The train had started moving. It was with people of all ages, mostly with the middle-aged workers and young students. Near the sat an old man with his thirty-year-old son. As the train moved by, the son was overjoyed with the outside. “See, dad, the scenery of green trees moving is very beautiful.”
This behavior from a son made the other people feel strange about him. Everyone was about the son. “This person seems to be ,” a newly-married man whispered to his wife.
Suddenly it started . Lots of drops fell on the travelers through the open window. The son excitedly said to his father, “See, dad, how the rain is, too.” The man’s wife was annoyed by the rain drops spoiling (弄坏) her suit. The young man said to the father, “Can’t you see it raining yourself? Your son be mentally ill. Get him to a hospital!”
The old man at first, feeling rather hurt and then replied, “We are on the way back from the . My son was from birth. He just recovered from an eye operation yesterday. The rain and nature are all new to his eyes. Please us for the inconvenience that we may have caused.”
The things we see may be right from the outside we know the truth, the lesson learnt may be too late. Imam Ali once said: A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man’s tongue is under the control of his . So try to understand the problem better before taking a(n) action. As the saying goes, “It is better to light up a candle instead of blaming the .”
A．covered B．crowded C．concerned D．bored
A．baggage B．bed C．people D．window
A．view B．people C．hills D．cities
A．forward B．away C．hurriedly D．slowly
A．naughty B．handsome C．grown-up D．curious
A．whispering B．shouting C．thinking D．worrying
A．young B．clever C．lovely D．mad
A．frosting B．snowing C．winding D．raining
A．hard B．beautiful C．heavy D．cold
A．cheap B．dirty C．new D．worn
A．should B．can C．must D．need
A．hesitated B．cried C．laughed D．jumped
A．factory B．home C．school D．hospital
A．deaf B．blind C．troublesome D．crazy
A．offer B．thank C．forgive D．leave
A．after B．though C．if D．until
A．but B．or C．for D．while
A．hands B．eyes C．tongue D．mind
A．emotional B．important C．rude D．necessary
A．doctors B．darkness C．manners D．Patients
In my dual (双重的) profession __36__ an educator and health care provider，I have worked with many children infected with HIV. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great __37__ can be found in the smallest individuals. Let me tell you about Tyler.
Tyler was __38__ infected with HIV；his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life，he was dependent on medications to __39__ him to survive. When he was five, he had a tube inserted in a vein(静脉) in his chest. At times, he also needed extra oxygen to support his __40__.
Tyler wasn't __41__ to give up one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease. It was not __42__ to find him playing and racing around his backyard, wearing his medicineloaded backpack and __43__ his tank of oxygen behind him in his little wagon (小手推车). All of us who knew Tyler were impressed by his pure __44__ in being alive and the energy it gave him. Tyler's mom often __45__ him by telling him that he moved so __46__ she needed to dress him in red. That way，when she peered through the window to check on him playing in the yard，she could quickly __47__ him.
This deadly disease eventually __48__ down Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, __49__ did his HIVinfected mother. When it became __50__ that he wasn't going to survive, Tyler's mom talked to him about __51__. She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too，and that she would be with him soon in heaven.
A few days before his death，Tyler __52__ to me to come to his hospital bed and __53__，“I might die soon. I'm not __54__. When I die，please dress me in __55__ . Mom promised she's coming to heaven, too.I'll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me.”
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Recent studies show that only one out of three people have strong and healthy self-confidence. That 36 two out of every three people simply don’t know the37 they already have to be successful when it’s 38 there in their hands! 39 if you want others to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself first. Remember: “No one can make you feel inferior (差的) unless you 40 them.” A successful businessman says, “You can’t push anyone up a ladder 41 he knows he can climb himself.”
Many of us have an image 42 , the image（形象）we have of ourselves. 43 one guy put it: “You can’t win a horse race if you think you look 44 on a horse.” To succeed, the first person you have to 45 is yourself! So stop believing your own lies about yourself. Just 46 your mind and you’ll change your life.
One of the most harmful weapons that can kill your success in life is the two little words:“47 ”. You know that people used to 48 that if human beings traveled faster than 30 miles an hour it would 49 our circulation（循环）of blood and kill us? Thank goodness a few people didn’t believe that 50 thinking, or we wouldn’t be riding in cars, buses, and flying in airplanes today. You’ll never know until you 51 .
Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But 52 he did it, most people in the world didn’t think it was even 53 Yet only weeks after Bannister did it, suddenly 54 all over the world began running a mile in less than 4 minutes! If we believe something can be done, we’ll 55 do it.
A．reflects B．means C．reads D．explains
A．chance B．strength C．reason D．ability
A．immediately B．properly C．right D．accurately
A．But B．Because C．What D．While
A．challenge B．let C．admit D．help
A．if B．except C．unless D．until
A．quiz B．question C．mystery D．problem
A．As B．When C．While D．Since
A．curious B．good-looking C．funny D．serious
A．knock B．beat C．strike D．defend
A．settle B．bend C．fix D．change
A．I failed B．Not me. C．I can’t D．Can I?
A．think B．imagine C．expect D．doubt
A．start B．help C．close D．stop
A．empty B．silly C．reasonable D．terrible
A．realize B．try C．understand D．judge
A．before B．after C．since D．because
A．likely B．unbelievable C．impossible D．possible
A．runners B．workers C．competitors D．players
A．simply B．seldom C．usually D．never
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with the 36 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 37 , but what makes blogging different from writing in a(n) 38 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 39 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 40 that he does not want to 41 with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 42a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 43 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.
44 I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but 45in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 46 that my sister might read it.
The biggest 47 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 48 about him in my diary, he would never know. 49 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might
50 her blog and get angry.
There are also 51 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary “ Nobody cares about me …”, no one would 52 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly 53 and tell her how much they 54 her. Blog helps people 55in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.
A．same B．interesting C．difficult D．daily
A．simple B．special C．similar D．different
A．personal B．ordinary C．meaningful D．traditional
A．attractive B．public C．exciting D．quick
A．thoughts B．puzzles C．ideas D．secrets
A．tell B．share C．publish D．solve
A．instead of B．as well as C．except for D．besides
A．blog B．diary C．report D．web
A．Although B．Since C．When D．Because
A．only B．already C．still D．never
A．angry B．sad C．glad D．worried
A．problem B．doubt C．question D．mistake
A．boring B．wrong C．bad D．funny
A．So B．However C．Therefore D．Then
A．steal B．break C．write D．read
A．reasons B．wishes C．shortcomings D．advantages
A．care B．know C．think D．ask
A．prepare B．begin C．respond D．feel
A．like B．miss C．need D．stand
A．lose B．stay C．leave D．find
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Many years ago, whites ruled South Africa. Apartheid（种族隔离制度）was the 16 of the land. One evening, two middle-aged blacks met in a “whites only” section of Johannesburg. One of them had a permit to work in the area, the other did not, which 17 he could be put behind bars（关押）for staying in this zone. 18 they saw a policeman coming towards them, and 19 .
“Run!” whispered the man with the permit to his friend, “I’ll 20 .” They started running and the policeman began chasing them, shouting “stop, stop”. Finally he caught the second man.
“Did you think you could outrun me!” he snarled. “Show me your 21 ！”
The man, playing for time, began reaching in his pocket and finally took out his permit. The policeman was surprised and realized that he had been 22 . The man without the permit was now too far away to be caught.
“When you had a permit why did you run!” he shouted 23 .
“Doctor’s 24 ,” said the man. “He has asked me to run a mile every evening.”
“Oh, yes? ” Sneered the policeman. “Then why was your friend 25 ?”
“His doctor has also ordered him to run,” said the man.
The policeman became 26 with anger. “You think you’re very 27 , don’t you?” he snarled. “But tell me, if you were running 28 for your health why didn’t you stop when you saw me running after you? And don’t tell me you didn’t see me chasing you. I know you did!”
“Of course I 29 you were running after me,” said the man.
“Then why didn’t you stop?” asked the policeman.
“It was 30 of me,” said the man, “but I thought you too had been ordered to run by your doctor.”
A．property B．mistake C．law D．custom
A．meant B．showed C．replied D．imagined
A．Happily B．Suddenly C．Finally D．Generally
A．hid B．fell C．cried D．froze
A．fight B．explain C．follow D．walk
A．invitation B．permit C．pocket D．ticket
A．fooled B．hurt C．blamed D．abandoned
A．nervously B．sadly C．carefully D．angrily
A．attitudes B．methods C．orders D．hopes
A．stopping B．missing C．staying D．running
A．shy B．strict C．red D．serious
A．brave B．healthy C．native D．smart
A．only B．also C．never D．often
A．remembered B．knew C．believed D．agreed
A．stupid B．rude C．kind D．wise
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had __36__ me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered __37__.
“Look __38__, Elsa,” Father said. I gathered all my __39__ and looked down. I saw the square in the centre of the village. And I saw the crisscross(十字形) of twisting, turning streets leading to the __40__. “See, my dear,” Father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. __41__ is like that. If you can’t get to the place where you want to go __42__ one road, try another.”
Now I understood why I was there. __43__ that day I had begged my mother to do __44__ about the terrible lunches that were served at school. But she __45__ because she could not believe the lunches were as __46__ as I said.
When I __47__ my father for help, he would not help. __48__, he brought me to this high tower to __49__ me a lesson — the value of an open, searching mind. By the time we reached home, I had a __50__.
At school the next day, I __51__ poured my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to __52__ it to mother at dinner. The plan __53__ perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and said, “The cook must have gone mad!” Quickly I told what I had done, and mother said firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day.
In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn’t stop working __54__ I tried every possible means to my goal. Father’s wise words always __55__ me that there is more than one way to the square.
A．taken B．sent C．brought D．left
A．that B．why C．what D．how
A．down B．up C．out D．around
A．strength B．courage C．spirit D．bravery
A．tower B．church C．square D．village
A．School B．Society C．Family D．Life
A．in B．on C．by D．at
A．Earlier B．Later C．After D．During
A．her best B．a favor C．something D．everything
A．defended B．refused C．excused D．agreed
A．well B．good C．bad D．usual
A．belonged to B．turned to C．tried to D．led to
A．Therefore B．So C．Instead D．Anyway
A．show B．make C．prepare D．give
A．plan B．question C．problem D．suggestion
A．angrily B．secretly C．kindly D．politely
A．cook B．boil C．make D．serve
A．made B．failed C．worked D．took
A．if B．once C．since D．until
A．remind B．approve C．affect D．limit