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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。
A
A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s 36 , she said she would go. This would be the 37 time that his classmates and teacher 38 his mother and he felt 39 of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕)that 40 nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 41 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were 42 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother 43 the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬)and 44 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 45 of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked 46 ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied,“ 47 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was 48 afraid to go in because the fire was 49 ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was __50 __ senseless (失去知觉) but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She __ 51__ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be lasting, but to this day, I have never __ 52___ what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his 53 with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt great 54 from his mother. He held her hand 55 for the rest of the day. 36.A. comfort 37.A. last
38.A.noticed 39.A. grateful 40. A. covered 42. A. surprised 44. A. enjoyed 46. A. officially 47. A. Because
B. excitement B. first
B. greeted B. ashamed B. passed
B. go through B. impressed B. protected
B. happily B. When
C. joy C. second C. met C. afraid
D. upset D. third D. accepted D. tired D. flowed D. judged D. in spite of D. dressed D. learning D. coldly D. Although
C. experienced C. set down C. excited C. hid
C. in view of C. packing C. Since
41. A. talk about 43. A. in sight of
D. rely on
B. by means of
45. A. understanding B. hearing
C. carefully
48. A. so
B. much
C. quite C. in ruins
D. too
D. in power D. settled D. buried D. organized D. mother D. hope D. suddenly
49. A. out of control B. out of sight 50. A. shocked 51. A. washed 52. A. regretted 53. A. teacher 54. A. help 55. A. loosely
B. ignored B. touched
B. forecasted B. classmate B. love
B. gradually
C. knocked C. swapped C. considered C. desk C. gift C. tightly
B
There was once a lazy crow(乌鸦).He thought it was too much trouble to__36___food. “Caw! Caw!” he said. “If someone brought me my food every day, I’d be very___37_____!” One day, he saw a(n)___38___pigeon(鸽子)flying by. “How happy and well-fed it looks,” the crow said to himself. So the craw __39__the pigeon until they came to a ___40__.There were some other __41__there too. Before long ,an old man came along and brought them a large bag of food. When the man had gone, the crow flew over to the pigeons. “Caw! Caw! ”said he. “Can I __42_you?”
“No, you can’t !”__43_the pigeons angrily . “We don’t know you.”
The crow went home feeling__44__.But he suddenly had a(n)__45_. “I’ll paint my ___46_grey,”he said , “and then the pigeons will __47__I am one of them.” After he finished the painting, he flew off to the park and was __48__by the pigeons. The crow was so hungry that he got very excited at the food. “Caw! Caw! Give lots to me!” he said loudly.__49__,the pigeons found he was a crow. They flew after him and made him___50__.
Sadly, the crow flew to his own forest. But when his old friends ,the other crows saw him, they asked him to__51__.They did not __52_him because of his grey-painted feathers. So the crow felt __53__than before .His own __54__did not want him, and __55__ would the pigeons let him into their group.
“What looks easier isn’t always so.” the crow said to himself.”I wish I had never painted my feathers grey!” 36.A.pick out 37.A.lovely 38.A. fat
B. hand in B. happy
C. put away C. pretty C. boring C. protected C. park C. help C. lucky
C. crows C. shouted
D. look for D. healthy D. old D. followed D. house D. visitors D. believe D. continued D. tired
B. funny
B. forest
39.A.caught B. taught 40.A. square 41.A.men 42.A. join 44.A. sad
B. pigeons B. see
43.A. explained B. advised
B. asleep
45.A.choice 47.A. hope
B. accident B. feet
B. guess B. welcomed
C. change C. head
C. think C. noticed C. Finally C. cry C. set off C. like
D. idea D. legs D. understand D. discovered D. Suddenly D. stop D. give up D. know D. stronger D. sisters D. no
46.A. feathers 48.A.attacked 50.A.wait 52.A.miss 53.A. worse
49.A.Strangely B. Interestingly
B. leave B. forget
B. friends B. not
51.A.hurry up B. go away
B. busier
C. colder C. parents C. nor
54.A.brothers 55.A. nothing
C
A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful 36 , and knowing her husband could 37 it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the 38 , her husband told her how 39 he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He 40 her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and 41 a Bible. 42 , she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so 43 that she left him.
Many years passed and the lady was very 44 in business. She_45__large companies. She realized her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to 46 him. She wrote a letter but soon received a ___47___ telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions to her. She needed to come back and 48 things.
When she arrived at his house, sadness 49 her heart. She saw the still new 50 , just as she had left it years before. With 51 , she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring 52 from the Bible to the floor and a 53 could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LUV U ALWAYS”.
54 your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the 55 . 36. A. watch 37. A. guess
B. coat B. like
C. ring D. box C. design C. sorry C. moved C. missed C. grateful
D. afford
D. meeting D. gave D. held D. careless D. brave
C. birthday
38. A. holiday 39. A. kind 40. A. lent
41. A. carried 42. A. Politely 43. A. calm
B. performance B. proud B. asked B. found B. Lightly B. upset
C. Patiently D. Angrily
44. A. failing 46. A catch
B. lonely C. successful D. poor C. in the charge D. owns C. visit D. help C. order
D. advice
D. give away D. broke D. Bible D. interests D. made D. card D. So D. heart
C. take care of C. left C. letter C. smiles
C. dropped C. flower
45. A. in charge of
47. A. note 48. A. look for 50. A. car 52. A. hid 54. A. If
49. A. covered
51. A. tears 53. A. book
55. A. hand
B. took charge of B. understand B. reply
B. filled B. table B. laughter B. pen B. But B. eye
B. disappeared
B. pay for
C. Although
C. face
D
Bob is a fifteen-year- old boy in the ninth grade. He is so hard-working that he has a part- time job which __41__ him up every morning at five o’clock, when most people are still sleeping _42__ . He is a newspaper boy. Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5∶15 to go to the __43__ where the newspapers always are. The newspapers were _44__ to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them.
In the winter it is still dark _45__ he gets up every day，but during the rest of the year it is __46__. Billy___47__ send the newspapers to the houses of people on his__48_ in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch(门廊)__49___ it will be __50__ from wind, rain or snow. Sometimes his customers give him tips，__51__ him very excited.
Billy earns about $70 per month through hard work.__52__，he has saved some of the money to go to __53__,where he has always been longing to go. Besides that，he 54__ the rest of the earnings on records and clothes. Once a month，he has to collect the __55__at night since many of them work during the day. That is when he is fulfilled, so he is full of excitement. Luckily，he is __56_ supported by his family. Sometimes，when Billy is sick，his brother offers to deliver the newspapers for him. Once, his father was too __57__ to help. Billy has seventy customers now，but he doesn’t feel __58_with the number. He dreams that he will get __59__ customers as possible some day._60__, he might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle. 41．A. wakes 42．A. soundly
B．takes
C．picks C．fall
D．gets D．sound
B．falling
43．A. corner 44．A. given
B．street C．room B. delivered
C．handed
D．department D addressed D．when D．long D. shall D．path D．who D．protected D．causing D．Otherwise D．college D．uses D．records D．a lot of D．reluctant D. happy D．as many D．What’s more
45．A. at which B．while C．that 46．A. short
B．light
C. black
47. A. can B. may C. must 48．A. road 49．A. which
B．way B．where
C．route C．what C．kept
50．A. prevented B．stopped 51．A. leading
B．letting
C．making
52．A. Therefore B．But 53．A. abroad 54．A. spends 55．A. paper 56．A .greatly 57．A. likely
B．school B．costs B．money B．great
C. However
C．hospital C．pays
C．newspapers C．very
B．willing C．tried
58．A. disappointed B．pleasant 59．A. many more
B．as much
C．satisfied C．much more
C．If so
60．A. If that B．Besides
E
How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad
driver, impolite waiter, rude boss, or an insensitive employee 41 your day?
One day I was in a taxi and we headed 42 the airport. We were driving in the 43 lane when suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his 44 , slide sideways, and at the very last moment our car stopped and 45 the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car looked around and started 46 at us.
My taxi driver just 47 and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really 48 . So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of 49 , full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage 50 up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on 51 . Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
Believe me. You’ll be 52 . Don’t take their garbage and 53 it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with 54 . The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s 55 in your life. Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from Florida State University, found in his extensive