As Christmas drew near, Ursula was faced with just that problem. She had come to live in an American home and learn English. 31 , she would mind the children and do anything she was asked.
One of her tasks was to keep track of arriving Christmas presents. Ursula did this faithfully, but she became increasingly worried. What could she buy for her 32 with the little money she had that would compare with the gifts she was recording daily? 33 , even without any of the gifts , her employer seems to have everything.
Ursula 34 long and hard. On Christmas Eve, she went to a store. She moved slowly through crowds of shoppers, 35 things in her mind. Finally she bought a baby dress. She immediately called a taxi. “Excuse me, please, can you help me find a poor family with a baby?” “A poor family?” said the 36 driver. “Yes, a very poor family.” Ursula told the man what she was trying to do. He listened in silence, and then said, “I know a family who needs just about everything.”
When they reached a building, the driver said, “They live on the third floor.” Ursula shook her head, “Would you take this dress to them and tell them it’s from someone …someone who has everything.”
Early the next day, Ursula 37 everyone for the presents she received. Then, she began to 38 why there seemed to be none from her. She told about what she did the night before. When she finished, there was a long 39 . “You see,” she added, “I try to do a kindness in your 40 . And this is my Christmas present to you.”
A．In return B．As a result C．By the way D．In a sense
A．own family B．classmates C．friend D．American family
A．Otherwise B．Therefore C．Besides D．But
A．talked B．thought C．waited D．worked
A．selecting B．matching C．remembering D．organizing
A．delighted B．anxious C．surprised D．respectful
A．thanked B．encouraged C．praised D．admired
A．settle B．repeat C．argue D．explain
A．delay B．silence C．time D．break
A．case B．opinion C．memory D．name
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。
Feb．5 was a bad day for me．My doctor ________me and my parents that I had ________ cancer and that I had only a few months to live．I became so sad that I immediately ________ .
Now I am actually ________ for all that has happened to me．I realize I would have never had to reflect and rethink about the purpose of my ________ if I had never been so close to ________.
Had I not been ________ to this limit，I would not have developed a deep ________ of the beautiful gift of life and of everything around me．I also would not have thought about how I wanted to ________ the people around me in a positive way before leaving the world．
This is no ________；I don’t even think it is sad in the ________ way to be honest．I’ve been so ________in my life．I’ve lived in Paris，served the Peace Corps in Peru，fallen madly in love with the most ________ girl，have the most fantastic ________and friends anyone could ever ask for…and the________just goes on．
I ________ believe everything happens for a reason．If terminal cancer had not ________ to me，I would not have been able to ________ my closest friends and family to appreciate the beautiful gift of life a little more and live more appreciative and ________ lives with my story．This is the purpose of my life I had been ________ all of my life．In fact，that is the reason I’ve decided to write this article and go public with my story as well．It is also the reason why I am，after all that I’ve been through in the past few months，thankful for terminal cancer．
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Ten-year-old Cara Turner loves the giant saltwater pond on her grandparents’ farm. When her grandfather Tom Turner bought the land 15 years earlier, he stocked the pond with fishes._____ in winter, Tom _____ regularly visit the 5.5-acre pond to feed the fishes. One afternoon, _____ the sun melted toward the horizon, Tom _____ to head home from the pond. _____, he was unable to put one foot in front of the other and then ____ backward into the pond’s deep water. When he didn’t _____immediately, Cara jumped in. It was too deep to touch the _____. With one hand, Cara grabbed the bank. With the other, she _____ for her grandfather.
Tom had _____ a stroke（中风）the year before. Now Cara wondered if he had _____again. She grabbed her grandfather’s head, pulled his face out of the water and then pulled him up onto the solid ground. The winter sun almost disappeared, and they were both shaking _____ the coldness. Cara knew she would have to get Tom to _____first, a quarter mile away. But sixty feet from the car, Tom fell. From there, he crawled(爬), _____ himself under a gate, to the car. Caro helped him into the passenger’s side and then got into the driver’s seat. “I used to sit on my dad’s lap and watch him_____,” said Cara. Although she felt _____, she pushed on the gas and drove toward the nearest hospital _____her grandmother Esca was to meet them.
Tom spent six days _____ in the hospital from a stroke. Since the accident, he has _____going to the pond alone. “If Cara hadn’t helped, she might not have a grandpa _____,” said Esca.
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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。
When I was growing up my dad would often give me small tasks to finish to help out around the house. Some were easy but the three I remember the most were the three of all. The first was helping to weed the four we had. It was work. I would rather ride my bike than crawl（爬行）in the dirt on my hands and knees the thousands of weeds in our gardens. The second was piling firewood for . It was tough work and I got more than my of pieces. I would rather walk in the woods than piling it in rows. The third was water from a mountain spring to our house. our well water had too much iron in it to .
Over the years, though, I learned to see the in all the things my dad had made me do. Having fresh vegetables for dinner was a delight. a cold glass of iced ten made from the mountain spring water was a pure . Standing by the wood stove on a snowy December day was a wonderful way to . I saw as well that all this work my dad had given me had
made me a better, stronger and more caring man. Most of all, I that when I did my work with a(n) heart, it didn’t fell like work at all.
Over the years I have learned something else too. When we do the work for our Heavenly Father with a spirit, it doesn’t feel like work, either. It feels like. Every act of kindness, word of encouragement, and gift of love we share will only make our lives better, make our hearts happier, and bring out souls to Heaven.
I am so to both my dad and my Father in Heaven. They showed me the of work and more importantly they showed me the pricelessness of love.
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完型填空,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。
Lily was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community. When she was sixteen, her father __________ her to drop out of school to contribute(贡献) to the family income. With English as her second language and ____________education, the __________ didn't look bright for Lily.
Lily's father was a stubborn man who __________ took “no” for an answer. He __________ Lily to find a job. With small hope of gaining ___________，each day she would just ride to the city, walk ___________about and return home at dusk.
On one of her ___________， Lily saw a sign at a big company.____________，she knocked on the very first door. In her __________ English, Lily told the office manager she was interested in the secretarial position. The manager ___________ to give the girl a chance. He directed her to type a letter, and then ___________.Lily looked at the clock and saw it was11：40 am. She thought everyone would be leaving for _________ at noon, when she could ___________away in the crowd. But she knew she should ___________ the letter.
On her first try, Lily ____________ one line of five words and made four mistakes. When he attempted the letter on her second try, she completed a full paragraph, but still made many mistakes. She looked at the clock：11：55—five minutes to ___________.Just then, the manager walked in. He came directly to Lily, read the letter and said, “Lily, you're doing ____________ work！”
With those simple words of encouragement, her desire to escape disappeared and her __________ began to grow. Lily thought, “Well, if he thinks it's good, then it must be good. I think I'll stay！” Lily did stay—all because someone had given the __________ and uncertain girl the gift of selfconfidence when she knocked on the door.
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Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 1500, but many of them are not considered very ________ . English is considered one of most important languages because many people ________ it, not only in England and America, ________ in other countries of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it ________ their own language, and another 230,000,000 use it as ________ language. It is ________ to say how many people are learning it. ________ Boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.
Many ________ children study French. French is also a very important language, ________children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
Which is the best ________ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt ________ language well when we were ________ . If we learn a second language in the ________ way, it may not seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It ________ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ________ it. It is using the language, ________ and talking in it all of the time. If people use a second language ________ they will learn it ________ .
In school, you learn to read, to write ,to hear and to ________ .It is best to learn all new words through the ________ . You can read them, spell them and speak them later.
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