Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand outstretched．Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met．She never failed to__1__ smile, my grasp, and my greeting．

       On the last day of our visit, I found myself__2__on a busy corner across the street from our hotel．Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me．We had been advised to walk__3__ through the crowded traffic without looking right or left．Let them__4__ us．

       __5__tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to__6__ the flood of vehicles．As I __7__ on the roadside．I felt a hand on my elbow and looked__8__to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me．She nodded her head toward the street__9__ that she would take me across．Together, we moved slowly into the disorder．

       When we__10__ the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn’t help saying, “You have the most beautiful smile in the world．”

She__11__knew little English, but must have__12__ the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big hug while the__13__streamed by us on both sides．

       Then we__14__ moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away,__15__smiling and waving back to me．

       I had not given her a single__16__．But we had__17__ something much more important---a warming of hearts in friendship．

       This__18__ reminded me of something Mother Teresag once said, “ If you cannot do great things, you can do small things with great__19__．” I will always remember this__20__．

1．A．receive                  B．accept                    C．return                 D．answer

2．A．alone                    B．away                      C．off                      D．aside

3．A．purposefully          B．straight                   C．actively               D．carefully

4．A．miss                     B．avoid                      C．separate              D．dismiss

5．A．And                      B．So                          C．But                     D．Therefore

6．A．see                       B．meet                       C．face                    D．witness

7．A．moved                  B．wandered                C．hesitated              D．wondered

8．A．up                        B．back                       C．down                  D．forward

9．A．explaining              B．marking                  C．meaning              D．expressing

10．A．covered               B．reached                   C．touched               D．hit

11．A．actually               B．obviously                C．generally             D．personally

12．A．recognized           B．required                  C．misunderstood     D．achieved

13．A．customers           B．strangers                 C．traffic                 D．passengers

14．A．suddenly             B．continuously            C．luckily                 D．unwillingly

15．A．yet                      B．even                       C．already                D．still

16．A．gift                     B．present                   C．cake                   D．coin

17．A．owed                  B．owned                    C．shared                 D．seized

18．A．exploration          B．experience               C．adventure            D．interview

19．A．love                    B．feeling                    C．courage               D．pity

20．A．aspect                 B．idiom                      C．sentence              D．lesson

Joe Biggs was a butcher. His shop was in a village in the beautiful south of England, and he  31  in it for many years while his father was there. Then when his father reached the age of 65, he stopped working in the shop, and Joe was alone in it, so he had to work  32 .

   Joe worked five and a half days a week. His shop  33  at one o’clock on Thursday, and it was closed the whole of Sunday. Saturdays were the  34  days.

   Most of Joe’s  35  came to his shop from the nearest town, but sometimes he got up earlier than usual in the morning and  36  into the city to choose meat. It was  37  there.

   Joe had a big  38  in his shop, but he tried not to buy too  39  meat at a time, and to  40  it before he bought more.

   One  41  a woman came into the shop at five minutes to one. “Sorry I’m late,” she said, “but some friends have just telephoned to say that they are coming to  42  tonight, and I need more  43 .”

   Joe only had one piece of meat in the shop. He had sold all the others  44  in the day. He took the piece  45  and said to the woman, “This is 6.5 pounds.”

   “That piece is too  46 .” the woman said. “Haven’t you got anything bigger?”

   Joe went  47  the room behind his shop, opened the refrigerator, put the piece of meat into it, took it out  48  and shut the door of the refrigerator  49 , then he brought the piece of meat back to the woman and said, “This piece is bigger and more expensive. It’s 8.75 pounds.”

   “Good,” the woman answered with a smile, “give me  50  of them, please.”

1.A. lived          B. studied          C. worked           D. played.

2.A. more          B. harder           C. later             D. again

3.A. shut           B. started           C. opened           D. served

4.A. hardest        B. easiest           C. quietest           D. busiest

5.A. customers      B. meat            C. buyers            D. friends

6.A. walked        B. flew             C. drove             D. ran

7.A. easier         B. fresher           C. nearer            D. cheaper

8.A. refrigerator     B. room            C. kitchen           D. cupboard

9.A. much         B. expensive         C. fresh             D. adequate

10.A. eat           B. cook             C. sell              D. freeze

11.A. Thursday      B. Sunday           C. Monday          D. Saturday

12.A. party         B. dinner            C. lunch            D. dance

13.A. food          B. vegetable         C. meat             D. fruit

14.A. later          B. earlier            C. quicker           D. cheaper

15.A. in            B. up               C. away             D. out

16.A. small         B. large             C. cheap            D. bad

17.A. outside        B. from             C. into             D. through

18.A. still          B. again             C. even             D. back

19.A. carefully      B. quickly           C. lightly            D. heavily

20.A. both          B. none             C. each             D. all

 

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” I saw this wonderful old saying again in a book recently. It got me thinking about all the times that I have been    31   to forgive others in my life and all the joy that it has brought me. One    32   stands out particularly well.

I was a young boy at a summer camp. I was having a great time and    33___ everything about it except for another young boy of my age. To say we didn’t

   34   would be a statement that made the situation less serious than it really was. We spent most of the week irritating, insulting (侮辱), and picking on each other.

   35   finally came to a fight on the next to last day of camp. We got into a fist fight which I lost.    36   older boys broke it up before I was hurt too much. I spent the rest of the day alone, refusing to speak andlost in my own    37  .

The next day my spirits were    38   when Mom brought the boys in our cabin some of her delicious homemade    39  . I was enjoying a few slices of it when I saw the other boy sitting by himself at the bottom of the steps outside. He seemed very    40   right then. I am not sure what moved me to do so, but I took my pizza down and    41   it with him. It made all the anger and pain inside me    42  . We became friends after that. I never got into another fist fight either. I had found out that sharing and forgiving were much more fun and a lot less painful.

Forgiveness is    43   the sweetest revenge. It can turn an enemy into a friend. It can    44   a heart from the chains of anger, hatred, and pain. It can open a soul to the sweetness of love and joy once again. May your life always be    45   of sweet forgiveness.

1.                A．disappointed    B．satisfied        C．unwilling  D．able

 

2.                A．memory        B．lesson          C．incident  D．week

 

3.                A．struggling       B．exploring       C．enjoying  D．remembering

 

4.                A．get across       B．get along        C．hold on   D．hold up

 

5.                A．Thoughts       B．Words          C．Friends   D．Conflicts

 

6.                A．Surprisingly     B．Thankfully       C．Unexpectedly  D．Regretfully

 

7.                A．fight           B．regret          C．luck D．anger

 

8.                A．sunk           B．broken         C．lifted D．shown

 

9.                A．pizza           B．hamburger      C．pie  D．sandwich

 

10.               A．angry          B．proud          C．ashamed  D．lonely

 

11.               A．presented      B．shared         C．distributed D．divided

 

12.               A．go away        B．go on          C．crowd in   D．build up

 

13.               A．nearly         B．merely         C．truly  D．hardly

 

14.               A．keep          B．cure           C．comfort   D．free

 

15.               A．full            B．aware          C．confident  D．certain

 

 

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项题卡上将该项涂黑。

       In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnan,  Ohio, lay a   36  and almost endless forest.

       The area had a few settlements   37   by people of the frontier. Many of them had already left the area for settlements further   39   the west. But among those   40   was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

       He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded   41  all sides by the great forest. He seemed a part of the darkness and   42   of the forest, for no one had   43   known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word. His simple needs were   44  by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town.

       His little log house had a single door. Directly   45   was a window. The window was boarded up（堵住）. No one could remember a(n)  46   when it was not. And no one knew why it had been   47  .  I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the   48   of that window. But I am one, as you shall   49  .

       The man's name was said to be Murlock. He   50   to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty. Something other than years had been the   51  of his aging.

       His hair and long, full beard were white.  His gray,   52   eyes were sunken.  His face was wrinkled. He was tall and thin with drooping shoulders—like someone with many   53  .

       I never saw him. These   54   I learned from my grandfather. He told me the man's story   55   I was a boy. He had known him when living nearby in that early day.

1.A．huge                       B．heavy                  C．small                  D．bright

2.A．discovered               B．created                C．established           D．invented

3.A．visited                     B．reached               C．left                     D．loved

4.A．in                           B．for                      C．over                    D．to

5.A．moving                   B．remaining            C．traveling             D．hunting

6.A．along                      B．by                      C．with                    D．on

7.A．silence                    B．noises                 C．brightness            D．freshness

8.A．never                      B．ever                    C．once                   D．sometimes

9.A．understood              B．exchanged           C．satisfied              D．offered

10.A．outside                  B．inside                  C．before                 D．opposite

11.A．time                      B．opportunity         C．story                   D．experience

12.A．opened                  B．closed                 C．destroyed            D．protected

13.A．secreet                   B．structure              C．formation            D．construction

14.A．guess                     B．see                      C．suppose               D．feel

15.A．seemed                  B．happened             C．pretended            D．appeared

16.A．cause                     B．cure                    C．reason                 D．affection

17.A．pretty                    B．lively                  C．lifeless                D．horrible

18.A．achievementsB．enemies                        C．problems             D．dreams

19.A．lessons                  B．details                 C．summaries           D．ideas

20.A．because                 B．since                   C．when                  D．although

 

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

What would life be like without television? Would you spend more time  36  , reading, or studying? Well, now it’s your chance to turn off your TV and  37  ! TV-Turnoff Week is here.

  The goal of TV-Turnoff Week is to let people leave their TV sets  38   and participate in activities  39   drawing to biking. The event was founded by TV-Turnoff Network, a non-profit organization which started the event in 1995. In the  40  , only a few thousand people took part. Last year more than 7.6 million people participated,  41   people in every state in America and in more than 12 other countries! This is the 11^th year in which  42   are asking people to “turn off the TV and turn on  43  .”

  According to the TV-Turnoff Network, the average  44   in the US spend  45   time in front of the TV (about 1,023 hours per year) than they do in school (about 900 hours per year). Too much TV  46   has made many kids grow fat.  47  , in 2001’s TV-Turnoff Week, US Surgeon General David Satcher said, “We are raising the most  48   generation of youngsters in American history. This week is about saving lives.”

  Over the years, studies have shown that watching a lot of TV  49   poor eating habits, too little exercise, and violence. Frank Vespe of the TV-Turnoff Network said that turning off the TV “is or  50  , part of a healthy lifestyle”.

  “One of the great lessons of  51   TV-Turnoff Week is the realization that  52   I turn on the TV, I’m deciding not to do something else,” Vespe said.

  TV-Turnoff Week seems to be making a  53   . Recent US Census（人口普查）data  54   that about 72 percent of kids under 12 have a limit on their TV time. That’s  55   about 63 percent ten years ago.

1.A. drinking            B. sleeping                          C. washing                 D. playing outside

2.A. find out              B. go out                        C. look out                 D. keep out

3.A. away                   B. alone                               C. on                            D. beside

4.A. like                      B. as                                     C. from                       D. such as

5.A. end                      B. event                               C. beginning              D. total

6.A. besides              B. except for                       C. including                D. except

7.A. governments    B. parents                           C. organizers       D. businessmen

8.A. the light             B. the radio                         C. life                           D. the Internet

9.A. grown-ups         B. kids                                  C. clerks           D. parents

10.A. less                            B. enough                            C. little                        D. more

11.A. programmes  B. screen                        C. hours                      D. watching

12.A. However         B. On the contrary       C. In fact               D. As a result

13.A. overweight  B. overeaten                       C. overgrown     D. overseeing

14.A. leads to           B. results from                       C. develops                D. keeps away

15.A. will be              B. should be                        C. may be                   D. could be

16.A. organizing       B. taking part in                 C. participating        D. asking for

17.A. wherever        B. every day                        C. every time     D. this time

18.A. living                 B. choice                        C. difference             D. sense

19.A. shows              B. says                                 C. reads                      D. writes

20.A. rising                B. down from                C. up to                       D. up from