When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s，we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap, and drove a white truck. As a five-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer(硬币兑换器) fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery, and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese and eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note, “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery,” and put it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There was a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr Basille even had a key to my house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we could box indoors, So that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr Basille from time to time, taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allow the production of cheaper milk, so making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere. And it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and fixed it on the back porch(门廊). Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is, so I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milk man who brought us friendship along with his milk.
【小题1】Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer______.

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Is there some one you hate? Well. Maybe you don't really hate them. But you get really angry every time you think of them.  If you don't let this anger go,  it can turn into bitterness(痛苦).

      Bitterness appears when we can’t forgive someone who has hurt us or made us angry. Someone might say or do something that hurts us.  But instead of controlling he anger ,we keep t deep inside .  Before long, a bitter feeling begins to grow. We may think we are hurting that person by criticizing(指责)him or her often ,but we are really only hurting ourselves.

     Bitterness can not only lead to serious health problems such as heart disease ,but also hurt out relationships with friends and family members .No one enjoy being around an angry person for very long .

If you see bitterness in your life ,here are some ways to deal with it .

Accept it

Instead of trying to deny your anger ,make it clear to yourself and accept it .See your anger for what it is and quickly deal with it .

Stop making excuses for it

You may feel you have a right to be angry .You may think you are right and the other person is wrong . You may even secretly enjoy making the other person look bad .But in the end ,bitterness hurts you much more than the other person . The bitterness will hold you back . and the other person will go on with his or her life .

Forgive and forget it

You probably can not completely put the anger out of your mind .But you can decide to forgive the other person . Forget it and move on .You’ll enjoy better health and peace of mind .

1.According to the passage, we might get angry when someone_____.

             A. holds us back                       B. forgets us

             C. doesn't like us                          D. hurts us

2.Bittemcss comes from

             A. our health problem like heart disease

             B. the anger that lives deep inside our mind

             C. the person who says something that hurts us

             D. our relationships with friends and family members

3.The underlined word "deny" in the passage means "_        "

          A. 否认        B.误解        Ｃ.疏远        D. 减轻

4.The best way to deal with the bitterness is to ______

             A.  make the person who hurts us look bad

             B. hate the person who hurts us very often

             C. accept that you are hurting the other person

             D. forgive the person who hurts us and forget it

5.What can we learn from the passage?

              A. We should enjoy someone who hurts us.

              B. We should pay more attention to our friends.

              C. The peace of mind is more important than the hurt itself.

              D. Ws better to let bitterness go along with the other person.

When I was about 12 years old, I really wanted a new bike, but I knew there was little hope because my family could  36  have that money.
On my birthday, my parents told me they had my  37  outside in the back yard. At once I  38  out to the yard. There was my bike,  39  it wasn’t the bike that I thought it would be. This one was pink, old and worn with age. I thought I  40  my parents’ feelings because I could see the disappointment  41  their faces and I was sure they could see it on mine. I got on the old bike and rode it, feeling  42  that I had made my parents feel this way. So I put on a smile, rode as fast as I could and didn’t look back.
As time went by, I began to understand my parents gave me  43  much more than just a rusty（生锈的）old bike. They gave me a life lesson about  44 . When you give something out of love, it doesn’t matter what it is in fact. What matters is the love that is in it. I like to remember this  45  because giving a gift is not about money. It’s about how much love you can feel from it. Do remember, a gift that costs two dollars isn’t any less valuable than one that costs one hundred dollars, or even more.
【小题1】A. hardly                      B. quickly                      C. easily
【小题2】A. card                        B. gift                         C. cake
【小题3】A. rushed                      B. rode                         C. came
【小题4】A. and                             B. or                           C. but
【小题5】A. liked                       B. hated                        C. hurt
【小题6】A. on                          B. in                          C. at  
【小题7】A. surprised                   B. excited                      C. bad
【小题8】A. everything                  B. nothing                      C. something
【小题9】A. love                        B. money                        C. knowledge
【小题10】A. idea                       B. story                      C. advice

Think of a number, _______don't tell me what it is.

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Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier（国境） to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming   1  the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bike with a pile of goods(货物) of old straw on it. When the bike   2  the frontier, Peter would stop the man and   3  him take the straw off and untie（解开） it. Then he would examine the straw very   4  to see   5   he could find anything, then he would look in all the man’s pockets   6  he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always   7  to find gold or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything. He was sure the man was   8  something, but he was not  9  to think out what it could be.

Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker’s pockets   10  usual, he   11  to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things  12  this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is? I’m an old man, and today is my   13 day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire(退休). I promise I shall not tell  14  if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for   15 . Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, “Bikes.”

1.                A．towards        B．down          C．to   D．up

2.                A．arrived         B．appeared       C．came D．reached

3.                A．ask            B．order          C．make D．call

4.                A．carefully        B．quickly         C．silently   D．horribly

5.                A．that           B．where          C．how D．if

6.                A．before         B．after           C．first  D．so

7.                A．lucky          B．hoping         C．thinking  D．wondering

8.                A．taking          B．smuggling       C．stealing   D．pushing

9.                A．possible        B．strong          C．able D．clever

10.               A．like            B．more          C．then  D．as

11.               A．told           B．cried          C．ordered   D．said

12.               A．cross          B．past           C．across D．into

13.               A．last            B．first           C．newest    D．second

14.               A．everyone       B．anyone         C．no one    D．someone

15.               A．moment        B．long time       C．sometime  D．some time