Kroc’s family is very poor(穷)，so he works in a restaurant（餐馆） to make some money after school. The boss(老板) asks to clean the tables every day. Kroc is very .
One day Kroc home late. After dinner, Kroc says to his father, “I don’t want to go to the restaurant tomorrow. I want a boss. I don’t want to clean the tables every day.” His father anything. He asks Kroc to clean the table. Kroc cleans the table quickly. Then his father wipes(擦) the table with a white cloth（布）and the cloth becomes(变得) very dirty. His father says to his son, Ray Kroc, “It is easy for you to clean a table, you can’t clean it very well. can you be the boss?” Ray Kroc’s face gets red.
He forgets his father’s words（话）. that, he uses five cloths each time to clean the tables. He hard all the time. The boss likes him a lot and makes him new boss of the restaurant. Ten years later, Ray Kroc opens his first restaurant company（公司）——McDonald’s.
A．he B．him C．his D．he’s
A．happy B．interesting C．unhappy D．fun
A．arrives at B．arrives C．gets to D．arrives in
A．to be B．am C．be D．make
A．says B．speaks C．doesn’t talk D．doesn’t say
A．and B．then C．but D．because
A．How B．Where C．Who D．What
A．doesn’t B．never C．not D．no
A．Before B．At C．In D．After
A．work B．eat C．works D．eats
完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people so much time shopping at malls that they are called “mall rats”. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.
People like malls for reasons. They feel happy because at malls , parking is usually free and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls beautiful rest places with waterfalls and large green trees.
People in the United States the first indoor mall in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People love doing all their in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are like town centers and people come there many things. When they shop, of course, they also eat in food restaurants and they can enjoy food all over the world. They see films at cinemas. Some people even get daily exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. go to malls to meet friends.
In some malls, people can see a doctor or a dentist and even go to the church(教堂). In other words, people can almost do in malls. Now people can even live in their favourite shopping center.
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The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old mal stove（火炉）．A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there One morning they to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged（拖）the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was taken to a nearby county hospital.
The doctor told the boy's mother that the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs hung there, all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the ．Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, ．Yet his determination that he would walk was as as ever.
When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass，dragging his behind him.
He worked his way to the white fence（栅栏）around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence, that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he more than to develop life in those legs.
In the end，through his determination he did ．He began to walk to school，then to run to school，to run the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.
Still later in Madison Square Garden this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!
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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Bert Manson, 82, slowly opened his eyes and turned to face the clock on the bedside table. It was 8:23 a.m. He felt ____. The time was nothing to him. He had nothing to do all day. He lay on the bed, ________ to the cars on the highway and the shouts of the children running to school.
After a while, Bert ______ got out of bed and asked himself the same questions as he did every morning: Would he fall today? If so, would anyone come? How long would he _______? Would he die? He looked out of the window into the street below. “And who would ______?”he spoke quietly.
After Bert’s wife died a year ago, his son and daughter said they would visit once a week. But the last time was months ago. On the phone, they always had a(n) ________: too busy at work; the children are _______; bad weather; no time. Nobody seemed to have any time…except for Bert. He ________ his granddaughters. He loved it when Mandy and Ruth came to visit. They brought him candy and _______.
He walked to a chair near the bedroom door ________. He rested for a moment before continuing in small steps to the bathroom.A. pleased B. sad C. surprised
A. listening B. pointing C. shouting
A. happily B. quickly C. carefully
A. hide B. wait C. follow
A. care B. decide C. forget
A. chance B. accident C. reason
A. excited B. perfect C. sick
A. introduced B. missed C. refused
A. hope B. trouble C. fear
A. in time B. in pain C. in person
Mr Read enjoyed climbing mountains, so one year he went to Switzerland his holidays.After he had climbed some easy mountains, he decided one day to climb a more one, but he didn’t want to go up it , so he found a good Swiss guide(向导).
At first it was not a difficult climb, but they came to a which was not so easy.The guide , turned round and warned(警告) Mr Read.“Be careful here,” he said.“This is a place.You can easily fall, and you do, you will fall straight down a very long way.” But he went on.“If you do fall here, don’t to look to the right while you are going .There is a quite beautiful view(景色) there.It’s much more beautiful than the one you can from here.”
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A wise man was walking from one town to another with a few of his followers, and they happened to pass a lake.So they stopped there to for a while, and the wise man said to one of his followers, “I am very .Could you please me some water from the lake?”
The follower walked to the lake the wise man requested.Some people were washing clothes in the water, and right at that moment, several carts (手推车) started crossing the lake. , the water became very muddy.Then he went back and told the wise man that the water was very muddy and not to drink.After they had rested for about half an hour, the wise man again asked the follower to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink.As requested, the follower went to the lake.This time he found that all the mud had to the bottom.The water was very and looked fit to drink.So he his water bottle and took it to the wise man.
The wise man took the water bottle and drank, then looked up at the follower.“See what you did the water clean?” he said.“You let it be for a while and the mud settled down on its own, you could get some clear drinking water.Your mind can also be like that lake when it is by something.If you just let it be and give it a little time, it will most likely settle down on its own putting in any effort at all to it.”
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