The car, running along the well-lit road now sank in darkness. I broke the 36 on purpose, for fear that the driver was too tired to drive. “When do you go back home in the evening?”“9 o’clock after this trip.” Then when do you come out in the morning?”I 37 another question. “9 o’ clock, too—just as if I worked at an office.” His easiness surprised me, because every time I ride a taxi, what I 38 from the driver are only complaints that they have to work from morning till night, it’s hard to earn money, they’re often 39 by the police, or that their leaders are seated 40 , enjoying the fruits. But this driver told me, “I find it 41 to be a section chief as I was before. I like driving just for pleasure. It’s fortunate that I 42 drive without a passenger. So I earn two or three thousand Yuan a month with ease. Yes, I never 43 an empty taxi. If it goes southward, I go northward. If it goes along a highway, I turn into a narrow street…”
His words showed his 44 with his life and the pride he 45 in his
job. Such feelings are so 46 among people nowadays as oxygen in high mountain. How many people nowadays can show high ideals by simple living and go far with a calm mind? I couldn’t help feeling moved when finding such a state of mind in a stranger on a cold 47 .
A．window B．car C．silence D．promise
A．threw out B．gave away C．put up D．led to
A．suffer B．request C．benefit D．hear
A．detected B．ordered C．fined D．seized
A．noisy B．lazy C．tired D．hungry
A．exciting B．disappointing C．tiring D．amazing
A．hardly B．usually C．actually D．immediately
A．follow B．admire C．envy D．meet
A．intelligence B．satisfaction C．competition D．honesty
A．made B．held C．caught D．took
A．rare B．comfortable C．special D．unique
A．morning B．night C．moment D．season
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town claiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered, and they all his heart for it was perfect.
Suddenly, an old man appeared and said, "Why, your heart is not as beautiful as mine!" The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was full of . It had places where pieces had been and other pieces put in, but they didn't quite right. In fact, in some places whole pieces were .
The young man laughed, "Compared with your heart, mine is perfect and yours is a ." "Yes," said the old man, "Yours looks perfect but I would never swap with you. You see, every scar(伤疤) represents a person to whom I have given my . I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, often they give me a piece of their heart that fits into the place in my heart. So the scars have me remember the love we . Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't a piece of his or her heart to me. These are the empty — giving love is taking a chance. Although , they stay open. So now do you see what true is?"
The young man walked up to the old man, his perfect heart, and tore a piece out. He it to the old man. The old man placed it in his , then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the young man's heart. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart into his.
How sad it must be to go through life with a whole untouched heart!
A．appreciated B．disliked C．hated D．broke
A．nearly B．hardly C．honestly D．widely
A．items B．scars C．details D．tips
A．formed B．added C．designed D．removed
A．feel B．fit C．sink D．calm
A．amazing B．willing C．missing D．boiling
A．joke B．trap C．success D．goal
A．opinion B．power C．vote D．love
A．so B．but C．or D．and
A．perfect B．empty C．entire D．equal
A．wanted B．spent C．shared D．ignored
A．lent B．returned C．expressed D．left
A．holes B．boxes C．rooms D．seats
A．hopeful B．grateful C．painful D．peaceful
A．beauty B．anger C．mercy D．surprise
A．went through B．reached into C．gave up D．watched over
A．employed B．packed C．rewarded D．offered
A．pocket B．heart C．bag D．mind
A．over B．once C．anymore D．apart
A．flowed B．bent C．escaped D．burst
I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a person.
I think my started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I to help. That was really a big for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my . Every time I came into her room, she was so because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never her, so I took her place. She let me that making others feel good made me feel good, too, when she died, I was , but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not these experiences. They have me to care about other people more than about myself. I who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
A．since B．before C．or D．unless
A．famous B．simple C．different D．skilled
A．education B．career C．tour D．change
A．balance B．homework C．degree D．interest
A．talked B．wrote C．lied D．reported
A．careful B．lonely C．curious D．guilty
A．argument B．game C．experiment D．defence
A．dared B．offered C．hesitated D．happened
A．dream B．problem C．duty D．step
A．us B．which C．them D．whom
A．attitude B．hobby C．hope D．luck
A．friend B．partner C．guide D．guest
A．polite B．happy C．strange D．confident
A．bothered B．answered C．visited D．trusted
A．explain B．guess C．declare D．see
A．homeless B．heartbroken C．bad-tempered D．hopeless
A．quieter B．busier C．better D．richer
A．forget B．face C．improve D．analyze
A．forced B．preferred C．ordered D．taught
A．miss B．like C．wonder D．expect
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it patience. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home .
Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things you do is much easier. Or join someone some activity.
Many people are when talking to new people. all, meeting strangers means seeing the unknown .And it’s human nature to feel a bit about the unknown. Most of fears about new people come from doubts about .We imagine other people are us——finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself you are, and try to put the other at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable.
Try to act self-confident even you don’t feel that way when you a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and .
If you see someone you’d like to , say something. Don’t wait for person to start a talk.
Just meeting someone does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. is based on mutual(相互的) likings and “give and take”. It takes time to
friendship.
A．needs B．costs C．spends D．wants
A．make B．take C．do D．carry
A．alone B．yourself C．lonely D．with you
A．that B．which C．as D．what
A．with B．to C．on D．in
A．shy B．excited C．afraid D．worried
A．At B．For C．After D．In
A．unhappy B．usual C．upset D．unlucky
A．talking B．meeting C．visiting D．speaking
A．yourself B．himself C．yourselves D．ourselves
A．talking B．saying C．laughing D．judging
A．like B．what C．as D．that
A．when B．as C．if D．what
A．come B．go C．enter D．step t5o
A．smile B．laugh C．cry D．jump
A．talk about B．speak to C．say to D．call up
A．other B．the other C．another D．others
A．new B．young C．old D．little
A．Friendship B．Relation C．Connection D．Feeling
A．start B．develop C．keep D．Change
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.
A．sky B．cloud C．sunshine D．mist
A．helpful B．wonderful C．hopeful D．successful
A．disaster B．environment C．incident D．wonder
A．manage B．try C．want D．prefer
A．lost B．left C．used D．cared
A．purpose B．potential C．pressure D．preparation
A．energy B．happiness C．luck D．blindness
A．hardest B．dullest C．simplest D．easiest
A．self-respect B．self-control C．self-confidence D．self-defence
A．think B．consider C．guess D．mean
A．imperfect B．perfect C．unfair D．fair
A．Later B．Soon C．Once D．Then
A．worried B．encouraged C．shocked D．hurt
A．stuck B．impressed C．occupied D．held
A．see B．hear C．notice D．observe
A．important B．unimportant C．possible D．impossible
A．invented B．discovered C．instructed D．directed
A．experience B．advantages C．knowledge D．limitation
A．hardly B．wildly C．highly D．deeply
A．so B．for C．but D．and
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 ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, 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 ___an important lesson 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 an unknown world
Invisible（无形的）to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. 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. “I remember feeling small and ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
A．art B．history C．science D．math
A．searched for B．looked at C．got through D．marched into
A．count B．guess C．report D．watch
A．warning B．giving C．turning away D．listening to
A．ready B．possible C．correct D．difficult
A．learned B．prepared C．taught D．taken
A．lose B．trust C．sharpen D．show
A．lecturer B．scientist C．speaker D．woman
A．described B．respected C．saw D．served
A．voyage B．movement C．change D．rush
A．professor B．eye C．knowledge D．light
A．model B．senses C．spirit D．methods
A．hear B．make C．present D．refuse
A．suggesting B．beginning C．pretending D．waiting
A．believed B．doubted C．proved D．explained
A．growth B．strength C．faith D．truth
A．firm B．interesting C．wrong D．acceptable
A．task B．tool C．success D．connection
A．cruel B．proud C．frightened D．brave
A．dropped B．started C．passed D．missed