During the winter of 2002, I had the opportunity to teach tennis in Nevis in the Caribbean Sea. My experience teaching and staying on the island was wonderful, it was also hard work!
After several weeks of teaching, I was for a vacation! I had planned a surfing outing at a surf camp in Panama with my friend Clayton. I to Panama City with my tennis bag and off we went to the remote Bay of Chiriqui.
To get to the camp, we had to load Clayton’s surfboards and my gear （装备）on and off several buses and boats. After eight hours of travel we finally .
The camp was perfect. The rooms were ideal. I rented a board and we had an unbelievable week good waves.
On our trip, we learned that our bus back to Panama City had been delayed. The sun was down on us , and the only was under a canvas canopy（帆布罩蓬）, next to the bus terminal attendant’s .
As I walked over to the shade area, a couple of kids started throwing at me. Thinking quickly, I reached into my and opened a can of tennis balls. I the youngsters and gave them the tennis balls. I got them to throw the balls onto the racket throwing rocks at me. They seemed to that.
Then an old boy got interested. He joined the game. he seemed a bit more coordinated （协调的）than the youngsters, I gave him a racket and got him to try to hit the ball onto the catching racket.
Soon, his bus arrived, and he was on his . But the clinic（临场教学） had just . Families from across the streets came over and wanted their tennis lesson, too. The bus terminal attendant __her post and came out for a lesson, too.
In what seemed like no , my bus arrived. Clayton and I made it back to Panama City in time for our connecting flights.
A．unless B．but C．because D．so
A．guilty B．blessed C．known D．ready
A．rode B．drove C．walked D．flew
A．hiking B．tennis C．boarding D．swimming
A．relaxed B．stopped C．arrived D．united
A．admiring B．expecting C．watching D．surfing
A．shopping B．field C．return D．business
A．cutting B．breaking C．beating D．calming
A．station B．shade C．seat D．entrance
A．camp B．car C．office D．house
A．rackets B．balls C．sticks D．rocks
A．bag B．pocket C．can D．suitcase
A．approached B．blamed C．passed D．pushed
A．except for B．instead of C．by means of D．in case of
A．enjoy B．dislike C．worry D．understand
A．If B．As C．Though D．After
A．side B．phone C．way D．trip
A．faded B．changed C．finished D．started
A．left B．cleaned C．searched D．protected
A．time B．effort C．problem D．opinion
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。
I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so to me and had such a big on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to my own Cancer experience ？
I’m an ambitious , and when I started going through chemo( 化疗 )，even though I’m a very ________ person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the . One day, while waiting to go in for , I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in hand. Another patient what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me ________ he had one of his books with me as well. It ________ that among other things, he was an eighty—year---old writer. He was ________ a published author, and he was currently ________ on a new book.
We would see each other at various times and ________ friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a ( n ) ________ of Dr. Berline. He really put a ________ on my face. He unfortunately ________ last year due to his cancer, ________ he left a deep impression on me and gave me the ________ to pick up my pen again. I ________ to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had ________ finding the keyhole. When I ________ to open the door, I ________ around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was ________ installed... but no switch!
Not discouraged easily, I remembered ________ a lamp by the bed when I laid my luggage ________ in the day. I found the bed in the ________ and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing ________ ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the ____________ to find another lamp. So I ________ my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around ________ I found a desk lamp which actually________ !
That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world _____________ be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than ________ light is the light that shines from people — the light of ________ and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and ________ place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in ________ of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you ________ may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is ________ a candle in a forest remember — there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to ________ the light of one small candle.
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完型填空
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。
I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.
My mother has ________ thought that hospitals are frightening. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he ________ . The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was ________ with the hospital.
When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________ be taken there, ________I was told that no one by that name had been ________ , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospital. They didn’t ________ they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n)________ person.
It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn’t been updated overnight , there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing ________ with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ________ for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us .
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I became lame（瘸的）in both legs in my childhood. I can’t stand ________ the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I “ ________ ”.
I still remember the first day at ________ . When I appeared at the door,________ in the classroom stared（凝视）at me in ________. My face turned ________. I couldn’t help ________ back. It was the ________ and sympathy（同情）in their eyes that ________ me doing so. I went shyly towards an unoccupied (空的) seat.
Being lame, I didn’t dare (敢) to ________ in front of my classmates. I was afraid that I might be ________ at. In those days I was very sad to see others walking ________ .
One day, a few students came up to me and asked me to go outside. I was really ________ . They encouraged me with a(n) ________ smile and ________ me in my wheelchair from place to place. I was ________ to them for giving me a chance to see the ________ of our lovely school with my own eyes.
After that we often read, played and talked together. My friends are always ________ to help me. It made me ________ I am handicapped (残疾的).
Once they asked me, “What is the most beautiful thing in our school?” Without hesitation (犹豫) I said, “It is the ________ . ”
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________ .
We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!
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