When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work. There was one specific
event that was unusual for me. I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless
out in the streets. After that I went to a homeless shelter not far from the Bay Bridge.
I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to__1__. She wanted to help, __2__she
made four or five dozen chocolate chip cookies for me to__3__and hand out to people. When getting to
the homeless shelter__4__passed out the remaining meals.__5__, I began making sandwiches and__6__
them with the crowd. I had the containers with my__7__cookies in them and began to__8__, offering them
to anyone near me. I__9__an old gentleman and said, "Sir, would you like a cookie? " He stopped and
turned around, __10__and said, "What did you say? Did you call me sir? " I told him I__11__, and his
eyes__12__a little bit and he said, "No one has__13__called me sir." So he__14__.
It struck me.
I explained I had been raised that__15__color and social status, everyone deserved respect.It__16__
me to think that just because he was homeless, no one__17__him the honor. It broke my heart, and I
__18__I just didn"t understand__19__no one ever called him sir? I had never thought that anyone was
below me because I wasn"t raised that way. Every__20__person deserves to be treated with dignity.
Years later, I still carry that memory and the lessons it taught me. Sometimes, what we take for granted
can really make a difference in someone"s life.
How have you made a difference to others? How have others made a difference to you? |
( )1. A. participate
( )2. A. however
( )3. A. bring
( )4. A. I
( )5. A. First
( )6. A. shared
( )7. A. classmate"s
( )8. A. walk around
( )9. A. went
( )10. A. looked at me rightly
( )11. A. had
( )12. A. watered
( )13. A. already
( )14. A. was completely frightened
( )15. A. in spite of
( )16. A. strengthened
( )17. A. handed
( )18. A. had no choice but to cry
( )19. A. what
( )20. A. single | B. involve
B. but
B. fetch
B. you
B. Next
B. gave
B. schoolmate"s
B. knock around
B. came
B. stared at me with difficulty
B. called
B. cried
B. ever
B. was not a little confused
B. regardless of
B. saddened
B. afforded
B. couldn"t help to cry
B. when
B. poor | C. choose
C. yet
C. collect
C. she
C. Third
C. helped
C. sister"s
C. come around
C. approached
C. glared at me in anger
C. would
C. tore
C. still
C. was completely taken aback
C. concerned about
C. frightened
C. provided
C. had no right to cry
C. whether
C. ordinary | D. go
D. so
D. take
D. we
D. Finally
D. assisted
D. family"s
D. stand around
D. met
D. looked me right in the eye
D. do
D. dropped
D. yet
D. was not a bit surprised
D. for fear of
D. pleased
D. supplied
D. couldn"t help but cry
D. why
D. normal |
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试题【完形填空 When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work.】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空 | I didn"t cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped (弱智的) child.
"Go ahead and cry,"the doctor __1__ kindly.But I couldn"t cry then nor during the months that followed.
We sent her to a kindergarten in our neighborhood at age seven.I worried that she was the "__2__"
child among twenty fiveyearolds.
__3__,positive things began to happen to Kristi in her school,and to her schoolmates,too.When
talking big of their own accomplishments,Kristi"s classmates always took __4__ to praise her as well,"
Kristi got all her spelling words right today."No one would say that her spelling list was easier than anyone else"s.
During Kristi"s second year in school,she __5__ a very special challenge.The big public event of the
term was a __6__ based on the final outcome of the year"s music and physical education activities.Kristi
was __7__ in both.My husband and I felt __8__ about the day as well.
On the day of the program,Kristi __9__ to be sick.Desperately I wanted to keep her home.Why let
Kristi fail in a gymnasium __10__ with parents,students and teachers?What a simple __11__!But I finally
got her onto the school bus.
Just as I had forced my daughter to go to school,now I forced myself to go,too.Then I knew Kristi"s
__12__.Her class was divided into relay teams.With her slow and clumsy reactions,she would surely
__13__ her team.
But as Kristi"s turn to __14__ neared,a change took place in her team.The tallest boy in the line
stepped __15__ Kristi and placed his hands on her waist.Two other boys stood a little ahead of her.
The __16__ the player in front of Kristi stepped from the sack(bag),the two boys seized it and held it
open while the tall boy __17__Kristi and dropped her neatly into the sack.A girl ahead took her hand
and supported her until she gained her __18__.Then off Kristi hopped (跳跃),smiling and proud.
At the cheers of the crowd,I slipped out to thank Heaven for the warm and considerate people
making it possible for my __19__daughter to be like her fellow human beings.Then I finally __20__. | ( ) 1. A. demanded
( ) 2. A. common
( ) 3. A. Thus
( ) 4. A. pains
( ) 5. A. failed
( ) 6. A. competition
( ) 7. A. stupid
( ) 8. A. annoyed
( ) 9. A. wanted
( )10. A. filled
( )11. A. approach
( )12. A. worry
( )13. A. hold on
( )14. A. participate
( )15. A. around
( )16. A. interval
( )17. A. caught
( )18. A. access
( )19. A. nervous
( )20. A. recovered | B. requested
B. different
B. Therefore
B. time
B. accepted
B. conclusion
B. slow
B. anxious
B. happened
B. jammed
B. method
B. disaster
B. hold out
B. operate
B. off
B. moment
B. lifted
B. position
B. slim
B. cried | C. advised
C. excellent
C. Eventually
C. efforts
C. faced
C. conference
C. serious
C. guilty
C. pretended
C. covered
C. key
C. choice
C. hold over
C. practise
C. behind
C. chance
C. protected
C. speed
C. disabled
C. prayed | D. joked
D. casual
D. However
D. measures
D. shared
D. ceremony
D. awkward
D. tough
D. proved
D. burdened
D. solution
D. error
D. hold up
D. show
D. beside
D. point
D. hid
D. balance
D. delicate
D. applauded | 短文填词
A shabby homeless lady was begging in the restaurant.
She was asking everyone who walked past her________
money.I hoped she didn"t come near me,
________she came walking towards me.When she
came near,I said,"I"m________the phone."
She walked into the corner.Suddenly,something in
me couldn"t rest.W________another thought,
I looked in my wallet for the________(多余的)
change I had.I g________up and walked towards
this lady and gave her all I found.She held my hand
and said,"Thank you!"________hand was rough
and dirty,but I didn"t mind________(握住) her
hand.I held it there,trying to________(安慰)
her with my heart open.It was powerful.It changed
something in me and has m________me a
kinder person. | | 完形填空 | Every morning, before dropping her son off at school, my friend would stop on the way to work to
grab a quick breakfast. They tended to frequent the__1__restaurant every morning grabbing an egg
sandwich, juice, coffee for herself, milk for her son.
One day she__2__an additional breakfast. When they had eaten and walked out of the door, she
stopped and said good morning to a__3__man who was sitting alone outside the restaurant and__4__him
the additional breakfast she had bought.He__5__her, grinning, telling her it was the first meal he had in a
great many days. She couldn"t help but feel__6__and was glad she finally took action.
She told her son that she had__7__him every day that week outside the restaurant and that no one,
herself included, had__8__to offer him food, drink, comfort, etc. She further__9__that homelessness can
happen to anyone and the importance of service to others and__10__acts of kindness were.
And so__11__her kindness tradition...each day thereafter she and her son__12__to buy and supply
the homeless gentleman with breakfast. The__13__was going on until they__14__several years later but
the lesson was__15__implanted (植入) in her son by then.
She__16__as she told me that this kindness legacy__17__to her son, who remembered this childhood tradition and lesson. Now a college graduate and__18__employed, her son stops every day at Starbucks
for his morning cup of coffee and purchases a__19__for a homeless person nearby before commuting
(上下班往返) to the__20__.
What a great family legacy that he can pass along to his children as well... | ( )1. A. small
( )2. A. received
( )3. A. strong
( )4. A. handed
( )5. A. remembered
( )6. A. grateful
( )7. A. helped
( )8. A. agreed
( )9. A. shouted
( )10. A. what
( )11. A. ended
( )12. A. hesitated
( )13. A. moment
( )14. A. moved away
( )15. A. hardly
( )16. A. smiled
( )17. A. came
( )18. A. regularly
( )19. A. chance
( )20. A. city | B. same
B. demanded
B. kind
B. bought
B. thanked
B. sorry
B. seen
B. refused
B. replied
B. which
B. began
B. hurried
B. life
B. got around
B. firmly
B. cheered
B. occurred
B. carefully
B. tent
B. office | C. crowded
C. expected
C. homeless
C. supplied
C. respected
C. anxious
C. disliked
C. stopped
C. argued
C. how
C. met
C. continued
C. practice
C. turned down
C. happily
C. sighed
C. went
C. entirely
C. shirt
C. house | D. ordinary
D. ordered
D. sick
D. provided
D. paid
D. good
D. missed
D. appeared
D. explained
D. where
D. presented
D. needed
D. performance
D. broke up
D. slightly
D. wondered
D. belonged
D. gainfully
D. breakfast
D. school | | 完形填空 | Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that I struggled with for most of my middle school years and a
part of my high school years.
At Riverview, 1 was usually a nightmare (噩梦) for me. As I 2 the dining hall, all the eyes would
be fixed upon my bony figure. I would take my place at a table full of friends and 3 to enjoy a "normal"
lunch. The 4 was that I would not always eat lunch, and that greatly 5 my friends. They would watch
to make sure that I was eating properly, almost 6 food into my mouth.
And then, I transferred to Madison High School. I decided not to tell anyone at that school about my
eating disorder since I had almost 7 by that time. Strangely, I stopped fearing lunch when I started at
Madison. No one knew that I had an eating disorder, 8 they did not care what I ate. This 9 a huge
amount of stress from my life. It was still hard for me to eat in front of others, which is 10 for an
anorexic, but I was able to put some of my 11 aside.
I was thankful for the students at Riverview, but they knew me only as an anorexic. My friends cared
about my health, but they 12 to care about me as a person. Truthfully, all I wanted was for them to
13 me and not to fix on my eating disorder.
The students at Madison took the time to know who I 14 was. They had no idea that I had been
an anorexic, so that a particular label (标签) did not 15 their opinions of me. I was finally 16 for my
talents and achievements, not my failures. I was honored as a good student. I was no longer afraid to
show my true 17 .
My days as an anorexic taught me many lessons that I would never 18 . They taught me about life
and how to be a better friend. I learned about the joy of 19 tasks such as eating lunch. I appreciated
the people who helped me to see that there is more 20 life than having an eating disorder. | ( ) 1. A. learning
( ) 2. A. left
( ) 3. A. try
( ) 4. A. purpose
( ) 5. A. surprised
( ) 6. A. allowing
( ) 7. A. succeeded
( ) 8. A. but
( ) 9. A. lifted
( )10. A. serious
( )11. A. fears
( )12. A. refused
( )13. A. select
( )14. A. really
( )15. A. express
( )16. A. determined
( )17. A. responsibility
( )18. A. forget
( )19. A. tough
( )20. A. during | B. exercise
B. cleaned
B. offer
B. attempt
B. worried
B. forcing
B. lost
B. unless
B. created
B. unbelievable
B. desires
B. failed
B. forgive
B. probably
B. color
B. identified
B. personality
B. review
B. complex
B. to | C. lunchtime
C. crossed
C. remember
C. problem
C. puzzled
C. providing
C. recovered
C. so
C. caused
C. relevant
C. beliefs
C. pretended
C. love
C. eventually
C. share
C. envied
C. appreciation
C. skip
C. specific
C. of | D. homework
D. entered
D. stop
D. excuse
D. bored
D. dropping
D. quit
D. though
D. developed
D. common
D. doubts
D. promised
D. affect
D. merely
D. confirm
D. recognized
D. ambition
D. draw
D. routine
D. through | | 阅读理解 | In a room at Texas Children Cancer Center in Houston, eight-year-old Simran Jatar lay in bed with a
drip (点滴) above her to fight her bone cancer. Over her bald (秃的) head, she wore a pink hat that
matched her clothes. But the third grader"s cheery dressing didn"t mask her pain and weary eyes.
Then a visitor showed up. "Do you want to write a song?" asked Anita Kruse, 49, rolling a cart
equipped with an electronic keyboard, a microphone and speakers. Simran stared. "Have you ever
written a poem?" Anita Kruse continued. "Well, yes," Simran said.
Within minutes, Simran was reading her poem into the microphone. "Some bird soaring through the
sky," she said softly. "Imagination in its head…" Anita Kruse added piano music, a few warbling (鸣, 唱)
birds, and finally the girl"s voice. Thirty minutes later, she presented Simran with a CD of her first recorded song.
That was the beginning of Anita Kruse"s project, Purple Songs Can Fly, one that has helped more
than 125 young patients write and record songs. As a composer and pianist who had performed at the
hospital, Kruse said that the idea of how she could help "came in one flash".
The effect on the kids has been great. One teenage girl, curling (蜷缩) in pain in her wheelchair, stood
unaided to dance to a hip-hop song she had written. A 12-year-old boy with Hodgkin"s disease who
rarely spoke surprised his doctors with a song he called I Can Make It.
"My time with the kids is heartbreaking because of the severity of their illnesses," says Anita Kruse.
"But they also make you happy, when the children are smiling, excited to share their CD with their families."
Simran is now an active sixth grader and cancer-free. From time to time, she and her mother listen to
her song, Always Remembering, and they always remember the "really sweet and nice and loving" lady
who gave them a shining moment in the dark hour.
1. Simran Jatar lay in bed in hospital because ______.
A. most of her hair had fallen out
B. she was receiving treatment for cancer
C. she felt depressed and quit from school
D. she was suffering from a pain in her back
2.What do we know about Anita Kruse"s project?
A. It helps young patients record songs.
B. It is supported by singers and patients.
C. It aims to replace the medical treatment.
D. It offers patients chances to realize their dreams.
3.What does the case of a 12-year-old boy suggest?
A. Most children are naturally fond of music.
B. He was brave enough to put up performance.
C. The project has positive effect on young patients.
D. Singing is the best way to treat some illnesses.
4. What is probably the best title for the passage?
A. Purple Songs Can Fly
B. Singing Can Improve Health
C. A Shining Moment in Life
D. A Kind Woman-Anita Kruse |
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