December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without my mother, and the day’s usual 36 had disappeared.
The telephone rang. I 37 it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous 38 , knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be 39 ? I wanted to be left 40 .
My heart felt as 41 as the falling snow. 42 can I stop missing my mother?
I 43 the window. Seeing Rebecca’s car parked out front, I went back to my bed and drew the covers over my head.
“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you’re in there. Answer the door!”
“Leave me alone!” I 44 back. I heard paper rustling(沙沙作响) as she slid 45 under the door.
“Merry Christmas, ” she called out.
Not answering the 46 made me even 47. It wasn’t fair to my best friend. Her father and sister 48 in a car accident when she was eight years old. 49 , her mother had to return to 50 , and Rebecca was left to look after herself.
When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and 51 it. Inside was a golden pen and a journal. When I opened the journal’s front cover, out fell a bookmark with a(n) 52 written on it:
Dear Lucy,
My words won’t heal（治愈）the 53 . But your own words can.
Love,
Rebecca
As I stared at the journal’s blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly absorbed it.
That night, I 54 the phone and dialed her number.
“Looks like the snow is melting(融化), ” I said. “Spring was just ___55____the corner.”
A．excitement B．disappointment C．fright D．pity
A．answered B．covered C．picked D．ignored
A．pleasure B．puzzled C．sadness D．interest
A．regretful B．joyful C．comfortable D．careful
A．alive B．active C．alone D．crazy
A．light B．white C．heavy D．clear
A．Why B．Where C．Whether D．How
A．looked through B．looked into C．looked out D．looked up
A．brought B．shouted C．took D．turned
A．anything B．something C．everything D．nothing
A．phone B．question C．letter D．door
A．more helpful B．more attractive C．worse D．better
A．survived B．escaped C．lived D．died
A．As a whole B．As a result C．In all D．In general
A．work B．wash C．repair D．learn
A．closed B．folded C．opened D．painted
A．article B．poem C．notice D．message
A．failure B．pain C．wish D．shame
A．picked up B．picked out C．pushed back D．put away
A．around B．over C．on D．at
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。
It was a dark, wet November morning. It seemed like it would take a million years to get to summer again. I thought bears have got it right - what a idea to sleep through the worst part of the year and wake up when spring comes!
“Want some words of encouragement?” a co-worker, seeing my mood, kindly . “You don’t think they would you up?”
“ Today ? No.” I shook my head.
“I used to think so too,” he said, “ I realized the effect my words had on a certain person. Well, it was someone I knew pretty well. I have to say I him rather badly.”
“ You ? you are always so positive! How did you do that?”
“I told him I did not like anything about him, really. I told him I did not like his name. In fact, it wasn’t only what I said. I also did pretty bad things to him. When he was hungry, I did not give him the chance to eat food. When he felt like doing something fun, I said to him that having fun was not worthwhile. And worst of all, when he was sick and needed , I did not care. I told him to get up and get to work. And when he did, I never told him he did good work. I was so ashamed him,” he said. “that I wanted to him, but couldn’t.”
“But that was !”
He nodded. “Then one day it all . I stood there in front of the bathroom mirror in the morning. I saw the dark circles under his eyes. I saw the excess weight. I saw the long hair that needed . And I saw the eyes that once had looked at the world . Now they were so sad and tired. And there and then I realized he better. So I told the man I had disliked for so many years that he was a good person .”
My dropped. I looked at him, full of positive energy, in good shape, always ready to others.
“Wow...”
He looked at me. “So how about having a little conversation with the bathroom mirror? The person in there has the greatest effect on you!”
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I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my . The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually : “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.” The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me .“Now, this will be the first class to study the of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a worthy of study. ”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your . So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” went down. Pens raced paper. For the first time ever I saw students so in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked , looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart .
When I stepped into his office, he came to my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was . Those kids were writing on the college . Thank you. ”
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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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规)basis．As a matter of fact, we can see this at work in people of all ．For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about with their new toys．But their soon wears off and by January those toys can be found put away in the basement．The world is full of stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone’s interest．When parents bring home a pet, their child________ bathes it and brushes its fur．Within a short time, however, the ________ of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents．Adolescents enter high school with great ________ but are soon looking forward to________ ．The same is true of the young adults going to college．And then, how many ________ , who now complain (抱怨) about the long drives to work, ________ drove for hours at a time when they first ________ their driver’s license (执照)? Before people retire, they usually ________ to do a lot of ________ things, which they never had ________ to do while working．But ________ after retirement , the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they ________ ．And , like the child in January, they go searching for new ________ .
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My daughter is a single parent．She works hard to ______ for herself and her three young sons．She budgets carefully and ______ to plan for the little luxuries (奢侈品) and treats that others take for granted．When her eldest son, David, wanted a ______ so that he could do an after-school newspaper delivery job, she ______ and soon, he was the proud ______ of a good second-hand bike.
One afternoon, my daughter asked David to go to a local shop．He rode his bicycle, ______ foolishly left it outside the shop without ______ it up．When David came out of the shop, it was______．He walked home in ______ and then, together with his frustrated mother, went to the local police station to report the ______.
Imagine their ______ when they arrived at the station: a car parked out front had David’s bike wedged (挤进) in its boot (汽车后部的行李箱)．The ______ told them how he’d seen a group of kids ______ the bike once my grandson had gone inside the shop.
The driver – in his late teens himself – had called out to them to “leave that bike ______!” Despite this, one member of the group ______ on the bicycle and rode it away while the others followed．Not to be ______, the teen got in his car, drove after them and ______ that they give the stolen bike back.
He was happy to be able to ______ it to my grandson together with a lecture (echoed by the policeman and his mother) about the silliness of _____ to use the bike lock．______, in all the excitement, he slipped away, without even giving them his name or telephone number.
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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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The easy way out isn't always the easiest．I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug，my husband of one month，to a special meal．I_________to make homemade bread．Knowing the bread would take time，I_________it as soon as Doug left for work．
As l was not_________in cooking，I thought if a dozen was good，two dozen would be better，so I_________．everything．As Doug loved oranges，I also opened a can of orange and_________it all into the bowl．Soon there was a sticky dough（面团）covered with _________yellowish marks．Realizing I was_________，I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so 1 wouldn't have to________Doug laughing at my work．I went on preparing the rest of the _________，and when Doug got home，we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice．He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed________．Twice he got up and went outside，saying he heard a_________．
The third time he left，I went to the window to see what he was doing．I saw Doug standing about three feet from the_________，holding the lid up with a stick and looking_________．When I came out of the house，he dropped the stick and explained that there was something _________in our rubbish bin．Picking up the stick again，he held the lid up．enough for me to see．I felt ________．But I stepped．closer and looked harder．Without _______it was my work．The hot _________had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast（酵母）made the surface．________and sigh as though it were breathing．
I could see why Doug was shaken．I had to admit what the“_________”was and why it was there．I don't know who was more_________by the whole thing---Doug or me．
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