Master"s degree, I could not find__1__work.
I was__3__a school bus to make ends meet and__4__with a friend of mine, for I had
lost my flat. I had__5__five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they
called to say I did not__6__the job. "Why has my life become so__7__?" I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to__8__a little girl, she handed me an earring__9__I should keep
it__10__somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said "BE HAPPY".
At first I got angry. Then it__11__me - I had been giving all of my__12__to what was
going wrong with my__13__rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a
__14__of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to__15__more things to the list.
That night there was a phone call for__16__from a lady who was a director at a larger__17__.
She asked me if I would__18__a one-day lecture on stress management to 200 medical
workers. I said yes.
My__19__there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know
that it was ecause I changed my way of __20__that I completely changed my life.
( )2.A. successful
( )3.A. driving
( )4.A. working
( )5.A. prepared for
( )6.A. lose
( )7.A. hard
( )8.A. wave at
( )9.A. ordering
( )10.A. in case
( )11.A. hurt
( )12.A. feelings
( )13.A. opinions
( )14.A. list
( )15.A. connect
( )16.A. her
( )17.A. hospital
( )18.A. listen to
( )19.A. plan
( )20.A. operation
B. extra
B. repairing
B. travelling
B. attended
B. like
B. busy
B. drop off
B. promising
B. or else
B. hit
B. attention
B. education
B. book
B. turn
B. a passenger
B. factory
B. review
B. choice
B. speaking
C. satisfying
C. taking
C. discussing
C. asked for
C. find
C. serious
C. call on
C. saying
C. as if
C. caught
C. strength
C. experiences
C. check
C. keep
C. me
C. restaurant
C. give
C. day
C. employment
D. convenient
D. designing
D. living
D. held
D. get
D. short
D. look for
D. showing
D. now that
D. moved
D. interests
D. life
D. copy
D. add
D. my friend
D. hotel
D. talk about
D. tour
D. thinking
teacher, she works hard. 1 Both my brother and I love her dearly as she loves us.
My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work
early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. 2 She treats
them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent quality and very good teaching
results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times.
3 . Every day, when she comes back home from work, she sets about doing housework,
sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in
good order. She seems to be busy all the time. As she has been very busy working every day,
she looks older than her age. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever. Mother never buys
expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for
us. 4 She just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. She lives a
busy yet simple life, without any complaints.
Often she says to us, "work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be
happy and gay. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society". What a
piece of good advice this is! 5 . This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior.
My mother is great indeed, and I always feel proud of her.
B. As a mother, she takes good care
of us and gives us every comfort.C. She loves her students and cares for them.
D. She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals.
E. My mother is hard-working and never wastes money.
F. I never forget it and always bear it in my mind.
G. Can you tell us something about your mother?
For the first time he 1 himself as he had always wanted to be-a full five feet and eight inches tall.
Hank was born with diseased 2 .Until he was seven,his world was a world of repeated 3 .
At last he had no legs,but stumps that could be 4 with a kind of special boots.
Out of hospital,Hank often found people staring at him with 5 interest.Children laughed at
him and called him "Ape Man" because his arms 6 on the ground.He went to school like other
boys.His 7 were good and he needed only eight years instead of the 8 twelve.
After middle-school graduation,Hank 9 his way through college.He swept floors,waited 10
table,or worked in one of the college offices.During all this busy life,Hank had been moving around
on his 11 .But one day th
e doctor told him even the stumps were not going to 12 much longer.Hank would 13 have to use a wheel chair.
Hank felt himself go 14 all over.However the doctor said there was a 15 that he could be fitted
with artificial legs.
Finally a leg maker was found and the day came when Hank stood up before the 16 and saw
himself for the f
irst time,five feet and eight inches tall.But this was not the end yet.He had to learn to his new legs.Again and again he marched the 17
of the room,and did back again.There were times when he fell down on the floor,but 18 himself up
and went back to 19 marching.
When World War came,he took the 20 training.Few knew that he was legless.This was the true
story of Hank,the man without legs.
( )2.A.arms
( )3.A.operations
( )4.A.operated
( )5.A.cruel
( )6.A.pushed
( )7.A.subjects
( )8.A.normal
( )9.A.worked
( )10.A.for
( )11.A.own
( )12.A.last
( )13.A.quickly
( )14.A.through
( )15.A.way
( )16.A.doctor
( )17.A.length
( )18.A.pushed
( )19.A.further
( )20.A.recovery
B.legs
B.illness
B.fitted
B.kind
B.dragged
B.maths
B.real
B.found
B.with
B.stumps
B.walk
B.finally
B.cold
B.method
B.window
B.way
B.rose
B.endless
B.regular
C.feet
C.sadness
C.marked
C.strange
C.pulled
C.grades
C.practical
C.tried
C.on
C.feet
C.remain
C.later
C.bad
C.chance
C.house
C.area
C.pulled
C.far
C.extraordinary
D.hands
D.treatment
D.armed
D.funny
D.hung
D.books
D.usual
D.did
D.at
D.sticks
D.support
D.soon
D.mad
D.treatment
D.mirror
D.size
D.threw
D.new
D.useful
to learn about diseases and their effects.His natural curiosity led him to observe and study
the lives of wild animals in the countryside and he had strong and skillful hands,so essential
to a surgeon.In fact he became in a short time so famous that he was asked to lecture,but
John preferred the practical work of the surgeon.
Soon after becoming a surgeon Hunter joined the army.He learnt a great deal from his
experience of dealing with soldiers" wounds.In particular,he studied how to prevent a wounded
man from bleeding too much,learning thereby how the nerve system functioned in the bodies
of animals and humans.But there were many things he did not know about and which could
only be learnt by dissection.And this posed a problem.
The Christian church whose authority was complete on many matters opposed on dissection.
Cutting up dead animals to find out about their organs,and how these functioned was thought a
disgusting thing to do,and to cut up a human body,even though dead,was thought to be evil.
Surgeons had to pay grave diggers to steal bodies for dissection.Hunter once paid $7000 for
the body of an eight-foot Irishman whose skeleton can still be seen in the Royal College of
surgeon"s museum.To be a surgeon was thought so inferior an occupation that many operations
were carried out by barbers.
But Hunter continued with his experiments,at the time learning more about how our bodies
worked,and he found new ways of operating on people so as to save both their limbs and their
lives.If a man was brought to him with a bad tumor (肿瘤)on his leg,Hunter did not,as most
surgeons would have done,cut off his leg,but tried first to remove the tumor and treat the leg so
that the leg might be saved.
B.A natural curiosity
C.Lived in the country
D.Strong and skillful hands
A.looked down upon at that time
B.looked up to at that time
C.regarded as equal to other occupations
D.not permitted to carry out operations
B.putting different parts of something together to cure the patient
C.operating on somebody without medical instruments
D.stealing dead bodies from graves to cut into pieces
B.Hunter was learning more about how out bodies worked
C.Hunter found new ways of operations
D.Hunter was very conscientious and responsible
Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives.Not long ago,I had one that I
would like to__1__.I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team.The team was racing
down the highway at 85 mph__2__,we realized we were__3__.Luckily,we saw a rest area
ahead.I had a brand-new (崭新的)$20 bill.I was so__4__ because I had never had that
kind of cash before.But spending it on__5__seemed like throwing it away.We all rushed into
the pizza line.__6__I got a pizza and a drink,and walked to my table.About halfway through
the meal,I__7__I had not actually handed any money to the cashier.I had just__8__out,and
nobody had noticed.I felt terrible.
My conscience(良心)opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite.I couldn’t__9__
over it.I just couldn’t go back to the cashier and__10__for my stolen pizza.I was so upset
that I __11__ to give myself the pleasure of an ice cream for __12__that someone would
say,“Hey,Jeff,why don’t yo u use the change __13__ the pizza instead of that nice,new $20
bill?” I was not __14__of my cash now.
For the next two years,whenever I was __15__of the “pizza incident”,I would say to
myself,“Don’t think about it...”
I have learned two things from this __16__.Maybe I was a fool for __17__in to my
conscience,and being too stupid to appreciate a __18__pizza.But the real lesson is that even
if you get away from what you have done your conscience will __19__ up with you.
This reflects the saying,“A coward (懦夫)dies a thousand deaths,a hero dies one.” I was
a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times.If I had been a
“__20__” and gone back to pay for the pizza,I would have felt a little uncomfortable about
it only once,or maybe twice.
( )2.A.as
( )3.A.lost
( )4.A.excited
( )5.A.rest
( )6.A.Luckily
( )7.A.thought
( )8.A.walked
( )9.A.look
( )10.A.ask
( )11.A.refused
( )12.A.hope
( )13.A.into
( )14.A.sure
( )15.A.warned
( )16.A.experience
( )17.A.turning
( )18.A.free
( )19.A.make
( )20.A.coward
B.while
B.tired
B.eager
B.food
B.Finally
B.recognized
B.left
B.get
B.pay
B.wanted
B.surprise
B.with
B.upset
B.reminded
B.experiment?
B.taking
B.cheap
B.wake
B.fool
C.then
C.hungry
C .satisfied
C.travel
C.immediately
C.noticed
C.worked
C.turn
C.apologize
C.hoped
C.anger
C.for
C.proud
C.thought
C.story
C.handing
C.plain
C.catch
C.loser
D.when
D.anxious
D.encouraged
D.drink
D.Actually
D.realized
D.found
D.think
D.send
D.meant
D.fear
D.from
D.pleased
D.told
D.mistake
D.giving
D.delicious
D.put
D.hero
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one"s
mistakes.It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about
that," and it is even harder to say,"I was wrong,and you were right about that."
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake
fifteen years ago.He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the
neighborhood where I grew up,and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons(箱子).
Then he related an incident and I began to remember clearly the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time,and I had gone into the store with my mother to
do the weekly grocery shopping.On that particular day,I must have found my way to dairy
food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive
display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons.The cartons were stacked (堆放)three
or four feet high.I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks.Just
then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons.
For some reason,I decided it was up to me to put the display back together,so I went
to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened.When
he appeared,I was on my knees examining some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs
were broken,but to him it looked as though I was the criminal.He severely scolded me
and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs.I protested my innocence and tried to explain,
but it did no good.Even though I quickly forget all about the incident,obviously the
manager did not.
B.about 15
C.about 8
D.about 18
B.did not say anything
C.felt the manager was right
D.tried to explain the incident
B.has forgiven the manager for what he did to him fifteen years ago
C.would like to tell people never to be fooled by an egg sale
D.regrets arguing with the manager for what he didn"t do
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