Jody was ten years old when he decided he needed a job. He thought it might be 36 to raise worms. He could sell them to farmers and people who fished. So in 37 , he bought many worms. But that winter the cold weather killed all the worms because he had not 38 them in a warm place.
The next spring Jody 39 again. He bought more worms, which he took good care of. When winter came, he took them inside 40 they would stay warm. Many people bought his worms.
One day when Jody was twelve, he got a letter. It was from state of New York. The letter said, “Everyone who 41 things has to pay taxes!” Jody made only one dollar selling worms. But he still 42 to pay part of that money to the state. He told many people in his town what had ___43 . Soon some people from a television station 44 with Jody. Many people saw it and they began to write letters to the state. The letters now said that the law was 45 . Finally the law was changed. Children like Jody can now sell things without paying money to the state.
A．boring B．lucky C．fun D．impossible
A．autumn B．spring C．winter D．summer
A．caught B．found C．hidden D．put
A．tried B．waited C．failed D．practised
A．before B．until C．though D．so
A．buys B．sells C．keeps D．presents
A．hoped B．wanted C．had D．remembered
A．followed B．appeared C．happened D．continued
A．talked B．visited C．quarreled D．worked
A．common B．unfair C．different D．useless
The adolescent girl from Tennessee is standing on the stage of a drama summer _______ in upstate New York. It's a beautiful day. _______ the girl doesn't feel beautiful. She's not the leggy, glamorous Hollywood type. In fact, she _______ herself as dorky.
_______ she was six years old, Reese Witherspoon has wanted to be a country singer. And Dolly Parton is her idol. All of this summer she's been acting, dancing and singing—giving it her ______.
Play to your strengths. If you're going to _______ it in this business, better focus on what you're good at. Celebrate yourself.
_______ three years of lessons, at the end of camp her coaches tell her to forget about _______. They _______ she think about another career. If Reese did have talent, it was hiding under her skinny, mousy frame and her Coke-bottle glasses.
Still, she takes their _______ to heart. After all, why shouldn't she believe the professionals?
But back at home in Nashville, her mother — a funny, happy, upbeat person — wouldn't let her mope. Her father, a physician, encouraged her to achieve in _______. So she worked hard at everything and was _______ at Stanford University.
And at age 19, she got a _______ in a low-budget movie called Freeway. That led to a substantial role in the movie Pleasantville. But her big break came with Legally Blonde.
And then came the offer that took her back to her Nashville roots — playing the wife of tormented country star Johnny Cash. A singing role.
All of a sudden the old _______ were back. She was so nervous on the set, a reporter wrote, she "kept a sick bucket" nearby and admitted she "would go backstage after a singing scene and shake." But she didn't _______ on the movie or herself.
The humor and drive she learned at home _______ the self-doubt learned on that _______ stage. She spent 6 months taking singing lessons _______. She learned to play the Autoharp. And the hard work _______ her confidence.
Last March, Reese Witherspoon walked up on another _______, the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and accepted the Oscar as Best Actress for her heartbreaking, heartwarming singing role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.
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Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are ________ a call, but _______ when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often ________the sweetness from the other end.
Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or directly dialed. You cannot get an __________answer by a mere "hello", _______ go deep into your lover's heart by one call. Usually it had to be relayed by an operator, and you have to be _________ in waiting. Destiny(命运) is the operator of this phone, who is always irresponsible and fond of playing practical ___________ to which she may make you a lifelong victim intentionally or unintentionally.
Love is a telephone which is always busy, When you are ready to die for love, you only find, to your _________, the line is already occupied by someone else, and you are greeted only by a busy line. This is an/a _________ regret handed down from generation to generation and you are only one of those who languish for（因…受煎熬） followers.
Love is telephone, but it is difficult to __________ the center time for dialing, and you will let the opportunity slip if your call is either too early or too late.
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Were you one of those shy _______ clinging to your mom’s leg? Did you dodge attention, feel inferior and _______being called out? Still doing that as an adult?
Shyness and overwhelming self-doubt are more _______ than you think, and they’re holding back millions of people just like you _______ living more exciting and fulfilling lives. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t _______ that terrifying fear that has been holding you back. You aren’t _______to be shy. And there is no _______ you can’t shine in your own way.
From social _______, to business meetings, to your one-on-one relationships, if you want to break _______from shyness, create better relationships and be more comfortable in your skin when you are around people. There are time-tested techniques that have _______ me well in my personal life, _______ helping my clients. In a world _______relationships are everything, you must set yourself apart and still stay true to who you are.
By far, the most _______ technique in overcoming shyness is to _______your consciousness from you to them.
Remember the last time you were in a situation and you were nervous or shy? I’d be willing to _______you were focusing on yourself: _______you looked, what you were going to say, or how different you were from _______else.
People that shine are focusing on delivering, serving and benefiting others in some way. They focus_______, not inward. Sure, it’s important to be _______of how you are being perceived, but people always remember how you make them feel. In order to make them feel good you must focus on sharing with them.
Next time you are in an uncomfortable situation, shift your focus to someone else and ask yourself how you can help them or _______value to their lives.
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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。
I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I ’m left . Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other ？
I was growing up in Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, children from different races and religions played and studied in harmony. At that time my family lived a stone s from Ismail’s. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim and Iwas an Indian Hindu——we just our differences. Perhaps, our elders had not filled our heads with unnecessary advice，well or otherwise.
We were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, we'd the countryside on our bicycles, hoping to the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip to town. We would be glad of his .
When I was twelve, my family moved to Johor. Ismail s family later returned to their village, and I touch with him.
One spring afternoon in 1983, I stopped a taxi in Kuala Lumpur. I my destination. The driver acknowledged my but did not move off. Instead, he looked at me.“Raddar?" he said, using my childhood nickname(绰号). I was astonished at being so addressed (称呼). Unexpectedly! It was Ismail! Even after two we still recognized each other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt a true affection, something to describe.
If we can allow our children to be without prejudice, they'll build friendships with people, regardless of race or religion, who will be their side through' thick and thin. On such friendships are societies built and we can truly be, as William Shakespeare once wrote, 44we happy few, we band of brothers".
A．interested B．pleased C．puzzled D．excited
A．parties B．cities C．villages D．races
A．why B．which C．how D．when
A．together B．around C．alone D．apart
A．drop B．throw C．move D．roll
A．refused B．made C．sought D．accepted
A．paid B．meant C．preserved D．treated
A．explore B．search C．discover D．desert
A．get through B．deal with C．come across D．take away
A．arrival B．choice C．effort D．company
A．lost B．gained C． developed D．missed
A．stated B．ordered C．decided D．chose
A．attempts B．instructions C．opinions D．arrangements
A．anxiously B．carelessly C．disappointedly D．fixedly
A．familiarly B．strangely C．fully D．coldly
A．departures B．months C．years D．decades
A．possible B．funny C． hard D．clear
A．them B．themselves C．us D．ourselves
A．from B．by C． with D．against
A．still B．otherwise C．then D．instead
I can never wipe off the memory that I met my current stepmom for the first time.After I parted with my father for ages, I moved to America and was with him. In the beginning, she made sure to let me know that I was welcome in her .I remember when I first saw her at the . It was different, but not . Over the past years there is I needed that she did not provide. I’m the young woman I’m today because she made sure to me properly.Yesterday I went to see her for Mother’s Day. When I gave her , she held my face in both of her hands and kissed me straight on the mouth I had the flu.
Her simple act of affection me back to my first night in America. After I was up from the airport we went home and she my luggage and took me shopping for new clothes since the ones I had brought with me from Africa were a bit .That night before I went to bed, she came to my room, the first room I had ever had for my own. She told me she was to have me and that she would take good care of me. Before she she asked me for a hug.That was my first hug and I was 11 years old at that time.
I’m 23 years old now and I have received many over the past years, but none has given me a greater or deeper impression.I regarded her as my mother because my new life began when I came to with her. Today I say to my mother, Mrs. Sherrill Kirundi, thank you, mom. Thank you for your giving me my childhood back.
A．connected B．reunited C．associated D．attached
A．life B．mind C．bedroom D．office
A．shop B．railway station C．airport D．bus-stop
A．strange B．easy C．unforgettable D．uncomfortable
A．something B．anything C．nothing D．everything
A．approach B．raise C．criticize D．value
A．gifts B．keys C．money D．dresses
A．so that B．in case C．as though D．even though
A．paid B．took C．talked D．companied
A．brought B．looked C．picked D．called
A．grasped B．unpacked C．mended D．added
A．more B．newer C．cheaper D．worn
A．glad B．hard C．unlucky D．anxious
A．died B．awaked C．left D．entered
A．very B．quite C．ever D．just
A．letters B．offers C．hugs D．presents
A．success B．advance C．future D．excitement
A．step B．second C．hope D．birth
A．discuss B．stay C．share D．work
A．last B．happy C．sad D．real