Wings of Angel 

I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not   21  . I had a severe spinal cord disorder (脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much   22   than others.

I hated going to school and I hated people   23   at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing   24   and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the   25   and seeing an ugly hunchback (驼背).

My friends found me   26   because I didn’t let others get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life   27   Angela appeared.

That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school — a spot where no one would   28   me. That’s when I first heard her voice.

“Hi. Can I sit down?”

I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.

“What are you looking at?” she asked.

“Ants.”

“What are they doing?”

“No   29  .”

“I bet they’re playing games and making friends. Don’t you think so?”

That was how our   30   started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche (处境) — until it was sunset.

Then suddenly, she saw my   31  . She just stared.

    My heart   32  . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would   33   me now.

She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know   34   your back is hunched.”

I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be   35  . I begged in my heart for her to   36  , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”

“No,” I answered   37  .

She bent and whispered in my ears.

“Your back is hunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”  

I was   38  . I looked into her eyes and her   39   touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to   40   myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend.

A. them          B. it              C. me            D. her  

A. sadder          B. shorter               C. weaker           D. slower

A. looking       B. smiling       C. aiming          D. glaring  

A. still            B. alone          C. straight          D. together

A. street           B. sun             C. corner          D. mirror

A. distant          B. disappointed   C. hopeless         D. unlucky 

A. after           B. while         C. since            D. until

A. disturb        B. seek             C. comfort          D. ignore

A. wonder        B. idea             C. way             D. problem

A. games         B. performance   C. conversation      D. competition

A. face           B. back             C. eyes             D. wings

A. sank          B. beat             C. broke           D. ached

A. look up to   B. catch up with   C. look down upon D. put up with

A. that          B. how            C. whether          D. why

A. tied          B. arrested       C. punished      D. sentenced

A. relax         B. leave            C. stop             D. forbid

A. shyly          B. weakly         C. proudly       D. firmly  

A. astonished  B. ashamed          C. annoyed        D. upset

A. wisdom      B. beauty           C. honesty       D. kindness 

A. control       B. like            C. forgive        D. forget

I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother,   36  to look at each other. But we soon lost the   37   and started playing with each other. In the 7th grade, I first lost touch with her. She was going through family problems and I deserted her to be with the “cooler people”.   38  of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had “problems”. However, every summer we would   39  sit at each other’s home and watch soap operas and talk about everything we liked.
It was last year when I noticed the problem. I guess I was just too busy in high school to realize she needed someone there for her. Well, she made a new “best friend” and   40  did I. Then I didn’t know why, but she started cutting herself.
She was diagnosed with clinical depression(抑郁症). I was very   41_  at first, but with the late night calls, we still stayed in touch. I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend   42  deserted her. When people were calling her   43 , I knew I still   44  her like a sister.
Yesterday she came   45  me and said this,” I never knew what a best friend was   46  I found you were the only person that would stop me from cutting,  the only person that ever made me feel better about myself and my   47  . You don’t know this but I was trying to kill myself one night when you   48  me. I owe you so much, and you didn’t even know you were   49  me.” We both cried. And I guess a kind of lesson from my life so far is to never   50  your friends.

【小题1】
A.pleased B.excitedC.scaredD.disappointed
【小题2】
A.happinessB.kindnessC.shynessD.sadness
【小题3】
A.AllB.NoneC.NoD.Every
【小题4】
A.hardlyB.seldomC.justD.always
【小题5】
A.neitherB.soC.tooD.also
【小题6】
A.madB.carelessC.hopefulD.upset
【小题7】
A.luckilyB.successfullyC.actuallyD.calmly
【小题8】
A.selfishB.crazyC.braveD.lonely
【小题9】
A.believed inB.waited forC.cared aboutD.replied to
【小题10】
A.withB.afterC.uponD.to
【小题11】
A.untilB.whenC.sinceD.if
【小题12】
A.mistakesB.parentsC.friendsD.problems
【小题13】
A.visitedB.encouragedC.calledD.prevented
【小题14】
A.helpingB.remindingC.cheatingD.praising
【小题15】
A.give upB.look back atC.drop in atD.look down on

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

During my second year of college I had to look for another place to live in. One Sunday after church the pastor(牧师)   36   me to stay in his daughter’s room because she was studying abroad for one year.

To be honest, I really didn’t want to stay with the pastor’s family.   37   then he old me how much rent would be—a very   38__ figure that included one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about it and    39   to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to make   40   living arrangements, since the daughter was to   41   home. But they suggested I   42   a room with their son. By this time I seemed to have been adopted(收养)into their  43   -- her people became my people. I   44   accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be   45   to have a little sister. But when I later met her, I   46   that this idea of looking after her might be more interesting than I first   47   .

We finally fell in love, married, and have been   48   one another for many years. There have been times that life turned out to be   49   than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go   50 _  largely because we knew that somebody deeply cared.

It isn’t about marriage—it’s about   51 _  . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as   52 _ as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be   53   -- you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and   54   I will need you to look after me.”

Is there somebody you can   55  ? And is someone counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is someone to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

1.

A.required

B.told

C.warned

D.reminded

 

2.

A.But

B.And

C.So

D.Or

 

3.

A.high

B.low

C.familiar

D.fair

 

4.

A.helped

B.refused

C.admitted

D.decided

 

5.

A.other

B.extra

C.different

D.similar

 

6.

A.reach

B.sell

C.return

D.leave

 

7.

A.spare

B.share

C.separate

D.divide

 

8.

A.house

B.family

C.life

D.group

 

9.

A.happily

B.sadly

C.curiously

D.nervously

 

10.

A.strange

B.uneasy

C.nice

D.boring

 

11.

A.predicted

B.doubted

C.proved

D.realized

 

12.

A.knew

B.imagined

C.planned

D.promised

 

13.

A.watching over

B.taking over

C.looking after

D.looking for

 

14.

A.smoother

B.more challenging

C.flatter

D.more interesting

 

15.

A.forward

B.backward

C.up

D.down

 

16.

A.friendship

B.relation

C.love

D.couple

 

17.

A.perfect

B.lucky

C.distant

D.close

 

18.

A.away

B.out

C.in

D.around

 

19.

A.always

B.sometimes

C.never

D.ever

 

20.

A.believe in

B.depend on

C.take care of

D.watch out for

 

When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was   1  to see that it was an English English dictionary, also known as a monolingual(单语的) dictionary.   2  it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one and, to be honest, I found it extremely  3  to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and still not fully understand the meaning. I was used to the   4  bilingual(双语的)dictionaries, in which the words are    5  both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt   6  to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I   7 that monolingual dictionaries are  8 in learning a foreign language.

As I found out, there is in fact often no perfect equivalence(对应) between two  9  in two language. My aunt even goes so far as to  10 that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the   11 meaning of a word in English! Therefore, she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning. 12  , I have come to see what she meant. 

Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n)   13  number of words, around 2, 000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am  14 exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas.  15 this, I can express myself more easily in English.

1.

A.worried

B.sad

C.surprised

D.nervous

 

2.

A.Because

B.Although

C.Unless

D.If

 

3.

A.difficult

B.interesting

C.ambiguous

D.practical

 

4.

A.new

B.familiar

C.earlier

D.ordinary

 

5.

A.explained

B.expressed

C.described

D.created

 

6.

A.offered

B.agreed

C.decided

D.happened

 

7.

A.imagine

B.recommend

C.predict

D.understand

 

8.

A.natural

B.better

C.easier

D.convenient

 

9.

A.words

B.names

C.ideas

D.characters

 

10.

A.hope

B.declare

C.doubt

D.tell

 

11.

A.exact

B.basic

C.translated

D.expected

 

12.

A.Largely

B.Generally

C.Gradually

D.Probably

 

13.

A.extra

B.average

C.total

D.limited

 

14.

A.repeatedly

B.nearly

C.immediately

D.anxiously

 

15.

A.According to

B.In relation to

C.In addition to

D.Because of

 

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