In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. I call these things  1 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did  2 the water. Any kind of ride seemed to give him pleasure.  4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being  5 the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong  6 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and  8 those summer days with my father, who  9 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the  0 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go  11 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me  12 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his 13 . But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get  14 an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but  15 , in that childhood, look at us.
【小题1】
A.hopeB.joyC.angerD.worry
【小题2】
A.hateB.refuseC.praiseD.love
【小题3】
A.boatB.busC.trainD.bike
【小题4】
A.ButB.ThenC.AndD.Still
【小题5】
A.onB.offC.byD.in
【小题6】
A.swimmerB.riderC.walkerD.runner
【小题7】
A.hopesB.likes C.rightsD.fears
【小题8】
A.spendingB.saving
C.wastingD.destroying
【小题9】
A.shouldB.wouldC.had toD.could
【小题10】
A.nextB.onlyC.otherD.last
【小题11】
A.away fromB.out ofC.byD.inside
【小题12】
A.put upB.break downC.play withD.work out
【小题13】
A.fishing netB.office things
C.wooden chair D.lab equipment
【小题14】
A.the studentB.the assistantC.myself D.himself
【小题15】
A.whichB.whoC.whatD.whose

Last week, the manager of an old jeweler’s shop received a letter marked “personal”. As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $10 note fell out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:

Dear sir,

I got engaged (订婚的) forty years ago. Unfortunately at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I lost my job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.

I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend’s finger. So I left the shop without paying for the ring. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience (让我良心不安) all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $2, and I think that is about five times -- $10 at today’s price.

Now I am sending you that amount.

Yours truly,

A customer

After reading the letter, the manager said, “Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!”

1.The ring that the customer put into his pocket was ____ at that time.

 A. $2                          B. $5                            C. $10                          D. $40

2.The underlined word “unemployment” means “____” in Chinese.

 A. 辞职               B. 就业                           C. 悲伤                       D. 失业

3.How long has the customer’s wife been dead?

 A. A week.         B. A month.             C. A year.  D. Two months.

4.The customer wrote to the manager in order to ________.

A. return the ring                                       B. say thanks to him

C. ask him for some advice                       D. send the money for the ring

5.Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The manager opened the letter by himself.

B. The manager thought life was full of surprise.

C. When the customer’s wife knew the fact, she was impatient.

D. The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago.

 

It was yearbook day and we were given an hour to sign each other’s yearbooks in the cafeteria. I was president of the class and I played sports. When I sat down at a table, people started to come over to get their yearbooks signed and to sign __36__.

    Among them, a weak boy with ugly teeth and thick glasses kept shaking. I had seen him around, and I knew he was always laughed at. He seemed __37__ of himself, and was so pale that it __38__ us to look at him.

    He came up and asked me nervously, “Can you sign this?” I took his yearbook but I didn’t know __39__ to write. I saw that there was the name “Ricky Sanders” written on the front of it. So I wrote:

 


   

 

I put down the yearbook and turned around to get some signatures from some of my friends when I __40__ my yearbook was gone. I saw that Ricky had sat down with my yearbook. “What are you doing?” I asked him. He looked up calmly(平静地) and __41__said “Sign!”

My friends broke into a loud laugh, and I saw that he was carefully frying to put a signature in my yearbook. He hadn’t even finished the “R” yet. I thought for a while and __42__ to let him sign.

    It took him nearly five minutes to sign and when I got my yearbook back, there was a very shaky “RICKY”. He hugged(紧抱) his yearbook and __43__. I couldn’t help but smile back at him.

    In that moment, my __44__ changed completely.

    I gave him a high five and suddenly everyone at my table wanted his signature. He was asked politely to write in their yearbooks and the signature __45__ of his yearbook were filled up. He was smiling so big that it lit up the whole room.

    I changed school the next year, and I never saw Ricky again. However, I will never forget the day that he became the most __46__ guy in school. Whenever I’m __47__, I still look back at that yearbook.

1. A. mine          B. his              C. ours             D. theirs

2. A. unafraid          B. unsure           C. proud        D. tired

3. A. worried       B. surprised        C. taught           D. hurt

4. A. how           B. which        C. where        D. what

5.A. saw            B. noticed          C. thought          D. believed

6. A. still             B. ever         C. even         D. just

7. decided          B. meant        C. began        D. prepared

8. A. smiled        B. waited           C. left             D. rose

9. A. sense         B. value        C. attitude         D. idea

10. A. lists            B. pages        C. boxes        D. tables

11. A. different        B. patient          C. popular          D. important

12. A. away         B. out              C. behind       D. down

 

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