【题目】Eating the Cookie

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way.

【1】 was having the cookie. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didnt have the cookie, life was 【2】 .

Unfortunately, the cookie kept 【3】 some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At 【4】 times, it was the new car, the biggest contract A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate(前列腺)cancer, he sits 【5】 his head regretfully. It seems that I stopped learning how to 【6】 after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. if I take the cookie away or it 【7】 , he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It has taken me this long to understand that the 【8】 will never make me happy for long.

The 【9】 you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to 【10】 about it crumbling(弄碎)or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to 【11】 a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be 【12】 that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it 【13】 you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 【14】 the cookie is not what life is about.

My patient laughs and says 【15】 has changed him. For the first time he is 【16】 . No matter if his 【17】 is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. Two years ago, cancer 【18】 me, What is really important? Well, life is important. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to 【19】 with the cookie: it has to do with being 【20】 .

A. Happiness B. Success C. Business D. Love

A. normal B. Common C. worthless D. Useless

A. increasing B. changing C. decreasing D. recovering

A. one B. other C. no D. other

A. shaking B. nodding C. knocking D. raising

A. grow B. learn C. live D. work

A. burns B. breaks C. shares D. throws

A. disease B. change C. kid D. cookie

A. hour B. time C. second D. minute

A. think B. come C. worry D. doubt

A. give up B. add up C. use up D. call up

A. brave B. curious C. aware D. sure

A. unless B. because C. though D. until

A. Eating B. Protecting C. Having D. Making

A. death B. energy C. life D. cancer

A. happy B. weak C. pset D. sad

A. result B. fortunate C. business D. behavior

A. asked B. left C. deserted D. recognized

A. deal B. do C. connect D. link

A. alone B. alive C. ambitious D. active

【题目】 A 25-year-old student from Hubei was admitted into Tsinghua, Chinas most famous university, after an eight-year . Li Jun comes from a poor family in a small village of Hubei Province. He first going to college in the year 2000 he was admitted by a local school after

from a secondary technical school at age 17.

As a art student, he passed the exam again next year but ____

school due to economic pressures in September 2002. Life seemed but Li didnt give up. He earned a by working part time in Wuhans art rooms and tutoring students. But he never lost sight of his lifelong dream of the Academy of Arts Design of Tsinghua University. Li

the college entrance examination for five continuous years starting from 2003. , he missed making the cut one mark last year.

In 2008, his fifth try, Lis efforts . he finished the qualifying exam in his province and was finally admitted as a sculpture major into Tsinghua University. Every year, Li took art in Beijing and took exams from December to March. He then took cultural courses in his school till June. The rest of the year he spent on work. Li said he hadnt any money from his family since he graduated from the technical secondary school. Li said the reason he maintained for eight years was that he wanted to change his through knowledge.

by his contribution, Li Juns university him 9,000 yuan out of his tuition fees of 11,450 yuan. An eight-year struggle may have come to an end for Li Jun, but a new has now begun. Li said he would not worry about repaying loans at present. He wants to study well and more scholarships.

【1】 A. research B. struggle

C. service D. expectation

【2】 A. talked of B. told of

C. dreamt of D. knew of

【3】A. where B. when

C. that D. since

【4】 A. learning B. seperating

C. dating D. graduating

【5】 A. gifted B. surprised

C. interested D. easy going

【6】 A. went on with B. watched out for

C. dropped out of D. looked forward to

【7】 A. unfair B. hard

C. practical D. busy

【8】 A. value B. respect

C. freedom D. living

【9】 A. entering B. visiting

C. supporting D. pursing

【10】 A. turned to B. applied for

C. called for D. adapted to

【11】 A. Instead B. At times

C. However D. Besides

【12】 A. took off B. paid off

C. gave off D. sent off

【13】 A. ways B. programmes

C. success D. courses

【14】 A. full-time B. part-time

C. out of door D. all

【15】 A. asked for B. looked for

C. prayed for D. waited for

【16】 A. plan B. ideal

C. fate D. opinion

【17】 A. Encouraged B. Influenced

C. Accused D. Impressed

【18】 A. funded B. gave

C. paid D. cost

【19】 A. challenge B. life

C. case D. relationship

【20】 A. spend B. win

C. care D. use

【题目】

Every morning, before dropping her son off at school, my friend would stop on the way to work to grab a quick breakfast. They tended to frequent the 【1】 restaurant every morning grabbing an egg sandwich, juice, and coffee for herself, milk for her son.

One day she 【2】 an additional breakfast. When they had eaten and walked out of the door, she stopped and said good morning to a 【3】 man who was sitting alone outside the restaurant and 【4】 him the additional breakfast she had bought. He 【5】 her, grinning, telling her it was the first meal he had in a great many days. She couldnt help but feel

【6】 and was glad she finally took action.

She told her son that she had 【7】 him every day that week outside the restaurant and that no one, herself included, had 【8】 to offer him food, drink, comfort, etc. She further 【9】 that homelessness can happen to anyone, the importance of service to others and 【10】 acts of kindness were.

And so 【11】 her kindness tradition each day thereafter she and her son 【12】 to buy and supply the homeless gentleman with breakfast. The 【13】 was going on until they 【14】 several years later but the lesson was 【15】 implanted in her son by then.

She 【16】 as she told me that this kindness legacy 【17】 to her son, who remembered this childhood tradition and lesson. Now a college graduate and 【18】 employed, her son stops every day at Starbucks for his morning cup of coffee and purchases a 【19】 for a homeless person nearby before commuting to the 【20】 .

What a great family legacy that she can pass along to her children as well!

A. small B. same C. crowded D. ordinary

A. received B. demanded C. expected D. ordered

A. strong B. kind C. homeless D. sick

A. handed B. bought C. supplied D. provided

A. remembered B. thanked C. respected D. paid

A. grateful B. sorry C. anxious D. good

A. helped B. seen C. disliked D. missed

A. agreed B. refused C. stopped D. appeared

A. shouted B. replied C. argued D. explained

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

A. ended B. began C. met D. presented

A. hesitated B. hurried C. continued D. needed

A. moment B. life C. practice D. performance

A. moved away B. got around C. turned down D. broke up

A. hardly B. firmly C. happily D. slightly

A. smiled B. cheered C. sighed D. wondered

A. came B. occurred C. went D. belonged

A. regularly B. carefully C. entirely D. gainfully

A. chance B. tent C. shirt D. breakfast

A. city B. office C. house D. school

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