When I was in the ninth grade, my parents started fighting. I could hear them at each other at night. It always seemed like they were fighting about me. I started to and couldn’t fall asleep. Some nights I didn’t feel like I at all.My grades really started to too. It was hard to pay attention during class because I felt so all the time.
My mom had to take me to see a therapist (治疗专家). On the way, I to worry even more. What would my friends me if they knew I was going to see a therapist? What if the therapist couldn’t me? It was not that . My therapist asked me a lot of questions and then we talked about how my life might if I was able to get more sleep. I understood how the future could be better, I felt really to try new things. At the end of the session, I was sent home with a piece of paper called a sleep diary. When I woke up each morning, I had to answer all these questions about my sleep.
, she gave me homework related to my sleep. I wasn’t to text or be on my computer after 8 pm. If I couldn’t fall asleep after about ten minutes, she wanted me to get up and do something in another room that would help me to and feel sleepy.
During the therapy sessions, she was a cheerleader for my life and kept out all the things I was doing right. With her help, it was so much easier to notice the things that were happening all around me.
After about two months of seeing my therapist, I was sleeping at least eight hours a night, sometimes even nine! I felt happier. I could . My grades got better. Basically, I felt like myself! It was so much better to admit that something was and to do something to fix it just watch my whole life get worse and worse.
A．laughing B．shooting C．knocking D．screaming
A．doubt B．protest C．worry D．quarrel
A．dreamed B．ate C．spoke D．slept
A．reduce B．drop C．change D．influence
A．tired B．bored C．upset D．shy
A．refused B．started C．ended D．happened
A．agree with B．worry about C．get on with D．think about
A．teach B．answer C．fix D．recognize
A．helpful B．awful C．interesting D．practical
A．adjust B．develop C．benefit D．improve
A．Once B．Unless C．Though D．If
A．nervous B．excited C．surprised D．calm
A．Therefore B．However C．Besides D．Instead
A．persuaded B．reminded C．asked D．allowed
A．study B．respond C．relax D．recover
A．pointing B．trying C．leaving D．picking
A．tiny B．positive C．exciting D．important
A．forgive B．appreciate C．concentrate D．understand
A．realistic B．significant（有意义的） C．acceptable D．wrong
A．instead of B．rather than C．as well as D．other than
完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion(热情) for writing poetry(诗). I gave up all my other hobbies, such as ______ stamps and spent all my ____ time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me ____ trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I ______ take out my notebook and ______ poems in class. Of course I ____ ___ this very cautiously(小心地), but it was not ________ I got caught. One day while I was __ ____ writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up _____ the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger (=" getting" very angry) because I was not _____ attention. He tore the poem up, with a____ not to waste time in his lesson._____ I felt certain that I had written a good poem,___ _ that evening I wrote it out again from ________ . Not long after, I read _____ a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up ______ , I got a letter informing me I had won first________. Everyone at school was very impressed,_____ the geography teacher, who______ me more carefully than ever. He _____ that I not write poetry in his class!
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
Two old beggars (乞丐) were sitting on a busy street corner of a big city.They watched ____ as a lot of people walked by without looking at them.Sometimes, a kindhearted woman or a small child would ____ a few coins in the hats in front of them.
Today was not a ____ day for begging.The men were able to ____ enough for a big meal.As it was getting dark, they started to ____ their things.
Just as they were getting ready to leave, they ____ a man walking toward them.He was a ____ man — they could tell that from his fine clothes.The first beggar said to the second with ____, “He’s coming our way！” The man stopped, ____ into his pocket and took something out.What looked like a piece of hard ___, wrapped (包裹) in white paper, hit each of their waiting hats.The rich man turned and ____ his way.
“He could have easily left us a few ____ or a bill, but he laughed at us with a piece of rock candy,” said the first beggar.He looked at the offering ____.“There’s no way we can ____ this — we have no teeth.” With these words, he picked up the thing and threw it away.Then he collected his things and ____.
The second beggar wanted to do the same, ____ a second thought made him change his ____.“I haven’t had anything like this for ages,” he thought.“How ____ of that man to offer me something so sweet!” With that, he opened the white paper.To his ____, there was no hard rock candy inside.____, a shiny white pearl (珍珠) worth thousands of dollars fell into his hand.
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完型填空,阅读下面短文，从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day_ __ I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my _______stopped. It was out of gas on a _______ road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone _______ could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile ____ ___I finally found a house near the ____ ___ . I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair __ ___ . She said, “I’ve been ____ ___ for you here for a long time. Come in. ___ _____is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t ___ ___ what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You___ ___tea,” said she.
I quickly ____ ___ that my car was out of____ ____ , but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept ____ ____ me Alfred and talking about how long it had been ___ _____ she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was anxious to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I ____ ____ .
__ ____, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my ___ ____, he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t ___ _____ anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and ____ ___ came back because of the war.”
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
Abraham Lincoln was one of the few great men who really were great. _______ he became president, Lincoln spent twenty years as a(n) ____ lawyer – at least in financial terms. But when you_______the good he did, he was very rich _______ .
For example, Lincoln didn’t like to _______ people much who were as poor as he was. Once a man gave him twenty-five dollars, but Lincoln______him back ten of it, saying he was being too ________.
Lincoln won a case for an old woman in________ poverty. He didn’t charge(收费) her for his _____and, in fact, paid her hotel bill and gave her money to buy a ticket home!
He once _____a cheater(骗子) from gaining possession of some land ______ by a mentally ill girl. After he case, Lincoln’s assosciate(同事) came to ______ their fee, but Lincoln reprimanded(训斥) him. His associate ________that her brother had agreed on the fee _____ , and that he was ______satisfied.
“That may be,” said Lincoln, “but I’m not satisfied. That money comes out of the ________of a poor, mad girl; and I would rather ________ than take it. You return half the money at least, or I’ll not take a cent of it as my ________ .”
He was a fool, perhaps, by certain standards. He didn’t have much, and it was his own ________ . But he was a good human being by anyone’s standards.
Lincoln didn’t talk much about religion. But he once said, “When I do_____ , I feel good, and when I do bad, I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
This past Thanksgiving Day the boss of the company I work for decided to serve a Thanksgiving meal for the poor. I couldn't ________ this and decided that I wanted to ________ ! I could deliver foods and send out my smile card.
I arrived at my ________ around 11 and found a line of families waiting outside the doors. I wasn't sure _______ I wanted to give my card to because there were so many people there ________ I knew I wanted to give it to a mother.
I served ________ table plates of turkey with all the fixings and slices of pumpkin pie for desert. Everyone was so happy and honestly seemed ________ for what my co-workers and I were doing.
At my last ___ there was an older lady with about eight kids. She looked tired, but _____ that her children were ___ _. Smiling at her, I exchanged a few words ________her and knew that she was a foster mom(养母) and that ____ she would have liked to cook at home she couldn't ______it because of the size of her family. She then thanked me for _____ time with my family to serve hers.
She burst _______ a smile and gave me a hug______ .I gave my smile card to her.
At the end of the day I didn't think about how I gave up time with my _____ to do this because I got so ______ out of this special and unforgettable experience, ______ made me so incredibly thankful for ______ I have and I now realize it is important to give back, and not just on the holidays.
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