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  My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car.From the time I wa s a saver.My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week.I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura.In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural.The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get.I earned some of my money picking one crop or another.When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time.She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked.I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day.Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker.

  In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away.She left me 100 share s of AT&T.One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me$240 per year in dividend s(利息).That wa s huge for a kid my age.

  By the time I wa s seventeen.I had saved up $ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted.Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up $ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car.I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”.I wa s so excited.

  My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got.Thi s wa s not a bad thing.I learned self-reliance.Self-reliance i s equal to freedom.Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father.

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of $1, 300?

[  ]

A.

Weekly allowance.

B.

Her earning s by picking crop s.

C.

Share s left by grandma.

D.

Money earned from selling share s.

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________.

[  ]

A.

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B.

enough money had been earned for her car

C.

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D.

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________.

[  ]

A.

16

B.

17

C.

18

D.

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________.

[  ]

A.

give the author freedom

B.

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C.

teach the author to learn self-reliance

D.

give the author a big surpri se

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     Once two brothers,John and Tony,asked a sage(智者) to tell them about their future.The sage __1__
them,"It may not be good for you to know your future.__2__,your future can change later even if I tell you
now!"They __3__ knowing their future.The sage said,"John will become a king in a year while Tony will __
4__ in a murder."
     John was __5__  and started dreaming of becoming a king while  Tony  started  spending  his time in
spiritual activities and used his time to __6__ everyone and soon came out of his __7__.
     Eleven months passed.One day,the brothers discovered a half-buried pot.They __8__ it and found it
full of gold.John shouted,"This __9__ is just for me to set up my palace!"Just then,a robber jumped out
and gave a __10__ on John's head and tried to take the pot away.Tony jumped at the robber to __11__
John.But the robber attacked him with a knife.During the __12__ the robber dropped the pot and ran
away.John was very __13__ to his injured brother and offered him half the gold.Tony politely __14__
saying he was not going to live much longer in any case.John,with his new treasure,started eating and
drinking.One year passed.There was no __15__ of any crown(王冠)in sight.Tony was also enjoying good __16__.They decided to visit the sage again."How did your predictions go __17__?"John asked.The sage
explained,"I told you,your destiny(命运)can be changed.The crown you were to get was __18__ to a pot
of gold.But,Tony's __19__ life changed his destiny too.Death in the murderer's hand was reduced to only
being __20__."
     How life meets us is called destiny;how we meet life is called self effort!
(     )1.A.informed  
(     )2.A.Instead  
(     )3.A.insisted on  
(     )4.A.recover  
(     )5.A.worried  
(     )6.A.serve  
(     )7.A.work  
(     )8.A.bought  
(     )9.A.experience  
(     )10.A.blow  
(     )11.A.calm  
(     )12.A.performance  
(     )13.A.polite  
(     )14.A.refused  
(     )15.A.symbol  
(     )16.A.chance  
(     )17.A.short  
(     )18.A.reduced  
(     )19.A.comfortable  
(     )20.A.disturbed  
B.advised      
B.Therefore    
B.depended on  
B.appear        
B.pleased      
B.receive      
B.debt          
B.wrapped      
B.treasure      
B.gift          
B.stop          
B.investigation
B.cruel        
B.accepted      
B.sign          
B.position      
B.bad          
B.connected    
B.spiritual    
B.forgotten    
C.ordered  
C.Besides  
C.gave up  
C.hurt  
C.shocked  
C.observe  
C.depression
C.sold  
C.award  
C.tap  
C.protect  
C.action  
C.grateful  
C.demanded  
C.mention  
C.work  
C.wrong  
C.devoted  
C.difficult  
C.locked  
D.encouraged  
D.Otherwise    
D.took up      
D.die          
D.disappointed
D.guide        
D.anger        
D.dug          
D.success      
D.touch        
D.inspire      
D.struggle    
D.loyal        
D.answered    
D.comment      
D.health      
D.well        
D.exposed      
D.hopeless    
D.wounded      

Around the Family Drum

The power of the family drum remains tied to my heart. Every winter as long as I can  1  , family and friends gathered at my grandfather’s home in the  traditional village of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, on January 6.

I remember   2  great fondness as a young boy watching and eventually   3  the buffalo dance during the day. In the evening my grandfather’s home became the central   4  place for family, friends and relatives.

My father loved to   5  , the old Taos Pueblo and Apache round dance songs dating back   6  the late 1800s. I would watch him close his eyes and he seemed to travel back in time trying to   7  a particular sage’s (先哲的)song. With a growing smile, he would start beating the   8  and introduce an ancient song.

The day I was finally   9  to sit around the family drum was a   10 time for me, involving extreme boyhood concentration, not only to memorize the   11  , but also to beat the drum on tempo(节拍)and put the singing together with the drum beat. I made my share of   12  , and I must have sounded like a young wolf howling among those more experienced,   13  in time I gained confidence, and a voice  14  enough to start leading some of the songs.

Sitting around the family drum with my father and uncles brought me a sense of great comfort and inner  15  . It was a wonderful experience to be   16  around the circle of love, acceptance and teaching.

Sometimes while we were singing, there might   17  a knock at the door. In Pueblo tradition, the person outside would peek his head in and   18  say, “I heard the drum, and I wanted to ask   19  to enter your house you ‘my’ grandfather would permit it! ” My grandfather would   20   nod and tell the visitor to enter and join us around the drum.

These are unforgettable memories, I often close my eyes and can hear uncles and my beloved father now departed singing around the family drum!

1.A.remember             B.recognize             C.realize                 D.remind

2.A.from                     B.with                    C.by                      D.to

1,3,5

 
3.A.joining in               B.going over           C.thinking of           D.talking about

4.A.chatting                B.visiting                C.gathering             D.comforting

5.A.create                   B.write                   C.sing                    D.play

6.A.as far as                B.as old as              C.as long as            D.as late as

7.A.record                  B.repeat                  C.recall                  D.recite

8.A.door                     B.drum                   C.foot                    D.head

9.A.ordered                 B.refused                C.allowed               D.advised

10.A.terrible                B.memorable           C.believable            D.comfortable

11.A.moves                 B.dances                C.stories                 D.songs

12.A.efforts                B.mistakes              C.progress              D.success

13.A.and                     B.but                      C.or                       D.so

14.A.strong                 B.sharp                  C.weak                  D.low

15.A.thought               B.emotion               C.calm                   D.joy

16.A.left                     B.found                  C.seated                 D.arranged

17.A.hear                    B.have                    C.sound                 D.come

18.A.respectfully         B.shamefully           C.peacefully            D.carefully

19.A.questions             B.reception             C.suggestions         D.permission

20.A.hesitatingly         B.cautiously         C.patiently          D.politely

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