Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, "Look what I ____36_____." She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it caused me to ____37_____. "Mom, look! Isn't it ____38_____?" said my seven-year-old daughter. I ____39_____ the snake skin and thought that it really wasn't pretty. Everything children see ____40_____is full of beauty in their eyes; they see only ____41_____ and excellence in the world until educated.
"____42_____ did the snake do this?" Sarah asked. I tried to seize the ____43_____ to teach my children that there was almost always something beyond the obvious. I wanted to tell them that there was something else going on ____44_____ what they saw in front of them. "Snakes shed (蜕) their skin because they need to renew themselves," I ____45_____.
"Why do they have to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
My son Robert laughed and said, "Because they don't ____46_____ what they are and they want to be someone else." I politely ignored him and said that by shedding skins, we could ____47_____ the hidden reality.
"We often need to shed our skin, those coatings that we ____48_____ ourselves with," I said to my children, who listened very ____49_____, with their eyes wide open. "This snake ____50_____ needs this skin. It is probably too hard for him, or he probably doesn't think he looks as ____51_____in it as he once did. It's like buying a new ____52_____."
I'm sure this explanation will not ____53_____ the naturalists. But Sarah was getting to understand that renewal is part of ____54_____. She should learn from it what we need to keep and what we need to ____55_____.
A．made B．seized C．caught D．found
A．think B．jump C．run D．struggle
A．interesting B．smooth C．beautiful D．colorful
A．stared at B．took off C．referred to D．brought back
A．by accident B．over and over again C．in the future D．for the first time
A．honesty B．difference C．value D．fear
A．Where B．Why C．How D．When
A．information B．possibility C．opportunity D．question
A．besides B．for C．without D．around
A．talked B．explained C．whispered D．shouted
A．keep B．want C．need D．like
A．see B．guess C．ignore D．remember
A．keep B．store C．cover D．improve
A．properly B．attentively C．sadly D．angrily
A．once more B．at times C．right now D．no longer
A．nice B．healthy C．strong D．big
A．hat B．watch C．suit D．home
A．move B．satisfy C．correct D．defeat
A．experience B．achievement C．progress D．competition
A．throw out B．hope for C．find out D．throw away
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。
As a nativ_______Detroit, Michigan Viola Vaughn spent the majority of her life as an active ______. ______with personal disaster, Viola triumphed and developed a non-profit organization, “1,000 girls”, _______education and training for young women of Senegal. She has devoted her life to _______others achieve, encouraging young girls to_______.Her caring qualities are seen in the daily routine of her beautiful life.
Dr Viola M. Vaughn _______from Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York, and after that, she spent her life devoted to health care and education in the United States and Africa.
In the year 2000, Viola faced a mother’s worst fear_______ her 26-year-old daughter died.______with five grandchildren to raise, Viola and her husband, Jazz musician Sam Sanders, moved to Senegal, Africa, hoping to provide their grandchildren______a multicultural education. Tragedy hit again when Viola’s husband of 20 years passed________ and she was left_______. Her determination and spirit kept her moving and she passed the time homeschooling her grandchildren.
The surrounding community noticed Viola and her dedication to teaching her grandchildren. Viola was approached by a neighborhood child who wanted to join in the studies. ____33____,but with her mother’s permission, the young girl began homeschooling with Viola. Soon the number of students ________Viola’s daily classes rose to twenty and 10,000 Girls was born.
10,000 Girls is a non-profit organization with six locations and over 1,500 students. The girls are actively ______in their education. Not only______teach each other, but they have opened a bakery shop. It can help provide educational supplies. Girls who graduate are given scholarship opportunities and continue the cycle of success by returning to help 10,000 Girls continue to ______.
Viola Vaughn has dedicated her life to the greater good of her community and has truly made, and will continue to make, a difference in the lives of young girls who _____ would not have ________a chance. Viola Vaughn is a true ______ of humanity.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Eric in a high chair and noticed everyone was________ eating and talking. Suddenly, Eric screamed with ________ and said, "Hi there." His fat baby hands hit the high chair tray, and his eyes were wide with excitement.
I looked around and saw the________ of his enjoyment. It was an old man with a worn and oily coat. And his hair was uncombed and unwashed. I was sure he ________ . His hand waved."Hi there, baby; I see you," the man said to Eric.
My husband and I ________ looks. Eric continued to laugh and answer, "Hi, there." Everyone in the restaurant noticed this. My husband and I were ________.
We finally ________ the meal and________for the door. My husband went to pay the check and told me to meet him in the parking lot. The old man sat ________ me and the door. "Lord, just let me out of here ________ he speaks to me or Eric," I prayed. As I drew closer to the man, I turned my back trying to sidestep him and avoid any air he might be________ . As I did so, Eric leaned over my arm, reaching with both arms in a baby's "________ " position. Before I could stop him, he had ________ himself to the man's arms. Eric, in an act of total ________ and love, laid his tiny head upon the man's torn shoulder.
His ________ hands full of dirt, pain and hard labor gently, so gently, cradled (抱着) my baby's______________ and patted his back. I stood amazed. After a while, he pushed Eric from his chest ______________ as though he were in pain, saying "God bless you, ma'am. You've given me the best Christmas gift."
I had just witnessed a genuine love shown through the innocence of a tiny child who saw no sin(罪恶), who made no ________ .The ragged old man, ________ , had reminded me that a genuine love is one which the ________ essence (本质) of love is realized.
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完型填空：
阅读下面短文，从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had ________ up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ________ of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a _______. A few minutes’ nap（小睡）time before class couldn’t ________ , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my ________ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ________ . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish(孩子气的) smile on his face. He had ________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still ________ . “I am glad to see everyone is ________. Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the _______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the ________ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ________ he made the material come ________. His insight （洞察力）was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ________ with were contagious(有感染力的). I ________ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ________ and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not _______in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life，do it well，do it with _______ . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk(梦游)your way through ________ then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too________not to live it well.
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
During the wars, a soldier looked after his horse with the greatest care. He gave it the best wheat to eat and the ________ water to drink. He dried it carefully with a towel when it got wet and ________ it with a warm blanket on cold winter nights. ________ , the horse was strong and swirl and carried its master ________ out of the dangers of ________ .
When peace came, however, the soldier ________ . He put the ________ out in a field full of wild plants and gave it only a little food to eat. He left the horse ________ in a worn-out place with a ________ roof and a floor made of mud. During the day the________ made the horse work hard on his farm, ________ a large amount of wood and pulling heavy wagons (四轮货车).
After some time war broke out ________ . The soldier prepared himself for the war and went to the field to ________ his horse. Hurriedly brushing the mud from its coat, he________ the horse. For a moment the horse stood there without ________. Then gradually its ________ legs began to bend ________ it sank slowly to the ground. The horse gave the soldier a look of ________ .
"Master," it said, "you' ll have to ________ on foot this time. You have made me work like a mule (骡子) and ________ me like a goat. I cannot change back into a horse in an instant just because you Want me to."
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
As a teacher, I think all students were dear to me, especially Mark.
Mark was very talkative, I had to ________ him repeatedly that talking without________was not acceptable. Every time I had to correct him for misbehaving. “ Thank you for correcting me, Sister!”________ I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.
Once my________ was running out when Mark talked again, I ________two pieces of tape(胶带) and made a big X with them over his mouth. When I ________the tape, he still thanked me for correcting him.
One Friday, I asked the students to________the names of the other students on two pieces, leaving a ________between each name, and then write down the ________ thing they should say about others.
Then I________ all the lists and gave each student his or her list. Soon the entire class was smiling. “ I never knew that ________anything to anyone!” “ I didn’t know________liked me so much!” Mark said, “Thank you for keeping me________, Sister.”
Later Mark joined the army and was________in Vietnam. After the funeral(葬礼), his father showed me something________on Mark. It was pieces of notebook paper that had________been taped and folded many times, on which were the good things that Mark’s classmates had said about him. His mother said that he behaved better and better________ my list.
Mark’s classmates told me that they kept their own lists in ________ways. Hearing this, I finally cried.
Sometimes the ________things could mean the most to others. We forget when life will end. So________ the people you love and care about, before it is too late.
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