The first event of my life to be printed into my memory occurred when I was three. My mother stands, working in the 41 and then glances at me with a 42 smile. Two feet down the table, I knock on a chair with a bowl and a spoon, 43 my own invisible (无形的) powder. We wear 44 dresses, mine the leftover 45 from hers, sky blue — mommy’s favorite color. I am her shadow.
However, by 14 I could not 46 my mother. All that I heard every day was NO. I wanted to dye my hair and she said no. I wanted to 47 late with my friends and she said no. I didn’t understand why she said no. She was trying to 48 me from aches and pains and mistakes 49 in her teens. Several years later, I finally understood her, but it was too late. She became ill. I cried and 50 , “Don’t take her, God, please! She is my mother, my mommy, ma, the woman who gave me life. All my years, 51 the hard times and the good, she has been there, 52 to me forever by an invisible umbilical cord (脐带) that lasts longer after birth.”But this cord, this love could do nothing to stop the cancer from 53 .
A few years later 54 I myself lay in the hospital bed, my newly born daughter was 55 in my arms. I cried and smiled and prayed. Please help me to 56 her into a wonderful girl. And looking down 57 her eyes, I could see the message they held, “Your 58 would be proud.”
I stand in the kitchen now, and these thoughts flashed through my mind. I glance at my young daughter. A 59 feeling rushes through my soul as I take in the familiar 60 .
I am my mother’s shadow.
A．dining room B．kitchen C．sitting room D．garden
A．loving B．lively C．lovely D．horrible
A．preparing B．mixing C．cooking D．eating
A．matching B．similar C．different D．same
A．material B．clothes C．dress D．clothing
A．agree B．stand C．know D．realize
A．keep up B．stay out C．stay up D．keep on
A．protect B．warn C．save D．stop
A．watched B．liked C．heard D．experienced
A．screamed B．said C．shouted D．prayed
A．on B．in C．through D．within
A．concerned B．shared C．connected D．joined
A．growing B．spreading C．escaping D．moving
A．as B．before C．since D．when
A．thrown B．given C．placed D．taken
A．raise B．support C．bring D．change
A．for B．through C．up D．into
A．daughter B．children C．mother D．friends
A．warm B．strange C．painful D．exciting
A．saying B．sign C．scene D．paint
I wrote my first poem at the age of seven and showed it to my mother．She read and cried, “Buddy, you really wrote a beautiful poem!”
Shyly but , I said yes．She poured out her . “It was nothing short of talent!”
“What time will Father be home?” I asked．I could hardly wait to my work to him．I spent quite some time for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting, drew a fancy border around it and I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able to my poem.
At almost 7 o’clock my father burst in. He seemed . He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.
Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. “What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.
“Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaz…”
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said.
I my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of .
“I think it’s terrible,” he said.
I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting .
“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs .”
“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough awful poetry in the world already?”
I couldn’t it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I myself on the bed and cried the worst of the out of me.
That may have been the end of the story, but not of its for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s .”
Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that , “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”
Those voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course．
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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）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was having my dinner at McDonald's one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They _______ their meal, took a table near the window and started _______ food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fries(炸薯条) and one drink. The man _______ the food into two halves and carefully placed _______ before his wife.
He took a sip(一小口) of the drink. His wife also took one and then _______ the cup down between them. "That _______ old couple! All they can _______ is one meal for the two of them, "thought I. _______ the man began to eat his French fries, I _______ to my feet, went over and said that I was _______ to buy another meal for them. But he _______ refused me and said that they made it a ______ to share everything.
_____, the lady didn't take a bite. She sat there _____ her husband eat, and taking turns sipping the drink. Again I ______ to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was ______ his face with a napkin. I ______ no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time. ______ being politely refused. I asked the lady _____, "Madam, why aren't you eating You said that you share everything. _______ is it that you are waiting for " "The teeth," she answered.
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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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If we want to make friends, let’s put ourselves out to do things for other people --- things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
When the Duke of Windsor was the Prince of Wales, he was to tour South America, and before he on that tour he spent months studying Spanish so that he could make public talks in the language of the country; and the South Americans him for it.
For years I considered it important to find out the of my friends. How? Although I don’t have faith in astrology (占星术), I began by asking my friends whether he or she the date of one’s birth has anything to do with and personality. I then asked him or her to tell me the month and day of birth. he or she said, “November 24,”for example, I kept to myself, “November 24, November 24.”The minute my friend’s back was , I wrote down the name and birthday and would transfer (转写) it to a birthday book. At the beginning of each year, I had these birthday dates scheduled in my calendar pad so that they came to my automatically. When the birthday , there was my letter or telegram. What a big it was! I was frequently the only person on earth who .
If we want to make friends, let’s people with enthusiasm. When somebody calls you on the telephone, say“Hello”in tones that suggest how you are to have the person call. Many companies train their telephone operators to greet all callers in a tone that shows interest and . The callers feel the company is about them. Let’s remember that when we answer the telephone tomorrow.
Showing a genuine in others not only wins friends for you, but may in its customers a loyalty to your company.
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My father and I disagreed about curfew (晚间在家的时间). He’d say I was to be in by 9:30 on weekdays, and 11:00 on weekends, no exceptions without my first asking. I told him it made me like a junior-high kid. He explained that while a curfew sound like a restriction, it’s really about people looking out for one another.
The very next Friday after that pretty heated , my dad and I had tickets to see our town’s professional football game. On that day he was to a nearby city to meet with some major clients and me that his getting home and our leaving for the game would be tight.
To make sure we could off the moment he walked in, I got everything prepared. When a half hour had passed from the time he said he’d be home, I understood that he was a little . But then, nearly a whole hour passed. I was getting . We were going to miss the kick-off! And why hadn’t he me and let me know he was going to be really late? As I anxiously the floor, another half hour passed. That’s when I got really angry. How inconsiderate of my father! Now we were going to the whole game! When yet another half hour passed, my anger turned to . What if something terrible had happened to my dad, like he had a heart attack or had been in an accident, or something? I began to really . I’d already called his cellphone about ten times, but no .
I was beside myself, assuming the worst had happened.
Finally, the phone rang, and my dad said , “Son, I’m so sorry about the game, but…there was a terrible accident…on the freeway coming home, and I to help… and ended up going to the hospital. I my cellphone in the car, so I couldn’t call until now.”
I was so relieved to hear from my father and to that he was safe that I actually cried. That was I “got” the importance of a curfew: Checking in! It’ s about knowing that someone you love is . It was one more proof of my father’s loving me as much as he does.
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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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In my class, there was a really weak-looking guy. I don’t know if his name was Vit or Wit. I will him as Wit in this story of mine. He was a pale, thin guy. Not only his build looked weak, the way he was also weak. He walked slowly but he tried to stay off of everyone’s way. The friends in my class, Jean and Ingrid, would him. Truth to be told,
I them as well. We did things like taking his stuff, like his pens and pencils, and them somewhere in the school.
Wit was also really of insects, even butterfly. Jean, Ingrid, and I often put beetle on his clothes and he would run around, trying to it off. There were many beetles in the school so that was the insect we used to scare him with. Other insects such as butterfly were hard to so we pretty much gave up on it. We would often take the when Wit was off-guard and put the insects on him. it was on him, he would run around or jump about. He was too scared to it and pull it off.
Suddenly one day, we were by the school. When I walked into the room, Wit’s mother, as well as Ingrid’s mother, Jean’s father, and mine were in the room silently. Wit’s mother said that Wit went home and the sandbag shouting “Jean!!! Ingrid!!! Archer!!!” every day. I wanted to laugh but didn’t with all the she was putting on us. She asked many things, including things I had no idea about such as “Who put Wit’s bag in the girl toilet?” Apparently, it was Jean who did it. Jean seemed to have bullied Wit quite a lot and got quite a(n) from Wit’s and her own mother.
I think it should have been quite guilty for to see us scolded by the parents. However, we decided to stop bullying Wit and be friendly to him.
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