Jack threw the papers on my desk and glared at me.
“What’s ?” I asked.
“Next time you want to change anything, me first,” he shouted.
How dare he treat me like that? I thought. I just changed a long sentence and corrected grammar—something I thought I would be to do.
In fact I’d been . One co-worker took me aside the first day and reminded me of his temper. One day, another thing left me in tears so I stormed into his office .
“What?” he asked.
I knew what I must do. After all, he deserved it. “Jack, the you’ve been treating me is wrong,” I said. Jack seemed and leaned back in his chair.
“I make you a promise. I’ll be a(n) . I’ll treat you as you deserve to be , with respect and kindness.” With the words, I left.
Jack me the rest of the week. Letters appeared on my desk while I was at lunch; the corrected versions weren’t seen again. day I left a on his desk, reading “Hope your day is going great.” Over the next few weeks, Jack reappeared, but nothing happened again.
One year later, I had suffered breast cancer and would die soon. The last day of my stay, Jack came. He placed some flowers beside me, saying, “Tulips(郁金香)”.
I smiled, not . He cleared his throat. “If you plant them when you get home, they’ll next spring.” Tears clouded my eyes and I whispered “Thank you.”
Jack grasped my hands, saying, “You’re . You can’t see it now, next spring you’ll see the colors I picked out for you.”
I’ve seen those beautiful tulips push through the soil every spring for ten years now. I’ll never Jack.
A.different B.ill C.wrong D.important
A.help B.ask C.allow D.invite
A.made B.punished C.forced D.paid
A.warned B.proved C.reported D.ordered
A.excitedly B.happily C.angrily D.disappointedly
A.Accidentally B.Eventually C.Immediately D.Suddenly
A.action B.way C.method D.manner
A.moved B.stupid C.scared D.nervous
A.enemy B.boss C.friend D.helper
A.treated B.hoped C.refused D.worked
A.visited B.accompanied C.punished D.avoided
A.Some B.Another C.The other D.Any
A.note B.passage C.paper D.book
A.fearful B.pleasant C.unhappy D.exciting
A.school B.hospital C.office D.home
A.doubting B.explaining C.crying D.understanding
A.come up B.pick up C.turn up D.go up
A.right B.fine C.welcome D.popular
A.so B.and C.then D.but
A.remember B.miss C.forgive D.forget
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him __much in repairs that he decided that he had better __it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_ _ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so__ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was __ when they met one evening, and said, “What's __, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may __more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's__was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, __ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no __.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to__ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be__or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll __my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to __ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, __ to wait there for the people who had__ his advertisement. Even Dave had to __that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean__ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this __ to us yet, sir?”?
A.directly B.safely C.easily? D.properly
A.such B.so C.very D.too?
A.keep B.repair C.sell D.throw?
A.lucky B.anxious C.ashamed D.generous?
A.some B.neither C.most D.none
A.delighted B.upset C.calm D.astonished?
A.on B.it C.that? D.up
A.learn B.miss C.find D.get
A.message B.advice C.request D.description?
A.loses B.uses C.has D.spends
A.doubt B.help C.answer D.trouble
A.see B.tell C.agree D.call
A.exact B.early C.suitable D.late
A.follow B.meet C.introduce D.bring
A.recognize B.gain C.admire D.test
A.happening B.turning C.meaning D.failing
A.read B.inserted C.answered D.placed
A.forget B.admit C.disagree D.show
A.that B.as C.so D.such
A.bargain B.sale C.result D.accident
America’s Beauty Is in Its Diversity
America is built on the idea of freedom, and there is no exception for Muslim women. I the freedom of religion and speech. But mostly, I believe it’s OK to be , and to stand up for who and what you are. So I believe in wearing the hijab.
The hijab is a religious head covering, like a scarf. I am Muslim, and keeping my head covered is a of maturity(成熟)and respect toward my and to Allah’s will. , I also like to wear it to be different. I don’t usually like to do what everyone else is doing. I want to be a(n) , not just part of the crowd. But when I first wore it, I was also afraid of the that I’d get at school.
I on my own that sixth grade was the I should start wearing the hijab. I was about what the kids would say or even do to me. I thought they might make fun of me, or be scared of me and my headscarf. Kids at that age usually like to be all the same, and there’s little or no of differences.
On the first day of school, I put all those thoughts behind my back and walked in with my head held high. I was holding my breath a little, but I was also proud to be a Muslim, proud to be wearing the hijab, proud to be different.
I was about everything I thought the kids would say or even do to me. I actually met a lot of people because of wearing my head covering. Most of the kids would come and ask me questions — — about the hijab and why I wore it.
I did hear some kids were making fun of me, there was one girl----she wasn’t even in my class, and we never really talked much---and she spoke me, and I wasn’t even there! I made a lot of new friends that year, friends that I still have until this very day, five years later.
Yes, I’m different, but everyone is different here, in one way or another. This is the of America.
A.believe in B.stick to C.carry out D.push for
A.dependent B.free C.sensitive D.different
A.signal B.sign C.reminder D.cause
A.religion B.country C.parents D.status
A.In a word B.In general C.To be exact D.To be honest
A.princess B.heroine C.individual D.adult
A.praise B.punishment C.reaction D.reflection
A.hoped B.expected C.realized D.decided
A.time B.chance C.case D.occasion
A.disappointed B.scared C.enthusiastic D.angry
A.still B.already C.even D.ever
A.show off B.pull off C.pick up D.put up
A.rejection B.ignorance C.awareness D.acceptance
A.negative B.optimistic C.serious D.strange
A.often B.inside C.only D.outside
A.concerned B.particular C.wrong D.convinced
A.respectfully B.cautiously C.suspiciously D.critically
A.and B.so C.but D.or
A.in terms of B.in front of C.in charge of D.in favor of
A.significance B.beauty C.value D.power
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The other night as I was leaving my son's room. I noticed a hockey puck(冰球)sitting on his desk. It me not only of an exciting hockey game he and I had several years ago. but of a life lesson he had learned .
During spring vacation from school,a friend gave us two to a New York Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Garden. My son was very because he is an avid Rangers fan,so we attended it.
The roar of the crowd was right from the moment the puck was dropped. When the Rangers first, the crowd cheered. My son got caught up in the moment and joined in the crowd. When the Rangers scored a second time, it seemed as if the building would from the noise. Three young men in the row in front of us, probably in their early 20s, caught my as my son sang along with the crowd. They smiled at us. We were all one happy and excited hockey .
For my son, the victory was exciting. But that is not what he remembers about that night, that's not his primary recollection. After the winning goal had been scored,the losing team's goalkeeper the hockey puck out of the net behind him, and it into the crowd. One of the three young men before us caught the puck and, in one motion after catching it, threw it back to my son.
My son looked at the puck as if he had been given a golden . "Why did that man give me the puck?" I explained to my son that the man had given him the puck because he knew how it would make him to have a souvenir from the game, and not just any souvenir, but the puck that had been the goal in a shootout. It was obvious that he knew it would more to my son than it would to him.
A.warned B.informed C.cheated D.reminded
A.missed B.played C.attended D.undertaken
A.as usual B.as well C.as a rule D.as a consequence
A.fans B.nets C.tickets D.pucks
A.excited B.surprised C.disappointed D.inspired
A.visibly B.incredibly C.reliably D.availably
A.scored B.won C.defeated D.ranked
A.unfortunately B.blindly C.amazingly D.enthusiastically
A.explore B.pour C.fill D.explode
A.sitting B.looking C.taking D.lying
A.hand B.shoulder C.eye D.head
A.team B.crowd C.coach D.family
A.at times B.at most C.at least D.at last
A.picked B.chose C.got D.kept
A.divided B.threw C.turned D.changed
A.even if B.as if C.until D.unless
A.goal B.medal C.treasure D.target
A.happy B.curious C.sorrowful D.horrible
A.losing B.winning C.catching D.remembering
A.strike B.touch C.direct D.mean
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and With dust. to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very. and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a . kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with read the loving he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her .
A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
A.hidden B.covered C.buried D.filled
A.Pretending B.Suggesting C.Preferring D.Deciding
A.delicate B.tasty C.useful D.tender
A.recently B.usually C.previously D.occasionally
A.work B.study C.serve D.report
A.accounts B.documents C.introductions D.occupations
A.devoted B.abandoned C.thrown D.drawn
A.depressed B.dead. C.dangerous D.ill
A.typical B.traditional C.different D.familiar
A.wars B.illnesses C.letters D.prescriptions
A.divided B.sorted C.separated D.updated
A.sadly B.angrily C.softly D.loudly
A.curious B.enthusiastic C.fantastic D.positive
A.Christmas card B.envelope C.basket D.lipstick
A.found B.wrote C.recognized D.missed
A.astonishment B.sorrow C.sickness D.emotion
A.story B.message C.speech D.motto
A.in person B.in private C.in danger D.in peace
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Long long ago, a child was ready to be born. So one day he God, “They tell me you are sending me to tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so and helpless?”
God replied, “Among the many , I chose one for you. She will be for you and will take care of you.”
But the child wasn’t he really wanted to go. “But tell me, here in Heaven, I don’t do but sing and smile, that’s for me to be happy.”
“Your angel will sing for you and will also for you every day. And you will your angel’s love and be happy.”
“And am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me.” The child continued, “if I don’t know the that men talk?”
God patted him on the head and said, “your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet you will ever hear, and with much and care, your angel will teach you how to .”
“And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?”
“Your angel will place your together and will teach you how to pray.”
“I’ve heard that on earth there are bad men, who will me?”
“Your angel will defend you even if it means her life!”
And then God the child on the shoulder and said, “Your angel’s name is not to remember. You will simply call her Mommy.”
A.asked B.answered C.taught D.told
A.heaven B.hell C.earth D.space
A.big B.small C.strong D.stupid
A.nurses B.doctors C.teachers D.angels
A.hiding B.waiting C.heading D.voting
A.sure B.urgent C.conscious D.impressive
A.anything B.something C.everything D.nothing
A.much B.little C.few D.enough
A.clear B.dive C.smile D.react
A.damage B.feel C.govern D.resign
A.when B.why C.how D.whether
A.language B.meaning C.topic D.politics
A.poems B.stories C.arguments D.words
A.strength B.patience C.warning D.thinking
A.sing B.dance C.speak D.paint
A.hands B.feet C.arms D.legs
A.replace B.convert C.educate D.protect
A.burying B.risking C.experiencing D.attacking
A.hit B.ruined C.touched D.cleaned
A.hard B.easy C.strange D.convenient