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It was the first day of kindergarten. I walked in with my mom and was at all the toys against the walls. I ran over to them and started to play. Most of the other were doing the same. In the corner, though, I saw one girl sitting . She was small and weak, the only one in the class than me. Her red eyes she had been crying. None of the other kids seemed to notice her.
I was playing with the toy cars. When I , I saw her sad and lonely eyes. Suddenly I felt something inside my heart . I wasn’t sure what it was. Being the youngest in my family I had become spoiled. My elder brothers always did while I was free to play. However, that day it was that I should think of someone other than myself. Finally, I two toy cars and went over to her. “Do you want to play?” I asked . She smiled at me and her head yes.
What made me remember that first act was a letter that little girl wrote to me after we both . She told me how her illness made other kids her and how my act had changed her . She cherished(珍惜) the friendship I had . From then on we continued our friendship through the mail for several years the bad health finally took her life.
Today I still think of her and thank her for stirring something in my selfish that day. I ask myself how a bit of can move a heart, touch a soul, and change a life.
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--- Look at those clouds! --- Don’t worry. _______ it rains, we’ll still have a great time.
A.As if B.Even if C.As though D.If
It was a busy morning about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30. The nurse had him take a in the waiting area, him it would be at least 40 minutes someone would be able to see him. I saw him his watch and decided, since I was busy ---my patient didn’t at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his . He told me she had been for a while and she had a special disease. I asked if she would be if he was a bit late. He replied that she knew who he was, and that she had not been able to him for five years. I was , and asked him, “And you go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back as he left.
Now I that in marriages, true love is of all that is. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; They just the best use of everything they have. isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
A.breath B.test C.seat D.break
A.persuading B.promising C.understanding D.telling
A.if B.before C.since D.after
A.taking off B.fixing C.looking at D.winding
A.very B.also C.seldom D.not
A.turn up B.show off C.come on D.go away
A.needed B.forgot C.agreed D.happened
A.daughter B.wife C.mother D.sister
A.late B.well C.around D.there
A.lonely B.worried C.doubtful D.glad
A.so far B.neither C.no longer D.already
A.recognize B.answer C.believe D.expect
A.moving B.disappointed C.surprised D.satisfied
A.only B.then C.thus D.still
A.curiosity B.tears C.words D.judgment
A.realise B.suggest C.hope D.prove
A.agreement B.expression C.acceptance D.exhibition
A.necessarily B.completely C.naturally D.frequently
A.learn B.make C.favour D.try
A.Adventure B.Beauty C.Trust D.Life
I was invited to attend a presentation at the Kentucky School. That evening I found gratitude had amazing to change our attitude…and our life.
The young musician Mr. Patrick was onto the stage in his wheelchair and began to play the piano. His fingers danced across the keys as he beautiful music. He then began to sing as he played, and it was wonderful. But what shocked me most was his smile.
Patrick was born with no eyes and an illness in the legs, which him lame for life. However, as a child, he was with artificial eyes and placed in a wheelchair. Before his first , he discovered the piano. When his mom hit any note on the piano, and within one or two , he’d get it. By his second birthday, he was playing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. His father was . “We might not play baseball, but we can play music together.”
When Patrick was at the University of Louisville, his father classes with him. He was also a part of the 214-member marching band! He was a blind, wheelchair-bound trumpet player; and he and his father did it together. His father the night shift(夜班)in order to accompany his daytime band practice. Patrick says, “My dad’s my .”
But even more than his musical talent, it was Patrick’s “attitude of gratitude” that _ my soul. On stage, between songs, he talked to the audience about his life and about how _ he was with a great father. When his performance was over, Patrick and his father were on the stage together. The crowd rose to their feet and for over five minutes.
We all face misfortune in our lives. ,it’s not the hardship but how we to it that will determine the joy and happiness in our lives. During times, do we spend too much time feeling for ourselves, or can we, with gratitude, learn how to dance in the rain?
A.knowledge B.quality C.wisdom D.power
A.rolled B.held C.allowed D.dragged
A.wrote B.provided C.made D.gave
A.strange B.magic C.bitter D.friendly
A.took B.led C.forced D.left
A.fitted B.connected C.associated D.filled
A.place B.birthday C.performance D.attempt
A.memories B.words C.tries D.notes
A.confused B.amused C.interested D.overjoyed
A.listed B.found C.attended D.organized
A.worked B.found C.refused D.cancelled
A.dream B.hero C.music D.song
A.unbearable B.unbelievable C.unconditional D.unreasonable
A.touched B.calmed C.freed D.felt
A.satisfied B.concerned C.blessed D.laughed
A.cheered B.whispered C.shouted D.laughed
A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.However D.Besides
A.see B.react C.agree D.put
A.happy B.modern C.tough D.usual
A.great B.sorry C.hopeful D.proud
I’m an operating engineer, running crane(起重机) in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come and get on the list.
The next morning I went down to the at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to me, and that I would stay in with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to the rest of the way.
And somewhere in there I became when I went into something I . I once worked there in 1966 for the of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten tall. And it was burning. I started to ask in which my crane might be a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely . I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to die.”
Then I a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”
A.noticed B.reached C.hit D.passed
A.finding B.making C.getting D.losing
A.away B.near C.in D.down
A.volunteer B.soldier C.police D.fireman
A.company B.hotel C.center D.home
A.answered B.made C.heard D.received
A.be curious about B.forget about C.laugh at D.worry about
A.peace B.touch C.connection D.relation
A.walk B.complete C.cancel D.smooth
A.delighted B.frightened C.embarrassed D.interested
A.built B.met C.designed D.had
A.construction B.plan C.destruction D.use
A.miles B.centimeters C.stories D.floors
A.means B.numbers C.position D.directions
A.as B.why C.when D.because
A.driven B.let C.asked D.enjoyed
A.pushing B.giving C.looking D.picking
A.dangerous B.urgent C.efficient D.important
A.view B.sight C.breath D.sense
A.put down B.settled down C.knocked down D.let down
Recently, we went on a vacation for a week that involved visiting four different ports in the sunny and warm climate of the Caribbean. There were of laughter, fun and great food. It’s a thing when you go away that each day of the vacation also to the end and a return to work.
It was twelve years since we went on a vacation, so this vacation was viewed with of a great break away from my daily routine. And we weren’t .
But there was something very different about this vacation compared to those when we worked in a corporative environment. The main was that when we returned, when the vacation was rapidly drawing to a close, we didn’t have the same feeling of stress, anxiety and fear.
In this recent vacation, it wasn’t that we enjoyed the various fun and new activities, the break away from routine, the pleasure of touring different countries and cultures, the to do what we wanted when we wanted or the leisurely of each day that was significant. What was significant was that we didn’t fear the last day of vacation. You see, we know that we were what we love to do not what we had to do.
The feelings experienced in the last couple of days of vacation were viewed with the same joy as the very first days. In the previous times, the last days of vacation were terrible. We experience an increasing of stress we knew that a return to our field of employment was “work” and not that we loved and thoroughly enjoyed.
The is this: If you do what you love, it doesn’t matter that a vacation has to end. If you love what you do you will not yourself wishing for even a few more days of vacation, or wishing that you could enjoying this vacation for much, much longer. A love of what you do you back like a magnet.
A.moments B.possibilities C.situations D.ways
A.discouraging B.bitter C.wonderful D.funny
A.come up B.count down C.give out D.die away
A.expectation B.attempt C.opinion D.demand
A.satisfied B.tired C.disappointed D.optimistic
A.advantage B.problem C.difference D.drawback
A.approaching B.relieving C.bearing D.overcoming
A.necessarily B.thoroughly C.relaxingly D.smoothly
A.opportunity B.desire C.possibility D.right
A.pattern B.pace C.lifestyle D.atmosphere
A.yet B.still C.also D.even
A.returning to B.submitting to C.turning to D.heading for
A.number B.knowledge C.sense D.awareness
A.although B.and C.because D.if
A.anything B.everything C.nothing D.something
A.lesson B.idea C.point D.solution
A.in the least B.for a moment C.after all D.at the moment
A.let B.find C.make D.catch
A.maintain B.risk C.keep D.stop
A.draws B.holds C.pushes D.welcomes