The Hand
Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class fun work to draw a picture of 36 for which they were thankful.
Most of the class might be 37 to be economically(经济上) poor, but still many would 38 a big holiday dinner with turkeys and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the 39 of most of her students’ art. And they really were.
But Douglas made a 40 kind of picture, for Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of pity and love, 41 and unhappy. As other children played at break, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess the pain Douglas felt 42 those sad eyes.
Yes, his picture was different. When he was 43 to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a 44 ---nothing else. Just an empty hand.
His picture brought out the heated 45 of his classmates. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer because farmers 46 turkeys. Another suggested a police officer’s because the police protect and 47 people. And so the discussion went --- until the teacher 48 forgot the young artist.
49 the children had gone on to do other work, she 50 Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy looked away and said in a very low voice, “It’s yours, teacher.”
She recalled the 51 when she had taken his hand and walked with him here and there and how 52 she had said, “Take your hand, Douglas, and we’ll go outside.” or “Let me show you how to hold your pencil.” or “Let’s do this together.” Douglas was most 53 for his teacher’s hand.
Brushing aside tears, she went on with her work.
In fact, people 54 not always say “Thanks”. But they would remember the hand that 55 .
A．anything B．something C．nothing D．everything
A．suggested B．imagined C．encouraged D．thought
A．have B．share C．prefer D．ask
A．homework B．subjects C．classes D．thoughts
A．good B．encouraging C．different D．exciting
A．merry B．naughty C．weak D．lively
A．behind B．beside C．before D．around
A．ordered B．told C．forced D．spoken
A．gift B．person C．hand D．wonder
A．thought B．laughter C．eyes D．discussion
A．keep B．need C．buy D．sell
A．look at B．care for C．take away D．drive off
A．always B．almost C．usually D．therefore
A．Before B．Because C．Since D．When
A．looked at B．pointed at C．turned to D．looked to
A．chances B．forms C．ways D．times
A．seldom B．often C．soon D．much
A．thankful B．calm C．pleased D．comfortable
A．could B．must C．should D．might
A．moved on B．went out C．helped out D．reached out
Driving to a store after a busy day at work, I saw a man standing near the store holding a sign that said, “Will work for food.” I knew at that 
moment that I was going into the store and 36 him something to eat.
As I 37 the car park, I saw in my car mirror a lady come out from a hairdresser’s and 38 the man. I thought she must be going to give him some 39 or something to help him out. In the store I was 40 to get the
things I needed and also the chicken dinner and a soda that I wanted to give the man outside. I hurried out to my car and41 that I was going to be able to hopefully help this man.
When I drove out of the car park, I couldn’t see the 42 . As I turned the corn
er I saw the man sitting in a 43 area away from the hairdresser’s and still 44 up the sign. I immediately 45 over and gave the man the dinner and soda and said, “ 46 this will get you through today.” He looked at me and said, “Thank yo
u so much!”
As I got back into my car, I looked in the 47 and saw the man swallowing the dinner like he hadn’t eaten for days.
I was so 48 that I was able to help him and at the same time I was so sad that the woman from the hairdresser’s, 49 , had asked the man 50 from her shop. It’s sad to say that 51 I live in a small city where homeless is not as 52 as in larger cities, people are uncomfortable with these people in 53 . All they need to do is lend a helping hand54 and it could make a huge55 in their lives
A．cook B．buy C．pay D．serve
A．turned into B．got over C．called at D．pointed out
A．example B．space C．money D．comfort
A．preparing B．hurrying C．hesitating D．planning
A．explained B．wondered C．agreed D．felt
A．man B．food C． lady D．sign
A．different B．strange C．famous D．comfortable
A．making B．holding C．taking D．building
A．turned B．thought C． pulled D．looked
A．Hopefully B．Finally C．Luckily D．Naturally
A．store B．mirror C．square D．crowd
A．popular B．anxious C．pleased D．patient
A．immediately B．obviously C．carefully D．nervously
A．stop B．suffer C．move D．change
A．whether B．because C．though D．unless
A．poor B．visible C．selfish D．happy
A．danger B．action C．need D．moment
A．at times C．at one time D．at a time
A．difference B．mistake D．living
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To 1 this, we started inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it’s fun to share with others — a lesson I needed to 2 myself as well, as it 3.
One evening Danae had 4 a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children’s card game called Go Fish. That evening, after Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, “Mommy, I’d like to give these to Natalie tomorrow. They’re her favorites.”
She held up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to 5 that I didn’t want her to give them away because then our 6 wouldn’t be complete. “But I really want her to have them!” Danae 7 . I thought perhaps she didn’t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone 8 . So I tried again, saying, “Once you give the cards to her, you can’t 9 them back tomorrow.”
A look of 10 came over Danae’s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to 11. But then she smiled and said. “Well, that’s okay; I want her to have them anyway.”
What could I say to that? I sat 12 for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to ask her to share. Did it 13 that our Go Fish set would be 14 ? What mattered was that my daughter was learning the 15 of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to make her friends happy. Isn’t that what life is all about?
1．A．achieve B．apply C．receive D．get
2．A．design B．know C．create D．review
3．A．turned up B．turned away C．turned to D．turned out
4．A．begged B．encouraged C．invited D．found
5．A．explain B．suggest C．respond D．teach
6．A．thing B．card C．set D．toy
7．A．insisted B．recommended C．announced D．cried
8．A．surely B．suddenly C．forever D．indeed
9．A．ask for B．call for C．look for D．care of
10．A．surprise B．concern C．delight D．satisfaction
11．A．understand B．accept C．refuse D．doubt
12．A．sadly B．angrily C．quietly D．slowly
13．A．work B．mean C．remind D．matter
14．A．incomplete B．lost C．limited D．gone
15．A．content B．usefulness C．way D．joy
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.
Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month."
But what he _____5_____ most was taking us o t or a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, called out over his shoulder, "You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the ____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door."
1. A. rich B. lovely C. close D. large
2. A. surprisingly B. nervously C. kindly D. proudly
3. A. dearest B. smallest C. latest D. youngest
4. A. ordering B. selling C. expecting D. improving
5. A. hated B. enjoyed C. cared D. hoped
6. A. crazily B. excitedly C. curiously D. directly
7. A. counting B. naming C. showing D. reaching
8. A. Immediately B. Carefully C. Angrily D. Easily
9. A. saw B. missed C. forgot D. left
10. A. truth B. story C. adventure D. accident
11. A. lecture B. house C. office D. activity
12. A. even if B. apart from C. so that D. except that
3. A. troublesome B. careless C. active D. quiet
14. A. found B. caught C. punished D. wounded
15. A. goes to B. belongs to C. works D. plays
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Entering the drama room I am immediately surrounded by the familiar sights, smells and sounds. Streaks(条纹，线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall ___1___ send shafts(杆状物) of light through the dusty air. I take a deep breath and the concrete and paint ___2___ tickle my nose. I ___3___ everything about this room.
Some of the best times of my life have been spent here. It’s ironic(讽刺的), but the ___4___ is the only place where I feel that I don’t have to __5 ___ to be someone I’m not. Like many teenagers, I almost ___6___ think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears. People only look at your acting ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the other ways people are usually ___7 ___.
When I’m on stage, everything else vanishes(消失). All the worries and __8 ___ of the outside world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, but it’s the excited and tingly kind, not the queasy(不稳定的) ___9 ___ of being different and alone.
I ___10___ love to work backstage and on lighting. I ___11___ you could find another girl who would work on a ladder ___12___ her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me unique and gives me a sense of ___13___ to know that I succeed in an area where few others — and virtually(事实上) no girls — do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it ___14___. Like others, I’m often insecure(不安的), not ___15___ who I am or where I’m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the confidence I get from theater.
1. A. doors B. windows C. roofs D. walls
2. A. smells B. tastes C. sounds D. looks
3. A. hate B. love C. miss D. forget
4. A. room B. office C. building D. stage
5. A. pretend B. expect C. want D. decide
6. A. hardly B. seriously C. constantly D. happily
7. A. thought of B. judged C. taken care of D. feeling
8. A. happiness B. anxieties C. chancesD. pressures
9. A. feeling B. idea C. hope D. fact
10. A. seldom B. almost C. relatively D. absolutely
11. A. hopeB. doubt C. think D. suspect
12. A. up for B. out at C. up to D. down to
13. A. pride B. duty C. humor D. sight
14. A. cruelly B. tensely C. friendly D. mildly
15. A. fond of B. afraid for C. sure ofD. interested in
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Friendship has great power, and it can inspire the people in trouble as well as in easy circumstances.
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've 1 just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I 2 to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we 3 hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he 4 with drugs and was into other self-destructive[自毁] 5 . I was blown away! She told me how she had been 6 to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big 7 . I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and 8 by the experience. It had been so 9 , I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't. I put the 10 of friendship to the 11 test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she 12 me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 13 , and then she told me that she had 14 with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the 15 rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
1. A. divided B. shared C. experienced D. enjoyed
2. A. got B. traveled C. moved D. arrived
3. A. took B. spared C. offered D. spent
4. A. supplied B. experimented C. tried D. provided
5. A. action B. movements C. behavior D. activities
6. A. explaining B. speaking C. calling D. lying
7. A. trouble B. worry C. difficulty D. task
8. A. burned down B. turned down C. turned out D. worn out
9. A. discouraging B. encouraging C. exciting D. inspiring
10. A. strength B. force C. power D. energy
11. A. last B. final C. late D. recent
12. A. treated B. regarded C. honored D. valued
13. A. information B. dialogue C. conversation D. communication
14. A. broken out B. broken up C. broken away D. broken off
15. A. luckily B. correctly C. naturally D. truly