Once upon a time, a Japanese man wanted to rebuild his house. First he had to tear the walls open .Japanese houses 36 have hollow(空的)spaces between the wooden walls. As he was 37 them down, he found a lizard(蜥蜴) 38 there because a nail(钉子)from the outside had been hammered into one of its feet. Seeing this, he felt 39 for it, and at the same time was curious about it.
He knew very well that the 40 had been hammered 10 years before when the house was first 41 . What had happened since? The lizard had 42 for 10 years! To be stuck in a dark wall for 10 years without 43 —it hardly seems possible, and is hard to 44 . Then he wondered how the lizard could have lived for 10 years without moving a single step —since its 45 was nailed! So he stopped work and began to 46 the lizard. He wanted to know what it had been doing, and what and 47 it had been eating.
A short time later another lizard 48 with food in its mouth. He was shocked, and at the same time deeply 49 . Another lizard had been feeding the stuck one 50 the past ten years.
"What love 51 in this tiny creature! What can love do? It can do 52 ! Just think, one lizard has been 53 another untiringly for 10 long years, without 54 hope that its partner would be saved,"the man marvelled.
If a small creature like a lizard can 55 like this, just imagine how we could if we tried
A．naturally B．normally C．hardly D．actually
A．falling B．putting C．tearing D．cutting
A．left B．struck C．buried D．stuck
A．fool B．curiosity C．relief D．Pity
A．nail B．lizard C．wood D．wall
A．sold B．bought C．built D．Rented
A．originated B．survived C．escaped D．developed
A．dying B．helping C．moving D．eating
A．live B．Move C．imagine D．stay
A．arm B．leg C．tail D．foot
A．observe B．examine C．appreciate D．catch
A．why B．which C．when D．how
A．appeared B．stuck C．wandered D．jumped
A．sighed B．touched C．puzzled D．breathed
A．before B．till C．after D．for
A．feels B．exists C．responds D．returns
A．benefits B．wonders C．forgiveness D．beliefs
A．feeding B．loving C．encouraging D．meeting
A．seeking for B．thinking C．giving up D．destroying
A．love B．live C．fight D．help
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Most teens I meet these days lack basic social courtesy when dealing with people.
My own son, who basically grew up with his grandmother, the original guru, has perfect table manners. This is partly because he was to manners at a very young age. However, when we eat at home, he would not manners. So I asked him why. He said,” I behave the way I am supposed to when I’m out, but when I am at home I want to be .”
That’s when I realized that most parents, myself included, do their children the proper way to behave outside the home, but they are also to believe that at home, anything goes.
My to him was “good behavior has nothing to do with where you are or whom you are with”.
Then he answered, “But I behave when I’m with others so that they think better of me.” And that is when I realized that I was doing things all . I explained to him that it had nothing to do with what people think. This him even more.
So I went on to explain that behavior, whether in your everyday with people or at the dining table at home, is an of who you are. Well, at the age of 13, he got it.
So basically, what I am saying is that teaching your children comes with the underlying lesson that it is not about to do or not to do, but rather, who they are. This way it is not ; it comes from within.
Teach your teens or children the courtesy of greeting their friends’ parents and
themselves when they go to someone’s home. Teach teenage boys to open the door of a car, or any door that matter, for any girl, whether they are their girlfriends or not. This includes holding elevator doors or letting women step out of the elevator first.
Just that teenage boys who practice good manners’ and courtesy grow up to become men who respect people in general.
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I had just picked up my new car, a very beautiful automobile if you’re into cars. A few months later, I was involved in an ___ . That new and very beautiful car was destroyed.
It was clearly not my __ . The other guy was so busy on his cell phone that he went right through a red light and knocked into the passenger side of my car. It was even _ because my niece was asleep on the back seat and her father, my brother, was in the front passenger seat. He was not _____, to say the least.
The police arrived and began taking statements. I __ that my speed had been up to about 55kmph. “So you were going about 50kmph…” he said.
“No, I said I was doing about 55kmph,” I said.
“Right, so you were doing about 50kmph…” again he __ .
In a slightly ___ tone because I felt I wasn’t being heard, I said: “No! I was doing about 55kmph!”
“OK, if that’s _ you want it,” this time the officer simply replied.
I didn’t ___ it at the time, but I was shooting myself in the foot. My insurance company paid me for the damages to my car. __ , I totally missed the boat on the other driver’s insurance company.
The city speed limit is 50km. I ___ getting 50 percent less than I would have from the other guy’s insurance company because I had _______I was doing 55km.
It suddenly ______me that the traffic policeman had been trying to help me out. He hadn’t ______ about the 5kmph; he had known _____ about the insurance that I had not.
I thought about what had ____ over and over again. I might have carried on insisting that I told the _____ , but I could at least have said “Thank you” to him _ acting so rudely. After all, he had been trying to help me out.
Sometimes the ____ thing to do is to let other people talk while you simply shut up and listen. Never forget --- to ____ , you have to be able to listen.
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A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. One day, they came to a _______ with a strong current. As the monks were ______ to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman. She asked if they could help her ____ to the other side.
The two monks glanced at one another because they had ___ not to have physical contact with women.
Then, without a word, the older monk ____ the woman, carried her across the river, ______ her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey.
The younger monk couldn’t believe ____ had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was _____ , and several hours passed without a word between them.
______, the younger monk couldn’t contain himself any longer, and asked, “As monks, we are not permitted to have body contact with a woman; how could you then ______ that woman?”
The___ monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you____ carrying her?”
This simple Zen story has a beautiful message about living in the ____ moment. How often do we carry around past ______ , holding onto dislikes when the only person we are really ___ is ourselves?
We all ____ times in life when other people say things or ___ in a way that does harm to us. We can __ to think carefully over past actions or events, but it will finally weigh us down and use up our energy.
Instead, we can choose to let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore and __ on the present moment. Until we can find a level of peace and __ in the present circumstances of our lives, we will never be content, because “now” is all we will ever have.
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Teaching second grade is always a challenge.Each student arrives at school with his own needs and difficulties.One year a student called Billy me with his behavior as well as his academic requirements.He struggled daily with his __ . emotions and often became angry or violent.I knew that，to make __ . progress，his emotions needed controlling.
One __ I tried to help Billy was to have him come directly into the classroom when he arrived at school.Billy’s mom would __ me to alert (警告) me to a particularly emotional morning at home.Then，I would focus on __ his anger and calming him down before the other students arrived.
One week our class was studying __.I thought one way to bring learning into the classroom was to bring my dog Rocky to school for the day.
That day began as normal.I was preparing activities focused on dog themes . I was told that Billy had a _morning at home and I might need to get him .As I was talking to his mom，Billy into the classroom.To Billy’s ，Rocky immediately ran up to his new ，wagging his tail and licking Billy’s face with doggy affection.Billy couldn’t Rocky’s charm (魅力) and began laughing as his anger melted away.
Throughout the day，Billy never left Rocky’s side，feeding him，being gentle with him and even . the other students while Rocky was sleeping.
Billy was known for doing anything he could to avoid ，but on this day he found a good dog story，“Clifford’s Puppy Days，” and read it to Rocky.How . I was at the sight of Billy reading happily！My little dog was able to Billy’s day from one of anger and frustration to one of laughter，gentleness and .
That day Rocky more than helped me with my ；he helped to change the life of a child! After that Billy’s behavior definitely improved.
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My heart beat with that feeling, like blood to my body as my fingers flew across the
piano keys. As the piece neared the end, I up to take my final bow. For a second, the room was .Yet, even in that one second, I had enough time to whether I had done perfectly.Then, , the applause (掌声) came.
“Thank you… so much,” I said, to the person standing on my other side. Olga, my piano teacher for six years, smiled back at me.“You’ve been an student all these years,” she said, “I hope that whatever you do, you never stop .”
I leaned forward, I would keep playing because I loved piano, and hugged her.
As it , the promises weren’t as meaningful as I’d hoped. Right after the , I kept up my strict practicing schedule every day. , it began slipping away from me. The reason I had stopped taking was because of my busy schedule with homework. Not long after, I stopped practicing altogether. It was not to have to stress about piano anymore. But something was inside of me. I was empty inside.
One day I met Michelle, who had also taken piano lessons from Olga.
“Are you taking lessons from Olga?” she asked.
“Actually I just quit a while ago,” I replied.
“That’s a ,” she responded, “I remember your performance a year ago; it was .”
Two days after talking to Michelle, I was at a what to do.I moved slowly into the living room unconsciously, but in fact I knew what I was doing.
As the music , a familiar feeling rose inside me.
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