阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后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。
Good advice is like medicine for the soul. What kind of 36 have you recently received? Who do you go to get advice? Do you have a mentor（顾问）? A mentor is a 37 adviser.
Parents, teachers and friends are often great 38 . Sports figures, public officials, and nationally known figures can also be good 39 of mentors, but a person with whom you have a personal relationship will most likely be able to 40 you the best advice.
Mentors teach things that seem to be 41 sense. Proverbs are wise old sayings that are common in every language and 42 , and can sometimes be 43 for a non-native
to understand. For example, all 44 glitters（闪烁）is not gold（some things are not as 45 as they appear ）.
Advice columns（栏目） 46 newspapers and magazines are another way to 47 advice.
Talk shows on radio and television are also very popular. Americans and Canadians love to 
48 themselves. Many people are not 49 to ask for h
elp or 50 about a problem in order to receive advice. People generally will 51 their own experience to 52 their friends. Overcoming a difficult situation is 53 respecter in North America. People love to offer motivational （激发性的） 54 and encouragement. One proverb, a friend in need is a friend indeed, shares the concept that a true friend will help you out when you are in 55 .
A．success B．measure C．position D．advice
A．devoted B．united C．trusted D．expected
A．interviewers B．mentors C．followers D．competitors
A．examples B．mentors C．manners D．services
A．consider B．exchange C．get D．offer
A．present B．attractive C．common D．especial
A．experience C．culture D．behavior
A．simple B．difficult C．natural D．brief
A．that B．which C．what D．who
A．different B．same C．exciting D．valuable
A．in B．on C．at D．of
A．reduce B．add C．keep D．get
A．enjoy B．teacher D．defeat
A．brave B．afraid C．honest D．lucky
A．remind B．suggest C．advise D．share
A．lead to B．set free C．help out D．look out
A．originally B．highly C．equally D．closely
A． stories B．sadness C．movement D．adventure
A．happiness B．trouble C．excitement D．nature
完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。
As a nativ________Detroit, Michigan Viola Vaughn spent the majority of her life as an active ________. ________ with personal disaster, Viola triumphed and developed a non-profit organization, “1,000 girls”, ________education and training for young women of Senegal. She has devoted her life to ________others achieve, encouraging young girls to ________.Her caring qualities are seen in the daily routine of her beautiful life.
Dr Viola M. Vaughn ________ from Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York, and after that, she spent her life devoted to health care and education in the United States and Africa.
In the year 2000, Viola faced a mother’s worst fear________ her 26-year-old daughter died. ________ with five grandchildren to raise, Viola and her husband, Jazz musician Sam Sanders, moved to Senegal, Africa, hoping to provide their grandchildren________ a multicultural education. Tragedy hit again when Viola’s husband of 20 years passed________ and she was left________. Her determination and spirit kept her moving and she passed the time homeschooling her grandchildren.
The surrounding community noticed Viola and her dedication to teaching her grandchildren. Viola was approached by a neighborhood child who wanted to join in the studies________,but with her mother’s permission, the young girl began homeschooling with Viola. Soon the number of students ________Viola’s daily classes rose to twenty and 10,000 Girls was born.
10,000 Girls is a non-profit organization with six locations and over 1,500 students. The girls are actively ________in their education. Not only________teach each other, but they have opened a bakery shop. It can help provide educational supplies. Girls who graduate are given scholarship opportunities and continue the cycle of success by returning to help 10,000 Girls continue to ________.
Viola Vaughn has dedicated her life to the greater good of her community and has truly made, and will continue to make, a difference in the lives of young girls who ________ would not have ________a chance. Viola Vaughn is a true ________ of humanity.
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Hot lava flows down a Hawaiian mountainside. Farther up the slope, volcanologist（火山学家）Ken Hon picks his way slowly across the____surface. The hot lava（岩浆）is slippery to walk on. “It’s like walking on ice,” Hon says. “But the bottom part of your boots starts to____ a little. You’ll get burned____you fall.”
Hon plants his feet carefully and slowly. He’s____ data on the lava flowing out of Kilauea, a volcano that has been erupting since 1983. ____the lava’s movements can save lives on the slopes below. But Hon must be____. New waves of lava are flowing down toward him. Every few minutes he looks up to see ____the streams are and makes sure the____lava hasn’t cut off his escape route.
“It’s___out there, like the heat from an oven,” Hon says. “Up close, you have to wear firefighters’ clothes____the clothes you’re wearing don’t catch fire or melt.”
“Back in 1990, lava entered the town of Kalapana. The lava moved slowly but steadily,” Hon says. “We____ evacuate(疏散) people from about 150 homes. The lava____forward and consumed all of the houses.” ____, everyone escaped. But today Kalapana is buried under 30 feet of lava.
Volcanoes aren’t____to Hon. They’re fascinating and exciting. “My____thing is to come out at the edge of a lava lake. Sometimes I’ve had to sleep with a gas mask on.” Still, Hon knows how to keep____ and knows when the lava is ____. “All of a sudden, it gets really bright inside your____!” he says, laughing. But the____is worth it, because the more Hon and other scientists can____volcanoes, the safer they can keep the people who live around these powerful forces of nature.
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完形填空,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。
I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more ________ the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ ________ a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some member ________ chose the wheel chair. Other wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a ________ experience, I had never considered before how ________ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down my ________ made the chair begin to roll. Its wheel were not ________ . Then I wondered where to put my________, It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into ________ , I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of ________ for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary(临时的) ________ .
I tried to find a ________position and thought it might be restful, ________ kind of nice to be ________ around for a while. Looking around, I________would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I ________ the heavy wheels, I came to know that controlling the ________ of the wheelchair as not going to be ________ task, My wheelchair experiment was soon ________ . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the ________, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.
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完形填空,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。
During the wars, a soldier looked after his horse with the greatest care. He gave it the best wheat to eat and the ________ water to drink. He dried it carefully with a towel when it got wet and ________ it with a warm blanket on cold winter nights. ________ , the horse was strong and swirl and carried its master ________ out of the dangers of ________ .
When peace came, however, the soldier ________ . He put the ________ out in a field full of wild plants and gave it only a little food to eat. He left the horse ________ in a worn-out place with a ________ roof and a floor made of mud. During the day the ________ made the horse work hard on his farm, ________ a large amount of wood and pulling heavy wagons (四轮货车).
After some time war broke out ________ . The soldier prepared himself for the war and went to the field to ________ his horse. Hurriedly brushing the mud from its coat, he ________ the horse. For a moment the horse stood there without ________ . Then gradually its ________legs began to bend ________ it sank slowly to the ground. The horse gave the soldier a look of ________ .
"Master," it said, "you' ll have to ________ on foot this time. You have made me work like a mule (骡子) and ________ me like a goat. I cannot change back into a horse in an instant just because you Want me to."
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a woman in Detroit，who has two sons．She was worried________ them，especially the younger one, Ben，________ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class________ fun of him because he seemed so________．
The mother ________that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She________ them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a________a week and do a report about it for her．
One day，in Ben’s ________ , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben ________ up his hand and the teacher let him________. “Why did Ben raise his hand？” they wondered. He ________ said anything; what could he possibly want to say？ Well, Ben not only________ the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew________ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were________ . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book________ ．
Ben later went on to the ________ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University________at last became one of the best doctors in the United States．
After Ben had grown up，he ________ something about his mother that he did not know as a ________. She，herself，had never learned how to ________ ．
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