My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, an endless pursuit for expression, skill, and experience. was only a background to the great delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics.
Then one night at a high school dance, a remark, not intended for my , injured my youthful happiness: “That girl, what a pity she is blind.” Blind! A(n) word that implied everything dark, blank and helpless. I turned and called out, “Please don’t feel sorry for me, I’m having lots of fun.” the fun was not to last.
In college years, I began to struggle with the problem of earning a living. Part-time teaching of piano and occasional giving concerts proved only sources of economic support. In terms of time and effort involved, the financial return was . Self-doubt and dark moods sparked within me. to my misery was the repeated experience of knowing my sisters and friends dating excitedly. How I was to my piano, I could dissolve my frustration, accompanied by Chopin, Brahms, and Beethoven.
Then one day, I met a girl, an army nurse, whose faith was to change my life. As our acquaintance into friendship, she sensed my . She said, “Stop knocking on closed doors. I know your opportunity will come. You’re trying too hard. Why don’t you relax? And have you ever tried ?” The idea was strange to me. I had always believed that if you wanted , you had to go and get it for yourself. Yet, my sincerity and hard work had yielded poor returns, so I was to try anything else. Self-consciously, I performed the daily practice of prayer. I said, “God, show me the for which You sent me to this world.
In the years to follow, the answers began to arrive, satisfying my most optimistic expectation. One of the answers was Enchanted Hills, where my friend and I had the privilege of seeing blind children come alive in God’s out-of-doors. are the sources of pleasure and comfort I have found in friendship, and most important of all, I closer to God and, through Him, to immortality (永生).
A．School B．Society C．Family D．College
A．mind B．direction C．eyes D．ears
A．rude B．ugly C．dirty D．strange
A．quickly B．slowly C．gently D．quietly
A．Thus B．And C．But D．Though
A．adequate B．partial C．full D．rich
A．discouraging B．uninspiring C．encouraging D．convincing
A．Referring B．Contributing C．Adapting D．Adding
A．grateful B．excited C．proud D．sensitive
A．who B．which C．what D．where
A．jumped B．ran C．grew D．became
A．joy B．depression C．pleasure D．pity
A．practicing B．nursing C．praying D．volunteering
A．anything B．everything C．nothing D．something
A．able B．willing C．eager D．devoted
A．destination B．purpose C．meaning D．answer
A．with B．off C．beyond D．from
A．doctor B．teacher C．nurse D．prayer
A．Other B．Others C．Another D．Either
A．draw B．arrive C．drag D．pull
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War started in our house in late July with a month to go before my first day of college. It was a battle of wills over what college I was to attend. Mom wanted me to attend a famous school, and I wanted to go to a small writing college. Every night for two weeks, we argued, shouted and gave treatments until both sides went to bed with regrets.
It was mostly my . Since my junior year of high school, I had at being a nurse. I took all the science courses, and even worked as a in my town’s local hospital. My was to help the sick and be superwoman to the world.
Yet, graduation and college neared, it all changed. Treating the sick was , but not what I was meant to do for the of my life. I could picture myself in hospitals, making rounds, and taking , but I couldn’t picture myself happy. It wasn’t the I wanted.
Then, I realized I had been creating and writing stories for as long as I could . I loved it, and writing was what I had been doing as a . It was going to be my career. And it had to be.
On August 1st, Mom and I sat down at the dinner table and I told her that she had every to choose where to spend her money, just like I had every right to decide where I wanted to go to school. If it was her choice not to any of my college education, then I would take a year off to work and earn money so I could go to the college I wanted.
Standing by my decision to be a writer had my firm belief to my mom. Finally we were at , and she decided to support me, which the world to me.
Before that time, I had never stood up my parents on any major decision. Choosing which college to attend me to become a separate and complete adult. I am now finished with my first semester as a Professional Writing major and I cannot wait to see what comes next.
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Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day, is a busy shopping day in the United States. Many people have a day off work on that day. Some use this to make trips; others use it to start for the Christmas season.
Many stores have special offers and their prices on some goods. Some their opening hours. There can also be traffic jams on roads to shopping destinations.
There are common theories as to why it is called Black Friday. One is that the wheels of vehicles in heavy traffic on the day left many black markings on the road surface, the term Black Friday. The other is from an old way of recording business accounts. were recorded in red ink and profits in black. Many businesses, small businesses, started making profits before Christmas, so they started to mark in black ink on the day after Thanksgiving.
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My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom(开花). ____ me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and ____. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.
I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was ____ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, "Beauty has a ____. I hope it was worth it."
"Yes, ma' ma," I'd say. "____ was."
I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her ____. She's been gone for years, but sometimes, when I ____down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her ____, not mine.
I thought I'd grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I'd be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered 1'd much rather run after them ____ go digging. Actually I'm no gardener. I'm a ____, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry ____ me a heart she made from her own.
I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is ____ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
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。
Motivation means the desire to work toward a goal. It can come from inside or outside and can be and negative. When you say," If I make a hit, we'll win the game and I'll be a ” you challenge yourself to do something and imagine what the will be. You might also say “If I fail in school, I will be .” Imagining the pain that brings is a negative way of motivating yourself.
Sometimes motivation comes from . Your parents might say," If you do well in school, the whole will go to Disney World." now you have a reason to study hard. Your parents might also say, “if you do not your room, you will be forbidden to watch your favorite TV program." This is the negative .
The best kind of motivation comes from inside you. In fact, motivating yourself to do well waiting for someone else to tell you is a sign that you are . People who have no must be told what to do all the time.
Self-motivation is one thing we learn from the martial arts（武术）. When we begin, our master us everything. As we progress, the master tells us to every day at home- and leaves us on our own! The master does not ask in class whether we have practiced and does not us if we fail to do so. By saying nothing, the master us to be grown-up enough to motivate and discipline ourselves.
If we are about the arts, we will practice at home and do well in class. Our master will this and encourage us to continue. Soon we will be for testing to advance towards the next stage. We will move up because we’ve motivated ourselves.
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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、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。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
The famous composer(作曲家)，Albert Roussel，didn’t have a good start in this career. However，he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a ．
Roussel's parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his ．As a little boy，he fell in 1ove with music and himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept． which there were a lot of related books．
Three years later．Roussel’s grandfather died，and his mother’s sister decided to him．Her husband was a kind man and for young Roussel’s music lessons．One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second to his life—the sea．Then he studied to be a naval cadet(海军学员)，but still took time to study ．
In the French Navy，he and two friends found the time to a band，playing the works of Beethoven and other ．Roussel also began composing．On Christmas day 1892，he had his first chance to as a composer，which turned out to be a success．
That success Roussel to write a wedding march(婚礼进行曲)，and one of his navy friends to show it to a famous conductor，Edouard Colonne．When Roussel’s friend with the manuscript(手稿)，he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to his naval career and devote his life to music．
Not long ，at the age of 25，Roussel decided to Edouard Colonne’s advice．He gave his heart and soul to his composing and a major force in the twentieth century’s French music．Because of Eduoard Colonne’s inspiring ，Roussel devoted his life to music，but Rousssel’s friend later admitted that he had made it up．He said he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the famous conductor．
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