One Monday morning，news got around in the schoolyard about a fire over the weekend.Soon Mr.Johnson，my teacher，came to explain that the Art class would be ____ due to the fire.He also warned us not to approach the Art room because it could be ____.
During the morning break，Kirn and I decided to take a ____.A first hand observation would make us heroes at lunch.At the appointed time，Kirn and I ____ the Art room，ignoring the consequence I would face ____ I got caught.We stood on tiptoes looking hard ___ the door window，trying in vain to see ____ was forbidden.Suddenly a firm __ on our shoulders stopped us.
Turning around，I found a teacher staring angrily at us.In those seconds millions of ___ flashed through my mind.My father would beat me hard.____ than that，my mom might be so mad that she might not stop him.My spirits ____ even lower while realizing how ____ Mr.Johnson would be.
When Kirn and I were led back to our classroom，I could found ____ to hide and wanted to melt into the ____.However，Mr.Johnson had a different ___ to teach.
Slowly，he bent down to look me in the ____，and I was met with a look of concern rather than anger.He spoke softly as he explained why he was ____ in my decision to go where I may have got hurt.He cared more about my ____ than the fact that I’d broken a rule.My heart was ___ with regret，and I discovered that he still loved me even after I disappointed him.The rest of the day，he didn’t even mention it in class publicly，___ did he tell my parents.It was the first time I felt the power of being given an unexpected second chance.
A．confirmed B．examined C．cancelled D．suggested
A．useless B．dangerous C．childish D．naughty
A．test B．risk C．check D．chance
A．reached B．searched C．entered D．cleaned
A．until B．unless C．as D．if
A．over B．within C．through D．across
A．what B．how C．why D．which
A．word B．hold C．cry D．order
A．thoughts B．feelings C．solutions D．excuses
A．Easier B．Less C．More D．Worse
A．changed B．lifted C．sank D．lost
A．strange B．angry C．kind D．sad
A．somewhere B．anywhere C．nowhere D．everywhere
A．fire B．laugh C．table D．floor
A．course B．lesson C．knowledge D．ability
A．eye B．head C．hand D．feet
A．embarrassed B．excited C．disappointed D．moved
A．grade B．honesty C．interest D．safety
A．full B．heavy C．relaxed D．empty
A．so B．nor C．either D．yet
The moment happened 20 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had up most of the night before, laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first of the day my eyelids（眼皮）were feeling heavier and heavier and my was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes’ nap（小睡）time before class wouldn’t , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my beating wildly trying to find the cause of the . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still . “I am glad to see everyone is . Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was from the fascinating discussion he led. With knowledge and good he made the material come . His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he with were contagious（有感染力的）. I the classroom not only wide awake, but a little and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life，do it well，do it with . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk your way through then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too not to live it well.
A．stayed B．took C．spent D．picked
A．stage B．image C．test D．class
A．head B．hand C．cheek D．throat
A．inspect B．hurt C．disturb D．bend
A．wrist B．mind C．heart D．forehead
A．voice B．incident C．noise D．trouble
A．purposely B．frankly C．Constantly D．appropriately
A．panicking B．sighing C．complaining D．smiling
A．loose B．awake C．curious D．committed
A．defence B．shock C．interruption D．comfort
A．instead B．beneath C．thus D．otherwise
A．design B．humor C．assumption D．comprehension
A．strange B．natural C．positive D．alive
A．spread B．associated C．instructed D．reflected
A．grasped B．enclosed C．left D．escaped
A．securer B．clearer C．stronger D．smarter
A．bothering B．obeying C．judging D．sleeping
A．joy B．religion C．Strength D．determination
A．journey B．college C．life D．work
A．hard B．short C．casual D．Independent
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old thinking that she wouldn’t live from then on.
Over the years, I and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an) trying day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair, into my son’s room with a box of . After 16 years, I still Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she the path for those people who were less than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be .
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was . From this person that I thought would have no of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously and we moved north, but I owe Helen that I can never repay.
A．walking B．riding C．running D．driving
A．lived B．survived C．existed D．escaped
A．mind B．brain C．head D．thought
A．equally B．calmly C．quietly D．normally
A．studied B．moved C．worked D．1ived
A．suffering B．causing C．bearing D．catching
A．normally B．particularly C．necessarily D．eventually
A．up B．off C．back D．down
A．ran B．walked C．rolled D．moved
A．tissues B．presents C．pills D．candies
A．realized B．knew C．recognized D．reminded
A．her life B．her son C．her family D．her work
A．cleared B．smoothed C．cleaned D．opened
A．rich B．healthy C．strong D．fortunate
A．money B．hope C．pity D．medicine
A．small B．pitiful C．weak D．shameless
A．admitted B．beaten C．hurt D．hospitalized
A．use B．value C．meaning D．quality
A．treated B．worsened C．relieved D．recovered
A．some money B．some tissues C．a debt D．a hope
Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile delinquency (crimes committed by young people) focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence. Theories centering on the individual suggest that children ____ criminal behavior before they were not sufficiently ____ for previous misbehaviors or that they have learned criminal behavior through interaction with others. Theories focusing on the role of society suggest that children commit crimes in ____ to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status or as a rejection of middle-class values.
Most theories of juvenile delinquency have focused on children from disadvantaged families, ____ the fact that children from wealthy homes also commit crimes. The latter may commit crimes for lack of adequate control from parents. All ____, however, are uncertain or unimproved and are of course challenged with criticism.
Changes in the social structure may indirectly ____ juvenile crime rates. For example, changes in the economy that ____ to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment ____ make gainful employment increasingly difficult to obtain. This results in dissatisfaction among youths and may in ____ lead more youths into criminal behavior.
Families have also experienced ____ these years. More families consist of one parent households or two working parents; ____, children are likely to have less supervision at home than was common in the traditional family ____. This lack of parental supervision is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates. Other noticeable ____ of offensive acts include unfavorable experience or failure in school, the ____ availability of drugs and alcohol, and the growing phenomenon of child abuse and child neglect. All these conditions tend to increase the ____ of a child committing a criminal act, although a direct cause and effect relationship has not yet been established.
A．refer to B．know about C．engage in D．learn of
A．punished B．forgiven C．forgotten D．excused
A．return B．contact C．reference D．response
A．considering B．ignoring C．highlighting D．believing
A．values B．misbehaviors C．criminals D．theories
A．affect B．reduce C．prevent D．reflect
A．point B．lead C．come D．add
A．in general B．on average C．by contrast D．at last
A．case B．short C．turn D．essence
A．failure B．miseries C．development D．changes
A．contrarily B．consequently C．similarly D．occasionally
A．education B．concept C．structure D．economy
A．suggestions B．causes C．ideas D．reports
A．increased B．restricted C．reasonable D．popular
A．knowledge B．aspect C．strength D．probability
There was a king who loved art very much. One day a(n) came and said, "Please let me a picture on a wall." The king happened to have a big new hall . So he the artist to work on one of the walls.
At the same time, another artist came and asked to work on the wall. He promised he would make the same picture as the first artist’s looking at the first artist’s work. The second artist asked to have a thick curtain between the two walls neither of them could see each other.
The following day they began to work. The first artist brought in a(n) supply of paint, oil, water and so on. The second one came with a and a bucket (桶).
A month later, the first artist’s work was completed, and the second artist said, "My wall is too!"
The king went to the first artist’s wall. He was pleased with it and gave the artist a large of money. He then asked people to open the curtain.
! Each line was the same as that on the opposite wall.
The king was quite satisfied and gave him double money. However, he how the second man had made it.
"I just the wall with the cloth," the man said .The wall was made of white marble (大理石). He made it shine like a mirror. The reflection (倒影) of the first painting up on it!
The is a reflection of you too. If you are sad, the world will be sad. If you are happy, the world will be happy.
A．editor B．artist C．server D．actress
A．put B．copy C．paint D．get
A．created B．destroyed C．founded D．built
A．allowed B．realized C．persuaded D．Decided
A．same B．similar C．opposite D．ordinary
A．with B．under C．upon D．without
A．put up B．put back C．put away D．put on
A．even if B．so that C．as if D．in case
A．common B．artificial C．extra D．regular
A．mirror B．cloth C．stick D．curtain
A．present B．free C．ready D．useful
A．see B．touch C．research D．Cover
A．number B．total C．amount D．many
A．Amazing B．Exciting C．Famous D．Valuable
A．probably B．exactly C．certainly D．hardly
A．knew B．warned C．noticed D．wondered
A．drew B．faced C．displayed D．wiped
A．briefly B．naturally C．safely D．correctly
A．set B．added C．showed D．took
A．story B．world C．king D．painter
Tony Tomei was well-known in Los Alamos, N.M. for his heroic action when the forest fires swept through last May. Tomei had ___ run away from his house, which was ____. But soon after reaching a safe place, Tomei ____that although he had saved most of his collection of accordions (a kind of musical instruments), his precious Italian Bugari Armando accordion was ___ in the house. He raced home to ___it. “When I drove up, there was a lot of smoke,” he says, and at that moment he made ___ . “I was going to ____the fire. I was the only one left to ____ the neighbors’ house.” Tomei, 52, an engineer and accordion instructor, had no idea what a great danger he would ____. With a garden hose (软管)，he spent the ___ few hours putting out small spot fires.
Then the ___ picked up, and the fire began moving slowly from the valley 60 feet below toward his home. He attempted to put out the fire but without any __. The fire and smoke blew up beside him, ____ him to the ground, where he got hold of a tree. “I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t see. I just stuck my face in the dirt.”
___, the wind changed. Against a frightening background of house burning up and down his street, Tomei fought through much of the ___ without any more water and ___ a couple of tools he could get to keep small fires away from his neighbors’ house.
At sunrise he got his first real look at what had left of the neighborhood. “I saw all those damaged house and thought, oh, my God,” ___ he’d saved his home along with two others’.
When his neighbor Nancy Tenbrink ___ to the house that she’d thought was lost, she ___threw her arms around Tomei. “My house was important, but his life was much more ___,” she says. “I’m deeply thankful for what he did for us.”
A．happily B．bravely C．safely D．nearly
A．in fire B．out of order C．in danger D．out of shape
A．thought B．realized C．said D．wondered
A．still B．also C．just D．yet
A．find B．hide C．check D．get
A．a suggestion B．the choice C．a decision D．the preparation
A．put up B．keep from C．take up D．hold off
A．prevent B．save C．watch D．keep
A．face B．expect C．protect D．fight
A．rest B．last C．hard D． next
A．water B．wind C．smoke D．fire
A．tools B．success C．meaning D．help
A．taking B．leaving C．knocking D．getting
A．Funnily B．Unluckily C．Undoubtedly D．Fortunately
A．night B．afternoon C．midnight D．daybreak
A．normally B．only C．hardly D．almost
A．For B．As C．But D．If
A．removed B．returned C．referred D．reported
A．tearfully B．surprisingly C．repeatedly D．thoughtfully
A．special B．lovely C． valuable D．useful
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