Many years ago, when I was a student, the radio studio manager at WXBN interviewed me and it changed my life.
“How old are you?”he looked down at _______.
“Fifteen,” I said.
“And you want a job in radio?” Shouldn’t you be _______?”he asked.
How could I explain? I’ve always _______ the radio. When I was four or five years old, I remember sitting close to the radio in the living room, listening to my favourite programmes, and the voices of my favourite presenters. It seemed that they were speaking to me in person. _______ the age of nine, I asked for jobs in small radio stations.
As I grew older, my _______ in radio grew. One day I learned about Internet radio. Once a week, I played my favoutite music from my father’s computer to the listeners, talked about life at school, and then closed down and did my homework.
Soon my friends at junior high school started to listen, and then they wanted to _______. We prepared the weekly programmes, articles about music, sports news, jokes and the weather report.
“OK, _______ with me,” the WXBN manager said, I followed him into the studio. Then I sat down in front of a microphone. He was in another room, behind the glass wall.
“OK, let’s do a second check. Just tell me _______ you had for breakfast.”
All radio presenters begin work with the same _______.
“I had eggs, fruit and some milk.”
“OK, that’s great,” the man behind the glass said.
And this was how my first real______in radio began.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A,B,C项中选出最佳选项，并将答案填涂在对应的答题卡上。
Australia is the greatest (最大的) island in the world . It is much ____than China. It is in the ____ of the Earth. So when it is ____ summer in China, it is cold winter in Australia.
Australia is big , but the population there is ____. The population of Australia ____ the same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous ____ its ____ and kangaroos. After a short drive from any town, you will find ____ in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, ____ are sheep. Have you ever seen (你曾经见过) a kangaroo ? It has a “bag” in its body. The ____ kangaroo keeps its baby kangaroo in the “bag”. It is very interesting, isn’t it?
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后面所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Thanksgiving Day was coming. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment (作业) — to draw a picture of ________ for which they were thankful.
Most of the class might be considered poor, but still many would ________ the holiday with turkey and other traditional food of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the subject of most of her students’ art. And they were.
But Douglas made a(an) ________ kind of picture. Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of weak and unhappy. As other children played at ________ ,Douglas used to stand close by her side. One could only guess at the pain that Douglas felt behind those sad ________ .
Yes, his picture was different. When he was asked to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a ________ . Nothing else. Just an empty hand.
His abstract (抽象的) picture caught the ________ of his classmates. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers ________ turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and ________ people. Still others guessed it was the hand of God, for God feeds us. And so the discussion went on — until the teacher almost forgot the young artist ________ .
When the children had gone on to other assignments, she stopped at Douglas’ desk, bent down, and ________ him whose hand it was. The little boy looked away and murmured, “It’s yours, teacher.”
She recalled the ________ when she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there, as she had the other students. How ________ she had said, “Take my hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to hold your pencil.” Or, “Let’s do this together.” Douglas was very ________ for his teacher’s hand. Brushing aside a tear, she went on with her work.
The story speaks of more than thankfulness. It says something about teachers teaching and parents parenting and friends showing friendship, and how much it means to the Douglases of the world. They might not always say thanks, but they’ll remember the hand that ________ out.
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完形填空 阅读下面短文，从每题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。
A man was sitting in the doctor's office. He was telling the doctor about his . “I like football, doctor,” he said. “Please help me. My life has never been a good one since I was ________ in football and it is getting ________ . I can't even ________ well at night. When I close my ________ .
I' m out there in the football field ________ after a flying ball. When I wake up, I' m more ________ than I was when I went to bed. What am I going to do?” The doctor sat back and said, “ First of all, you ________ to try your best not to dream about football before you are falling asleep, try to ________ about something else. Try to think that you are at a party and someone is going to give you several millions of dollars.” “Are you crazy（发疯的）?”the man ________. “Maybe I'll wake up all the time!”
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完形填空。
It was Mother's Day. A man_____ his car at a flower shop to order(订购) some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers_____ his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
_____ he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her _____ and she answered, "I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose ____ two dollars."
The man smiled and said, "Come into the shop with me, and I'll buy you _____."
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, "Yes, please! You can _____ me to my mother," She brought him to a cemetery(墓地), where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was _____. He _____ to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for _____ mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
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完型填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort the old people who needed a little cheering up during the holiday season.
The first two there were for persons requiring help in taking care of themselves. We sang________ for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.
As we were ________on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症), most of them stared at the walls or floor. However, one lady ________my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t________like that. As we got________ with each song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got.________ she was singing, she was also________ out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my ________ were to my students. People who worked at the care center could attend to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling ________about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin also ________the same lady. The difference between us is that he________on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, “Silent Night,” Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked this aged lady in her eyes and with his actions said, “You are important, and I will take my________to let you know that.”
This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek(脸颊) with the other hand. Tears began to fall down her face. No ________can completely describe that touching moment...
It________a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless attitude toward another was a lesson that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day.
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