完形填空(共20小题,每小题1分,满分20分)
A while ago my family and I went sledding(滑雪橇) and as I watched my children climbing up the slope I started thinking.
Many people are convinced that most of today’s 26 problems are because of the “me” generation. Youngsters are just out for themselves and pay no 27 to others or their needs. Indeed, a common belief is that today’s youngsters won’t do anything 28 there is something in it for them.
Yet, while sledding, I saw a 29 side. I watched my two oldest children (then five and four) take my youngest(then two years old)by the hand to help her up the slippery slope 30 they went up. They would have been 31 without her, but not once did they try to sneak (溜掉)by her without helping. And when the sled 32 my two daughters was aimed toward the edge, it was my five year old son who ran to them to 33 them from falling and hurting themselves.
These children sometimes 34 among themselves and, on occasion, behave horribly. But I can 35 them shopping and know that they won’t ask for anything, I can talk to them about tsunami or hurricane victims and know that they will offer to 36 some of their own money to the cause, and I can ask them to play with those children 37 on the sideline(作为旁观者) and know that they will befriend(照顾)them.
Perhaps, therefore, the “me” generation is to blame 38 much of society’s problems—not the youngsters who want everything, 39 the adults who have taught them to selfishly 40 only of themselves.
Most adults have been 41 at some time or another, sadly, many 42 that disappointment down to their children. Then the children learn to put themselves first!
Most young children want to help. We can 43 that feeling by teaching the lesson my children learned while sledding: Life is a slippery slope with 44 of bumps(撞伤) and bruises(擦伤), but we can all make it to the 45 if we remember to help those who need it.
26.A.social B.private C.serious D.slight
27.A.thought B.attention C.permission D.pleasure
28.A.if B.as C.while D.unless
29.A.same B.different C.strange D.moral
30.A.some time B.any time C.each time D.the time
31.A.faster B.slower C.easier D.lighter
32.A.containing B.loading C.driving D.carrying
33.A.avoid B.stop C.help D.warn
34.A.cry B.cooperate C.assist D.fight
35.A.take B.drive C.accompany D.guide
36.A.lend B.send C.collect D.pay
37.A.forgotten B.missed C.left D.ignored
38.A.of B.within C.on D.for
39.A.and B.but C.thus D.though
40.A.consider B.speak C.believe D.think
41.A.depressed B.surprised C.disappointed D.embarrassed
42.A.extend B.intend C.pass D.spread
43.A.encourage B.strengthen C.discourage D.approach
44.A.opportunities B.occasions C.promises D.fates
45.A.top B.bottom C.middle D.tip
Learning to save money when you're young is an important lesson. All good lessons and habits begin early, and saving is a skill that everyone ____. Many people—adults included—do not have a good ____ of saving for the long run.
I have been ___ to learn this lesson early because I have had a grass cutting business since I was 10 years old. __ the money I make I spend about 10 percent and save the other 90.
Making sure you save and don't spend too much is a good way to ____ wealth. I have put my earnings in a bank. Many teens I know spend all the money they earn so it never has a chance to ___. Young people should ___ that their teenage years are a great time to begin saving.
If you have a job at high school, you ___ have fun with some of the money. But you should also save some ____ it will grow. Then you can begin planning for your future. When you spend money, you not only lose that money, ____ lose the interest you could have earned by saving it.
After high school, college is ____, with expenses such as food and rent. If you can ____ a good percentage of the money you earn as a teen, going to college and buying a house will be much easier. If you are in your thirties without any savings, you will always have to ____.
Later in life it can be hard to start saving ___ general cost of living is more expensive and you may only have enough to pay your ___. If you want to buy a house and have a family, you need money to start with, which ____ saving.
Many say money cannot make you happy, and this is true. But money can help you to lead a ____ life.
Saving early will mean you will have to work for fewer years when you are older. It will also _____ you to spend time doing the things that you want to do.____, it will mean you can live the way you want to without __.
A.needs B.likes C.arranges D.expects
A.knowledge B.experience C.form D.sense
A.foolish B.fundamental C.lucky D.grateful
A.With B.Of C.In D.From
A.divide up B.build up C.keep up D.make up
A.break B.run C.make D.grow
A.recognize B.realize C.research D.doubt
A.must B.dare C.should D.may
A.so that B.in case C.in that D.but for
A.but B.and C.also D.or
A.expensive B.cheap C.boring D.bitter
A.hold out B.hold up C.hold onto D.hold back
A.survive B.struggle C.tolerate D.die
A.if B.as long as C.while D.since
A.bills B.taxes C.attention D.consequences
A.results from B.gets from C.comes from D.escapes from
A.happy B.simple C.miserable D.secure
A.forbid B.allow C.advise D.request
A.In addition B.Above all C.On the contrary D.Believe it or not
A.consulting B.worrying C.resting D.thinking
People in communities have slowly been pushed apart over the years,mostly because people simply aren’t taking the time to say a simple “hello”.After considering this phenomenon,I decided I was going to the way I was doing things.
My came one morning when I was in the community library . I passed by a girt who her books out of her locker(夹子).Thinking like most that someone else would help her pick them up,I continued my way.However,when I had to because I stupidly forgot my book,I noticed she had just finished packing them up by herself.No one had stopped to her.
“OK,”I thought to myself,“this is where I should have changed.”
My best opportunity came a few days later when I saw a man by himself waiting for the library to open, so I sat down next to him and began a .It was difficult to get started,and even when I had to say goodbye,almost every from my new friend had a tone(语气)of doubt in it.And who could blame him?
People aren’t used to making an chat with a stranger.But a change,no matter how it is needed,doesn’t just happen.It takes people like us to make it possible.I you to take a small step out of your comfort zone and try to make someone’s day a little brighter. Together,we can really make society come as a whole.
A.change B.explain C.1earn D.show
A.trouble B.doubt C.wish D.opportunity
A.took B.dropped C.got D.pulled
A.go back B.stand by C.come out D.turn up
A.please B.greet C.help D.praise
A.sitting B.walking C.riding D.running
A.discussion B.lesson C.report D.conversation
A.joke B.cry C.response D.story
A.unchangeable B.Unprepared C.unforgettable D.unfinished
A.desperately B.frequently C.simply D.widely
A.allow B.warn C.order D.advise
A.1ater B.straighter C.closer D.Slower
From my second grade on,there was one event I feared every year:the piano recital(独奏会).A recital____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.Each year I___ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”.And each year he’d shake his head,muttering(嘀咕) about building self-confidence and working towards a .
So it was with really great that I stood in church one recent Sunday,video camera in hand,and my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood,but his family was poor and couldn’t lessons.He could have gone on regretting it, too many of us do.But though he was rooted in his past,he wasn’t there.When he retired three years ago,he his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard,he stared down at his fingers.
Has he forgotten the ? I worried,remembering those split seconds ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would .But then came the beautiful melody(旋律),from the fingers that once baited(装饵于)my fishing lines.And I he had been doing what music teachers always stress: the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I'm of him for starting something new at his age,”I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah,and doing it so ,”Jeff added.
With his first recital,my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
A.reflected B.explained C.meant D.proved
A.would B.could C.might D.should
A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
A.goal B.stage C.journey D.chance
A.trouble B.satisfaction C.strength D.disappointment
A.kept B.sent C.watched D.felt
A.through B.from C.against D.before
A.miss B.afford C.select D.understand
A.as B.once C.if D.while
A.educated B.protected C.stuck D.spoiled
A.allowed B.invited C.inspired D.persuaded
A.roughly B.simply C.merrily D.curiously
A.words B.videos C.notes D.lessons
A.decades B.weeks C.hours D.moments
A.play B.freeze C.click D.adjust
A.same B.warm C.different D.dirty
A.predicted B.realized C.imagined D.insisted
A.pass over B.turn up C.concentrate on D.bring in
A.ashamed B.aware C.tired D.proud
A.casually B.anxiously C.nicely D.frequently
About 20 years ago, I was lucky to teach a disabled young woman named Audrey. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also very in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university, she got two , one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such areas of study. 根据上文:one in fine arts and one in chemistry.
Just before her high school graduation, Audrey me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolour painting of a mother and her baby. A tear from the mother’s eye as she looked at her child. Under the painting, Audrey had these words: “The deep love from Mother, me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed and in my office.
Years passed with many from one office to another and I the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I a phone call from a former colleague who said she had of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room, she had my gift.
I was struck that the gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old, Audrey had a serious . What’s worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She it but was disabled.
To , it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped a talent and how its pushes me ahead.
A.interested B.talented C.buried D.absorbed
A.degrees B.choice C.chances D.jobs
A.similar B.distinguishing C.different D.scientific
A.gave B.promised C.afforded D.presented
A.sank B.flooded C.escaped D.fell
A.quietly B.lovingly C.warmly D.gently
A.described B.marked C.written D.signed
A.past B.on C.with D.through
A.hung B.decorated C.painted D.added
A.migrations B.moves C.turns D.circles
A.left B.forgot C.lost D.ignored
A.accepted B.made C.dialed D.received
A.something B.books C.gifts D.letters
A.searched B.discovered C.observed D.touched
A.ancient B.colorful C.precious D.abstract
A.symptom B.fault C.heart D.disease
A.survived B.recovered C.struggled D.managed
A.someone else B.anyone else C.everyone else D.nobody else
A.encourage B.become C.develop D.practise
A.energy B.force C.strength D.power
A noted American psychologist once remarked that childhood is a magical period in one’s life. Indeed it is, for during one undergoes a step-by-step transformation not only in capacity, but also in physical and verbal skills. Each step an increase in the difficulty of a child’s conceptual and learning abilities. During the early stages of childhood, from infancy to about five, the child learns simple skills including using the toilet, bathing and dressing himself . At this stage, he also learns to be very observant, curious, and creative. His ability to remember things also at this stage. He remembers details that an adult may have difficulty in remembering. , he learns elementary skills in problem-solving. At school, particular in classes, the child is especially creative. Given a piece of paper and some colored pencils, he draws a variety of from his surroundings as well as from his circle. It is not surprising to see a child draw a monster to represent an abusive father, and an _____ to represent a loving and caring mother.
As he graduates to the later stages of childhood bordering on the years, the child learns the complexity of human relations and socialization by with his peers—his friends and schoolmates. He also learns to with new life situations, including dates and part-time work. Given a tight schedule of schoolwork, the child learns to prepare his own schedules of work and play; the more practical and less serious ones manage to take time out of their schedules of assignments, reports and tests and examinations to go with their friends on relaxation entertainment.
A.adolescence B.adulthood C.childhood D.infancy
A.spiritual B.magical C.practical D.mental
A.signals B.presents C.prevents D.signs
A.willingly B.excitedly C.confidently D.independently
A.optimistic B.imaginative C.able D.studious
A.increases B.develops C.declines D.strengthens
A.Gradually B.Fortunately C.Unexpectedly D.Undoubtedly
A.music B.chemistry C.art D.biology
A.pictures B.images C.reflections D.buildings
A.school B.family C.teacher D.friend
A.beauty B.actress C.witches D.angel
A.infancy B.adulthood C.teenage D.aged
A.competing B.fighting C.interacting D.learning
A.experiment B.agree C.withdraw D.concern
A.ambitious B.original C.daily D.busy