An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his all the time, watering and fertilizing施肥them.
One day a young man went by the . He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was . He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers. Why are you busy taking care of them every day?”
The old man smiled and said,” I can tell you four . First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. , although I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s .”
“ Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.
“Yeah, it’s that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels that everybody knows. We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”
The blind man’s work opened our eyes and our hearts, which also made his life happier. It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn’t his wonderful music, but his music has millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?
A．flowers B．trees C．vegetables D．grass
A．study B．garden C．kitchen D．balcony
A．blind B．famous C．smart D．friendly
A．stories B．reasons C．excuses D．conclusions
A．And B．But C．Second D．Third
A．me B．you C．my mother D．my son
A．true B．hard C．cool D．fair
A．broke B．hurt C．pleased D．treated
A．write B．hear C．play D．believe
A．changed B．discovered C．encouraged D．made
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Two men, Mr Smith and Mr Martin were both badly ill. They were in the same hospital room. Mr Smith was able to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was ___the only window of the room. Mr Martin had to spend all his time lying on his back. The men ___for hours without stopping.
They spoke of their families, their times, their jobs.And every afternoon when Mr Smith could in his bed, he would pass the time by talking to his roommate about all the things that he could see through the . Mr Martin believed that his world was made “larger ” by the “colorful”___ world. Out of the window was a ___ with a lovely lake. Mr Smith told Mr Martin about the beautiful ducks swimming freely on the water, happy children playing around, colorful flowers and big old trees around the lake. As Mr Smith told him all this, Mr Martin would close his eyes and tried to make the richest pictures for in his mind…Days and weeks passed, and finally, Mr Smith went back home. Then Mr Martin asked the nurse if he could move to the other bed.___ for him, the nurse said he could. When everything was done, he tried hard to raise himself a bit to see what was outside. To his , as he looked out of the window, he saw nothing but a wall.
Mr Martin asked the nurse what made Mr Smith able to see so many wonderful things outside. The nurse answered that the man was and could not even see the wall.
A．out of B．next to C．away from D．well above
A．danced B．sang C．walked D．talked
A．sit up B．walk around C．stand up D．jump about
A．box B．door C．window D．bed
A．foreign B．outside C．lonely D．green
A．library B．market C．park D．church
A．itself B．yourself C．herself D．himself
A．Unluckily B．Happily C．Worriedly D．Seriously
A．happiness B．joy C．hope D．surprise
A．blind B．old C．poor D．ill
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Tony and Maria were twins. When they were seven, their parents gave them a parrot ____ their birthday. Its name was Chico and they kept it in a large cage in the living-room. Chico soon learned to say ___ words.
When the children were at home, Chico’s cage door ____ and the parrot flew out. Sometimes he landed on Maria’s arm, sometimes he landed on Tony’s shoulder. One day he became tired and very nearly fell into the fire.
Tony put the parrot on his arm. He _____ the fire and said, “Fire-bad” over and over again. Chico learned the words, and said “ Fire-bad” if anyone carried him near the fire.
One very ___night, just before bed-time, Tony put lots of coal on the living-room fire, but he forgot to put the fireguard in front of the fire.
Dad then turned off the light and went to bed. Soon ____in the house was fast asleep.
Chico was first ____ He at once saw that a bit of burning coal had fallen out of the fire on the rug. Smoke and flames were rising from the rug.
“ Fire-bad! Fire-bad! ” Screamed Chico, as he jumped_____ about his cage. Dad heard this and ran downstairs. Then came Mum, Tony and Maria. Mum and Dad filled the pails with water and threw it on the ______ rug. Tony put the fireguard in front of the fire, Maria spoke quietly to Chico to keep _____calm.
In a few minutes, the fire was put out. But if Chico had not cried out, the house might have been burned. “ Thank you, Chico. You’re a hero”. said Tony.
A．in B．at C．for D．to
A．little B．a little C．few D．a few
A．opened B．open C．was opened D．opening
A．pointed to B．pointed C．turned to D．turned
A．cold B．hot C．warm D．cool
A．anybody B．somebody C．everybody D．anyone
A．wake up B．to wake up C．waked up D．waking up
A．wild B．wildly C．soft D．softly
A．burning B．burnt C．burn D．burns
A．her B．she C．he D．him
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Everybody loves a good joke. Even children at a very young age start ___ jokes to their friends. Some people are _ very good at telling funny stories. When they tell a joke, everyone finds it _3 But someone else telling the same joke may not make you laugh. This is because it is not only the end of the joke that has to be funny. A good joke-teller is amusing ____ telling the whole story.
Some people are witty (诙谐的，风趣的) in their normal everyday conversation. They say humorous things all the time. They can quickly see two ____ words in the same word and then like to make puns (双关语). If someone says to them, after their trip to the US. "How did you find New York?" They will probably answer by saying something like, "By driving south from Boston!"
There is another type of humor where people play jokes on their __ . They tease them by saying untrue things like, "Someone just ____ me that our English teacher is going to give us a test today." When their friends start to worry, they laugh and say, "I am only ___." These people love to make ____ of you, make you silly and ridiculous. And nobody likes to be made fun of, ___, of course, on April 1st. On this day, everyone is allowed to play jokes on their friends.
A．saying B．telling C．speaking D．talking
A．always B．sometimes C．never D．hardly
A．exciting B．relaxing C．surprisng D．amusing
A．before B．while C．after D．until
A．different B．same C．similar D．opposite
A．teachers B．students C．friends D．family
A．taught B．answered C．asked D．told
A．kidding B．asking C．playing D．talking
A．use B．fun C．story D．friends
A．though B．besides C．except D．however
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All living things on the earth need other living things to live with. Nothing lives . Sometimes one living thing kills . Each kind of life eats another kind of life live, and together they form a food chain(食物链). Some food chains are simple, while others are not. But food chains begin with the sun, and all food chains become if one of the links disappears.
All life needs sunlight to live on. But only plants can use directly(直接地). They make food from sunlight, water, air and so on. Animals can only use the sun’s energy it has been changed into food by plants. Some animals feed directly on plants. Others eat smaller animals. Meat-eating animals are only plants indirectly.
What about human beings? We are members of many food chains. We eat wheat, rice, vegetables, fruit and so on. We also eat meat and drink milk. But often break up the food chains. They kill wild animals. They also make rivers, lakes and seas dirty. When these rivers, lakes and seas are polluted, the fish in them be eaten. If people eat the fish, they will get strange diseases.
Each form of life is linked to all the others. Breaking the links puts all life in danger.
A．alone B．lonely C．together D．happily
A．other B．the other C．another D．the others
A．for B．so that C．and D．in order to
A．any B．all C．some D．most
A．better B．broken C．stronger D．nicer
A．moonlight B．laser light C．sunlight D．bright light
A．after B．before C．until D．by the time
A．making B．catching C．eating D．feeding
A．sunlight B．animals C．plants D．people
A．can B．cannot C．must D．needn’t
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One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become nervous unless things went a certain way. Happiness was “____ the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life wasn’t worth ___. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Sometimes it was money, sometimes power, sometimes a new car. A year and a half ___ he had a cancer, he sits shaking his head, “It’s like I stopped learning ____ to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is ____. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. The ____ you have the cookie, you start to worry about it. You know, you have to ____ a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from breaking and be sure that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ___ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.”
My patient ____ and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, what’s important? What is really important?’ Well, ____ is important. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?” He pauses(停顿) thoughtfully. “Damn(该死), I guess life is the cookie.
A．cooking B．buying C．making D．having
A．everything B．anything C．nothing D．something
A．before B．after C．when D．since
A．how B．where C．which D．when
A．excited B．bored C．surprised D．unhappy
A．place B．way C．minute D．reason
A．look up B．send up C．give up D．set up
A．because B．so C．and D．but
A．cries B．laughs C．worries D．shouts
A．life B．cookie C．cancer D．time