Eating the Cookie
One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. was "having the cookie". If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn't have the cookie, life was .
Unfortunately, the cookie kept . Some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At time, it was the new car, the biggest contract—A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate (前列腺) cancer, he sits his head regretfully. "It seems that I stopped learning how to after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy.
If I take the cookie away or it , he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty three. It's taken me this long to understand that the will never make me happy for long.
The you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to （10） about it crumbling (弄碎) or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it you are so busy just trying not to lose it. the cookie is not what life is about. ”
My patient laughs and says has changed him. For the first time he is . No matter if his is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. "Two years ago, cancer me, ‘What is really important?’Well, life is important. Live any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to with the cookie: it has to do with being ."
A．Happiness B．Success C．Business D．Love
A．normal B．common C．worthless D．useless
A．increasing B．changing C．decreasing D．recovering
A．one B．a C．no D．other
A．shaking B．nodding C．knocking D．raising
A．grow B．learn C．live D．work
A．burns B．breaks C．shares D．throws
A．disease B．change C．kid D．cookie
A．hour B．time C．second D．minute
A．think B．come C．worry D．doubt
A．give up B．add up C．use up D．call up
A．brave B．curious C．aware D．sure
A．unless B．because C．though D．until
A．Eating B．Protecting C．Having D．Making
A．death B．energy C．life D．cancer
A．happy B．weak C．upset D．sad
A．result B．fortunate C．business D．behavior
A．deal B．do C．connect D．link
A．alone B．alive C．ambitious D．Active
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Mary had her own special kind of joy, and she knew exactly how to spread it around. She lifted children from 31 into laughter, love, and 
belonging. Each time she found a new 32 for a child, she gave the family one of her little homemade paper roses. It had become a 33 for her, and the families didn't ever forget it.
One evening, Mary was 34 a meeting for adoptive parents. One of the 35 fathers stood up to introduce himself. But before he spoke, he reached into his coat pocket and held up a 36 , red paper rose.
“Twenty years ago today, I felt alone and 37 . I didn't know the talents inside me or what was possible for me.
Then Mary 38 two wonderful people into my life. They taught me what it was like to feel 39 . They not only loved me 40 . They opened a world of 41 that I didn't know existed. My new parents told me, ‘Reach for your dreams!’
I did, and today I'm 42 to be giving that chance to a child who 43 just like me. My mother gave me this little rose. By now, all of you 44 where she got it so long ago.
Mary sent me a new rose just yesterday. And my new rose 45 a new spring, a beautiful new 46 for my own little girl. It 47 me to show her what unconditional love is, and to teach her to reach for her own beautiful dreams.
Thank you, Mary, for the special little things like roses that 48 our lives toge
ther. And thank you for all you've done for me and so many families over the years!”
One brief even can send our spirits soaring or 49 us in quiet to ponder a new beginning. 50 it is also the very small things, like Mary's roses, that tie together the meaningful things.
A．poverty B．loneliness C．misery D．suffering
A．home B．place C．school D．life
A．glory B．favor C．habit D．tradition
B．planning C．hosting D．attending
A．new B．grateful C．kind D．active
A．broken B．faded C．treasured D．dried
A．tasteless B．powerless C．priceless D．worthless
A．directed B．introduced C．brought D．accepted
A．loved B．protected C．cared D．cheered
A．silently B．continuously C．unintentionally D．unconditionally
A．necessities B．possibilities C．beauties
A．eager B．willing C．proud D．lucky
A．started out B．came up C．turned out D．grew up
A．understand B．guess C．tell D．know
A．replaces B．symbolizes C．equals D．creates
A．chance B．mystery C．challenge D．beginning
A．reminds B．helps C．accompanies D．drives
A．fix B．close C．tie D．gather
A．cause B．push D．leave
A．Yet B．Besides C．Otherwise D．Therefore
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分, 满分20分）
I believe in miracles(奇迹)because I've seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a 36in my upper jaw,”she said. “I told my own dentist it's nothing, but he37 I come to see you.”
Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would 38 to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the 39 of her mouth. A careful examination later 40 that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.
During her next appointment, I explained to her the 41 of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just 42 . ”
I thought otherwise. After considerable43 on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to44 me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon(外科医生). She saw him, but as I expected, 45 treatment.
About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and46 .
“How are you?”I asked.
“I’m just fine, honey, ”she responded 47 high spirits.“When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”
Surprised to see her at all, I answered 48 ,“Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it. ”
I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had 49 nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness 50 .
I
had read of such things happening, but had 51 seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I've seen many others, because they keep getting 52 to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle, 53 through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to54 the miracles of one another.
Since my first miracle, I've come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 55 we choose to find it.
A．cut B．pain C．wound D．cancer
A．declared B．suspected C．promised D．insisted
A．refuse B．continue C．attempt D．manage
A．roof B．corner C．bottom D．surface
A．confirmed B．convinced C．considered D．conducted
A．possibility B．importance C．seriousness D．resolution
A．old B．sick C．fine D．glad
A．permission B．support C．approval D．effort
A．persuade B．please C．encourage D．astonish
A．declined B．provided C．received
A．healthy B．elegant C．optimistic D．humorous
A．to B．in C．with D．by
A．worriedly B．confusedly C．patiently D．confidently
A．covered B．reached C．spread D．grown
A．cured B．faded C．expanded D．remained
A．ever B．also C．never D．already
A．easier B．rarer C．happier D．closer
A．or B．so C．yet D．for
A．read B．make C．keep D．see
A．whatever B．wherever C．whoever D．whichever
完形填空（1*20）
In the early 1800’s, a boy named John lived in an orphanage (孤儿院) with several other children. Every day was 31 working and Christmas was the one day of the year 32 the children did not work and received a gift — an orange. The children 33 it so much that they kept it for weeks, and even 34 — smelling it, 35 it and loving it. Usually they tried to preserve it for so 36 that it often went bad before they ate it.
This year John knew he would soon be 37 enough to leave. He would save the orange until his birthday in July. If he preserved it 38 , he might be able to eat it on his birthday.
Christmas day finally came. The children were so 39 as they entered the dining hall. In his excitement, John knocked over something, causing a big 40 . Immediately the master shouted, “John, leave the hall and there will be no orange for you.” John's heart 41 . He turned and ran back to the 42 room so that the children wouldn’t see his tears.
Then he heard the door open and the children entered. Little Elizabeth with a 43 on her face held out her small hands. “Here John,” she said, “this is for you.” As John 44 his head, he saw a big juicy 45all peeled and quartered … Each child had sacrificed(舍弃) their own orange by 46 a quarter and had created a big, beautiful orange for him.
John never forgot the sharing, love and personal 47his friends had shown him that Christmas day. 48 that day, after he became rich, every year he 49 send oranges all over the world to children everywhere. His 50was that no child would ever spend Christmas without a special Christmas fruit!
A．forced B．passed C．taken D．spent
A．as B．when C．while D．which
A．needed B．wanted C．valued D．liked
A．months B．days C．years D．seasons
A．tasting B．watching C．pressing D．touching
A．much B．soon C．long D．far
A．old B．strong C．tall D．experienced
A．seriously B．carefully C．secretly D．softly
A．nervous B．excited C．pleasant D．eager
A．cry B．disappointment C．surprise D．noise
A．jumped B．stopped C．broke D．settled
A．cold B．small C．old D．lonely
A．look B．tears C．comfort D．smile
A．shook B．lifted C．put D．turned
A．gift B．surprise C．orange D．wonder
A．sharing B．breaking C．eating D．taking
A．feelings B．affairs C．relation D．sacrifice
A．In return for B．In case of C．In memory of D．In search of
A．must B．would C．might D．should
A．desire B．idea C．meaning D．thinking
完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. He had wanted a beautiful21 in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well 22 it. He told his father that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day came near, the young man expected 23 that his father had bought the gift. 24 , on the morning of' his graduation, his father called him into his own25 . His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He 26 his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.
Curious, and somewhat 27 , the young man opened the box and found a lovely leather-bound Bible (圣经) , with the young man's name written in gold. Angry, he 28 his voice to his father, and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" and 29 out of the house.
Many years passed and the young man was very 30in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but 31 his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to see him. 32 he could make arrangements, he received a telegram 33 him his father had passed away and willed all of his 34 to his son. When he arrived at his father's, sudden sadness and regret 35 his heart, he began to 36 his father's important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had37 it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully 38a verse (诗) , Matthew 7 - 11 , "And if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts lo your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask him?"
As he read those words, a car key 39 from the back of the Bible. It had a tag (标签) with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the 40 of his graduation, and the words: PAlD IN FULL
A．computer B．bike C．car D．recorder
A．pay B．buy C．support D．afford
A．signs B．facts C．marks D．results
A．However B．Finally C．Quietly D．Actually
A．house B．room C．study D．office
A．gave B．handed C．showed D．presented
A．excited B．nervous C．interested D．disappointed
A．raised B．changed C．improved D．increased
A．ran B．went C．walked D．stormed
A．busy B．successful C．comfortable D．happy
A．remembered B．realized C．knew D．considered
A．When B． As C．After D．Before
A．informing B．announcing C．telling D．discovering
A．treasures B．possessions C．wealths D．eagerness
A．filled B．caught C．attacked D．beat
A．pick up B．remind of C．search through D．refer to
A．seen B．got C．left D．thrown
A．made B．written C．underlined D．designed
A．dropped B．appeared C．rolled D．showed
A．year B．date C．moment D．day
第三节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从51～65题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Strange things happen to time when you travel. __51___the earth is divided into 24 time zones, one hour apart, you can have days with __52___ or fewer than 24 hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
If you __53___ a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your __54___ enters a different time zone every __55___. As you enter each zone, the time __56___ one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you set it __57___. Each day of your trip has __58___ 25 or 23 hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___59___ the international date line. By agreement, this is the point _60___ a new day begins. __61___ you cross the line, you change your __62___ one full day, backward __63____ forward. Traveling east, today __64___ yesterday; traveling west, __65___ is tomorrow!
51. A. Because B. If C. Although D. When
52. A. much B. more C. many D. less
53. A. do B. make C. go D. travel
54. A. plane B. train C. car D. ship
55. A. day B. night C. hour D. time
56. A. goes B. changes C. shows D. adds
57. A. ahead B. upward C. backward D. fast
58. A. neither B. either C. bothD. nor
59.A. travel B. trip C. cover D. cross
60.A. which B. what C. that D. where
61.A. When B. Where C. While D. Before
62.A. time B. calendar C. date D. hour
63.A. andB. or C. but D. still
64.A. changes B. makes C. becomes D. goes
65.A. which B. this C. that D. it