Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However, he did not teach me acceptance(接受) when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 1 and ill.
My father was once a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 2 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 3 One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my 4 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow—our youth, our beauty, our friends—but it always 5 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 6 up. He said, “But, Peter. I gave up 7 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 8 , he answered his own question.
“I 9 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters, and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness. I was also 10 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated(激动的) at someone, I would remember his words and become 11 . He could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 12 to give up my small irritations. In this 13 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I 14 what other things I cold learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful（感谢的）for this 15 .
A．tired B．weak C．poor D．slow
A．took B．threw C．sent D．put
A．impossible B．difficult C．helpless D．hopeless
A．decisions B．experience C．dreams D．beliefs
A．suggests B．promises C．seems D．requires
A．spoke B．turned C．got D．opened
A．something B．anything C．nothing D．everything
A．had B．accepted C．gained D．enjoyed
A．touched B．surprised C．attracted D．warned
A．quiet B．calm C．relaxed D．happy
A．ready B．likely C．free D．able
A．case B．form C．method D．way
A．doubt B．wonder C．know D．guess
A．award B．lesson C．gift D．word
阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）, 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。
The simplest way to say it is this I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid, who dreamed of becoming a doctor.
My mother was a ．Through her work, she observed that people spent a lot more time reading than they watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV during the week. With our time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a . My mother was illiterate（文盲）.
When I entered high school I was a(n) student, but not for long. I began to like the fancy clothes. I wanted to the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from her various jobs and I about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I'll give you all the money I have this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With the money , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want." I was very pleased with that but once I got through allocating（分配）money, there was left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep the roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy . I also realized that my wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my and became an A-student again, and I realized my dream and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother's story — a woman with formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around, especially her children. There is no job more important than . This I believe.
A．nurse B．teacher C．servant D．doctor
A．honest B．hardworking C．reliable D．successful
A．spent B．paid C．did D．took
A．programs B．plays C．films D．games
A．weekend B．free C．evening D．play
A．read B．present C．teach D．translate
A．trick B．means C．tool D．joke
A．extreme B．normal C．immoral D．top
A．get rid of B．break away from C．hang out with D．keep in touch with
A．complained B．forgot C．worried D．argued
A．deposited B．exchanged C．earned D．won
A．left over B．paid off C．used up D．carried out
A．proposal B．command C．requirement D．arrangement
A．much B．none C．something D．nothing
A．garments B．shirts C．houses D．books
A．television B．money C．desire D．dream
A．guys B．mother C．school D．studies
A．happily B．eventually C．immediately D．exactly
A．little B．low C．strict D．high
A．persuading B．educating C．parenting D．working
My parents were busy and usually asked little about school except "how was your day," and "have you finished your homework". It wouldn't have 36 , but I was having a problem keeping my marks up. I knew I needed help, but I wondered how to asking for it.
My teachers had given me three weeks to improve they would call my parents to the school for a parent-teacher conference. After thinking about the problem for some time, I finally decided I had to tell them about my myself. I came home from school and instead of waiting for my mom to get home to cook dinner, I decided to cook myself. I everything well, so all they had to do was walk in and sit down.
As I had never cooked dinner before, you can imagine how surprised they were when they arrived home. I didn't explain much then. I told them that I thought we would never have enough time to have a talk I cooked dinner.
That night we sat as a family and really talked. We talked about my grades as I apologized for not telling them sooner that I needed help. That night we came together as a real family.
My parents later to hire a tutorto help me in the evenings after school. The tutor _ to be really helpful. My grades improved and to my great joy, I pass the tenth grade. Something else came out of such a simple situation. We learned to listen and understand. My family learned to .
I made a of cooking dinner at least once a week after that night. It gave my mom a break and our family a chance to hear what was going on in everyone's life.
A．minded B．mattered C．remembered D．considered
A．set out B．get down C．go about D．speak out
A．before B．or C．after D．and
A．choice B．decision C．trouble D．promise
A．decorated B．arranged C．bought D．cleaned
A．naturally B．proudly C．nervously D．simply
A．if B．even though C．unless D．as long as
A．tried B．managed C．failed D．led
A．happened B．seemed C．proved D．sounded
A．would B．must C．had D．did
A．share B．accept C．express D．communicate
A．record B．change C．point D．sign
Brothers Robert and Lemon grew up in a black neighborhood in Richmond, California. Both boys were in school and got mostly A’s on their report cards through primary school. But from a working-class family, the two growing boys often stole to satisfy their when there was not enough food at home.
Time brought about differences between the two brothers. By the end of the freshman year at Kennedy High School, Lemon had received three F’s on his report card. the school only allowed three failures over four years, one more F and Lemon would be kicked out of school. That’s when he made up his mind to . He wanted to be whatever a man could hope to be. His decision to change took him in an entirely different from his brother Robert and became a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles.
What became of What became of Robert? He changing his unproductive behavior. He changing his unproductive behavior. After high school he joined the army. Then after his duty he returned to his hometown, he continued his pattern of anti-social behavior --- stealing to himself and forming a growing drug habit. At 42 he died from AIDS.
This story reminds us that what we become is determined by the we make. That’s what the saying “change…or be changed” is all about. Lemon changed from an underachiever to an honor student who took action towards his life and finally his dreams. His brother Robert, , was changed by poverty, illegal drugs and finally a deadly disease. The is, “Either way, you pay!” But the price that Robert paid for refusing to change was much than the price that Lemon paid for seeking to change.
A．ill-mannered B．well-behaved C．warm-hearted D．absent-minded
A．fear B．supply C．hunger D．interest
A．Because B．Unless C．When D．Although
A．entirely B．exactly C．truly D．surely
A．change B．leave C．quarrel D．entertain
A．communication B．expression C．organization D．direction
A．continued B．started C．refused D．represented
A．where B．what C．when D．which
A．devote B．support C．express D．protect
A．chances B．promises C．choices D．achievements
A．cautious B．modest C．energetic D．active
A．followed B．broke C．achieved D．struggled
A．in return B．on the contrary C．in summary D．in charge
A．approach B．fortune C．agreement D．truth
A．higher B．lower C．larger D．smaller
A little boy would come to school early each day to start the fire and warm the classroom with an old-fashioned coal stove before his teacher and his classmates arrived. One morning they to find the schoolhouse in flames. They dragged the boy out of the building and took him to the nearby hospital.
The semi-conscious boy heard the doctor talking to his mother. The doctor told his mother that her son would surely die—which was for the , really—for the terrible fire had the lower half of his body completely.
But the brave boy didn't want to die. He made up his mind that he would survive. , to the amazement of the physician, he did . He again heard the doctor and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that he was to be a lifetime cripple (瘸子) with no use at all of his lower limbs. Once more the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a cripple. He would walk. But from the waist down, he had no motor ability.
Finally he was from the hospital. Every day his mother massage (按摩) his little legs, but there was no feeling. Yet his 41 that he would walk was as as ever. One sunny day his mother him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, sitting there, he threw himself from the chair, pulled himself across the grass, his legs behind him. With great , he raised himself up on the fence. Then he began dragging himself along the . He started to do this every day he footed a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence.
At last, he did the ability to stand up, then to walk, and then to run.
This determined young man, who was not to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run—Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!
A．rushed B．got C．arrived D．intended
A．scared B．brave C．determined D．unconscious
A．worst B．best C．least D．most
A．damaged B．influenced C．disturbed D．removed
A．Besides B．Somehow C．Though D．However
A．recover B．survive C．insist D．remain
A．sure B．ready C．willing D．upset
A．strangely B．importantly C．gradually D．unfortunately
A．freed B．sent C．protected D．avoided
A．could B．would C．must D．should
A．determination B．confidence C．courage D．attention
A．wonderful B．clear C．strong D．meaningful
A．pushed B．wheeled C．drove D．persuaded
A．instead of B．because of C．despite of D．regardless of
A．raising B．dragging C．holding D．hiding
A．challenge B．strength C．pleasure D．effort
A．yard B．grass C．chair D．fence
A．until B．since C．when D．after
A．prepare B．develop C．discover D．improve
A．encouraged B．required C．expected D．attempted
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A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s , she said she would go. This would be the time that his classmates and teacher his mother and he felt of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕)that nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬)and himself from everyone. He did, however, get within of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied,“ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was afraid to go in because the fire was ，so I went in. As I was 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 __ __ senseless (失去知觉) but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She __ __ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be lasting, but to this day, I have never __ ___ what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt great from his mother. He held her hand for the rest of the day.
A．comfort B．excitement C．joy D．upset
A．last B．first C．second D．third
A．noticed B．greeted C．met D．accepted
A．grateful B．ashamed C．afraid D．tired
A．covered B．passed C．experienced D．flowed
A．talk about B．go through C．set down D．rely on
A．surprised B．impressed C．excited D．judged
A．in sight of B．by means of C．in view of D．in spite of
A．enjoyed B．protected C．hid D．dressed
A．understanding B．hearing C．packing D．learning
A．officially B．happily C．carefully D．coldly
A．Because B．When C．Since D．Although
A．so B．much C．quite D．too
A．out of control B．out of sight C．in ruins D．in power
A．shocked B．ignored C．knocked D．settled
A．washed B．touched C．swapped D．buried
A．regretted B．forecasted C．considered D．organized
A．teacher B．classmate C．desk D．mother
A．help B．love C．gift D．hope
A．loosely B．gradually C．tightly D．suddenly
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