I was late, as usual. A friend of mine had invited me to a conference, and I had been in the parking lot for a good fifteen minutes. My mind was .Was my husband able to find the I laid out for the kids? Did the kids eat breakfast? More importantly, would he have enough to look for a parking spot in this jungle of cars in order to meet me here with the later on?
As I was the plan in my mind, I saw a parking space. Since there was not much , I decided to back up my giant truck between the two white lines so that leaving would be after the conference ended.
As I adjusted the of my truck and started reversing(倒车),another car came out of nowhere and to take my parking spot. I signaled to the that I was about to back up into the space, but she squeezed by me and her SUV in my spot! I couldn’t believe how rude she was! It made me so that I got out of my car and stared at the lady. By the way she was dressed, I could she was on her way to the conference.
I at her, “That was not very angelic behavior!”
Much to my surprise, she completely me, and I stormed off.
After a few minutes, I found parking space...behind a smelly dustbin and about a mile away from the conference. Once I myself down and tried to view the matter from a(n) angle, the possibility entered my mind that the woman may have needed the spot I did.
Later, I noticed she was actually one of the vendors(小贩) at the conference. She must have been to get there quickly in order to set up her booth and display her merchandise.
A．suffering B．struggling C．racing D．beating
A．passports B．clothes C．jewels D．cars
A．mind B．principle C．humour D．patience
A．directors B．kids C．managers D．headmasters
A．going through B．pulling through C．breaking through D．getting through
A．wonder B．energy C．room D．material
A．easier B．happier C．harder D．lower
A．circumstance B．attitude C．weight D．direction
A．attempted B．managed C．afforded D．pretended
A．assistant B．driver C．passenger D．actor
A．raised B．lifted C．parked D．pushed
A．fixed B．touched C．reliable D．angry
A．adapt B．tell C．adopt D．receive
A．greeted B．encouraged C．cheered D．shouted
A．persuaded B．presented C．ignored D．followed
A．another B．that C．other D．others
A．turned B．calmed C．broke D．brought
A．necessary B．proper C．attractive D．different
A．other than B．rather than C．more than D．less than
A．desperate B．surprised C．slight D．proud
My 4-year-old son now enjoys posting letters. He has formed the of drawing pictures, writing his name on them, and then the artwork in an envelope. He then insists on his handwork to the neighbors, and a mail box he belongs to the elderly couple who live next door. To be , I didn’t think much of it, but I had to warn my neighbors of the drawings appearing in their letterboxes—I just didn’t have the to do so, because I was a little busy recently.
On Tuesday of last week, I was walking down to school to collect my son when I Mary, my elderly neighbor, at her mail box. She said, “Jodie, is it your little son that has been posting items in my letterbox to me?” I was at once , “Oh yes, Mary, it is. I’m sorry. I meant to tell you…” She cut me off, “Jodie, I just love his mail. I’ve 37 every item he has sent. You don’t know how much the letters has made my day. I just love them.” While I was walking down to school after our , many thoughts came to me. Mary doesn’t have a lot to fill her days, she was a mother to a number of children herself who receives fairly regular visitors. The small of getting some mail—pictures drawn by the hand of a young child—has brought to her days, just as my visit to my grandparents does.
I have decided that my son should this practice. He should also start sending some items to his grandparents in Perth as well. It will most make their day.
It’s doing the little, simple things that can often make a big in someone’s life.
A．habit B．attitude C．style D．form
A．hiding B．writing C．drawing D．putting
A．handing B．holding C．posting D．writing
A．opened B．set C．chose D．saw
A．kind B．surprised C．careful D．honest
A．meant B．asked C．hated D．refused
A．actually B．suddenly C．hardly D．partly
A．intelligence B．strength C．money D．time
A．met B．visited C．dated D．called
A．crying B．lying C．laughing D．standing
A．humorous B．embarrassed C．confused D．amused
A．copied B．bought C．kept D．examined
A．receiving B．writing C．painting D．exchanging
A．report B．expression C．talk D．discussion
A．unless B．but C．so D．although
A．charge B．offer C．act D．help
A．worth B．happiness C．value D．future
A．add B．stop C．continue D．judge
A．certainly B．unfortunately C．accidentally D．confidently
A．point B．difference C．sense D．living
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more ____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better ____ it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly ____ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so none of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was ____ when they met one evening, and said, “What's up, Dave?” Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ____ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's ____ was sensible(合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, uses very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ____. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry. A man rang up and said he would like to ____ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be ____ or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll ____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ____ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ____ to wait there for the people who had ____ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ____ that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸). Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this ____ to us yet, sir?”
A．hopefully B．safely C．easily D．properly
A．keep B．sell C．repair D．throw
A．ashamed B．lucky C．anxious D．happy
A．upset B．delighted C．calm D．astonished
A．learn B．miss C．find D．get
A．advice B．message C．request D．description
A．doubt B．help C．reply D．trouble
A．tell B．agree C．see D．call
A．exact B．late C．early D．suitable
A．follow B．bring C．meet D．introduce
A．recognize B．test C．admire D．gain
A．happening B．turning C．meaning D．failing
A．answered B．inserted C．cared D．placed
A．admit B．show C．disagree D．forget
A．bargain B．sale C．result D．accident
One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to Mr. Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house. As they got , Janet saw him sitting in his front yard and they should cross over to the other side of the street. Janet was of the strange old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.
Amy said not to . Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown （皱眉头）. , when he saw it was Amy, a broad changed his entire face as he said, “Hello Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little with you today.”
Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson said that sounded , and gave them each a freshly picked off his tree.
When they Dawson’s house, Janet asked Amy, “How come he was so to us?”
Amy that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very and she was afraid of him, but she he was wearing an invisible （看不见的）smile and so she smiled back at him. After some time, he started smiling real smiles and then started to her. Now he always her an apple, and was always very kind.
Smiles are contagious （感染他人的）. If you pretend he is smiling an invisible smile at you and you smile back at him, he will really smile.
A．walk by B．take up C．go into D．tear down.
A．far B．fast C．inside D．close
A．announced B．suggested C．ordered D．predicted
A．fond B．ashamed C．scared D．proud
A．cry B．worry C．return D．speak
A．Instead B．Besides C．Therefore D．However
A．accent B．joke C．smile D．idea
A．friend B．doll C．gift D．pet
A．there B．indoors C．overnight D．here
A．great B．strange C．simple D．dull
A．banana B．orange C．pear D．apple
A．entered B．left C．visited D．saw
A．fair B．rude C．nice D．open
A．explained B．thought C．doubted D．realized
A．happy B．famous C．friendly D．popular
A．remembered B．pretended C．asked D．agreed
A．ever B．seldom C．never D．always.
A．turning B．referring C．talking D．complaining
A．offered B．awarded C．lent D．bought
A．more or less B．now and again C．here and there D．sooner or later
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There was a store a half hour’ s walk from my apartment, and it was the cheapest place to buy food for us students studying abroad in France, there was always a long checkout line. On a cold March day, I spent my time shopping, got what I needed and the checkout.
, the lines that day were long. There were people everywhere. I was standing . in line because I just wasn’t that my French yet. Any time that I had to with the natives, I got a little nervous.
When my came, I began to put my things on the cashier desk, hoping that the cashier wouldn’t me. With nervous energy, I was shaking back and forth, but I didn’t even notice I was continually a security alarm!
The entire store was watching me now. To my , the store manager came to me a few moments later. She started to me in French. Then she realized that I spoke no French. The next five minutes were spent me: my backpack, my coat pockets, my jean pockets. And there were hands . Everyone was looking, pointing, and .
I stood embarrassedly all the while; the was still ringing out.
Then I this had happened to me before in the States. New always equal alarms. The clothes contain small sensors (传感器) that you are supposed to before wearing. So I grabbed my shirt and turned it . There was a “Remove Before Washing” tag in it. I could say anything, the manager brought a pair of scissors and then cut off the tag.
I packed up my backpack, and marched out of the store with a strange mixture of embarrassment and pride.
A．when B．because C．so D．or
A．headed for B．looked for C．asked D．turned to
A．In fact B．Unexpectedly C．As usual D．Unluckily
A．hopefully B．thoughtfully C．fearfully D．nervously
A．interested in B．confident about C．afraid of D．strict with
A．stay B．play C．study D．communicate
A．turn B．time C．bill D．wait
A．find B．recognize C．speak to D．look at
A．setting up B．setting off C．making up D．making out
A．excitement B．surprise C．happiness D．sorrow
A．answer B．help C．question D．understand
A．searching B．catching C．watching D．greeting
A．somewhere B．anywhere C．nowhere D．everywhere
A．smiling B．whispering C．worrying D．upsetting
A．phone B．bell C．alarm D．toy
A．explained B．complained C．remembered D．thought
A．trousers B．clothes C．backpacks D．pockets
A．remove B．check C．buy D．use
A．down B．inside C．off D．outward
A．After B．Before C．As D．When
A lady and her husband stepped off the train in Boston. They walked without an appointment（预约）into the outer of Harvard’s president. But they were by his secretary and kept waiting. For hours, the secretary took no notice of them, that the couple would finally become and go away. But they didn’t. The secretary finally decided to disturb the president, though .
A few minutes later, the president walked towards the couple with a face. The lady told him, “We had a son that Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to a memorial（纪念物）to him, somewhere on campus.”
The president wasn’t . Instead, he was shocked. “Madam,” he said, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died. If we did, this would look like a cemetery（墓地）,” “Oh, no,” the lady quickly. “We don’t want to put up a statue. We would like to give a to Harvard.” The president rolled his eyes and at the couple and then exclaimed, ” A building! Do you have any how much a building costs? We have spent over $7,500,000 on the campus building at Harvard.” For a moment the lady was silent. The president was , because he could get rid of them now. Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a ? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. their offer was turned down. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford traveled to California where they founded the University that bears their , a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer about.
A．lab B．library C．hall D．office
A．watched B．stopped C．followed D．interviewed
A．hoping B．finding C．realizing D．imagining
A．surprised B．disappointed C．worried D．troubled
A．hopelessly B．carefully C．unexpectedly D．unwillingly
A．pleasant B．funny C．cold D．sad
A．attended B．visited C．studied D．served
A．clever B．brave C．proud D．happy
A．set about B．set up C．take down D．take over
A．satisfied B．excited C．moved D．ashamed
A．house B．part C．garden D．place
A．explained B．expressed C．refused D．admitted
A．building B．yard C．playground D．square
A．laughed B．shouted C．glanced D．called
A．suggestion B．idea C．thought D．opinion
A．bored B．astonished C．interested D．pleased
A．department B．university C．business D．club
A．Once B．While C．Since D．Though
A．name B．character C．picture D．sign
A．talked B．knew C．heard D．cared
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