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the world. 1 he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident,leaving only a finger and thumb on his right
hand. He became so depressed 2 he was afraid he would spend his life 3 and would no longer be
able to spend his life in a(n) 4 way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting 5 . He realized that he still had partial
function of his right 6 and could write with 7 .Then, he had an idea,"Why not write to other people
who need encouragement!"
He 8 where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of
people in 9 . Many of them had the hope of regaining their 10 .Others would keep feeling depressed
and remain in prison for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to reach them. 11 he wrote
to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the
prisoners would be 12 . However, 13 would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
Filled with the intention,the man began sending 14 messages of God"s love, hope, strength, and
encouragement. He wrote twice a week,testing his strength and ability to the limit. He poured his heart
and soul into his words, 15 his experience,sense of humor,optimism,and faith.
It was 16 to write those letters,especially without hope of any 17 . Frequently,he felt discouraged,
wondering if anyone 18 read his letters. However,this was his 19 chance,so he determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer,which said,"Please write on the best paper you can
afford. Your letters are passed from cell (小牢房) to cell until they almost fall to 20 !"
We all have unique experiences,abilities and talents. We can discover ways to reach others in need of
encouragement and strength.
| ( )1. A. Unfortunately ( )2. A. who ( )3. A. writing ( )4. A. formal ( )5. A. presents ( )6. A. foot ( )7. A. affection ( )8. A. estimated ( )9. A. churches ( )10. A. phones ( )11. A. So ( )12. A. reasonable ( )13. A. they ( )14. A. weekly ( )15. A. sharing ( )16. A. free ( )17. A. reply ( )18. A. curiously ( )19. A. extra ( )20. A. ruin | B. Immediately B. which B. suffering B. regular B. letters B. leg B. caution B. doubted B. prisons B. letters B. Or B. acceptable B. it B. daily B. learning B. smooth B. success B. patiently B. few B. pieces | C. Slowly C. what C. weeping C. comfortable C. emails C. hand C. difficulty C. assumed C. hospitals C. freedom C. And C. comfortable C. he C. one-way C. gaining C. easy C. help C. carefully C. only C. ground | D. Quickly D. that D. wandering D. meaningful D. prizes D. arm D. confidence D. wondered D. charities D. room D. For D. forgettable D. she D. round-way D. enriching D. difficult D. progress D. actually D. many D. bottom | ||||
| 1-5: ADBDB 6-10: CCDBC 11-15: ABBCA 16-20: DADCB | |||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||
| Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer (扫盲志愿者). The training I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to discover what other people"s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading. My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn"t know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule. She told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket, because she couldn"t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted. As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie"s self-confidence, which encouraged her to continue in her studies. She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading. She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories. When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before. As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did. | |||||||
| 1. Why didn"t Marie go to the supermarket by bus at first? | |||||||
| A. Because she liked to walk to the supermarket. B. Because she lived far away from the bus stop. C. Because she couldn"t find the right bus. D. Because she couldn"t afford the bus ticket. | |||||||
| 2. What did the author do last summer? | |||||||
| A. She worked in the supermarket. B. She gave single mothers the help they needed. C. She went to a training program to help a literacy volunteer. D. She helped someone to learn to read. | |||||||
| 3. What did the writer think of her work as a literacy volunteer? | |||||||
| A. meaningful B. Interesting C. Tiring D. Touching | |||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||
| In 1977, Jack, an Italian-American who lived in San Francisco, flew from America to Italy to visit his relatives. On the way, the plane made a one-hour stop to refuel (加油) at the New York Airport. Thinking that he had arrived, Jack got out and spent three days in New York, believing he was in Rome. When his relatives were not there to meet him, Jack thought they had been caught in the heavy Roman traffic mentioned in their letters. While looking for their address, Jack could not help noticing that modernization had changed most, if not all, of the ancient city"s landmarks. He also noticed that many people spoke English with strong American accent. However, he just thought that Americans got everywhere. He also believed that so many street signs were written in English especially for the Americans. Jack spoke very little English himself so he asked a policeman in Italian the way to the bus station. As chance would have it, the policeman came from Italy and replied in the same language. After twelve hours traveling round on a bus, the driver handed him over to a second policeman. After brief argument with the policeman, Jack was very surprised to find that the Rome police had employed someone who did not speak his mother tongue. Jack did not believe he was told that he was in New York. In order to get on a plane to San Francisco, the policeman raced him to the airport in a police car with sirens (报警器) screaming. "See," he said to his interpreter. "I know I"m in Italy. That"s how they drive." | |||||||
| 1. Where did Jack live? | |||||||
| A. In Italy B. In San Francisco C. In New York D. The story doesn"t mention | |||||||
| 2. Why did Jack spend three days in New York? | |||||||
| A. He thought he had arrived in Italy B. He did not want to go to Italy C. He wanted to see some relatives first in New York D. He wanted to have short rest in New York | |||||||
| 3. Which of the following is Not true? | |||||||
| A. The first policeman could speak Italian fluently B. The second policeman could not speak Italian at all C. Jack had a brief argument with the second policeman D. Jack could speak much English | |||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||
| Two thieves came to a house to steal something, they dug a hole in the wall of the house. There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl (爬行) into the house. "Look! In comes one," she said to the man in the house. He was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, "She found me when I was just in." But the thief outside didn"t believe him, so he said, "Let us two try to crawl into the house together." At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted, "In come two, catch them!" The two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said, "You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight." The two thieves started running away at once. The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳)broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn"t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, "How they look like the two of last night." The man said, "I asked you to fetch a rope, why don"t you hurry for it?" The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes. | |||||||
| 1. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because______. | |||||||
| A. they were found out B. they were frightened by what they had heard in the house C. they didn"t work together well with each other D. mice stopped them from doing so | |||||||
| 2. From the last paragraph, we know that ______. | |||||||
| A. the two thieves were famous selling sweet potatoes B. the woman recognized the two thieves C. the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them D. the two thieves didn"t know that they were not found at all | |||||||
| 3. The woman said, "How they look like the two of last night." Here "the two" refers to ______. | |||||||
| A. the two thieves B. nothing C. the mice D. the ropes | |||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||
| Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The 1 said something that caught my 2 . "All great discoveries," he said, "are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30." Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 3 with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 4 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 5 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right! First, I looked at some of the 6 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 7 that bodies of different weights 8 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 9 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 10 of that. Yet I wondered if those "best years" were true in other 11 . Then how about this in 12 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 13 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 14 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six! But why don"t best years come after 30? After 30, I 16 , most people don"t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people 17 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 18 was writing wonderful 19 at the late age of 50, 20 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90! Perhaps there is still hope for me. | |||||||
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