One morning, in addition to his usual lunch bag, Molly handed him a second paper bag.This one was worn and held together with staples (书钉).
"Why two bags?" her father asked."The other is something else, " Molly answered."What"s in it?""Just
some stuff (东西). Take it with you."
Not wanting to discuss the matter, he put both sacks into his briefcase, kissed Molly and rushed off.
At midday he opened Molly"s bag and took out the contents:two hair ribbons (丝带), three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a tiny sea shell, a small doll, and 13 pennies...The busy father smiled, finished
eating, and swept the desk clean into the wastebasket, Molly"s stuff included.
That evening, Molly ran up behind him as he read the paper."Where"s my bag?""What bag?""The one I gave you this morning.""I left it at the office, my dear.""I forgot to put this note in it, " she said."And,
besides, Daddy, the things in the sack are the things I really like.I thought you might like to play with them.You didn"t lose the bag, did you, Daddy?""Oh, no, " he said, lying."I just forgot to bring it home.I"ll
bring it tomorrow."While Molly hugged her father"s neck, he unfolded the note that read, "I love you,
Daddy." Molly had given him her treasures-all that a 7yearold held dear.
Love was in a paper bag, and he missed it-not only missed it, but had thrown it in the wastebasket.
So he went back to the office.Just ahead of the night janitor (看门人), he picked up the bag from the wastebasket.He put the treasures inside and carried it home carefully.The bag didn"t look so good, but the
stuff was all there and that"s what counted.
After dinner, he asked Molly to tell him about the stuff in the sack.It took a long time to tell.
Everything had a story or a memory.
"Sometimes I think of all the great times in this sweet life." he thought.We should all remember that it"s
not the destination that counts in life, but the journey.That journey with the people we love is all that really matters.It is such a simple truth but it is so easily forgotten.
1. Why did Molly give her father a second bag?
A. She didn"t want to keep the things in the Bag.
B. She hoped those things would bring happiness to her father.
C. She wanted to remind her father of the stories behind the things.
D. She enjoyed playing with her father.
2. How did Father deal with the bag after he opened it?
A. He kept it in the drawer.
B. He took it back home.
C. He threw it into the wastebasket.
D. He put it on his table.
3. After Father heard what his daughter said, he felt________.
A. regretful
B. surprised
C. sad
D. satisfied
4. Which of the following is the most suitable title of the passage?
A. An Important Journey
B. Two Bags
C. Father and Daughter
D. Love in a Paper Bag
grandmother brought her down to 1 me. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her
grandmother, 2 to look at each other. Soon we lost the 3 and started playing with each other.
In the 7th grade, I first lost touch with her. She was 4 family problems and I deserted her to be
with the 5 people. None of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had
6 . However, every summer we 7 always sit at each other"s house, watch soap operas, and talk
about all the boys we liked.
It was last year when I noticed the problem. I guess I was 8 devoted in high school to 9 she
needed someone there. Anyway, she made a new best friend and so did I. Then I didn"t know why,
10 she started cutting herself!
She then was diagnosed(诊断)with clinical depression. At first, I was very 11 , but we still stayed
in 12 I wanted to be there with her since her new best friend basically 13 her and people were
calling her 14 .
Yesterday she came to me and said, "I never knew what a best friend was 15 you, the only
person, would stop me cutting. I 16 your help so much, and you didn"t even know you were 17
me."
We both cried. And I guess a kind of 18 from my life so far is never to give up on your friends.
Even if they aren"t as cool as others, or people think they are crazy, they need 19 there. If you desert
them, you will only be 20 yourself.
( )1. A. follow ( )2. A. scared ( )3. A. temper ( )4. A. taking up ( )5. A. happier ( )6. A. problems ( )7. A. should ( )8. A. much ( )9. A. admit ( )10. A. but ( )11. A. calm ( )12. A. place ( )13. A. confused ( )14. A. crazy ( )15. A. unless ( )16. A. expect ( )17. A. urging ( )18. A. honour ( )19. A. someone ( )20. A. innocent | B. meet B. annoyed B. interest B. getting through B. cooler B. shortcomings B. could B. too B. accept B. for B. considerate B. touch B. bothered B. stubborn B. as B. influence B. blaming B. favour B. something B. successful | C. join C. worried C. confidence C. going through C. stronger C. partners C. would C. only C. consider C. or C. upset C. control C. reminded C. clumsy C. until C. appreciate C. helping C. pleasure C. anyone C. guilty | D. support D. delighted D. shyness D. making up D. cleverer D. disabilities D. might D. just D. realize D. so D. helpful D. mood D. deserted D. stupid D. that D. demand D. hurting D. lesson D. everything D. reliable | |||||||||||||
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My family and I lived across the street from Southway park since I was four years old.Then just last year the city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing(用推土机推平)the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex.When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, "Why don"t they just leave it alone?" Looking back, I think what sentenced the park to oblivion(被遗忘)was the drought(旱灾)we had about four years ago.Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool.My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up.The park was almost like my own yard.Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed. There had been almost no rain at all that year.The city stopped watering the park grass.Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert.Leaves fell off the park trees, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too.Next, the park swimming pool was closed.The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore. As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month.The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass.Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck.People said drugs were being sold or traded there now.The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore. The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park.It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way.Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to"redevelop"certain wornout areas of the city.It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it. The chainlink fencing and the bulldozers did their work.Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings.Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction.The neighborhood has changed without the park.The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again.Sometimes_I_wonder, though, what_changes_another_drought_ would_make_in_the_way_things_are_today. 1. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers? A. Scared. B. Confused. C. Upset. D. Curious. 2. Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother? A. It was being rebuilt. B. It was dangerous. C. It became crowded. D. It had turned into a desert. 3. According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park? A. The drought. B. The crime. C. The beggars and the rubbish. D. The decisions of the city. 4. The last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came, ________. A. the situation would be much worse B. people would have to desert their homes C. the city would be fully prepared in advance D. the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood | ||||||||||||||||
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Richard"s father died when he was five. Later on he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes. 1 He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write. 2 It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn"t do that. 3 Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, "I have a way to move it away." But few men believed him. 4 Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there. To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn"t know which spirit had moved it away. 5 "How could he?" the rich farmer called out, "He"s only fifteen! He couldn"t move it at all!" "He dug a big hole beside the stone, "said the old woman, "And then he could easily push it into the hole !" Looking at each other, the farmers couldn"t say a word. A. There seemed to be nothing strange in the village. B. The old woman said Richard had done it all. C. There was a narrow path between two mountains. D. But the boy didn"t lose heart. E. Some farmers even laughed at the boy. F. The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day. G. They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do. | ||||||||||||||||
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with__1__in spite of the terrible surroundings.The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __2__great losses. I felt sorry especially for the__3__, but I__4__to be hopeless.I decided that where I was, I could do __5__to help them.I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who__6__my knock, "I know that you are__7__and give the birds that come to your yard a little__8__.Please consider me your bird.Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your__9__.I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the__10__children." No one seemed to__11__giving me a handful of rice, even__12__they had little themselves.On Sunday, I would go to the__13__and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to__14__to the children. One day, I came to a house that had__15__to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird.The woman called her daughters, and__16__gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice!I began to ask for__17__and rice from the other "bird feeders", and they gave them to me.Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even__18__only this small way.The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to them for food and clothing. "Consider me your bird." My__19__idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was__20__some peace. | ||||||||||||||||
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