完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She________ but the fever left its mark一she could no longer see and ________. Because she could not hear，she also found it very ________ to speak.
So how did this child，blinded and deafened at 19 months old，grow up to ________a world-famous author and public speaker?
The fever cut her ________ from the outside world， depriving (剥夺）her of sight and sound. It was ________ she had been thrown into a dark prison room from which there could be no ________ .
Luckily Helen was not someone who ________ easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other ________. She followed her mother wherever she went， ________onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She 51 their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself，like milking the________or kneading dough (揉面）.She even learnt to ________people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also ________ where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the ________ of the ground under her feet.
By the age of 7 she had invented over 60 different ________ by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread for example，she would pretend to ________ a loaf and butter into slices (片）.If she wanted ice cream， she ________herself with her arms and pretended to shake.
Helen was unusual in that she was extremely ________ and also very sensitive. By her own ________ she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.
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完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort the old people who needed a little cheering up during the holiday season.
The first two ________ there were for persons requiring help in taking care of themselves. We sang ________ for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.
As we were ________ on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症), most of them ________ off at the walls or floor. However, one lady ________ my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t ________ like that. As we got ________ with each festive song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got. ________ she was singing, she was also________ out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my ________ were to my students. People who worked at the care center could ________ to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling ________about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin also ________ the same lady. The difference between us is that he ________ on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, “Silent Night,” Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked this aged lady in her ________ and with his actions said, “You are important, and I will take my ________ to let you know that.” This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek with the other hand. Tears began to fall down her face. No ________ can completely describe that touching moment.
It ________ a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless attitude toward another was a ________ that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I consider myself ________ to have witnessed his lesson.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Our family raises sled dogs(雪橇狗). In ________Mom and Dad take people driving in a dog sled, and it’s super fun!
When the dogs were born, I was so ________ .That’s when I saw my favorite—little Jip. Every ________ I had, I put little Jip in my arms. I carried him around and played with him, not just because it’s fun to ________ dogs. Getting them used to human touch makes a ________ sled dog, Dad says.
When Jip was eight weeks old, he got his first ________ .All he had to do was________ wearing a light leash to get used to the ________ of pulling something behind him.
When he was ten weeks old, I started ________ Jip to come when he was called. It was ________ time to try out a harness（挽具）around his body. The harness can be a little heavy, ________ we left it on for just a short time each day.
________ , I put Jip ’s harness on him at mealtime. I ________ him to a heavy chair. And I placed his ________ just far enough away so that when he ate, he had to pull on the line.
The dogs________ fast! When they were four months old, we tied old shoes to their harnesses. ________ wolves, sled dogs like to run after anything that’s moving such as a rabbit. We started teaching the ________ “On by!” That means leave the rabbit alone! A sled dog must stay on the trail(路线).
Jip won’t be fully grown and ready to pull a heavy sled ________ he’s almost two years old. But now that he’s nine months old, he’s ________ enough to go on short runs with the big dogs. Dad says that maybe next winter I can ________ in the sled when Jip goes on practice runs. I can’t wait!
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My husband and I just spent a week in Paris. ____36____So the first thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.
The place wasn't entirely authentic，though. Unlike a normal Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked. ____37____Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, "Ouverture des portes," in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it's a shame I don't have much use for it.
Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone noted in this paper a couple of weeks ago, they eat great food and never gain weight. ____38____French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they explode in your mouth like little flavor bombs.
____39____On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to pick up some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost ＄18!
In France, quality of life is much more important than efficiency.
You can tell this by cafés life. French cafés are always crowded. ____40____When do these people work? The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously - so seriously that some labor unions recently struck a deal with a group of companies limiting the number of hours that independent contractors can be on call.
| A． |
Not all the customers are tourists. |
| B． |
The quality of life in France is equally excellent. |
| C． |
There was a nice kitchen and a comfortable bed. |
| D． |
The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers. |
| E． |
That's not the only reason the French eat less than we do. |
| F． |
Our aim was to see if we could live, in some way, like real Parisians. |
| G． |
The food is so delicious that you don't need much of it to make you happy. |
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出一个最佳答案。
One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled(铺瓦) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is .
Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room I see is hair.” Once you’ve what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will make you happy. Then do one of the three things: Get it, replace it with a different , or forget about it and the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but remain happy.
The first is gratitude. All happy people are . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads people to becoming unhappy.
The second secret is that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious________are those pursuits that give our lives purpose—anything studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our ________ has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We ________ a spiritual faith, or a philosophy; it should this truth: if you choose to find the ________ in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is ________ your decision to make.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Were you happy and a little worried at the time? I thought so. Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the ______ had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t ______, they would have to retake them in September. There were usually a few who ______, but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, ______ just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was ______about her. She went to bed too ______. The night before the first exam, Barbara ______ that she have an early night and take a ______ pill. She promised to wake _____ up in the morning.
She was not relaxed. As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her ______ kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of ______, she went to sleep. In no time（不久）at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination ______ , but she couldn’t answer any of the questions. ______ around her was writing pages and gages. ______she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write ______. She kept looking at her ______. Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences, _____ and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started ______. Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she ______ up. She was still in bed and it had all been a ______ dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A，B，C，D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Ring! Ring! Ring!”The telephone rang for a long time in Bill Hewlett’s house．Bill was the director of a large ________company called Hewlett-Packard．At that time，computers had already ________ but they were huge machines that cost a lot of money．
Bill answered the telephone________ ．He did not like being disturbed while he was reading his newspaper．A young-sounding ________ on the other line said，”My name is Steve Jobs．I in a ________of the Hewlett-Packard Explorers’Club．I went on a fieldtrip to one of your company ‘s laboratories and was ________ by the 9100A computer．I’ve never seen anything so splendid!”He ________ for a while and continued．”I in looking for some computer ________ to build a frequency counter．Well．I thought you might be able to ________ me．”
There was ________ ．Then，Bill asked the young boy for his ________．Steve revealed that he was twelve．There was another silence．________ by the boy’s enthusiasm，Bill invited Steve to his office．
A few days later，Bill Hewlett gave Steve what he needed．Steve was also offered a ________ job in one of his laboratories．
Eight years later，Steve Jobs set up a ________ with his close friend，Steve Wozniak．Their first step was to find a ________ for the company．Steve Jobs loved apples and had worked off an apple ________ before．Although there was no ________ between apples and computers，________ thought‘Apple’would be a catchy name．”I like the name．We’11 be in a great ________ in the telephone directory，”Steve Wozniak said confidently．That was how Apple was ________ in 1976．
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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
On Oct.11，hundreds of runners competed in a cross﹣country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have（1）＿＿＿＿the course earlier than she did. Her（2）＿＿＿＿came because she was carrying a（3）＿＿＿＿across the finish line.
ㅤAs reported by a local newspaper，Bailey was more than two﹣thirds of the way through her（4）＿＿＿＿when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She（5）＿＿＿＿to help her fellow runner，Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with（6）＿＿＿＿. She couldn't. Bailey then（7）＿＿＿＿to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line，then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get（8）＿＿＿＿attention.
ㅤOnce there，Lenouc was（9）＿＿＿＿and later taken to a hospital，where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme（10）＿＿＿＿to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey's help.
ㅤAs for Bailey，she is more（11）＿＿＿＿about why her act is considered a big（12）＿＿＿＿" She was just crying. I couldn't（13）＿＿＿＿her，" Bailey told the reporter." I feel like I was just doing the right thing.
ㅤAlthough the two young women were strangers before the（14）＿＿＿＿，they've since become friends. Neither won the race，but the（15）＿＿＿＿of human kindness won the day.
（1）
| A． |
designed |
B． |
followed |
C． |
changed |
D． |
finished |
（2）
| A． |
delay |
B． |
chance |
C． |
trouble |
D． |
excuse |
（3）
| A． |
judge |
B． |
volunteer |
C． |
classmate |
D． |
competitor |
（4）
| A． |
race |
B． |
school |
C． |
town |
D． |
training |
（5）
| A． |
agreed |
B． |
returned |
C． |
stopped |
D． |
promised |
（6）
| A． |
courage |
B． |
aid |
C． |
patience |
D． |
advice |
（7）
| A． |
went away |
B． |
stood up |
C． |
stepped aside |
D． |
bent down |
（8）
| A． |
medical |
B． |
public |
C． |
constant |
D． |
equal |
（9）
| A． |
interrupted |
B． |
assessed |
C． |
identified |
D． |
appreciated |
（10）
| A． |
hunger |
B． |
pain |
C． |
cold |
D． |
tiredness |
（11）
| A． |
worried |
B． |
ashamed |
C． |
confused |
D． |
discouraged |
（12）
| A． |
game |
B． |
problem |
C． |
lesson |
D． |
deal |
（13）
| A． |
leave |
B． |
cure |
C． |
bother |
D． |
understand |
（14）
| A． |
ride |
B． |
test |
C． |
meet |
D． |
show |
（15）
| A． |
secret |
B． |
display |
C． |
benefit |
D． |
exchange |
Many years ago，I bought a house in the Garfagnana，where we still go every summer. The first time we（1） there，we heard the chug chug﹣chug of a motorbike（2） its way down the hill toward us. It was（3） called Mario，coming to（4） us a box containing some tomatoes and a bottle of wine. It was a very nice（5） for him to make. But when we looked at the tomatoes，we were（6） because they were so misshapen：not at all like the nice，round，（7） things you get in a supermarket. And the wine was cloudy，in a funny old bottle with no label（标签） on it. These can't be any （8） we thought. But we were （9） his kindness，so we （10） them.
What we discovered is that it's（11） to judge what you eat only by its （12） .Those tomatoes had （13） that reminded me of the ones my uncle used to grow when I was a child. Nowadays super﹣market tomatoes （14） perfect but taste of water. Nobody's going to have a （15） memory of those. It's a surprise they haven't managed to grow square ones so that they can （16） them easily. Mario's wine may have been cloudy and come out of an old bottle，but it was （17） .
ㅤIt's good to eat things at the correct time，when they're （18） and as close as possible to where they were （19） .What Mario had （20） us was the taste of the Garfagnana.
（1）
| A． |
waited |
B． |
met |
C． |
camped |
D． |
stayed |
（2）
| A． |
making |
B． |
searching |
C． |
squeezing |
D． |
feeling |
（3）
| A． |
customer |
B． |
neighbor |
C． |
relative |
D． |
passenger |
（4）
| A． |
lend |
B． |
send |
C． |
bring |
D． |
show |
（5）
| A． |
choice |
B． |
comment |
C． |
promise |
D． |
gesture |
（6）
| A． |
worried |
B． |
moved |
C． |
thrilled |
D． |
bored |
（7）
| A． |
simple |
B． |
real |
C． |
shiny |
D． |
fun |
（8）
| A． |
more |
B． |
good |
C． |
new |
D． |
easy |
（9）
| A． |
sympathetic to |
B． |
thankful for |
C． |
cautious about |
D． |
interested in |
（10）
| A． |
tried |
B． |
sold |
C． |
returned |
D． |
mixed |
（11）
| A． |
unnecessary |
B． |
uncertain |
C． |
unwise |
D． |
unusual |
（12）
| A． |
appearance |
B． |
quality |
C． |
origin |
D． |
price |
（13）
| A． |
size |
B． |
shape |
C． |
color |
D． |
taste |
（14）
| A． |
smell |
B． |
look |
C． |
become |
D． |
work |
（15）
| A． |
happy |
B． |
vivid |
C． |
short |
D． |
vague |
（16）
| A． |
clean |
B． |
check |
C． |
count |
D． |
pack |
（17）
| A． |
perfect |
B． |
useful |
C． |
convenient |
D． |
familiar |
（18）
| A． |
on view |
B． |
on sale |
C． |
in season |
D． |
in need |
（19）
| A． |
finished |
B． |
stored |
C． |
found |
D． |
grown |
（20）
| A． |
cooked |
B． |
given |
C． |
bought |
D． |
told |
Recently，I took a trip home by train．I got a seat opposite a middle-aged man with sharp eyes，who kept 1 a young woman in a window seat with a little boy on her lap．The woman's eye fell on the man's face，and she immediately looked down and 2 her scarf．
As the night wore on，people began to close their eyes，but the seats were so uncomfortable that only a very heavy sleeper could manage to get any 3 ．The woman looked over at the man．He was still staring at her．She looked back at him with fire in her eyes．I was beginning to get 4 ，too．
The train moved on．The little boy was 5 awake on his mother's lap，but the woman dropped off to sleep．A moment later，he began to 6 the half-open window-one leg went over it．The man jumped up and 7 the child just before he fell out．
The 8 woke up the woman．She seemed to be in 9，and then reality dawned （显现）．"Your child has been looking for an opportunity to climb out of the window，"the man said as he gave the child back to her. ．"So I have been watching the whole time．"The woman was 10 ，and so was I．
1.
| A． |
guiding |
B． |
bothering |
C． |
watching |
D． |
monitoring |
2.
| A． |
adjusted |
B． |
changed |
C． |
packed |
D． |
waved |
3.
| A． |
air |
B． |
joy |
C． |
space |
D． |
rest |
4.
| A． |
nervous |
B． |
embarrassed |
C． |
angry |
D． |
disappointed |
5.
| A． |
almost |
B． |
still |
C． |
hardly |
D． |
even |
6.
| A． |
drag |
B． |
climb |
C． |
knock |
D． |
push |
7.
| A． |
grabbed |
B． |
rocked |
C． |
touched |
D． |
picked |
8.
| A． |
alarm |
B． |
quarrel |
C． |
risk |
D． |
noise |
9.
| A． |
sorrow |
B． |
relief |
C． |
panic |
D． |
pain |
10.
| A． |
astonished |
B． |
confused |
C． |
concerned |
D． |
inspired |
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers 1 about the small dog he had seen 2 alongside the road. He had 3 to coax（哄）the dog to him but, frightened, it had 4 .
Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that 5 dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove 6 . After a long and careful 7 . Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving 8 away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with 9 . It just started licking（舔）Ehlers' face.
A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one 10 as lost in the local paper. The ad had a 11 number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers 12 the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had 13 their dog.
Jeff had 14 in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched 15 for Rosie in the next four days.
Ehlers returned to Minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. "It's good to know there's still someone out there who 16 enough to go to that kind of 17 ," says Lisa of Ehlers' rescue 18 .
I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as 19 to it as I am to my dogs," says Ehlers. "If it had been my dog, I'd hope that somebody would be 20 to go that extra mile."
1.
| A． | read |
B． | forgot |
C． | thought |
D． | heard |
2.
| A． | read |
B． | trembling |
C． | eating |
D． | sleeping |
3.
| A． | tried |
B． | agreed |
C． | promised |
D． | regretted |
4.
| A． | calmed down |
B． | stood up |
C． | rolled over |
D． | run off |
5.
| A． | injured |
B． | stolen |
C． | lost |
D． | rescued |
6.
| A． | home |
B． | past |
C． | back |
D． | on |
7.
| A． | preparation |
B． | explanation |
C． | test |
D． | search |
8.
| A． | cautiously |
B． | casually |
C． | skillfully |
D． | angrily |
9.
| A． | surprise |
B． | joy |
C． | hesitation |
D． | anxiety |
10.
| A． | predicted |
B． | advertised |
C． | believed |
D． | recorded |
11.
| A． | house |
B． | phone |
C． | street |
D． | car |
12.
| A． | called |
B． | copied |
C． | counted |
D． | remembered |
13.
| A． | fed |
B． | adopted |
C． | found |
D． | cured |
14.
| A． | hunted |
B． | skied |
C． | lived |
D． | worked |
15.
| A． | on purpose |
B． | on time |
C． | in turn |
D． | in vain |
16.
| A． | cares |
B． | sees |
C． | suffers |
D． | learns |
17.
| A． | place |
B． | trouble |
C． | waste |
D． | extreme |
18.
| A． | service |
B． | plan |
C． | effort |
D． | team |
19.
| A． | equal |
B． | allergic |
C． | grateful |
D． | close |
20.
| A． | suitable |
B． | proud |
C． | wise |
D． | wiling |
The journey my daughter Cathy has had with her swimming is as long as it is beautiful.
Cathy suffered some terrible 16 in her early childhood. After years of regular treatment, she 17 became healthy.
Two years ago, while Cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head-to be a swimmer. Last summer, she wanted to 18 out local swim team. She practiced hard and finally 19it. The team practice, 20was a rough start. She coughed and choked and could hardly 21her first few weeks. Hearing her coughing bitterly one night, I decided to 22 her from it all. But Cathy woke me up early next morning, wearing her swimsuit 23to go! I told her she shouldn't swim after a whole night's coughing, but she refused to 24 and insisted she go .
From that day on, Cathy kept swimming and didn't 25 a single practice. She had a 26intention within herself to be the best she could be. My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this 27 human being with a passion and a mission. There were moments of 28 of course: often she would be the last swimmer in the race. It was difficult for Cathy to accept that she wasn't a 29 ---ever. But that didn't stop her from trying.
Then came the final awards ceremony at the end of the year. Cathy didn't expect any award but was still there to 30 her friends and praise their accomplishments. As the ceremony was nearing the end, I suddenly heard the head coach 31 , "The highest honor goes to Cathy!" Looking around, he continued, "Cathy has inspired us with her 32 and enthusiasm. 33skills and talents bring great success, the most valuable asset(财富)one can hold is the heart."
It was the greatest 34 of my daughter's life. With all she had been 35 in her ten years, this was the hour of true triumph(成功).
16.
| A． |
failure |
B． |
pressure |
C． |
loss |
D． |
illness |
17.
| A． |
usually |
B． |
finally |
C． |
firstly |
D． |
frequently |
18.
| A． |
improve |
B． |
train |
C． |
join |
D． |
contact |
19.
| A． |
increased |
B． |
found |
C． |
created |
D． |
made |
20.
| A． |
however |
B． |
therefore |
C． |
otherwise |
D． |
instead |
21.
| A． |
use |
B． |
survive |
C． |
save |
D． |
waste |
22.
| A． |
pull |
B． |
tell |
C． |
hide |
D． |
fire |
23.
| A． |
afraid |
B． |
nervous |
C． |
ready |
D． |
free |
24.
| A． |
take off |
B． |
set off |
C． |
give up |
D． |
show up |
25.
| A． |
attend |
B． |
miss |
C． |
ban |
D． |
Start |
26.
| A． |
rich |
B． |
weak |
C． |
firm |
D． |
kind |
27.
| A． |
trusted |
B． |
determined |
C． |
experienced |
D． |
embarrassed |
28.
| A． |
frustration |
B． |
delight |
C． |
excitement |
D． |
surprise |
29.
| A． |
beginner |
B． |
learner |
C． |
partner |
D． |
winner |
30.
| A． |
cheer on |
B． |
compete with |
C． |
respond to |
D． |
run after |
31.
| A． |
admitting |
B． |
explaining |
C． |
announcing |
D． |
whispering |
32.
| A． |
humor |
B． |
will |
C． |
honesty |
D． |
wisdom |
33.
| A． |
Although |
B． |
Since |
C． |
Once |
D． |
Because |
34.
| A． |
discovery |
B． |
choice |
C． |
influence |
D． |
moment |
35.
| A． |
through |
B． |
under |
C． |
across |
D． |
around |
完形填空
The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break．She seemed so small as she pushed her way the crowd of boys on the playground．She from them all．
I began to notice her at other times，basketball in hand，playing ．She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again，sometimes until．One day I asked her she practiced so much．She looked in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said，“I want to go to college．The only way I can is if I get a scholarship，I am going to play college basketball．I want to be．My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough，the facts don’t count．”
Well，I had to give it in to her—she was．One day，I saw her sitting in the grass，head in her arms．I walked toward her and quietly asked what was “Oh，nothing，” came a soft reply．“I am just too short．” The coach told her that at her height she would probablyget to play for a top ranked team，offered a scholarship．So she stop dreaming about college．
She was and I sensed her disappointment．I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet．She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong．They just did not the power of a dream．He told her she really wanted to play for a good college，if she truly wanted a scholarship，could stop her except one thing — her own attitude．He told her again，“If the dream is big enough，the facts don’t count．”
The next year，as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game，she was seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员)．She was indeed offered a．She was going to get the college education that she had and worked toward it for all those years．
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion(热情) for writing poetry(诗). I gave up all my other hobbies, such as ______ stamps and spent all my ____ time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me ____ trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I ______ take out my notebook and ______ poems in class. Of course I ____ ___ this very cautiously(小心地), but it was not ________ I got caught. One day while I was __ ____ writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up _____ the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger (=" getting" very angry) because I was not _____ attention. He tore the poem up, with a____ not to waste time in his lesson._____ I felt certain that I had written a good poem,___ _ that evening I wrote it out again from ________ . Not long after, I read _____ a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up ______ , I got a letter informing me I had won first________. Everyone at school was very impressed,_____ the geography teacher, who______ me more carefully than ever. He _____ that I not write poetry in his class!
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Lyse Doucet lives a happy life in Chicago. But recently there is some difficulty for her and her family. She and her husband have each other’s parents and young daughter and for that they are . But she and her husband are both currently . And their car is in great need of . And then there is the matter of their second child, who is soon. So things are a little tense for the Doucet family these days.
When Lyse and her daughter were walking through a store lot recently, Lyse picked up an envelop from the ground that $4,000 in cash. There were a _of different explanations that could be considered. Was this a kind of good ? Could it be an attempt by the universe to balance everything? Could it be simply a gift from God? Lyse didn’t know. The only thing she knew was that the cash in that envelope to someone else. Oh, and one other thing she knew was that her young daughter was . “My kid was standing right there I found it,” Lyse told WLS-TV in Chicago. “So basically I wanted to teach my daughter how to be . And for me that was enough.”
Never mind the bills that were , or the car that needed to be fixed, or the baby that would come soon. When she the money over to the police she was told that there was actually nothing illegal if she it.
The police were able to return the money to the person who it-- an old woman. And one can imagine the joy and she felt when the police handed the lost envelop back to her. “She came to my house and she was almost in tears, me,” Lyse said. “She gave me a hug and an envelope with a small in it. But what was in it wasn’t . What mattered was the opportunity to teach my daughter honesty.”
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