“Where’s the light?” My dad used to ask me that when I was little. It’s one of those questions that parents use to how smart their young children are. During my teenage years, my dad told me that he thought I was going to be foolish because I at him whenever he asked me where the was.
I consider myself to be a “Daddy’s girl”. Dad never me, but he did buy me nice things---dolls and shoes---for my birthday. I am now 28, and I live with my parents in Baguio, Philippines. my father is always very busy, we still time with each other. We go for a drive in the country. Most girls of my would rather go out with their friends than be with their family, but my family has always felt a bit .
Looking at my father now, I can see he is a(n) man. So many difficulties were in his life, but his dream of a better life kept him . At 14, he began working at his high school to himself.
During his life, my father has overcome a lot of difficulties and he always education. When we were , he would tell my brother and me to seek improvement in ourselves through .
Like a light, he shines with respect, but he sends out the brightest light for our family as a unit with love and faith as its . There are times when my dad makes jokes and asks me, using my childhood nickname, “Sasi, where’s the light?” I just smile, and point at him.
A.secret B.address C.way D.question
A.look for B.find out C.take in D.give away
A.jokingly B.sadly C.surprisingly D.calmly
A.shouted B.laughed C.pointed D.knocked
A.doll B.gift C.light D.family
A.spoiled B.taught C.cheated D.missed
A.never B.still C.suddenly D.finally
A.Because B.Unless C.When D.Though
A.waste B.divide C.gain D.spend
A.ever B.even C.later D.soon
A.age B.height C.style D.kind
A.happy B.puzzled C.different D.strange
A.strict B.broadminded C.independent D.easy-going
A.going B.coming C.smiling D.waiting
A.enjoy B.support C.behave D.control
A.worries B.provides C.receives D.values
A.young B.helpless C.proud D.busy
A.working B.speaking C.learning D.reading
A.showing B.keeping C.imagining D.starting
A.tool B.basis C.goal D.trick
Just like a boxer, we , too come face to face with many opponents on the stage of life—problems and difficulties. The bad news is that we don’t really know when our with these opponents occur. Here are several reasons why you should yourself for success like a champion boxer!
You don’t practice on the stage, that’s where your skills and your abilities are . This also means that you don’t solving problems and developing yourself when occur, you prepare yourself to face them long you actually face them.
If you are talented, you probably need less and training time in facing life’s challenges. Actually, for people who are born with , training and learning becomes even more important. the lazy person’s motto: “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?” Why wait for your roof to leak in the season when you can fix it right away. Act
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Training enables you to gain intuition(直觉 )and reaction. With practice and training, you build up your body, your mind and your heart and gain the intuition and reaction of a (n) .The same thing is true in life. Without training, you will . Without training, you will not be able to how your enemy will hit you.
Keep in mind that training is born out of discipline and . Even if you meet with some setbacks in your training process, you keep at it and are confident, you will soon see in your life and when problems come, you will be like the champion who stands tall and fights until the final round is over and you’re as the champion!
A.friendships B.championships C.programs D.matches
A.train B.offer C.show D.bring
A.appreciated B.shared C.evaluated D.promoted
A.finish B.start C.enjoy D.practice
A.chances B.problems C.occasions D.dangers
A.before B.after C.as D.since
A.consideration B.attention C.preparation D.instruction
A.disease B.ambition C.talent D.belief
A.Understand B.Abandon C.Condemn D.Remember
A.cloudy B.windy C.sunny D.rainy
A.on time B.at times C.right away D.at last
A.constant B.real C.stable D.quick
A.enemy B.champion C.opponent D.coach
A.mix up B.mess up C.stand out D.break out
A.check B.prove C.handle D.predict
A.confidence B.experience C.performance D.improvement
A.before B.unless C.until D.if
A.exchanges B.results C.setbacks D.disadvantages
A.judge B.swimmer C.boxer D.runner
A.claimed B.called C.announced D.elected
This past Thanksgiving Day the boss of the company I work for decided to serve a Thanksgiving meal for the poor. I couldn't ________ this and decided that I wanted to ________ ! I could deliver foods and send out my smile card.
I arrived at my ________ around 11 and found a line of families waiting outside the doors. I wasn't sure ________ I wanted to give my card to because there were so many people there ________ I knew I wanted to give it to a mother.
I served ________ table plates of turkey with all the fixings and slices of pumpkin pie for desert. Everyone was so happy and honestly seemed ________ for what my co-workers and I were doing.
At my last ________ there was an older lady with about eight kids. She looked tired, but ________ that her children were ________ . Smiling at her, I exchanged a few words ________her and knew that she was a foster mom(养母) and that ________ she would have liked to cook at home she couldn't __________it because of the size of her family. She then thanked me for ________ time with my family to serve hers.
She burst ________ a smile and gave me a hug__________ .I gave my smile card to her.
At the end of the day I didn't think about how I gave up time with my ________ to do this because I got so ________ out of this special and unforgettable experience, ________ made me so incredibly thankful for ________ I have and I now realize it is important to give back, and not just on the holidays.
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Brother Michael and Chris were born in the early 1960s and grew up in a black neighborhood in Richmond, California. Both boys were in the primary school and brought home mostly A’s on their report cards.
But in a black family with eight children, money was always , so the two growing boys often went . They turned to stealing. They stole cookies from the grocery store and bread from the . They even stole money from their parents to feed.
At the end of his first year in high school, Chris received three A’s and F’s on his report card --- the first time he had anything in school. Because Kennedy High School only allowed three failures four years, one more F and Chris would be kicked out of school. That’s when he made up his mind to .
Chris made every effort to become in school. After Chris graduated from college, he worked as a prosecutor(检察官), criminals, drug dealers, and gang members. Today Chris is famous as one of the prosecutors in the trial of the century, the O.J. Simpson trial!
That decision to change took him in an entirely direction from his brother Michael, who changing his bad behavior. After high school, Michael continued his anti-social ---fighting in the streets, taking and stealing. At the age of 42, Michael Darden died from AIDS.
This story us that what we become is determined by the we make. We can choose to get or we can choose to get worse. Chris changed. He changed from being a criminal to prosecuting criminals. His brother Michael, on the other hand, was changed. He was changed by drugs…and finally, he was changed by a deadly disease. Chris made the right choices. He made the changes in his life that helped him his great dreams.
A.well- behaved B.well-dressed C.well-known D.well- informed
A.plentiful B.loose C.common D.tight
A.mad B.wrong C.hungry D.bad
A.chemist’s B.baker’s C.doctor’s D.barber’s
A.two B.three C.four D.five
A.obtained B.failed C.passed D.missed
A.beyond B.by C.over D.above
A.steal B.respond C.stand D.change
A.outstanding B.friendly C.powerful D.outgoing
A.treating B.saving C.questioning D.punishing
A.leading B.working C.acting D.performing
A.similar B.different C.new D.strange
A.preferred B.resisted C.admitted D.appreciated
A.habits B.signs C.behaviors D.manners
A.drugs B.actions C.buses D.pills
A.persuades B.warns C.convinces D.wishes
A.choices B.friends C.promises D.efforts
A.taller B.cleaner C.happier D.better
A.illegal B.useful C.harmless D.lawful
A.destroy B.form C.accomplish D.approach
I tend to accept any idea put forward by experts on TV. One day, a sociologist proposed that the society has been consuming modern humans little by little. For fear that I would become a victim of the consumer society, I hurried to a bicycle shop in my neighborhood. the shopkeeper Mr. Johnson was selling me the bicycle, he said, “This is the best thing you have done. Life has become hopelessly . A bicycle is simple, and it brings to you things: fresh air, sunshine and exercise.” I agreed. Happy as a child, I got on the bicycle and headed out onto the streets. After some time, I at the other end of the town. I was that this simple vehicle could let me long distances in a fairly short time. But how did I really go?
Since I hated to be , I went back to Mr. Johnson and asked him to an odometer (里程表) on my bicycle. He agreed, but , “An odometer without a speedometer (速度计) is like a without a knife.” I admitted he was right and in a few minutes, the two devices (装置) were to the handlebars of my bicycle. “What about a horn?” he then asked. “Look, this horn is no larger than a matchbox and has many .” Attracted by these functions, I bought the horn.
“You can’t leave the back part ,” noted Mr. Johnson. He fixed a metal box with buttons the seat, and said, “Is there anything better than this oven when you feel on your way? I can give you a special discount.” I was not strong enough to the offer.
“I congratulate you once more; this is the best thing you could have done,” said Mr. Johnson in the end.
A. adult B. human C. consumer D. bachelor
A. eventually B. immediately C. reluctantly D. gratefully
A. Although B. Because C. As D. Unless
A. would B. should C. must D. could
A. boring B. complicated C. stressful D. tough
A. natural B. mysterious C. complex D. unique
A. gave up B. broke down C. calmed down D. ended up
A. amazed B. amused C. confused D. concerned
A. march B. drive C. cover D. measure
A. far B. long C. fast D. deep
A. unreliable B. impractical C. unprepared D. inaccurate
A. fix B. check C. repair D. lay
A. swore B. added C. replied D. concluded
A. pencil B. fork C. box D. cake
A. distributed B. converted C. applied D. attached
A. shapes B. sizes C. functions D. models
A. loose B. blank C. bare D. incomplete
A. beside B. before C. below D. behind
A. sick B. hungry C. hot D. thirsty
A. consider B. withdraw C. make D. resist
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C,D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂上。
I was 14 years old. I was angry and rebellious, with regard for anything my parents had to say, if it had nothing to do with me. Like so many , I struggled to escape from anything that didn’t my picture of the world. As a “ brilliant without need of guidance” kid, I rejected any obvious of love. In fact, I got angry at the of the word “love”.
One , after an extremely difficult day, I into my room, shut the door loudly and fell down onto my bed heavily. As I lay down in the privacy of my , my hands placed under my pillow. There was an envelope.I pulled it out and on the envelope it said, “To when you’re alone.”
I was alone, no one would know whether I read it or not.So I opened it. It said,“Mike, I know life is right now, I know you are frustrated and I know we don’t do everything right. I also know that I love you and nothing you do or say will ever change that.I am here for you if you ever need to talk. If you don’t, that’s also .Just know that no matter where you go or whatever you do in your life, I will always love you and be that you are my son. I’m here for you and I love you-that will never Love you, Mom.”
Every night as I went to bed, I would put my hands under my , and I remember the I felt every time I got a letter. During my teen years, the letters were the calm assurance that I still could be loved my anger and rudeness.Just before I fell I became grateful that my mom knew what I, an angry teenager, needed.
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When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night when she had made dinner after a long, hard day at .
On that evening so long ago, my mom a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. I remember to see if anyone noticed! all my dad did was reach for his toast, at my mom and ask me how my day was at school… I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember him spread butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite!
When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom to my dad for burning the toast. And I’II never what he said: “Honey, I love toast.”
Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really his toast burned. He me in his arms and said, “Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she’s really . And besides, a burned toast never anyone!”
is full of imperfect things... and imperfect people. I’m not the best at anything, and I forget and anniversaries just like everyone else. But what I’ve over the years is that learning to accept each other’s – and to celebrate each other’s differences – is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and relationship where a burned toast isn’t a deal-breaker!
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We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are ________ , one by one. “There is my grandmother's house,” I say, ________ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lisa, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) ________ memory for me. Lisa was one of the mobile children, ________ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of ________ , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors ________ for 200 years.
We soon ________ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories ________ back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the ________ where I was once so gloriously a child. It still ________ a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk ________ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ________ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ________ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ________ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lisa ________ attentively as I talk and then says, “So this is where I ________ ; where I belong.”
She has ________ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human ________ . To be rooted is “to have an origin”. We need ________ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the ________ of “I”. We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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Money was a constant source of tension and stress when I was growing up. My parents were , well-educated and hard-working, but they lived from paycheck to paycheck. When I was 13, they split up. Then my mom to raise three kids, often relying on free lunch tickets and food stamps. As my mother retirement age, she was filled with over the fact that she hadn’t saved enough for her golden retirement years, she often sighed. My father had always been to work—we had always he’d work less and spend more time with us . But he is just a workaholic(工作狂).
My parents were trying so hard to make ends meet, so I couldn’t become a on them. As a result, I college and spent the next couple of years drifting from one minimum wage job to another. I my broken-down car, went to work on foot, reduced my by sharing a one-bedroom apartment with three other women, and got free food during Happy Hour at our local bar. I learned to do whatever it took to .
One night, while I was working at a donut shop and 34 coffee for a homeless customer, I . that I was one paycheck away from being homeless myself. That was my wake-up . Motivated by fear of an uncertain , I opened the Yellow Pages(电话黄页), . professional dog trainers and negotiated an unpaid apprenticeship(学徒工作). Less than a year later, I was by a dog trainer, and I loved the work. A couple of years later, I started my own dog-training school, which luckily turned out to be . My efforts paid off.
Though I didn’t have rich parents to rely on, I discovered the power of asking for what I want.
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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.
38 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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It was a cold Saturday morning.An old man walked slowly into the ____.With shoulders bent forward,he leaned on his trusty stick with each ____step.
His shabby clothes and warm personality made him out from the usual breakfast crowd.Unforgettable were his eyes that shone like diamonds and thin lips _____in a steady smile.
A young waitress named Mary_____him drag toward a table by the window.She ran over to him,and said,“Here,sir.Let me give you a ____with that chair.”
Without saying a word,he smiled and ___.She pulled the chair away from the able.Steadying him with one arm,she helped him get comfortably_____.Then she moved the table up close to him,and leaned his ____against the table where he could reach it.
In a soft,clear voice,he said,“Thank you for your_____.”
“You’re welcome,sir.” She replied__.“And my name is Mary.I’ll be back in a moment,and ____you need anything at all in the meantime,just wave at me!”
After he had finished his breakfast,Mary brought him the change from his ticket.Then she ____him out from behind the table.She handed him his stick,and walked ____him to the front door.Holding the door open for him,she said,“Come back and see us,sir!”
He turned with his whole body and nodded with a ____smile.“You are very kind,” he said softly.
When Mary went to clean his table,she was to find that under his plate there was a business card and a note on a napkin(餐巾纸).Under the napkin was a one hundred dollar bill!
The note on the napkin _____,“Dear Mary,I respect you very much,and you respect yourself too.It shows by the way you ____others.You have found the secret of happiness.Your kind gestures will _____through those who meet you.”
The next day she was told that the man she had ____on was the owner of the restaurant where she was working.
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There are no ocean waves in St. Louis. We have to drive a long way to get to the ocean. Every summer we put our stuff and ourselves into the car and drive 1,000 miles to reach Vero Beach, Florida.
Once we get there, it’s all about at the beach. I’ve wanted to be a for a long time. My mom used to surf when she lived in Florida during college. I my mom to let me surf, and she promised to find a surfing for me. He found me instead.
One day when my mom was taking an old surfboard to a surf shop for , a surfer the door open for her and helped her carry the board inside. They started and she learned he’s a surfing . My mom asked him if he had any working with people with disabilities. He did and told her he would love to work with me. That’s how I my friend, Coach Bill Bolton, in 2014.
First Coach Bill taught me the pop-up. I had so much fun surfing with Coach Bill in 2014, I didn’t make it to on the board.
When we went to Florida this summer, I had more surfing with Coach Bill. We worked hard on the sand and in the water. On our third day together we our surfboards out past a sand bar where small waves were . I came close to standing each time, and on the last of the day I got up on my feet and stayed up! I was so ! So was Coach Bill.
We went to the same surfing spot the next day. Guess what! I so many times and rode wave after wave. Coach Bill called me a “surf goddess”. It was one of the days ever! I hope my story you to go surfing or to try something new. I know you can do it.
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I was aged 9 the moment I discovered my father was seriously sick. It was 1994, but I can well remember my mother’s words as though it were yesterday: “Maggie, I don’t want you to take ______ from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very cautious when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family ______. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could attend to himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it ______ to me to look after him.
We couldn’t _____ all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t ______ buy food for dinner. I ______ sit in class feeling completely ______. The teacher’s words were ________ as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not ______ my burden with anyone. I had seen how people ______ to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be _____. When my father was ______ to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too fragile to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his ______ a secret, I was truly ______ when he reached his final days. ______ and down, I called a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support. That day, she ______ me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life. I was 15 when my father ______ on. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call ______ to AIDS. I do.
A.trust B.joke C.food D.fun
A.disease B.project C.challenge D.secret
A.fell B.sent C.chose D.left
A.afford B.offer C.select D.prepare
A.only B.even C.yet D.still
A.might B.should C.could D.would
A.moved B.lost C.bored D.nervous
A.rolled B.eaten C.proved D.drowned
A.pack B.compare C.share D.affect
A.applied B.escaped C.reacted D.referred
A.cruel B.curious C.considerate D.confused
A.admitted B.concerned C.removed D.sentenced
A.dream B.promise C.instruction D.condition
A.calm B.religious C.unprepared D.devoted
A.Red B.Black C.Green D.Blue
A.kept B.talked C.reminded D.replied
A.died B.hid C.passed D.sighed
A.relief B.attention C.support D.Trouble
One day, my mother and I were in a shop to buy Christmas gifts. There, I saw a telephone and I liked it very much. ___________lovingly up at my mother, I asked, “Mama, can I have that telephone?” She replied, “Baby, not now.” “But Mama, I want it.” She was a little ___________ and said, “Nora, you can’t have that telephone today.” ___________ we were waiting to pay for the things we had bought, I ___________on the ground and began screaming, “I want it.” Other people looked but my mother calmly said, “Nora, you’d better get up by the ___________ of three or else. One … two … three … ”I didn’t stop. Then she lay down __________me on the floor, and began kicking and screaming, “I want a new car. I want a new house … I want …”___________, I stood up. “Mama, stop. Mama, get up,” I tearfully said. She stood up, and many people began to clap. Her face turned ___________ and she said ___________to others. People said to me, “Your mom got you ___________. Never try that again.” And I didn’t. I would never forget that experience.
A.Crying B.Speaking C.Looking D.Talking
A.disappointed B.angry C.hungry D.happy
A.When B.Before C.Until D.Unless
A.laid down B.lay down C.fell down D.put down
A.number B.figure C.sound D.count
A.besides B.beside C.over D.ahead
A.Excited B.Disappointed C.Shocked D.Puzzled
A.red B.blue C.gray D.yellow
A.thanks B.sorry C.hello D.ok
A.wrong B.good C.lesson D.reason
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题历给的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。
It was mid-summer and my father had taken me to Boston to see the ducklings (little young ducks) in the public gardens. We had most of the day just playing on the duck sculptures, running around, anything an eight-year-old enjoy doing. More than anything I wanted to go on the swan boat in the pond, the little ducklings were led to by their mother.
The line was long, and it was a little shorter after noon. I was hungry and hot and was starting to get a little tired. The was coming back and the line finally started to move . I excitedly looked around, silently to all around me, “I’m going to the swan boat!” I saw my left, on the other side of the chain linked barrier, a mother pushing her in a carriage. The baby had his bottle out of the carriage, and started to cry. The line kept moving to board the boat which had at the dock, and there was just enough for my dad and me to board. At that moment I ducked (moved like a duck) the chain, picked up the bottle and ran with it to the mother. At this point, my father had out of line to see where I was to. The mother me, and I walked back to my dad. He saw what I did and gave me a hug, then regretfully said that we had the boat and it would be a long for the next one. I looked at the boats, then the line, and finally at my dad with a big and suggested we get ice cream instead.
I learned that day that nothing feels better than doing something good for someone else. No matter how small or it may be.
A.observed B.stared C.spent D.wasted
A.should B.would C.must D.need
A.when B.where C.which D.that
A.boat B.duckling C.car D.sense
A.toward B.forward C.backward D.downward
A.telling B.saying C.speaking D.talking
A.glance B.ride C.brush D.buy
A.by B.at C.on D.to
A.bottle B.baby C.vase D.duck
A.placed B.deserted C.beaten D.thrown
A.left B.moved C.arrived D.reached
A.room B.chance C.footstep D.seat
A.across B.beyond C.over D.under
A.jumped B.feared C.stepped D.held
A.ducking B.driving C.riding D.running
A.stopped B.thanked C.liked D.received
A.boarded B.ridden C.lost D.missed
A.time B.rest C.wait D.stop
A.smile B.hope C.laugh D.cry
A.rare B.rough C.big D.much