The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was  31     cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she    32     but stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler,    33      happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the   34        .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is  35    I can do to make a difference.”
“Let me tell you    36    .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish covering the beach, they were pushed up by the     37   , and it was too far up for them to make their way back by    38       . The man shook his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very sorry    39     those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was    40      to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as    41  as he could, ‘how silly you are! My     42  ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘ 43         I can’t help them all .I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”
“Thinking for a moment, the man    44      to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the   45     person.
【小题1】
A.drinkingB.makingC.sellingD.washing
【小题2】
A.turned aroundB.turned downC.turned onD.turned off
【小题3】
A.whatB.whenC.whereD.why
【小题4】
A.airB.landC.waterD.environment
【小题5】
A.somethingB.anythingC.everythingD.nothing
【小题6】
A.a lieB.a jokeC.a storyD.a truth
【小题7】
A.windB.rainC.wavesD.sands
【小题8】
A.himselfB.itselfC.ourselvesD.themselves
【小题9】A of               B. for                C. from            D. forward
【小题10】
A.afraidB.surprisedC.sadD.angry
【小题11】
A.slowB.fastC.soonD.high
【小题12】
A.fatherB.motherC.sonD.daughter
【小题13】
A.OrB.SoC.BecauseD.Though
【小题14】
A.beganB.continuedC.forgotD.waited
【小题15】A shortest          B. tallest               C. smallest         D. biggest

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  I had my first job at the age of thirteen, when a friend of my mother’s who owned a book shop hired(雇佣) me for six hours a week to help her in the shop. I was very  1   to earn my own pocket money and my parents  2   interfered(干涉)with how I spent it, even when I was spending it foolishly. They believed that by earning money, spending it, and learning from the  3  , I would become more mature(成熟的) and responsible about how to handle work, relationships with others, and money.

  Like many American parents, my parents also let me and my brothers do things over which they  4   a great deal. When I was sixteen, for example, after I finished high school and before I entered university, I wanted to spend the summer months traveling around Europe. My mother was against the idea of my traveling alone at such a young age, but my father felt that it would be a great  5   for me. In the end, my father won the argument(争论) on the  6   that I limited(限定)my traveling to France, my mother’s home, where I had many uncles, aunts and cousins spread out through the country who could  7   shelter(住处)and help if I needed them.

  Three years later, my younger brother decided to  8   a year off after his first year in university and travel through the United States and the Caribbean. Again my mother was very worried and not eager to see my brother leave school, but my father encouraged him and my brother had a(n)  9   year working his way on trains and ships to  10   passage to different ports and cities, and discovering many fascinating places and people.

  These kinds of experiences are probably rare(稀少的)for children in many countries but in the US they are fairly common. Most parents start  11   their children at a young age to do small things by themselves. By the time they have finished high school, many American kids have already had part-time jobs, traveled around the US or other countries on their own, have selected the university they plan to attend and maybe even  12   on their future career, and so on.

1.                A.anxious       B.content      C.proud    D.hopeful

 

2.                A.never          B.ever        C.always    D.even

 

3.                A.problems       B.mistakes        C.disappointment D.failure

 

4.                A.helped         B.supported       C.shared   D.worried

 

5.                                  A.journey   B.experience

C.decision                      D.possibility

 

6.                A.situation       B.agreement      C.gesture   D.condition

 

7.                A.promise      B.afford          C.provide   D.serve

 

8.                A.set            B.put            C.take D.keep

 

9.                A.unusual        B.hard           C.strange   D.busy

 

10.               A.accept       B.earn           C.find  D.search

 

11.               A.bringing      B.forcing

                C.pushing                      D.protecting

 

12.               A.worked       B.decided        C.carried    D.tried

 

 

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