Joy in the journey
If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to . “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the !” one of the brothers volunteered .
The older boys began to , telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was . After a long silence, one of the picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He the lid and showed the wonderful to the scoffing（嘲笑的）visitors. Then he said quietly and , “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found the way!”
Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is a goal is for — to cause us to move in the we have chosen, in other words, to keep us ! But not every goal will be fully . Not every job will end . Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be . But when you fall of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly .
A．rest B．work C．watch D．laugh
A．house B．earth C．wall D．road
A．calmly B．patiently C．excitedly D．impatiently
A．laugh B．think C．stare D．smile
A．important B．difficult C．impossible D．interesting
A．passers-by B．watchers C．visitors D．diggers
A．moved B．removed C．broke D．pushed
A．contents B．scenes C．pictures D．jars
A．properly B．confidently C．carefully D．happily
A．in B．along C．to D．out
A．what B．how C．where D．which
A．way B．direction C．life D．sight
A．thinking B．moving C．digging D．living
A．made B．prepared C．kicked D．achieved
A．hopelessly B．pleasantly C．surprisingly D．successfully
A．come true B．realized C．made D．treasured
A．short B．lost C．out D．behind
A．breaking into B．turning to C．coming into D．holding to
A．when B．where C．which D．that
A．matters B．happens C．appears D．exists
完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Two years ago, a restaurant had fallen upon hard times. Only five ________were left: the manager and four others, all over 60 years old.
In the town near the restaurant there ________ a successful businessman who was good at managing business, so the manager ________ to ask the businessman if he could offer any advice that might ________ the restaurant. The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of time, ________ when he was asked for advice, the businessman ________ for a while and then said, “I have no________to give. The ________ thing I can tell you is that the saver is one of you.”
The manager, returning to the restaurant ________ , told the other people what the businessman had said. In the months that followed, the old restaurant workers thought________ of the words of the businessman, “The saver is one of us?” They asked themselves. As they ________ about this possibility, they all began to treat each other with ________ respect. And thinking that each of themselves ________ be the saver, they also began to treat themselves with more care.
________ time went by, people coming to the restaurant ________that some respect and warm kindness were around the five old members of the small restaurant. Hardly knowing ________ , more people began to come back to the restaurant. They began to ________ their friends, and theirs brought more friends. Two years later, the small restaurant had once again ________a big food company, thanks to the businessman’s ________. They understood that it was they themselves that were the ________ .
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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My daughter and I finally got around to changing all the electronic pictures stored on our computers and cellphones into ________ ones that we could actually hold in our hands and________photo albums. It was amazing looking through decades of our lives.
There I was not even 5 years old. I looked at that boy and all those ________ versions of myself for a long time. I wondered what I would say to them________ I had a chance. I knew that I would tell them to relax and not worry about life’s ________ so much. I would tell them that they would solve all the problems they could and ________ the ones they couldn’t. I would tell them to enjoy and ________ each day as it comes. I would tell them that every day has its own ________ and simple pleasures and they should ________them all. I would tell them to hug more, laugh more, and say “I love you” more. I would ________ them to take in more sunsets and to________ the television every so often and go watch the stars. I would tell them to sing along with the radio and read a good book every ________ they get. I would tell them to ________ pass up the opportunity to pet a dog or ________ another human being. Most of all, ________ ,I would tell them to just love, ________ that’s what we are here to do.
________ , I know that none of us can go backward in this life. Life can only go ________ . As you go forward in your own life, always take with you the wisdom you have ________, the kindness you have shared, and the ________ you have received. As you go forward, always try to be the best person you can be and always remember to just love and be loved in return.
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The bright morning light shone through the window onto farmer Tom’s pillow, making the room hot. Tom is not a(n) riser but the heat woke him up. He hurriedly _ and started to head for his poultry farm(家禽饲养场). He had put all his money in .
Tom got into his that was loaded with ducks in cages and his two _ , Bill and Jim. Their first _ was the City Primary School. On _ the school gate, one of the lorry’s tires was _. Tom left his workers to change the tire _ he went into the dining hall to hand over some ducks.
Meanwhile, a boy had climbed up the lorry and some of the cages. Jim _ to look up; the boy jumped down from the lorry and ran into the school. The ducks were . Jim and Bill hurriedly tried to get the ducks back into the cages but it was . There was a great commotion(混乱): ducks quacking(嘎嘎叫), workers .
Where was the boy? He was at the school gate letting some ducks into the school. On hearing the , many children came out of their classrooms and watched the sight—two men running after ducks that were quacking!
Tom came back just in time to the boy. He then made a funny quacking sound and the ducks to come to him. He put them back into cages, changed the tire and , leaving the boy in the hands of the schoolmaster.
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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。
The phone call came one cool winter day. I was that my father was seriously ill.
It had been long since I’d seen my father. Ever since his from my mom, my father had lived alone in a small trailer(房车) in California, 500 miles away from me. The real between us seemed so much greater. I was in no hurry to that, but somehow I heard myself to the owner of the trailer to be there the next day.
The whole drive down, flashed through my mind. I remembered my father, the proud Marine. He made sure the first song I was the Marine Hymn(《美国海军陆战队队歌》). He tore off the Christmas all the decorations the rest of us had and rehung them so there was the same space between them. But we didn’t need to those military orders, as we were not soldiers. I remembered the battles he had with my mother. I remembered hoping to hear my father say . once, “I love you, Patty,” only to have him at me, “You can’t do anything right!”
And now here I was standing outside his trailer, trying to my courage to face him one more time. I knocked on the door, my hand and my whole body . NO answer. Slowly I opened the door. I took a few inside and stopped, too shocked to believe my eyes.
My father was sitting on his sofa, looking confused and crying. This wasn’t the man I hand known growing up. He seemed broken.
A sense of overtook me, and I knew what I had to do. He would be my father forever. Without , I went back inside and packed up all of my father’s things. I would take him to my home-our home.
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When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Zigler. I remember sitting in that dark hall listening to Mr. Zigler everyone’s spirits up to the ceiling, I there feeling like I could do anything. When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said, “Dad, I want to people feel like that.” My father asked me I meant. “I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr. Zigler,” I replied. A（An） was born.
Recently, I began seeking my dream of motivating others. a four-year relationship with Fortune 100 Company as a sales-trainer and ending as a regional sales manager, I left the company at the height of my . Many people were that I would leave after earning a six-figure income. And they asked I would risk everything for a dream.
I made my to start my own company and leave my secure position after a regional sales meeting. The vice-president of our company delivered a that changed my life. He asked us, “If a god would offer you three wishes, what would they be?” After giving us a to write down the three wishes, he then asked us, “Why do you need a ?” I would never forget the power I felt at that moment. I realized that I had accomplished in the past had prepared me for this moment. I was ready and didn’t need a god’s help to become a motivational speaker. A motivational speaker was .
Having made that decision, I was immediately . One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job, and now we had no . But I held fast to my dream. The wonder really began to happen. In a short time my husband found a better job. And I was able to book several engagements with new customers. I discovered the incredible power of dreams.
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