Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new1in high school.
2, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛)for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be3for her to be selected. Two hours later, the4read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart5as the list ended without her name. Feeling6, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was7. She moved on to English and history, and was8to find that she didn't have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to9math for the time being.
The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school10. Mrs. Biden wasn't as11as Jenna. "I'm sorry, but we have enough12for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'll talk then." Jenna smiled13and left. "Why is high school so14?" she sighed.
Later in15class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much16. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd continue to try to17at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew she had to18.High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond19a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the20fish you can be."
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In the last 20 years of my life, I have been interested in self-improvement and applying it to myself in many ways. And of course all through that time I have learnt a lot and made it much .
So in the last 3 months I seem to have reached this high level. I feel a miracle has happened to me, in fact the other day I couldn’t stop staring at myself in the making sure all these wonderful things were happening to me! Then I cried a small , not because of what I looked like, but because I was so for the person I had become.
Several things have happened to make me ensure that my track in life has truly . I moved back to my hometown after being away a decade and was astonished that so many people my name in a nice way, greeted me and me back. And over the next 3 months they were excited for my growth. At the where I exhibit today, people come over and greet me, I see the on their faces when they talk to me frankly and . Thus I think they are my expression or style. I know I give them a good feeling at the fairs not just from keeping my expression open, understanding, kind but with a smile in all the right places. But now I do feel that what I have done for the people may bring them a bit of sympathy.
And most of all I believe in the mirror I have ever been doing the hard work, improving myself and now I feel it’s coming back to me in absolute roads and I am considered to be a man of great future.
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阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.
A came. "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to that shirt away, but gave it to her ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
I my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her , "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life's was something greater.
The next morning she with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are , aren't you? I think I have a for you as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of .” Mom accepted the opportunity very .
For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working over the last five years. We are all in that you should be the teacher of this class."
My mom spent more than 20 years there. her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __ situations and never give up.
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阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
An old woman had lost her eyesight completely, so she went to a to help her see again and made a bargain with him: if he could cure her, he would be paid well. But if he couldn’t, she would not pay him anything.
The doctor had a(an) ointment(药膏). When it was put on the eyes for a period of time, it restored the eyesight of anyone who was sightless.
The doctor began to his patient daily. But knowing that she couldn’t see, he started the valuables in her house. When there was nothing left, he decided to cure her and his payment.
When the woman recovered her eyesight, she saw that her valuables had gone and the doctor was the thief. So, saying that she was cured, she refused to pay him. The doctor was and he insisted on his fees. But the old woman refused and the two went to the .
The judge asked the old woman she refused to pay the doctor. She said, “I did to give him the money if I recovered my eyesight. However, if I remained blind, I was to give him 52 . Now he that he has cured me, but I am blind.”
Everyone there looked at her . “ How can you say that? Everyone can see that your eyesight has been restored,” said the judge .
The old woman replied, “ I can’t see. Before I my eyesight, I had seen many valuable things in my house. But now, I am not able to see a thing of in it.”
The judge that she was indeed blind and let her go.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list was________and my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my family. I parked my car, looked down at my list, and hoped I could ________ it all.
As I________the door, I saw a man with kind eyes and a gentle ________ . He said he was collecting for a local food bank that helped to ________the hungry in my area. He handed me a second shopping list of things they could use and asked me to________if I could. I smiled back, took the________ and walked into the store. I really wanted to help, but wasn’t sure if I could this time.
I walked through the store, picking up vegetables, soup, spaghetti, bread, milk, cereal, macaroni, bananas, and a dozen other things. I slowly ________ each item off my list until I was done. When I looked down at my full cart I ________again if I even had enough to pay for it all. Then, as I put my own list back into my pocket, I saw the food ________ list under it. I smiled and decided to trust my heart.
With the food bank in mind, I went over and ________ two of the biggest boxes of rice the store had and put them in my cart. It took ________ six dollars out of my wallet to pay for them, ________ my heart felt six times larger when I did. And when everything was________, I had just enough to pay for it all.
It 35 so little to make our world a better place. A few dollars can help to fill a child’s ________ belly(肚子). A smile and hug can help to ________ a hurting heart. An encouraging word can inspire someone else to live and to love. A random ________ of kindness can change another’s day and life. It is up to us, ________ . If we can ________a few dollars on rice , then we can share a love that will last forever.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are ____, one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say, ____ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) ____ memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, _____ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of ___ , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors _____for 200 years.
We soon ___ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories___back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the ___where I was once so glorious a child. It still ____a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk __ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ___ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ___ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ___ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise ____ attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ___ ; where I belong. "
She has _ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human __. To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need __ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the___ of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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