Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so 36 ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes.
All the guys on his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball 37 , Chuck Hart. 38_ Hart was criticized for his poor sportsmanship and infamous 39_ , he was a great player. In fact, Travis wasn’t thinking about Hart’s behavior; he had only expected to see Hart’s 40 on the side of the box. He realized that something was 41 as he tore away the last piece of paper. Not Hart’s. The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was 42 for his amazing work in the community.
Travis’s hands 43 ; his heart stopped. It wasn’t that the Ryann shoes weren’t nice, but what would his friends think?
They were the wrong shoes and Travis would be 44 by the other players. When he looked up into his dad’s eyes, however, Travis knew he 45 tell him. “Thanks, Dad. I was really hoping for shoes,” Travis said as he pulled the shoes out of the box.
Next morning his dad drove him to school. When they 46 in front of his destination, Travis slowly opened the car door. Just then, his dad stopped him.
“Hey, Travis, wait a minute…” his dad said 47 “Travis, I know those aren’t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a(n) 48 . The guy whose name is on those shoes,” he said, pointing down at Travis’s feet, “is someone I 49 . Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in 50 ? ”
“ No,” Travis said.
“ Never. He’s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he’s a team player. You could have acted like a(n) 51 when you didn’t get the shoes you wanted, Travis, 52 you were polite and made the best of it. You have honor, like the guy whose name is on these shoes. I’ m hoping that someday, your 53 will be on the coolest pair of shoes I’ll ever see.”
When Travis looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes 54 . His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful 55 .
A．surprised B．ashamed C．excited D．worried
A．team B．player C．coach D．game
A．Unless B．If C．Because D．Although
A．skill B．performance C．behavior D．action
A．name B．photo C．sign D．model
A．strange B．wrong C．true D．funny
A．known B．encouraged C．adopted D．influenced
A．fell B．froze C．shook D．folded
A．questioned B．noticed C．teased D．attacked
A．mustn’t B．needn’t C．wouldn’t D．couldn’t
A．pulled up B．put up C．took up D．turned up
A．peacefully B．hesitantly C．delightedly D．naturally
A．choice B．effort C．comment D．mistake
A．believe B．miss C．admire D．remember
A．danger B．anger C．sorrow D．trouble
A．teammate B．adult C．kid D．student
A．so B．and C．but D．or
A．honor B．courage C．name D．belief
A．clearly B．carefully C．patiently D．differently
A．gift B．smile C．wish D．lesson
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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 a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was and my stepmother had us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no what to do with me. And that’s when my other family .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She 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. I could tell, for the Beaches there was no between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I 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 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 his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) ________ that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
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It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was 15 years old and feeling like the world was ________ for me because there hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I’d wanted that year.
Pa came back in and there was ice in his beard. “Come on, Matt,” Pa said. “Dress warmly. It’s cold outside. We’re going to Widow Jensen’s. They are ________ wood.” Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and ________ her with three children, the oldest being eight.
I ________ went out with Pa and we ________ the sled high with wood. ________ we went to the store and Pa took down a big ham, some bacon, a sack of flour and some shoes, which were put into a smaller sack. We rode the two miles to Widow Jensen’s in ________ . I tried to think through what Pa was doing. I knew we didn’t have much money and Widow Jensen had ________ neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our ________ .
Widow Jensen opened the door and let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her ________ . The children were wrapped in ________ and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that ________ gave off any heat at all. “We brought you a few things , Ma’am，” Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it.
She ________ and took the shoes out one pair at a time. I watched her carefully. She bit her lower lip to keep it from ________ and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, ________ it wouldn’t come out. “We brought a load of wood too, Ma’am,” Pa said. Then he turned to me and said，“Matt，go bring some in. ”
I wasn’t the ________ person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I choked and as much as I hate to ________ it, there were tears in my eyes too. In my mind I kept ________ those three kids huddled (蜷缩)around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks with so much ________ in her heart that she couldn’t speak. Just then the rifle seemed very ________ . Pa had given me the best Christmas of my life.
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From her lifeguard station at the shallow end of the swimming pool, Jessica noticed clouds gathering in the sky. By the time she took a break at 2:30, the wind was picking up and the sky was getting ________ . The pool manager ________ over the loudspeaker that the pool was closing
________ , due to a severe weather warning.
All of the ________ had left by 3:30 except for Jessica’s neighbor, eight-year-old Zack Hill. Zack’s mother had planned to ________ him up later, but the storm was approaching fast. Jessica decided that she would ________ Zack off on her way home.
The minute Jessica and Zack left the parking lot, it was ________ that this was no ________ storm. The rain hit just as Jessica turned onto her street, coming down in sheets and making it ________ to see clearly. Jessica said, “Zack, I’m going to take you to my house. We need to get inside right away, and your house is farther away than ________ .”
She pressed the garage-door opener, but nothing happened. The electricity was ________ . The front door was only a few feet away, ________ the wind was so strong that Jessica and Zack had to ________ their way out of the car and into the house.
Remembering everything she could from her ________ training, Jessica dragged Zack to the basement (地下室) . “We’ll be safe in here, Zack,” she said, trying to sound ________ . They had just gotten inside ________ everything went deadly quiet for a moment. Then they could hear the sound of glass breaking. A deafening roar, like the sound of a train, filled their ________ .
After a final crash, Jessica and Zack ________ drops of rain on their arms. They saw a flash of lightning through a crack in the ceiling. The sound of the storm grew ________ . Jessica began to breathe easier. She and Zack were safe, and what a ________ they would have to tell!
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Dad is a reserved man of few words but is always strict. What’s more, he is quite different from others in ideas and : beating or bringing to account his son in the presence of neighbors as he strongly believes in such a : a dutiful son is the of the rod, which is deeply impressed in his mind from his father. So I was emotionally upset and in spite of just a 10-year-old kid, who thought, “I was randomly beaten, so I would bring blows on other smaller kids”. And Dad would deal me a heavier the next time.
It that I completely lost control of this blow and found it impossible for me to on my lessons as I came to blows with other kids all day long. Everything went from bad to worse for me so much I couldn’t write out the English alphabet, could I do arithmetic (算术). , I was sent into a reformatory school(劳教所) where I stayed guilty for two and a half years. This time Dad shed bitter tears, saying, “Son, it is not that I don’t love you but that I should not have been so angry at your failure to my expectations!”
Retiring from the army, he gave me 10,000 US dollars for a trip around the world. getting back from this trip, he said to me, “Book knowledge is valuable but he who travels far and wide should know better at the time of your life. I guess you are now fully prepared to get started for work.” At 26, I started up Runhua Machinery Co., Ltd., which was later poorly and went bankrupt(破产); it was not long I started to engage in a dye-stuff plant which happened to be blown up. At all these, my father only gave me such words, “I will congratulate you on your god-given setbacks and failures, which will help you make mistakes in life.”
The Ph.D. graduation ceremony was grandly started and my parents were invited to . Dad didn’t say a single word me but cried bitterly again this time, and at this very moment, my mind was in a state of emotions and I stood on the stage with warm tears in my eyes.
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One day in 11th grade, when I went into a classroom to wait for a friend of mine, Mr. Washington, the math teacher, suddenly and asked me to go to the board to write down a math problem and it out. I told him that I couldn’t do it. And he asked, “Why not?” I said, “Because I’m not one of your students.” He said, “It doesn’t matter. Go the board .” I said, “I can’t do that.” He asked, “Why not?” I paused for I was somewhat
I said, “Because I’m the so called student.” He
He came from behind his desk and looked at me and said. “Don’t ever say that again. Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your . Look at a man the that he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should br.” It was a very moment for me. For one thing, I was because the other students me. They knew that I was “incurably poor” in academic learning. But for another, I felt because he began to bring to my attention that I did not have to live within the of other people.
Mr. Washington’s words made difference to me. I start to believe everyone has certain________ within them, and so in me. I used to do in the fifth grade and was put from the fifth grade into the fourth grade and then failed again in the eighth grade. But I know all these in the past. So I’m happy to that I’m a brand new person now and I will be someone who can something in the future.
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