短文填空（共10个小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，用方框内所给的单词的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺，每词限用一次。并将所选单词填写在对话后面的横线上。〔每词限用一次)。
| think, possible, be, about, sing, say, other, hang, shy, many |
Grace is a 19-year-old girl. She used _______ really shy and took up singing to deal with her
______ .As she got better ,she dared
_______ in front of her class, and then for the whole school.Now she’s not shy any more and loves singing in front of crowds.
She didn’t use to be popular in school,but now she gets tons of attention everywhere she goes.She always has to worry ______ how she appears to
______,and she has to be very careful about what she
_____ or does. And she doesn’t have
_____ private time anymore. _
_____ out with friends is almost
________for her now because there are always guards around her.
She said she could never imagined how difficult the road to success was . Many times she _______ about giving up ,but she fought on.
| child; take after; lucky; grow up; communicate; cover; we |
I hope I can be _______________ enough to pass the exam.
Nobody can help us. We will have to do it by _______________.
Teenagers need to _______________ with their parents often.
What do you think he is going to be when he _______________?
Everyone knows _______________ are a lot like their parents.
| improve own please relax weak |
Who is the _______ of the new sports car?
Just sit down and try to _______ for a while, Grace.
Linda’s health has _______ greatly since she started on this new diet.
Li Ming is _______ in English, so he needs to spend more time on it.
My parents told me Ms. Smith was really _______ with my work last term.
But after a few months at college, I changed myself. I met new people. I started learning about history, politics, and the world. I didn’t have the time or patience for long phone conversations. I stopped caring so much about things like makeup. I once went to a party with no makeup on, but I felt fine. I just laughed about it. My new way of thinking brought me
my mother. Now, I talk to my mother almost every day. We get along quite well. We go to movies
and read the same books. I tell her about my problems and she gives me good
. Last month, my mother helped me through a bad time. She is an amazing person. I know that now.
My relationship with my mother changed after I went to college. When I was at home, weabout many things, for example, wearing makeup(化妆) and talking on the phone. One time, before a big party, she
to let me leave the house. She thought my makeup was too heavy. I had to wash my face before I went to the party. I was the only girl without makeup, and I was so
. And when I talked to my friends on the phone, my mum always shouted to tell me to hang up, and the person I was talking to could hear her. Her
always made me upset.
Sometimes I really wonder whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy making money. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too much to say.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I quietly sat down beside her and her.
“Mom, I have a question for you,” I said, breaking the .
“What?” she asked, still doing her work.
“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very voice.
She stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. But then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt. I was very then because I thought I had hurt her.
It seemed like a very long time before my mother started to speak again. “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “look at this thread (线). Sometimes it , but most of it disappears (消失) in the quilt. The thread makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can
be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is inside (在里面).”
I listened carefully but I didn’t understand the next spring. My father had a stroke (中风) and
walk by himself anymore. After that, my mother
my father walk outside every day. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers and trees. The sun gently glistened through leaves. They two, hand in hand, walked slowly. To me, that was
picture in the world — that’s a picture of love.
They still don’t say “I love you” to each other. But I know they have deep love for each other. I used to think love meant flowers and sweet kisses. But actually, love is just a thread in the quilt.