阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-30各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia(栀子花) was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it. __16__ to the flower shop were always useless---it was a cash __17__. After a while I stopped trying to __18__ who the sender was and just delighted in the beauty and perfume of the white flower. But I never __19__ imagining who the sender might be.
My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n)__20__ kindness who might be showing __21__. Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was __22__ a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man __23__ the street whose mail I helped to get during the __24__ so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy steps. As a teenager, __25__, I had more fun guessing that it might be a __26__ who had noticed me __27__ I didn’t know him.
One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. I was completely __28__ in my upcoming graduation and the dance. I forgot the dance and the dress for it. The next day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t __29__ if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.
She wanted her children to feel loved and be lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a magic in the world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia---lovable, __30__ and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.
A．Calls B．Quarrels C．Messages D．Letters
A．service B．deal C．bargain D．offer
A．recognize B．imagine C．wonder D．discover
A．failed B．stopped C．succeeded D．enjoyed
A．special B．common C．valuable D．important
A．concern B．attitude C．interest D．appreciation
A．repairing B．washing C．unloading D．starting
A．across B．through C．from D．onto
A．spring B．summer C．autumn D．winter
A．though B．anyway C．therefore D．indeed
A．friend B．superman C．teacher D．boy
A．as if B．even though C．in case D．so that
A．disappointed B．uninterested C．discouraged D．concentrated
A．wonder B．believe C．care D．know
A．strong B．beautiful C．smelly D．lucky
（2014届湖北省天门市高中毕业生四月调研测试英语试卷）
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to his family.
First he moved to his youngest son as he laid down his bags. They gave each other a long, loving hug. they separated, I heard the father say, “It’s so good to see you, son. I missed you so much!” His son smiled somewhat shyly and replied softly, “Me, too, Dad!”
Then the man stood up, gazed in the of his oldest son and said, “You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!” They too hugged a most loving, tender hug.
After several , he turned to his wife and declared, “I’ve saved the best for last!” and to give his wife the longest, most passionate kiss I remember seeing.
For an instant they me of newlyweds(新婚夫妇), but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be. I puzzled about it for a moment and gathered my courage to ask, “Wow! How long have you been married?”
“Almost twelve years.” he replied, breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well then, how long have you been away?” I asked. The man turned and looked at me,. “Two whole days”
Two days? I was . By the intensity of the greeting, I had he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I know my expression me. Hoping to stop our conversation politely and continue with my for my friend, I said almost immediately, “I hope my is still that passionate after twelve years!”
The man suddenly smiling. He looked me straight in the eye, and with power that burned right into my soul, he told me something that left me a person. He told me, “Don’t , friend …decide!” Then with wonderful smile, he and his family turned and left together.
I was still watching that special family walk just out of sight when my friend to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without , and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “ My future!”
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（2014届陕西省西工大附中高三第六次模拟英语试卷）
My tire was flat. And I was on a country road. When I with the tire, a car pulled off the road behind me. I saw a male and said, “Hey, do you need any help?”
I literally was . This young guy was dressed in black. Nearly everything imaginable was tattooed(纹身). When he asked to give me a , I someone sitting in his car. That me. Thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind.
Then, it began to . It hit like a waterfall and made it to finish the tire change. With the car jacked(千斤顶托起) up, I was to get in my car. “Get in my car” he insisted, “We’ll wait with you until the rain stops.” “No. I don’t need your help.” I said. “Come on. Get in.” he said as he my arm and pulled me toward his car. “Oh, God, protect me!” I to myself.
As I settled into the back seat, suddenly a delicate came from the front seat of the car. “Are you all right?” “Yes, I am,” I replied with much seeing an old woman there. “My name is Beatrice and this is my neighbor John. John takes me to visit my husband in a nursing home every day. He is a really nice guy.”
“John, I had thought you were, well, ah, you know I…” Embarrassment my words. John laughed, “I often experienced reaction. I actually thought about changing the way I look. then I saw it as an opportunity to see others.”
He was right. What he wore outside was just a of the world as he saw it, but what he wore was the spirit of giving and caring the world he wanted to see. I never believed that I should people by the way they dressed. I was with myself for what I did.
The rain stopped and John and I changed the tire. As we shook hands I apologized for my stupidity.
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（2014届四川省成都七中高三三诊模拟英语试卷）
It was her giggling(咯咯的笑)that drew my attention. Note taking really wasn’t all that funny.
Walking over to the offender, I asked for the . Frozen, she refused to give it to me. I waited, all attention in the classroom on the quiet between teacher and student. When she finally it over, she whispered, “Okay, but I didn’t draw it.”
It was a hand-drawn of me, teeth blackened and the words “I’m stupid” coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly. My mind, , was working angrily as I struggled not to . I figured I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture. It would do them some to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself .
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture. They were all silent as I told them how this was for me. I told them there must be a reason and now was their chance to write down anything they needed to tell me. Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of the classroom.
As I the notes later, many of them said something like, “I’ve got nothing against you.” or “I’m sorry you were hurt.” Some kids said, “We’re of you.” But two notes, from the girls who I were behind the picture, had a list of issues. I was too , too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of my students, I had begun commanding them to . Where I thought I was driving them to success, I was driving them away.
I had some apologies to make. But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me a card. The one by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke. The one from the girls asked for .
This was a lesson for both the kids and me. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the .
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（2013·重庆卷)B
It is easy to overlook the role that your body plays in influencing your mood(情绪). When you are , you may find yourself blaming work pressures or an unknown future. However, it could just be that you’ve been sitting behind your desk too long.
One way to improve your mood is . Psychologically, it provides you with a break from the stresses in your life. Also, in the process, you may aim for goals, like a new personal running record or a better body shape. The achievement of a particular goal makes you feel good and contributes to your . That is why exercise has been shown to your self-respect.
You do not have to train yourself to feel the psychological benefits of exercise. What really matters is , not intensity(强度) of your exercise. You can try walking for 30 minutes five times per week or simply gardening on weekends.
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（2013·广东卷)完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a in number. Human beings are born with this ability. , experiments show that many animals are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not .However, if you remove two, the bird leaves. This means that the bird knows the between two and three.
Another interesting experiment showed a bird's number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow（乌鸦）that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not until the man left the tower. The man had an .He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were .It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were able to fool the crow.
How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are fooled.
It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human is not much better than a crow's.
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