That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were crowded with people dressed in wool and flannel(法兰绒). “Jingle Bells” was playing in stores. Everyone, it seemed, was _____ by someone else smiling or ____ I was alone.
The eldest of a Puerto Rican family of 11 children growing up in one of New York’s _____ apartment. I’d spent much of my life _____ solitude(独处). Now, _____, at 27, was enduring the last break-up of a seven-year relationship. Every part of me wanted to be _____, but not at Christmas.
My family had returned to Puerto Rico, and my _____ were involved in their own lives. Dusk was falling, and the unavoidable return to my ____apartment brought tears to my eyes.
I stopped at the local market, feeling even more______ when I saw all the people there filling their baskets with gifts. I _____ my family, my friends and the noisy parties at home, filled with laughter and dancing. I wanted to cry for having wanted to be alone and for having _____ it.
In front of the church down the street, a manger(马槽) had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn animals in ______ the arrival of baby Jesus. As I walked home, I _____ that the story of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own. Leaving Puerto Rico was still a _____in my soul and I was struggling with whom I had become in my 15 years in the United States. I’d mourned my losses, _____for the first time, I recognized what I’d gained. I was _____, and educated and healthy. My life was still before me, full of ______.Sometimes the best ____ is the one you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit ____ I’d accomplished so far and permission to go ______ unafraid. It was the best gift I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.
A．chosen B．bothered C．allowed D．accompanied
A．working B．laughing C．studying D．thinking
A．crowded B．expensive C．cheerful D．large
A．looking for B．looking at C．looking through D．looking over
A．finally B．easily C．quickly D．likely
A．patient B．strict C．alone D．private
A．friends B．dreams C．guests D．customers
A．beautiful B．interesting C．clean D．empty
A．pleased B．upset C．surprised D．curious
A．hated B．loved C．missed D．forgot
A．achieved B．refused C．preferred D．offered
A．search B．expectation C．position D．control
A．imagined B．sighed C．realized D．expressed
A．effort B．belief C．wound D．wish
A．but B．so C．because D．though
A．excited B．independent C．ordinary D．worthless
A．desires B．possibilities C．ideals D．advantages
A．gift B．lesson C．purpose D．memory
A．on B．in C．at D．for
A．upward B．down C．around D．Forward
第二部分完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)
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。
When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage（孤儿院）and taught us how to do woodworking projects.
I remember my first project—a small table. I was so ____ of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an) _____ . It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to ______it. I could hardly wait to give it to Mother Winters as a _____. She was the head mistress of our orphanage, who was always _____ with us.
As the tables were not dry from the clear coating, the man told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. But I was just so ____and happy that I couldn’t wait. I dashed out like a ______ , carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was _____it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand _____ it, she noticed that it was still wet.
“Were you ______to bring this home?” she asked.
“No, ma’am,” I _____ with my head down.
She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately opened the door to get it back. There was _____stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but it would not come off.
I hid the table in my closet and never _____it. A year later while cleaning up, I gave the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent（宿管员）, thinking that she would _____it away.
Thirty years later at a reunion, I ____that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her_____ to get something important. I followed her _____ into a dark corner. She picked something up. _____she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.
Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.
Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of _____to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to _____ .
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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。
I have been driving for over 30,years, but I can remember what happened that day when I drove a car for the-first time．My mom had driven our big Plymouth to a and deserted back road and parked it．
The road was only one lane（车道）and had a wall built with river rocks along the side of it Mom knew there was little chance of meeting any on it that day．With a smile, she gave me the key and _ ． seats with me．And then she told me to start the car, to petit into drive and to 46 push on the gas pedal．In my , though, l miscalculated what " gentle "meant．After I pushed on the gas pedal, the car sped forward． I could turn the wheel, I heard the ;scraping c副擦声） of metal the stone wall．I stopped the car and looked over at my Mom．Her face was pale and her hand’s were _．Slowly, she opened her _ and started checking the car. Then she walked _ around the car to the driver's side door．I kept waiting for her to me but she just and said, “Well, that’s enough for today. We’ll try again tomorrow.”
As I looked and on that day. I am amazed at the amount of kindness, love and my Mom showed me. In the years that followed, I many times in many ways．Often I didn't feel worthy to be , but each time I could feel Mom's gentle voice, "We'll try again tomorrow," When we fall today, don't down．Rise up and be to try again tomorrow．
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Less is more. This is why we say reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junks instead of piling them up, slow down instead of .
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have that you didn’t even know you had. The pressure at work is on the rise. In the past, the expectations were among all the family members. But now, in the family, the expectations are now concentrated on the individual(个体) partner. If you feel 24 hours per day are not enough, it is not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. The is very simple: Refuse to accept so much work. People tend to forget that one who can deal with stress well is given more work—until one day he .
Pay careful attention to the that tell you that you are under more stress than you can handle. They may come from various areas of life. You weak, or your work efficiency decreases. If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and reduce some work.
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Once upon a time a teacher and his student down under a big tree near the big grass area．Then suddenly the student asked the teacher，“Teacher，I’m puzzled．How do we our soul mate(知己)?Could you please help me?”
Silent for a few seconds，the teacher then answered，“Well，it’s a pretty hard and easy question．” The teacher ，“Look that way．There is a lot of grass．Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk ．On your way，try to find a blade(叶片)of beautiful grass and it and then give it to me．But just one．”
The student said OK and then he walked straight ahead to the grassy field．A few minutes later，the student came back empty-handed．When the teacher asked the ,the student said，“On my journey，I found quite a few beautiful blades of grass，but I that I would find a better one，so I didn’t pick it．But I didn’t realize that I was at the of the field，and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back，so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said，“That’s what will happen in real life．”
What is the of this story? In the story，grass is the people around you；the beautiful blade grass is the people that you and the grassy field is time．In looking for your soul mate，please don’t always and hope that there will be a better one．By doing that，you’ll your lifetime．Remember “Time Never Goes Back．”
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We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that’s life. It’s a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!
positive through the cold season could be your best against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a sunny characteristic were less likely to ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness increasing immune(免疫的) function and subjective as in happy people being less by a scratchy throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have different immune to the virus,” explained the lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may their illness as being less severe.”
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional tendency itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality tendency, health-consciousness and emotional “style”. Those who be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, those who were often unhappy, tense and unfriendly had a negative style. The researchers gave them drops through their noses either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the reported on any aches, pains, sneezing they had, while the researchers collected data, like daily mucus(黏液) production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes(鼻部的不适), happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
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