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 an age?” I asked.
She joked, “I'm here to meet a husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“No, seriously,” I asked.
“I always of having a college education. Now I'm getting one!” she told me.
After a year, Rose became popular. She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from .
At the end of the term we invited Rose to at our party. I'll never forget what she taught .
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow because we stop playing. Here are the of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every . 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 or ability,” she added. “But to , 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 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.slowly B.happily C.heavily D.badly
A.so B.this C.such D.that
A.rich B.bad C.poor D.short
A.hoped B.wished C.wanted D.dreamed
A.another B.the other C.the others D.others
A.say B.speak C.talk D.discuss
A.us B.her C.him D.them
A.young B.old C.tall D.thin
A.stories B.secrets C.seasons D.surveys
A.week B.month C.year D.day
A.lose B.have C.keep D.like
A.chance B.change C.difference D.problem
A.stand up B.grow up C.grow old D.keep healthy
A.because B.so C.though D.but
A.in B.after C.during D.before
【广东省2015年中考英语试题】完形填空
Once upon a time, there was a lazy poor living in a small house with spider webs(蜘蛛网) on the walls and mice running around. People ______ coming into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day. He thought it was poverty(贫困) that______ his unhappy life. One day, the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for ______ about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase(花瓶) and said, “This is a magic vase that will bring you _______.” The poor man looked at the vase ______ . Why would he need a vase in his poor house? However , he didn’t want to _______ such a beautiful vase, so he brought it home on the table. “It.s not right for something so beautiful to be ______.” the poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful. ______ he was still not satisfied . “It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.” At this, he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls. His house turned into _______ place immediately. The poor man _______ . He suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. From then on, he worked hard and his life got better and better.
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【2015年安徽省初中毕业学业考试英语试题】完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
The plane took off. A passenger needed a cup of water to take his medicine. An air hostess(空姐)told him that she would bring him the soon. But the air hostess was busy that she forgot to bring him the water. , the passenger couldn’t take his medicine on time. About half an hour later, she hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he it.
In the following hours, each time she the passenger, she would ask him with a smile whether he needed help or not. But the passenger paid notice to her.
When it was time to get off the , the passenger asked her to hand him the passengers’ booklet(留言簿), she was very . She thought that he would bad words in it, but with a smile she handed it to him.
Off the plane, she opened the booklet and then . The passenger put it, “In the past few hours, you have asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times in all. How can I refuse your twelve faithful(真诚的)smiles?”
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【广州市2015年初中毕业生学业考试英语】完形填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分) 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36~45各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Kierman was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up near the sea. For more than years, he raced in international sailing competitions.
In 1987, Kierman was competing in an around-the-world race when he began to the huge amount of rubbish in the world’s oceans. When he returned to Australia, he to do something about it.
He organized a community called “Clean Up Sydney Harbour.” On Sunday, January 8, 1989, more than 40,000 volunteers came out to away rubbish. The next year, Kierman made the clean-up a national event. It was a huge . Across Australia, about 300,000 people spent the day improving their local .
Since then, “Clean Up Australia” has got every year. In 2002, for example,800,000 people cleaned up almost 15,000 tons of rubbish from Australia’s beaches, parks and streets.
Kierman was with the success of his project. In 2003, he started an even bigger program. With the of the United Nations Environment Program, he introduced “Clean Up the World”, an international program that supports communities around the world in cleaning up and protecting the environment. “Clean Up the World” has grown and his wonderful idea has now spread from one city to the whole world.
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Mother's Day is an important holiday all over the world.The idea for Mother's Day an American woman named Anna Jarvis.Anna hoped there would be a day for people to show to their mothers,so she worte many letters to important people of her time.In 1914,the second Sunday in May was celebrated as Mother's Day.People in Denmark,Ital,Turkey,Australia and Belgium all celebrate Moteher's Day on the same day as Americans. The day gives people a good to thank mothers.People of all ages do many things to make the day special for their mothers.A typical way is to make Moms stay in bed.That means a mother doesn't need to early to make breakfast for her family. , the rest of the family make breakfast for her.Kids do secret things to their moms.They write love letters to their moms.Some even make gifts themselves for their moms.Anna Jarvis's mother carnations, so people chose carnations as a present for their mother on Monther's Day.Carnations of different have different meanings.People buy red carnations if their mothers are .However,white ones are used to express love to dead mothers
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This is a photo of Mr King’s family. Mr and Mrs King two sons and a daughter. They are in England. Mrs King is Chinese teacher. Mr King is a bus driver. daughter is eleven and is a student. Her name is Kathy. She is in Class Four No. 1 Middle School. There are thirty students in her class. Tom and David her brothers. They are nine years old. They are . They are , too. They go to school at 7: 30. They have in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. Tom and David like and they play it every day. They love their sister very much.
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