It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile.
She said, “Hi, young man! I'm Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug? ”
I said , “Of course!”
“Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.
She joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“No, seriously,” I asked.
“I always dreamed of having a college education. Now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After a year, Rose became . She could easily get along well with others wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from others.
At the end of the term we invited Rose to at our party. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the secrets of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you your dreams, you die!” she said.
“There is a big between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent,” she added. “But to grow up, you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don’t have regrets for what we did, rather for things we did not do.”
Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week after graduation, she died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.
A．angrily B．happily C．completely D．comfortably
A．popular B．common C．hardworking D．lucky
A．say B．speak C．talk D．discuss
A．have B．keep C．like D．lose
A．chance B．change C．difference D．problem
A．and B．but C．as D．because
完型填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的选项中，选出最佳选项。（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）
Every year students in many countries learn English. of these students are children, the other students are young people. Why do all these people want to learn ? It is not to answer this question. Many boys and girls learn English at school. It is one of their .Many people learn English because it is in their work. Some young people learn English their higher studies because some of their books are English. Other people learn English because they want to newspapers in English. Some people learn English because they want to in the USA, England or Australia. English is very in our life.
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Once a man and his wife worked for a businessman. There was a big box in the businessman's living room. The businessman pointed at the box and said, "There's only one thing you do. Don't open the box." After saying this, he the living room.
The woman said to her husband, "There be something expensive in the box. Let's it, shall we?"Her husband said no to her.
The woman didn't give up her One day, she decided to find out what was it. Her husband didn't stop her. She opened the box and looked . She found nothing in the box and tried hard to close it, she failed.
That evening the businessman came home and found the box was . He was very angry and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home.
"But there was nothing in the box," the woman said. "We haven't taken anything ." The businessman shouted at them, "The box is not important. I cannot believe you. That's important!"
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完形填空（每小题1分，满分15分）
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入短文空白处的最佳选项。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very ________ trying to make money in order to________ the high tuition(学费)for my brother and me. I never hear them say “ I love you”, or see them send birthday to each other. My father has a bad temper(脾气). When he’s very tired from work, it is ________ for him to lose his temper.
One day, my mother was preparing dinner. I sat down ________ her.
“Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.
“What?” she replied, ________ doing her work.
“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low________ .
My mother stopped her work and ________ her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn’t answer and went on cooking.
I was very worried ________ I thought I had hurt her. I didn’t know what I should do. A few days later, my father suddenly got sick ________ .My mother had to stay with him in the________ for a month. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk(黄昏), my mother helped my father walk slowly on the countr road. My father had never been so________ . It seemed they were the most harmonious(和谐的) ________ .
“Dad, how are you ________ now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t worry about me. To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I ________ this kind of life.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
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完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。（共10小题，每小题1.5分）
When you were young, who rode you around on the back of his bike? Who played football and flew kites with you in the park? Who helped you ____ your first difficult maths problem? Who taught you the difference between _____? Your dad. Now it is your turn to do something for him. This Sunday, June 18, is Father’s day. So why not do something _____ to thank your dad?
The idea of Father’s Day came from a(n)_____lady called Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909. She wanted a special day to honor(纪念)her father. He raised(抚养)six children by himself_____ his wife died during the birth of their ________ child. Dodd thought there needed to be a day to honor great and loving dads. Her father was born______ , so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration on his birthday in 1910. In 1924, US president Calvin Coolidge _______ the idea of a national Father’s Day. Finally, in 1966, the third Sunday in June was made Father’s Day.
There are many ways to _______ your love and thanks. For example, send him a greeting card or a red rose. If he has a _______ , cover his desktop with words like “I love you, Dad.”A. with B. toC. for
A. old and youngB. big and smallC. right and wrong
A. easy B. special C. funny
A. American B. Japanese C. British
A. whenB. howeverC. after
A. thirdB. sixth C. fourth
A. on June 19B. on May 19 C. in May
A. liked B. needed C. invented
A. take B. bringC. show
A. watchB. computer C. car
完型填空。（每题1分，共10分）
Mr. Read and his wife had a small bar(酒吧) near a train station. The bar didn’t close _ 12:00 at night because people came to drink when they were ____ for trains. So the business was good.
About at two o’clock one morning, a man was still __ at the table in the bar. He was__ . Mr. Read’s wife wanted to go to bed. She looked _ the man many times, but the man kept _ . At last she went to her __ and said to him. “You have tried to wake the man some times, and he isn’t _ .Why haven’t you sent him away? It is too __ . ”
“Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away,” he answered __ a smile, “you know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five dollars. Then he went to sleep again.”
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