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After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom’s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn’t walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn’t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me?
As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into “things you should avoid”, and “things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life.” I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job — disasters big and small, real and imagined.
The funny part is that you’d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I’ve developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I’ve ridden a motorcycle; I’ve traveled —a lot. I’ve performed stand-up comedy, and I’m planning my second wedding.
There’s something else I don’t usually talk about, but it’s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom’s funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “safe” or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.
I worry that I may have betrayed(背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn’t a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do.
Even though I inherited (继承) my mother’s cautious nature. I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.
【小题1】In the writer’s childhood, the limits and rules were used to ______.

A.improve her behaviorB.develop her independence
C.be in memory of her dead brotherD.protect her from possible danger
【小题2】 How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her?
A.She just ignores them.B.She faces up to them.
C.She turns to her mother for help.D.She does them with her friends.
【小题3】From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A.the writer failed in her first marriage
B.nothing can make the writer afraid now
C.frightening things made the writer lose her self-confidence
D.the writer’s mother felt annoyed with her
【小题4】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.Mothers influence their children much.
B.Fear is in fact not a bad thing.
C.Facing fear bravely produces courage.
D.The world is not as scary as people expect.


【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】A
【小题4】C

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Several days ago, I tried entering a lift with one of my arms fixed in a bandage(绷带) while carrying a computer bag in the other. Not being fast enough, I was passed by two young people who managed to get into the lift before me. The lift door closed only after I entered. Having already pressed their wanted floor button, the young people waited impatiently for me to press the button for where I was going. If they had decided to help, we could have moved much faster. But they had not. So I did my best and pressed the button with my arm. The two young people looked very angry with me. I was losing heart.
The memory of this incident has stayed with me because it followed shortly after my building’s watchman refused to help me carry a heavy box full of books. His answer was that he could not carry the books a few meters because it was not his job. However, I remembered myself helping people for so many years carrying boxes, shopping bags, or pushing wheelchairs upon the request of a stranger in need or when my conscience(良心) called on me. "Oh, this young generation, they have no manners, ”my grandmother would say. The idea of good manners refers to the considering of other people’s feelings. We need more and more people to have good manners. Good manners should be-come part of our lives.
【小题1】The author believes that ________.

A.good manners will never go out of style
B.her grandmother is right
C.good manners are disappearing little by little
D.it never rains, but it pours
【小题2】How did the two young people feel when the author pressed the button?
A.Excited. B.Angry.C.Sad.D.Confident.
【小题3】The watchman didn’t help the author because ______.
A.the box was full of books
B.the box was too heavy
C.the author was a stranger
D.he thought it was not his job
【小题4】We can infer from the passage that the author ______.
A.always offers help to people in need
B.always has difficulty carrying things
C.has a better memory than anyone else
D.agreed with her grandmother at first

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At the time I found those few remaining   23 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful   24  I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded 25  those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my   26  had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered(破碎. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble   27  his new surroundings and the  28  of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.

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The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to   34 , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,  35  will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?

1.

A.drink

B.fruit

C.vegetable

D.meat

 

2.

A.moved

B.walked

C.ran

D.slipped

 

3.

A.rubbed

B.rolled

C.grew

D.existed

 

4.

A.but

B.and

C.although

D.so

 

5.

A.bedroom

B.living room

C.kitchen

D.storeroom

 

6.

A.getting up

B.turning up

C.taking up

D.using up

 

7.

A.found

B.ate

C.left

D.planted

 

8.

A.presents

B.cans

C.vegetables

D.peas

 

9.

A.man

B.child

C.woman

D.boy

 

10.

A.of

B.for

C.with

D.in

 

11.

A.wife

B.life

C.son

D.friend

 

12.

A.turning to

B.leading to

C.adjusting to

D.adding to

 

13.

A.thank

B.love

C.help

D.loss

 

14.

A.down

B.near

C.close

D.wide

 

15.

A.get it

B.make it

C.take it

D.leave it

 

16.

A.grew

B.bought

C.collected

D.frozen

 

17.

A.eventually

B.fortunately

C.properly

D.specially

 

18.

A.both

B.all

C.either

D.each

 

19.

A.call on

B.put on

C.bring on

D.move on

 

20.

A.while

B.because

C.since

D.or

 

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In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a massive grandfather clock. Meals in that dining room were a   36  for four generations to become one. The table was always   37  with food from wonderful family recipes(食谱)all containing   38  as the main ingredient(成分). And always that grandfather clock stood like a trusted old family   39  , sharing our happiness.

As I was a child, the old clock  40  me. I watched and listened to it during meals. I   41  how at different times of the day, that clock would strike with a wonderful   42  . Year after year, the clock struck a part of my   43  , a part of my heart.

Even more wonderful to me was what my grandfather did each day. He  44  wound that clock with a special and magic key, which   45  the clock ticking and striking. He never let that clock wind down and   46  . When we grandkids got a little older, he showed us how to   47  the clock.

Several days after my grandfather died, I entered the dining room, with tears flowing   48  . The clock stood desertedly   49  , seeming smaller and not as magnificent as before. I couldn’t   50  to look at it.

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1.A.party         B.time      C.place     D.situation

2.A.filled         B.cleared     C.spread      D.left

3.A.wine          B.surprise    C.fish       D.love

4.A.friend        B.guard           C.doctor      D.lawyer

5.A.disappointed  B.encouragedC.interested D.comforted

6.A.questioned    B.rememberedC.doubted  D.wondered

7.A.sound        B.hammer    C.voice      D.beat

8.A.studies       B.opinions   C.memoriesD.brains

9.A.strangely       B.carefully   C.eagerly   D.usually

10.A.got          B.kept       C.preventedD.found

11.A. break     B.fall         C.stop     D.move

12.A.wind        B.repair            C.read     D.clean

13.A.unexpectedlyB.gently      C.difficultlyD.freely

14.A.ticking     B.moving     C.noisy      D.quiet

15.A.help         B.bear       C.hope       D.insist

16.A.slowly     B.quickly     C.unwillinglyD.naturally

17.A.feet         B.hands       C.sense      D.life

18.A.breathed      B.blown       C.taken      D.sent

19.A.study       B.bedroom   C.heart       D.mind

20.A.died         B.lived       C.smiled    D.sang

 

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