51. A. screams
B. worries
C. laughs D. tears D. observations D. exactly D. sacrifice D. occasion D. still D. opposed D. real
D. while
52. A. treatments 53. A. finally 54. A. advise 55. A. chance 56. A. always 57. A. regretted 58. A. fair
B. experiments B. possibly
C. directions C. luckily C. allow C. accident C. forever C. hated C. normal
B. experience B. fortune B. already B. minded B. right B. how long B. brave
59. A. when 60. A. lovely
C. how much
C. honest D. healthy
9.
Just thinking on the events from the past week, there’s a lot I could have written about. But instead of focusing on all the craziness that happened and letting it keep me up at night, I picked up a(n) 41 . Not an e-book. Not a download to iBooks. A good, old-fashioned book 42 in 2014.
In all fairness, digital content has made the world 43 to anyone with a 44 or a smartphone. But 45 a lot of digital content can be unhealthy. Reports have shown that smartphone use can help 46 depression, and bedtime use of electronics can be disruptive to your body’s sleep 47 .
Thinking back to the past few years, I can see a significant 48 in just my sleep quality when I read a physical book 49 when I read a digital book at bedtime. When I read from my phone, I 50 to feel more exhausted the next day, be a little more irritable and 51 , and I frequently woke up during the night. Moreover, I cannot use a digital textbook. I find it difficult to 52 the information stored in the simplest way possible. 53 , when I read a book, I was able to 54 concentrate on my work, I was more alert in general, and I was positive.
You may not face these 55 : Everybody is different. You may even be trying to 56 paper. But that doesn’t mean you should 57 your screen the whole time. For millennia, books were the go-to source of knowledge. They’ve stood the test of time, and they haven’t 58 us yet.
59 compares to the excitement and journey of reading a book, not for a class or a job, but for the 60 . 41. A. phone
B. iPad B. sold
C. pen C. written
D. book D. shared D. respectable
42. A. published 43. A. reliable
B. accessible C. acceptable
44. A. computer 45. A. refusing 46. A. case 47. A. walker
B. library
C. bookstore C. consuming C. manage
C. illness
D. printer D. purchasing D. fuel
D. disorder
B. creating B. face
B. cycle
48. A. progress 49. A. opposed to 50. A. tended 51. A. relaxed 52. A. record
B. question B. exposed to B. failed
C. role D. difference D. related to D. pretended D. anxious D. trust D. Consequently D. better D. dangers D. throw
D. take no notice of D. forgot
D. Nobody
C. compared to C. agreed
B. valuable B. give B. Thus B. fewer B. risks B. save
C. frightened C. process
53. A. However 54. A. less
C. Additionally C. farther
55. A. challenges 56. A. cut
C. responsibilities C. provide C. stick to C. failed
57. A. experiment with 58. A. believed 59. A. Everything 60. A. enjoyment
B. look away from B. betrayed
B. Nothing
C. Somebody
B. hardship C. argument D. respect
10.
My kids sat on Gee's living room floor and respectfully lifted Christmas decorations out of a cardboard box. They shouted with 41 when they discovered a tiny toy cat. Finally, my son was 42 about a tiny modern helicopter, just on the contrary, my daughter with a 43 Mickey Mouse. Gee stood beside them, 44 each treasure. She turned to me and continued to say she and Tom built their 45 over time by buying one or two nice ones each year in the after-Christmas sales. Eventually, we 46 _, with boxes in my arms and she was smiling. Her 47 belongings, gathered over a lifetime, found a new home.
We first 48 Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Jim and I worked full-time, and in the morning we laid our garbage cans on the roadside, 49 to wait the long, lonely 10 hours there until we returned to 50 them, because we were very busy. Instead, we’d come home every day to find them neatly 51 in their spot next to our garage. 52 we finally saw an elderly man who 53 with his 10-year-old grandson across from us pick it up.
Tom and Gee 54 picked up garbage cans and taught us what it 55 to be a neighbor. They taught us that home doesn't end at a property line. It 56 to all these people. These people, the 57 among them and the love that flows through them all explain what a home is.
This Christmas, we'll decorate our tree with Gee's 58 . We'll bring beautifully packaged Christmas presents to some 59 like the old man. To others, we'll just 60 a wave and a \
41. A. pain 42. A. crazy 43. A. worn
B. delight
B slight
C. embarrassment
C. calm
D. caution
D. doubtful D. silly
B. anxious
C. traditional
44. A. designing B. getting 45. A. collections B. interest 46. A. refused 47. A. strange 48. A. accepted 49. A. bound 50. A. store up 51. A. buried 52. A. Then
53. A worked 54. A. carelessly 55. A. resisted 56. A. turns
57. A. control 59. A. partners 60. A. stop
B. arrived B. precious B. invited B. conscious B. deal with
C. hiding C. selected C. modern C. met
C. afraid
D. explaining D. pleasure D. left D. spare D. thanked
D. willing
D. care about
C. possessions
C. make out
B. transformed
B. Actually
B. quietly B. adds
B. quarreled B. reflected B. words B. neighbors B. create
C. developed
C. lived
D. placed
D. Therefore
D. wandered D. angrily
D. extends
C. Previously C. casually
C. meant D. expected D. comfort
D. help D. exchange D. relatives
C. agrees
C. connections
C. methods
C. colleagues C. keep
58. A. decorations B. fund
11.
On June 23, 1970. I had just left the Army after completing my one-year duty in Vietnam. I was on 41 returning home in Texas. I had been warned about the _42_ of our fellow countrymen. There was no 43 welcome for us when we came home from that unpopular war.
I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, 44 eye contact with my fellow passengers. NO one was sitting next to me, which added to my _45__. A little girl suddenly appeared in the passage. She _46_ and, without saying a word, 47 handed me a magazine. I accepted her 48 , her quiet “welcome home.” All I could say was, “Thank you.” Her small gesture of 49 was the first I had experienced in a long time.
I always believe in the connection between 50 when they reach out to one another.
That girl 51 has no memory of what happened years ago. She might have been told to do that by her mother. It doesn’t matter 52 she gave me the magazine. The _53 thing is that she did.
Since then, I have followed her example and tried. in different ways for different people, to 54 for
them. Like me on that plane ride long ago, they will _55_ know why a stranger gave a hand. But I absolutely know that my _56_ since then are all because of that little girl. Her kindness of offering a magazine to a _57_, scared and lonely soldier has been 58 throughout my life. I have to believe that my small _59_ have the same effect on others. And to that little girl, now a _60_, I would like to say again: thank you. 41. A. bus 42 A. stories
B. train
C. plane
D. boat
D. enthusiasm
B. difficulties
C. unfriendliness
43. A. hometown 44. A. seeking 45. A. pride
B. school B. noticing B. loneliness B. listened B. proudly B. donation
C. cold D. immediate D. avoiding D. excitement D. bent down
D. worriedly
C. keeping C. anger
46. A. smiled 47. A. naturally 48. A. offer
C. turned around C. shyly
C. accompany
D. contact
D. inspiration
49. A. invitation 50. A. soldiers 51. A. similarly 52. A. when
B. sympathy
C. agreement
B. strangers B. finally
B. how
C. families D. girls
C. immediately
C. why
D. undoubtedly
D. where
53. A. memorable B. satisfactory 54. A. do the same B. find a seat 55. A. always 56. A. feelings 57. A. busy
B. never B. ideas
C. important D. valuable
C. get things ready D. pass a magazine C. happily
D. obviously
D. attempts
C. models
B. young B. spread B. benefits B. wife
C. excited C. honored C. donations C. mother
D. tired D. neglected D. sacrifices D. woman
58. A. accepted 59. A. actions 60. A. stranger
12.
Jason graduated from a key university and he was very good at his major. He wished to find a good job. One day, he went to a company to 41 for a job. He got the news in a newspaper. He did some research on this company. When he was 42 , everything went well. The manager asked him some questions and he answered them 43 . Jason was very satisfied with his performances and was very 44 that he could get the job. But at that moment, the manager’s phone 45 . He picked up the phone, listened and nodded. And then he turned around and said to Jason, “Sorry, I want to get some important 46 now. Please give me the book with the red 47 on that desk.” Jason looked around and found 3 books on the
desk, so Jason went to the desk, took one book and handed it to him 48 . Holding the book, the manager 49 the phone and said, “Sorry, we cannot give the job to you.” Jason was 50 and wondered why. The manager said, \are three 51 . First, when you came into the office room, I found that the third button on your shirt had been missing. Second, there are three books with red covers on that desk, but you didn’t ask me which one I needed and you took one 52 . Third, I was answering the call. You should 53 to the desk to save time. These 54 showed you are not a careful person.’ Therefore, Jason didn’t get the job.
We can learn a(n) 55 from Jason’s experience. Some people don’t 56 the details in our life. But it is the details that 57 . Not only should we value what we learn but also we should pay more attention to the details. Sometimes they can even 58 our success or failure. We should form the habit of being careful and learn to keep the 59 of quantity and quality. We should keep it in mind that 60 comes first, without which quantity is of no significance. 41. A.vote
B.apply B.slowly B.excited B.called B.cover B.eagerly
C.prepare C.asked C.lucky C.insight
D.wait D.questioned
D.generally D.confident D.rang
D.information D.mark D.quickly D.held on D.worried D.collections D.certainly D.move
D.details
42. A.interviewed 43. A.immediately 44. A.grateful 45. A.lost
B.contacted
C.fluently
C.answered C.character C.purposely C.hung up C.reasons C.walk C.stories
C.ignore C.interest
46. A.arrangement 47. A.picture 48. A.politely 50. A.helpless
B.response
49. A.searched for 51. A.methods 52. A.eventually 53. A.run
54. A.parts 55. A.subject 56. A.mention 57. A.matter 58. A.describe 60. A.quantity
B.picked up B.surprised B.results B.push B.facts
B.mind B.trouble B.replace B.quality
B.randomly
C.disappointed C.regularly
B.idea C.lesson D.skill
D.provide D.impress D.value D.balance D.promise
C.determine C.competition C.safety
59. A.selection B.importance
13.
It’s no overstatement that digital mediums have taken over every aspect of our lives. We 41 books on e-readers, and communicate with customers 42 email. Yet for all the 43 digital mediums have