Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with. I was hoping to have a the summer before my busy senior year, but my mother asked me to do her a . One of her colleagues needed a full-time _ “You planned to volunteer at the local hospital, why not volunteer to Nick instead?” Then she told me that this six-year-old boy was not a child.
Nick was a lovely little boy who suffered from many disorders. Normal day-care centers would not him. As a baby, he had serious ear infections which left him with equilibrium（平衡）problems. He couldn’t or run properly. I was if I was to take the job when my mother , “Don’t you want to be a nurse in the future? I doubt if you even have the .”
Then I told her I was for the job.
The day started at 7:00 a.m. Nick was my wake-up call! With so much energy and very little , he was quite a mix.
At the park, when he saw all the other children play on the jungle gym and swings, the boy’s face up. How he wished he belonged to the group of his age! You would think it would be to get a child to go down a slide（滑梯）. Believe me, it wasn’t! It took time, a lot of time. But with patience and support, Nick took one step up the slide each day. We worked together to face his and gradually he got closer to taking the slide of his life.
Halfway through the summer, he it to the top of the slide. With my arms holding him tightly, we flew down the slide! I waited for his . After realizing that he was safe and sound, he gave me a big and asked, “May I go down again, alone?”
I had never been happier in my life when I saw this little child climb the ladder and enjoy what other children for granted.
This child taught me that being a nurse means respect, kindness and patience.
A．relaxation B．course C．project D．grade
A．favour B．service C．business D．trade
A．guide B．waitress C．guard D．nurse
A．protect B．assist C．attend D．comfort
A．normal B．naughty C．clever D．happy
A．admit B．accept C．receive D．adopt
A．speak B．play C．walk D．stand
A．wondering B．hesitating C．questioning D．doubting
A．suggested B．argued C．challenged D．commented
A．courage B．energy C．faith D．time
A．eager B．sorry C．grateful D．ready
A．balance B．awareness C．knowledge D．control
A．delighted B．cheered C．shut D．lit
A．demanding B．simple C．interesting D．flexible
A．worries B．fears C．chances D．situations
A．climbed B．made C．managed D．got
A．reaction B．laughter C．answer D．greeting
A．surprise B．clap C．welcome D．kiss
A．take B．do C．play D．enjoy
A．miserable B．smart C．brave D．special
One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is .
Once I heard a bald man said, “Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair.” Once you’ve what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different , or forget about it and the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively life, yet are essentially unhappy, while people who have suffered a great deal generally remain happy.
The first is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is awareness. We should that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious are those pursuits ( 追求) that give our lives purpose---anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We need a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy is, it should this truth: if you choose to find the in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this depends on your decision to make.
A．different B．short C．missing D．broken
A．imagined B．predicted C．assumed D．determined
A．really B．naturally C．hopefully D．completely
A．ceiling B．brick C．tile D．house
A．go on B．focus on C．put on D．rely on
A．easy B．difficult C．ordinary D．peaceful
A．factor B．secret C．rule D．key
A．upset B．quarrel C．depress D．complain
A．realize B．decide C．prove D．suppose
A．answers B．results C．sources D．goals
A．curious B．satisfied C．tentative D．likely
A．value B．existence C．survival D．destination
A．include B．tell C．absorb D．mean
A．worst B．positive C．disgusting D．negative
A．absolutely B．totally C．largely D．exactly
There is one word that is on the lips of Americans , day and night -"Sorry."
Once as I was walling on the street, a young man ran by ,brushing against my handbag. Even as he continued on his .way, he back and said "sorry" to me. Even in a rush, he didn't forget to apologize.
One day, after I bought some apples, the salesman was giving me the change, but I wasn't ready for it And a dropped on the ground. "I'm sorry," he said while bending down to pick it up. I was -why would he apologize when it was my .
Another time ,I stepped a man's foot in a lift At the same time, we both said "sorry"．I thought it interesting at first - was it really for him to apologize?
Later on, an American friend o me that according to the American ideas, the lift is a place everyone should be able to stand in. After someone occupies a position in the lift, making it for someone else to find a place to stand in ,isn't it necessary to an apologize?
During my stay in America ,I gradually that when friction（摩擦）happen in daily life, Americans don't care much about who is responsible. Someone is troubled, a "sorry" is always necessary. The "sorry” would cool tempers the other person is hurt. Perhaps this is why I saw anyone quarreling on the buses, subways or street in America.
A．excitedly B．hurriedly C．happily D．hopefully
A．drove B．held C．watched D．turned
A．coin B．handbag C．wallet D．bill.
A．impressed B．moved C．annoyed D．puzzled
A．duty B．attitude C．fault D．business
A．over B．on C．in D．at
A．necessary B．important C．surprising D．polite
A．lied B．explained C．pointed D．admitted
A．crowded B．common C．public D．free
A．unfit B．impossible C．narrow D．difficult
A．express B．receive C．expect D．tell
A．realized B．remembered C．agreed D．meant
A．Although B．What C．Unless D．If
A．as if B．even if C．as soon as D．before
A．always B．often C．never D．sometimes
【改编】Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to join my father, who’d moved there to find better-paying work when I was three years old. He had a at a restaurant and only visited us once every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But , I didn’t stop to analyze the situation when I was to leave . Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn in a few weeks.
When I in the US and started 8th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was a(n) foreign language I couldn’t understand. I that life had subtitles（字幕）, like in foreign movies.
was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always watching my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the thing was having to read newspaper.
But after almost seven months of about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things. It just made my life worse. If I was going to in this new concrete jungle, I had to adapt. I began to learn English by reading newspaperson my own after . After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers notice my and moved me into a more modern English class. I could go to the storeand ask for things that I wanted to buy any frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again because I didn’t hear talk. I could understand people.
A．work B．friend C．job D．cook.
A．luckily B．eventually C．gradually D． honestly
A．attempting B．packing C．managing D．trying
A．English B．German C．French D．Chinese
A．got B．reached C． arrived D．entered
A．talking B．speaking C．telling D．saying
A．wished B．hoped C．expected D．wanted
A．Restaurant B．Home C．Hospital D．School
A．happiest B．strange C．worst D．most
A．complaining B．quarreling C．fighting D．discussing
A．live B．study C．survive D．continue
A．school B．work C．graduation D．meals
A．mistakes B．accent C．embarrassment D．progress
A．for B．without C．with D．in
A．foreign B．similar C．familiar D．native
Another secret of animals’ survival is telepathy（心灵感应）. This sense becomes atrophied（衰退） in man, but a(n) thought-communication functions in animals. Elsa, the lioness, frequently when George and I intended to visit her camp, even though it 180 miles from our home in Isiolo. On most when we made our irregular visit she was waiting for us. By following the spoor（野兽的足迹），we that she had sometimes walked 50 or 60 miles to meet us.
The same thing when I took Elsa’s sisters to Nairobi to be flown to the Rotterdam zoo, Elsa’s zoo. Elsa stayed behind with George in Isiolo 180 miles . He did not know when I was coming back, no person knew. But Elsa knew. On the morning of my she sat down at the entrance and wouldn’t make any until I arrived in the evening.
I have known this kind of thought-communication with the animal with whom I’ve lived. When Elsa died, I woke in the night, knowing what had happened, even though I was several miles away. The same thing later with one of Pippa’s cubs.
I don’t this sensitivity with my own kind. Feel far more in tune with what is going on when I am in the bush than when I am in London on Nairobi. We don’t know much yet about this telepathy from which gland（腺体） it comes, or how it . But if men could awaken or it in themselves, and then cooperate by trusting each other, fearing and treating one another , the world would be a far better place.
A．extremely B．completely C．thoroughly D．definitely
A．sensed B．aware C．feels D．concerns
A．lay B．lies C．located D．stood
A．case B．conditions C．occasions D．situations
A．discussed B．dismissed C．discovered D．distrusted
A．happened B．broken out C．replaced D．took over
A．far B．farther C．away D．far from
A．turn B．return C．reality D．reappear
A．emotions B．feelings C．exchanges D．movement
A．burst forth B．burst C．appeared D．occurred
A．command B．confirm C．possess D．prohibit
A．starts B．comprehends C．manufactures D．works
A．create B．plant C．cultivate D．produce
A．rather than B．other than C．would rather D．or rather
A．suspiciously B．suspecting C．prosperously D．doubtfully
When asked to point out one or two things that are most important to themselves, many put friends ahead of homes, jobs, clothes and cars.
A true carries a long history of experience that determines who we are and keeps us connected. It is a we should prove it. ，the better friends you are, the more probably you’ll have disagreements. And the can be what you don’t want an end to finish the relationship.
The good news is that most troubled friendships can be .First, don’t let your pride get in your way. Most of us can forgive each other when are brought out in the open. Second，_ _when you’re wrong－even if you’ve been . Over the course of friendship， the best people make mistakes. Sometimes, it may be best if the wronged person the lead and apologizes. When you apologize, give your friend a to admit that he has been wrong. Third, see things from your point of view. And accept that friendships change as our needs and lifestyles change. Making friends can sometimes seem . The hard part is __ _the connections strong during the nature ups and downs that have an effect on all relationships. My suggestion: Consider friendship an honor and a gift, and worth the effort to treasure and nurture (培养)．
A．friendship B．love C．relationship D．care
A．wealth B．gold C．jewellery D．treasure
A．Personally B．Naturally C．Unfortunately D．Luckily
A．result B．pace C．future D．minute
A．finished B．mended C．changed D．prevented
A．discussions B．questions C．differences D．interests
A．admit B．punish C．flee D．apologize
A．blamed B．wronged C．punished D．praised
A．still B．even C．yet D．ever
A．takes B．gives C．gets D．makes
A．reason B．cause C．chance D．time
A．brother’s B．father’s C．enemy’s D．friend’s
A．properly B．finally C．really D．merely
A．difficult B．hard C．easy D．likely
A．keeping B．letting C．proving D．remaining
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