On some level, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor-at least from the age of eight or ten years old, anyway.

Although my father wasn’t a doctor, he made his own brand of “house calls”. I followed him as he brought a plate of my mother’s home cooking to an elderly man named Frank on all major holidays and when Frank was sick. As far as I know, their only connection was that Frank was an occasional customer at Dad’s small gas station. Frank’s home was a two-room house on the rough side of town with an old front porch (门廊) where you could fall if you weren’t careful. Frank had no relatives and as far as I could tell, no other visitors either. Through his attitude and by caring, my father was teaching me to be a doctor, although neither of us knew it at the time.

When I was 13, my father developed lung cancer. He brought home a diagram the doctor had drawn showing where his cancer was and told me that he was going to die. He asked me to take care of my mother when he was gone. I was an only child. He said he loved me on the night when he died.

When you’re 13 and your father dies, you have some choices to make. You can use the situation as an excuse for letting your actions and graded go down, or you can honor his memory and try to do something positive with yourself. I focused my energy on my schoolwork and my goal of becoming a doctor.

1. What’s the father’s “own brand of ‘house calls’”?

         A. his treatment for frank’s serious illness.

         B. his care for Frank.

         C. his attitude towards the author.

         D. his wish that his kid would be a doctor.

2. The author began to want to be a doctor when_________

         A. father helped frank regularly      

B. Father developed lung cancer

         C. father asked him/her to take care of Mother    

D. father died

3. what was the influence of Father’s death on the author?

         A. The author began to think seriously about his/her career.

         B. The author was too sorrowful to carry through his /her study.

         C. The author used the situation as an excuse for quitting school.

         D. The author made great effort at his/her goal of becoming a doctor.

4. The best title for the text would be_________.

         A. What Made Father Respectable         

B. What Led Me to Be a Doctor

         C. How to Help Strangers       

D. How to Deal with Death

 

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed . We couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).

   Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you cant see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”

    At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got knew hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).

1. The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

   A. hard      B. enjoyable       C. painful      D. comfortable

2. The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

   A. carry on    B. put off      C. give up      D. pick up

3.Which of the following is the closest (最接近的) in meaning to the father’s words in the second paragraph?

A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.  

B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.

C. You can find life is full of nice things.             

D. Never give up half-way.

4.We can infer (推断) from the last paragraph that ______.

A. the writer was very successful in his life.   

B. the writer reached the top of the mountain.

C. thought the writer was young, he could understand his father.

D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

5.The best title (题目) for the passage is “______”.

   A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain       B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain

   C. Conversations between Father and Son   D. How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

 

It was her laughing that drew my attention. Note taking really wasn’t all that funny.

Walking over to the offender (someone that does something wrong), I asked for the   36 . Frozen, she refused to give it to me. I waited, all attention in the classroom on the quiet   37  between teacher and student. When she finally   38  it over she whispered, “Okay, but I didn’t draw it.”

It was a hand-drawn   39  of me, teeth blackened and the words “I’m stupid” coming out of my mouth.

I managed to fold it up calmly. My mind,   40 , was working angrily as I struggled not to   41 . I figured I knew the two students who were most likely to draw the picture. It would do them some   42  to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!

Thankfully, I was able to keep myself   43 .

When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture. They were all silent as I told them how   44 this was for me. I told them there must be a reason   45  and now was their chance to write down anything they needed to tell me. Then I let them write silently while I sniffled(抽鼻子) in the back of the classroom.

As I   46  the notes later, many of them said something like, “I’ve got nothing against you,” or “I’m sorry you were hurt.” A number of them said, “You give us too much homework.” Some kids said, “We’re   47  of you.” But two notes, from the girls who I   48   were behind the picture, had a list of issues. I was too   49  , too strict…

Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of   50 my students, I had begun commanding them to   51 . Where I thought I was driving them to success I was   52  driving them away.

I had some apologizing to do. But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me a card. The one   53  by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke. The one from the girls asked for   54 .

This was a lesson for both the kids and me. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the   55 

1.

A.help

B.advice

C.reason

D.note

 

2.

A.conversation

B.match

C.argument

D.battle

 

3.

A.took

B.handed

C.turned

D.thought

 

4.

A.statue

B.card

C.poster

D.picture

 

5.

A.however

B.otherwise

C.therefore

D.besides

 

6.

A.leave

B.explain

C.argue

D.cry

 

7.

A.favor

B.harm

C.good

D.punishment

 

8.

A.controlled

B.amused

C.uninterested

D.relaxed

 

9.

A.meaningful

B.hurtful

C.regretful

D.forgetful

 

10.

A.aside

B.behind

C.below

D.above

 

11.

A.read

B.finished

C.wrote

D.collected

 

12.

A.proud

B.fond

C.afraid

D.ashamed

 

13.

A.figured

B.promised

C.concluded

D.doubted

 

14.

A.talkative

B.thoughtful

C.kind

D.mean

 

15.

A.forcing

B.teaching

C.comforting

D.encouraging

 

16.

A.achieve

B.apologize

C.fail

D.appreciate

 

17.

A.normally

B.actually

C.immediately

D.generally

 

18.

A.signed

B.offered

C.drawn

D.bought

 

19.

A.thankfulness

B.pity

C.forgiveness

D.communication

 

20.

A.friendship

B.future

C.knowledge

D.education

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员)at a restaurant a few months ago. 71  One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guess I should have checked it to find out who was the owner, but I was busy at the time. Also, I imagined that if the wallet contained anything valuable, the owner would be back.

An hour later a man came up to the counter(柜台). 72  I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his sincere thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “ No”, he opened it right away and showed that it contained nearly $800 in cash (现金). 73  

“A reward for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.

74  I began wondering whether I would have been so honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if there had been no way to find the owner and no one had returned to claim(认领)it, I might have kept it. But it also came into my mind that I had in fact saved someone’s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. 75  The good feeling it gave me was worth more than anything money could  buy.

A.He looked quite worried and asked if anyone had found a wallet.

B.Later I thought about it again.

C.To my surprise, he took out a twenty–dollar bill and handed it to me.

D.So I didn’t return the wallet until the owner returned.

E. I wanted to be honest, so I didn’t care much about money.

F. I also helped clear off the tables when it was especially busy.

G. For quite a long time I kept happy whenever I thought about it.

 

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