About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___21____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____22____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___23___ for the bear. She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she ___24____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___25___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___26____ had led her down a dark ____27____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____28____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____29___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___30____ me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a ___31____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___32____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____33____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____34___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___35___.
When I saw her, she was ____36____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___37___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___38___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___39___ had given her the last bit of ___40___ she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
A．found B．helped C．recognized D．noticed
A．shape B．size C．weight D．leg
A．name B．friend C．ticket D．cloth
A．moved B．leaned C．looked D．pulled
A．agreed B．learned C．continued D．refused
A．manner B．feeling C．event D．lifestyle
A．door B．path C．key D．point
A．disappointed B．worried C．surprised D．blamed
A．own B．reach C．leave D．make
A．criticized B．avoided C．thanked D．remembered
A．note B．word C．case D．text
A．effective B．amazing C．easy D．clear
A．managed B．tried C．decided D．worked
A．realized B．produced C．required D．imagined
A．through B．along C．together D．off
A．never B．still C．once D．even
A．expectation B．explanation C．information D．conversation
A．doubting B．promising C．believing D．admitting
A．condition B．discoveries C．criticism D．possibilities
A．delight B．interest C．strength D．character
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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。
Don and his 11-year-old son, Allen, love basketball very much. On Allen’s birthday, Don________ to drive him to Chicago, more than two hours’ distance, for the first game of the World Championships. They had no ________ but hoped to buy two from other people.
After arriving, they ________ in the streets for two hours carrying a ________ which said, “We need two tickets”. ________ the cheapest ticket was $175 and they could not ________ it. They were about to leave when a man ________ them. He pulled ________ two tickets and handed them to Don. “How much do you want?” “________ ! No money is needed!” said the man.
When asked, the man ________, “I am working for Joe, who hasn’t ________ a World Championships for 16 years. But he is ill and can’t make it this time. So he told me to give the two tickets away. The only ________ he set is to give the tickets to people who I think will be deserving. A lot of people looked as if they might just take the tickets and ________ them right away. Then I saw you. You seemed very ________ and you make me ________ my Dad and myself when I was a child. I ________ wanted to go to see a World Championships game with my father at that time. But I never got the ________ ...”
How important and ________ the game was to Don and his son! Here is what Don said, “It’s the most worth ________ thing that happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other 30 times during the ________ . I can’t forget that night.”
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so to me and had such a big on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to my own Cancer experience ？
I’m an ambitious , and when I started going through chemo( 化疗 )，even though I’m a very ________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the . One day, while waiting to go in for , I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in hand. Another patient what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me ________ he had one of his books with me as well. It ________ that among other things, he was an eighty—year---old writer. He was ________ a published author, and he was currently ________ on a new book.
We would see each other at various times and ________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a ( n ) ________ of Dr. Berline. He really put a ________ on my face. He unfortunately ________ last year due to his cancer, ________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the ________ to pick up my pen again. I ________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had ________ finding the keyhole. When I ________ to open the door, I ________ around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was ________ installed... but no switch!
Not discouraged easily, I remembered ________ a lamp by the bed when I laid my luggage ________ in the day. I found the bed in the ________ and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing ________ ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the ____________ to find another lamp. So I ________ my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around ________ I found a desk lamp which actually________ !
That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world _____________ be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than ________ light is the light that shines from people — the light of ________ and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and ________ place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in ________ of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you ________ may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is ________ a candle in a forest remember — there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to ________ the light of one small candle.
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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 lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.
My mother has ________ thought that hospitals are frightening. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he ________ . The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was ________ with the hospital.
When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________ be taken there, ________I was told that no one by that name had been ________ , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospital. They didn’t ________ they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n)________ person.
It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn’t been updated overnight , there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing ________ with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ________ for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us .
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I became lame（瘸的）in both legs in my childhood. I can’t stand ________ the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I “ ________ ”.
I still remember the first day at ________ . When I appeared at the door,________ in the classroom stared（凝视）at me in ________. My face turned ________. I couldn’t help ________ back. It was the ________ and sympathy（同情）in their eyes that ________ me doing so. I went shyly towards an unoccupied (空的) seat.
Being lame, I didn’t dare (敢) to ________ in front of my classmates. I was afraid that I might be ________ at. In those days I was very sad to see others walking ________ .
One day, a few students came up to me and asked me to go outside. I was really ________ . They encouraged me with a(n) ________ smile and ________ me in my wheelchair from place to place. I was ________ to them for giving me a chance to see the ________ of our lovely school with my own eyes.
After that we often read, played and talked together. My friends are always ________ to help me. It made me ________ I am handicapped (残疾的).
Once they asked me, “What is the most beautiful thing in our school?” Without hesitation (犹豫) I said, “It is the ________ . ”
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