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。
My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string ___players in our town. He could not ____music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.
Dad loved to play the mandolin for his ____for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, ____his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to grow into a man and have children of my own ____I realized how much he had sacrificed.
I joined the United States Air __ in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home ____ , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could ____your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his __ in his ability to play so well for his family.
In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was __in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand _____ by the machine. He didn't lose enough of the finger ____ it would stop him picking up anything, but it did ________ his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, When I came home and asked him to play, Dad would make _________ for why he couldn't play. For the family it didn't make any ________that Dad couldn't play as well.
In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life ________ dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said "okay". He knew it would probably be the________time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few ________. When I looked around, there was not a ________eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life,—________. As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!
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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。
According to legend, a young man while wandering the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet, he ________ his leather container so he could bring some to a tribal elder who had been his teacher.
After a four-day journey he ________ the water to the old man who took a deep drink, ________ warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy ________ .
Later, the teacher let another student ________ the water. He spat it ________ , saying it was awful. It ________ had been no longer fresh and ________ unpleasant to drink because of the old leather container.
The student challenged his teacher: “Master, the water was smelly. Why did you ________ to like it?”
The teacher replied, “You only tasted the water. I tasted the _______ . The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be ________ .”
I think we understand this lesson best when we receive ________ gifts of love from young children. ________ it’s a tray or a bracelet, the ________ and proper response is ________ and expressed thankfulness because we love the idea within the gift.
Gratitude doesn’t always come naturally. ________ , most children and many adults value only the thing given ________the feeling embodied in it. We should remind ourselves and ________ our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. ________ , gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart.
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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。
One of my next-door neighbors is a sweet 92-year-old Polish lady. A few days ago, I came back home from a trip. As I was my clothes in my room, I heard a(n) ,violent knock on the door. It was 10:30 pm, and I wasn’t sure who it could be. I went downstairs and the peephole（猫眼）, and saw that it was our sweet next-door neighbor.
I quickly the door, and she seemed really distressed and kept , “please help me, I need your help. The fire alarm won’t go off. Please help me.” I told her that everything would be okay, and her to her house to see what was going on the fire alarm.
She that the alarm had been going on and off inconsistently for the past two hours, and that her to call her daughter to come and fix it was fruitless. So I took a chair from her dining room table, it, and looked at the fire alarm.
After twisting the fire alarm off, I blew into it, because sometimes causes it to make strange noises. She seemed but was exactly shaking out of fear. I asked her she was okay, and she said she was , so I gave her a hug. I felt her shaking in my embrace, and held her for a few minutes until she stopped shaking and sighed a breath of relief.
We then and talked for ten minutes, until I felt that she was okay, and safe to sleep. She was so generous with for being with her, but I thanked her for me that hugs are indeed good tools! So, sometimes, a(n) hug is a good and powerful way to hold someone going through a difficult period.
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完形填空（共20小题，每题1.5分，满分30分）
For three years, Andy had been battling cancer. The day after he returned from his camp adventure, we went for a check-up. The news was ________ . I didn’t know what to do. The doctor ________ a bone marrow transplant（骨髓移植）in a hospital 300 miles away from our home. The next day we ________ our things and left for the ________ .
One of the things I brought was the present Andy had bought for me-- a plastic rainbow. Like most ________ , I considered any present from my child a ________ .
One day, I went to the gift store near the hospital and ________ a rainbow prism（棱镜）for sale. ________ the plastic rainbow Andy’d given me, I bought it and hurried back to his room ________.
“Andy, make me a rainbow.” I put the prism in his hand. ________ Andy couldn't. He was too ________ to even raise his bead.
“Mom, as soon as I’m better, I’ll make you a rainbow.”
That was the ________ thing Andy said to me. Just five days later, the doctors told me his brain had ________ functioning.
I asked if I could ________ him, so after I settled myself in the chair, they lifted him from the ________ to place him in my arms. His leg made a movement and he ________ a clear plastic cup from his bedside table onto the bed.
A nurse opened the curtains, and then as the sunlight ________ the room, the rays hit the cup lying on its side on the bed and the room was ________ filled with flashes of color and dozens of rainbows.
Andy was gone, but I felt ________. He made the rainbow that he had ________ me — the one I would never forget.
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A friend wrote me an e-mail the other day. Her letter started with the usual greetings, but then turned sour (心酸的) as she began to the pain in her heart.
My friend doesn’t have a good relationship with her parents. she is an 18-year-old high school student, her parents, ______her father, are still trying to control her life. "Obviously I haven’t ______ the level of excellence they expect," she wrote, adding, "They’re never satisfied with what I do. And every time I see them, my confidence gets ____."
I understand my friend’s _____. I know what it’s like when people reject my ____ and insist I do what they ____. I know I have to give her a __ _, and I need to be careful not to____ fuel（燃料） to the fire. Still, I have to be honest, and try to give her useful _____.
I think she needs to find it in herself to offer her parents forgiveness. I don’t think many of us truly ____ the power of forgiveness. ______forgiving, we get angry, and that ___ is often reflected in our words and actions. We want those who have hurt us to be _____ in some way.
I still remember something that happened to me in high school. A friend said something _____ about me, and I didn’t say a word to her for months. Years later I _____ that although my actions seemed reasonable (合理的) at the time, my hurt feelings were not worth losing a good _____ . I regret that I did not forgive her.
The power of forgiveness is truly ____. Learn to forgive, and when you do so you’ll find yourself _____. And you can also set yourself free to experience peace and love.
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阅读下面的短文，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。
In France, there once lived a famous man named the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy, his mother called him Gilbert.
Gilbert’s father and grandfather had both been ________ men in his village. He was proud of them, and he ________ that he might grow up to be like them.
Gilbert’s home was near a ________. One day word came that a cruel ________ had been seen in the woods. Men said it had killed many of the villagers’ sheep. Gilbert was only seven, but all his ________ were about the cruel animal.
“Shall we take a ________ ?” asked his mother.
“Oh, yes!” said Gilbert. “We may see that wolf in the forest. But don’t be ________.”
His mother smiled, ________ she felt quite sure that there was no ________ .
They did not go far into the woods. The mother sat down under a tree and began to ________ . Seeing Mom interested in her book, Gilbert decided to ________ the animal. He walked quietly into a wilder place. He looked ________ around, but saw only a rabbit.
Then, ________ , he heard footsteps. He stood still and ________, When the animal was very ________ to him, he jumped out of his hiding place and held it round its neck. It did not try to bite. But it threw Gilbert upon the ________ .
Gilbert was soon on his feet again. He was not ________ at all. He looked at the animal: It was not a wolf but a calf(牛犊).
The boy felt very ________ . He hurried back to his mother, tears in his eyes. He told her what had happened.
His mother said, “You were very ________ . You are my hero because you ________ what you thought was a great danger and you were not afraid.”
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