My father left for our native place on Thursday. In fact, he had never traveled by ______ before, so I just took this opportunity to let him ______ his first flight. ______ being asked to book a ticket by train, I got him a ticket on Jet Airways. The moment I handed over the ticket to him, he was surprised. The ______ was very apparent on his face as we waited for the time of the ______. Just like a schoolboy, he was ______ himself on that day, using the trolley (手推车) for his luggage and asking for a window seat. He was ______ enjoying himself and I, too, watching him experience all these things with ______. As he was about to go in for the security check-in, he walked up to me with tears in his eyes and ______ me. He became very ______ for what I had done meant a great deal to him. I told him there was no need to thank me.

Later, I ______ my life. As a child, how many dreams had our parents made come true? Without ______ the financial situation, we asked for dresses, toys, outings, etc. They tried to ______ all our needs. Did we ever say thanks for all they had done for us? Today ______ it comes to our children, we always think we should give them the best. But we tend to ______ that our parents have sacrificed(牺牲) a lot to see us happy, so it is our ______ to make sure their dreams are realized.

Old age is like a second childhood and just as we take care of our children, the same ______ needs to be given to our parents. I want to say sorry for making my father ______ so long for this small dream to be realized.

Just the fact that they are old does not mean that they will have to ______ everything and keep sacrificing. They have ______, too.

Take care of your parents. They are precious.

1.A. bus B. train C. ship D. air

2.A. catch B. miss C. experience D. change

3.A. In spite of B. Because of C. In case of D. Instead of

4.A. pride B. excitement C. admiration D. ambition

5.A. appointment B. dream C. travel D. show

6.A. encouraging B. warning C. teaching D. preparing

7.A. thoroughly B. slowly C. immediately D. suddenly

8.A. anger B. joy C. shyness D. curiosity

9.A. helped B. patted C. thanked D. praised

10.A. honest B. childish C. nervous D. emotional

11.A. looked for B. looked down upon C. looked into D. looked back on

12.A. understanding B. describing C. solving D. improving

13.A. avoid B. meet C. record D. check

14.A. unless B. because C. when D. though

15.A. learn B. express C. promise D. forget

16.A. ability B. responsibility C. freedom D. fortune

17.A. song B. advice C. attention D. thing

18.A. struggle B. wait C. rest D. stand

19.A. hand in B. pick up C. pay off D. give up

20.A. wishes B. jobs C. plans D. suggestions

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding—undoubtedly first?rate photo?journalism—if they had been made last week.In fact,they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian?built three?master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all,to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent.The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done.Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well?researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.Scott's last journey,completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.Shackleton, a onetime British merchant?navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic,was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

1.What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?

A. They were made last week.

B. They showed undersea sceneries.

C. They were found by a cameraman.

D. They recorded a disastrous adventure.

2.Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?

A. Frank Hurley.

B. Ernest Shackleton.

C. Robert Falcon Scott.

D. Caroline Alexander.

3.What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?

A. Artistic creation. B. Scientific research.

C. Money making. D. Treasure hunting.

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A couple in South Carolina has been eagerly seeking an organ donor. They haven’t found one____But they did find something else: friends.

Larry Swilling and his wife Jimmie Sue have been happily____for 56 years. So happily, in fact, that Larry has now come to realize he can’t____without his wife. “She’s my heart,” he said. The problem with Jimmie Sue is that she____a kidney(肾). Jimmie Sue was born with only one, and now that doesn’t____She needs a transplant but neither her husband, nor anyone tested in her family, is a____match.

Jimmie Sue is trying to get on a donor list, but the____is about two or three years long and that’s for a kidney from a dead donor. Transplant patients who get their kidneys from living donors tend to live____That is why Larry decided to try to ask for it, from total strangers.

“I don’t____what people think,” Larry said. He tells his wife, “I’m going to____you a kidney.” And on the street, wearing a signboard “Need kidney for my wife”, he’s not shy in asking____:“Could I use your kidney?” For the last couple weeks, Larry, at 77, has been walking all over his hometown and the surrounding towns-basically____a kidney. He didn’t really think it would work_____he said, “I had to do something.” He didn’t feel____when the phone rang. “I’m willing to donate a kidney for your____,” one caller said. “I’d like nothing more than to help you out,” said another.

Believe it or not, over the last few days the____hasn’t stopped ringing. Hundreds of people who either saw his sign or heard about it have____One volunteer said, “I’ve got two, but I____need one.” Larry hasn’t found a match for his wife, but at least he has already had enough volunteers and____enough awareness to save someone. “If I get a kidney, it’s fine. If I don’t, I hope someone else does,” the wife said. And that’s why Larry is still out there, appealing to the____of strangers for the love of his wife.

1.A. already B. yet C. still D. also

2.A. married B. done C. worried D. lived

3.A. work B. laugh C. argue D. live

4.A. adds B. lacks C. misses D. spends

5.A. work B. stop C. finish D. affect

6.A. comfortable B. healthy C. improper D. suitable

7.A. making B. buying C. waiting D. needing

8.A. shorter B. worse C. longer D. easier

9.A. care B. absorb C. doubt D. believe

10.A. give B. sell C. get D. borrow

11.A. doctors B. passers-by C. acquaintances D. donors

12.A. staring at B. arguing over C. depending on D. begging for

13.A. But B. So C. Because D. Since

14.A. careless B. melancholy C. helpless D. selfless

15.A. daughter B. wife C. son D. mother

16.A. bell B. clock C. door D. phone

17.A. volunteered B. encouraged C. entertained D. gained

18.A. gently B. greedily C. only D. hardly

19.A. lifted B. raised C. demonstrated D. displayed

20.A. sorrow B. kindness C. sadness D. happiness

You may ride on your bicycle in a rush to get to school every morning. You may fight to get a bit of space on a bus or in the subway. You may also watch taxis crawl their way through traffic jams.

No matter where you are, all big cities around the world have traffic jams these days. But although they all have their problems, many cities also have a type of transport that has become a cultural icon (文化标识).

In London to avoid the traffic above ground, people use the “underground”,also called the “tube”. The city has the oldest and most complicated underground railway system in the world and is the pride of many Londoners. With 12 lines and 275 stations across the city, the tube, is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London. In London, you are never far from a tube station.

New York is famous for its yellow cabs. They serve as a quick and easy way of getting across Manhattan, where the subway doesn't take you everywhere. Stopping a cab is easy; just stick out your arm like you do in any city. But,with over 12,000 yellow cabs in the Big Apple, they also cause traffic jams.

Since 1873 when the first cable car started public service, the slow and noisy vehicle has been a symbol of San Francisco. Although once damaged by a serious earthquake and challenged (挑战) by cars, it is never caught in traffic jams and provides better views than the subway.

But there are no such symbols in Los Angeles. If you visit you'd better rent a car. The city's public transportation is terrible. It can take hours to get across town by bus. The subway covers just a small part of the city center. The light rail line only runs between the Long Beach hotel area and the city center. That's why Angelenos love their private cars more than any other people in the world.

1.If you have a chance to London and want to avoid the traffic jams, you'd better ________.

A. ride vehicle B. take a taxi

C. use underground D. rent a car

2.People in Los Angeles like their private cars because of the following EXCEPT that ________.

A. the public transportation is terrible

B. it is not expensive to take a private car

C. the underground railway covers a small part of the city center

D. people have to spend hours getting across the Los Angeles by bus

3.The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. how big cities in the foreign countries keep on moving

B. how people in the city avoid the traffic jams

C. why London has the oldest and complicated subway

D. why people call New York the Big Apple

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