It was a bitter, cold evening in northern Virginia many years ago. The old man was waiting for a ride across the 36 . The wait seemed 37 .
At last he heard the slight, steady rhythm of approaching hooves (马蹄) coming along the frozen path. Anxiously, he 38 as several horsemen came around the bend (转角处). He let the first one 39 . Then another, and another. Finally, as the 40 rider neared the spot where the old man sat like a snow statue, the old man 41 the rider’s eye and said, “
Sir, would you mind giving an old man a ride to the other side? There doesn’t appear to be a passage way by 42 .”
The rider replied, “Sure.” Seeing the old man was unable to 43 his half-froz
en body from the ground, the horseman got down and helped the old man onto the h
orse. The horseman took the old man not just across the river, but to his destination.
As they neared the tiny but cozy (舒适的) cottage, the horseman’s 44 caused him to ask, “Sir, I notice that you let several other riders go by without making a(n) 45 to get a ride. Then I came up and you 46 asked me for a ride. I’m curious why, on such a bitter winter night, you would wait and ask the last rider. 47 I had refused and left you there?”
The old man replied, “I’ve been 48 here for some time. I think I know people pretty good.” He continued, “I looked into the eyes of the other riders and immediately saw there was no 49 for my situation. But when I looked into your eyes, 50 was evident. I knew, 51 , that your gentle spirit would 52 the opportunity to give me help in my time of 53 .”
Those heartwarming comments 54 the horseman deeply.
“I’m most grateful for what you have said,” he told the old man. “May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I 55 to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”
With that, Thomas Jefferson turned his horse around and made his way back to the White House.
| A．town | B．river | C．country | D．island |
| A．meaningless | B．useless | C．careless | D．endless |
| A．watched | B．asked | C．waved | D．approached |
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He was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. He stopped to give her a . “I’m here to help you, madam. Why don't you wait in the car where it is warm, Madam? It won’t take me long.” He said, “ , my name is Joe.”
She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn’t thank him and asked him how much she him. He told her that if she really wanted to him back, next time she saw someone in of help, she could give that person the he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me”.
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles the road the lady saw a small . She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant her with a sweet smile. The old lady how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe’s words her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her from a hundred-dollar bill. , the lady stepped right out the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, “I’m helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is you can do--Do not let the chain of love with you．”
The waitress went home that night with the tip and what the lady had written. With the baby next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything’s going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”
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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。
Falling off a box car and landing on my head，I lost my sight when I was four years old . Now I am thirty two. I can remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, a tragedy can do strange things to people.
It to me that I might not have come to love life as I do now if I hadn't been blind. My parents and my teacher saw something me,and they made me want to against blindness.
The hardest I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say in myself I am not talking about the kind of self-confidence that me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am realpositive person imperfections.
It took me years to obtain this . It had to start with the . Once a man gave me an indoor . “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he me, “and roll it around.” The stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought . At the School for the Blind I a new kind of baseball called ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my . I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made.
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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。
One of my next-door neighbors is a sweet 92-year-old Polish lady. A few days ago, I came back home from a trip. As I was my clothes in my room, I heard a(n) ,violent knock on the door. It was 10:30 pm, and I wasn’t sure who it could be. I went downstairs and the peephole（猫眼）, and saw that it was our sweet next-door neighbor.
I quickly the door, and she seemed really distressed and kept , “please help me, I need your help. The fire alarm won’t go off. Please help me.” I told her that everything would be okay, and her to her house to see what was going on the fire alarm.
She that the alarm had been going on and off inconsistently for the past two hours, and that her to call her daughter to come and fix it was fruitless. So I took a chair from her dining room table, it, and looked at the fire alarm.
After twisting the fire alarm off, I blew into it, because sometimes causes it to make strange noises. She seemed but was exactly shaking out of fear. I asked her she was okay, and she said she was , so I gave her a hug. I felt her shaking in my embrace, and held her for a few minutes until she stopped shaking and sighed a breath of relief.
We then and talked for ten minutes, until I felt that she was okay, and safe to sleep. She was so generous with for being with her, but I thanked her for me that hugs are indeed good tools! So, sometimes, a(n) hug is a good and powerful way to hold someone going through a difficult period.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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。
For many, just taking part in a single marathon is the achievement of a lifetime. But for Julie Weiss, it has become a routine. She has run 52 marathons once a week-for the past year in memory of her dad who just 35 days after he was with pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌). When Julie Weiss lost her father in 2010, she was to find the research for pancreatic cancer is so short of fund. “ It made me feel .” she said, “I knew I had to do something.”
So this marathon queen, she calls herself, did what she did best; she went running. Having completed 25 marathons during the two years, Julie now vowed(发誓) to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks in of her father. After asking people to money for each marathon, she a website, marathon goddess, com, to collect money for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network(PANCAN), a nonprofit organization. Julie began her incredible with a marathon is Rome and then entered a race every in some city across North America. leaving work at 5p.m.on Friday she would be ready to begin the next race, before she home to California on Sunday. Julie finished her 1,362.4-mile journey in March 2013, more than $ 200,000 in the process for PANCAN.
While running, she stuck to a strict training schedule. “My body’s getting used to this. I’m changing my diet, becoming more healthy and learning to run more .” she said. When her muscles began to , she kept her in mind. “When you do what you love, for those you love, that is where the happen. Together we can make a(n) ,and pave the way for a happy, healthy, cancer free life.” she said.
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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。
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie.That Friday after work, I drove over to pick her up.
We went to a restaurant that, although not , was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm she were the First Lady. During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation – nothing but catching up on recent of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the .As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me you.”I agreed.
“How was your ?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Far my wildest imagination” I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her. Some time , I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant from the same place where mother and I had dined. An note said: “I paid this bill . I wasn’t sure that I be there; but I still paid for two plates – one for you and the other for your .You will never know what that night for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment, I the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU” and to give time to our family. in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they , because these things cannot be till “some other time.”
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