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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to be on duty on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked doubtfully. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t accompanied(陪伴) by the body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Out of curiosity, I checked their registration form. No address—they were . I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a family of five in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of Christmas day, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal in the hospital dining hall on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients that came to us that day, our team worked to meet the needs, ________ the expectation, of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
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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。
Teaching is challenging and teaching college is often a mixed bag. Sometimes my class feels more like a cafeteria, where students come and go, ____in the middle of my lectures. Mostly these students have entered college right out of high school. College seems to them like ____a continuation of high school, ____ the sense of newness that often drives curiosity and achievement.
But there is a category of students that gives everyone reasons for ____.They are the so called “nontraditional students” ：those who, for one reason or ____， didn't go to college when they were 18. but many years later. Some years back in my teaching, while calling out names from the name list on the first day，I noticed a gray haired woman of about 70.She was wandering in the doorway, ____ her new books like a schoolgirl.
“I'm not on the name list，” she volunteered. “But I was ___if I could sit in for the first class, to see what marine (海洋) biology is about.” This woman's eagerness ____me, so I invited her to have a seat. I began the class with questions to get a (n) ____of how much knowledge they were bringing to the course. As I questioned them about the difference between fishes and seagoing mammals, most of my new students remained ___.But Natalie, the older woman, was on the edge of her seat, ____answers.At the end of the class, she came up to me and apologized for being the “extra” student. She said，“Will you ____ me another chance？” ____ at losing her, I acted quickly to remove her ____.“I'll see you next class，”I said.
Natalie turned out to be a vital and ____student.She commuted 50 miles each day to get to school, often in the severe winter, and never missed a class.___this, she was enthusiastic about helping my younger students. Apparently these older students have the ____over them. It lies in the broadth and depth of their path of life. After having ____ numerous personal and professional barriers, they have an expansive world view. ____ a return to school may, at first, be frightening for them, they tend to make it because they are ____ great trouble to put their studies into an already full life.
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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。
Sandy Greenberg came from a poor family. He went to Columbia University on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial .
Unfortunately, Sandy had a(n) disease during his second year at Columbia University, and finally he became blind. But for Sandy, something else also happened to him — his roommate would his textbooks to him, every night after he lost his sight.
As a result, Sandy went on to with honors. He went off to study at Oxford. He was still quite poor, but he had managed to about five hundred dollars as he went along.
His roommate went on to graduate school. One day, Sandy got a from him at Oxford. His former roommate said, "Sandy, I'm really . I really don't like being in graduate school, and I don't want to do this."
"Well, what do you want to do? " Sandy .
His roommate told him, "Sandy, I really love to . I have a high school friend who plays the guitar. And we would really like to our hands in the music business. But we need to make a promo record, and in order to that I need $500."
Sandy took all his life savings without and sent it to his roommate. Well, his roommate was the famous singer, Art Garfunkel, and he up with another musician, Paul Simon. That $500 them make a record that finally became The Sound of Silence.
How we are able to deal with in our lives will be influenced by how we deal with others the way. What we get will depend a lot on what we . And that's the end of the story of doing well by doing good.
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It was Saturday morning，when there was no school ．But Tom had to which was painting the fence，a fence around the garden of Aunt Polly's house．"I want to go swimming．I want to go fishing．I want to play with my friends，”said Tom to ．“I want to do anything but paint the fence·When my friends see
me，they'll me.， But Tom had no An hour later when Tom felt and looked sadly at the big bucket of and the brush with the long handle，he came up with a good idea and ．
He started to paint the fence again.
Soon he saw one of his friends，Ben Rogers，who was holding a big red and who was walking towards him．“Ping-a-ling！”he said，making the noise of the on the steamboat．“Sssh！Sssh！”he said，making the noise of the steam in the engine of the steamboat．
“I’m going swimming，”Ben said．“What a thing you have to work！”
"Do you think it，s work?” asked Tom．
"Do you like painting the fence?”asked Ben，
“Can’t you see howes it is?”
Tom started to paint again．Sometimes he would stop and look at the fence and then with a ，he painted again·
Ben watched at him．“Let me paint the fence，”he said·
"No，”said Tom．“It's not as as you think·”
Ben was not happy，whereas Tom really seemed to painting the fence·
“If you let me paint it，”he said．“I’11 give you some of my apple·”
After thinking f or a minute，Tom and with a smile，he started to paint again·
“I'll give you of my apple，”said Ben·
Tom thought for another minute and agreed ．
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The day for the great balloon competition finally arrived. Every insect in the garden had been hard, and now they were preparing to begin their routines. The balloon competitions were always something really special.
Each time, the flying insects were favourite to win, because they could seize the balloon strings and fly off in all directions, creating all sorts of in the air. , on this occasion there were some rather unusual insects taking part: a group of ants. Of course, expected that they could do anything special. They were so light that no ant had ever to take part, but it was quite impressive to see all the ants all organized and prepared.
So the competition began, and the insects took their turns, performing beautiful movements with the balloons. As always the butterflies left everyone with their twist and turns, and their wonderful colours. When it was time for the ants to perform, it seemed like the competition had already been decided.
For the time in living memory, the ants shared just one balloon between them, and one by one they climbed up the balloon string, a thin black thread of ants. When all the string was covered, the last ant climbed his teammates to reach the balloon. he got there, he climbed onto the top of the balloon.
This strange attracted everyone's curiosity, and they were just about to witness the most important : the ant opened his jaws as wide as he could. . . and then he made a violent movement at the balloon with all his strength!
The result was powerful! The balloon began blowing out its air, flying about, here and there, doing a thousand turns and spins, while the ants made all kinds of beautiful shapes out of the string.
Of course, that acrobatic(杂技般的) flight with quite a hard landing, but it didn't . The creativity and teamwork of the ant performance was so that the crowd didn't even have to vote for there to be a winner.
From then on, in that garden, everyone understood how much could be achieved by working . In the years to come, the balloon competitions were full of displays carried out by teams, and they put on some wonderful routines; something those individual insects could never have achieved on their own.
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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、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。
From time to time, life can be impossibly hard, and it can be difficult to keep going. But you always have a choice.
2012 was the year of my life. My father died only six months he was diagnosed with cancer. He was always so that, for a minute after he drew his last breath, I honestly he would come back to life. I couldn’t believe I would never again cuddle (拥抱) into his big warm chest. Shortly after that, my oldest sister was to the hospital. They discovered that she had highly advanced cancer in her bones and that there was that they could do. She died a month later. She was my person in the whole world. I never thought I would have to live her. The and extreme heartbreak brought me to my knees, and I in the hospital myself. I remember lying in the hospital bed, looking at the ceiling and seeing my sister’s beautiful face. I realized that night that I had a(n) . I could end my life or I could continue to . I looked in my sister’s eyes and not to go with her just yet. I was determined to stay and my journey.
I now live with my husband and I spend quality time with my family and value every I have with them. I connect with my heart often to that I am following my joy. I love myself more deeply every day. Not a day goes by when I don’t my father’s huge character or my beloved sister’s gentle eyes, but I know that I will be with them one day. What I have now is so precious and so fleeting (短暂的) that I must grasp the in every moment I can.
You choose life every day. But do you choose the life that you every day?
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