Ella Fant was a middle-aged lady who lived with her only son John in a small house. She ___1___ John very much. In her ___2___ he couldn’t do anything ___3___. Every morning she would give him breakfast ___4___ bed and bring him the papers to ___5___. It isn’t really true that he was too ___6___ to work ?in fact he had tried a few ___7___. First of all he was a window-cleaner and in his first week he managed to ___8___ at least six windows. Then he ___9___ a bus conductor and on his second ___10___ a passenger stole his bag with all the fares(车费) collected. He ___11___ lost his job as a postman ___12___ he sent off all the letters when he should have taken them to people’s houses. It seemed that there was ___13___ suitable work for him. So he ___14___ to join the army. Mrs. Fant was so ___15___ about this that she told the ___16___ to all her neighbours. “My John is going to be a soldier,” she said, 揾e is going to be the best soldier there ___17___ was, I can tell you!?
Then the great day came ___18___ he was to march past the palace in the parade(接受检阅的队伍). His ___19___ mother travelled to the city early in the morning to be sure of getting a good ___20___ in the crowd.
The parade was full of sound and colour. But when John and his ___21___ came in sight some of the people watching ___22___ laughing at the one who couldn’t keep pace with the others as they marched along.
But Ella Fant, who was filled with ___23___, shouted at the top of her voice: 揕ook at ___24___！They’re all out of ___25___ except my John! Isn’t he the best! ?
1. A. depended on B. waited on C. trusted D. loved
2. A. hope B. eyes C. head D. beliefs
3. A. wrong B. great C. good D. strange
4. A. to B. at C. in D. by
5. A. check B. read C. keep D. sign
6. A. lazy B. young C. weak D. shy
7. A. ones B. years C. tasks D. jobs
8. A. rub B. drop C. break D. clean
9. A. followed B. met C. became D. found
10. A. day B. try C. route D. chance
11. A. thus B. even C. once D. only
12. A. even if B. so that C. because D. though
13. A. some B. such C. less D. no
14. A. began B. promised C. managed D. decided
15. A. excited B. worried C. anxious D. curious
16. A. incident B. change C. news D. matter
17. A. yet B. even C. never D. just
18. A. where B. since C. when D. till
19. A. proud B. kind C. strict D. lucky
20. A. time B. position C. experience D. impression
21. A. neighbours B. army officer C. mother D. fellow soldiers
22. A. couldn’t help B. shouldn’t burst out C. stopped D. kept
23. A. sadness B. happiness C. surprise D. regret
24. A. them B. those C. that D. him
25. A. sight B. order C. mind D. step
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。
There are no ocean waves in St. Louis. We have to drive a long way to get to the ocean. Every summer we put our stuff and ourselves into the car and drive 1,000 miles to reach Vero Beach, Florida.
Once we get there, it’s all about at the beach. I’ve wanted to be a for a long time. My mom used to surf when she lived in Florida during college. I my mom to let me surf, and she promised to find a surfing for me. He found me instead.
One day when my mom was taking an old surfboard to a surf shop for , a surfer the door open for her and helped her carry the board inside. They started and she learned he’s a surfing . My mom asked him if he had any working with people with disabilities. He did and told her he would love to work with me. That’s how I my friend, Coach Bill Bolton, in 2014.
First Coach Bill taught me the pop-up. I had so much fun surfing with Coach Bill in 2014, I didn’t make it to on the board.
When we went to Florida this summer, I had more surfing with Coach Bill. We worked hard on the sand and in the water. On our third day together we our surfboards out past a sand bar where small waves were . I came close to standing each time, and on the last of the day I got up on my feet and stayed up! I was so ! So was Coach Bill.
We went to the same surfing spot the next day. Guess what! I so many times and rode wave after wave. Coach Bill called me a “surf goddess”. It was one of the days ever! I hope my story you to go surfing or to try something new. I know you can do it.
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One day, as I was getting into my car, a woman stopped beside me and asked if I was going north. I wasn’t I asked her where she wanted to go. She told me that she had her bus and had to walk. I her to get in and said I would be happy to take her.
As I started , I thought to myself, “I am not in a ,” so I asked the lady what her ________destination was. She was going to work and was running . So I told her that I would ________ to drive her to work so that she wouldn’t be late! “I can’t you are doing this,” she said. “This is such a ________ gift. I just moved here three weeks ago and you are so ________ !”
As we near the office ________ where she worked, I ________ she put her hand into her bag for something. I asked her what she was ________ . She said, “I must have ________ my lunch bag at home.” I had just bought my ________ . “Here’s a lunch,” I said as I gave her a ________ and handed her my bag from the back seat.
She gave me a hug as she got out of the ________ . She said, “My husband died a few months ago and this is a sign that things will be ________ for me. Thank you.” I drove back home with my ________ singing and a big smile on my face!
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At the end of 2014, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sixthgrade teacher Melissa Bour received a friend ____ on Facebook from one of her students. She didn’t accept the request, but a quick browse through the girl’s friends list revealed the names of dozens of kids from her ____. Many of the students’ Facebook pages were completely ____， meaning even strangers could ____ the kids’ personal photos and messages.
“I saw middle fingers, students dressed inappropriately, and extremely ____ language，” Melissa says. “It was ____．” When she brought up her ____ in class, the students were not ____ at all. So she created a ____ of her own. With a bright green marker pen, she wrote on a piece of paper: “Dear Facebook: my 12yearold students think it is ‘no ____’ that they are posting pictures of themselves... Please help me show them how ____ their images can get around.” She put a picture of the letter on her Facebook page and asked people to ____ it.
In hours, it was shared 108，000 times across dozens of states and four countries. She ____ it after eight hours, but it continued to spread. “I wanted to ____ them that it’s on the Internet forever，” she says.
As she explained the results of her ____ in class, the students’ eyes got bigger and bigger. “It scared a few of them into deleting their pages ____，” she says. Others have removed inappropriate posts and used privacy settings to ____ their pages.
Her ____ wasn’t to scare them off social media but to push them to be ____ of what they post. Melissa says, “I tell them, ‘It doesn’t ____ you have to just because everyone else is sharing.’”
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Several times my daughter Carolyn had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils (黄水仙) ________ they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a long drive from my home. “ I will come next Tuesday，” I ________ , a little hesitantly, on her third call.
Next Tuesday I drove there. When I finally ________ Carolyn’s house and hugged my grandchildren, I said, “________ the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the fog, and there is ________ in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive ________ inch！”
My daughter smiled and said, “You will never forgive yourself if you ________ the chance of seeing the beautiful flowers.”
So we drove there. After twenty minutes on the highway we ________onto a small road and I saw a small church. There we got out of the car. I ________Carolyn down the path. As I turned a ________ of the path, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious ________ . There were five acres of flowers. It looked ________ someone had taken ________ gold and poured it down ________ the mountain peak and slopes.
“Who planted all these?” I asked Carolyn.
“It’s ________ one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn ________ a cottage .We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a ________ .
There it was: “ The Daffodil Principe:1. 50,000 bulbs(球茎). 2. One at a time, by one woman. 3.________ in 1958.”
For me that moment was a life-changing________.I thought of this woman whom I had ________ met and who had begun one bulb at a time to bring the beauty and joy to an unknown mountaintop.
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We waiters need to face all kinds of customers every day. When something goes wrong, we should have the ability to keep on going and ________ the customers.
I remember my first job was at a fine restaurant. One day, the manager informed all the cooks and ________ that a VIP group were coming for ________ ．The group were VIPs in the city's restaurants Indus ________ 10 people.
After they arrived, we let them get ________ comfortably and drinks were ordered. ________ , the head waiter would be the person in ________ of wine service. However, the manager asked me to serve that noon. I had never served a group of 10, ________had I done wine service.
When it's turn to ________ one of the wine glasses in front of a young woman, somehow I lost my trip(抓）and the other ________ fell on top of her, and then to the floor and ________ in pieces. I felt ________and apologized many times to the woman and to the rest of the group.
Quickly, the manager ________ my aid, helped in the clean-up, and sent out their ________right away. The group forgave me and the young woman repeatedly informed me it's OK.
________ on that day, my manager told me, "Mistakes and ________ do happen. If you know why they happened, learn from it and move on, ________ you still have a table to serve. Keep your head up and be confident. The glasses are ________．"
I understand why he was truly a well respectable restaurant manager within our ________ ．His close relationship with the group made the situation calm and the group ________ me for that.
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