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Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer. But while studying ________ at university in Mumbai, she decided to quit her major and to something more ________ .
Remembering helping her mother in the ________ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. So she ________ her parents to let her go to study cooking. One day, her friends took her to one of the best macaron（杏仁小圆饼）shops in Paris.
After just one ________, Ms Dhingra determined that when she ________ to Mumbai she would open her own macaron store, the first of its kind in India. Upon graduation, she started ________ macarons in her parents' kitchen, but it was a complete ________ .The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it ________ to make delicious cakes. After 60 failed ________,she finally got an ideal recipe. ________ being both young and female meant she faced additional ________ ."The biggest problem was to get people to take you ________．”she tells us. "For example, ________ I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me. " However, she ________ opened her first shop in 2010. To ________ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaron was, Ms Dhingra ________ free samples to customers. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon took off thanks to the ________ evaluation. .
Now, Ms Dhingra is the ________ of three busy macaron shops. She has planned to ________ her business across the country. One newspaper article called her " the macaron queen of India" .
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to be on duty on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked doubtfully. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t accompanied(陪伴) by the body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Out of curiosity, I checked their registration form. No address—they were . I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a family of five in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of Christmas day, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal in the hospital dining hall on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients that came to us that day, our team worked to meet the needs, ________ the expectation, of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
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阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
Not long ago, I was at a state conference (会议) with a group preparing for a week of meetings. I walked into the room where a handful of volunteers were ______ collating (装订整理) handouts. I asked if I could help. One of the ladies _____ said “Oh, no, thank you” and offered me a chair to just sit while they worked.
Then, another volunteer came into the room, saw me sitting there doing nothing and said: “Hey, Larry, come on over here. There’s work to do, and you can help.” He put a couple of chairs ______, placed two stacks of handouts on them and ______: “OK, the left sheet goes on top of the right one.”
“Fine. I can handle that,” I said. And just like that, I was now part of the team.
This member of the group saw that my ______ did not mean an inability to help. ______, I thanked him for having included me, and asked ______ motivated his action. He said: “Well, I figured ______ one more set of hands we’d finish more quickly. I was just using ______.”
I’m sure that the kind folks who initially (最初) ______ my offer of help did not mean to offend (冒犯) me. It just seemed more appropriate to them to say “No, thank you” than to stop their work and try and ______ how to include me. And that’s the real issue here. Too often, people with disabilities are _______ – within their _____ or within a social setting – because of their disability and not because of their inability.
It’s important for all of us to feel part of the group and to feel that we ______. It’s important to our self-esteem (自尊). And it is even more important for people with disabilities. ______ means we are accepted, appreciated and _____ as a full and ______ member of the group. It sends a ______ that states: “To us, your abilities are more important than your disability.”
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完形填空
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。
My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string players in our town. He could not music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.
Dad loved to play the mandolin for his for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, his time and efforts to making sure that his family had enough in their life. I had grown into a man and had children of my own I realized how much he had sacrificed.
I joined the United States Air in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his in his ability to play so well for his family.
In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand by the machine. Although he didn’t lose enough of the finger it would stop him picking up anything, it did his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, every time we asked him to play, he would make for why he couldn’t play. Eventually, we could persuade him and he would say, “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it didn’t make any .
In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said “okay”. He knew it would probably be the time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few . When I looked around, there was not a eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life, . As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad surely could play that Mandolin!
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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In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She ________ but the fever left its mark一she could no longer see and ________ . Because she could not hear，she also found it very ________to speak.
So how did this child，blinded and deafened at 19 months old，grow up to________ a world-famous author and public speaker?
The fever cut her ________from the outside world， depriving (剥夺）her of sight and sound. It was ________ she had been thrown into a dark prison room from which there could be no ________ .
Luckily Helen was not someone who 48 easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other ________ . She followed her mother wherever she went， ________ onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She 51 their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself，like milking the 52 or kneading dough (揉面）.She even learnt to ________ people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also________ where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the ________ of the ground under her feet.
By the age of 7 she had invented over 60 different ________by which she could talk to her family. ff she wanted bread for example，she would pretend to ________a loaf and butter into slices (片）.If she wanted ice cream， she ________ herself with her arms and pretended to shake.
Helen was unusual in that she was extremely ________ and also very sensitive. By her own ________ she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.
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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。
One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ________ she realized that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and ________ what to do, she began crying. After a while. She ________ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes. ________ it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and ________ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door and back to the ________ . Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a ________ .
The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy ________ that his mistrees(女主人)was in danger. He jumped ________ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a ________ scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He ________ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ________ into the air, the dog ________ through the woods until he found the ________ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ________ , he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He ________ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was________ .
When she opened her eyes and ________ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you ________ me, Laddy,” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of________ .That night Laddy had a hero’s supper: a huge meal of steak
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完形填空
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。
Abraham Lincoln was one of the few great men who really were great. ________ he became president, Lincoln spent twenty years as a(n) ________ lawyer – at least in financial terms. But when you ________ the good he did, he was very rich ________ .
For example, Lincoln didn’t like to ________ people much who were as poor as he was. Once a man gave him twenty-five dollars, but Lincoln ________ him back ten of it, saying he was being too ________.
Lincoln won a case for an old woman in________ poverty. He didn’t charge(收费) her for his ________ and, in fact, paid her hotel bill and gave her money to buy a ticket home!
He once ________a cheater(骗子) from gaining possession of some land ________ by a mentally ill girl. After he case, Lincoln’s assosciate(同事) came to ________ their fee, but Lincoln reprimanded(训斥) him. His associate ________ that her brother had agreed on the fee ________ , and that he was ________ satisfied.
“That may be,” said Lincoln, “but I’m not satisfied. That money comes out of the ________ of a poor, mad girl; and I would rather ________ than take it. You return half the money at least, or I’ll not take a cent of it as my ________ .”
He was a fool, perhaps, by certain standards. He didn’t have much, and it was his own ________ . But he was a good human being by anyone’s standards.
Lincoln didn’t talk much about religion. But he once said, “When I do________ , I feel good, and when I do bad, I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”
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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。
Growing older is unavoidable while growing up is optional. These words have been passed on in the loving ____ of Rose.
On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know someone, so I ____ to find a little old lady looking at me with a smile. She said, "Hi,handsome! My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a ___? " I laughed and ____ responded, then followed a giant squeeze. “____ come that are you in college at such an innocent age?” I asked. "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of kids..." I was ____ what it was that motivated her to be taking on this ____ at her age. “ I always dreamed of having a college education and now I ____ it!” Later, we became friends.
Rose became a campus celebrity and she easily made friends ____ she went. On one ____ Rose was invited to speak at our football banquet. Her prepared cards dropped before she ____ the speech. A little ____ , she simply ____ her throat and began," We do not stop playing ____ we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are certain secrets to stay ____ , being happy and achieving success. You've got to have a dream. When you ____ your dreams, you die.”…
At the end of the year Rose finished her college education. One week after graduation Rose died ____ in her sleep. Over two thousand college students ____ her funeral in honor of the wonderful woman who taught by ____ that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
Anybody can grow older, which doesn't ____ any talent or ability. The key is to grow up by always finding opportunities in change.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20每题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
On a cold November afternoon, my mother and I were walking home from a pizza store. We were dressed warmly and ________ with the rented video , I was feeling a little ________ , as I was carrying our shopping bags of snacks and the ________ .They were so heavy that I decided to ________ some things. So I started to walk towards the garbage can(垃圾筒) ________ I noticed a poor man walking his bike out of the restaurant in front of us. He _________ a paper bag with his dirty hand. He headed over to another nearby garbage can and started ________ it.
I suddenly felt very ________ because I was about to do away with a new drink just ________ it was heavy. I knew this man would take all he could ________ , so I walked up to him and ________ the drink and some snacks to him. The man looked up ________ and took what I gave him. A huge smile spread ________ his face and this caused me to feel indescribable ________ . I felt like I ________ be happier with myself, but then he said, “This is my son’s lucky day!”
With that, he ________ me happily and started off on his bike. I even heard him ________ a song as he rode away. I got a warm feeling inside and I knew I had done something good, for the man and his family. I now understand what is ________ by the saying “Giving is getting”.
Since then, every time I have the ________ to do something nice, the image of the man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind. This is the ________ of charity.
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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’m Glad I got Sick
Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is that being sick is what ________ me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she ________ to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time “what a super wife she will ________ for someone.”
I took her out to eat for helping me ________ the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still ________ thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to ________ a new job in the Atlanta area, so Cathy helped me ________ boxes to get ready to leave. We ________ a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I________a few tears in Cathy’s eyes, so I asked what was ________ .
She said, “I don’t know if I can live ________ you, you are my best friend.” I said, “I know, I’ve been thinking the ________ thing.” That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our ________ times, as many others have had, but we are still best friends!
________ I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about________ …I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn that ________ , sharing and caring about others is all that really ________ in life, and that looks, money and other things are not important.
________the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on ________ weekend.
Cathy is the greatest thing that has ever ________ me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. Thank God I got sick 27 years ago!
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（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。
Nowadays a lot of people will like to have some adventurous experience. Some will try to go to the ________ sea to have a close look at the bottom of it ________ some others will like to arise into the sky ________ up till now to greet the so-called heavens. But you see, ________ all of them will have good memory after the adventures. Don’t you believe that? So enjoy the following story and then have a ________ thought the next time some one invites you to do some ________ .
George liked to have all kinds of ________. He had once bought a racing car and sometimes ________ to 200 kilometers an hour. He had also had a hand on ________ into the sea and boasted a lot in front of his friends. ________ to his description, he usually returned________ and alive after many of the death-risking adventures.
When George was thirty-five, he bought a ________ plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of________. George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George ________ to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought," I've travelled in big planes several times, but I've ________ been in a small one, so I'll go." Up they went, and George flew ________ for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ________ , and he said to his friend in a ________ voice, "Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane." George was very ________ and said, "Two trips?" "Yes, my first and my ________ ," answered Mark.
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完形填空,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。
I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You________ have your pick from my bicycle ________.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would ________ choose.
As Christmas ________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she ________ a Salvation Army（基督教慈善组织）volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, em, I’m out of change.” I said.
Throughout December, Emily continued to ________hard. Then one day, she made a ________announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very ________ .
________ by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute ________of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. ________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow（发光）.Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t ________the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later ________ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very ________ , sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re ________ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”
Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the ________ ? I like to think it was God’s way of ________ a little girl for a sacrifice ________ her years---- while giving her dad a lesson in the ________ .
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to ________ her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy, am I________?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you ________ , OK?”
Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.
“Who ________ that you are bad?” asked Mummy.
“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I ________ because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got________ and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.
“You are ________ ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say ________ to him?”
“But he called me bad and ________ with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.
“Though you have done ________ bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are ________ a good person.”
Nancy showed a ________ look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.
“Our ________ is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.
________ flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I________ good, Mummy?” she asked.
“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not ________ the wrong that you do. You will have to call and ________ to Phillips. Do you understand me?”
“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy ________ . “I am going to ________ Phillips right away, and I am never going to ________ that I am always good.”
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives. Not long ago, I had one that I would like to .
I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph________we realized we were .Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand new $20 bill. I was so because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on ________ seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line. ________ I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About half way through the meal, I ________ I had not actually handed any money to the cashier. I had just ________ out, and nobody had noticed, I felt terrible.
My conscience( 良心) opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn’t________ over it. I just couldn’t go back to the cashier and ________ for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I ________to give myself the pleasure of an ice cream for ________ that someone would say, “ Hey, Jeff, why don’t you use the change ________ the pizza instead of that nice, new $20 bill?” I was not so ________ of my cash now.
For the next two years, whenever I was ________ of the “pizza incident”, I would say to myself, “ Don’t think about it...”
I have learned two things from this ________ . Maybe I was a fool for ________ in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a ________ pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what you have done, your conscience ________ up with you.
This reflect the saying, “ A coward(懦夫) dies a thousand deaths; a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a “________ ” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.
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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。
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843,and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ________ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ________ in medicine. At 18 she married and ________ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ________.Her husband supported her decision.
________ ,Canadian medical schools did not ________ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ________ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ________ her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte ________to Montreal and set up a private ________ .Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ________ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ________ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ________ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ________ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ________.The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ________ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ________ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887,she applied to the Manitoba Legislature to ________ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ________ to practise without a licence until 1912.She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993,77 years after her ________a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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