It was 20 years ago. I was driving home with my 4-year-old son. Traffic was ____. I was singing quietly along____ the song playing on the radio. The road was clear. I slowly started to make a right turn ____uddenly a car rounded the curve at high speed and came straight at me. I stomped on the ____ of my car to kill the engine in the process. The speeder drove past my dead car____me by inches without even slowing down.
Before I knew it, a stream of rude words was____from my lips, chasing after the car and its driver. I then saw my son who was staring at me ____. With a red face and a (an) ____smile I started the car, pulled back onto the road, and headed home.
Later that evening I heard certain unpleasant words coming from my son’s bedroom. He was replaying the ____ over and over in his mind. Too late I ____the power of those words that had flown from my lips in that moment of ____. It took a lot of talks about good language and bad language with my son to undo (消除)the _____ of that incident.
That mistake, however, did teach me just how____ words can be. It helped me to decide to stop swearing in my own life and to start using encouraging and ____words instead. I slowly realized that the language is a gift from God and should be used to make our world better but not worse. I also learned that a few loving words can help a hurting heart, ____ a struggling spirit, and lighten a heavy load. I pray that all of your words today are full of love, joy, happiness, and light.
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I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago and suddenly her husband died of a heart attack. One day, about a week after her husband’s , the teacher said, “Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you a (n) in life that is unrelated to this class, but I feel it is very .”
“Each of us is put here on to learn, share, love and appreciate. None of us knows when this fantastic will end. It can be at any moment. Perhaps we must make the most out of every single .” Her eyes beginning to , she went on, “So I would like you all to make me a(n) . From now on, on your way, find something beautiful to . It doesn’t have to be something you see—it could be a sweet smell or it could be the sound of the leaves. Please look for these things, and cherish (珍视) them.”
The class was completely quiet. We all our books and got out of the classroom . That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from than I had that whole term. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and what she had said, and I try to appreciate all of those things that we all ignore.
Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today. on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to an ice cream. For as we get , it is not the things we did that we often feel , but the things we didn’t do.
A．death B．illness C．news D．birthday
A．plan B．answer C．lesson D．suggestion
A．clear B．sweet C．different D．important
A．foot B．earth C．business D．holiday
A．game B．experience C．story D．party
A．taken away B．worked out C．put off D．held up
A．place B．word C．bill D．day
A．dry B．open C．water D．roll
A．exam B．promise C．date D．trip
A．notice B．eat C．learn D．carry
A．dead B．dirty C．growing D．falling
A．turned over B．brought in C．picked up D．passed on
A．carefully B．quietly C．patiently D．happily
A．school B．hospital C．factory D．church
A．hear B．write C．remember D．understand
A．finally B．never C．unusually D．sometimes
A．Walk B．Live C．Work D．Study
A．spare B．get C．make D．smell
A．closer B．taller C．older D．stronger
A．excited B．surprised C．proud D．sorry
My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the shelter to pick out a dog to keep her . Grandma decided on a little dog with a reddish-brown spot above each eye. these spots, the dog was named Penny.
Grandma and Penny quickly became very to each other, but that attachment grew much stronger about three years later Grandma had a stroke（中风）. Grandma could no longer , so when she came home from the hospital, she and Penny were companions.
After her stroke, it became a real for Grandma to let Penny in and out because was at the bottom of a flight of stairs. So a mechanism（机械装置）using a rope and pulley（滑轮）was from the door to a handle at the top of the stairs. Grandma just had to pull the handle to open and close the door. If the store was Penny’s favorite dog food, Grandma would make one of us Penny browned beef with potatoes in it. I can remember my grandmother by saying that she loved that dog better than she loved her family.
As the years passed, it was not for Grandma and Penny to separate each other. If Grandma went to take her nap（打盹）, Penny stayed by her side until she . As Penny aged, she could no longer jump up on the bed, so she on the rug （垫子）beside the bed. If Grandma went into the , Penny would walk along beside her, wait outside the door and accompany her to the bed or chair. Grandma never went anywhere without her _ companion by her side.
The time came when both my grandmother’s and Penny’s were failing fast. After fifteen years of loving companionship, Grandma and Penny passed away within a few hours of each other.
A．animal B．toy C．fish D．bird
A．business B．firm C．company D．friend
A．In spite of B．Because of C．Instead of D．In front of
A．linked B．fastened C．attached D．tied
A．before B．while C．until D．when
A．think B．speak C．work D．study
A．contrary B．content C．confident D．constant
A．problem B．question C．practice D．rule
A．the door B．Grandma C．the window D．Penny
A．repaired B．fixed C．bought D．loaded
A．out of B．ahead of C．away from D．apart from
A．show B．hand C．borrow D．cook
A．drawing attention to B．making use of C．breaking away from D．making fun of
A．necessary B．possible C．important D．convenient
A．recovered B．awoke C．slept D．screamed
A．rolled B．stood C．waited D．lay
A．reading room B．bedroom C．shop D．bathroom
A．back B．up C．off D．down
A．splendid B．remote C．faithful D．legal
A．smell B．health C．habit D．living
I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something ______ had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the ______ at once. She explained that she’d ______ my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had ______ it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she ______ something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the ______ floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher ______ a live wire fell and touched her.www. .com
Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no ______. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be ______ with them. For a year I was in a suffering ______ of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt _____. www. .com
Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking ______. She married me because I was a ______ man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than ______.
We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer. The anxiety that had been gone came ______ back—would my boys be left with no parents? ______, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.
______ everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t ______. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the ______it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the ______.
A．amazing B．strange C．awful D．exciting
A．house B．exit C．entrance D．hospital
A．seen B．heard C．recognized D．sensed
A．ignored B．hesitated C．imagined D．confused
A．wondered B．realized C．expected D．predicted
A．bathroom B．bedroom C．toilet D．kitchen
A．while B．when C．until D．as
A．use B．doubt C．breath D．point
A．clear B．familiar C．strict D．pleased
A．situation B．condition C．state D．occasion
A．curiously B．lonely C．coldly D．lively
A．down B．up C．away D．off
A．rich B．considerate C．handsome D．strong
A．dive B．sink C．fall D．float
A．flooding B．returning C．looking D．calling
A．Gradually B．Hopefully C．Thankfully D．Eventually
A．For B．As C．With D．Through
A．matter B．affect C．count D．help
A．changes B．experiences C．disabilities D．decisions
A．activity B．honor C．present D．life
One day my math teacher asked me to help him save backup copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he me.
A few days later he asked me to help him again, because he how to do it. When I began to show this to him, some students in my class and began to talk among themselves . Later that day, at lunch time, I was by several of them.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll you…”
I could not believe what I was hearing. I could get paid for something very . “All right, I’ll do it.” The next day my math teacher me to help him out. When he was not going paying attention, I began to change their grades from F’s to A’s.
I soon became very among my friends. They began to treat me like a god with magical . I began to change the grades of students. Word quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry in his eyes. “I have known you for three years now. I don’t want to what your teacher said, but I’m afraid that I must. He has too much ,” he said. “do you have anything to say yourself?” he asked.
“No.” I said finally. I did not realize how serious my actions had been. I had violated the of my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way . I was forced to leave my school. That was a good for me.
A．access B．assess C．change D．mark
A．guided B．supported C．thanked D．accepted
A．doubted B．remembered C．reminded D．forgot
A．hid B．noticed C．complained D．agreed
A．disappointedly B．quietly C．freely D．angrily
A．appointed B．approved C．approached D．appreciated
A．pay B．praise C．follow D．inspire
A．familiar B．simple C．interesting D．pleasant
A．forced B．advised C．encouraged D．got
A．optimistic B．popular C．sensitive D．grateful
A．energy B．strength C．right D．power
A．escaped B．slipped C．spread D．fled
A．until B．since C．as D．after
A．sight B．look C．light D．feeling
A．believe B．ignore C．oppose D．influence
A．experience B．pressure C．confidence D．evidence
A．to B．by C．for D．of
A．intention B．honor C．promise D．trust
A．on B．in C．back D．down
A．lesson B．skill C．story D．example
Around twenty years ago I was living in York. ___ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find ____ work.
I was ____ a school bus to make ends meet（使收支相抵）and ____ with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had ____ five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not ___ the job. “Why has my life become so ____?” I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to ___ a little girl, she handed me an earring ____ I should keep it ___ somebody claimed it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it ____ me -- I had been giving all of my ____ to what was going wrong with my ____ rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a ____ of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to ____ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for ____ from a lady who was a director at a larger ____. She asked me if I would ___ a one-day lecture on stress (压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My ____ there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of ____ that I completely changed my life.
A．As B．Though C．If D．When
A．successful B．extra C．satisfying D．convenient
A．driving B．repairing C．taking D．designing
A．working B．travelling C．discussing D．living
A．prepared for B．attended C．asked for D．held
A．lose B．like C．find D．get
A．hard B．busy C．serious D．short
A．wave at B．drop off C．call on D．look for
A．ordering B．promising C．saying D．showing
A．in case B．or else C．as if D．now that
A．hurt B．hit C．caught D．moved
A．feelings B．attention C．strength D．interests
A．opinions B．education C．experiences D．life
A．list B．book C．check D．copy
A．connect B．turn C．keep D．add
A．her B．a passenger C．me D．my friend
A．hospital B．factory C．restaurant D．hotel
A．listen to B．review C．give D．talk about
A．plan B．choice C．day D．tour
A．operation B．speaking C．employment D．thinking