon the can man. | | 3. What"s the possible meaning of the underlined phrase "blurted out" in the last paragraph? | A. said suddenly without thinking much
B. screamed at somebody in anger
C. spoke in a low voice thoughtfully
D. shouted to somebody cheerfully | | 4. What lesson does the author learn from the story? | A. Never judge a person by his appearance.
B. Don"t work in a factory as a blue collar worker.
C. Always treat neighbors as family members.
D. Kindness is from the bottom of one"s heart. | | 阅读理解。 | When we ask students what they want to be, they often talk about unusual jobs, things like teachers
and doctors. But if you think about it, many people don"t plan to do their jobs. They just start doing
them by accident. We have talked to two people with unusual jobs.
Emily is a dentist (牙医) but she doesn"t work with people. She works with horses. After university
she took care of animal"s health for several years, but she noticed that there were few people who could
help horses" teeth. She decided to go to college and study again. Then she had to buy special tools, but
she is never out of work. She"s always very busy taking care of horses" teeth. "I couldn"t be a dentist for
people now," Emily said, "because I really enjoy working with horses."
As soon as David could read, he read books about robots, but the robots he built today don"t look
like the strange robot people in his books. He builds robots for industry. Early one morning he made up
his mind to study maths, science and computers so that he could break into the world of robot engineering. "Some of the maths is very difficult," says David, "but you must study maths to be an engineer." Fortunately he got top marks in all his math exams. | | 1. Emily doesn"t want to be a dentist because __________. | A. the pay is low
B. she has to buy special tools
C. she will be out of work
D. she likes working with horses | | 2. To become a robot engineer, David __________. | A. need to worry
B. bought a lot of robots
C. had to study hard
D. didn"t have to go to college | | 3. David got top marks in all his maths exams, although __________. | A. maths was not easy to study
B. he had to study maths to be an engineer
C. he could break into the world of robot engineering
D. he made up his mind to study maths, science and computers | | 完形填空 | It was on a winter morning, near Oxford, Maryland, that I set the breakfast table beside the huge
window, which __ 1__ the Tred Avon River. The snow decorated the shore in white. For a moment I
stood quietly against the bookcase, appreciating what the night"s snow had __ 2__.
3 I leaned forward and peered (盯着看) close to the frosted window. "It really is!" I cried
out loud. "There is a goose out there!" I __ 4__ to the bookcase and pulled out a pair of binoculars
(望远镜). Into their sights came the __ 5__ of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to
its sides, its __ 6__ frozen to the ice.
Then from the dark sides, I saw a line of swans. They crossed __7__ the west of the broad river,
moving __ 8__ to the east.
As I __ 9__, the leader swung to the right, and then the white __10__ of birds become a white circle.
It floated from the top of the sky downward. At last, as easy as feathers coming to earth, the circle
__11__ the ice. The swans __12__ the frozen goose! Amazingly, those bills (啄) began to work on
__13_. The long necks were lifted and curved down, __14__. It went on for a long time. At last, the
goose was free and __15__ its big webbed (有蹼的) feet slowly. The goose __16__ its wings as far
as they would go. The swans took off and __17__ on their eastward journey, in perfect formation, to
their secret destination. __18__ them, rising with incredible speed and joy, the goose moved into the sky.
I watched them __19__ they disappeared over the tips of the farthest trees. Only then did I realize that
tears were running down my cheeks.
This is a true story. I do not try to interpret it here. I just often __20__ it in the bad moments, and tell
myself, "If so for birds, why not for man?" | ( )1. A. undertook
( )2. A. destroyed
( )3. A. Finally
( )4. A. rushed
( )5. A. figure
( )6. A. head
( )7. A. along
( )8. A. steadily
( )9. A. watched
( )10. A. block
( )11. A. skated on
( )12. A. threatened
( )13. A. the ice
( )14. A. one after another
( )15. A. washing
( )16. A. enlarged
( )17. A. started
( )18. A. Behind
( )19. A. after
( )20. A. write about | B. overlooked
B. covered
B. Unwillingly
B. returned
B. shadow
B. body
B. from
B. wildly
B. expected
B. mass
B. landed on
B. attacked
B. their feather
B. side by side
B. protecting
B. spread
B. carried
B. In front of
B. although
B. keep up | C. witnessed
C. painted
C. Disappointedly
C. advanced
C. cry
C. feet
C. around
C. highly
C. predicted
C. dot
C. fell down to
C. surrounded
C. the river
C. now and then
C. moving
C. lifted
C. repeated
C. Along with
C. unless
C. think of | D. passed
D. hidden
D. Suddenly
D. reached
D. baby
D. beak
D. in
D. closely
D. feared
D. line
D. broke into
D. killed
D. the shore
D. again and again
D. warming
D. threw
D. stopped
D. Including
D. until
D. tell from |
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