Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life was in constant 1 .
Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that 2 Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 3 hospitals all over the country.
Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble 4 from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a 5 of the hospital, crying.
“Are you okay?” a man asked.
Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t 6 it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to 7 something from herself. Could her
8 go to Carmen’s mother?
After reviewing the data, doctors 9 Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to 10 the transplant.
That cold night, when Cheryl was 11 dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was 12 for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.
On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s 13 with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”
One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria 14 with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was 15 in another loving mother’s chest.
A．change B．danger C．disorder D．pain
A．matched B．replaced C．controlled D．cooperated
A．finding B．phoning C．hoping D．interrupting
A．leaving B．taking C．walking D．Carrying
A．corner B．bed C．man D．nurse
A．put B．support C．pass D．make
A．save B．recycle C．donate D．separate
A．heart B．mind C．organ D．spirit
A．informed B．introduced C．congratulated D．reminded
A．give up B．carry out C．search after D．put off
A．noticed B．predicted C．found D．declared
A．praying B．begging C．thinking D．expecting
A．funeral B．operation C．conference D．anniversary
A．passed away B．woke up C．left behind D．went on
A．active B．alive C．conveyed D．Transformed
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。
Looking back on the barbeque that day I hosted, I can’t help thinking that things didn’t go as well as planned. Recalling my own____ may help you avoid making the same mistakes.
I asked a few friends____ the barbeque. The weather was ____ for the whole weekend and there is nothing better than eating food outdoors. ____I ‘d be the one doing the cooking, it was going to give a chance to ____my barbeque skills. On the morning of the actual day, I visited the____ to pick up the essentials, which ____meant beer, wine, sausages, burgers some bread rolls. My ____was that these things would ensure a great barbeque ____. Once people arrived, we all soon started drinking and ____. Although I soon realized I forgot to purchase any soft drinks, all seemed to be going ____.
At this point, a vegetarian friend asked what he would ____ . It was then that it hit me!. I realized that I had assumed that ____wouldn’t be meat eater. The foolish assumption could have been ____if I had thought about these things earlier. Thinking that I let a guest stay hungry, I__ that food that was already cooking. Before I knew it, I had some burnt sausages and burgers for everyone else. ____my friends were very understanding about the whole situation.
____this experience, I realized that I was____. In the future to avoid making the same mistakes, we should ensure that we put plenty of effort into the____ and we should spend more time considering what will happen. There is no doubt that doing so is ____to host a successful event.
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完型填空
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to be on duty on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked doubtfully. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t accompanied(陪伴) by the body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Out of curiosity, I checked their registration form. No address—they were . I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a family of five in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of Christmas day, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal in the hospital dining hall on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients that came to us that day, our team worked to meet the needs, ________ the expectation, of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
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阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
Not long ago, I was at a state conference (会议) with a group preparing for a week of meetings. I walked into the room where a handful of volunteers were ______ collating (装订整理) handouts. I asked if I could help. One of the ladies _____ said “Oh, no, thank you” and offered me a chair to just sit while they worked.
Then, another volunteer came into the room, saw me sitting there doing nothing and said: “Hey, Larry, come on over here. There’s work to do, and you can help.” He put a couple of chairs ______, placed two stacks of handouts on them and ______: “OK, the left sheet goes on top of the right one.”
“Fine. I can handle that,” I said. And just like that, I was now part of the team.
This member of the group saw that my ______ did not mean an inability to help. ______, I thanked him for having included me, and asked ______ motivated his action. He said: “Well, I figured ______ one more set of hands we’d finish more quickly. I was just using ______.”
I’m sure that the kind folks who initially (最初) ______ my offer of help did not mean to offend (冒犯) me. It just seemed more appropriate to them to say “No, thank you” than to stop their work and try and ______ how to include me. And that’s the real issue here. Too often, people with disabilities are _______ – within their _____ or within a social setting – because of their disability and not because of their inability.
It’s important for all of us to feel part of the group and to feel that we ______. It’s important to our self-esteem (自尊). And it is even more important for people with disabilities. ______ means we are accepted, appreciated and _____ as a full and ______ member of the group. It sends a ______ that states: “To us, your abilities are more important than your disability.”
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阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的四个选项(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。
Still in shock I wandered about the house trying to decide what to put into the suitcases._____ that evening I had received a call from my hometown in Missouri telling me that my brother and his wife had been killed in a car _____. “ Come as soon as you can,” ______ my mother.
While Larry, my husband, made plane ______ for the following morning, I aimlessly____ things and put them down. I couldn’t focus. Occasionally, someone phoned and said, “ _____ there’s anything I can do, let me know.” “Thank you very much, ” I’d_____. But I didn’t know what to ask for.
When the _____ rang, I _____ slowly and opened the door, seeing Emerson, our neighbor, standing on the porch(门廊). “ I’ve come to ______ your shoes,” he said. Confused, I asked him to repeat. “I just want to _____you. I remember when my father died, it _____me hours to get the children’s shoes cleaned and shined for the funeral. So that’s what I’ve come to do for you. Give me all your shoes-not just your good shoes ,but all your shoes.”
While Emerson_____ newspaper on the kitchen floor, I gathered Larry’s shoes, my heels and the children’s ______ shoes. While we cleared the supper dishes, he continued to work, saying nothing.
One by one , the jobs fell into ____. I went into the laundry room to put a load of wash into the dryer, returning to the kitchen to find that Emerson had left. In a line against one wall stood all our shoes, spotless. I could put the shoes _____ into the suitcase.
Now, whenever I _____an acquaintance who has lost a loved one, I no longer call with the vague(含糊的) offer, “ If there’s anything I can do…” Now I try to think of one_____ task that suits that person’s need –such washing the family car, house-sitting _____the funeral…And if the person says to me, “ How did you know I needed that done?” I reply, “It’s because a man ____cleaned my shoes. ”
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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
John’s parents acquired the washer when he was a small boy. It happened during World War II. His family never ________ a washing machine and, since gasoline was expensive, they could not ________ trips to the laundry several miles away. Keeping clothes ________ became a problem for young John’s household.
A family friend joined the army, and his wife ________ to go with him. John’s family ________ to store their furniture while they were away. To the family’s ________ , the friend suggested they use their Bendix. So this is how they________ the washer.
Young John helped with the washing, and across the years he ________ a love for the old, green Bendix. But ________ the war ended. When the friends came to take it back, John grew terribly ________ . His mother ________ him and said. “You must remember, that machine ________ belonged to us in the first place. That we ever got to use it at all was a gift. So, instead of being mad at it being taken ________ , let’s use this ________ to be grateful that we had it at all.”
The lesson turned out _______. Years later, John watched his eight-year-old daughter die a slow and painful death of leukemia (白血病). Though he ________ for months with her death, John could not begin getting over from the ________ until he remembered the old Bendix.
His daughter was a ________. When he realized the simple fact, everything changed. He could now begin recovering from the death of his daughter. He started to see her as a marvelous gift that he was fortunate enough to ________ for a time. He felt ________ . He found strength and recovery. He knew he could get through the valley of loss.
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