Johnnie Martin was born in a worker’s family. His parents lived a simple life, saving money for the day when they could send him to a good university. They had dreamed that their son could get a good _______ and live a better life. However, to Johnnie, school lessons seemed like a wall that was impossible to go through.

One day when he was in Grade 11, Johnnie went _______ school psychologist's office to ask for help.

“Johnnie, I’ve been studying your marks of all the tests at school. I’ve made a _______ study of them,” said the psychologist.

“I’ve been trying hard.” Johnnie was about to _______.

The psychologist put his hand on the boy’s shoulder, “People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie. There are painters who were _______ able to learn maths, and engineers who can’t sing on key. Some day you will find _______ you are good at, and when you do, you will _______ your parents and all of us very proud of you.”

Johnnie didn’t go to university. He found a job working in the gardens around the town. Soon _________ amazing happened. His customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called “green thumb”. The plants he _______ grew well, and the roses blossomed. People started to accept his ________ for gardening, because he had an eye for colour and light.

One day while he was downtown, he happened to ________ an unused dirty land behind the city hall. He volunteered to make it into a garden. That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission(允许), he started the work, ________ he couldn’t afford all the tools or the plants that he ________ for it. People gave him young trees, rose-bushes, benches and many other things. Before long, it had become a beautiful little ________.

Today Johnnie is the head of the business in gardening. Wherever he and his men go, they ________ beauty before the eyes of people.

1.A.job B.garden C.lesson D.present

2.A.into B.past C.along D.through

3.A.funny B.public C.careful D.similar

4.A.lie B.cry C.laugh D.agree

5.A.always B.usually C.sometimes D.never

6.A.how B.when C.what D.where

7.A.tell B.make C.help D.wish

8.A.nothing B.anything C.something D.everything

9.A.picked up B.painted at C.talked bout D.looked after

10.A.ideas B.invitation(邀请) C.question D.attention

11.A.buy B.rent C.clean D.notice

12.A.but B.and C.so D.or

13.A.bought B.borrowed C.planted D.needed

14.A.farm B.lake C.park D.market

15.A.find B.take C.collect D.learn

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage

“What can you do when you have done____________ but mess up(搞砸) your whole life long?” These were the words I heard when I turned on the TV the other day. They were coming from one of the talk shows that are so popular on TV these days. I started to turn the channel but the words I had heard made me stop for a moment. I looked at the speaker of them. He ____________ more than 18 years old, but already he was writing off (认为……已失败) his life as a useless waste.

I wanted to shout at him:" You're not dead yet!"

It is so sad that so many people cannot ____________ their pasts and live in the present. There are so many people like that talk show guest. There are people still in their teen years thinking that their lives are over. There are people in their twenties who already think they have missed the boat to success and happiness. There are people in their thirties and forties who sit around complaining that life has passed them by. I want to shout to them all:" Wake up! You're still____________! What have you done today?" If you want a happy life, you can't just think about your past mistakes. If you want joy and love in your life, you have to choose them today. God gives us a new chance at life every time we wake up in the morning. It is up to us to catch ____________.

Today can be the beginning of a new life for each of us. We can choose joy right now. We share love today. We can live with hope starting at this moment. It doesn't matter how hard our past has been. Our present can be full of joy and our future can be full of happiness. It doesn't matter if we are eight or eighty—we can still make our lives wonderful. Life isn't over ____________ your last heartbeat. Start today, then, to make your heart beat with joy, love, and light.

1.A.nothing B.anything C.everything D.something

2.A.can’t be B.could be C.could have been D.couldn’t have been

3.A.get tired of B.get rid of C.take up D.take the place of

4.A.lively B.lovely C.alive D.live

5.A.this B.it C.that D.one

6.A.until B.after C.when D.while

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