Once there was a very brilliant, creative and learned man. He gained much ____36_____while traveling throughout the world. Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a traffic accident, leaving only a finger and thumb on his right hand. He became so ____37_____ that he was afraid he would spend his life _____38_____ and would no longer be able to use his life in a(n) ____39_____way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting ____40_____. He realized that he still had partial ____41_____ of his right hand and could write with ____42_____. Then, he had an idea. “Why not write to other people who need encouragement?”
He ___43___ where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of people in ____44___. Many of them had hope of regaining their ____45___ . Others would keep feeling depressed and remain put away for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to __46____ them. So he wrote to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the prisoners would be ____47____. However, it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
____48_____with the intention, the man began sending 49 messages of God’s love, hope, strength, and encouragement. He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the ___50____. He poured his heart and soul into his words, ___51_____ his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any ___52___. Frequently, he felt discouraged, wondering if anyone ___53____read his letters. However, this was his ___54____chance，so he determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, “Please write on the best paper you can afford. Your letters are passed from cell (牢房) to cell until they almost fall to ____55___!”
We all have unique experiences, abilities and talents. We can discover ways to reach others in need of encouragement and strength.
A．wealth B．faith C．experience D．confidence
A．depressed B．embarrassed C．ashamed D．thrilled
A．writing B．suffering C．weeping D．wandering
A．abnormal B．regular C．comfortable D．meaningful
A．presents B．e-mails C．letters D．prizes
A．sense B．strength C．shape D．function
A．affection B．caution C．difficulty D．confidence
A．estimated B．doubted C．assumed D．wondered
A．hospitals B．churches C．prisons D．charities
A．families B．letters C．freedom D．conscience
A．release B．reach C．defend D．know
A．acceptable B．reasonable C．forbidden D．considered
A．Faced B．Filled C．Satisfied D．Impressed
A．holy B．daily C．one-way D．round-way
A．point B．worst C．degree D．limit
A．sharing B．learning C．gaining D．enriching
A．success B．reply C．help D．progress
A．curiously B．patiently C．carefully D．actually
A．only B．better C．extra D．lost
A．ruin B．pieces C．the ground D．the bottom
Air travel makes some people very nervous. The crowds, the noise and flying itself can cause . But there are classes people can take to help them the fear of flying. And there is training for service dogs that suffer the same problem.
Service dogs almost never the side of the people they care for. You will see them working on buses, trains and other public systems. But the busy environment found at an airport can even the best trained working dog.
People with disabilities depend on their dogs. They want the animals to safely them through security areas. They also need the dogs to remain on duty on the airplane, even when the flying is not . This takes special . The Air Hollywood K9 Flight School is one place where such help can be found.
The school has a piece of equipment that provides the sights, sounds and even the feel of an airplane in flight. Dog trainers say training is based on a simple rule: preparation. Dogs need to be exposed gradually and to the environment, to loud noises, to sounds and other dogs so that when this experience happens to them on a daily basis, they're able to act in a way that they're used to acting and that they don't get .
Dog owners who the training at Air Hollywood K9 Flight School say they now feel much more at ease about future . Their dogs also seem ready for takeoff.
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In the future, schools will teach at least one thing we do not teach today: the art of self-discovery. There is nothing more_____in education. We turn out students from our universities who know how to give answers, but not how to_____questions.
Our students do not really get into the centers of wisdom in our culture. They_____ universities with skills for the workplace, but with no knowledge of how to live, or what_____is for. They are not taught how to see. They are not taught how to listen. They are not taught the great_____of obedience（遵守、服从）.
They are not taught the true art of_____. True reading is not just passing our_____ over words on a page, or_____information, or even understanding what is being read. True reading is a_____act. It means seeing first, and then using the_____. Higher reading ought to be a new subject. As we read, we should try to get something new. I meet people in all_____ of life, and most known in the fields of literature and science, who, though professionals, do not_____read what is in front of them. They only read what is_____known to them. I suspect this is happening now, even as you read this_____.
All our innovations(革新), our discoveries, our_____come from one source: being able first to see what is there, and what is not; to hear what is said, and what is not; but also to think clearly.
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【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．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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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