I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I 21 a room with two double beds and a bathroom which was too 22 for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was 23 and my stepmother had 24 us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no 25_ what to do with me. And that’s when my other family 26 .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home 27 their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I 28 with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She 29 I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. 30 I could tell, for the Beaches there was no 31 between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I 32 college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew 33 about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _34 his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely 35__ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
36 the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) 37 that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed(使瘫痪 ,使麻痹 ,使无能力)by my _38 , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I 39 family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was 40 , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
A．lived B．shared C．possessed D．bought
A．cheap B．noisy C．small D．limited
A．in trouble B．in sight C．in place D．in parts
A．struck B．removed C．kicked D．knocked
A．plan B．choice C．chance D．idea
A．looked after B．showed up C．turned over D．came cross
A．so B．because C．until D．while
A．worked B．traveled C．lived D．learned
A．worked out B．called up C．watched out D．made sure
A．As long as B．As far as C．As soon as D．As many as
A．change B．problem C．conflict D．difference
A．set off B．left for C．entered into D．admitted into
A．all B．little C．something D．nothing
A．supply B．teach C．encourage D．raise
A．different B．unfair C．easy D．hopeful
A．Thanks to B．In spite of C．Except for D．But for
A．home B．house C．ability D．lesson
A．choice B．failure C．past D．present
A．doubt about B．call on C．center on D．believe in
A．born B．accepted C．educated D．deserted
A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __1__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from 2 homework.
They would stand there, silently, 3 to complete the task. Mary couldn’t figure it out. 4 she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she 5 hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.
What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the 6 ? Mary would wonder. No, 7 couldn’t be that. Finally she 8 the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a 9 lesson from her young 10 pupils about self-image and a(n) 11 of self-worth.
It seemed that the students 12 each other’s individuality and knew that 13 of them were capable of doing the problems. 14 at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would 15 if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the 16 . So they 17 to compete with each other in public.
Once she understood, Mary changed the system 18 she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense 19 his classmates. They all wanted to learn, 20 not at someone else’s expense.
1. A. go to B. come to C. get close to D. bring
2. A. his B. their C. his own D. her
3. A. happy B. willingly C. readily D. unwilling
4. A. Anything B. Nothing C. Everything D. Neither
5. A. almost B. certainly C. hardly D. never
6. A. question B. chalkboard C. problem D. homework
7. A. they B. it C. everything D. each
8. A. asked B. questioned C. told D. understood
9. A. outstanding B. surprising C. annoying D. frightening
10. A. sunburned B. tender C. Indian D. naughty
11. A. sense B. image C. way D. aspect
12. A. had B. ignored C. respected D. cared
13. A. none B. no one C. each D. not all
14. A. Especially B. Even though C. Even so D. Even
15. A. lose B. win C. achieve D. answer
16. A. time B. situation C. chalkboard D. condition
17. A. refused B. rejected C. tried D. promised
18. A. if B. so that C. unless D. in case
19. A. in favour of B. of C. by means of D. in front of
20. A. and B. but C. so D. or
A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine.
My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn’t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His “ 12 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same.
1. A. work B. stay C. live D. expect
2. A. answer B. speak C. smile D. laugh
3. A. covering B. moving C. fighting D. pressing
4. A. minds B. memories C. thoughts D. brains
5. A. better B. dark C. younger D. old
6. A. cave B. place C. sight D. scene
7. A. Discussing B. Solving C. Sharing D. Suffering
8. A. learn from B. talk to C. help D. know
9. A. needed B. recognized C. interested D. encouraged
10. A. normal B. common C. unusual D. quick
11. A. more B. worse C. fewer D. less
12. A. word B. speech C. sentence D. language
13. A. not B. no C. something D. nothing
14. A. fed B. kept C. lived D. depended
15. A. attention B. control C. treatment D. management
16. A. lost B. needed C. destroyed D. left
17. A. troublesome B. unlucky C. angry D. unpopular
18. A. separated B. went C. reunited D. returned
19. A. pushed B. tried C. showed D. measured
20. A. nodding B. greeting C. meeting D. acting
A few years ago I was at an international conference with nearly 700 participants. One afternoon I_31 a very crowded talk by a famous author. The hall filled quickly and soon there were no 32 left , so many dozens of people were standing around the edges.
I saw a very elderly man, stooped(驼背的) slightly with age, 33 against the wall. I immediately got up, told those sitting beside me to 34 the place for him and made my way to him. When I offered my seat to him , he looked 35 and started to refuse , but I would have 36 of that. He asked me my name and thanked me deeply, and then made his 37 back into my row and sat comfortably. Many people who 38 our exchange turned to say what a kind thing I had done. I kept saying , “it’s nothing 39 . I m from Canada, it’s normal for us to help other people!” 
A few minutes later, the man sitting next to the elderly man 40 to leave the hall for another talk and the elderly man 41 to me to return and sit beside him. 42 I resisted, thinking someone else might need it more, but people sitting around him started to repeat my 43 , asking me to come and sit! So I returned and sat beside the gentleman for the 44 .
when the talk was over ,the man thanked me again and 45 asked if I knew who he was . I had no idea. He then looked quite delighted and 46 me a household name that I recognized immediately!
I was astonished to have been sitting next to him, 47 he was excited to think I had given up my seat for him 48 knowing who he was! Again I had to tell him where I come from , and it’s the 49 thing to do! I have felt more blessed to be a Canadian since that day, for seeing how easy it is to 50 someone and how rare it seemed to so many people.
31. A. missed B. gave C. expected D. attended
32. A. seats B. rooms C. topics D. rows
33. A. turning B. walking C. leaning D. lying
34. A. move B. spare C. take D. hold
35. A. glad B. satisfied C. disappointed D. surprised
36. A. nothing B. none C. something D. anything
37. A. living B. fortune C. direction D. way
38. A. witnessed B. confirmed C. remembered D. experienced
39. A. easy B. popular C. special D. funny
40. A. agreed B. refused C. chose D. forgot
41. A. sent B. signaled C. rolled D. said
42. A. At last B. At least C. At most D. At first
43. A. action B. name C. dream D. address
44. A. game B. discussion C. course D. talk
45. A. quietly B. loudly. C. proudly D. angrily
46. A. shared B. told C. asked D. answered
47. A. as if B. even if C. so D .but
48. A. by B. without C. through D. after
49. A. strange B. secret C. normal D. hard
50. A. help B. accept C. praise D. trust
I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled (searched) in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which 1 their search. I found 2 and because of my shaking hands, I could 3 get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. I looked 4 the bars at my jailer. He did not make eye contact with me. I 5 to him “Have you got a light?” He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette. 6 he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. At that moment, I 7 . I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was 8 , perhaps it was because, when you get very, one to another, it is very 9 not to smile. In that instant, it was 10 a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but 11 , looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
I 12 smiling at him, now aware of him as a(n) 13 and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new 14 too. “Do you have kids?” he asked. “Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the 15 of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. 16 without another word, he 17 my cell (牢房) and silently led me out．Out of the jail，quietly and by back routes，out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.
“My life was 18 by a smile.” Yes, the smile—the unaffected, unplanned, 19 connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could 20 each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or envy or fear.
1. A. had lost B. had given C. had escaped D. had reached
2. A. them B. it C. that D. one
3. A. barely B. quickly C. possibly D. 1ikely
4. A. on tudyez.com B. through C. at D. up
5. A. whispered B. explained C. called out D. repeated
6. A. As B. before C. after D. until
7. A. cried B. shook C. refused D. smiled
8. A. anger B. nervousness C. bitterness D. sympathy
9. A. easy B. hard C. glad D. embarrassed
10. A. when B. as well as C. as though D. as long as
11. A. went away B. dropped out C. stayed far D. stayed near
12. A. kept B. stopped C. began D. forgot
13. A. stranger B. enemy C. opponent D. person
14. A. idea B. suggestion C. impression D. concept
15. A. cigarettes B. bags C. pictures D. wallet
16. A. Intentionally B. Unconsciously C. Unwillingly D. Suddenly
17. A. unfolded B. unlocked C. uncontrolled D. undefended
18. A. misled B. destroyed C. saved D. ignored
19. A. surprising B. natural C. different D. frequent
20. A. like B. expect C. notice D. recognize
I don't know what's your opinion about mountains.
It was only in the eighteenth century 
people in Europe began to 
that mountains were beautiful. 
that time, mountains were feared by the people 
on the plain, especially by the city people, 
they were wild and 
places 
one was easily 
or killed by terrible animals.
Slowly, however, 
people 
comfortably in the towns began to grow 
them. They began to feel 
looking for wild excitement, as their attention turned from the man-made town to the 
country; and to places 
dangerous and wild. So high mountains began to be 
for a holiday.
Then, mountain-climbing began to grow popular 
To some people, there is something 
about getting to the 
of a high mountain: a struggle against nature is finer than a battle 
other human beings. And after a difficult climb, what a 
reward it is to look down on everything within sight.
36．A. when B. which C. that D. and
37．A. regret B. seem C. hope D. think
38．A. After B. Before C. During D. At
39．A. lived B. living C. to live D. who living
40．A. whom B. for whom C. with whom D. to whom
41．A. danger B. dangerous C. dangerously D. dangerless
42．A. that B. which C. where D. in where
43．A. lost B. missed C. found D. searched
44．A. many B. much C. many the D. a lot
45．Ａ. that living B. who were living
C. that were lived D. who living
46．A. tiring with B. tiring of C. tired with D. tired of
47．A. interesting B. interest in C. interested D. interested in
48．A. untouched B. touched C. untouching D. touching
49．A. where was B. which were
C. which that was D. which it was
50．A. excited B. expensive C. popular D. terrible
51．A. for sport B. as a sport
C. with a sport D. like a sport
52．A. pleasure B. pleased
C. pleasant D. unpleasant
53．A. top B. middle C. bottom D. foot
54．A. about B. for C. without D. against
55．A. disappointed B. satisfied
C. satisfactory D. disappointing
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