A man found a cocoon of a moth. He took it home so that he could 31 the moth come out of the cocoon. On that day a small 32 appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth struggled to 33 the body through that little hole.
Soon it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had 34 as far as it could and it could go no farther. It just seemed to be stuck. So the man, out of his kindness, decided to help the moth. He took a pair of scissors and cut off the 35 bit of the cocoon. The 36 then came out easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriven(无用的) wings. The man continued to watch the moth because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and 37 to be able to support the 38 , which would get smaller in time. Neither happened! In fact, the little moth spent the rest of its life 39 around with a small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It was 40 able to fly.
What the man in his kindness 41 was that the small cocoon and the 42 of the moth to get through the 43 opening was a way to push fluid(液体) 44 the body of moth 45 its wings so that it would be ready to fly 46 it got out of the cocoon. Freedom and 47 would come only after the struggle. By taking the moth of a struggle away, he also took away the moth’s health.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to 48 our lives without any difficulties, we would be disabled. We would not be as 49 as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for 50 .
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A, help |
B. protect |
C. watch |
D. see |
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A. opening |
B. line |
C. moth |
D. butterfly |
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A. push |
B. draw |
C. make |
D. force |
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A. got |
B. done |
C. tried |
D. struggled |
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A. covering |
B. remaining |
C. shell |
D. skin |
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A. moth |
B. butterfly |
C. cocoon |
D. worm |
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A. lessen |
B. widen |
C. expand |
D. shorten |
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A standing |
B. flight |
C. themselves |
D. body |
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A flying |
B. crawling |
C. walking |
D. lying |
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A already |
B. certainly |
C. never |
D. seldom |
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A shouldn’t do |
B. thought |
C. did |
D. didn’t understand |
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A crawling |
B. struggle |
C. fight |
D. force |
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A tiny |
B. beginning |
C. right |
D. above |
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A in |
B. on |
C. by |
D. from |
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A into |
B. to |
C. in |
D. onto |
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A after |
B. once |
C. before |
D. until |
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A courage |
B. hope |
C. flight |
D. survival |
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A stand on |
B. get on |
C. go through |
D. live |
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A great |
B. determined |
C. brave |
D. strong |
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A regrets |
B. death |
C. failure |
D. wishes |
【改编】One day, while I was walking to work, I decided to bring some flowers that I had picked from my garden that morning. On the way, I a stranger and presented the flowers to him with a smile card. by the sense of joy I felt from giving flowers to person, and may be his day, I wanted to do it again.
When I got to my office, I had the of anonymously (匿名) leaving flowers around the workplace. The impersonal (无人味) of the building where I work makes me . It just feels a little boring sometimes, though it’s a nice building with great light. I lots of people might feel the same way, so why not put a little there, and throw in an inspirational quote (引言) while I’m at it? , who doesn't like flowers?
So, for the past month, I’ve been flowers in a little cup on the sink in the bathroom. Each week, I the flowers and the quote. It always feels for me to read quotes like Henry David Thoreau’s “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a unexpected in common hours.”and Gandhi’s “The fragrance(香味) always on the hand that gives the rose.” If anything, I figure, but it at least makes me each time I visit the bathroom.
Then today, when I walked in, I noticed flowers in the cup, and a quote that someone else had written! It , “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ------- Gandhi.
This little act me that, at the end of the day, we’re all just people with hearts the various roles and different hats we may wear in the workplace.
I did a little dance and am smiling wide for the rest of the day!
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A.another | B.other | C.others | D.the other |
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A.surrounding | B.atmosphere | C.design | D.people |
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A.concluded | B.confirmed | C.considered | D.believed |
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A.All in all | B.First of all | C.Above all | D.After all |
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A.regardless of | B.because of | C.in spite of | D.despite of |
In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory course about 20 years ago.
The professor marched into the lecture hall, upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans, and invited the students to how many beans the jar contained. After shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile,announced the answer, and went on saying, “You have just learned an important about science. That is: “Never your own senses”
Twenty years later, the could guess what the professor had in mind.He himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting into all unknown world invisible to the , which can be discovered only through . But the seventeen-year-old girl before she could hear the invitation clearly. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be the . The professor, however, said that it was . He was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(替代). “I remember feeling small and ,” the woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do, I dropped the that afternoon,and I haven’t gone near science since. ”
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A.referred | B.thought | C.devoted | D.saw |
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A.scientific methods | B.teaching oneself | C.teacher’s direction | D.the sixth sense |
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A.understood | B.refused | C.felt | D.accepted |
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A.method | B.approach | C.means | D.tool |
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A.course | B.study | C.the professor | D.school |
Hidden passengers traveling in ships, trains, or even cars can be a terrible trouble—especially when they are insects. As for this, there is a great between human beings and insects. The former every possible effort to avoid being discovered, while the latter quickly attention to themselves.
We can only show mercy to the man who had to stop his car soon after from a country village to drive to London. Hearing a strange noise from the of the car, he naturally got out to the wheels carefully, but he found nothing wrong, so he his way. Again the noise began and became even louder. Quickly his head, the man saw what appeared to be a great cloud following the car. When he stopped at a village further on, he was told that a queen bee must be hidden in his car as there were thousands of bees .
On learning this, the man drove away as quickly as possible. After an hour’s driving, he arrived safely in London, where he parked his car outside a and went in. It was not long a customer who had seen him arrive in to inform him that his car was with bees. The poor driver was that the best way should be to call a . In a short time the man arrived. He found the unwelcome passenger hidden near the wheels at the back of the car. Very thankful to the driver for this gift, the bee-keeper took the queen and her thousands of followers home in a large box.
A.connection B.difference C.communication D.similarity
A.do B.take C.make D.try
A.give B.keep C.pay D.draw
A.unfortunate B.careless C.unpleasant D.hopeless
A.passing by B.leaving out C.setting out D.getting up
A.front B.back C.left D.right
A.clean B.change C.test D.examine
A.drove B.continued C.pushed D.forced
A.normally B.gently C.actually D.immediately
A.hiding B.turning C.shaking D.raising
A.black B.beautiful C.white D.colorful
A.below B.ahead C.nearby D.behind
A.boring B.careful C.exciting D.hard
A.hotel B.museum C.hospital D.school
A.when B.after C.until D.before
A.broke B.moved C.hurried D.dropped
A.crowded B.covered C.filled D.equipped
A.advised B.required C.ordered D.requested
A.bee-keeper B.policeman C.waiter D.repairman
A.unfamiliar B.unknown C.unexpected D.uncertain
Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all !It speaks than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more than we realize. In fact, non-verbal(非语言)communication takes up about 50% of what we really 。And body language is particularly when we attempt to communicate across cultures。Indeed, what is called body language is so ,a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed。And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. , different societies treat the , between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having , contact(接触)
even with friends, and certainly not with . People from Latin American countries , touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in ,it may look like a Latino is a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving . The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep - which the Latino will in return regard as_.
Clearly, a great deal is going on when people .And only a part of it is in the wards themselves. And when parties are from cultures, there's a strong possibility of . But whatever the situation, the best is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be _.
A.straighter B.louder C.harder D.further
A.sands B.invitations C.feelings D.messages
A.hope B.receive C.discover D.mean
A.immediate B.misleading C.important D.difficult
A.we11 B.far C.much D.long
A.For example B.Thus C.However D.In short
A.trade B.distance C.connections D.greetings
A.eye B.verbal C.bodily D.telephone
A.strangers B.Relatives C.neighbours D.enemies
A.in other words B.on the other hand C.in a similar way D.by all means
A.trouble B.conversation C.silence D.experiment
A.disturbing B.Helping C.guiding D.following
A.closer B.faster C.in D.away
A.stepping forward B.going on C.backing away D.coming out
A.weakness B.carelessness C.friendliness D.coldness
A.talk B.travel C.laugh D.think
A.different B.European C.Latino D.rich
A.curiosity B.excitement C.misunderstanding D.nervousness
A.chance B.time C.result D.advice
A.noticed B.treated C.respected D.pleased
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.
A.curious about B.interested in C.aware of D.careful with
A.cure B.prevent C.adopt D.analyze
A.instead B.strangely C.as usual D.like me
A.learning B.working C.satisfying D.relaxing
A.convenient B.awkward C.boring D.exciting
A.height B.force C.skill D.weight
A.locked B.repaired C.powered D.grasped
A.hands B.feet C.keys D.handles
A.place B.action C.play D.effect
A.operation B.communication C.transportation D.production
A.exploration B.education C.experiment D.entertainment
A.flexible B.safe C.starting D.comfortable
A.yet B.just C.still D.even
A.shown B.pushed C.driven D.guided
A.realized B.suggested C.agreed D.admitted
A.lifted B.turned C.pressed D.seized
A.path B.position C.direction D.way
A.easy B.heavy C.major D.extra
A.forgotten B.repeated C.conducted D.finished
A.weaknesses B.challenges C.anxieties D.illnesses