Mickey was a nice, cheerful, optimistic boy. No one could remember ever having seen him 36;it seemed he didn’t 37 whatever people said to him. Even his teachers admired his good 38. It was so unusual that a story was going around that Mickey’s 39 must be due to some special secret. They asked Mickey so much that, one afternoon, he 40 his favorite teacher, Mr. Anthony, to tea. When they had finished, Mickey 41 Mr. Anthony around the house. When Mickey opened his bedroom door, the teacher 42 . The huge wall was a unique collage (拼贴画) of thousands of colors and shapes! It was the loveliest 43 Mr. Anthony had ever seen.
“Some people at school think I 44 think badly of anyone,” Mickey started to explain, “and that 45 at all bothers me, but that’s not true at all. I’m just like anyone else. I used to get angrier than all the other kids. 46 years ago, with the help of my parents, I started a small collage. With every little piece I stuck on I added some bad thought or act.”
It was 47. The teacher looked closely at the wall. In each one of the small 48 he could read, “fool”, “silly”, “pain”, “bore”, and a thousand other 49 things.
“This is how I started 50 all my bad times into an opportunity to 51 to my collage. Now I like the collage so much that, each time someone makes me angry, I couldn’t be 52 . They’ve given me a new piece for my work of 53 .”
That day, the teacher was impressed by Mickey’s secret to having an optimistic character. Without telling anyone, on that very day, Mr. Anthony 54 his own collage. He would often 55 it to his students. Years later, each house contained its own beautiful works of art, made by those cheerful and optimistic children.
A.angry B.lonely C.excited D.calm
A.understand B.accept C.forget D.mind
A.character B.decision C.method D.dream
A.cleverness B.goodness C.anxiety D.worry
A.introduced B.helped C.invited D.followed
A.promised B.drove C.moved D.showed
A.relaxed B.appeared C.froze D.escaped
A.photo B.decoration C.door D.color
A.never B.often C.ever D.almost
A.something B.nothing C.everything D.anything
A.As B.But C.Because D.Though
A.reasonable B.crazy C.true D.difficult
A.books B.walls C.boxes D.pieces
A.negative B.strange C.clever D.small
A.turning B.throwing C.cutting D.packing
A.belong B.get C.add D.lead
A.quicker B.happier C.more careful D.more friendly
A.literature B.movie C.science D.art
A.left B.began C.missed D.bought
A.limit B.lend C.send D.recommend