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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

　　Susan Cleveland is the young president of a candy company in the city of Chicago. Her father began the company in 1960s. He died three years ago. Now, the company belongs to Susan.

　　Susan, 1 , did not have any jobs before becoming head of the company. She just finished the college.

　　The employees became concerned during Susan's first months 3 the job. Mr Cleveland had been a 4 leader. But Susan permitted 5 employees to make their own 6 . One employee said,“Old Mr Cleveland 7 told us what to do. He kept people on a short leash. 8 the company did well.”What does a“short leash”mean? A leash is a kind of rope. We use a leash 9 our pet dogs. The leash keeps the dog from 10 away 11 getting into trouble.

　　Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her 12 close control. The person can't make many decisions for himself or herself. Ms Cleveland does not keep her workers on a short leash. 13 , she encourages them to get 14 ways to do business. For example, her secretary proposed an idea. She said the company should 15 a sum of money as a prize to the best student in the high school 16 the factory. The winner could use the prize money to study at a university. Ms Cleveland 17 the idea. After the prize was announced, 18 who lived in the area of the factory began to buy 19 of the company's candy. Local newspapers wrote about the competition. Business 20 . Ms Cleveland made her secretary the company's first Director of Public Relations. The former secretary was very pleased.

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C．for　　　　　　D．at

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C．kind　　　　　　D．clever

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C．few　　　　　　D．many

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A．products　　　　　　B．candy

C．decisions　　　　　　D．plans

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A．never　　　　　　B．always

C．seldom　　　　　 D．did

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A．Although　　　　　　B．Because

C．Otherwise　　　　　　D．But

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A．to walk　　　　　　B．to use

C．to frighten　　　　　D．to play

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A．stepping　　　　　　B．pulling

C．running　　　　　　D．jumping

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A．in　　　　　　B．for

C．when　　　　　D．or

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C．for　　　　　　D．under

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C．Instead　　　　　D．While

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A．other　　　　　　B．more

C．many　　　　　　D．better

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A．save　　　　　　B．offer

C．get　　　　　　 D．lend

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A．belonging to　　　　B．far from

C．near　　　　　　　D．in

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A．studied　　　　　　B．appreciated

C．refused　　　　　　D．changed

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A．students　　　　　　B．workers

C．businessmen　　　　D．people

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C．more　　　　　　D．less

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C．continued　　　　　　D．stopped

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　　Once a circle missed a wedge(楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. It was incomplete and 1 could roll only very slowly, while rolling, it 2 the flowers along the way, chatted with worms and enjoyed the 3 .

　　One day the circle found a piece that fit 4 . It was so happy. Now it could be 5 with nothing missing. It fixed the missing piece in itself and began to roll. 6 it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to 7 the flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how 8 the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, 9 its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

　　The lesson of the story, I 10 , was that in some strange I 11 we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is 12 a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to desire, to hope, to nourish(滋养) his 13 with the dream of something 14 .

　　When we accept that 15 is part of human being, and when we can continue rolling 16 life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only 17 to. If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, 18 enough to share in another's happiness, and wise enough to know 19 is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that 20 living creature will ever know.

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　　Two kinds of people exist in this world: clean people and people who have found millions of ways to avoid cleaning their rooms.

　　I belong to 1 because I am a teenager. Like all teenagers I am 2 busy pretending to be receiving an education to 3 that scientists attribute(归因于) 52 percent of global warming to the 4 that escapes from my bedroom window. 5 all you 6 get too angry, I want you to know that I closed my window last week.

　　Don't think the messy state of my room doesn't 7 me, it does. Every night I go to sleep, haunted(受折磨) by the thought that a(n) 8 I lost three years ago is somewhere in my room still plugged in(插着电源) and waiting to start a fire. 9 thing that worries me are my fish. I haven't gotten around to cleaning their tank this year. I can't 10 if they are alive or not.

　　A few weeks ago my mother ordered me to clean my mom. She said, “Tracie, you 11 not eat, sleep, or breathe until you clean up your room.”

　　I responded, “Mum, did I tell you I got an A on my physics test yesterday?”

　　“You don't even take physics, Tracie, so how can you get an A?”

　　My Mum was 12 than I thought, so I decided to ignore(不理会) the question and change the 13 .

　　“Did you know that most kids today watch ten and a half hours of TV? And high school students score an average of 500 points 14 on the SATs than the kids in your generation.” “No! Really? Well, Tracie, that's just one more example of how the weak 15 of today affect the minds and education of the kids your age. Oh! I forgot to take the bread out of the oven(烤箱)!”

　　I smiled to myself for once again 16 my mother with perfectly useless and untrue 17 . Thereby I avoided the 18 task of cleaning my room.

　　Then I turned and observed the smoke and the big pile of smelly 19 . But, I am just too 20 to disturb the natural flow of things.

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　　Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard.

　　After several years, the boss made Jackie sales manager but Charlie 1 a salesman. One day Charlie could not 2 it any more. He handed in his resignation letter(辞职信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not 3 hard working employees, but only raised those who tried to please him. He thought that it was really 4 .

　　The boss knew that Charlie had spared no 5 for the company all these years, but in order to help Charlie to realize the 6 between him and Jackie, the boss asked Charlie to do the 7 : “Go and find out if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market.” Charlie went, returned and 8 said, “Yes.” The boss asked, “How much per kg?” Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to 9 , “$12 per kg.”

　　The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the 10 question. Jackie went, returned and said, “Boss, only one person is selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $100 for l0kg. He has a 11 of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg, 12 from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good 13 .”

　　Charlie was 14 and he realized the difference between himself and Jackie. He decided not to 15 but to learn from Jackie.

　　My dear friends, you know, a more 16 person is more observant, thinks more and understands in 17 . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, 18 you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you 19 .

　　Think: How far have you seen ahead in your life? How 20 are you?

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　　A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's teacher－parent meeting. To the little boy's 1 , she said she would go. This 2 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 3 his mother and he felt 4 of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕) that 5 nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 6 why or how she got the scar.

　　At the meeting, the people were 7 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother 8 the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬) and 9 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 10 of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

　　The teacher asked 11 , “How did you get the scar on your face?”

　　The mother replied, “ 12 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was 13 afraid to go in because the fire was 14 , so I went in. As 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 knocked 15 but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She 16 the burned side of her face. “This scar will be 17 , but to this day, I have never 18 what I did.”

　　At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great 19 of the sacrifice(牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand 20 for the rest of the day.

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　　When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the 1 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to 2 in good health, or 3 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 4 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 5 the title. Therefore, the scissors would 6 before they start, 7 halfway done when I find out the 8 result.

　　Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 9 . You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 10 up. But you know the future is unpredictable(不可预料的) －the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 11 . Thus you are 12 in a difficult position and feel sad. How 13 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once It may happen that your life 14 greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

　　In fact that is what 15 is like, we are often 16 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only 17 we get into another. The 18 may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I 19 remember a philosopher's remarks “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual(不经意的) 20 may not be a bad one.

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　　Roger Crawford had everything he needed to play tennis－except two hands and a leg. He had 1 palms.

　　The baby's arms and legs were shortened, and he had only three toes on his right foot and his left leg was cut off.

　　The doctor said Roger 2 from born disability, only one out of 90,000 children born in the United States. The doctor said that Roger would probably never be able to walk or 3 himself. Fortunately Roger's parents didn't 4 the doctor.

　　“My parents always 5 me that I was only as handicapped(残疾) as I wanted to be,” said Roger. “They never allowed me to feel sorry for myself or 6 advantage of people because of my handicap.” “Once I got into 7 , my school papers were continually late,” explained Roger, who had to hold his pencil with both hands to write 8 . “I asked Dad to write a note to my teacher, 9 for a two－day extension on my homework. 10 , Dad made me start writing my paper two days earlier!”

　　Roger's father always 11 him to get involved in sports; teaching Roger to catch and throw a volleyball, and play backyard football after school. At the age of 12, Roger 12 to win a place on the school football team.

　　Before every game, Roger would visualize(设想) his 13 of scoring a touchdown. Then one day he got his chance. The ball landed in his arms and off, he ran as fast as he could on his artificial leg 14 the goal line, his coach and teammates 15 wildly. But at tenyard line, a guy from the other team 16 up with Roger, grabbing his left ankle(脚踝). Roger tried to pull his artificial leg 17 , but instead it ended up being pulled off.

　　“The only difference between you and me is that you can see my 18 , but I can't see yours. We all have them. When people ask me how I've been able to 19 my physical handicap, I tell them that I haven't overcome 20 . I've simply learned what I can't do－such as play the piano or eat with chopsticks－but more importantly, I've learned what I can do. Then I do what I can with all my heart and soul,” said Roger in the end.

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　　Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives. Not long ago, I had one that I would like to 1 . I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph 2 we realized we were 3 . Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brandnew(崭新的) $ 20 bill. I was so 4 because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on 5 seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line. 6 I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About halfway through the meal, I 7 I had not actually handed any money to the cashier. I had just 8 out, and nobody had noticed. I felt terrible.

　　My conscience(良心) opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn't 9 over it. I just couldn't go back to the cashier and 10 for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I 11 to give myself the pleasure of an ice-cream for 12 that someone would say, “Hey, Jeff, why don't you use the change 13 the pizza instead of that nice, new 3 20 bill?” I was not 14 of my cash now.

　　For the next two years, whenever I was 15 of the “pizza incident”, I would say to myself, “Don't think about it…”

　　I have learnd two things from this 16 . Maybe I was a fool for 17 in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a 18 pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what you have done, your conscience will 19 up with you.

　　This reflects(反映) the saying, “A coward(懦夫) dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a “ 20 ” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.

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　　Farmer Tom smiles as he looks at his orange trees. The young oranges are growing well in Florida's weather. Warm sunshine and gently rain, along with Tom's 1 , will produce a good crop of oranges this year.

　　But Tom has to 2 Florida's changeable winter weather. In 3 , temperature can destroy Tom's entire orange crop. 4 in Florida for the past 35 years, Tom is prepared for the frosts. When temperature drops below freezing, Tom 5 his crop by watering his orange trees. The water 6 a thin layer of ice around the trees. Strange 7 it may sound, this thin layer of ice actually keeps the 8 . What happens is simple. When the trees 9 , the water loses heat and becomes ice. 10 of the heat it loses is sucked in by the fruit and keeps its temperature 11 . Tom has effectively used this method to save many orange crops.

　　But Tom still faces some difficulties. The trees should be watered 12 the temperature drops to the freezing point. Also, just the right quantity of water must be used. Too much water can form 13 of ice that will break the trees'branches. 14 difficulty is that wind blows away the heat. So Tom has to worry about not only when but also 15 his trees should be watered, and how much water should be used.

　　Computer technology may help Tom 16 . With equipment, air and soil temperatures and wind speed 17 . The information is fed into a computer which can tell when temperature 18 . The computer can correctly decide the quantity of water 19 and how frequently the trees should be watered. Tom will find 20 his orange trees a lot easier with the help of a computer, and will all have the benefits (or advantages) of computer-age oranges.

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　　Adults are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practised in the meantime. A man who has not had an opportuni ty to go swimming for years can 1 swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after several decades(十年) and still 2 away. A mother who has not 3 the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” or recite the story of Cinderella or Snow White.

　　One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: 4 we have learned something, additional learning increase the 5 of time we will remember it.

　　In childhood, we usually continue to practise such skills as swimming, bicycle riding long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and 6 ourselves of poems such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella or Snow White. We not only learn but 7 .

　　The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习) for an examination, 8 it may result in a passing grade, is not a 9 way to learn a school course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, 10 , is usually a good investment(投资) toward the future.

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