You can reach almost any goal if you want to—but sometimes it takes great efforts to realize your dream．
That was quite true for me．When I was 17 years old，I broke my father’s_____．He had saved enough from an average income to send me to college to become a lawyer．Three months later I was home telling him that I had left college — and for the first time I saw him ______.
“Son，I’m always going to love you even though you’ll never achieve anything，’’he said with tears(眼泪)in his eyes．
When I walked out of that room，I was burning with something within my body．Not everyone has the chance to feel it．I did not just want to______ — I had to．
But I couldn't see how to do it and all the time my father’s words were in my mind. I become a salesperson．It was not______ because I knew almost nothing about marketing.
Then a man introduced me to the Edwards training course．I went and learned a lot of useful______．I tried my best to put them to work．Soon after that，I started tasting the sweet fruits of Success for the first time．
Some time later，I told the manager of my company that I would like to meet with Mr．Edwards．They arranged it for me．When the day came，I told him，“Mr. Edwards，my goal is to be able to train people just as you trained me．”______，he agreed to let me try．
All that came true because I set goals to make it happen．Sticking to the goal was the most important．
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完形填空（共1小题）
Thomas Edison was born in 1837. He was a famous American ______. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher many strange questions. Most of them had ______ to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was not ______ and was not worth ______. When he told this to Edison’s mother, she _____ her son out of school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him at home. The boy read _____, soon he became very interested ______ science when he was ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for ______. Ever since then, he never stopped ____ for new and better ways ______ things.
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完形填空（共1小题）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—10各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A_______boy never went to the market（集市）________．One day, his father let him________to the market to sell shoes made by themselves．When the boy got there with a big bag of shoes, the market was already crowded（拥挤）．He found a place, put down the bag and carefully watched people________．He didn’t get home _______the sun set．“How many pairs of shoes did you________today?” “Not a single（单一） pair!” said the boy________great sorrow．“What? What did you stay there the whole day________?” shouted his father,“________needed shoes, father,” said the boy．“I saw everyone had a pair of shoes ________．”
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完形填空。(10分)
选择适当的词语填入句子中，使句子和文章前后意思完整
This boy is Peter Smith. His _ _ name is Peter. His _ _ name is Smith. This is school. His school _ _ number is 20048567. His teacher is Miss White. Miss White _ a good teacher. Li Min is a Chinese boy. Li Min is his good _ at school. Look! _ _ a pencil sharpener. Is the pencil sharpener _ _? I _ _ know. Let’s _ Li Min at 495-6548.
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完形填空先通读下面的短文，掌握大意，然后在每小题所给各题的四个选项中，选出
可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(本大题10分，每小题1分)
Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Rakesh, he studied and lived in a boarding school(寄宿学校). Every night he jumped over the wall and played outside. He returned before dawn (黎明) and lay on his bed again, so no one knew that Rakesh went out at .
One night as usual, Rakesh found everyone asleep. He decided to play outside again. He went into his teacher—Mrs. Green’s room and saw her sleeping. Then Rakesh walked out towards the wall. Near the wall, there was a ladder in the bushes, he hid it there. He the ladder and he climbed up it, then jumped over the wall. at that time his teacher was awake and saw him going out. got up and took away the ladder from the wall. A few hours later, Rakesh returned. In the dark, he tried to climb from the wall. Sadly, there was no ladder, instead, Mrs. Green was standing where the ladder was and waited for him. Rakesh was very to be punished (处罚), but to his surprise, she just helped Rakesh to get onto the ground, said, "Rakesh, at least a warm coat with you when you go out at night."
Mrs. Green's kindness made Rakesh know his own faults. He apologized (道歉) and never went out at night again. It is the lesson that he has ever had.
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完形填空。（每小题1.5分，共15分）
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
I was flying to New York at night. Suddenly, a storm broke and the plane began to be tossed(颠簸)around.
When I looked the plane, I could see that nearly all the passengers were worried and . The future seemed terrible and many were wondering if they would make it through the storm.
Then I saw a little girl. It seemed that the storm meant to her. She sat on her seat reading a book. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again, with no or fear in her eyes. When the other passengers were scared half to death, that child was completely . I could not believe my eyes.
When the plane finally reached New York, I was not surprised to that all the passengers were hurrying to come out. I stopped and spoke to the girl for long time. I asked she had not been afraid.
The child replied,” My daddy is the , and he is taking me home.
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