“My name’s Jim Shelley and I am an addict (有瘾的人) …”
With these words I began to the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people , from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I to be phoned, I wanted to phone. Just one more call.
It started socially—a few calls each day. It seemed , just a quick chat. Gradually though, the got worse. Soon it was use, until, finally, addiction.
And it began to affect my . During the day I would disappear for call. If I couldn’t make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more , in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else, myself just one more call.
I was phoning people and messages to make sure calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends’ homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the “Is it OK if I just use the phone…?” At work, I became when my fellow workers tried to me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally the police caught me a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was to see a psychiatrist(心理医生).
I haven’t a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it’s several days I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.
A.face B.find C.accept D.notice
A.now and then B.all the time C.at home D.at work
A.tried B.asked C.waited D.invited
A.polite B.important C.fine D.special
A.condition B.situation C.result D.effect
A.frequent B.regular C.unusual D.particular
A.friends B.study C.family D.work
A.a quick B.a secret C.an expected D.an extra
A.hopeful B.delighted C.frightened D.anxious
A.forcing B.telling C.giving D.limiting
A.leaving B.taking C.passing D.recording
A.long B.immediate C.enough D.surprising
A.saying B.demands C.wish D.words
A.careful B.mad C.determined D.helpless
A.save B.reduce C.protect D.stop
A.destroying B.using C.stealing D.emptying
A.offered B.guided C.ordered D.reminded
A.missed B.had C.received D.fixed
A.as B.when C.if D.since
A.always B.just C.more D.different
Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, and then he sold_ _he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents. He had_ schooling, for being so poor, how could they_ _school fees?
When he was fifteen, he worked a servant in a school.Looking at other children studying in the classroom,he felt_ _for himself.How he__ _to have the same chance! He decided to study by__ _.In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he__ _stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he_ _during the day. He worked_ _hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater_ _he showed in his lessons. A math teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and_ __him to sit at the back of the class. In one exam, he was the_ _one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship if he__ _a regular student of the school.
Robeson_ _through six long years with his study of math and wrote several articles which captured the_ of some university professors.They admired his talent__ __his diligence.To give him a good chance, they hired him as a librarian and_ _him free guidance.Robeson felt_ _, for he was sure that before him there was a broad road_ _success.
A.whether B.which C.that D.what 、
A.many B.few C.little D.much
A.buy B.afford C.send D.read
A.as B.like C.for D.by
A.angry B.happy C.proud D.sorry
A.hated B.decided C.wished D.regretted
A.the teacher B.himself C.his parents D.his schoolmates
A.could B.ought to C.should D.would
A.had learned B.has been taught C.has heard D.had been written down
A.very B.so C.too D.quite
A.joy B.interest C.time D.taste
A.allowed B.agreed C.let D.refused
A.worst B.only C.last D.laziest
A.had been B.has been C.is D.was
A.learned B.listened C.mastered D.struggled
A.notice B.influence C.eyes D.attention
A.except for B.according to C.as well as D.in spite of
A.taught B.offered C.lent D.sent
A.sad B.angry C.happy D.disappointed
A.leading to B.coming from C.made of D.covered with
The moment happened 30 yours ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a . A few minutes nap(小睡)time before class couldn’t , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my beating wildly trying to find the cause of the . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish(孩子气的)smile on his face. He had deliberately dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still . “I am glad to see everyone isawake. Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from thefascinating discussion he led. With knowledge and good he made the material come alive. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he with were contagious(有感染力的). I the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life,do it well,do it with . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk(梦游)your way through then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too not to live it well.
A.took B.divided C.stayed D.put
A.class B.test C.task D.lecture
A.platform B.pillow C.carpet D.wall
A.benefit B.help C.last D.hurt
A.heart B.mind C.thought D.head
A.trouble B.noise C.failure D.incident
A.smiling B.talking C.complaining D.shouting
A.sound B.shock C.interruption D.blow
A.gesture B.sense C.humor D.design
A.taught B.spread C.combined D.started
A.decorated B.filled C.left D.entered
A.discussing B.speaking C.cheating D.sleeping
A.joy B.speed C.aim D.determination
A.work B.life C.journey D.college
A.hard B.complex C.short D.simple
When I was in high school, my father retired and set up a food booth on the street near my school. He was particularly good at making . Every day after I finished school, my classmates and I would his food booth. But I really talking to him before his food booth, because I didn’t want my classmates to know my father was selling noodles on the street!
One night, I couldn’t it any more and shouted, “Dad, could you selling your annoying noodles? I don’t need a father who sells noodles on the street!” At that moment, my father was . He tried to say something but didn’t. When he turned , something happened that I would never . His eyes were filled with tears. I saw him for the first time. My mother later told me my father was selling noodles to money for my college education. Even today I still feel for what I did that night.
Time really flies. I finished and then left my home to work. During the past years, whenever I home, he was always there meeting me at the railway station. Whenever he saw me off, he never tried to hug me, although I always his hug. When I was away from home, he never wrote or telephoned me, he always pushed my mother to telephone me. Whenever my mother was telephoning me, he’d sit beside her with a list of questions. He’d my mother to talk to me for him. That’s the way he is, and that’s how he shows his to me.
My father is quiet, but I feel a , which is deep and powerful. It lives in a place far beyond , and it is something special-“a silent father’s love”.
A.chicken B.noodles C.bread D.dessert
A.pass B.watch C.visit D.advertise
A.enjoyed B.hated C.considered D.continued
A.stand B.deserve C.forgive D.digest
A.start B.stop C.forget D.remember
A.tired B.confused C.interested D.shocked
A.around B.back C.up D.down
A.describe B.forget C.prove D.face
A.arguing B.weeping C.laughing D.smiling
A.save B.take C.spend D.count
A.happy B.empty C.lonely D.guilty
A.meeting B.reading C.homework D.college
A.returned B.missed C.left D.stayed
A.shyly B.regularly C.quietly D.responsibly
A.saw B.refused C.expected D.rewarded
A.and B.but C.or D.if
A.force B.challenge C.tell D.inspire
A.love B.hate C.anger D.respect
A.connection B.competition C.condition D.combination
A.greetings B.injuries C.links D.words
通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。
One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, he knew me. The man had a newspaper in front of him, which he was to read, but I could that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my the man was clearly confused by the way in which the waiter and I each other. He seemed even more puzzled as went on and it became that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the . When he came out, he paid his bill and without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had . “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective (侦探). He you here because he thought you were the man be . ” “What?” I said, showing my . The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a ”. “Well, it’s really I came to a restaurant where I’m known,” I said. “ , I might have been in trouble. ”
A.knew B.understood C.noticed D.recognized
A.since B.even if C.though D.as if
A.flat B.open C.cut D.fixed
A.hoping B.thinking C.pretending D.continuing
A.see B.find C.guess D.learn
A.menu B.bill C.paper D.food
A.direct B.familiar C.strange D.funny
A.chatted with B.looked at C.laughed at D.talked about
A.the waiter B.time C.I D.the dinner
A.true B.hopeful C.clear D.possible
A.restaurant B.washroom C.office D.kitchen
A.left B.acted C.sat down D.calmed down
A.wanted B.tried C.ordered D.wished
A.met B.caught C.followed D.discovered
A.was to beat B.was dealing with C.was to meet D.was looking for
A.care B.surprise C.worry D.regret
A.must B.can C.need D.may
A.discovery B.mistake C.decision D.fortune
A.a pity B.natural C.a chance D.lucky
A.Thus B.However C.Otherwise D.Therefore
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox.Then Donna hers. She put the lid(盖子) on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel(铁铲) from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt.At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’.May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
A.job B.project C.observation D.course
A.checked B.noticed C.watched D.waited
A.on B.with C.as D.for
A.scenes B.senses C.marks D.signs
A.nobody B.somebody C.everyone D.anyone
A.curiosity B.suspect C.sympathy D.worry
A.and B.or C.but D.so
A.insert B.interrupt C.talk D.request
A.taught B.shown C.forced D.instructed
A.added B.wrote C.made D.folded
A.cry B.pray C.dig D.play
A.back B.bottom C.top D.edge
A.drop B.raise C.fall D.lift
A.keep B.thank C.forgive D.honor
A.remembered B.punished C.removed D.replaced
A.silence B.heart C.peace D.memory
A.down B.up C.off D.around
A.birth B.passing C.loss D.starting
A.awoke B.reminded C.forgot D.apologized
A.simply B.hardly C.seriously D.angrily