By the third year of teaching I"d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday
and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made
me__1__. I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked__2__through the cold into the overly heated school building.
Twentytwo smiling faces__3__me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to __4__ their smiles.
Back into the classroom, they__5__, comparing plans for the__6__. I had to remove one student
from each arm__7__I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my
roll book(点名册) my desk was covered with__8__and gifts followed by a__9__of "Merry
Christmas" wishes.
"Oh, thank you," I must have__10__a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except
my__11__mood(情绪). It was kind of them to__12__me. After a while, I heard a small nervous
__13__say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing__14__by my desk, holding a small,
round gift. "This is for you."
"Thank you, Sweetheart." I laid it on my desk with the others."Um, could you__15__it now?"
I gently tore at the paper and tape. "__16__," he said, "it"s breakable." Slowly I opened a small,
green Christmas tree ornament(装饰物), complete with a hook already__17__. It dawned on me
what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep
my__18__back.
Later that day, I sat__19__the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that
he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I__20__pull a green Christmas ball
from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
( )2.A.eagerly
( )3.A.watched
( )4.A.return
( )5.A.calmed
( )6.A.study
( )7.A.before
( )8.A.letters
( )9.A.knowledge
( )10.A.confirmed
( )11.A.pleased
( )12.A.talk about
( )13.A.call
( )14.A.shyly
( )15.A.classify
( )16.A.Careful
( )17.A.exposed
( )18.A.trees
( )19.A.looking into
( )20.A.anxiously
B.aimlessly
B.greeted
B.forget
B.settled
B.weekend
B.when
B.books
B.collection
B.assessed
B.low
B.think of
B.sound
B.bravely
B.collect
B.Dangerous
B.adapted
B.hooks
B.turning over
B.hurriedly
C.gently
C.delighted
C.ignore
C.chatted
C.vacation
C.after
C.chalks
C.series
C.responded
C.thrilled
C.turn to
C.shout
C.rudely
C.open
C.Patient
C.adjusted
C.gifts
C.giving away
C.delicately
D.heavily
D.warned
D.refuse
D.argued
D.lesson
D.because
D.cards
D.bunch
D.explained
D.angry
D.connect with
D.voice
D.sadly
D.arrange
D.Hasty
D.attached
D.tears
D.packing up
D.casually
"Two books per visit per week,"said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.
Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in
the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however__2__
things seemed, everything__3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a
striking contrast (对比) to my everyday experiences.
Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front
of another librarian.This librarian was__5__.
"What did she say?" I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often
__6__as my interpreter.
"She said "Can I help you?""
"Ask if they have any books in__7__," I requested.
"No, they don"t." translated my daughter.
While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to__8__ books.The
interview was short-the job didn"t require much English, just a__9__ of the alphabet.I started
the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was__10__ from me,
mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for
Beginners and began studying it on my own.__11__ English letters started forming words
I could__12__, words combined into phrases, and-oh,__13__!-I was reading.It was a slow
process, supported by dictionaries and __14__ by tears, but it was progress.Afterwards I got
promoted to the front desk-__15__ books in and out and answering simple questions.
Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from
all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their
__16__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them,__17__ they are people like me.I fully
understand the __18__roads on which they have stepped."They"ve come to the right place," I
think to__19__.Then I smile and say-just the__20__ a librarian said to me a long time ago "
Can I help you?"
( )2.A.attractive
( )3.A.went out
( )4.A.rewarding
( )5.A.chatting
( )6.A.introduced
( )7.A.Spanish
( )8.A.shelve
( )9.A.list
( )10.A.vague
( )11.A.All of a sudden
( )12.A.recognize
( )13.A.challenge
( )14.A.inspired
( )15.A.checking
( )16.A.rough
( )17.A.though
( )18.A.difficult
( )19.A.me
( )20.A.means
B.dull
B.turned out
B.affecting
B.staring
B.instructed
B.French
B.register
B.knowledge
B.simple
B.In no time
B.realize
B.wonder
B.accompanied
B.classifying
B.elegant
B.until
B.Smooth
B.myself
B.approach
C.terrible
C.ended in
C.completing
C.reading
C.guided
C.Russian
C.record
C.line
C.hidden
C.Step by step
C.define
C.opportunity
C.blocked
C.borrowing
C.polite
C.for
C.endless
C.them
C.method
D.strange
D.came up
D.denying
D.smiling
D.served
D.German
D.mark
D.competence
D.clear
D.Now and then
D.interpret
D.news
D.excited
D.lending
D.shy
D.unless
D.straight
D.themselves
D.way
young man came to the United States in 1975, where he studied for a Master"s in Arts. Although
studying took up much of his time, he traveled throughout the US and Canada climbing many
different types of rock walls. Thus, he made friends with many people with the same interest.
However, on Thanksgiving Day in 1979, a car driven by a drunk driver lost control and
suddenly turned into his lane(车道), striking the head of his vehicle. The injuries to both of his
legs and feet resulted in the removal of one of his kneecaps(膝盖骨), and the amputation(截去
)of his right foot.
It wasn"t easy, but after some time, with great effort and strong will, Tom rebuilt his hope
for life. The report of his story moved the whole nation of America. Eventually he earned another
master"s degree and founded the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group. This
program"s success sent Tom around the world to spread his message that "it is not the falling
down, but the getting back up that matters". He became a professor in Adventure Education
at Prescott College in Arizona, where he taught the top outdoor leadership program in the nation.
After 25 years of experience as a mountaineer, on May 27, 1998, Tom achieved his greatest
accomplishment so far:reaching the peak of Mt. Everest. Tom was actually the first person with
a disability to ever climb and stand on the peak of Mt. Everest. He realized that reaching the peak
of Mt. Everest could do nothing to change his disability, but it could do a lot to change attitudes.
Tom Whittaker wanted people to realize that disability is as much an attitude as it is a condition.
B.To take his master"s degree.
C.To become a professional mountaineer.
D.To meet other mountaineers in the US.
B.That he was driving on a wrong lane.
C.That a drunk driver ran his car into Tom"s.
D.That he got drunk on Thanksgiving Day.
B.Two years before he went to the US.
C.Shortly after he arrived in the US.
D.After he recovered from the car accident.
B.physical disability often determines a person"s fate
C.disabled people are more determined than healthy people
D.few disabled people have an interest in climbing mountains
Not long ago I wasn"t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and __1__
thinking.While on the Internet,I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__.His nickname
is Colorful Day and we __3__ on the Web.He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the
whole world had closed its door to him.
He was __5__ so fast that I couldn"t believe he was blind! But he continued to __6__: Five
years ago, I realized it was time to change my life.I had read about Helen Keller and understood
her life and __7__.So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
I visited his website which was well produced and vividly __9__.
I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said,"Owing to the new technology,
I can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光标), it will just read
it out to me.We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
I then asked, "Didn"t you have great difficulty with it?"
He hesitated and then began his __14__ with a smiling face," Yes, but I have faith in myself to
__15__ my colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn"t
find in another wise nonvirtual world.
( )2.A.turned out
( )3.A.argued
( )4.A.eyesight
( )5.A.speaking
( )6.A.follow
( )7.A.friendship
( )8.A.as well as
( )9.A.offered
( )10.A.try
( )11.A.designed
( )12.A.Whether
( )13.A.send
( )14.A.webpage
( )15.A.create
( )16.A.moment
( )17.A.hopeful
( )18.A.but
( )19.A.eagerness
( )20.A.touch
B.stood out
B.interviewed
B.hearing
B.saying
B.write
B.marriage
B.such as
B.presented
B.come
B.distinguished
B.However
B.access
B.speech
B.produce
B.privilege
B.disappointed
B.and
B.expectations
B.feel
C.came out
C.told
C.courage
C.typing
C.read
C.happiness
C.like
C.delivered
C.work
C.planned
C.Whatever
C.communicate
C.words
C.recognize
C.opportunity
C.pleasant
C.so
C.richness
C.experience
D.looked out
D.chatted
D.confident
D.spelling
D.copy
D.hardships
D.as
D.found
D.manage
D.imagined
D.Wherever
D.exchange
D.opinions
D.organize
D.occasion
D.optimistic
D.then
D.nervousness
D.suffer
different from what I knew.My host family lived in a huge house I could only describe as a
"castle".In Germany I had lived in a small apartment together with my mom.Soon I found
out that the "castle" was actually rather small in our neighborhood.
Everybody there was very friendly and polite.They greeted youwhen they were walking
by at least 3 feet away from you.They must not have seen a German au pair before,for most
people I met asked me all kinds of questions about Germany.I enjoyed answering their various
strange questions.I made a lot of friends and I started to hang out with them.
Of course,there were a numbor of new things,and it took me the whole year to find them
all out.I never got homesick.Perhaps it was because I did not have too many negative
(负面的) experiences and felt loved and welcomed there.
However,I had undergone some painful experience back in Germany.I was frustrated
by the way people would run me over and not even say "Sorry." Taking up my studies at
the TUDresden I felt lonely.Everybody here seemed to be withdrawn(离群的)and I missed
ewerything I had in Cincinnati.Germany was so "cold".I found it so much harder to make
new friends.After six months I got a roommate and only two good friends.I also flew back to
Cincinnati several times for long periods.I felt that without those visits I was not able to make it.
Now I am over this German culture shock.It almost took me an entire year.I am still going
back and forward between Dresden and Cincinnati four times a year.
B.some people were not very kind to her
C.many people were curious about her motherland
D.she lived in the biggest house in the neighborhood
B.hard
C.painful
D.strange
B.accepted
C.expected
D.suffered
B.She never went back to Cincinnati after she came back to Germany.
C.She seldom hung out with her American friends as she was too busy.
D.She did miss her friends in Cincinnati when she was at the TUDresden.
B.My culture shock experience
C.Advantages of living in USA
D.How to be an au pair in USA
argument.We talk about something as simple as dinner plans and suddenly,my mother
will push the conversation into World War ?.She"ll talk about my lack of a bright future
because I don"t plan to be a doctor.And much to her disappointment,I don"t want to do
any job related to science,either.In fact,when I was pushed to say that I planned to major
(主修) in English and communications,she nearly had a heart attack.
"Why can"t you be like my coworker"s son?" she bemoans all the time.Her coworker"s
son received a fouryear scholarship and is now earning 70,000 dollars a year as an engineer.
I don"t know what to answer except that I simply can"t be like Mr Perfect as I"ve called the
unnamed coworker"s son.I can"t be like him.I"m the type of person who loves to help out in
the community,write until the sun goes down,and most of all,wants to achieve a career
because I love it,not because of fame (名声) or salary.
I understand why my mother is worried about my future major.I"ve seen my mother
struggle to raise me on her small salary and work long hours.She leaves the house around
6﹕30 am and usually comes home around 5 pm or even 6 pm.However,I want her to
know that by becoming a doctor,it doesn"t mean I"ll be successful.I"d rather follow my
dreams and create my own future.
B.The writer"s future job.
C.Dinner plans.
D.Wars around the world.
B.doesn"t think the writer should be a doctor
C.gets along very well with the writer
D.doesn"t think working in the science field is a good idea
B.shouts
C.complains
D.smiles
B.He wants to find a job in his community in the future.
C.He doesn"t think his mother"s coworker"s son is perfect.
D.He wants to do something he really likes in the future.
B.the writer"s mother works very hard for the family
C.the writer doesn"t think being a doctor is a good job
D.the writer sometimes thinks his mother"s advice is very good
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