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reviewed his lessons. Over the months he tried and tried, and often repeated to me "My mom"s
going to hear me play some day."
But he seemed hopeless, with no born ability. A real bad advertisement for my teaching! I was
so happy when one day he stopped coming.
Several weeks later my students were to have a recital (演奏会). To my surprise, Robby came,
asking to play in the recital.
"But, it is for current pupils; you dropped."
"My mom was sick. But I have been practicing. I"ve just got to play!"
I didn"t know what led me to agree, maybe...
The recital came. I__put__Robby__up__last__to__play__before__my__"curtain__closer", by
which, I could save the recital if...
The recital went on well. Robby came up on stage, clothes wrinkled and his hair looked like
he"d run an eggbeater through it. "How could his mom...?"
Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. It was Mozart"s work! I was not prepared for
what I heard next. Like in a dream, I was then woken up by the wild applause-everybody was on
their feet!
"I"ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How"d you do it?"
Through the microphone Robby explained: "Well, Miss Hondorf, remember I told you my mom
was sick? Actually she had cancer and died this morning. She was born deaf, and tonight was the
first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special."
My eyes were wet. He was not a student of mine, but a teacher!
B. thought that Robby would make the recital special
C. thought that Robby wouldn"t play in the recital
D. had no confidence in Robby at all in the recital
B. Musical talent.
C. The writer"s help.
D. Regular practice.
B. That he loved his mother more than she did.
C. That he never gave up.
D. That the audience gave him more applause than her.
B. Robby"s performance.
C. Robby and his mom"s story.
D. The audience"s applause.
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试题【阅读理解 Much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm (节奏).】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown. As it was the rush hour and she was in a __1__ to
catch 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, lose job chances or __15__ 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.
( )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. combine
( )16. A. and
( )17. A. lying
( )18. A. problem
( )19. A. fact
( )20. A. agree
B. made
B. angrily
B. expected
B. driving
B. thoughtful
B. mind
B. wrong
B. in
B. Worried
B. speaker
B. after
B. concerned
B. turn down
B. destroy
B. that
B. resulting
B. importance
B. meaning
B. argue
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. suffer
C. but
C. setting
C. key
C. expression
C. explain
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. divide
D. though
D. leading
D. reply
D. truth
D. escape
Hedley Kow. Sometimes it looked like an ordinary object. Sometimes it looked like a donkey or a goat.
One evening, as an old woman went along the path, she saw an old iron pot lying in the ditch. "Fancy
that," she said. "Nobody seems to want this old pot. I will take it home and plant pretty flowers in it."
When she tried to lift it, she saw that it was full of gold pieces. "Well, now, if that doesn"t beat all," she
said. "I"m rich! I can buy a fine house and fancy clothes."
The pot was heavy, so she tied her shawl around it and began to drag it home. After a while, she
stopped to rest. When she looked in the pot, she was amazed to see that it was full of silver pieces!
"Oh, my God!" she said. "Aren"t I the lucky one! If it were gold, thieves would have been after me. My friends might have been jealous. But I can hide these silver pieces, take out a few at a time, and live like a queen."
On she went, pulling the pot after her. She was nearing home now. At her gate, she looked into the pot. What a surprise! The silver had changed into a lump (块) of iron. "Iron," she said. "Well, now! No one will be jealous or want to steal this from me. I can use this iron to prop my door open and let in fresh air and
sunlight. Lucky me!"
As soon as she said that, the pot began to grow and later it became a goat. Then it jumped up and ran off down the road laughing.
"Fancy that!" said the old woman. "I believe I have seen the Hedley Kow! Not many folks can say that, and that"s a fact. I"ll just sit up by my fire tonight thinking about how lucky I was to see it for myself. I truly must be the luckiest person in the world!"
B. The early bird catches the worm.
C. Content is better than riches.
D. All bad luck goes away.
B. Honor.
C. Misfortune.
D. Luck.
B. pessimistic
C. strange
D. mindless
When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather"s farm in Kansas. Grandpa had sent me into
the 1 to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.
Pecan picking was really 2 work and my little basket was only half full. I wasn"t about to 3
Grandpa down. Just then something caught my 4 . A large brown squirrel was a few feet away. I
watched as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and 5 in a large hole in the trunk. A moment
later the squirrel 6 out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut. Once again, he
took the pecan back to his hiding place.
Not so 7 anymore, I thought. I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was 8
with pecans! Golden pecans were right there for taking. This was my 9 . Handful by handful, I
scooped all of those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I was so 10 of myself. I couldn"t wait
to show Grandpa all the pecans. 11 , I ran back and shouted, "Look at all the pecans!" He looked
into the basket and said, "Well, well, how did you find so many?" I told him how I"d 12 the squirrel
and taken the pecans from his hiding place.
Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I"d been in observing the squirrel and his habits. Then he
did something that 13 me. He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently 14 my
shoulders.
"That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter 15 of food," he said. "Now that all of his
pecans are gone, don"t you think that little squirrel will 16 the cold winter?"
"I didn"t think about that," I said.
"I know," Grandpa said. "But a good man should never take 17 of someone else"s hard work."
Suddenly I felt a bit 18 . The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t 19 my mind. There was
only one thing I could do. I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
I didn"t eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling-the 20 of knowing I had
done just the right thing.
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| "Today is the day I start the big diet (节食)," I told my wife as I raised my hand and 1 , "No chocolate today!" "Oh, has the hospital gift shop 2 selling it?" she asked. "No," I said. "I"ll just have to __3__ my strong determination." But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there _4_. I knew my promise would 5 disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I"d always be eating a piece of candy from the 6 bag he often shared with me. Benton was an eightyearold boy who was 7 because of a kind of cancer, which caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen 8 old. For the next twentysix months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed 9 Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he 10 a headache and lost 11 on his right side. His mom 12 him to the hospital. Over the next several months, Benton came to our 13 many more times. Each time he came, we 14 say hello, while Benton answered the 15 by holding out a candy from his bag. So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes 16 but not looking into this world. "We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?" his mother asked. Without thinking of my diet, I 17 into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece 18 me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton"s 19 . As I 20 it up, I opened the candy and ate it. | ||||||||||||||
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