If you're going to do something, my dad used to say, do it right.
Mostly he said that after my halfhearted (不尽力的) ____ to weed the vegetable garden. For some reason, he knew that there were white roots still ____ deep in the ground without looking around the garden. So I would be in the ____ again the next day with a spade dig deep and ____ the roots of our garden. As I tried to focus my attention to ____， Dad's words kept echoing in my mind: “Do it right.”
I saw a perfect example of what Dad was talking about last week when one of the teams in the company was ____. All of us were sad to see them go. They were good friends and ____， and we worried about them. And ____， at such times you always wonder: am I next?
But as we watched them during the week they were given to ____， many of us noticed that they weren't handling this in quite the way we expected them to. ____ none of them found another job, there was also no bitterness or ____ in their departure. I didn't hear a negative word. I didn't see any ____ or unhappy faces—at least, not from them. Instead, I saw grace.
“It's ____，” one of my colleagues whispered. “I went over there to offer comfort and support to them, and they ____ comforting me.”
Ancient Greeks believed that swans save their sweetest song for the moments to their ____. I don't know if my departing friends ____ their ending as a “swan song” or not, but the calm, quiet dignity with which they embraced their cruel reality touched and ____ us.
Lee, a man who has seen and ____ lots of layoffs during almost 40 upanddown, onagainoffagain years with the company, ____ nicely for all of us.
“Now, that's doing it right，” he said.
Somewhere, I just know Dad was smiling his ____.
A．attempts B．judgements C．expectations D．requests
A．planted B．buried C．grown D．stuck
A．house B．school C．garden D．company
A．look forward to B．come up with C．fit in with D．get down to
A．watching B．thinking C．digging D．working
A．turned down B．laid off C．cut down D．given up
A．competitors B．colleagues C．directors D．consultants
A．frankly B．naturally C．equally D．generally
A．hurry up B．turn up C．pack up D．come up
A．Since B．When C．Unless D．While
A．sadness B．puzzle C．anger D．delight
A．tears B．smiles C．dangers D．fears
A．upsetting B．exciting C．disappointing D．amazing
A．objected to B．insisted on C．ended up D．kept on
A．birth B．death C．arrival D．party
A．view B．recognize C．choose D．describe
A．discouraged B．warned C．inspired D．amused
A．celebrated B．witnessed C．resisted D．survived
A．made up B．summed up C．picked up D．speeded up
A．disagreement B．indifference C．admiration D．approval
It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the41 . I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a 42in the waiting area, 43 him it would be at least 40 minutes 44 someone would be able to see him. I saw him 45 his watch and decided, since I was 46 busy — my patient didn’t 47 at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he 48 to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his 49 . He told me that she had been 50 for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be 51 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 52 knew who he was, and that she had not been able to 53 him for five years now. I was54 , and asked him, “And you 55 go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back56 as he left.
Now I 57 that in marriages(婚姻), true love is acceptance of all that is. The happiest people don’t 58 have the best of everything; they just 59 the best of everything they have. 60 isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
A．school B．hospital C．station D．bank
A．breath B．test C．seat D．break
A．persuading B．promising C．understanding D．telling
A．if B．before C．since D．after
A．taking off B．giving up C．looking at D．getting into
A．very B．also C．seldom D．not
A．turn up B．take in C．come on D．go away
A．needed B．forgot C．agreed D．happened
A．daughter B．wife C．mother D．sister
A．late B．well C．around D．there
A．lonely B．worried C．doubtful D．hungry
A．so far B．neither C．no longer D．already
A．recognize B．answer C．believe D．expect
A．moved B．disappointed C．surprised D．satisfied
A．only B．then C．thus D．still
A．chat B．tears C．words D．judgement
A．realize B．suggest C．hope D．prove
A．necessarily B．completely C．naturally D．frequently
A．learn B．make C．favor D．try
A．Adventure B．Beauty C．Trust D．Life
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Recently I paid a visit to Harvard University, where there are top class scientists and professors and the best academic system in the world.
I was very when I first stepped onto the campus(校园). Well, it’s not even really a campus. It's like an area in a small town.
Harvard's main buildings are from the 18th century.They look very old and . You might say they’re a little shabby(破旧). They don’t fit the modern 40 of university at all. The buildings are surrounded by and trees, so I felt as if I had walked into a castle of the Mid-Ages. But when I looked across the street, the shops and in-fashion(时尚的) students made me feel like I was in the 21st century . It creates a strong contrast(对比)and brings a special41 to the school.
Our tents Gary took us around told us.“You see this grass field in the center of the school?Here is where they hold their ceremony .They just set up tents and benches and have a very simple ceremony.” It's ! Who would think the most talented students just graduate on the grass?
I some students put a blanket on the grass and lie down to read a book. When I listened to the soft sound of turning, along with the singing of the birds, I felt very .There was no competitive felling at all.
Harvard has the world’s first computer in its science centre there are hundreds of high-end computers, too. Its religion(宗教) and the literature departments are also the best. It is the perfect mix of tradition and technology.It makes Harvard a very attractive place to in.
I hope one day I’ll my dream school --- Harvard.
A．upset B．troubled C．shocked D．tired
A．more B．less C．much D．most
A．great B．solid C．noisy D．simple
A．still B．even C．ever D．yet
A．model B．way C．idea D．example
A．grass B．stones C．plants D．flowers
A．empty B．quiet C．free D．busy
A．once B．again C．only D．then
A．environment B．scene C．atmosphere(氛围) D．condition
A．guide B．partner C．visitor D．professor
A．celebration B．closing C．opening D．graduation
A．uninteresting B．unbelievable C．unbearable
A．had B．saw C．felt D．imagined
A．books B．benches C．blankets D．pages
A．lucky B．calm C．nervous D．happy
A．but B．and C．though D．yet
A．in B．beyond C．among D．under
A．old B．new C．fast D．fresh
A．read B．live C．study D．tour
A．serve B．attend C．find D．visit
Last night, when I was driving back home, I noticed a hitchhiker(搭便车的人) who was having no luck getting a ride. I rolled down my__ 21 and signed to the man to my car. I asked him where he was 22 and he told me he needed a 23 to his doctor’s office which would close in 15 minutes. I told him to 24 and he gratefully did so.
25 he got in he told me that he was a 26 and went out to sea for weeks at a time. He took medicine for his nerves and 27 to get another prescription(处方) before he left on the boat. He said that he had prayed (祈祷)28 would stop for him so he could be there before the 29 office closed. With some 30 driving we managed to make it there in about 10 31 . I then asked him how he 32 on getting back home and he said he could walk. “I’ll patiently 33 for you and bring you back,” I told him. He 34 me and said he should only be about 15 minutes.
Afterwards he got back in my 35 and tried his hardest to pay me back: offering me dinner, gas money, even offering to ship me 40 lbs of scallops (海扇贝)! I 36 refused, gave him a smile card and asked him to help someone else the next time he had a 37 . I drove him back to where I had picked him up and 38 one more “thank you” he was on his way.
I feel that the world 39 offers us what we need. In the man’s 40 it was a ride, in mine the chance to help someone else.
A．never B．always C．sometimes D．seldom
A．opinion B．way C．case D．condition
A trip to the bookstore with my granddaughter is always a big event. She __36__ in it for hours, touching the books, running her hands over the covers, looking at a few ___37___ here and looking at a few pages there.
I never ___38__ the full importance my five-year-old Grand Angel placed on these trips, until the day I suggested she pick the book she liked best, __39____ we could go home for dinner. Her response（答复） was __40___.
“But Grammy, I ___41___ them all the best. All the covers are be-yoo-tiful and all the pictures are bee-yoo-tiful and they’re all __42___. Just like people. Remember when you told me about people?”
I most certainly __43___ when I told her about people. I had explained that we are all __44___ in our own different way. Each of us has a story to ___45___ and no two stories are similar. We learn by ____46__ our stories and listening to the stories of others. Difference is the thing that makes each and every one of us __47___. I had no idea that she’d connected the lesson with ___48___. Actually, no one book was ___49___ than any other book. They were equally beautiful and equally special(特别的).
With dinner still ___50___ and our stomachs beginning to make noise, ___51___ time was finally at hand. But how to choose? I suddenly ___52___ the right question when I asked, “Which book wants to go home the most with you today?” After a short moment of ___53___, her eyes lit up. She ran to a specific book and ___54___ it from its place on the shelf. The main __55____ was the picture on the cover, a turtle with sad eyes. “We need to find out why the turtle is sad,” she said.
A．reason B．act C．question D．problem
阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后从1-15各题所给出的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed. When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the __6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.
One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.
To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend — a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12__ some day. She didn’t not want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.
The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.
| 1. A. appearance |
B. future |
C. salary |
D. apartment |
| 2. A. happy |
B. pleasant |
C. worried |
D. sensitive |
| 3. A. futures |
B. goals |
C. ways |
D. courses |
| 4. A. excited |
B. mad |
C. heartbroken |
D. puzzling |
| 5. A. position |
B. confidence |
C. independence |
D. freedom |
| 6. A. main |
B. beautiful |
C. hard |
D. heavy |
| 7. A. office |
B. family |
C. studio |
D. company |
| 8. A. running |
B. driving |
C. walking |
D. wandering |
| 9. A. recognized |
B. noticed |
C. understood |
D. memorized |
| 10. A. glaring |
B. talking |
C. smiling |
D. crying |
| 11. A. fortunately |
B. recently |
C. difficultly |
D. actually |
| 12. A. come |
B. make |
C. suffer |
D. succeed |
| 13. A. illness |
B. heart |
C. cranes |
D. sadness |
| 14. A. husband |
B. parents |
C. friends |
D. son |
| 15. A. heatedly |
B. hardly |
C. sadly |
D. excitedly |