I remember as a small child people would often ask me, "What are you going to be when you grow up?"
Well, it __36__ being a cowboy or some super hero. Later it was a fireman, a policeman, a lawyer... As I grew older my dreams for the future __37__. When, at last, I was in college, I set my __38__ on becoming a preacher (牧师) like my father. __39__ I studied and prepared for that life. I reached the __40__ in the end and I was preaching __41__ full-time for much of my adult life.
However, for many people, there is a "thief" that goes around stealing our __42__. Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, a relative, or a friend, but the __43__ thief is usually ourselves.
We find __44__ just about reaching the top, and a "small" __45__ inside says, "You’ll never make __46__.""You can’t possibly do this." On and on the "small" voice __47__ our failure. Failure ,__48__ is one of the most important tools we have may teach us valuable (极宝贵的) __49__ . When we learn these lessons well, we are ready __50__ success.
I always tell my children that you __51__ do anything that your heart desires(渴望). Remember the saying, "Nothing is __52__ to a willing heart." There are __53__ "overnight" successes, but with determination, they will come. Imagine __54__ a life you dream of ，Then in your heart, believe it will happen to you. Then work, work, work. You’ll get the picture.
So, be true to your dream, and don’t let anyone __55__ it from you —especially yourself.
A．insisted on B．felt like C．kept on D．started out
A．changed B．failed C．planned D．left
A．eyes B．heart C．brain D．experience
A．But B．So C．Or D．Yet
A．agreement B．decision C．aim D．position
A．hardly B．slightly C．nearly D．extremely
A．money B．plan C．friends D．dreams
A．greatest B．tallest C．poorest D．oldest
A．themselves B．yourselves C．ourselves D．itself
A．sound B．voice C．noise D．speech
A．it B．him C．her D．me
A．expects B．predicts C．answers D．suffers
A．where B．when C．who D．which
A．stages B．suggestions C．lessons D．choices
A．to B．for C．at D．with
A．are able to B．used to C．have to D．get used to
A．interesting B．important C．necessary D．impossible
A．many B．a few C．some D．no
A．spending B．living C．planning D．changing
A．buy B．fool C．steal D．borrow
When 24-year-old Hannah Brencher moved to New York after college，she was hit by loneliness. One day she felt so that she want to reach out to someone. And so she put pen to paper and started writing letters-letters to complete .
But these weren’t letters about how she was feeling. There were happy letters，all about the other person，not her. She would write messages for people to have a “ day " and tell strangers how brilliant they were， they thought no one else had noticed. Brencher began dropping the all over New York，in cafes，in library books，in parks and on the subway. It made her letter，knowing that she might be making somebody’s through just a few words. It gave her to focus on. And so，The Word Needs More Love Letters was born.
The movement is all about letters—not emails，but handwritten letters. Not love letters，written to a real beloved，but letters for strangers. They don’t necessarily say “I love you”，but they are . kindness—telling people they are remarkable and 15 and all-round amazing. It’s the sort of stuff that most people don’t really say out loud even to the people they ，let alone a total stranger.
Brencher’s initiative(初衷) has now .There are more than 10,000 people who join in all over the world. Last year，she gave a talk. In it，she talked about a university student who dropped letters around her campus，only to suddenly everyone was writing them and there were love letters hanging from the trees.
It’s a very cute idea. I know that if I was on the end of a letter like that，it almost certainly would put a on my face. So I decided to give it a try and see if I could do the same for someone else.
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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。
Sandy Greenberg came from a poor family．He went to Columbia University on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial .
Unfortunately, Sandy had a(n) disease during his second year at Columbia University, and finally he became blinD． But for Sandy, something else also happened to him — his roommate would his textbooks to him, every night after he lost his sight.
As a result, Sandy went on to with honors．He went off to study at OxforD． He was still quite poor, but he had managed to about five hundred dollars as he went along.
His roommate went on to graduate school．One day, Sandy got a from him at OxforD． His former roommate said, "Sandy, I'm really ．I really don't like being in graduate school, and I don't want to do this."
"Well, what do you want to do? " Sandy .
His roommate told him, "Sandy, I really love to ．I have a high school friend who plays the guitar．And we would really like to our hands in the music business．But we need to make a promo record, and in order to that I need $500."
Sandy took all his life savings without and sent it to his roommate．Well, his roommate was the famous singer, Art Garfunkel, and he up with another musician, Paul Simon．That $500 them make a record that finally became The Sound of Silence.
How we are able to deal with in our lives will be influenced by how we deal with others the way．What we get will depend a lot on what we ．And that's the end of the story of doing well by doing good.
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I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago．Actually，my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to again．She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall．The called an ambulance，which took her to the hospital.
My mother has thought that hospitals are a real horror．She believes that doctors and hospitals give you diseases．My father went to hospital a year ago，and after a few weeks，he ．The fact that he was also in the final________of lung cancer was certainly related，but by my mother's logic，my father's death was with the hospital.
When a neighbor me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance，the first thing I did was similar，which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital．The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________be taken there， I was told that no one by that name had been ，so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospitals．Both of them also ________ that they were holding my mother．I rang the and asked them to find her，but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n) person.
It took six calls to my mother．She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along，but because their computer system hadn't been updated overnight，there was no record of her ．My mother had spent more than a in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing with her．I managed to get her out within 10 days，but only by agreeing that in the future，she would live downstairs．In return，the hospital said they would for a social worker to visit the house three or four rimes a day.
Luckily，my mother is safe．Thank all the people who have given their help to us.
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At a gathering，we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments．It came around to Frank．
Frank began to tell us of his childhooD． "I in San Pedro．My Dad was a fisherman，and he loved the seA． He had his own boat，but it was making a living on the seA． He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to the family．"
He looked at us and said，"I you could have met my DaD． He was a big man，and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for the ．When you got close to him，he like the ocean．He would wear his old coat and his overalls．No matter how much my mother them，they would still smell of the sea and of fish．"
Frank's voice dropped a bit．"When the weather was bad he would me to school．He had this old truck that was older than he was he would drive toward the school，I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear．He would right in front of the school gate，and it seemed like everybody be standing around and watching．Then he would over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy．It was so for me．I was twelve years old，and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!"
He and then went on，"I remember the day when I said 'No' ”
It was the first time I had ever talked to him that ，and he had this surprised look on his face．
I said，'Dad，I'm too for a goodbye kiss．'
My Dad looked at me for the longest time，and his eyes started to tear up．I had never seen him ．He turned and looked out the windshield(挡风玻璃)．'You're right，' he saiD． 'You are a big boy．．．．a man．I won't kiss you anymore．'”
Frank got a sad look on his face，and the tears began to in his eyes，as he spoke．"It wasn't long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back．”
Tears were running down Frank’s cheeks．He spoke again．"Guys，you don't know whawould .to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek． to feel his rough old face．to smell the ocean on him． to feel his arm around my neck．
I wish I had been a man then．If I had been a ，I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss．"
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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。
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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