My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought 1 . My complaints, even self-justified（自有道理） 2 , were always landing on 3 ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end with their 4 into tears. I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to 5 my method of “mothering”.
One day when they were at school, I spent some time tidying their rooms. On their desks, in plain 6 , I left the cards: “Dear Bill(the other card was 7 to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.” 8 arriving back, the children were 9 excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy 10 for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and 11 asking them to play a certain violin 12 . Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas 13 ．
Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little 14 : “If you can finish your homework and go over your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in 15 of well-done jobs the day 16 .
17 I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its （贴条）. The bathroom mirror became the 18 centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be 19 .
We all benefited from and 20 the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication．
A．differently B．not C．negative D．same
A．crying B．shouting C．persuading D．beating
A．side B．deaf C．neither D．either
A．crying B．bringing C．bursting D．dropping
A．adjust B．adopt C．access D．addict
A．sentence B．words C．speech D．sight
A．sent B．read C．delivered D．addressed
A．As B．At C．In D．Upon
A．more than B．rather than C．no more than D．other than
A．asking B．waiting C．praying D．expecting
A．politely B．friendly C．gently D．toughly
A．music B．song C．piece D．tone
A．respectable B．uninteresting C．incredible D．fresh
A．challenge B．question C．suggestion D．advice
A．response B．answer C．praise D．honor
A．ahead B．before C．over D．ago
A．Actually B．Even so C．Even if D．Though
A．life B．main C．memory D．reminder
A．sent B．struck C．posted D．hanged
A．learned B．appreciated C．shared D．thanked
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Accept life as it is. I learned how to do it from my father. , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was and ill.
My father was a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started about life, and I told them about one of my . I said that we must very often give things up we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. , he answered his own question: “I the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I remember his words and become . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be to give up my small anger. In this , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now I am for this one gift.
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阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day I was in a parking lot when a sincere man came to me asking for help with directions. He had a printout of Google maps from the airport to a ________ on the main street, but couldn’t ________ it. He clearly didn’t have a phone, so after confirming his written directions, I mapped it on my ________ and showed him exactly where he needed to go.
He mentioned that he had ________ going there, but there was no such street number and he couldn’t locate his hotel. I ________ it again for him, he thanked me with a big ________, shook my hand, and took off. I got into my car and he got into his, and we ________ ways. As I drove to the next store and went in, I found something wasn’t right about the ________ so I Googled again and ________ that he was looking for the right ________ but in a city a half hour away!
Unfortunately it had been several minutes, and in the peak rush hour time, the ________ o f finding him was slim to none. But I decided to give it a ________ and took off in that direction. I had barely ________ what his car looked like, and was just about to________ . I parked my car and wa________what else I could do when the man drove right by and ________ over into a nearby parking spot, still ________ about where he was.
When I pulled in next to him, he couldn’t believe it. “________ did you find me? ” he asked. “ I’m not sure, but I ________that you are in the wrong city! ” I showed him the right directions, and after more smiles, laughs and a handshake, we parted ways again. Probably we’ll never ________ again, but that makes it all the more sweet.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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 am anything but adventurous. So, when I actually ____ the courage to learn driving and, even more ____, passed the test, I fancied being a free spirit at last.
I mistakenly thought I would ____new roads and drive to the farthest horizons. But, trying new highways was next to ____ for me. The time I tried, I got hopelessly ____ and found myself going around in circles. When I eventually found the way home, I ____ this was the end of the adventurous life. I _____ the known routes. When a friend ____ me to make the most of weekend when the traffic was ____ to make new discoveries, I ___ at her with horror. Was I going to ____ a perfectly good weekend raising my blood pressure or was I going to spend it doing as little as possible? _____, I chose the latter option.
After some years of battling the Sharjah-Dubai ___ , I told myself it wasn’t worth ____ my peace of mind. Now I had the Metro, buses and ____ to choose from. Taking taxi was one of the best ____ I have made from a traffic point of view. There was an unbelievable sense of lightness _____ I jumped into a taxi, taken to my destination without being worried.
All one has to do is give directions. I am good at that. Giving directions, I mean. And I am very __ ___ when I issue these, with no effect on the part of the person driving. As soon as I sit inside, I start the description of the _____ to be taken in great detail so as to _____ the possibility of being taken for a ride.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（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。
One day, my father drove his employer to another city for a business meeting. On the outskirts (郊区) of town, they ________ for a sandwich lunch. While they ate, several boys playing in the street passed by their________. One of the boys limped (跛行). Looking more closely, my father’s boss ________that the boy had a clubfoot (畸形足). He stepped out of the car and ______ the boy, saying that he was able to help get that foot fixed. The young boy was ________. The businessman wrote down the boy’s name before the boy joined his friends down the street.
The man ________ and said to my father, “Woody, the boy’s name is Jimmy. Find out where he ________ and do your best to get his parents’ ________ to let him have his foot operated on. I’ll pay all the costs.” They finished their sandwiches and went on their________________.
It didn’t take long for my father to ________ Jimmy’s house, a small one that needed paint and repair. For almost an hour, my father ________ explained the plan to Jimmy’s parents. ________, they looked at each other. When my father ________ they still weren’t quite sure about the generous offer from an unknown benefactor (捐助者).
Later, my father’s employer got in touch with the local government with a ________ to send someone to Jimmy’s home to ________ the family that this was a lawful offer. Soon, with permission papers signed, my father took Jimmy to an excellent________in another state. After five operations, his limp disappeared.
His parents watched in________as the returned boy stepped lightly toward them. They still could not ________ that a man they had never seen would pay a large sum of money to have a foot corrected for their son.
The ________ benefactor was Mr. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He always said it’s more fun to do something for people ________ they don’t know who did it.
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阅读下面的短文，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。
You can really tell a lot about people’s character by how they act at the grocery store. I ________ what had happened in a crowded store when there was a ________ of shopping carts a few days ago.
A well-dressed man, together with his wife and a child, was________ a cart when another man stopped him. “Excuse me,” the second man said, “________ this cart is what I brought here. It’s mine.” The first guy looked rather ________ and then became annoyed. Instead of ________ , he protested, “But someone took my cart!” At that moment, his wife also glared at him, so he unwillingly ________ his ill-gotten gain. The well-dressed man had ________ the useful saying that “Do to others as you would have others do to you.” ________ , there are often some shoppers who have changed their minds about ________ some items and put what they have chosen on the ________ shelf. They think that the store ________ shop assistants who should put the things they give up ________. In the opinion of these fellows, does that mean it’s OK for kids to ________ their rubbish on the floor or everywhere because schools employ 55 to clean the hall? In the ________ , there are express-line cheaters who enter the “10 items or less” line with 14 items because they’re in a hurry or ________ because they are unwilling to queue up. They don’t think that someone will ________ them behaving immorally. Even if someone finds them out, they’re ready to ________ that “It depends on what you call an item.”
I consider these fellows as a black sheep and there are a small number of such people. In our society we should be ________ , and play by the rules. It is important for us to set a good example to our kids, even in the grocery store.
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