Twenty-first century humanity has mapped oceans and mountains, visited the moon, and surveyed the planets. But for all the progress, people __1 don’t know one another very well.
That brings about Theodore Zeldin’s “ 2 of conversation” — events 3 individuals sit in pairs with persons they don’ t know for three hours of 4 talk designed to help people know better about each other.
Mr. Zeldin heads Oxford Muse, a l0-year-old foundation based on the _5 that what people need is not more information, but more inspiration and encouragement.
The “feast” in London looks 6 at politics or events, but at how people have felt about work, relations among the sexes, hopes 7 fears, enemies and authority, the shape of their lives. The “menu of _8 ” includes topics like “How have your concerns changed 9 the years?” Or, “What have you done against the past?”
As participants gathered, Zeldin opened with a speech: that despite _10 communications like QQ and MSN in a globalized age, issues of human heart 11 . Many people are lonely, or occupied in dealing with their daily businesses that discourage knowing the _ 12 _ of one another. “We are trapped in _ 13 _ conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful,”he says. “But 14 _ interaction is what separates us from other species, __15 maybe dogs that do have interactions with humans.”
The main rules of the “feast”: Don’t 16 _ with someone you know or ask questions you would not answer. The only awkward moment came when the multi-racial crowd of people of different ages, in sun hats, ties and __17_, looked to see 18 they would talk with for hours. 19 15 minutes later, everyone was seated and talking, continuing full force until organizers interrupted them 180 minutes later.
Some said they felt free to talk on 20 topics. Thirty-something Peter, from East London, said that “it might take weeks or months to get to the level of interaction we suddenly opened up.”
A．still B．already C．even D．yet
A．topic B．subject C．idea D．feast
A．what B．when C．that D．where
A．free B．organized C．guided D．random
A．theory B．idea C．opinion D．fact
A．not B．not only C．never D．ever
A．but B．and C．or D．with
A．talk B．speech C．conversation D．communication
A．during B．over C．for D．within
A．convenient B．accessible C．immediate D．instant
A．leave B．appear C．disappear D．remain
A．depth B．well C．truth D．good
A．small B．daily C．deep D．shallow
A．thinking B．talking C．communicating D．lecturing
A．with B．besides C．except D．from
A．talk B．pair C．involve D．sit
A．dresses B．skirts C．T-shirts D．coats
A．which B．whom C．who D．that
A．So B．And C．But D．Then
A．hot B．popular C．sensitive D．private
完形填空,阅读下面的短文，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。
It was the first day of kindergarten. I walked in with my mom and was at all the toys against the walls. I ran over to them and started to play. Most of the other were doing the same. In the corner, though, I saw one girl sitting . She was small and weak, the only one in the class than me. Her red eyes she had been crying. None of the other kids seemed to notice her.
I was playing with the toy cars. When I , I saw her sad and lonely eyes. Suddenly I felt something inside my heart . I wasn’t sure what it was. Being the youngest in my family I had become spoiled. My elder brothers always did while I was free to play. However, that day it was that I should think of someone other than myself. Finally, I two toy cars and went over to her. “Do you want to play?” I asked . She smiled at me and her head yes.
What made me remember that first act was a letter that little girl wrote to me after we both . She told me how her illness made other kids her and how my act had changed her . She cherished(珍惜) the friendship I had . From then on we continued our friendship through the mail for several years the bad health finally took her life.
Today I still think of her and thank her for stirring something in my selfish that day. I ask myself how a bit of can move a heart, touch a soul, and change a life.
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I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early ________ of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ________ my parents.
At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with ________ at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to ________ !” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.
At that age, I always did something ________ to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found ________ , I would plant a garden!
I planted some lily (百合花) seeds in the yard. But they failed to ________ . I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ________ joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. ________ , I was touched by this land of wonder.
________ , my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even ________ at me because he found it was ________ to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s ________ , I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds ________ flowers.
Regardless of their________, I kept on planting my garden and ________ to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they ________ to care and love.
It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ________ my parents. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show, which makes my parents feel very ________ . And now I could say it is my affection for ________ that makes me a real gardener.
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完形填空,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。
A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.
Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the ________ that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of ________ comments(评论).
"Amazing people still do exist（存在）!' one user ________ .
The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car ________ nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled（逃离）from the ________ .
"I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd________," Ague told ABC News.
com. "Based on the location I could ________ the dog was heading west."
So Ague and a few fellow ________ set out to find the dog, who they later learned was
named Mya. They flagged Mya down, ________ every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Mya' s ________, and when she arrived on the scene, Mya ________ stopped running. And then the dog wouldn't move at all.
That was when Ague realized something was ________. He quickly realized that it wasn't that the dog wouldn't move but ________ not move.
"The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off ________ the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt ( 柏油).
"When I realized that's why she couldn't walk," he said, "the ________ thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."
So he ________ Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and ________ her about 100 yards to her owner’s car.
Mya's owner, Megan Smith, said that Mya's feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking ________.
Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal
_________ ", said he never thought of doing anything besides ________ Mya.
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完形填空,请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I ________ a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of ________ for the coming test or sporting event.
In early grade school they ________ their notes. But as children grow older they become self-conscious (有自我意识的), and ________ he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer ________ my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to ________ them but I still needed to write them, I ________ until the day he graduated.
Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move ________ for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating from college, ________ two internship (实习) in Washington, D.C., and ________ , becoming a technical worker in Sacramento. ________ short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was ________ happy to have Marc back. Since I was ________ making lunch for his younger brother, I ________ one for Marc, too. Imagine my ________ when I got a call from my 24-yere-old son, ________ his lunch.
“Did I do something ________ ? Don’t you love me ________ , Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I ________ asked him what was wrong.
“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中（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。
Remembering My Father’s Vest
People get into trouble because they don’t know enough to keep cool. As a child, I had a lot of ________ that had been held back and not released. Worse still, I was not good at ________ constructively.
Once as I was getting ready for school, my mother ________ me my father’s vest instead of mine. This was around the time when I was going to be larger in ________ than my father, so as I put on the vest, I felt like I was being choked in it! I ________ that it was a small oversight(疏忽) on my mother’s part, but ________the feeling of being choked drowned me and I got very angry.
I took my anger out on my mother ________ thinking much. I was so upset when she had handed me the wrong vest, and I ________by violently tearing it apart from my chest!
Later, my mother shared her own ________ with my father: “ See what your son has done.”
Instead of scolding or abusing me, my father________ responded by asking my mother to ________ the vest. He then worn it to work the next day.
When my mother told me about my father’s response much later, when I had________from my fit, I immediately felt a great sense of ________ for my violent behavior, just ________ that he was spending the entire day wearing a(n)________ vest. At the same time, I was filled with great ________ for my father, whose gentle kindness taught me a life lesson I would treasure forever.
On that day, I made a ________ never to let anger get the better of me. I learn to ________ other when I think that they behave in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way, ________ forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off. And whenever I have difficulty ________ my strong emotion, I try to remember my father’s vest.
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