Go for the Gold
Diana Golden was 12 years old when she found she had bone cancer. Doctors recommended her right leg above the knee.
Diana heard the news, she asked the first question that came into her mind, “Will I still be able to ?”
“When the doctors said yes,” she later said, “I thought it wouldn’t be too .”
That was Diana’s to life. Losing a leg would cause most children to lose , but Diana refused to think about the side. “Losing a leg?” she’d say. “It’s nothing. A body part.”
Most of all, Diana didn’t want to let cancer stop her from doing what she loved—skiing. She had been on ski since five. After the operation, Diana worked hard to get back to the . “I always skied, and I intended to keep on skiing. There was never any question in my mind about that,” she . Seven months after losing her leg, Diana met her . She was back out on the slopes (斜坡).
Skiing wasn’t quite the same with just one leg, but Diana made the best of it. She to go faster on one leg than most people could go on two. When she was just 17, she became a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team.
After high school, Diana went on to Dartmouth College. There she saw how top two-legged skiers trained. not to be left behind, Diana began training with the Dartmouth team. When they ran up and down the steps of the football stadium, she went up and down the steps too—by . “I had to ,” she later explained. “I was an athlete. I had one leg, which meant I had to do it .”
Her constant efforts finally paid off. In 1987, Diana placed 10th in a race some of the best nondisabled skiers in the country. And in 1988, the magazine Ski Racing selected her “Skier of the Year”, breaking the of electing able-bodied World Cup athletes.
As a result of her and determination, Diana has changed the way the world looks at
athletes. People have begun to see them as strong and competent. “Everyone has some kind of ‘disability’,” Diana says, “It’s what we do with our abilities that .”
A．pulling B．losing C．removing D．breaking
A．Until B．When C．Once D．Since
A．run B．walk C．train D．ski
A．bad B．strange C．difficult D．dangerous
A．answer B．attitude C．attention D．challenge
A．memory B．interest C．confidence D．patience
A．serious B．practical C．positive D．negative
A．mountain B．field C．track D．court
A．responded B．commented C．declared D．introduced
A．goal B．requirement C．approval D．standard
A．offered B．agreed C．expected D．learned
A．Determined B．Ashamed C．Anxious D．Cautious
A．climbing B．running C．jumping D．walking
A．adapt B．perform C．survive D．transform
A．properly B．immediately C．differently D．deliberately
A．between B．against C．to D．for
A．reality B．system C．promise D．tradition
A．wisdom B．experience C．behavior D．courage
A．top B．disabled C．young D．international
A．pushes B．matters C．helps D．contributes
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 puzzled (困惑) 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 he . ” “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. ”
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Teaching second grade is always a challenge．Each student arrives at school with his own needs and difficulties．One year a student called Billy me with his behavior as well as his academic requirements．He struggled daily with his emotions and often became angry or violent．I knew that，to make progress，his emotions needed controlling．
One I tried to help Billy was to have him come directly into the classroom when he arrived at school．Billy’s mom would me to alert (警告) me to a particularly emotional morning at home．Then，I would focus on his anger and calming him down before the other students arrived.
One week our class was studying ．I thought one way to bring learning into the classroom was to bring my dog Rocky to school for the day.
That day began as normal．I was preparing activities focused on dog themes I was told that Billy had a morning at home and I might need to get him ．As I was talking to his mom，Billy into the classroom．To Billy’s ，Rocky immediately ran up to his new ，wagging his tail and licking Billy’s face with doggy affection．Billy couldn’t Rocky’s charm (魅力) and began laughing as his anger melted away．
Throughout the day，Billy never left Rocky’s side，feeding him，being gentle with him and even the other students while Rocky was sleeping．
Billy was known for doing anything he could to avoid ，but on this day he found a good dog story，“Clifford’s Puppy Days，” and read it to Rocky．How I was at the sight of Billy reading happily！My little dog was able to Billy’s day from one of anger and frustration to one of laughter，gentleness and .
That day Rocky more than helped me with my 20 ；he helped to change the life of a child! After that Billy’s behavior definitely improved.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1 ~ 20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
It was hot and humid. I myself out of the house to ride my bike along the Hudson River. I had myself I would learn to ride with no hands and my summer freedom is decreasing. lifting my hands before losing balance, I rode steadily up the bike path.
Later, I parked my bike and lay down on a wooden . Just as I got , a man appeared in my vision. “It looks like it's going to rain,” he said. “I was just like you once,” the man continued. “One day, I went for a bike ride and lay down on a bench, it started to rain. People walking by me probably thought I was .” I listened, with the rain falling down. “Rain is like therapy （治疗）,” he said, “ you just lie there and let it fall on your face.”
“I'm taking a tai chi class, and there's this word, Kua, that means ‘Everything in the is connected.'” He began to sway （摇晃） a little. “When the shoulders move, the hips move. Everything is connected.”The rain fell , and I told the man I'd better get home.“Nice to meet you,” he said, and we called each other's bikes beautiful before forever.
I had never ridden in the rain before. I was that I wouldn't be able to practice my hands-free skills on the way home. But then a（an） thought came into my mind: Why not? The wind and icy summer rain beat my face my bent knees took turns being first and I my arms in the air, my balance holding strong. I yelled to no one . I'd never been more truly in the moment. Everything was connected.
For the first time, I saw the cruelty of umbrellas for us from the soft, healing, tapping raindrops. Like an umbrella, the codes of urban society prevent us from having with strangers. The danger is understandable, but the of riding a bike with no handlebars and the refreshment of words from a mysterious stranger is worth getting a little wet.
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完形填空,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。
The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little ________ .It was Mother's Day—and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning, and her mother had ________ how colorful their backyard was ________ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she________ those lilacs (丁香) in her parents' yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the ________ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest ________and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she________ some. Finally, they returned to their car for the________ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her ________ .
When they were near home, she shouted “stop,” got off quickly and ________ to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch (门廊), where a(n) ________patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two ________ ,bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her ________ . As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair ________ with a smile, and held the lilacs________ .
“Mom,”the kids asked, “________did you give her our flowers?” “It is Mother's Day, and she seems so________ while I have all of you. And anyone would be ________by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he ________some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother's Day our kids ________purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman.
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完形填空,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。
There Really Was a Santa Claus
Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her was to go to the post office every day and the company mail. One day in December, she a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus on the corner of the street. Each day she her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and her a Merry Christmas.
At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Clause stood in the cold wind. she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.
A week later, a(n) Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very today.” She prayed for his health.
Later that day, a colleague came into her office . “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her colleague , “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady her colleague, “I’m sure everything will . It’s Christmas. Believe in miracles(奇迹).”
That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s , “I know we don’t have much money to , but I’d like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”
She reached up and held him. Warmth spread her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus – and he had her!
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