By the third year of teaching I’d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made me 36 . I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
The morning bell rang. I walked 37 through the cold into the overly heated school building. Twenty-two smiling faces 38 me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to 39 their smiles. Back into the classroom, they 40 , comparing plans for the 41 . I had to remove one student from each arm 42 I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my roll book（点名册） my desk was covered with 43 and gifts followed by a 44 of “Merry Christmas” wishes.
“Oh, thank you,” I must have 45 a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except my 46 mood. It was kind of them to 47 me. After a while, I heard a small nervous 48 say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing 49 by my desk, holding a small, round gift. “This is for you.”
“Thank you, Sweetheart.” I laid it on my desk with the others.
“Um, could you 50 it now?”
I gently tore at the paper and tape. “ 51 ,” he said, “it’s breakable.” Slowly I opened a small, green Christmas tree ornament（装饰物）, complete with a hook already 52 . It dawned on me what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep my 53 back.
Later that day, I sat 54 the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I 55 pull a green Christmas ball from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
A．excited B．tired C．amazed D．relaxed
A．eagerly B．aimlessly C．gently D．heavily
A．watched B．greeted C．delighted D．warned
A．return B．forget C．ignore D．refuse
A．calmed B．settled C．chatted D．argued
A．study B．weekend C．vacation D．lesson
A．before B．when C．after D．because
A．letters B．books C．chalks D．cards
A．knowledge B．collection C．series D．bunch
A．confirmed B．assessed C．responded D．explained
A．pleased B．low C．thrilled D．angry
A．talk about B．think of C．turn to D．connect with
A．call B．sound C．shout D．voice
A．shyly B．bravely C．rudely D．sadly
A．classify B．collect C．open D．check
A．Careful B．Dangerous C．Patient D．Hasty
A．exposed B．adapted C．adjusted D．attached
A．trees B．hooks C．gifts D．tears
A．looking into B．turning over C．giving away D．packing up
A．anxiously B．hurriedly C．delicately D．casually
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When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. ______, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so ______.
As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly _____ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.
With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move ____ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also ______. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something______. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear, ” said the old lady. “I need _____. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes. ”
“Airport? You ______ are lost, ” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers ______ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and ______ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the _____ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no ______ you’ll get there in five minutes!”
“Thank you very much, dear, ” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll ____ in time. ”
The _____ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it ______ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something _____ happened. The car began changing. First, its color ______ from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, ______ just above the ground. As the car _____ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling ______, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…
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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。
As a young reporter, Sparky asked Lu Haoting, a business reporter from China Daily, for help on interviewing．He found that interviewing people is not as ______ as just asking questions．To his _____ , journalists also need to do a lot of homework _____ an interview．Lu shared her _______ of a recent interview with the president of Boeing China, David Wang, with Sparky．
There are two ______ of interviews, inclusive （群访） and exclusive （专访）．The inclusive interview is ______ in the form of a press conference．In a（n） ________interview, only you and the interviewee talk ________ ．You need to ______ all your questions for both types of interviews ____ _____ ．
" _________ you don’t prepare, you will ask some silly questions and _________ your time," Lu said．
"I wanted to know Boeing’s new strategy in the Chinese market．_______ I checked out over 20 reports from different newspapers about Boeing and its rival, Airbus," Lu said．She also found useful _________ about the two companies on their websites．
On many occasions, interviewees ____ _____ journalists to provide a question list in advance of an interview．In order to __________ a proper objective story Lu also interviewed some __________ to get their comments on Boeing’s performance in China．
__________ her interview with David Wang only lasted about half an hour, her __________ helped her to ask many good questions about Boeing’s development in China．
"After a successful interview, you always find all that homework was really _________ it," Lu told Sparky
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When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion(热情) for writing poetry(诗). I gave up all my other hobbies, such as ________ stamps and spent all my ________ time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me ________ trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I ________ take out my notebook and ________ poems in class. Of course I ________ this very cautiously(小心地), but it was not ________ I got caught. One day while I was ________ writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up________ the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger (=" getting" very angry) because I was not ________ attention. He tore the poem up, with a________ not to waste time in his lesson.________ I felt certain that I had written a good poem,________ that evening I wrote it out again from ________ . Not long after, I read ________ a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up ________ , I got a letter informing me I had won first________. Everyone at school was very impressed,________ the geography teacher, who ________ me more carefully than ever. He ________ that I not write poetry in his class!
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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。
James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully ________ the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was $90! ________ on earth was he going to get the ________ of the money? He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was ________ to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no ________ to ask his parents, for he knew they had no money to ________ . There was only one way to get money, and that was to ________ it. He would have to find a job. ________ who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr Clay for advice, who usually had _________ in most things. "Well, you can start right here," said Mr Clay. "My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing." That was the ________ of James’s odd-job (零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was surprised by the ________ jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the ________ of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the ________ increased and he knew that he would soon have ________ for the bicycle he was dying for. The day ________ came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He ________ no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode ________home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard ________ for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more ________ he had bought it with his own money. He had ________ what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.
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One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, he knew me. The man had a newspaper in front of him, which he was to read, but I could that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the way in which the waiter and I each other. He seemed even more puzzled as went on and it became that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the . When he came out, he paid his bill and without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had . “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective (侦探). He you here because he thought you were the man he . ” “What? ” I said, showing my . The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a . ” “Well, it’s really I came to a restaurant where I’m known, ” I said. “ , I might have been in trouble. ”
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