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I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early ________ of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to ________ my parents.
At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with ________ at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “something else to ________ !” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.
At that age, I always did something ________ to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found ________ , I would plant a garden!
I planted some lily (百合花) seeds in the yard. But they failed to ________ . I continued to plant sunflower seeds and roses. Wild ________ joy, I found the first rose bloom (开花). One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. ________ , I was touched by this land of wonder.
________ , my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even ________ at me because he found it was ________ to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s ________ , I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds ________ flowers.
Regardless of their________, I kept on planting my garden and ________ to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom, they ________ to care and love.
It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to ________ my parents. Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show, which makes my parents feel very ________ . And now I could say it is my affection for ________ that makes me a real gardener.
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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。
A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.
Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the ________ that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of ________ comments(评论).
"Amazing people still do exist（存在）!' one user ________ .
The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car ________ nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled（逃离）from the ________ .
"I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd________," Ague told ABC News.
com. "Based on the location I could ________ the dog was heading west."
So Ague and a few fellow ________ set out to find the dog, who they later learned was
named Mya. They flagged Mya down, ________ every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Mya' s ________, and when she arrived on the scene, Mya ________ stopped running. And then the dog wouldn't move at all.
That was when Ague realized something was ________. He quickly realized that it wasn't that the dog wouldn't move but ________ not move.
"The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off ________ the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt ( 柏油).
"When I realized that's why she couldn't walk," he said, "the ________ thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."
So he ________ Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and ________ her about 100 yards to her owner’s car.
Mya's owner, Megan Smith, said that Mya's feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking ________.
Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal
_________ ", said he never thought of doing anything besides ________ Mya.
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完形填空,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。
From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I ________ a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of ________ for the coming test or sporting event.
In early grade school they ________ their notes. But as children grow older they become self-conscious (有自我意识的), and ________ he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer ________ my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to ________ them but I still needed to write them, I ________ until the day he graduated.
Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move ________ for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating from college, ________ two internship (实习) in Washington, D.C., and ________ , becoming a technical worker in Sacramento. ________ short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was ________ happy to have Marc back. Since I was ________ making lunch for his younger brother, I ________ one for Marc, too. Imagine my ________ when I got a call from my 24-yere-old son, ________ his lunch.
“Did I do something ________ ? Don’t you love me ________ , Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I ________ asked him what was wrong.
“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”
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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中（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。
Remembering My Father’s Vest
People get into trouble because they don’t know enough to keep cool. As a child, I had a lot of ________ that had been held back and not released. Worse still, I was not good at ________ constructively.
Once as I was getting ready for school, my mother ________ me my father’s vest instead of mine. This was around the time when I was going to be larger in ________ than my father, so as I put on the vest, I felt like I was being choked in it! I ________ that it was a small oversight(疏忽) on my mother’s part, but ________the feeling of being choked drowned me and I got very angry.
I took my anger out on my mother ________ thinking much. I was so upset when she had handed me the wrong vest, and I ________by violently tearing it apart from my chest!
Later, my mother shared her own ________ with my father: “ See what your son has done.”
Instead of scolding or abusing me, my father________ responded by asking my mother to ________ the vest. He then worn it to work the next day.
When my mother told me about my father’s response much later, when I had________from my fit, I immediately felt a great sense of ________ for my violent behavior, just ________ that he was spending the entire day wearing a(n)________ vest. At the same time, I was filled with great ________ for my father, whose gentle kindness taught me a life lesson I would treasure forever.
On that day, I made a ________ never to let anger get the better of me. I learn to ________ other when I think that they behave in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way, ________ forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off. And whenever I have difficulty ________ my strong emotion, I try to remember my father’s vest.
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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 a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us．Regardless of his , he greeted us in a friendly way．
Once inside, my daughters whispered, "Mom, he ." After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look the dirt．We then watched other customers approach the restaurant but many him. Seeing this rudeness truly upset me. The day I became a mother, I had determined to set a good to my children. Yet sometimes when things didn't go right, being a good example was . When our meal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck. With the windiest trip ahead, the kids needed them, so I myself from the meal and went to get them．
Just then, the "doorman" was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even acknowledging his . Letting them in first, I said a loud "thank you" to him as I ．
When I returned, we talked a bit．He said he was not allowed inside he purchased food．I went back and told my family his .Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich．
The kids looked as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the "doorman" , they smiled．When it was time to our trip, I found the "doorman" enjoying his meal．Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily. He then out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted. I suddenly noticed the tears in his eyes—tears of .What happened next drew great astonishment: I gave the " doorman" a . He pulled away, with tears ________ down his face．
Back in truck, I fell into deep thought. While we can't choose many things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude. I said thanks to a man who had held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that to teach my children by example．
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The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little depressed on that Sunday in May. After all, it was Mother's Day—and 800 miles ________ her from her parents in Ohio.
She had called them that morning, to wish her a happy Mother's Day and her mother had ________ how colorful their backyard was ________ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she ________ those lilacs（丁香） in her parents' yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the ________ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest ________and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she ________ some．Finally, they returned to their car for the ________ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her ________ .
When they were near home, she shouted “stop,” got off quickly and ________ to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch (门廊), where a(n) ________patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two ________ , bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her ________ . As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair________ with a smile, and held the lilacs ________ .
“Mom,” the kids asked, “ ________ did you give her our flowers?” “It is Mother's Day, and she seems so ________ while I have all of you. And anyone would be ________ by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he ________some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother's Day our kids________ purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman.
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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。
Competitive swimming was a big part of my life as a teenager. So I was very excited when my sons decided to take up the sport. Daily, I’d arrive a few minutes early before their ________ ended so I could watch their progress, assess their ________ for later discussions and give them a few tips on how to swim faster ________, one afternoon at the pool, someone else caught my ________ .
The teen girl was not a typical swimmer. Her ________ , out-of-date swimsuit was two sizes too big. She struggled to reach the end of the pool. Always ________ and always being passed by the better-trained girls. The other girls would ________ their friends to climb out of the pool, giggle（咯咯笑）and run back to the starting areas. ________nobody waited for her. She always walked back to the starting areas ________. However, day after day, she’d show up ________ practice and do it all over again in her old, worn swimsuit.
The first swim meeting ________ arrived, and I smiled as I watched my sons________ straight with their team members around the swimming pool. I was a(n) 53 mother, but then, I saw the girl who had________ day after day to swim to the end of the pool. She wasn’t wearing the old, worn swimsuit She was wearing a (n) ________ , new swimsuit with a matching swimming cap and goggles（护目镜）. I ________ again and believed someone bought these new things for her so she could feel and look like a _________ regardless of how fast she could swim. She never did find out who bought the ________for her because the person remained anonymous（匿名）。
I admire the unknown person who ________ the pool girl. Do you ever wonder how you can help a teen? Take time to notice your surroundings. There is a teen in your life that________encouragement or help. Be the one who makes a difference in her life.
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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，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -- Jonathan Swift
I walked into a wild third-grade classroom. Music was playing ________ , children were under tables applying make-up, kids were throwing a football indoors, and students were________ wherever they could find ________ . I was a mid-year ________ . The previous ________ said he could no longer manage these children and ________ without notice during the holiday break.
As soon as I walked in the room, I realized why he ________ . I sat down ________ in my chair and began reading their ________ softly. After each name, I ________ asking God to help me understand that child. I then nailed a ________ to the wall next to the chalkboard and began ________ my name and a reading assignment on the board. I then asked each child to come to me, and tell me their names and what they wanted to learn. It was a ________ task, because only two children there wanted to learn something! Rules were ________ , boundaries established, parents contacted. But the mirror saved the day -- no, the year! Unbeknownst(不知的) to the children, the mirror allowed me to see their every ________ while I was writing on the board. They soon became ________ as to how I knew who was misbehaving while I was writing on the board. When one student finally asked me, I told him I had a special teacher’s eye in the back of my head that my hair ________ . At first they did not believe me. ________ they did begin to exhibit better behavior, especially while I wrote on the board, thinking I had magical ________ . I never told them differently. Why ________ a good thing?
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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。
My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at ________ . As for me, I ________ both well before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.
The last time Dad and I set sail together is really ________ . It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and ________ Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the ________ lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ________ well with the tiller（舵柄）in his hands.
When we were in the middle of the lake, a ________ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was ________ violently. Dad was always at his best in any ________, but at this moment he ________ .
“John! ________ !” he shouted in a trembling(颤抖的) voice, with the tiller still in his hands.
In my memory he could fix any ________ . He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. Before I could respond, a ________ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller ________it was too late. Another huge wall of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.
I swam to Dad ________ and assisted him in climbing onto the hull（船壳）of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was still a little frightened. “It’s all right, Dad. We are ________ow.” I comforted him.
That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency(紧急情况). More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________ of my father.
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The most important lesson I learned in high school had nothing to do with maths or American history. It came at graduation, several minutes before I left Miramonte High School.
I was rather shy back then, content to ________ around with my few friends and to concentrate on my ________I was doing so well that by the end of senior year I had perfect scores and enough ________to go to college.
But my good record soon became a ________to my well-being. In early June of senior year, the headmaster called me into his office. He asked me to give a leave-taking speech at graduation. I looked at him, my heart ________ fast. This was the________ for my hard work? I said something, but not very clearly, and hurried away from the office.
I was ________ about the decision, finally agreeing to compromise. I wasn’t the only speaker — I would ________ the honor with five other students. Still, it was doubtful whether the task was ________me. How in the world would I give a speech to hundreds of people?
Graduation day soon arrived and, as ________, I was nervous. I’d been practicing my speech for days, and I had it________. But I had never been so ________ in my life. The first half hour of the ceremony passed, and then my ________ came. My name was announced. I managed to reach the platform without falling down. But within minutes, I finished my speech, ________ back to my seat and feeling unsatisfied with my performance.
Now I still have the ________of that speech. My voice trembled a little, but 56 it was clear and strong. I’m proud of that tape. I achieved something I’d never________ — I spoke in front of hundreds of people. ________ I didn’t realize it at the time, the successful completion of that speech gave me the ________to participate in class at college, to give oral reports, and to eventually break free of my ________ .
I never would have chosen to give a speech at graduation. But I am glad I did. I know it may well turn out to be one of my shining moments.
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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。
A white-bearded ancient man was walking over the hills and valleys of the world. On his back he carried a bag which moved uneasily as if something was trying to escape from it, but he ________ it between his shoulders and walked on.
He was Father Time, travelling forever, and the bag he ________ was filled with Tomorrows, all struggling to get out.
Each ________ at twelve o’clock, he opened the bag and ________outa Tomorrow, just one, with its wings of________, and its shining feathers rose with hope. All the rest were kept ________ by Time’s strong hands and pushed________ in the bag.
Down flew the Tomorrow ________ its lovely feathers, but as it touched the ________ , off fell its blue wings and it changed to a(n) ________ white bird which could not fly. It had become a Today. Everyone knows that Today isn’t as ________ as Tomorrow , for Today can be held in one’s________, accepted, unloved, but Tomorrow is full of mystery and beauty. It is ________ by all the world. Even those with ________ hope sigh, “Tomorrow may bring a(n) ________ . Tomorrow’s life will be different.”
Everybody tried to ________ the Tomorrow before it fell to the ground. They thought if they ________ beforehand what the Tomorrow carries, they could ________ for it. So they put great nets on the trees, seeking to catch one ________ it changed his feather. Yet although they tried every means, the birds ________ and flew to the ground as Todays.
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Once upon, there were two traveling angels who stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was impolite and ________ to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead, the angels were given a space in the ________ underground room. As they ________ their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the ________ and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel ________ ,"Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very ________ , but very kind farmer and his wife. ________ sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed ________ they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in ________ . Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay ________ in the field.
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this ________ ? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had ________ , yet you watched over his house," she accused. "The second family had little but was ________ to share everything, and you did not help."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we ________ in the underground room, I noticed there was gold ________ in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to ________ his good fortune, I asked God if I could ________ the wall so he couldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow______________ . You see, things aren't always what they seem. "
Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don’t ________ the way they should. You need to ________ that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until some time later.
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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。
That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were crowded with tourists and locals in various clothes. It seemed that everyone was accompanied by someone else laughing. ________ , I was alone.
My ________ was in Puerto Rico. My family and friends had gone home during their holiday break. Dusk was falling, and the inevitable (不可避免的) ________ to my empty apartment brought tears to my eyes. I ________ someone would come out of their homes to ask me inside to a ________ room with a Christmas tree decorated with presents.
I stopped at the local market, feeling even more ________ as people filled their baskets with goodies, which ________me of the gifts we received as children in Puerto Rico on Christmas Day. I ________ my family parties: the dancing. Thinking of this, I wanted to ________ for being alone.
In front of the church down the ________, a manger (马槽) had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn (畜棚) animals in expectation of the ________ of baby Jesus in the midnight. I stood with my neighbors watching the ________. As I walked home, I realized that the ________ of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own history. ________ Puerto Rico was still a wound in my heart as I ________ with what I had become in 15 years in the United States. I’d regretted the losses, but I ________ for the first time and recognized what I’d gained. I was independent, educated, healthy, and adventurous. My life was ________ before me, full of possibility.
Sometimes the best gift is the one you ________yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit for what I’d ________ so far and permission to go forward, unafraid. It is the best ________ I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.
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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 met Ryan, a young man with cerebral palsy (脑瘫), in my biology class. My simple "Hello!" and his cheerful reply were the ________ to our friendship from the first day of school. There was a time when Ryan was not able to come to school. He was in a great deal of ________ after having a surgery on his legs, but he ________ his sufferings from everyone.
In our junior year, we found that we didn't ________ a single class. This was not a problem, though. We just talked a little more in the hallway________passing periods. That year seemed to fly by. One day, Ryan asked me to hold the torch (火炬) runner's flag that would ________ the spot where Ryan would ________ his Olympic torch run. He gently explained that he would be honored ________ I would accept this position for him. The Olympic committee sent a letter saying that the person that holds the flag for him must be someone ________to him. He said I was the only true friend he had ________made that talked to him and not to his wheel chair. How could I________ such a request?
On the morning of June 5th, as I walked down the sidewalk, my heart ________and my mind became a factory of questions. I kept wondering how everything was going to happen and how Ryan would ________ the huge crowd of thousands of people.
After the van arrived, the other runners got out and lined up outside the van, chanting his name, "Ryan! Ryan!" Then all of the people ________ in, “Ryan! Ryan!” The lift then lowered Ryan to the ground. There he was, in all his ________ .
It all became slow motion at the sight of the arriving torch. The runner lit Ryan's torch and then Ryan began his ________ . As he took off down the street, the chanting became louder and louder. The________ filled the air and even I felt like I was on cloud number nine. I could not have been any prouder of Ryan！ He ________ this moment in time --a historic moment--a moment that he was a part of and________ me to be a part of, too.
Mr. Weinheimer, the next torch runner, bent over and gave Ryan a hug. That moment will last in time forever. It symbolized the whole ________of the flame: love, excitement, enthusiasm, brotherhood, and life of any man. The flame united us all and showed that love is really what makes this small world go around after all.
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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、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once a young man, a horse trainer’s son, was dreaming of owning a horse ranch(养马场) of his own though his family wasn’t rich.
When he was a senior, he was asked to write a __ __ about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up. That night he wrote a seven-page paper _ _ his goal. He wrote it in great _______ and he even drew a ____________ of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables(马厩) and the track. But two days later he _________ his paper back with a large red ___________ on the front page and a note that reads, “See me after ____________.”
The boy with the __________ went to see the teacher after class and asked, “Why did I get an F?” The teacher said, “This is an unrealistic dream for a __________ young boy like you. You come from a family with no resources. Owning a horse ranch __________ a lot of money. There’s no __________ you could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “If you will _________ this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.”
The boy went home and __________ about it long and hard. He asked his _________ what he should do. His father said, “Look, son, you have to ________ your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important ________ for you.” Finally, the boy turned in the same paper making no ___________ at all. He stated, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.” Years later, the boy ________ his dream.
Later, his teacher admitted when seeing his ranch, “When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream ___________. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption(进取心) not to __________ yours.”
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