I need to share a strangely wonderful event in my life that involves cancer and death. I am certain you are 1        with the fact that I am using the words wonderful,cancer and death in the same sentence. I think that after you read this story you will 2        that in this case it is an ap?propriate 3       of words.

  A dear friend of mine was dying of cancer. 4       before she died she shared with me that she was very 5        that she would never get to the 6        again. She grew up near the ocean and it was a(n) 7       place for her. The cancer had made her too 8        to travel 4-5 hours. The next morning I shared this with several of her friends and we 9        we had to do something about it.

  On the afternoon,while her family kept her away from the 10       ,we started to carry out the plan. We dumped (倒) tons of white beach sand in her driveway. After we 11        out the sand in her driveway,we 12       it with two tents,beach balls,shovels (伊子) and beach chairs. 13      ,there was a recorder playing the sound of waves washing the seashore. We even rented an ice cream machine so that we could make her favorite ice cream. When all was in 14       ,her daughter brought her out to her 15        beach where she was 16        by a few dozen friends dressed in flowered shirts. We shed (流) a tear or two that day,17       it was mostly filled with laughs and most of all 18       . The day ended with a fire on her beach.

  She died two weeks later but she managed to 19        her beach four or five more times be?fore she left us. I guess the message of this story is that when someone is in 20       ,we should think of ways to help him/her.

(   ) 1. A. comparing   B. dealing   C. struggling   D. fighting

(   ) 2. A. believe   B. agree   C. notice   D. announce

(   ) 3. A. explanation   B. connection   C. translation   D. combination

(   ) 4. A. Days   B. Weeks   C. Months   D. Years

(   ) 5. A. embarrassed   B. worried   C. sad   D. angry

(   ) 6. A. beach   B. mountain   C. river   D. park

(   ) 7. A. mysterious   B. strange   C. ordinary   D. special

(   ) 8. A. lazy   B. weak   C. tired   D. busy

(   ) 9. A. guessed   B. wondered   C. decided   D. expected

(   ) 10. A. room   B. bed   C. door   D. window

(   ) 11. A. spread   B. checked   C. dug   D. threw

(   ) 12. A. filled   B. decorated   C. equipped   D. matched

(   ) 13. A. Besides   B. However   C. Therefore   D. Thus

(   ) 14. A. use   B. peace   C. control   D. place

(   ) 15. A. sunny   B. small   C. private   D. crowded

(   ) 16. A. greeted   B. cheered   C. lifted   D. surrounded

(   ) 17. A. so   B. but   C. and   D. or

(   ) 18. A. songs   B. dance   C. love   D. pity

(   ) 19. A. improve   B. imagine   C. watch   D. visit

(   ) 20. A. need   B. trouble   C. danger   D. panic

  A nine-year-old kid is sitting at his desk when suddenly there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his 1        is going to stop beating because he can?not possibly imagine 2        this has happened.   It's never happened before,3 he knows that when the boys find out he will 4        hear the end of it. When the girls find out,they'll never 5        to him again as long as he lives.

  The boy puts his 6        down and prays this prayer, "Dear God,this is an 7       !I need help now!”

  He 8       his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that 9        he has been discovered.

  As the teacher is walking 10        him,a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie 11       in front of the teacher and dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap. The boy pretends to be 12       ,but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you,Lord!Thank you,lord!"

  Now all of a sudden,instead of being the object of ridicule,the boy is the object of 13.        The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on 14        his pants dry out. All the other children are 15        their hands and knees 16        up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it,the ridicule that should have been his has been 17        to someone else―Susie.

  She 18       to help,but they tell her to get out. "You've done 19      ,you klutz!"

  Finally,at the end of the day,as they are waiting for the bus,the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that 20        purpose,didn't you?"

Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."

(   ) 1. A. mind   B. heart   C. time   D. breath

(   ) 2. A. what   B. when   C. how   D. why

(   ) 3. A. so   B. but   C. and   D. therefore

(   ) 4. A. never   B. just   C. ever   D. even

(   ) 5. A. say   B. speak   C. discuss   D. tell

(   ) 6. A. heart   B. hands   C. arms   D. head

(   ) 7. A. emergency   B. accident   C. event   D. incident

(   ) 8. A. looks up to   B. looks down upon   

       C. looks up from   D. looks back to

(   ) 9. A. predicts   B. expresses   C. says   D. reads

(   ) 10. A. toward   B. past   C. from   D. out of

(   ) 11. A. falls   B. trips   C. throws   D. drops

(   ) 12. A. sad   B. happy   C. annoy   D. angry

(   ) 13. A. respect   B. admiration   C. praise   D. sympathy

(   ) 14. A. while   B. before   C. since   D. after

(   ) 15. A. with   B. in   C. on   D. by

(   ) 16. A. cleaning   B. getting   C. doing   D. standing

(   ) 17. A. changed   B. transferred   C. turned   D. transmitted

(   ) 18. A. asks   B. manages   C. goes   D. tries

(   ) 19. A. good   B. enough   C. bad   D. all

(   ) 20. A. with   B. in   C. on   D. without

 While I was traveling through Europe,I passed through Poland. With only two names and a(n) 1       from 10 years ago,I suddenly decided I would 2        to find relatives that my fam?ily had 3        me existed but with whom they had lost contact many years ago. Would I be lucky enough?

  I kept 4        hope that I could be reconnected with relatives. Moreover,to achieve it,I need to 5        the language and cultural barriers. The address in hand,I traveled several hours 6        to a small village. When I got off,I found lots of cottages. Uncertain of the address I sought,I 7       the door of a house and a middleaged woman answered the door. What I wor?ried about happened. The woman did not speak 8       . I did not speak Polish. I 9       her one name of the people I was looking for. She asked me to wait and after several phone calls came back shaking her head. From her 10       ,I knew that one person I was looking for had passed away. We both stood 11        for a moment. I was 12        and I turned to walk away after a few moments' silence. I glanced at the woman and she took the 13        from my hand. Pointing at the other 14       of a relative I had written on the paper,the woman led me 15      .

  Nearly an hour later,she looked at me with a 16 smile. She now had two phones in her hand. She was talking in Polish and 17        me one of the receivers. With the 18        of her son,who knew English,I learned that the woman had found my relatives and invited me to stay for a night at her home. After I politely 19        the offer,she insisted on driving me to the 20        so I could catch my bus. A tear fell down as I exited her car. "Dziekuje," I said, "Thank you."

(   ) 1. A. address   B. envelope   C. photo   D. card

(   ) 2. A. regret   B. attempt   C. continue   D. plan

(   ) 3. A. amazed   B. promised   C. told   D. reminded

(   ) 4. A. some   B. enough   C. much   D. little

(   ) 5. A. overcome   B. face   C. forget   D. value

(   ) 6. A. on foot   B. by air   C. by train   D. by bus

(   ) 7. A. knocked on   B. focused on   

       C. broke down   D. paid attention to

(   ) 8. A. English   B. Chinese   C. French   D. Italian

(   ) 9. A. announced   B. showed   C. brought   D. sent

(   ) 10. A. words   B. experience   C. gestures   D. voice

(   ) 11. A. anxiously   B. calmly   C. silently   D. guiltily

(   ) 12. A. desperate   B. confident   C. careless   D. disappointed

(   ) 13. A. wallet   B. paper   C. phone   D. pen

(   ) 14. A. picture   B. number   C. name   D. message

(   ) 15. A. outside   B. inside   C. forward   D. aside

(   ) 16. A. forced   B. shy   C. mysterious   D. big

(   ) 17. A. handed   B. threw   C. left   D. shared

(   ) 18. A. information   B. assistance   C. introduction   D. imagination

(   ) 19. A. repeated   B. ignored   C. refused   D. accepted

(   ) 20. A. store   B. homeland   C. destination   D. station

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