Jerry is a restaurant manager who is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say．
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him,“I don
't get 1 !You can't be a 2 person all of the time．How do you do it?”Jerry replied,“Each morning I wake up and say to myself you have two 3 today．You can choose to be in a good mood 4 you can choose to be in a bad mood．I choose to be in a good mood．It's your choice 5 you live life．”
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never 6 to do in the restaurant business…．He 7 the back door open one morning and was held up at 8 point by three armed robbers．He was shot by them while trying to fight back． 9 , Jerry was found relatively quickly and 10 to the local trauma(外伤)center．After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released 11 the hospital with fragments of the bullets 12 in his body．
I saw Jerry about six months after the 13 ．Jerry told me something happening in the ER(急诊室)．He said,“…the paramedics were great．They kept telling me I was going to be fine．But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the 14 on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really 15 ．In their eyes, I 16 ‘he
's a dead man．’I knew I needed to take 17 ．”“What did you do?”I asked．“Well, there was a nurse shouting questions at me,”said Jerry．“She asked 18 I was allergic to anything．‘Yes’I replied．The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply．I took a deep breath and yelled,‘BULLETS!’Over their 19 , I told them,‘I am choosing to live．Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’．”Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude．I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully．
In my third year as a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech telling students and parents about the benefits of football．I gave the same 1 each year, aimin g at recruiting(招收)new team members．I talked about 2 football wasn't just for 3 athletes and how everyone could 4 from it．This year, a 5 looking couple approached me after my speech．They said their son really wanted to play football．They had tried to 6 him out of it, but he had his heart 7 on joining the team．
When they told me his name, my heart sank．Michael was five feet and ten inches tall and weighed about 108 pounds．He was a 8 boy, the constant target of other kids' jokes, and as far as I knew he had never 9 sports．I knew he would never 10 it through football practice, let 11 as a player．But we told them we could give it a try．
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field, we did 30 minutes of warming-up 12 starting a one-mile jog around the track．I 13 my eye on Michael．At 50 yards he fell, and I helped him to his feet．“Michael,”I said,“Why don't you just 14 the mile?”He said in tears that he wanted to run with the others, so I let him go on． 15 he fell, but each time 16 himself up．
The same thing happened every day for weeks, and Michael gained strength both 17 and physically．By the last week of practice, Michael could run the mile without falling, we had 18 only one game that season, 19 the team cheered louder for Michael's run than the victory they had, Afterward, Michael approached me, and I told him how 20 I was of him．
(1)
[ ]
A．
lecture
B．
lesson
C．
training
D．
speech
(2)
[ ]
A．
how
B．
why
C．
whether
D．
that
(3)
[ ]
A．
star
B．
average
C．
ordinary
D．
important
(4)
[ ]
A．
learn
B．
benefit
C．
take
D．
get
(5)
[ ]
A．
worried
B．
worrying
C．
anxious
D．
eager
(6)
[ ]
A．
keep
B．
talk
C．
pull
D．
take
(7)
[ ]
A．
put
B．
set
C．
placed
D．
kept
(8)
[ ]
A．
alone
B．
lonely
C．
tall
D．
strong
(9)
[ ]
A．
attended
B．
participated in
C．
join
D．
take part
(10)
[ ]
A．
get
B．
realize
C．
make
D．
achieve
(11)
[ ]
A．
alone
B．
aside
C．
away
D．
down
(12)
[ ]
A．
before
B．
when
C．
then
D．
until
(13)
[ ]
A．
fixed
B．
put
C．
kept
D．
paid
(14)
[ ]
A．
run
B．
walk
C．
jog
D．
go
(15)
[ ]
A．
Unfortunately
B．
Repeatedly
C．
Secondly
D．
Luckily
(16)
[ ]
A．
stood
B．
picked
C．
struggled
D．
raised
(17)
[ ]
A．
mentally
B．
socially
C．
emotionally
D．
technically
(18)
[ ]
A．
won
B．
defeated
C．
beat
D．
got
(19)
[ ]
A．
yet
B．
however
C．
though
D．
while
(20)
[ ]
A．
pleased
B．
satisfied
C．
proud
D．
ashamed
完形填空。
The film starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school．Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football．
But there's a big surprise when the movie 1 with two students going crazy in the 2 shooting and killing people．
This is“Elephant”．Filmed in just 20 days, it stars real high school kids．American 3 Gus Van Sant had no ready made lines(台词)．The student actors 4 their own dialogue, with Van Sant asking them to base their characters on their own 5 ．
6 it may not sound very high quality, the film won the Palmed' Or(金棕榈奖)for Best Film and the award for Best Director at the Cannes 7 festival in France on May 25．
The film is based on the 8 at a high school in the US, where two boys 9 13 people and then themselves in 1999．
The title of the 10 refers to the old expression about a 11 that's as hard to ignore as an elephant in the house．
The film takes a close look at a few hours in the lives of the victims(受害者)and the 12 ．It shows how high school is a different experience for everyone－fun and friendly, or hard and 13 ．
In many ways, the two boys, who carry out the shooting, act like ordinary 14 ．But, there are hints(暗示)of the 15 they feel inside．One of the boys is bullied at school．The other plays violent 16 games．But Van Sant isn't 17 their killings on either bullying or violent video games．In fact, the film doesn't offer any 18 for why school violence happens．
“I didn't want to 19 anything．It's up to the audience to draw its own 20 ,”said the 51-year-old director．
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