Times were tough in our household.My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything for him.In addition to going to nursing school full-time,1 was working three part-time jobs to put food on the table for our family of five.
After a rather___ meal one night,I answered the ringing phone. With no ,a voice asked,’’Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.”Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our situation. It was up to us to decide whether we a voice on the telephone.
1 was desperate. With food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a ?When I uneasily got to a ranch home as ,I found there was no car in the garage. ,lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy （轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman me, not much different than our phone conversation!’’Look around. If you see what you want,__ yourself.”'He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same .This couldn't be real!
I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what we needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man.。’Be here next week. You’ll of the food by then “was his reply,
Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for items and canned goods from local grocery stores and folks like us who had fallen on hard times.
I never knew what our weekly menus would be I had “shopped" in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.
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Tears were streaming down Ruth Ann Kittelson's face as she hung up the phone. Her daughter, Lora, wanted to ____ her husband and move back home with her new baby. For the first time Ruth Ann ____ if she had the strength to keep Lora from getting her own way. As Lora grew up, Ruth Ann would do anything for her. "If Lora wanted something I would be ____ that she got it," she recalled.
Lora's father had left the ____ when Lora was 15. A year later Ruth Ann married a Christian man named Wayne.
When Lora was 20 years old, she ____ Scott Mesker, and the early years of their married life were plainful and exhausting. As college students, Scott had three jobs and Lora worked on campus. ____ the birth of their son. Josh, the pressures became overwhelming. Scott and Lora became ____ in the same household.
Coming from a divorced home, Lora knew her choices. ____ she had been a Christian since childhood, some of her best friends advised, "____ will forgive you if you get a divorce."
Lora knew that her mom ____ let her come home with the baby. ____, her mom would do anything for her.
Ruth Ann knew Lora's marriage was in ____, and had discussed the situation with Wayne and he ____ that Ruth Ann should not come to Lora's rescue. Lora needed to make a commitment to her marriage.
Ruth Ann had not always ____ to Wayne when Lora was a teenager, but she would now. She could not ____ Lora taking her young son through the ____ of divorce.
As she talked with Lora on the phone, she sensed that God was telling her not to ____ to Lora's request to move home. So she reluctantly said, "I just can't ____ you come home. You love Scott. You have to take a stand and make this work!"
Lora was in ____. "How could Mom do this to me?" she wondered. What she didn't see was Ruth Ann's body ____ from uncontrollable weeping.
A．keep B．leave C．quit D．stop
A．wondered B．minded C．cared' D．considered
A．sure B．necessary C．likely D．possible
A．work B．task C．job D．family
A．met B．recognized C．knew D．married
A．With B．For C．As D．In
A．workers B．students C．parents D．strangers
A．If B．When C．While D．Although
A．Mother B．God C．Husband D．Child
A．should B．will C．would D．need
A．In all B．After all C．All in all D．At all
A．danger B．time C．trouble D．state
A．announced B．declared C．decided D．advised
A．seen B．listened C．pointed D．referred
A．think B．meet C．imagine D．receive
A．feeling B．excitement C．pain D．pleasure
A．want B．expect C．agree D．approve
A．ask B．let C．make D．force
A．comfort B．horror C．surprise D．disbelief
A．crying B．shaking C．standing D．falling
Here in Alaska, the wolf almost disappeared a few years ago, because hunters were killing hundreds of them for ____. However, laws were passed to protect the wolves ____ the sportsmen and also the people who ____ the animals for fur. So the wolf quantity has greatly ____.Now there are so ____ wolves that they are destroying their own ____ supply.
A wolf naturally preys (捕食) on animals in the ____ family. People in the wilderness （荒野) also hunt deer for food. Many of the animals have been destroyed by the very ____ recently and by changes in the wilderness ____ life. When the deer can't find ____ food, they die.
If the wolves ____ to kill large numbers of deer, their prey will ____ some day. And the wolves will, too. So we must ____ the cycle of life in the wilderness to ____ the ecology(生态). If we killed more wolves, we would ____ them and their prey from extinction(绝种). We'd also save some ____ animals.
In another northern state, wolves attacked chickens for ____. ____ want the United States government to send a team of ____ to study the problem. They believe it is necessary to kill wolves in some areas and to protect them in places where there is a ____ wolf quantity.
A．fun B．food C．sports D．interest
A．for B．of C．from D．about
A．take B．catch C．find D．play
A．increased B．reduced C．developed D．advanced
A．many B．few C．much D．little
A．animal B．plant C．food D．water
A．cat B．dog C．deer D．cows
A．hot summers B．warm springs C．cool autumns D．cold winters
A．animal B．plant C．food D．cold
A．good B．much C．more D．enough
A．start B．stop C．decide D．continue
A．disappear B．reduce C．increase D．appear
A．keep B．change C．renew D．form
A．change B．remain C．balance D．keep
A．wild B．farm C．useful D．field
A．fur B．sport C．food D．fun
A．Farmers B．Scientists C．Biologists D．Fishermen
A．officials B．doctors C．teachers D．biologists
A．small B．large C．increasing D．natural
Into the wild is a movie that tells the true story of a young man named Christopher McCandless. In the 1990s, he ____ society after college to ____ himself in the American wildness. Actor Sean Penn wrote and ____ the movie, which ____ a book by John Krakauer.
Penn asked his friend, the singer Eddie Vedder, to write the music for this powerful ____. The song helps ____ the inner voice and personal discovery of this brave young man.
Vedder is the lead singer for the rock band Pearl Jam. This is the first album in which he ____ in his own. Vedder said that when he read the book into the wild and started to write songs for the movie, the story of Christopher McCandless took ____ of him.
For two years, this young man __ __ through deserts, down rivers, and __ __ mountains in the western United States. He travels __ __ to the northern state of Alaska. On the road, he meets many people and __ __ them with his earnest and intelligent personality.
Christopher McCandless does not __ __ his adventure. Some people have noted that he is really not __ __ to survive in the __ __. He dies of starvation at the age of 24, __ __ in the Alaskan wilderness. But the story of his independence and desire to live in the simple beauty of __ __ lives on.
In the __ __ Society, Eddie Vedder __ __ the thoughts of Chris McCandless, as he says goodbye to the rules and demands of society in order to live freely __ __.
A．entered B．dropped out of C．liked D．hated
A．entertain B．check C．test. D．study
A．directed B．set C．sold D．owned
A．introduces B．brings about C．becomes of D．is based on
A．song B．film C．book D．young
A．sing B．call C．express D．remind
A．performs B．conducts C．carries D．takes
A．possession B．control C．place D．notice
A．walks B．wanders C．travels D．tours
A．down B．through C．across D．up
A．all the way B．in the way C．by the way D．on the way
A．pleases B．surprises C．influences D．persuades
A．survive B．defeat C．realize D．find
A．content B．pleased C．prepared D．delighted
A．country B．wild C．mountain D．west
A．lonely B．allalone C．disappointed D．regretful
A．society B．man C．nature D．science
A．movie B．performance C．travel D．song
A．thinks B．expects C．imagines D．supposes
A．on his own B．together C．actively D．lonely
Obamas celebrate King's birthday at worship service
President Obama and his family celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a Sunday worship service. The legacy(遗产) of the civil ____ leader was remembered at events ____ the country.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Natasha and Malia sat in the second row of Washington's Zion Baptist Church as the church ____ King's 83rd birthday, which is ____ observed today.
A program for the service bore a photo of ____ on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the ____ "I Have a Dream". A church deacon welcomed the ____ family and read a passage from King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".
The sermon(布道), ____ by the Rev. KeithByrd, drew from Chapter 5 of the Gospel of Matthew, which ____ to the salt of the earth. Byrd urged the people at the ____ to "preserve our morals, preserve our values" like salt among political, social,and ____ turmoi1(混乱).
In New York, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators ____ artists, celebrities, and others at a candlelight vigil(守夜) last night. The vigil was at Riverside Church, which hosted a program ____ included performances by Patti Smith and other artists, and speeches by Yoko Ono and Russell Simmons.
Members of Local 100 0f the Transport Workers Union ____ outside a midtown Manhattan hotel for a separate candlelight respect to King. King, a Baptist minister and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was ____ in Jan. 15,1929 in Atlanta. He was assassinated(暗杀) 44 years ____ in Memphis, Tenn.
A new memorial to King, which ____ in August in Washington, celebrates the ideals he supported. Quotations from his speeches and writings ____ us of his message, and a 30-foot sculpture describes King emerging as a "stone of ____ "from a "mountain of despair", a design inspired by a line of his famous ____ "I Have a Dream".
A．rights B．laws C．wars D．politics
A．among B．in C．over D．across
A．remembered B．forgotten C．memorized D．reminded
A．informally' B．fluently C．sometimes D．officially
A．Martin Luther King B．Lincoln C．Birmingham D．Obama
A．words B．language C．sentence D．phrases
A．first B．second C．last D．late
A．delivered B．delivering C．giving D．making
A．refers B．contributes C．leads D．turns
A．school B．memorial C．street D．church
A．economical B．development C．economy D．society
A．combined B．joined C．met D．linked
A．this B．it C．that D．which
A．collected B．gathered C．crowded D．rushed
A．killed B．born C．lived D．left
A．before B．ago C．ever D．forever
A．closed B．moved C．opened D．began
A．remind B．call C．think D．expect
A．disappointment B．hope C．expectation D．encouragement
A．speech B．1ife C．writing D．article
From the earliest times men seem to have noticed the habits of insects, and to have learnt lessons from them. Ants and bees work very hard during the summer, ____ enough food to last during the winter. They give us a good example to __
__. If we waste time when the conditions are good for work, we shall probably __
__ later and when we really want to work, we are __
__ to do so.
Moths, and some other insects, cannot help flying towards a light of any kind. The attraction seems to be too strong for them. ____, they often __
__ themselves by flying into something that is burning, such as a lighted candle. In some countries, when such insects as flying ants become a nuisance(讨厌的东西), people __
__ themselves by lighting fires at the doors of their cottages. Sometimes the insects fly into the fire in such large __
__ that they put it out. In literature we often find poets warning us of the danger of being attracted by __
__ or beautiful things that will destroy us.
Butterflies are admired for their ____, though they receive very little praise for anything else. They fly __
__ in the sunshine, going from flower to flower, happy all day long, leading a life of __
__. They are beautiful, but it seems that they are not of much __
__ use to anybody. Some human beings lead very much the same sort of life __
__ they are butterflies of society.
Locusts are ____, though. They are active enough. They spend their time eating the food of others. __
_ there are men like this, destroying things wherever they go, taking for themselves __
__ belongs to others, using up everything and __
__ nothing. They are human __
__.
Perhaps it may be said that even the worst insects have one use: they ____ us not to be like them.
A. raising B. picking C. collecting D. growing
A. learn B. copy C. set D. accept
A. work B. realize C. suffer D. miss
A. anxious B. unnecessary C. nervous D. unable
A. As a result B. After allC. In the meanwhile D. What's more
A. destroy B. heat C. devote D. kill
A. prevent B. keep C. protect D. escape
A. teams B. numbers C. groups D. lines
A. bright B. burning C. firing D. lighting
A. colour B. attraction C. beauty D. work
A. about B. up C. down D. high
A. happiness B. pleasure C. business D. value
A. real B. true C. proper D. right
A. but B. and C. or D. though
A. different B. similar C. interesting D. exciting
A. Luckily B. Generally C. Unfortunately D. Usually
A. that B. which C. all D. what
A. preparing B. making C. storing D. producing
A. locusts B. moths C. enemies D. butterflies.
A. tell B. suggest C. warn D. ask