The 16 picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 17 , who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink．Apparently 18 of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 19 on the table．His two guests heard a chest of drawers opening and a rustling （飒飒响声）．
They 20 sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window．The father was just about to take his cup when the 21 came, right there in the living-room．Something was hopelessly broken．
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor．The girl looked 22 her shoulder at once, startled （吓一跳）, 23 ．It was 24 neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit．
The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room．He looked at the 25 floor and blurted out, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
The father started to say something．Then he muttered, “Sorry, I 26 it and it fell．”
“ It doesn’t matter,” the host said．
Later, when they left the house, the daughter said, “ Daddy, I saw your 27 in the windowpane （窗玻璃）．You were sitting perfectly 28 ．Why did you say…．”
The father 29 , “What then would you 30 as the cause of its fall?”
“ It fell by itself．The floor is uneven （不平）．It wasn’t steady when Mr．Li put it there．”
“It won’t 31 , girl．It sounds more 32 when I say I knocked it down．There are things people accept less the more you 33 them．The truer your story is, the less true it sounds．”
The daughter was 34 in silence for a while．Then she said, “ Can you 35 it only this way?”
“Only this way,” the father said．
16．A．owner B．host C．guest D．master
17．A．friends B．neighbours C．children D．guests
18．A．knowing B．remembering C．hearing D．thinking
19．A．thermos B．cup C．lid D．tea
20．A．enjoyed B．remained C．imagined D．hated
21．A．stranger B．host C．crash D．noise
22．A．around B．at C．behind D．over
23．A．staring B．watching C．shouting D．crying
24．A．helpless B．exciting C．strange D．terrible
25．A．broken B．steaming C．dirty D．flooded
26．A．touched B．used C．hit D．moved
27．A．face B．shadow C．reflection D．action
28．A．calm B．still C．silent D．straight
29．A．shouted B．whispered C．laughed D．repeated
30．A．tell B．make C．accept D．give
31．A．do B．suit C．go D．fit
32．A．comfortable B．friendly C．acceptable D．agreeable
33．A．defend B．support C．discuss D．argue
34．A．kept B．shut C．worried D．lost
35．A．do B．explain C．make D．manage
Last summer, I cycled to a small village with my friend Mike. We had a ___ time there. However, when we were ____ a bike on a narrow road, we found a big tree lying across the road.
We had to ____ the bike. And Mike ____ complaining, ”Why did someone put a tree across the road? And why did ____ get it out of the road?” He ___ complaining. I thought he would ask me to help him get the tree out of the road, but he didn’t. ____ , he just stepped over it with his ____ , followed by me. And he still didn’t stop complaining, “I guess nowadays no one is ____ to do something for others.” I thought now he would ____ to remove it, but he still didn’t. He just got on his bike and was about to leave. But I didn’t follow him. Noticing I wasn’t ____, he asked me, “What’s wrong?” I said, ”Let’s remove the ____.” He looked puzzled and asked, “____should we do it? It’s not our responsibility.” But I insisted. ____, he got off his bike and we got the tree out of the road together. “You see, there are still ____ who are willing to do something for others,” after removing the tree, I said laughingly to my friend and he ____, too.
My dear friends, when something is in your ____ next time, you can choose to complain and just ____ it there. But you can ____ choose to get it out of the way. Don’t ____ for others to do that. You can be the one who does something for others.
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I wrote my first poem at the age of seven and showed it to my mother．She read and cried, “Buddy, you really wrote a beautiful poem!”
Shyly but , I said yes．She poured out her . “It was nothing short of talent!”
“What time will Father be home?” I asked．I could hardly wait to my work to him．I spent quite some time for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting, drew a fancy border around it and I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able to my poem.
At almost 7 o’clock my father burst in. He seemed . He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.
Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. “What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.
“Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaz…”
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said.
I my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of .
“I think it’s terrible,” he said.
I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting .
“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs .”
“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough awful poetry in the world already?”
I couldn’t it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I myself on the bed and cried the worst of the out of me.
That may have been the end of the story, but not of its for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s .”
Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that , “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”
Those voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course．
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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。
I was having my dinner at McDonald's one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They _______ their meal, took a table near the window and started _______ food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fries(炸薯条) and one drink. The man _______ the food into two halves and carefully placed _______ before his wife.
He took a sip(一小口) of the drink. His wife also took one and then _______ the cup down between them. "That _______ old couple! All they can _______ is one meal for the two of them, "thought I. _______ the man began to eat his French fries, I _______ to my feet, went over and said that I was _______ to buy another meal for them. But he _______ refused me and said that they made it a ______ to share everything.
_____, the lady didn't take a bite. She sat there _____ her husband eat, and taking turns sipping the drink. Again I ______ to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was ______ his face with a napkin. I ______ no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time. ______ being politely refused. I asked the lady _____, "Madam, why aren't you eating You said that you share everything. _______ is it that you are waiting for " "The teeth," she answered.
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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。
If we want to make friends, let’s put ourselves out to do things for other people --- things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
When the Duke of Windsor was the Prince of Wales, he was to tour South America, and before he on that tour he spent months studying Spanish so that he could make public talks in the language of the country; and the South Americans him for it.
For years I considered it important to find out the of my friends. How? Although I don’t have faith in astrology (占星术), I began by asking my friends whether he or she the date of one’s birth has anything to do with and personality. I then asked him or her to tell me the month and day of birth. he or she said, “November 24,”for example, I kept to myself, “November 24, November 24.”The minute my friend’s back was , I wrote down the name and birthday and would transfer (转写) it to a birthday book. At the beginning of each year, I had these birthday dates scheduled in my calendar pad so that they came to my automatically. When the birthday , there was my letter or telegram. What a big it was! I was frequently the only person on earth who .
If we want to make friends, let’s people with enthusiasm. When somebody calls you on the telephone, say“Hello”in tones that suggest how you are to have the person call. Many companies train their telephone operators to greet all callers in a tone that shows interest and . The callers feel the company is about them. Let’s remember that when we answer the telephone tomorrow.
Showing a genuine in others not only wins friends for you, but may in its customers a loyalty to your company.
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My father and I disagreed about curfew (晚间在家的时间). He’d say I was to be in by 9:30 on weekdays, and 11:00 on weekends, no exceptions without my first asking. I told him it made me like a junior-high kid. He explained that while a curfew sound like a restriction, it’s really about people looking out for one another.
The very next Friday after that pretty heated , my dad and I had tickets to see our town’s professional football game. On that day he was to a nearby city to meet with some major clients and me that his getting home and our leaving for the game would be tight.
To make sure we could off the moment he walked in, I got everything prepared. When a half hour had passed from the time he said he’d be home, I understood that he was a little . But then, nearly a whole hour passed. I was getting . We were going to miss the kick-off! And why hadn’t he me and let me know he was going to be really late? As I anxiously the floor, another half hour passed. That’s when I got really angry. How inconsiderate of my father! Now we were going to the whole game! When yet another half hour passed, my anger turned to . What if something terrible had happened to my dad, like he had a heart attack or had been in an accident, or something? I began to really . I’d already called his cellphone about ten times, but no .
I was beside myself, assuming the worst had happened.
Finally, the phone rang, and my dad said , “Son, I’m so sorry about the game, but…there was a terrible accident…on the freeway coming home, and I to help… and ended up going to the hospital. I my cellphone in the car, so I couldn’t call until now.”
I was so relieved to hear from my father and to that he was safe that I actually cried. That was I “got” the importance of a curfew: Checking in! It’ s about knowing that someone you love is . It was one more proof of my father’s loving me as much as he does.
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