阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，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 husband Jeff and I moved into our new home in Scottsbluff last year just before Christmas. I did not have the or energy to carry out my traditional Christmas decorating and baking activities. What was the point, anyway? It was going to be a Christmas after all.
, the neighborly nature of west Nebraska residents started to trickle (陆续来临) in.
There was a on the door one evening. It was Jeff’s new colleague, John Smith, and his wife, Phyllis. The Smiths had stopped by to us to town with a loaf of homemade bread. They pointed out a on the porch (门廊). Apparently the doorbell wasn’t working in the cold snowy weather and we had a visit from the Browns, our across-the-street neighbors, who brought us a Christmas card and more Christmas cookies.
The feelings brought by these thoughtful gestures lasted longer than the food.
As Jeff and I were clearing pre-Christmas from our driveway, Ernie Guzman came over from next door to us to dig out.
Then, we received an invitation to a Christmas Eve meal with our neighbors, Ernie and Nancy Sommer, and their —a 90-year-old lady, who also had no family in the immediate area with whom to spend the holiday.
Our Christmas Eve was quite merry, thanks to our . Our Christmas morning was special, thanks to the Smiths’ gift of bread. I was so for these gestures of welcome, especially during the holidays.
This year, we were again unable to be with our families for Christmas. The and work schedules just made things too difficult. that sense of Christmas isolation (孤立) all too well, we decided to try to round up some other folks who were in the holidays.
Lonely people are all around us, but most of us notice them. Just take a look around you. Sometimes, the smallest gesture can make a world of difference.
A．chance B．anxiety C．time D．ability
A．lonely B．free C．merry D．usual
A．Therefore B．However C．Somehow D．Meanwhile
A．sign B．knock C．card D．note
A．invite B．welcome C．drive D．send
A．tree B．flower C．mail D．package
A．forgot B．missed C．arranged D．received
A．warm B．deep C．true D．mixed
A．rubbish B．snow C．dust D．leaves
A．teach B．urge C．help D．forbid
A．prepare B．share C．taste D．exchange
A．guest B．aunt C．maid D．partner
A．folks B．relatives C．neighbors D．colleagues
A．call B．greeting C．meeting D．breakfast
A．sorry B．eager C．grateful D．ready
A．season B．expense C．distance D．situation
A．Knowing B．Showing C．Studying D．Discovering
A．happy B．busy C．alone D．active
A．always B．usually C．finally D．seldom
A．careful B．kind C．pretty D．patient
阅读下面的短文，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。
In France, there once lived a famous man named the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy, his mother called him Gilbert.
Gilbert’s father and grandfather had both been ________ men in his village. He was proud of them, and he ________ that he might grow up to be like them.
Gilbert’s home was near a ________. One day word came that a cruel ________ had been seen in the woods. Men said it had killed many of the villagers’ sheep. Gilbert was only seven, but all his ________ were about the cruel animal.
“Shall we take a ________ ?” asked his mother.
“Oh, yes!” said Gilbert. “We may see that wolf in the forest. But don’t be ________.”
His mother smiled, ________ she felt quite sure that there was no ________ .
They did not go far into the woods. The mother sat down under a tree and began to ________ . Seeing Mom interested in her book, Gilbert decided to ________ the animal. He walked quietly into a wilder place. He looked ________ around, but saw only a rabbit.
Then, ________ , he heard footsteps. He stood still and ________, When the animal was very ________ to him, he jumped out of his hiding place and held it round its neck. It did not try to bite. But it threw Gilbert upon the ________ .
Gilbert was soon on his feet again. He was not ________ at all. He looked at the animal: It was not a wolf but a calf(牛犊).
The boy felt very ________ . He hurried back to his mother, tears in his eyes. He told her what had happened.
His mother said, “You were very ________ . You are my hero because you ________ what you thought was a great danger and you were not afraid.”
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One Saturday afternoon, my daughter Alice asked me, “Are all people the same even if they are different in color?”
I thought for a minute, and then I said, “I’ll explain, you can just wait until we make a quick at the grocery store. I have something to show you. ”
At the grocery store, we some apples --- red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Alice, “It’s time to your question.” I put one apple of each on the table. Then I looked at Alice, who had a look on her face.
“People are like apples. They come in all colors, shapes and sizes. On the , some of the apples may not look as the others. ” As I was talking, Alice was each one carefully. Then, I took each of the apples and peeled（削皮）them, them back on the table, but a different place.
“Okay, Alice, tell me which is which.”
She said, “I tell. They all look the same now. ” “Take a bite of . See if that helps you which one is which. ”
She took , and then a huge smile came across her face. “People are like apples! They are all different, but once you the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside. ”
She totally it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸(卡)上将该项涂黑。
A little boy wanted to meet God. He thought it was a long trip to where God lived, he packed his suitcase with lots of food and drinks and he started his .
When he had gone about three blocks, he an elderly man. The boy sat down next to him and his suitcase. He was about to take a drink when he noticed that the man looked , so he offered him a drink.
The man it and smiled at the boy. His smile was so pleasant that the boy wanted to see it again, so he him another one.
The man smiled at him. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.
As it grew dark, the boy it was time to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he , ran back to the man, and gave him a hug. The man him his biggest smile ever.
When the boy home a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of on his face. She asked him what made him so happy.
He replied, “I had lunch with God, and God’s got the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!”
Meanwhile, the elderly man returned to his home. His son was by the look of joy on his face and asked him the question as the little boy’s mother. The elderly man replied, “I ate and drank in the park with God.” However, he , before his son responded, “You know, he’s much than I expected.”
Too often we underestimate the of a touch, a smile, a kind word, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. We should treat the people we meet ; they come into our lives for a reason. Embrace all equally!
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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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。
Last weekends, my kids along with few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car. My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of____ other people’s cars as well. It was pretty ____ outside and I had no plans to ___ being in the bright sun. She ____ wanted to give lemonade（柠檬汽水）to passers-by for free. I had seen little kids ____ and sell fresh lemonade for a small cost but not free. Although I felt ____ , I decided to help her.
Then she asked me, “What if we ____ this a smile car wash?” I couldn’t hold ____ my tears and ____ her and the other kids to go outside the house and come up with ____ ideas. While I kept myself busy in drying the car, the group walked up to me with a(n) ____ with beautiful images of smiles. They had “Free Car Wash” written on it and the ____ of their exercise was “smile”. It was pretty neat to see a team of kids ranging 5--11 years with the ____ to do something for others.
All that seemed ____ and came right from their heart. Nothing seemed to ____ to them: their playtime, the heat outside—they just wanted to ____ others and do something nice in the community!
I helped them make some fresh lemonade and brought out some additional ____ to help clean cars. Passers-by were ____ and one even shouted back to them saying “God Bless You, my kids…” One of them even tried giving them 5 dollars, which they refused. A pretty heartwarming ____!
I feel blessed by being ____ by such wonderful and loving souls.
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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。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did the water. Any kind of ride seemed to give him pleasure. he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being the water, moving through it, it all around me. I was not a strong , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my fathers’ office and those summer days with my father, who come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his . But my father always and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s .” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get an ice cream...
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is .”And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but , in that childhood, looks at us.
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