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
Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. ,he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was and ill.
My father was a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started about life, and I told them about one of my . I said that we must very often give things up we grow—our youth, our beauty, and our friends— but it always that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn't think of anything to say. , he answered his own question: “I the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also by his words. After that，when I began to feel irritated（愤怒的）at someone, I remember his words and become . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be to give up my small irritations. In this , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one .
A．Afterwards B．However C．Therefore D．Meanwhile
A．tired B．poor C．weak D．slow
A．already B．still C．only D．once
A．took B．threw C．sent D．put
A．impossible B．difficult C．stressful D．hopeless
A．worrying B．caring C．talking D．asking
A．decisions B．experiences C．ambitions D．beliefs
A．as B．since C．before D．till
A．seems B．promises C．suggests D．requires
A．cheered B．turned C．spoke D．opened
A．something B．everything C．nothing D．anything
A．Surprisingly B．Immediately C．Naturally D．Certainly
A．had B．gained C．accepted D．enjoyed
A．moved B．amazed C．attracted D．warned
A．should B．could C．would D．might
A．quiet B．relaxed C．calm D．happy
A．ready B．able C．free D．likely
A．case B．form C．method D．way
A．doubt B．wonder C．know D．guess
A．award B．word C．lesson D．gift
A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of __41__.
“Do you know __42__ you and I are?” she asked. __43__ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman __44__ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, __45__ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?”“Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) __46__.”“We don’t __47__ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story __48__ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What __49__ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ___50___ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen ___51__ in mid-air. She looked up __52__ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your ___53__?” Coolly, I heard myself ___54__, “I have a continuing program of research in the
laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have __55__ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the __56__ are
in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of __57__ in the clerk’s voice as she __58__ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was __59__ by my lab assistants — ages 1
3, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great __60__.
A．surprise B．anxiety C．anger D．excitement
A．who B．what C．how D．why
A．When B．As C．Before D．Since
A．at B．after C．by D．around
A．nervous B．sure C．anxious D．uncertain
A．mother B．worker C．teacher D．doctor
A．think B．list C．expect D．give
A．since B．unless C．until D．when
A．got B．caused C．permit D．made
A．researcher B．manager C．expert D．scholar
A．dropped B．floated C．frozen D．broke
A．so that B．even though C．as though D．because of
A．family B．subject C．study D．field
A．words B．reply C．shout D．whisper
A．two B．three C．four D．five
A．rewards B．awards C．profits D．benefits
A．explained B．passed C．completed D．filled
A．accepted B．greeted C．recognized D．refused
A．person B．award C．career D．business
Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain__26__ so I decided I would leave the children in the car__27__ I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to
__28_ anything and told them I would be __29__ within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left 
__30__happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had __31__! I could hardly believe my __32__. The car doors were __3
3__ locked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat __34__only two coats. Being____ __35__, I ran to the corner of the street __36__ there was no sign of them. I __37__up to an old lady nearby and asked __38__ she had seen two small girls but she said “No”.
Feeling quite sick with fear, I sat on the driver’s seat, and __39__ to stop trembling(发抖). Suddenly, I __40__ a merry laugh __41__ me. I got out of the car, ran round to open the boot(车尾行李箱) and __42__ were two very
red-face and _43__ children. They had obviously pulled out the back seat,__44__ behind it and then been unable to push the seat forward again. __45__ tears in my eyes, I leaned forward and pulled their ears.
A．heavy B．hard C．big D．hardly
A．before B．since C．after D．which
A．talk B．reach C．hear D．touch
A．away B．out C．back D．along
A．them B．her C．herself
A．discovered B．disappeared C．described D．delivered
A．ears B．words C．eyes D．heads
A．even B．again C．already D．still
A．have B．were C．had D．are
A．foolish B．proud C．frightened D．pleased
A．where B．which D．when
A．arrived B．looked C．rushed D．left
A．what B．when C．whether D．how
A．tried B．had C．tired D．ought
A．felt B．listened C．smelt D．heard
A．behind B．over C．before D．with
A．outside B．among C．inside D．between
A．worried B．excited C．surprised D．interested
A．climbed B．flew C．threw D．jumped
A．For B．About C．With D．Down
There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much．Every day after work the man would come home and 36 with the little boy．He would alwa
ys 37 all of his extra time with the little boy.
One night．while the man was at work, he_38 that he had extra work to do for the evening, and that he wouldn’t be able to play with his little boy． 39 he wanted to be able to give the boy something to keep him 40 ．So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large 41 of the world on the cover．He got a(n) 42 ．He removed the map, and then patientely tore it up into small pieces．Then he put all the 43in his coat pocket.
When he got home, the little boy came __44 to him and was ready to play．The man _45that he had extra work to do and couldn’t play just now．He 46 the little boy into the dinning room, and 47 all the pieces of the map．He spread them on the table．He explained that it was a map of the world, and that by the time he could 48 together, his extra work would be 49 , and they could both play．Surely this would keep the child busy for hours, he thought.
About half an hour later the boy came to the man and said, “Okay, it’s finished．Can we play now?”
The man was 50 , saying, “That’s impossible．Let’s have a look.” And 51 __enough, there was the picture of the world, all put together, every piece in its 52 .
The man said, “That’s amazing! How did you do that?” The boy said, “It’s 53 ．On the 54 of the page is a(n) 55 o
f a man．When I put the man tog
ether the whole world fell into place.”
A．play B．watch C．share D．enjoy
A．take B．spend C．cost D．have
A．recongnized B．realized C．knew D．expected
A．However B．Or C．For D．But
A．happy B．excited C．busy D．silent
A．map B．picture C．figure D．image
A．information B．chance C．advice D．idea
A．world B．pieces C．paper D．magazine
A．shouting B．expecting C．running D．meeting
A．explained B．persuaded C．shouted D．discussed
A．asked B．led C．ordered D．showed
A．did up B．dealt with C．put out D．took out
A．looked it up B．got it around C．put it back D．turned it over
B．wasted C．delivered D．filled
A．shocked B．surprised C．satisfied D．tired
B．sure C．right D．quite
A．way B．page C．side D．place
A．funny B．difficult C．simple D．interesting
A．cover B．back C．top D．front
A．picture B．impression C．sculpture D．shade
Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father 36 him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The 37 was to get James a job.
James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the 38 had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 39 were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 40a thickened air, and the workers, 41 the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 42 the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly 43 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t 44 at him, too.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 45 if there was any work for his son. But 46 there was hardly enough 47 for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job.
Thus, for James, it was a 48 . He hated the place. He made a 49 that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought 50 to someone else, and he would never allow himself to 51 money off the seat of others.
“What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he 52 say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like 53 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the 54 of blood.
“What will you do?”
55 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.
A．sent B．carried C．took D．admitted
A．idea B．condition C．situation D．way
A．lights B．walls C．chances D．doors
A．goods B．workers C．vehicles D．machines
A．sending B．creating C．taking D．disturbing
A．collecting B．pulling C．sewing D．drawing
A．as B．after C．if D．though
A．see B．breathe C．walk D．hear
A．scream B．scold C．rush D．attack
A．doubting B．asking C．questioning D．demanding
A．even B．still C．yet D．also
A．time B．office C．work D．occupation
A．comforting B．blessing C．regretting D．forgiving
A．request B．arrangement C．plan D．promise
A．injury B．harm C．damage D．inconvenience
A．make B．save C．pay D．let
A．should B．might C．could D．would
A．police B．lawyers C．judges D．government
A．sense B．feel C．sight D．scenery
A．Eventually B．Luckily C．Generally D．Basically
I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.
As I _36_ my car, I saw one of my _37_ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _38_, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _39_ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _40_ I would be able to find my way back.
We _41_ about our work as I drove and _42_ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _43_ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _44_ me. But soon I _45_ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _46_.
I was _47_ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _48_. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _49_ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _50_. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _51_ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _52_, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _53_ rolled his window down.
I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _54_ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _55_ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.
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