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My heart beat with that feeling, like blood to my body as my fingers flew across the piano keys. As the piece neared the end, I up to take my final bow. For a second, the room was .Yet, even in that one second, I had enough time to whether I had done perfectly. Then, , the applause (掌声) came.
“Thank you… so much,” I said, to the person standing on my other side. Olga, my piano teacher for six years, smiled back at me.“You’ve been an student all these years,” she said, “I hope that whatever you do, you never stop .”
I leaned forward, I would keep playing because I loved piano, and hugged her.
As it , the promises weren’t as meaningful as I’d hoped. Right after the , I kept up my strict practicing schedule every day. , it began slipping away from me. The reason I had stopped taking was because of my busy schedule with homework. Not long after, I stopped practicing altogether. It was not to have to stress about piano anymore. But something was inside of me. I was empty inside.
One day I met Michelle, who had also taken piano lessons from Olga.
“Are you taking lessons from Olga?” she asked.
“Actually I just quit a while ago,” I replied.
“That’s a ,” she responded, “I remember your performance a year ago; it was .”
Two days after talking to Michelle, I was at a what to do.I moved slowly into the living room unconsciously, but in fact I knew what I was doing.
As the music , a familiar feeling rose inside me.
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Teenage years can be confusing for both teenagers and parents.At about 15, many teens start thinking about how they feel about themselves and out how this matches or mismatches what others think of them.Most teens work through this by the age of 16 or 17.
Often teenagers are treated like bigger children, but they will never become and responsible if they are not allowed to make some decisions for themselves.If parents forbid their children from doing something, chances are that they will do it without permission anyway.The role of a parent must, therefore, change from that of protector and keeper to that of friend and .
Yet even the most caring parents misunderstand their children sometimes, and some think of teenagers as insecure, stubborn and .As a result, teenagers always keep their .from their parents.Teens often that their parents repeat the same things over and over again and never listen to them.Parents must understand that teens need to be allowed to their side of any problem and express their point of view.
Thus, more private and level-headed communication is needed for the parents.Every parent should try to schedule time to be with their child, like taking a short trip together.This time allows parents to talk and listen without from work or other family members.It might also be good to encourage teens to important issues at dinner.Discussion time shows teens that parents are interested in them and their lives.
A person’s teenage years are a key time for them to identify their own ,like distinguishing good from evil.Handling and improving communication with teenagers is not easy, but success will be for parents and teens alike.
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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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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。
I love a good murder mystery. It is so to watch or read an exciting and interesting detective story and try to solve the yourself. Agatha Christie is undoubtedly queen of the detective story considering she over eighty books. Many people have fallen in love with her -----Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective and Miss Marple, an old lady who is also an amateur .
As I am a big of Agatha Christie, I was excited to her house in Devon called Greenway. I travelled to her by steam train. We went through a dark tunnel and there was lots of smoke. It was a setting for a murder like in her famous novel Murder on the Orient Express. , all the passengers arrived safely!
After a pleasant walk through the woods, I the splendid house. I did a tour and I loved seeing where she wrote her . Many first editions were on display in a revolving(旋转的)bookcase. However, my part of the estate(房产) was the boathouse. There was a lovely view of the river the boathouse also served a more special purpose---inspiration for a crime . In the Poirot novel, Dead Man’s Folly, a girl’s body is in the boathouse. They even the TV adaptation of the book at Greenway.
I really my visit to Greenway. It was such a place and I was interested in seeing where Agatha Christie was write so many exciting stories.
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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。
One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been me to play chess with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could________ my moves, because she to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I ________ she had strict sleeping habits, ________ I thought she ought to be able to ________ some of this strictness. I said to her,“ ________ , you can stay up late for once. We’re having ________ .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked ________ . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No.” I replied. “If you’re going to play it________ , you’re going to play it slowly. ”And so we ________ for another ten minutes, until ________ my daughter burst out crying, and ________ that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made ________ . I had started the evening wanting to have a ________ time with my daughter but had ________ my desire to win to become more ________ than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win ________ me well. As a parent, I ________ that it got in my way. So I had to change.
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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小涂黑。
Once a gentleman was traveling on a train. He felt ________ and got off at a station in search of water. When he reached the water tap (水龙头), the________started. He ran back but________it.
It was getting________and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked the ticket office about the next train and was told it would be on the next________. So he decided to find a place for a day’s________. He went to the nearby hotel to ask for a room but found ________.
At last h________a small house. He asked the________ whether he could stay in his house for a day. The owner immediately________, then served him food and gave him a room to stay.________ he did not ask anything in return.
At seven, the gentleman heard a ________at the door. The owner opened the door. The gentleman saw a man dressed in ________ clothes enter the house and________the owner to pay his debts (债务).
The gentleman came to know that the owner was in need of________. The next morning he left a pack in the drawer of the room and ________. When the owner found the pack, he saw that there was a ________written to him, which read: “You ________ me but did not expect anything from me. Yesterday evening I heard the________ between you and the stranger and________that you were in need of money. This is what you need.”
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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,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For there’s one having loving act, there’s another not responding in time. During lifetime, however, it turns out to be a and we always think of making it up when it’s gone.
A father sat at his desk staring at his monthly bills his young son rushed in and , “Dad, because this is your birthday and you’re 55 years old, I’m going to give you 55 , one for each year!” When the boy started making good on his , the father exclaimed, “Oh, Andrew, don’t do it now; I’m too !” The youngster immediately fell silent as tears________up in his big blue eyes. the father said, “You can finish ________ .”
The boy said nothing but quietly ________ , disappointment written ________ his face. That evening the father said, “Come and finish the ________ kisses now, Andrew!” But the boy didn’t respond.
Unfortunately, a few days later after this ________ , the boy had an accident and was drowned. His heartbroken father wrote, “If only I could tell him how much I regret my ________ words, and could be assured that he knows how much my heart is ________ .”
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Love is a two-way street. Any loving act must be warmly accepted ________ it will be taken as ________ and can leave a scar. If we are too busy to give and ________ love, we are too busy! Nothing is more important than ________ with love to the cry for love from those who are near and precious to us. Because...there may be no ________ at all as in the case of the little boy.
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后个题所给的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。
The professor’s house,big and untidy,stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he me right on all the that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby,you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours,you’re just letting it go to...”
“ ?” he said. “No,I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you,isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
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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。
On one of those perfectly sunny grandma-babysitting days, we set off to play in a nearby park. Kids were the merry-go-round(旋转木马) and the swings. But what my four-year-old grandson was the tennis court(球场).
Two kids were riding their bikes in and out of the lines on the newly finished . Their parents sat on a bench just inside the gated entrance. The kids laughed as they one another.
A sign was clearly posted on the entrance—No Allowed.
Just beginning his reading lesson, my grandson knew the word “No”. He asked me what came next. I told him that the asked people not to ride bikes on the tennis court. He was just four years old, he could clearly see two kids riding their bikes where they shouldn’t be .
We watched for a little while and then he reached up to the gate. I thought that he wanted to watch the kids more clearly. , he walked straight over to the couple and asked if they________ what the sign said. Oh, what a four-year-old!
The man gave me an unfriendly look and then said that it didn’t matter.
I led my grandson away from the tennis court and told him that sometimes people don’t like ________ rules.
By now, those kids are probably in middle school. What they ________ on that tennis court could be impacting(影响) their lives today. I wonder whether those parents will ________ if their kids think that some rules don’t matter. ________ speed limits when they drive, or cheating on a test? Sometimes it’s the ________ things that matter the most.
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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。
The first day of school our professor asked us to know someone we didn't know. I turned ________ to find a little lady smiling at me .She said, "Hi handsome. I’m Rose, eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a ________ ?"
I laughed and responded, "Of course you ________!" and she gave me a big squeeze.(挤压)
"Why are you in college at such an innocent(无辜的) ________ ?" I asked.
She ________ replied, " To meet a ________ husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..."
"No seriously," I asked.
"I always ________having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
After class we talked a lot and became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would ________ class together and then talk nonstop. Actually, she easily ________ friends wherever she went.
________the end of the semester we ________ Rose to speak at our football banquet(宴会).
I'll never forget what she ________ us. As she began to________her speech, she ________ her cards on the floor. As we laughed she________ her throat(喉咙) and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old________we stop playing. There are four ________ to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find ________ every day. You have to have a dream. When you________ your dreams, you die”.
She ended her ________ by courageously singing "The Rose."(258words)
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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。
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. 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 m 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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完形填空,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。
This morning after I got the news that my best friend, Sean Misner, who was one of the firefighters, died in an Arizona wildfire in June, I created a Facebook page in his .
Sean and I were like brothers. We met playing baseball when we were eight years old. We life’s ups and downs together. He was 26 when he died.
I was in when I found out the situation. Friends of his photos and information on his page, and I set up a way for people to money to Sean’s wife, Amanda, and their son, right through Facebook.
My sister is a journalist, and she suggested that we arrange everything while the fire was getting national . In the first couple of days, Sean’s page got 2, 000 likes. Today it has more than 27, 000 likes.
When Sean’s family drove his ashes 500 miles from Prescott, Arizona, to his in Santa Ynez, California, firefighters had been standing on every highway overpass (天桥).
I was surprised at how much it me to see that other people cared. Strangers were sending Facebook messages, baby clothes to Amanda and we’ve about $10, 000 for his son’s education. One post is from a little boy in Nevada who said, when he he wants to be a firefighter. It touched me. People posted messages about what a hero Sean was and they were right. There is a lot of on that Facebook page. I one day, when Sean’s son, Sean Jaxon, is enough, he will see how his father was through this page.
During moments when I miss Sean, I visit the , and it makes me smile. On my birthday or his birthday or some date, I’ll read the messages and look at the photos that people have posted. It’s a way for me to keep his memory .
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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、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。
As a nativ________Detroit, Michigan Viola Vaughn spent the majority of her life as an active ________. ________ with personal disaster, Viola triumphed and developed a non-profit organization, “1,000 girls”, ________education and training for young women of Senegal. She has devoted her life to ________others achieve, encouraging young girls to ________.Her caring qualities are seen in the daily routine of her beautiful life.
Dr Viola M. Vaughn ________ from Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York, and after that, she spent her life devoted to health care and education in the United States and Africa.
In the year 2000, Viola faced a mother’s worst fear________ her 26-year-old daughter died. ________ with five grandchildren to raise, Viola and her husband, Jazz musician Sam Sanders, moved to Senegal, Africa, hoping to provide their grandchildren________ a multicultural education. Tragedy hit again when Viola’s husband of 20 years passed________ and she was left________. Her determination and spirit kept her moving and she passed the time homeschooling her grandchildren.
The surrounding community noticed Viola and her dedication to teaching her grandchildren. Viola was approached by a neighborhood child who wanted to join in the studies________,but with her mother’s permission, the young girl began homeschooling with Viola. Soon the number of students ________Viola’s daily classes rose to twenty and 10,000 Girls was born.
10,000 Girls is a non-profit organization with six locations and over 1,500 students. The girls are actively ________in their education. Not only________teach each other, but they have opened a bakery shop. It can help provide educational supplies. Girls who graduate are given scholarship opportunities and continue the cycle of success by returning to help 10,000 Girls continue to ________.
Viola Vaughn has dedicated her life to the greater good of her community and has truly made, and will continue to make, a difference in the lives of young girls who ________ would not have ________a chance. Viola Vaughn is a true ________ of humanity.
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完形填空,阅读下列短文,掌握其大意,然后从1—20各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Hot lava flows down a Hawaiian mountainside. Farther up the slope, volcanologist(火山学家)Ken Hon picks his way slowly across the____surface. The hot lava(岩浆)is slippery to walk on. “It’s like walking on ice,” Hon says. “But the bottom part of your boots starts to____ a little. You’ll get burned____you fall.”
Hon plants his feet carefully and slowly. He’s____ data on the lava flowing out of Kilauea, a volcano that has been erupting since 1983. ____the lava’s movements can save lives on the slopes below. But Hon must be____. New waves of lava are flowing down toward him. Every few minutes he looks up to see ____the streams are and makes sure the____lava hasn’t cut off his escape route.
“It’s___out there, like the heat from an oven,” Hon says. “Up close, you have to wear firefighters’ clothes____the clothes you’re wearing don’t catch fire or melt.”
“Back in 1990, lava entered the town of Kalapana. The lava moved slowly but steadily,” Hon says. “We____ evacuate(疏散) people from about 150 homes. The lava____forward and consumed all of the houses.” ____, everyone escaped. But today Kalapana is buried under 30 feet of lava.
Volcanoes aren’t____to Hon. They’re fascinating and exciting. “My____thing is to come out at the edge of a lava lake. Sometimes I’ve had to sleep with a gas mask on.” Still, Hon knows how to keep____ and knows when the lava is ____. “All of a sudden, it gets really bright inside your____!” he says, laughing. But the____is worth it, because the more Hon and other scientists can____volcanoes, the safer they can keep the people who live around these powerful forces of nature.
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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。
I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more ________ the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ ________ a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some member ________ chose the wheel chair. Other wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a ________ experience, I had never considered before how ________ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down my ________ made the chair begin to roll. Its wheel were not ________ . Then I wondered where to put my________ , It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into ________ , I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of ________ for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary(临时的) ________ .
I tried to find a ________position and thought it might be restful, ________ kind of nice to be ________ around for a while. Looking around, I________ would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I ________ the heavy wheels, I came to know that controlling the ________ of the wheelchair as not going to be ________ task, My wheelchair experiment was soon ________ . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the ________, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.
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