55．A．Frightened 56．A．1aughing 57．A．decision 58．A．break up 59．A．1oved 60．A．1onely
B．Confused B．chatting B．attempt B．give up B．deserved B．small
C．Bored D．Heartbroken D．hosting D．appointment D．show off D．escaped D．dark
C．watching C．speech C．take off C．needed C．peaceful
5.
I don’t know why I came to the decision to become a loser, but I know I made the choice at a young age. Sometime in the middle of the fourth grade, I stopped 41 . By the time I was in the seventh grade, I was 42 , rebellious and disrespectful. It wasn’t long after that I 43 school. Hard physical labor was the consequence for the choices I made as a(n) 44 , At the age of 21, I was hopelessly 45 and using drugs as a way to deal with the fact that I had no 46 and stuck in a dead-end job carrying heavy construction materials up a ladder all day. But now I believe in do-overs, in the chance to do it all over 47 . And I believe that do-overs can be made at any 48 in your life, if you have the right motivation. Actually, my motivation as a man came from a surprising 49 . It was September 21, 2002, when my son Blake was born. It was funny that after a life of avoiding 50 , now I was in charge of something so fragile. Over the years, as I grew into the title of 51 , I began to learn something about myself. 52 , Blake and I were both learning to walk, talk, work, and play for the first time. I began my do-over.
It took me almost three years to learn how to 53 . I started with my son’s books. Over and over, I 54 reading books to him until I remembered all the 55 in every one of them. I began wonder if it was possible for me to go back to 56 . I knew I wanted to be a good role 57 , so after a year-and-a-half and a lot of hard work, I 58 my GED test on my son’s fourth birthday. This may not sound like much, but all things 59 , it was one of the best days in ray life. Today, I’m a full-time college student, studying to become a sociologist.
It’s funny that growing up I always heard these great turn-around stories of triumph over shortcomings.
60 , I never thought they applied to me. Now I believe it’s a choice anyone can make: to do it all over again.
41. A. trying 42. A. crazy
B. weeping B. lazy
C. suffering C. secure
D. playing
D. generous D. took out of
43. A. jumped out of 44. A. adult
B. ran out of
C. dropped out of
B. worker B. confused B. education
C. adolescent
D. carrier
D. lost
45. A. dedicated 46. A. concern 47. A. violently 48. A. entrance 49. A. source 50. A. guilt 51. A. Labor
C. committed
C. choice C. gradually C. point
D. strength
D. again D. altitude
B. independently B. case
B. encouragement C. assistance B. laziness
C. comfort
D. award D. responsibility
D. Graduate
B. Father C. Mother
52. A. In a way 53. A. bargain 54. A. practiced
B. On the contrary C. On schedule B. exist
C. read
D. As usual
D. apologize D. considered D. words
B. imagined B. meanings B. institute B. volunteer B. passed
C. suggested
55. A. impressions 56. A. college 57. A. model 58. A. attended
C. explanations
C. school
D. workplace
D. candidate D. abandoned
C. competitor
C. failed
59. A. thought highly of B. brought up 60. A. Consequently
B. However
C. put forward
C. Therefore
D. taken into account
D. Additionally
6.
We made a quick stop at a grocery store to pick up cupcakes for my daughter Norah’s fourth birthday. As an older gentleman walked by, Norah 36 and waved, “Hi, old person! It’s my birthday today!” I apologized to him embarrassedly for her 37 .
“Hello, little lady! And how old are you today?” He asked. They 38 for a couple of minutes, with Norah 39 him on the details of her birthday, and we went our 40 ways. But a few minutes later, Norah 41 she really wanted a 42 with him. Uh. My cutest baby!
We back found him at the 43 . “Excuse me, sir? She’d like to know if you’d take a photo with her,” I asked, 44 the man to be annoyed at my daughter’s strange request. 45 . I got the completely opposite response!
He looked 46 . “A photo? With me?” So they posed together and then they 47 each other
like they were long lost friends. The precious scene 48 other shoppers, but no one cared.
We 49 Mr. Dan（I knew his name later on）for his 50 . His eyes filled with tears and he said, “No, thank YOU. It is YOU who made me 51 .’’
Now, Norah and Mr. Dan are more than just friends. We make 52 visits to see him because she worries about his being 53 . Mr. Dan says that his friendship with Norah helped to 54 his broken heart for his wife’s sudden death.
Sometimes talking to 55 turns into the most beautiful thing in the world. 36. A. communicated 37. A. noise
B. asked
C. smiled
D. escaped
D. impoliteness
B. rudeness
C. interruption
38. A. chatted 39. A. dropping 40. A. separate 41. A. reminded 42. A. talk 43. A. street
B. stood C. waited
D. discussed
D. putting
B. filling B. narrow B. predicted B. reunion
B. store
C. calling
C. long
D. crowded
D. remembered
C. decided
C. moment
D. photo
D. supermarket
C. shopping mall
44. A. expecting 45. A. Lastly
B. thinking B. However
C. reminding
C. Instead
D. causing
D. Suddenly
46. A. annoyed 47. A. greeted 48. A. educated
B. delighted B. hugged B. attracted B. paid
C. disappointed
D. astonished
C. supported C. appealed C. thanked C. friendship
D. encouraged D. blocked D. excited
D. experience
D. hold on D. often D. ill D. touch
49. A. memorized 50. A. time
B. permission B. get along B. rare B. busy B. sew
51. A. cheer up 52. A. special 53. A. tired 54. A. attend
C. take off
C. quick
C. lonely
C. open
55. A. shoppers
B. friends C. passengers D. strangers
7.
Just like everyone, I have experienced ups and downs in my life. I am an aerospace engineer from India. I was told by my relatives, close friends and others that it was 16 for a non--IT student to pursue a master’s degree in IT and graduate from a US university
I had never taken courses _ 17 to computers or programming. I was never interested in being a _18 , but things changed. Computers became my companion and I 19 how dependent on them I was. I 20 imagining the back end processes happening inside the CPU and they amazed me. That’s why I _ 21 to pursue a master’s degree in IT.
At first it was way too 22 . Coming from a middle-class family, the huge cost per credit was a big 23 . My English accent was terrible. Most 24 , the course seemed impossible at first. But I never 25 . I got a few offers, but I decided to choose my university 26_ it promised its students to help them learn practically. During my first month, it was difficult to understand the Americans’ 27 and finish my assignments. But I never gave up. I walked two miles to the 28 every day so that I could use my travel money to buy a meal. I started looking for 29 and I got an offer to work as a student assistant, which meant lifting benches and chairs every day.
I took it as a(n) 30 , and I believed that hard work was my strength. Right now I am graduating with a GPA of 3.96/4 and a job offer from a multinational company that has asked me to start right after 31 . If you think you can never achieve something, you need to 32 yourself and start working on your _33. Hard work always pays off. To be 34 , you need to start from somewhere and always, question yourself about the limits of how far you would go to 35 your goals. 16. A. interesting 17. A. adjusted 18. A. teacher 19. A. wondered 20. A. started
B. hard
C. important C. related C. designer C judged
D. practical D. tied D. master D. realized D. avoided D agreed D. boring D. question D. regretfully
B. limited
B programmer B. believed B stopped B. refused B. exciting B. issue
C. consider C. decided C. different C. event
21. A. learned 22. A. difficult 23. A. mistake 24. A probably 25. A kept up
B. surprisingly B. gave up B. but
C. importantly C. turned u C. so
D. picked up
D. though D. manners D. restaurant D. friend
D. challenge
26. A. because 27. A. fashions 28. A. shop 29. A. jobs
B. opinions C. accents C. hotel C. goals
B. university B. places B. task
30. A. decision 31. A. celebration
C. advantage
B. operation C. discussion D. graduation
32. A. speak to 33. A. degrees
B. know about B. dreams
C. believe in C. adventures C. cheerful C. achieve
D. stand for D. problems D. thoughtful D. rebuild
34. A. successful 35. A. set
B. grateful B. change
8
Brandon and Derek’s mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Bandon 41 his card out loud. On Brandon Lash’s 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek, 42 him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger 43 . “I have always 44 you,” Brandon reads from the front of the card, 45 by this brother. “I love spending time with you. I’m so 46 I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart,” Brandon continues, opening up the 47 . “And now you will have my 48 , too. We are a 49 match.” Brandon reads, 50 the card to the floor and breaking down into 51 . Brandon has kidney receives 52 three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but 53 , his brother is.
“I can’t believe Derek would 54 so much all this for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “He’s giving me a __55 to have a healthy life again. I 56 can’t believe it’s happening.”
“I 57 seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again.” Derek adds. “Not only was I the 58 thing to do, but the only thing to do. He’s my brother. We didn’t know 59 he could be on the transplant list, and I knew I just wanted my 60 brother back.” 41. A. read 42. A. provided 43. A. claim
B. sang
C. called
D. shouted D. supplied D. surprise D. lived up to D. described
D. confused
B. issued B. award
C. presented C. smile
44. A. taken charge of 45. A. signed 46. A. thankful 47. A. paper 48. A. nerves 49. A. perfect 50. A. losing
B. looked up to B. drawn
C. got hold of C. written
B. satisfied
C. awkward
B. card B. eves
C. book C. kidney C. equal
D. cover
D. heart
B. possible D. friendly D. blowing
B. dropping C. throwing