阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
He Had a Go
It was a cool spring evening in Melbourne, Australia．I drove to my boxing gym for a Friday night training session．After up, I started training．Then I noticed a tall and slim young man walking through the doors．There was something about him that caught my .
Before long, I realized that he might have a mental illness．Having volunteered for mental illness support groups, I really his problems when I looked at him.
He paid for the session, put on a pair of gloves and then started hitting the punching bags．I watched him from a and wanted to help him to punch straighter and better．Then I felt it was best to leave that up to the trainer who was watching him.
After a few seconds of punching the bag, he stopped and started staring at the ．The trainer went up to him and to help him．It was almost like he woke up from a dream．He eye contact with the ceiling at once.
Then the bell rang and it was the end of the round． rounds we are required to do five push-ups(俯卧撑), all the boys that were training that night did five push-ups．He to complete his five push-ups．The bell sounded again and the next round began．He punched the bags for a few seconds and then he ．This time he was staring at the walls which were decorated with boxing posters.
It was clear to me that he could not for long.
When I finished training, I decided to go up to him and offer him my help．I held the bag for him and asked him to punch．He the bag a few times and then stopped again.
I smiled at him and asked, “Do you like boxing?”
He replied with a very shy on his face, “Yes, boxing is alright.”
What else could I do than this man and his willingness to give it a go? Most people put self-imposed(自我强加的) on their lives and stop themselves from having a go．I kept thinking about this man while admiring him for even turning up to a boxing gym, let alone training at what appeared to be his .
There are many lessons to learn from this man．What I admired about this man was that he had a go! That is what ordinariness from greatness.
So what will you have a go at?
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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、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。
Paul, a colleague of mine, received a car from his brother as a Christmas gift. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a boy was walking around the shiny new car, ________ it.
“Is this your car, Mister?” he said.
Paul nodded and said “my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was ________. “You mean your brother bought it for you and it didn’t cost you anything? Boy, I wish” He ________.
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. But what the boy said ________ Paul all the way down to his heels.
“I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a ________ like that.”
Paul looked at the boy , and then impulsively(冲动地) he added. “Would you like to take a ________ in my car?”
“Oh yes, I’d love that.”
After a moment, the boy turned with his ________ shining, saying, “Mister, would you mind driving me to the front of my house?”
Paul ________ a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his________that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was ________ again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.
He ran up the steps. After a while Paul saw him coming back. He was ________ his little lame brother. He ________ sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of ________up against him and pointed to the car.
“There he is, Tony, just like I ________ you upstairs. His brother bought it for him for Christmas. And some day I’ll give you one just like it and then you can see ________ yourself all the pretty things in the ________ windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and ________the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining eyed older brother ________ in beside him and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride.
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what________ meant when he said: “It is more ________to give.”
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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。
Don and his 11-year-old son, Allen, love basketball very much. On Allen’s birthday, Don________to drive him to Chicago, more than two hours’ distance, for the first game of the World Championships. They had no ________ but hoped to buy two from other people.
After arriving, they ________ in the streets for two hours carrying a ________ which said, “We need two tickets”. ________ the cheapest ticket was $175 and they could not ________ it. They were about to leave when a man ________ them. He pulled ________ two tickets and handed them to Don. “How much do you want?” “________ ! No money is needed!” said the man.
When asked, the man ________, “I am working for Joe, who hasn’t ________ a World Championships for 16 years. But he is ill and can’t make it this time. So he told me to give the two tickets away. The only ________ he set is to give the tickets to people who I think will be deserving. A lot of people looked as if they might just take the tickets and ________ them right away. Then I saw you. You seemed very ________ and you make me ________ my Dad and myself when I was a child. I ________ wanted to go to see a World Championships game with my father at that time. But I never got the ________ ...”
How important and ________ the game was to Don and his son! Here is what Don said, “It’s the most worth ________ thing that happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other 30 times during the ________ . I can’t forget that night.”
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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和D）中，选出最佳选项。
I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so to me and had such a big on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to my own Cancer experience ？
I’m an ambitious , and when I started going through chemo( 化疗 )，even though I’m a very ________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the . One day, while waiting to go in for , I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in hand. Another patient what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me ________ he had one of his books with me as well. It ________ that among other things, he was an eighty—year---old writer. He was ________ a published author, and he was currently ________ on a new book.
We would see each other at various times and ________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a ( n ) ________ of Dr. Berline. He really put a ________ on my face. He unfortunately ________ last year due to his cancer, ________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the ________ to pick up my pen again. I ________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had ________ finding the keyhole. When I ________ to open the door, I ________ around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was ________ installed... but no switch!
Not discouraged easily, I remembered ________ a lamp by the bed when I laid my luggage ________ in the day. I found the bed in the ________ and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing ________ ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the ____________ to find another lamp. So I ________ my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around ________ I found a desk lamp which actually________ !
That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world _____________ be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than ________ light is the light that shines from people — the light of ________ and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and ________ place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in ________ of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you ________ may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is ________ a candle in a forest remember — there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to ________ the light of one small candle.
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完型填空
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。
I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.
My mother has ________ thought that hospitals are frightening. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he ________ . The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was ________ with the hospital.
When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________ be taken there, ________I was told that no one by that name had been ________ , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospital. They didn’t ________ they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n)________ person.
It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn’t been updated overnight , there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing ________ with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ________ for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us .
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