happened towards evening, when I was resting in a cafe. I 36 a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then 37 came to me.
He was in an unfit shirt, 38 pale and weak. He looked about eleven or twelve. No sooner39 begun to speak than he opened the box in his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He bent down, 40 my leather shoes, and began to shine them.
He was concentrating on his job when heavy rain began to pour 41 . People rushed into the cafe for protection from the 42
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Hours passed, and 44 turned dark. I had no shoes on my feet and wondered 45 the boy had been. I thought he would not 46 my leather shoes, and I would have to walk back home on 47 in the night.
When it was near midnight the rain 48 , people started to go out. The cafe 49 closed. I had to move to the door. I was surprised to see the boy sleeping on the floor with his head leaning 50 a box. He held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.
I 51 him
slightly and woke him up. He jumped up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he 52 me. Then he opened the 53 hurriedly, gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly.
I paid him and wrapped around him his unfit shirt, which 54 my leather shoes. After saying goodbye to the boy, I was 55 home, with the image of the boy stay in my mind.
A.put on B.dressed C.wore D.wore out
A.a boy B.a woman C.a girl D.an old man
A.looked B.look C.to look D.looking
A.had I B.I had C.I did D.did I
A.taking up B.took off C.taking off D.took on
A.in B.down C.on D.up
A.wind B.snow C.rain D.fire
A.separated B.connected C.joined D.divided
A.this B.that C.it D.what
A.there B.where C.how D.what
A.polish B.clean C.turn D.return
A.feet B.my foot C.my bare feet D.my own foot
A.started B.began C.ended D.came
A.was B.was to be C.had been D.has been
A.against B.with C.under D.over
A.cover B.shook C.grasped D.caught
A.thanked B.made out C.recognized D.passed
A.wallet B.arms C.shoes D.package
A.was wrapping B.was wrapped C.had wrapped D.wrapped
A.on the way to B.on a way C.on my way D.in my way
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
My grandfather went to high school in the 1920s. While in school, he became in the drama program, acting in different kinds of productions. He in touch with his drama teacher.
My father went to high school in the 1960s. Like his before him, he acted in high school. He, too, stayed in touch with his drama teacher for the rest of the teacher's. I graduated in 1997. When Hoover, my drama teacher, was in Alaska, I didn't want her to feel like she was ending her life , so I sent her many packages, including Drama Club yearbook photos from each year she there in order that she could see the students whose lives she forever .
Her nickname for our group of Drama Club was "the Throwaway Kids". , no? She described us as that we were nonconformists (不墨守成规者) that other teachers didn't__ know what to do with. She simply us for who we are, and that was exactly what we needed.
We have all become members of society: reporters, lawyers, and singers, soldiers, doctors and, you guessed it, teachers. Every member of my family is a teacher. This year the 73rd year we have taught in Alaska altogether.
me, teaching the course is only one important part of the job. As I returned to my classroom just before the final bell on the last day of school in May, I thought how the most emotional part of the experience will not be seeing the recent return to say "hello" at Christmas. That was how the of keeping in touch with our teachers our whole life long began in my family. Honestly, learning a lifetime.
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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳答案填入文中空白处。
I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.
I was on my lunch break and had the office to get something to eat. On the way, I a busker(街头艺人), with a hat in front of him. I had some in my pocket, but I would not give them to him, thinking to myself he would use the money to feed his addiction(嗜好) to drugs or alcohol. He like that type-young and ragged. what was I going to spend the money on? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I then I had no right to place myself above just because he was busking.
I and dropped all the coins into his , and he smiled at me. I watched for a while. As as it sounds, I expected something more to come from that moment—a feeling of or satisfaction, for example. But nothing happened.
, I walked off. “It proved to be a waste of ,” I thought.
On my way home at the end of the , I saw the busker again and he was . I watched him pick up the hat and walk a cafe counter. There he poured the contents(内容) into a tin collecting an earthquake fund-raising(募捐) event. He was busking for charity(慈善)!
Now I donate(捐献) any I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving.
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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。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.
A came. "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to that shirt away, but gave it to her ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
I my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her , "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life's was something greater.
The next morning she with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are , aren't you? I think I have a for you as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of .” Mom accepted the opportunity very .
For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working over the last five years. We are all in that you should be the teacher of this class."
My mom spent more than 20 years there. her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __ situations and never give up.
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阅读下列短文,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 problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some members, , chose to use wheelchairs. Others 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 wheels 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 I would have to handle the thing myself? My hands started to ache as I the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n) 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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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。
Growing up is not always easy. When facing difficulties, courage and a spirit of independence (独立) can be more useful than crying for _!That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of __ from boy to man with family hardships (艰难)tell us.
Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County, Henan Province. When he was_ _ 11, his father became mentally ill and one day came back with an abandoned (被抛弃的)baby girl. A year later, Hong’s mother and younger brother both __ home because of poverty (贫困)and pressure (压力)from his ill father.
The burden (负担)fell onto the 12-year-old’s shoulders: to treat his father’s illness, to _ the adopted (领养的)sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.
Hong didn’t _ . Since a young age, he has worked in a part-time job to feed his family. At the same time, he has studied at college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to _ _a room near his campus for her, and send her to school.
After Hong’s story went public, people were __ to tears by his selflessness. Hard as (虽然)his life was, Hong didn’t his father and the adopted_ _ ,because they needed his help. With his hard –won money, he even helped other students __ against misfortune(厄运).
Today when many tend to worry more about their own happiness, Hong’s deeds (行为)_ us of what we usually neglect (忽略): love and care for others. Without these,_ _ of us could survive.
Hong _ _donations (捐献) from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could __ his own work. Short of(缺乏) money to buy food, the boy climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his baby sister. He walked two hours at weekends to buy different things to __ around his school to earn money. Through his hard life, the boy developed ___ to overcome misfortune (战胜厄运)that made him a hero in people’s eyes.
Hong’s story shows love and willpower, and no hardship can __ a person but himself. So when facing difficulties, don’t ____about bad luck. Consider what more you could do for your family and society_ _ you will find the world smiling back.
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