When I was growing up, I seldom heard the words “I love you” from my father. If your father never 1 them to you when you are a 2 , it gets more and more 3 for him to say those words as you get older. To tell you the truth, I could hardly 4 when I heard those words from my father. Neither could I remind when I had last said those words to 5 . I decided to 6 my shyness aside and make the first move. 7 hesitating for some time, in our next 8 conversation, I spoke out the words suddenly, “Dad ... I love you!”
There was a 9 at the other end. It wasn’t after a while did he awkwardly(笨拙地) reply, “Well, 10 to you!” I laughed and said, “Dad, I 11 you love me, and when you are ready, I know you will say what you want to say.”Fifteen minutes later my mother called and 12 asked, “Paul, is everything okay?”
A few weeks later, Dad 13 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this conversation and the 14 was (were) rolling down my cheeks as I finally “ 15 ” the love. As we both sat there in tears, we 16 that this special moment had taken our father and son 17 to a new level.
A short while after this special moment, my father 18 escaped death from the following heart surgery. Many times since his return to the usual state of health, I have 19 , if I did not take the first step and Dad did not 20 the surgery, I would have never heard him say those words.
A．speaks B．says C．offers D．provides
A．man B．mother C．child D．father
A．easy B．possible C．delighted D．difficult
A．forget B．remember C．mind D．decide
A．him B．her C．me D．them
A．drop B．let C．set D．lose
A．Before B．After C．When D．Since
A．phone B．email C．letter D．record
A．smile B．voice C．cry D．silence
A．same B．difficult C．true D．similar
A．hope B．know C．wonder D．doubt
A．crazily B．delightedly C．nervously D．terribly
A．concluded B．disturbed C．broke D．carried
A．hairs B．water C．sweat D．tears
A．understood B．expressed C．heard D．saw
A．discussed B．considered C．believed D．realized
A．decision B．development C．relationship D．situation
A．narrowly B．easily C．unlikely D．generally
A．said B．thought C．dreamed D．apologized
A．think B．fight C．fail D．Survive
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family. While her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an) in medicine. At 18 she married and a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a . Her husband supported her decision.
, Canadian medical schools did not women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte to Montreal and set up a private . Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte herself operating on damaged limbs and setting bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practicing without a license. She had a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was . The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to __her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appeared to the Manitoba Legislature to a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte to practice without a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993, 77 years after her , a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, a bar of chocolate if given the choice, , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
as high as he could, but even as his tallest he was unable to touch It. He began to up and down , as high as he could, at the of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of . Not giving up , he though , if only he had something to on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy. Looking , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use. He had tired everything he could think to do. seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he like this , the more unhappy he became.
,the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself . This isn’t ,I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well.There’s more I can do to get the apple-that is unchangeable-but we are supposed to be able to our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?
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From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t ________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:_____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
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It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were , we realized that only minutes earlier an woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. a lot of people stopped to help out.
we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _______about what had happened to the elderly couple. He to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of .” Seeing that there was a flower stall（摊位）at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was__ that he’d come up with this idea. So we went over and told the flower seller we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I take your money for such a wonderful .”
By now medical staff had arrived, and were the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”
The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with _______in her eyes and gave him a little .
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There was a very special teacher who made a far –reaching difference in my life.
Fall ,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about begin .“Who”，I asked a senior , “is Mrs McNamara,my 10th grade English teacher?”He just _ and said something about my being in ____Soon ,I understood what he meant. Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of ______that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for__ _. The next day ,when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard ________ to the homework reading. We were_______to write an in –class essay about one of the topics. The following day ,she would _____thd corrected and graded essays and each person would be called _____ to stand in front of the class and to _________ his\her essay. The class were required to criticize(评论)that essay, _____the grade of everyone in class would be reduced.
The first time that I___her read–write–criticize method, I had not ______to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant. ________the extreme embarrassment I suffered, standing before my classmates, _________myself. No one laughed at me, no one would be ________enough ,or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs. McNamara’s class. The embarrassment came from ________and along with it came a strong ________not to let it happen again.
Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files, it was easy to see the ________in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs. McNamar___________me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that, I could improve myself. And I _______. Thank you, Mrs. McNamara.
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