God’s coffee

A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon    36     into complaints about stress in  work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the    37   and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of   38   ---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some   39    looking, some expensive, some delicate --- telling them to   40    themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in    41  , the professor said :“ If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,    42    behind the plain and cheap ones. Whiles it is normal for you to    43    only the best for yourselves, that is the    44    of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself    45   no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.   46   all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you    47   went for the best cups… And then you began __48___ each other’s cups. Now consider this: Life is the ___49____; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not   50  , nor change the quality of life we   51  . Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we   52  to enjoy the coffee God has   53    us. God brews the coffee, not the cups… Enjoy the coffee!”

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just   54   the  best of everything.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the   55  to God.

A. stopped       B. looked          C. grew        D. turned

A. living-room    B. waiting-room    C. bedroom     D. kitchen

A. cups          B. pans           C. bowls       D. bottles

A. plain         B. clean           C. ugly        D. fine

A. devote        B. help           C. dedicate      D. enjoy

A. stomach       B. hand          C. mind         D. mouth

A. falling        B. leaving        C. hiding         D. keeping

A. hope         B. wish          C. need           D. want

A. source        B. resource       C. energy         D. reason

A. adapts        B. puts           C. adds           D. applies

A. As           B. What          C. That           D. Which

A. consciously    B. cheerfully      C. deliberately     D. bravely

A. looking       B. glaring         C. eyeing         D. glancing

A. tea           B. water          C. wine          D. coffee

A. sign          B. mean          C. define         D. signal

A. spend         B. live           C. hate           D. love

A. fail           B. succeed        C. tend           D. manage

A. shown        B. taken          C. sent            D. provided

A. keep          B. take           C. make           D. hold

A. complex       B. remains        C. rest            D. complaints

Learning experience happens to us throughout our lives. Not long ago I had one that I would like to   36  .

I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph   37  we realized we were   38  . Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand-new $ 20 bill. I was so   39  because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on  40  seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line.  41  I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About halfway through the meal, I   42  I had not actually handed any money to the cashier . I had just  43  out, and nobody had noticed. I felt terrible.

My conscience opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn't   44  over it. I just couldn't go back to the cashier and  45  for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I  46  to give myself the pleasure of an ice cream in   47  that someone would say “Hey, Jeff, why don't you use the change   48  the pizza instead of that nice, new $ 20 bill?”I was not so  49  of my cash now.

For the next two years, whenever I was  50  of the “Pizza incident”, I would say to myself “Don't think about it any more”.

I have learned two things from this   51  . Maybe I was a fool for   52  in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a  53  pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what you have done, your conscience will   54  up with you.

This reflects the saying “A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a  “55” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.

36. A. say          B. talk                 C. share         D. explain

37. A. as           B. then                 C. while                D. when

38. A. lost          B. tired                     C. hungry        D. anxious

39. A. excited       B. eager                C. satisfied         D. encouraged

40. A. rest          B. food                C. travel          D. drink

41. A. Luckily      B. Finally               C. Immediately   D. Actually

42. A. thought      B. recognized            C. noticed       D. realized

43. A. walked     B. left                      C. worked        D. found

44. A. look         B. get                  C. turn          D. think

45. A. ask          B. pay                 C. apologize       D. send

46. A. refused       B. wanted              C. hoped         D. meant

47. A. hope       B. surprise            C. anger                D. fear

48. A. into         B. with                C. for                  D. from

49. A. sure         B. upset                C. proud         D. pleased

50. A. warned     B. reminded                 C. thought         D. told

51. A. experience    B. experiment           C. story         D. mistake

52. A. turning       B. talking             C. handing              D. giving

53. A. free         B. cheap               C. plain         D. delicious

54. A. make              B. wake               C. catch         D. put

55. A. coward     B. fool                 C. loser         D. hero

A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting(诱人的)apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater,  26  a bar of chocolate if given the choice,  27   , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 28  he felt and the more he wanted that apple.

He stood on tiptoe(脚尖),29  as high as he could, but even as his tallest 30  he was unable to touch it. He began to  31  up and down, as high as he could, at the  32  of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of  33 .

Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to  34  on. His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to  35  the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking   36 , he hoped he might find an old box, a rock , or,   37  luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use.

He had tried everything he could think to do,   38   seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk   39 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his  40  , and how he really wanted that apple. The more he 41   like this, the more unhappy he became.

42  , the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what  he wanted. He started to say to himself, “ This isn’t  43 , I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s  44  more I can do to get the apple—hat is unchangeable—but we are supposed to be able to  45  our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?

1.A. preferring    B. offering   C. receiving              D. allowing

2.A. so          B. then          C. but                  D. or

3.A. sadder        B. angrier        C. hungrier       D. tastier

4.A. expanding B. stretching        C. swinging          D. pulling

5.A. strength     B. length   C. range            D. height

6.A. jump           B. look      C. walk            D. glance

7.A. tip       B. stage   C. top      D. level

8.A. hope            B. hand            C. sight      D. reach

9.A. put      B. stand          C. get                D. hold

10.A. break        B. shake           C. take           D. strike

11.A. up            B. forward       C. down               D. around

12.A. for          B. with                   C. on                D. of

13.A. After        B. Through         C .Without         D. Upon

14.A. back       B. away            C. up          D. down

15.A. wishes     B. beliefs           C. efforts             D. goals

16.A. thought    B. imagined      C. tried      D. claimed

17.A. Therefore        B. However         C. Moreover             D. Otherwise

18.A. skillful             B. cheerful        C. harmful         D. helpful

19.A. something        B. anything        C. everything             D. nothing

20.A.change      B. express         C. forget            D. describe

 

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