With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said, “I’m blind, please help.”
Only a few people put 1 in the hat. A man was walking by. He 2 some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign 3 , wrote some words, put the sign back and left.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people 4 to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see 5 things were. The boy recognized his footsteps （认出他的脚步声）and asked, “Were you the one who 6 my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a 7 way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, 8 I cannot see it.”
Both the 9 told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply 10 people to help by throwing some money into the 11 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the 12 of the day, but the boy couldn’t 13 he was blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn 14 this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can. 15 , be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way!
完形填空,阅读下面短文，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Several years ago I noticed something strange：people seemed to be smiling at me more often．____, during my young adult years people had never smiled at me that much．They would look at me for only a second and move away their____ altogether．Once in a while they would nod or say “hi” to me but more often they said______ at all．
All that seemed to______ as I got older, though．For some ______ reason people were suddenly greeting me with a ______smile when I walked ___________ them. Their eyes seemed to ______ up brightly when they said “hello” to me and many times they would even______ to chat happily with me for a few minutes．At first I didn’t know what had happened to me. Had the whole world suddenly gotten kinder without___ ____me?
Then one day when I was walking alone in a store，the _______came to me．At that moment I walked by a display of _____ and saw that I had the______expression on my face．I had been smiling without even knowing it．All of a sudden，I _____that I was the one who had really changed. I had grown so much in love and joy. And it was the light shining from my own soul that others reflected(反射) back to me， We are all mirrors in this life. May you reflect every kindness and joy that you see in this world．And may your own soul always ______brightly as well．Thus you will always be happy．
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The United States is full of automobiles (机动车). There are still many families without cars. But some families have two or more cars. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a part of life.
Cars are used for . They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to parts of the city, they have to drive in order to their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to shop for hecessities.
Sometimes, small children must be driven to . In some cities, school buses are used only when children more than a mile from the school. When the children are too to walk that far, their parents take to drive them to school. One drives on Mondays, taking her children and the neighbors' children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is forming a car pool (拼车). Working people also form car pools, with three or four people taking turns to drive to the place they work. More car pools should be formed in order to put cars on the road and to use less oil. is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something should be done about the use of cars.
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完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a good children’s book. Either the author has aimed too , so that children can’t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story,________the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children’s books are very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the child who hears the story and the adult who reads it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, ________ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as works of children’s literature were in fact written for . “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious（明显）of this.
Children, left for themselves, often the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a library and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents.
Perhaps we parents should stop ________ to brainwash（洗脑）children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so ________ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over the bedtime story.
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完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
Chinese students face huge pressure. There is the pressure to be better than _ _, or there is the shame of being different. Students must spend a lot of time _ _ hard in order to not be left behind.
_ is not the only way to make students succeed. Educational expert Li Zhenxi said: “It’s better to encourage kids. We should not separate students _ low grades.”
Interest is the best teacher. Letting children do the things they’re _ _ in is a good way to encourage them.
Wei Nan, 31, is one of the best trailer(预告片) directors in China. His childhood was very different _ _ those of other children. He started learning to _ _ when he was only 6. After 10 years of playing different roles, he felt _ _ of being an actor. He _ to do something he really wanted to. He spent five years learning editing(剪辑) and gradually became _ _ in this area. In 2005, he started his own company and produced trailers for famous movies.
Wei never went to a university, but nobody can deny(否认) that he is a successful young man. “I’m lucky to be able to do something I like,” he said.
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The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman, “How have you done so much in your lifetime?”
He replied,“I have__ _ .I have turned my mind free to imagine I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams.
And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way my dreams real .While __ people were saying, ‘You can’t do that, it is __ ___ ,’ I was well on my way to achieve what I wanted, As Woodrow Wilson,28th President of the U.S., said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are .”
They see things in the soft fog of a spring day, or in the red fire a long winter’s evening. Some of us these dreams die, but others feed, protect and look after them; keep them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light, it comes to the people who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So pleased, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, try to tell you they are too impossible.
“Sing your songs, dream your dreams,and hope your hope.”
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