Dear Students,
I am very happy to be your guest speaker today. It is a great pleasure to visit your school and to meet all of you.
I would like to tell you about myself. I have been a news reporter for the past fifteen years. I __46__ this job so I could travel the world,but job has taught me many unforgettable lessons. The work is sometimes __47__. I have seen famines(饥荒),earthquakes,poorness and death. But I have __48__ seen courage,hope and happiness.
In India,I visited a city where there were many homeless children. Some were as young as four years old. They lived in the __49__ and depended on themselves by begging or stealing. But then a wonderful lady called Rosa opened a home for them. Within one year,she was __50__ two hundred children. She clothed them,fed them and taught them. She gave them __51__.
__52__ time,I was in Turkey after a terrible earthquake. In one place,I found an old lady whose house was destroyed. Her son was missing and rescue(救援) workers said there was no chance that he was still alive. But the old lady did not __53__ hope. For four days,she moved heavy stones one at a time by herself. She did not stop __54__ she found her son. He was alive.
Here in China,I met a young boy who was seriously ill. He had had twenty operationsand spent nearly his whole life in hospital. I thought he would be __55__,but when I met him,his smile was so warm and welcoming.
In life,we need good models that we can admire and learn from. When my life is difficult,I try to remember the courage and goodness of these three people.

【小题1】
A.foundB.had C.choseD.liked
【小题2】
A.interestingB.importantC.easyD.difficult
【小题3】
A.neverB.also C.everD.already
【小题4】
A.hotelsB.streetsC.housesD.classrooms
【小题5】
A.looking overB.looking afterC.getting on well withD.paying for
【小题6】
A.moneyB.food C.medicineD.hope
【小题7】
A.OneB.AnotherC.The otherD.Other
【小题8】
A.give outB.give upC.give backD.give away
【小题9】
A.untilB.whileC.whenD.after
【小题10】
A.happyB.unluckyC.sad D.friendly



Think back to a time in your life when you tried something new.
When I was a teenager I volunteered to pass out water at a local race. I was so excited to see all the different runners who passed by and quickly took a cup of water. Some ran past,some walked past and a few wheeled past.
I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! The next year I decided to run for the race,but I had little running practice. I just wanted to finish.
On the day of the race,it was terribly hot. After running for about 5 miles,I was thinking,“I must be crazy. Why did I do this? What was I thinking?” And at one moment,I said to myself,“I am never doing this again!”
That first 10 km race was quite an experience. I jogged (慢跑),I walked,I jogged and walked. At times,I didn’t know if I could finish.
Near the end,a 70­year­old man ran past me,very fast,and I felt a little embarrassed (尴尬的) that I was more than 50 years younger than he and I couldn’t even keep up with him. But then I realized something. He was running his race and I was running mine. How often in life do we compare(比较) ourselves to others when we really shouldn’t? I decided that I would not give up on running races,and that one day I would be one of those 70­year­olds who were still running.
As I crossed the finishing line,I was proud of myself. I didn’t regret (后悔) having such an experience.
【小题1】What did the writer do at a local race as a volunteer?

A.He helped old runners.
B.He cheered up the runners.
C.He passed out water to the runners.
D.He took back the cups from the runners.
【小题2】Why did the writer join the race?
A.He just wanted to experience.B.He was crazy about running.
C.He had practiced running very hard.D.He wanted very much to win a prize.
【小题3】How did the writer’s feeling change after running about 5 miles?
①He regretted.
②He encouraged himself.
③He felt a little embarrassed.
A.①—②—③B.②—①—③C.①—③—②D.②—③—①
【小题4】 What is the best title (标题) of the passage?
A.To be No.1.B.Let’s compare.
C.A volunteering job.D.Running your own race.

My mind seems always to return to the day when I met Carl. The city bus stopped at a corner to         the passengers(乘客).1 was included. After getting on the bus, I looked for a place to sit. At last, I found a seat near the back.

    The passenger of the         next to the one I was going for was an old man in a grey suit. Seated myself, I began to read the book I had been carrying which was Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The man in the seat next to me introduced himself by asking if I        any other book like the one I was holding. When I told him I had, he seemed to become        and so did I. He said he was Carl. And asked if I like jazz(爵士乐),and l told him that I didn't really listen to it and that I like rock and roll. Waiting for Carl to tell me that I          listen to real music, I was shocked when he just smiled and nodded. He said, "You          me of myself when I was your age. I remember how my parents hated jazz, how they couldn't see how I could listen to that terrible noise. I bet your parents say the same thing, don't they?" Now it was my        to smile and nod.

    As the bus took us from one side of the city to the' other, Carl and I talked about a lot of different things. The more we talked, the more amazed I became at          the two of us really had in common, although we had the        difference. I haven't seen him         we parted, but the thought of our relationship that day never leaves my mind.

1.A. take up            B. pick up                 C. put up                   D. turn up

2.A. seat              B. bus               C. city                       D. book

3.A. read            B. was reading          C. had read             D. would read

4.A. worried           B. silent                   C. interested          D. bored

5.A. mustn't            B. shouldn't            C. must                    D. should

6.A. remember B. warn                    C. make                   D. remind

7.A. turn            B. time                      C. day                       D. honor

8.A. why             B. where                   C. how                        D. how much

9.A. race               B. age                       C. sex                       D. color

10.A. after    B. when                   C. since                    D. before

 

A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shining car. “Is this your car, Paul?” he asked.

Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was surprised. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…”He hesitated.

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.

“I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car?”

“Oh yes, I’d love that.”

After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?”

Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.

He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.

“There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it …then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas window that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”

Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.

注:urchin顽童    hesitate犹豫    neighbour邻居

crippled残疾       cent 美分

1.The street urchin was very surprised when _______________

A.Paul received an expensive car

B.Paul told him about the car

C.he saw the shining car

D.he was walking around the car

2.From the story we can see the urchin _______________

A.wished to give his brother a car

B.wanted Paul’s brother to give him a car

C.wished he could have a brother like Paul’s

D.wished Paul could be a brother like that

3.The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house ___________

A.to show his neighbours the big car

B.to show he had a rich friend

C.to let his brother ride in the car

D.to tell his brother about his wish

4.We can infer(推断) from the story that___________

A.Paul couldn’t understand the urchin

B.the urchin had a deep love for his brother

C.the urchin wished to have a rich brother

D.the urchin’s wish came true in the end

5.The best name of the story is____________

A.A Christmas Present

B.A Street Urchin

C.A Brother Like That    

D.An Unforgettable Holiday Ride

 

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.

After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”

One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.

Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.

    That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

1.The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because __________.

    A. the woman’s window was dirty         B. the writer’s window was dirty

    C. the woman lived nearby               D. the writer was near-sighted

2.The writer was surprised that _________.

    A. the woman was sitting by her window  B. the woman’s window was still terrible

    C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon  D. the woman’s window was clean

3. “It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.

    A. I began to understand it             B. it cheered me up

    C. I knew it grew light                 D. it began to get dark

4.It’s clear that ________.

    A. the writer had never met the woman before    B. the writer often washed the window

    C. they both worked as cleaners         D. they lived in a small town

5.From the passage, we can learn _______.

    A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often

    B. one should often make his windows clean

    C. one must judge himself before he judges others

    D. one must look at others through his dirty windows.

 

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