I had worried myself sick over Simon’s mother coming to see me. I was a new , and I gave an honest account of the students’ work. In Simon’s case, the grades were awfully low. He couldn’t read his own handwriting. he was a bright student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult comprehension. His work in no way reflected his .
So when Simon’s mother entered the room, my palms(手掌心) were sweating. I was completely for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you,” she said, surprising me beyond speech. me, Simon had become a different person. He talked of how he me, he had began to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had spent an afternoon at a friend’s house. She wanted to tell me how grateful she was for the I had nurtured(培养) in her son. She kissed me again and left.
I sat, stunned (惊呆), for about half an hour, what had just happened. How did I make such a life-changing difference to that boy without knowing it? What I finally came to was one day, several months before, when some students were reports in the front of the class, Jeanne spoke , and to encourage her to raise her voice, L had said, “Speak up. Simon’s the expert on this. He is the one you have to convince, and he can’t hear you in the of the room.” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up straighter, paid more attention, more, and became happy. And it was all because he to be the last kid in the last row. The boy who most needed was the one who took the last seat that day.
It taught me the most lesson over the years of my teaching career, and I’m thankful that it came and positively. A small kindness can indeed make a difference.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. I’ve always tried to keep my ________ from people who are rude, aggressive and mean. But sometimes we ________ become tied to people who might not have our best ________ at heart.
Last summer, I became involved with a(n) ________ coworker who was at a bad spot in his life. I had a lot of________ for him and decided to help him ________ this tough time, so I tried my best to ________ his rudeness when he lost his temper. However, just like a swimmer drowning in a pool, he grabbed on and ended up drowning me when I reached out and tried to ________ him. His rudeness gradually was out of ________ . One night, when I got up to get a glass of water, he started yelling at me to get back into my bedroom. I did as I was told but I was not happy about it. He ________ my shift in mood and asked what was wrong. But when I told him his behavior toward me was ________ and that I was very hurt by the way he had treated me, he was ________ . He could not understand his actions had ________ impacted me. He told me he didn’t have anything against me that there was no need for me to ________it. I used examples from his life of things that had hurt him and then tried to make the ________ that the same things also made me ________ . I said, “ I always treat you with compassion, patience and understanding, but you haven’t treated me with ________ respect.” He was silent after listening to my words. What I had said might ________ him.
People only change if they want to change. I didn’t know whether he would shift his ________or not in the future, but I would continue to________ him through my patience, understanding and kindness.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Billy, a hard – working student, is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part – time job that ________ him up every morning at five o’clock, when most people are still ________ asleep. He is a newspaper boy.
Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the ________ where the newspapers always are. The newspapers were ________to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to ________them.
In the winter it is still dark ________ he gets up every day, but during the rest of the year it is ________ . Billy must send the newspapers to the houses of people on his ________ in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch (门廊) where it will be ________ from wind and rain or snow. Sometimes his customers give him tips, ________ him very excited.
Billy earns about $ 70 per month through hard ________ , and he is saving some of the money to go to ________ where he has always been longing to go. Besides that, he ________ the rest of the earnings on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect the ________ at night since many of the people work during the day. That is when he is ________ so that he is full of excitement. Luckily, he gets ________ supported by his family. Sometimes, when Billy is sick, his brother offers to deliver the newspapers for him. Once, his father was too ________ to help him.
Billy has seventy customers now, but he doesn’t feel ________ about the number.
He dreams that he will get ________ customers as possible some day. ________ , he might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.
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Burned Toast
When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made dinner after a long, hard day at________.
On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. I remember__________ to see if anyone noticed! __________ all my dad did was reach for his toast, ________ at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. . . I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember__________him spread butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite!
When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom __________ to my dad for burning the toast. And I'II never________what he said: “Honey, I love burned toast.” Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really __________ his toast burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said," Your Momma put_________ a hard day at work today and she's really _________. And besides, a burned toast never ________anyone! "
__________is full of imperfect things... and imperfect people. I'm not the best at anything, and I forget_________ and anniversaries just like everyone else. But what I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other's _________---and choosing to__________ each other's differences---is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and________relationship where a burned toast isn't a deal-breaker!
We could extend this to any___________. In fact, understanding is the_________ of any relationship, whether it is a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!
"Don't put the key to your___________in someone else's pocket---keep it in your own.”
So please pass me a toast, and yes, a__________ one will be fine!
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Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer. But while studying ________ at university in Mumbai, she decided to quit her major and to something more ________ .
Remembering helping her mother in the ________ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. So she ________ her parents to let her go to study cooking. One day, her friends took her to one of the best macaron（杏仁小圆饼）shops in Paris.
After just one ________, Ms Dhingra determined that when she ________ to Mumbai she would open her own macaron store, the first of its kind in India. Upon graduation, she started ________ macarons in her parents' kitchen, but it was a complete ________ .The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it ________ to make delicious cakes. After 60 failed ________,she finally got an ideal recipe. ________ being both young and female meant she faced additional ________ ."The biggest problem was to get people to take you ________．”she tells us. "For example, ________ I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me. " However, she ________ opened her first shop in 2010. To ________ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaron was, Ms Dhingra ________ free samples to customers. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon took off thanks to the ________ evaluation. .
Now, Ms Dhingra is the ________ of three busy macaron shops. She has planned to ________ her business across the country. One newspaper article called her " the macaron queen of India" .
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完形填空,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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Looking back on the barbeque that day I hosted, I can’t help thinking that things didn’t go as well as planned. Recalling my own____ may help you avoid making the same mistakes.
I asked a few friends____ the barbeque. The weather was ____ for the whole weekend and there is nothing better than eating food outdoors. ____I ‘d be the one doing the cooking, it was going to give a chance to ____my barbeque skills. On the morning of the actual day, I visited the____ to pick up the essentials, which ____meant beer, wine, sausages, burgers some bread rolls. My ____was that these things would ensure a great barbeque ____. Once people arrived, we all soon started drinking and ____. Although I soon realized I forgot to purchase any soft drinks, all seemed to be going ____.
At this point, a vegetarian friend asked what he would ____ . It was then that it hit me!. I realized that I had assumed that ____wouldn’t be meat eater. The foolish assumption could have been ____if I had thought about these things earlier. Thinking that I let a guest stay hungry, I__ that food that was already cooking. Before I knew it, I had some burnt sausages and burgers for everyone else. ____my friends were very understanding about the whole situation.
____this experience, I realized that I was____. In the future to avoid making the same mistakes, we should ensure that we put plenty of effort into the____ and we should spend more time considering what will happen. There is no doubt that doing so is ____to host a successful event.
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