holes.
Tired and defeated, I 1 to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had 2 .He often
got almost everything in the house out of 3 . Many windows in our house needed repair due to his
breaking 4 to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the
emotional 5 Brett had done to our once quiet home.
Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett
as 6 as possible, but inside I was shouting,"I don"t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can"t
7 him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued 8 him as before.
When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping 9 teens. At the 10 ceremony, each graduate held a
white rose to give to the person who had 11 the most to him or her.
Brett spoke 12 to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always there, no matter 13 . My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, 14 troubled enough by me, always 15
me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it.”
16 , I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me 17 .
At that moment, tears 18 in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for 19 . Although I had struggled with silent 20 toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them.
( )2.A. lost
( )3.A.order
( )4.A.off
( )5.A.pain
( )6.A.patiently
( )7.A.forgive
( )8.A.feeding
( )9.A.lazy
( )10.A.opening
( )11.A.afforded
( )12.A.lovingly
( )13.A.where
( )14.A.although
( )15.A.cost
( )16.A.Astonished
( )17.A.surely
( )18.A.fell
( )19.A.pity
( )20.A.love
B.ruined
B.place
B.in
B.injury
B.willingly
B.stand
B.pardoning
B.disappointing
B.official
B.meant
B.sadly
B.how
B.unless
B.lent
B.Puzzled
B.tightly
B.flowed
B.luck
B.anxiety
C.torn
C.trouble
C.up
C.harm
C.strictly
C.educate
C.comforting
C.troublesome
C.graduation
C.supplied
C.proudly
C.who
C.because
C.showed
C.Encouraged
C.roughly
C.moved
C.happiness
C.care
D.broken
D.danger
D.away
D.damage
D.rudely
D.control
D.parenting
D.careless
D.victory
D.owed
D.nervously
D.what
D.when
D.taught
D.Interested
D.fiercely
D.gathered
D.success
D.anger
a train, she__2__a quick way to reach it.“I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!" the driver said__3__."
You don"t think I know the best way to go?"
The woman tried to explain that she hadn"t __4__to annoy him, but the driver kept__5__. She finally
realized that he was too annoyed to be__6__, so she changed her__7__. "You know, you are right," she
told him. "It must seem__8__for me not to think you know the best way__9__the city."
__10__, the driver glanced at his__11__in the rearview mirror, turned down the street she wanted
and got her to the train on time. "He didn"t say another word the rest of the ride," she said. "__12__I got
out and paid him.Then he thanked me."
When you find yourself__13__with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to__14__your idea.
It can lead to longer arguments,the loss of job chances or the__15__of marriages. I have discovered
one simple__16__extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations
from__17__in a disaster.
The__18__is to put yourself in the other person"s shoes and look for the__19__in what that person is
saying. Find a way to__20__, and the result may surprise you.
( )1. A. hurry ( )2. A. chose ( )3. A. jokingly ( )4. A. supposed ( )5. A. apologizing ( )6. A. reasonable ( )7. A. road ( )8. A. strange ( )9. A. across ( )10. A. Surprised ( )11. A. rider ( )12. A. until ( )13. A. satisfied ( )14. A. give up ( )15. A. combination ( )16. A. and ( )17. A. lying ( )18. A. problem ( )19. A. fact ( )20. A. agree | B. rush B. made B. angrily B. believed B. driving B. thoughtful B. mind B. wrong B. in B. Worried B. speaker B. after B. concerned B. turn down B. destruction B. that B. resulting B. importance B. meaning B. argue | C. moment C. found C. anxiously C. meant C. asking C. normal C. direction C. terrible C. through C. Annoyed C. helper C. because C. crowded C. stick to C. suffering C. while C. setting C. key C. expression C. explain | D. way D. suggested D. curiously D. decided D. shouting D. practical D. manner D. stupid D. along D. Disappointed D. comer D. since D. faced D. point out D. division D. though D. lead D. reply D. truth D. escape |
阅读理解 | |||
The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn"t stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati,the elephant princess. Parbati Barua"s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant roundup-how to catch wild elephants. Parbati hasn"t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says. But Parbati doesn"t catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly,the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill. The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed! | |||
1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to________. | |||
A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame | |||
2. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, ________. | |||
A. she spent her time hunting with her father B. she learned how to sing love songs C. she had already been called an elephant princess D. she was taught how to hunt tigers | |||
3. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________. | |||
A. they are caught and sent for heavy work B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them C. they are attacked and their land gets limited D. dogs often bark at them and chase them | |||
4. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India ________. | |||
A. people easily fall victim to elephants" attacks B. the manelephant relationship is getting worse C. elephant tamers are in short supply D. dogs are as powerful as elephants | |||
完形填空。 | |||
One day I pulled up to my apartment building and noticed there was a father and daughter | |||
( )1.A.stealing ( )2.A.teachers ( )3.A.which ( )4.A.with ( )5.A.came up ( )6.A.moment ( )7.A.treasure ( )8.A.neighbors ( )9.A.open ( )10.A.change ( )11.A.house ( )12.A.particular ( )13.A.breakout ( )14.A.primitive ( )15.A.luck ( )16.A.choice ( )17.A.award ( )18.A.game ( )19.A.expanding ( )20.A.success | B.burdening B.strangers B.why B.about B.came on B.hand B.goods B.girlfriend B.afraid B.accept B.school B.common B.breakup B.positive B.accident B.habit B.chance B.process B.decreasing B.courage | C.unloading C.friends C.what C.for C.came out C.hour C.furniture C.students C.curious C.receive C.apartment C.normal C.breakthrough C.meaningless C.success C.love C.reward C.program C.reducing C.kindness | D.packing D.parents D.when D.on D.came back D.break D.belongings D.classmates D.lucky D.observe D.company D.usual D.breakdown D.important D.result D.interest D.prize D.direction D.closing D.consideration |
完形填空。 | |||
By the third year of teaching I"d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday | |||
( )1.A.excited ( )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.tired 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.amazed 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.relaxed 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 |
完形填空。 | |||
"Two books per visit per week,"said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card. | |||
( )1.A.surprised ( )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.comforted 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.puzzled 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.shocked 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 |