the freezing cold of winter rules. The carriage is filled with cold, 1 passengers.
Suddenly a little boy 2 his way through the grown-up legs and sits down by the window. He is all
alone among the 3 grown-ups. What a brave child, I think.His father 4 to stay by the door behind us. The train begins to crawl into a tunnel. Then something very 5 happens suddenly. The little boy
slides down from his seat and leans his hand on my knee. 6 , I think that he wants to 7 me and
return to his father, so I help him to stand up. But instead he leans forward and holds his 8 up
towards mine. He wants to say something to me, I think.I lower my head to receive the 9 . Wrong
again! What I receive is a 10 kiss on the cheek.
The boy calmly returns to his seat,leans back and continues looking out of the window. I am 11 .
What just happened? A child kissing a(n) 12 grown-up on the train. How can anybody want to kiss
such a man that has so much beard ? Soon enough, all of my neighbors are 13 kissed. Nervous and a
little surprised, we 14 at the father. When he sees our questioning 15 as he gets ready for his stop,
he offers a clue.
"He"s so happy to be alive." the father says. "He has been very sick."
Father and son 16 into the crowd moving toward the exit. Then doors close and the train goes
on. On my cheek I can still 17 the child"s kiss-a kiss that has triggered (触发) some soul-search
inside me.How many grown-ups 18 kissing each other from the joy of being alive? How many even
give much thought to the privilege(特权)of 19 ?
The little kisser had taught us a sweet but serious lesson: Be careful. You don"t let yourself 20
before your heart stops!
( )2. A. feels
( )3. A. unfriendly
( )4. A. likes
( )5. A. great
( )6. A. In no moment
( )7. A. beat
( )8. A. eyes
( )9. A. news
( )10. A. loud
( )11. A. pleased
( )12. A. well-known
( )13. A. expectedly
( )14. A. stare
( )15. A. glances
( )16. A. appear
( )17. A. touch
( )18. A. go around
( )19. A. a child
( )20. A. die
B. winds
B. friendly
B. prefers
B. strange
B. For a moment
B. tell
B. ear
B. message
B. foolish
B. shocked
B. smart
B. duly
B. smile
B. anger
B. back
B. trust
B. come around
B. a kiss
B. stop
C. pushes
C. angry
C. chooses
C. extraordinary
C. For the moment
C. inform
C. head
C. kiss
C. strange
C. satisfied
C. unknown
C. regularly
C. warn
C. mouths
C. disappear
C. smell
C. keep on
C. living
C. sleep
D. picks
D. kind
D. agrees
D. thrilling
D. In a moment
D. pass
D. lip
D. opinion
D. fortunate
D. interested
D. familiar
D. eventually
D. whisper
D. feeling
D. follow
D. feel
D. insist on
D. touching
D. live
the language. After having spent my first day in the town-centre, I decided to lose my way on my
second day, since I believed that this was the simplest way of getting to know the strange city.
I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off it and walked on. The first
two hours passed pleasantly enough. Then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking
about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of
the language was the name of the street in which I lived and even then I pronounced it badly.
I stopped to ask a friendly-looking newspaper-seller. He smiled and handed me a paper. I shook my
head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some
money and went on my way. The next person I asked was a policeman. The policeman listened to me
carefully, smiled and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left
and right and left again. I thanked him politely and began walking in the direction he pointed.
About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields
were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for
me to do was to find the nearest railway station.
B. you should have a map
C. you should ask people the way
D. you should get lost
B. didn"t know what he said
C. laughed at him
D. didn"t want to take the money
B. he followed the policeman"s direction
C. he took the wrong bus
D. he left the town-centre
B. pointed at him
C. didn"t understand what he really meant
D. didn"t know the way
I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was
getting some work done in my study while she 1 to be having a good time in the other room. No
problem, I figured. But then it got a little too 2 and I shouted, "What are you doing?" No response.
I 3 my question and heard her say , "Oh, … nothing." Nothing?
I got up from my desk and ran out 4 the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I
followed and watched her a little behind, she made a quick 5 into the bathroom. I had her 6 ! I
told her to turn around. She 7 . I pulled out my big Daddy voice, "Young lady," I said, "turn around!"
8 , she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife"s new lipstick. And very square
inch of her face was 9 with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes, I heard 10 voice
that had been shouted to me as a child. " How could you… You should know… How many times have
you been 11 . What a bad thing to do…" It was just a matter of my picking out which old 12 I was
going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But 13 I could let loose,
looked 14 at the sweater on her. In big 15 it said, "I"m A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL (天使)! " I
looked back up into her tearful eyes and , 16 seeing a bad girl who didn"t listen, I saw a little angel
full of 17 that I had come dangerously close to 18 . "Sweetheart, let"s take a picture, so Mommy
can see how 19 you look." I took the picture and thanked God that I didn"t 20 the chance to prove
what a perfect little angel he had given me.
( )2. A. long
( )3. A. asked
( )4. A. into
( )5. A. way
( )6. A. followed
( )7. A. laughed
( )8. A. Slowly
( )9. A. filled
( )10. A. every
( )11. A. told
( )12. A. reports
( )13. A. as
( )14. A. up
( )15. A. signs
( )16. A. because of
( )17. A. value
( )18. A. preventing
( )19. A. dirty
( )20. A. have
B. quiet
B. answered
B. of
B. turn
B. scolded
B. listened
B. Eagerly
B. marked
B. such
B. beaten
B. notice
B. when
B. down
B. letters
B. instead of
B. sadness
B. getting rid of
B. ugly
B. get
C. calm
C. raised
C. from
C. change
C. cornered
C. agreed
C. Angrily
C. printed
C. any
C. frightened
C. advice
C. since
C. in
C. messages
C. in spite of
C. pities
C. destroying
C. special
C. take
D. strange
D. repeated
D. for
D. progress
D. fooled
D. refused
D. Unfortunately
D. covered
D. one
D. forbidden
D. words
D. before
D. on
D. figures
D. as a result of
D. tricks
D. doing wrong on
D. silly
D. miss
get it looking like it does today. We live on a corner and the yard is 1 by a rock wall. We call this area
our "rock garden".
Last summer, I found a tiny little 2 in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn"t
plant it. We 3 to let it continue growing until we could 4 what it was.
Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the 5 plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I decided
to treat it with care and 6 the weeds around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I
noticed something 7 . The sunflowers had not 8 where I saw the stalk (茎) began. It 9 had begun
under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the 10 .
That"s when I 11 that if a tiny little sunflower didn"t let a big rock stand in its 12 of developing,
we too have the capability of doing the same thing. 13 our environment begins to see that we believe
in ourselves like that little sunflower, we can 14 the same nutrient as well.
15 , we need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the capabilities in 16 our desires. Like the
sunflower, it knew it had the capability to overcome its obstacle because it 17 in the universal truth and
had 18 that it would succeed.
Stand tall like the sunflower and be 19 of who and what you are and the environment will begin to
support you. You will find a way to go under or 20 your big obstacle in order to reach your desires.
( )2. A. seed
( )3. A. wished
( )4. A. watch out
( )5. A. weak
( )6. A. removed
( )7. A. wonderful
( )8. A. passed
( )9. A. aimlessly
( )10. A. air
( )11. A. realized
( )12. A. place
( )13. A. Although
( )14. A. seek
( )15. A. First
( )16. A. setting
( )17. A. lay
( )18. A. faith
( )19. A. proud
( )20. A. beneath
B. animal
B. decided
B. work out
B. mysterious
B. refused
B. secret
B. started
B. naturally
B. top
B. doubted
B. way
B. Since
B. dig
B. Generally
B. controlling
B. trusted
B. energy
B. fond
B. over
C. plant
C. preferred
C. give out
C. lonely
C. reformed
C. valuable
C. stopped
C. especially
C. sun
C. expected
C. course
C. Unless
C. gain
C. Finally
C. achieving
C. grew
C. hope
C. careful
C. above
D. rock
D. refused
D. figure out
D. remarkable
D. regained
D. unusual
D. broken
D. actually
D. wall
D. noticed
D. process
D. Once
D. attract
D. Eventually
D. directing
D. rooted
D. courage
D. aware
D. around
Mr.Clinton and his 3-year-old son Tony are basketball fans. Last October 10th was Tony’s birthday,
so Mr.Clinton decided to drive him to New York, for the first game of the World Series. They had no
ticket but hoped to buy a pair from scalpers.
It was a two hours’ ride. After they arrived, they walked in the street for two hours, carrying a sign
(牌子) that read, “ We need two tickets.” There were many scalpers around, but the cheapest ticket
was $200. They were about to leave when suddenly a man stopped them. He took out two tickets and
handed them to Mr. Clinton.
“How much do you want?”
“Just a present,” said the man. “Enjoy the game.”
Mr. Clinton wouldn’t accept, so the man explained, “I’m Jackson. Hans is my boss. He and his wife
haven’t missed a World Series in 18 years. But he is ill and can’t watch the game this time. So he told
me to give the two tickets to people who I thought would actually enjoy the game. A lot of people
looked as if they might just take the tickets and sell them. Then I saw you and I followed you for a while.
You seemed very disappointed. You made me think of my dad and me when I was a child. I dreamed
of going to a World Series game with my father. But my dream never came true.”
How do you suppose this made Mr. Clinton and his son feel? Here is what Mr. Clinton said: “This is
the most wonderful thing that ever happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other over
30 times and said, ‘I can’t believe this.’ We still never forget Jackson and Hans.”
A. people who buy tickets at a reasonable price
B. people who sell tickets at a reasonable price
C. people who buy tickets at a high price
D. people who sell tickets at a high price
grumpy. Not sleeping enough sleep can also make it harder to think clearly the next day.
Sleep scientists have long known that getting a good night’s sleep is very important. It helps kids be
able to do their best during the day.
A recent study shows that sleep helps improve problem-solving skills and creative(创造性的) thinking. For the study, two groups of students answered a math problem. The group that slept for eight hours
solved the problem correctly more often than the group that did not get enough sleep.
While you sleep at night, your brain is busy doing its “homework”. It sorts out(整理) all the information that you get in the day. Getting enough sleep each night can improve your thinking ability. That will surely
help you do your best at school. Experts say that, in return, can lead to better grades.
B. active and creative
C. impatient and angry
D. bored and weak
A. Sleep to Success
B. A Recent Study
C. Do Sleep Well
D. The More Sleep, the Better
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