My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way ,we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “ _____ my job. Family to Feed.”
At this store, a ____ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a ______ on how bad it must be to have to stand _______ in the cold wind.
In the store, I asked each of my kids to _____ something they thought our “friend” there would ______. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a _______. I thought about it. We were _____ on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes _____ from our need instead of our abundance is _____ what we need to do! All the kids ______ something they could do away with for the week.
When we handed him the bag of ____, he lit up and thanked us with _____ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for ______his family might need, he burst into tears.
This has been a wonderful ___ _ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can _____! Things would have played out so ______ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have ______ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in _____, it also gave my kids the ______ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.
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阅读下面的短文，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。
The way to be happy
A few years ago, a little boy who was six years old from Corvallis, Oregon suffered burns over 85% of his body. His condition was bad that several doctors gave him up and one hospital would not him because they thought he die anyway.
His life was saved, , by eight courageous people — his parents, three and three doctors. The nurses appeared the true heroines in this real-life story. After other nurses had quit, these women took eight-hour shifts with the boy, him through skin grafts (移植), operations, crucial (关键性的) periods in which death almost gained victory, and dull days of rehabilitation (康复). The boy grew to dislike them, as he thought they caused his pain.
His room 12 feet by 12 feet. The door was shut, and shades were drawn. The nurses stayed with him, in caps, masks and gloves they were assisting an operation. Within an hour they got . For 14 long months the nurses gave their all to the boy. Then, one day, he finally climbed from his and walked.
It was a great day! The nurses were for their tireless efforts. Their sense of satisfaction was so great after fighting off the thought of for 14 months that each said they’d make the effort again.
What them to feel so satisfied? I think it was more than simply the fact that the boy survived. Together they attempted something nearly impossible, but also truly .
It is like something American educator Booker T. Washington once said, “Those are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
these nurses did was significant. They worked hard and selflessly. And in doing so, they found .
Do you want to be ?
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阅读下面的短文，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。
“They’re going to kick me out of my own home,” said Karl Berger, 86 years old. Karl is a widower with no living children. When Karl’s wife died a couple of years ago, he told the Social Security Administration to stop monthly checks to his wife. But the agency to send the checks. Karl called again; a clerk said not to 33 . He told Karl to mail a follow-up that included his wife's of death. But the checks continued to come. Karl needed the money, he cashed his wife’s checks.
When SSA realized its mistake, it sent Karl a letter saying that he SSA $5,900 plus interest. Karl receives only $12,000 a year, which is slightly poverty level. The only that he ever had--$5,000--was on his wife’s funeral. He fought on Iwo Jima, site of one of the most furious battles of World War II. The battle left him in one ear and almost blind in one eye.
His small house used to be in a good neighborhood. He takes the bus once a week to visit his wife's . The rest of his time is spent at home, where he carves military figures that he donates to a local charity. The charity the carvings and uses the money to help feed the homeless.
SSA gave Karl six months to pay the debt in . Otherwise, the SSA letter said, the agency would seize his home. Karl wrote back, asking if it would be okay to $30 a month. That was all he could .
“That’s insufficient,” said William Shatner, an SSA agent. “We know that he is a war veteran, but that doesn’t entitle him to . He knew that his wife was dead, yet he cashed her monthly . That is fraud, pure and simple.”
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阅读后面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ——Henry David Thoreau
Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to __ __that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no place for the ____ of a dream.
I want more—but not necessarily in the material ____ of personal wealth and success. I want more out of life. I want a passion, a conceptual dream ____ wouldn’t let me sleep out of pure ____. I want to ____ out of bed in the morning, rain or shine, and have that passion for life that seemed so intrinsic(固有的) in early childhood.
We all have a dream. It might be defined or just a (n) ____ idea, but most of us are so stuck in the muck of insecurity and self-doubt that we just ____ it as unrealistic or too ____to pursue.
We become so ____ with the life that has been planned out for us by our parents, teachers, traditions, and social norms that we feel that it’s stupid and ____ to risk losing it for the small hope of achieving something that is more __ _.
Taking a risk is ____ a risk. We can, and will, fail. Possibly many, many, many times. But that is ____ makes it exciting for me. That uncertainty can be viewed negatively, or it can empower us.
Failing is what makes us grow, it makes us stronger and more ____ to the aspects of life we have no control ____. The fear of failure, ____, is what makes us stagnant（停滞不前） and sad. So ____ I couldn’t see the future as clearly as before, I took the plunge in hopes that in the depths of fear and failure, I would ____ feel more alive than ever before.
If you feel lost, just take a deep breath and realize that being lost can be ____ point of finding out who you truly are, and what you truly want to do.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。
I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. A newspaper reporter him why he was able to be so much more than the average person. What set him so far apart from others?
He that it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he dropped the slippery bottle, spilling its all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk!
When his mother came into the kitchen，instead of at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, she said, “Robert, what a great and mess you have made! I have seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up？”
Indeed, the boy did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? We could use a sponge(海绵)，a towel or a mop. Which do you prefer？” He chose the sponge and together they up the spilled milk.
His mother then said，“You know，what we have here is a failed experiment in how to carry a big milk bottle with two hands. Let's go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can a way to carry it without dropping it. ”The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the near the lip with both hands, he could make it. What a wonderful !
This scientist then remarked it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be to make mistakes. Instead, he knew that mistakes were just for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific are all about．Even if the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually something valuable.
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My Aunt Fannie wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only______to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look seriously at both of us—at me for being ______ of my elder and at my father for_____my bad behavior. I enjoyed both_____so I looked for every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty and helped Aunt Fanny make the _____ blueberry cobbler jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. She was known for her tasty jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. ____my mother knew the recipe by heart, she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and ____ the secret.
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process, as a reward, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter and then made me ____ that I would never spend it. "___ this quarter," she said, "and some day you will be rich. I __ keep my very first quarter given to me by my grandfather." It had obviously worked for her. __ I put the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it away in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
I now have the blueberry cobbler jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people's eye Aunt Fannie's success owed to that___ recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither have contributed to my net worth, but I keep them as ___ to get hold of the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the ____ of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a ___ that anyone can build.
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