Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing was something she picked up by herself. After her first ，teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ，writing stories was simply a interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商）。 they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long and paid Tracy a $500，000 advance. “A pretty money, " said the publisher, " for writer. "
Tracy's characters (人物）are interesting, her stories sometimes （9) readers uneasy： those about the supernatural. " My mother believed I could the afterlife world " ，she told a close friend. " She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago. "
“Can I? I don't think I can, Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have （11） when things come to me .”Once, she was wondering how to complete a set in ancient (古代的）China. the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese . It came without her having it.
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained by her fame. She lives in the same she lived 27 years ago—although in a more comfortable home. There's more room for in her life— and it wasn't just
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A．success B．work C．joy D．variety
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I have two friends who love backpacking. They spent a lot of time in a part of New York State's Adirondack Mountains. It 46 mountains with a height of over 4,000 feet. The Adirondack Mountain Club gives recognition, and an award, to anyone who all 46 mountains. My two friends decided to go for this award.
Now what you have to understand is that many of the 46 mountains have well-marked to their summits (山顶), others are not marked at all. You have to "bushwhack (在丛林中开路)" using a compass and a map.
My friends had climbed 45 of the mountains. They had just one — it was the most requiring bushwhacking. A hiking path led past the base of the mountain, but from that point they were on their own.
Early one morning they left their and walked five miles on the hiking path to the base of a chain of mountains. When they arrived, they that they had left their compass and map back in camp. Rather than the camp, they decided to bushwhack without the compass and map.
For hours they uphill enduring heat, thick bush, and black flies. , late in the afternoon they found themselves at the of a mountain successfully. They were exhausted but .
The feeling was short-lived, however. When they looked across the valley, they another higher mountain. They had climbed the one! It was too that weekend to put their error right. They had to another four months to climb the right mountain.
This story us a good lesson. Often in life we put in a great effort to reach a goal. But without the right "map" and "compass", it is to get "lost".
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“Are you going shopping today?” my husband, Roy, asked when I answered the telephone. “I to,” I said. Thanksgiving was only a couple days away. My money was and I knew I had to be creative in my shopping that day.
For a few seconds, Roy sat on the other end of the line. The nervousness gradually increased under the wordlessness, which I couldn’t wait to break through. “Why do you ask?” I whispered, what he might say.
“Nancy, there’s a family with six kids that will not have anything to for Thanksgiving. The little one is only five years old. While you’re at the store could you buy something for them?” My head began to spin when I was thinking about the fifty dollars I had for our family’s Thanksgiving dinner.
In the back of my mind I the hungry guests who would be coming to our house for dinner. I put my head down on my desk, already feeling . There’s no way possible, I thought. But the compassion (怜悯) I heard in my husband’s struck a nerve inside me.
I replied, “ but only if God helps.”
I finished my work and all the way to the nearest grocery store. I entered the parking lot and noticed a big in the grocery store window: Turkeys---29 cents a pound. “Thank God!” I said to myself.
I went inside, but when I read the sign my heart . “Limit one.” But I needed at least two so I decided to find the manager. I the problem. He made an exception. To my , I had enough money. I was even able to purchase a package of cookies for the five-year-old child who had 3 my heart, even though I had never met her.
Later that afternoon, Roy and I made a special delivery to a home with children of all ages. I will never forget the on the six kids’ faces.
By far, that was the greatest of my life.
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In the past，people usually believed what newly born babies wanted was food and to be kept warm and dry．They thought babies were not able to ____ things until they were five or six months old．____ the researchers in the United States now believe babies begin learning on their first ____ of life．They say babies are strongly ____ by their environment and one baby will ____ if his or her mother does something that the baby likes．
A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to ____ her mother．This is how babies start to learn to ____ and communicate with other people．The researchers say this ability to learn ____ in a baby even before birth．They also ____ the idea that newlyborn babies can ____ and understand sounds they heard while they were still ____ inside their mothers．
Recently，an American study ____ 112 babies found babies learned better when they were ____．The babies appeared to learn well whether they were sitting up on their own，sitting in seats or ___ to sit up．The researchers say keeping that kind ____ had what they called a ____ effect on the babies' ability to learn about objects．They say the body position may be linked to development in the ____．One ____ says babies can pay more attention to ____ an object if they do not have to be about their balance．
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A．cry B．smile C．eat D．sing
A．annoy B．love C．notice D．please
A．live B．connect C．speak D．smile
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A．infer B．support C．deny D．instruct
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A．assisted B．forced C．asked D．mentioned
A．hobby B．gesture C．decoration D．purpose
A．negative B．unmarked C．significant D．side
A．language B．feeling C．brain D．body
A．psychologist B．mother C．doctor D．researcher
A．exploring B．finding C．feeling D．discovering
A．anxious B．confident C．worried D．curious
The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps．She _____ the driver and, using her hands to feel the _____ of the seats, walked down and found the _____ which the driver had told her was empty．Then she settled in．
It had been a year since Mary,34, ______ a medical misdiagnosis （误诊）, was suddenly thrown into a world of _____．Mark, her husband, was an Air Force officer and he loved Mary with all his heart．He ______ her how to rely on her other ______, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and _____ to adapt herself to the new environment．He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could _____ for her, and save her a seat．
_____, Mary decided that she was ready to try the ______ on her own．Monday morning, she said good-bye and for the first time, they went their _______ ways．
On Friday morning, Mary took the bus to work as usual．As she was _______ the bus, the driver said, “Boy, I ______ envy you．” Mary had no _______what the driver was talking about, and asked, “What do you ______?”
The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the _____ week, a fine-looking gentleman ______a military uniform has been standing across the corner _____ you as you get off the bus．He ______ you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building．You are one lucky lady．”
Tears of gratitude poured down Mary’s cheeks．
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A．looks out B．takes up C．believes in D．makes sure
You may be surprised to see “making sure children never suffer” as a mistake. The following may help you understand how rescuing children from all suffering weakness.
A little boy felt sorry for a butterfly to emerge from its chrysalis(蛹）. He decided to the butterfly. So he peeled the chrysalis open for the butterfly. The little boy was so to watch the butterfly spread its wings and fly off into the sky. Then he was horrified he watched the butterfly fall to the ground and die because it did not have the muscle to keep flying. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to the chrysalis helps the butterfly become stronger.
Like the little boy, too often want to protect their children from struggle in the of love. They don’t realize that their children need to struggle, to experience , to deal with disappointment, and to solve their own problems. Only in this way children strengthen their emotional strength, become and develop the skills necessary for the even bigger struggles they will meet throughout their lives. Children experiencing sufferings can the ups and downs of life.
However, it isn’t helpful either in this case when parents lectures(训斥), blame and shame to what the child is experiencing. Mothers to say, “Stop crying and acting like a spoiled boy. You can’t always get what you want.” These Instead, parents can offer loving support. You can say, “Don’t lose . Be brave! You will succeed if you try again.” Then comes the tough part—no and no lectures. Simply allow him to discover that he can his disappointment and figure out what he can do to get what he wants in the future.
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A．kill B．feed C．help D．rescue
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A．power B．energy C．strength D．force
A．break away from B．do away with C．get along with D．come up with
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A．Parking B．smoking C．drinking D．rescuing
A．get through B．get over C．get across D．get away
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