A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs the pit. When they saw how the pit was, they told the two frogs that they might as well be .
The two frogs ignored what were saying and to jump up out of the pit with all of their physical strength. The other frogs telling them to stop. Finally, one of the frogs the comments, seriously considered them, and gave up. He down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop the and just die. He jumped even harder and finally it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not us?” The frog explained to them that he was . He thought they were him the whole time.
This story teaches two lessons: First, there is power of life and death in the . An encouraging word to someone who is can lift them up and help them make it through the day. Second,a destructive word to someone who is down can be it takes to kill them. Be of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.
The of words is great. It is sometimes hard to understand an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times.
A．jumped over B．looked through C．came down D．gathered around
A．big B．deep C．dangerous D．wide
A．dead B．kind C．quiet D．safe
A．the ones B．another C．the others D．others
A．promised B．tried C．managed D．agreed
A．kept B．enjoyed C．finished D．stopped
A．came up with B．paid attention to C．got used to D．got along with
A．slowed B．went C．climbed D．fell
A．much B．straight C．hard D．fast
A．pain B．disease C．fear D．competition
A．worked B．turned C．left D．made
A．follow B．hear C．recognize D．consider
A．deaf B．blind C．honest D．clever
A．respecting B．comforting C．encouraging D．beating
A．society B．communication C．tongue D．misunderstanding
A．down B．angry C．away D．up
A．who B．that C．which D．what
A．proud B．careful C．afraid D．free
A．function B．energy C．power D．skill
A．that B．what C．whether D．when
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。
The Value of an Hour
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in clothes and thin little sandals(凉鞋), staying together at the door on the top step.
“Any old ， lady？” asked one of them.
I was . I wanted to say “no” until my eye their sandals, which were wet with heavy snow.
“ and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the . I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight the freezing cold outside. I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget for Thanksgiving Day.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice，“Lady, are you ？”
I looked at my old sofa covers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer(托盘) and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that， their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these ，too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and the living room. The muddy(沾上泥的) of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to how rich I am.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
An old man went to live with his son,daughter-in-law,and 4-year-old grandson.The old man’s hands ,his eyesight was not clear,and his unsteady（不稳定的）.The family were every night at the dinner table.But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and sight made this rather difficult.Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor.When he grasped the glass, would often spill（洒落）onto the tablecloth.“We must do something about grandfather,” said the husband.
So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner.There,grandfather ate in the corner while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner at the dinner table. grandfather had already broken a dish or two,his food was served in a bowl.Sometimes,when the family grandfather,he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone. ,the only words the couple had for him were sharp when he dropped a fork or spilled food.The 4-year-old boy watched all this .
One evening before supper,the father his son playing with wood scraps（小块）on the floor.He asked the child sweetly:“What are you making?” Just as ,the boy answered: “Oh,I am making a little for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up.”The 4-year-old boy smiled and went back to on it.
The words the parents so much that they were .Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. no word was spoken,both knew what they had to do.That evening,the husband took grandfather’s hand and led him back to the family table.
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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。
Music to My Ears
Robby was 10 for his first piano lesson in my class. Much as he tried, he even the basic rhythm. However, he dutifully reviewed the pieces that I required. Over the months he tried and tried while I and encouraged him. At the end of each lesson he'd always say, "My mom's going to hear me play some day." it seemed hopeless. I only knew his mother from a ________as she waited in her aged car to pick him up. Then one day Robby stopped coming. I was secretly ________ that he stopped because of his lack of ability.
Weeks later I informed the students, including Robby, of the coming recital（独奏）. To my
_ , Robby asked me if he could be included. I told him he really did not qualify because he had ________ out. He said his mom had been sick and unable to take him to lessons but he was still________. “I've just got to play!" he________ . Something inside me let me allow him to. Then came the recital night. The gym was________ with parents. I put Robby up________ , thinking that I could save his poor performance through my “curtain closer（谢幕）.”
The recital went off smoothly. Then Robby came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was ________ . "Why didn't his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night?" I thought. Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. I was not________for what I heard next. His fingers were ________ on the keys. Never had I heard Mozart played so well by people of his age. After he ended, everyone was ________ their feet in wild applause. In ________I ran up on stage and put my arms around Robby. "I've never heard you play like that, Robby! How did you________ it?" Robby explained, "Well, Miss Hondorf…remember I told you my mom was sick? …________ she had cancer and passed away yesterday. She was born deaf, so tonight she could hear me play in heaven. I wanted to make it special."
There wasn’t a ________ eye in the house. That night I felt he was the teacher and I was the pupil, for it was he who taught me the meaning of perseverance(毅力) and ________ .
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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。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on. A came. "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to that shirt away, but gave it to her ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
I my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her , "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life's was something greater.
The next morning she with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are , aren't you? I think I have a for you as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of .” Mom accepted the opportunity very .
For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working over the last five years. We are all in that you should be the teacher of this class."
My mom spent more than 20 years there. her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __ situations and never give up.
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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。
A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she ________ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. ________ she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and ________all day about how wonderful and exciting ________must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained some________ skill and sensibility(识别力), she ________ her mother for a bike ride ________the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, ________her keeping close to the house and not________ too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew________ where she was heading! ________ the hill and across the valley, she rode to the________ of the golden house.
________she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path________ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she ________ that all the windows were ________ and rather dirty.
So ________and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She ________, and all of a sudden she saw an amazing ________ . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she ________ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!
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