I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I  1  a room with two double beds and the bathroom was too 2  for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was   3   and my stepmother had   4  us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no  5_   of what to do with me. And that’s when my other family   6  .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home   7   their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I   8  with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She   9   I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. As far as I could tell, for the Beaches there was no 10 between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I 11  college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance they _12_ when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew 13  about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su.        When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _14  his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely   15__ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
   16  the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) 17  that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed(麻痹的) by my _18 , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
Now I   19 family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was 20  , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate

【小题1】
A.lived B.shared C.possessed D.bought
【小题2】
A.cheap B.noisy C.small D.limited
【小题3】
A.in trouble B.in sight C.in place D.in parts
【小题4】
A.struck B.tookC.kicked D.knocked
【小题5】
A.plan B.choice C.chance D.idea
【小题6】
A.looked after B.showed up C.turned over D.came across
【小题7】
A.so B.because C.until D.while
【小题8】
A.worked B.traveled C.lived D.learned
【小题9】
A.worked out B.called up C.watched out D.made sure
【小题10】
A.change B.problem C.conflict D.difference
【小题11】
A.set off B.left forC.entered into D.admitted into
【小题12】
A.paid B.boughtC.had D.owned
【小题13】
A.all B.little C.something D.nothing
【小题14】
A.supplyB.teach C.encourage D.raise
【小题15】
A.different B.unfair C.easy D.hopeful
【小题16】
A.Thanks to B.In spite of C.Except for D.But for
【小题17】
A.home B.house C.ability D.lesson
【小题18】
A.choice B.failure C.past D.present
【小题19】
A.doubt about B.call on C.center on D.believe in
【小题20】
A.born B.accepted C.educated D.deserted

Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) 【小题1】  of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she  【小题2】  hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men  【小题3】  the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was,   【小题4】  they could get the money they had seen.   【小题5】 , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers 【小题6】 a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the 【小题7】 is still under investigation(调查), local police aren’t saying 【小题8】 else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers 【小题9】 the girl in the past.
Two other 【小题10】 were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was 【小题11】 . The robbers left peacefully after  【小题12】  that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the  【小题13】  that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to 【小题14】  citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites  【小题15】   doing so. The police say it is  【小题16】  that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address,    【小题17】  that the robbers knew the girl in another way.    【小题18】  , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have   【小题19】  such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that  【小题20】  the girl’s name.

【小题21】
A.picture B.story C.blogD.video
【小题22】
A.keptB.madeC.letD.got
【小题23】
A.knocked atB.looked atC.broke intoD.ran into
【小题24】
A.even ifB.so thatC.as soon asD.in case
【小题25】
A.UsuallyB.SuddenlyC.FortunatelyD.Finally
【小题26】
A.spentB.leftC.askedD.took
【小题27】
A.robberB.familyC.caseD.girl
【小题28】
A.fewB.manyC.littleD.much
【小题29】
A.ignoredB.knewC.rememberedD.followed
【小题30】
A.membersB.adultsC.charactersD.neighbors
【小题31】
A.escapedB.harmedC.killedD.buried
【小题32】
A.showingB.realizingC.discoveringD.recognizing
【小题33】
A.cashB.grandmotherC.houseD.website
【小题34】
A.informB.accuseC.robD.warn
【小题35】
A.enjoyB.stopC.keepD.consider
【小题36】
A.possibleB.importantC.necessaryD.strange
【小题37】
A.soB.orC.andD.but
【小题38】
A.BesidesB.HoweverC.ThereforeD.Instead
【小题39】
A.taken upB.set upC.put awayD.given away
【小题40】
A.includedB.drewC.containedD.attracted

My 4-year-old son now enjoys posting letters. He has formed the   36  of drawing pictures, writing his name on them, and then    37  the artwork in an envelope. He then insists on   38  his handwork to the neighbors, and a mail box he   39  belongs to the elderly couple who live next door. To be   40  , I didn’t think much of it, but I had   41  to warn my neighbors of the drawings   42  appearing in their letterboxes—I just didn’t have the   43  to do so, because I was a little busy recently.
On Tuesday of last week, I was walking down to school to collect my son when I   44  Mary, my elderly neighbor,   45  at her mail box. She said, “Jodie, is it your little son that has been posting items in my letterbox to me?” I was at once   46 , “Oh yes, Mary, it is. I’m sorry. I meant to tell you…” She cut me off, “Jodie, I just love his mail. I’ve   47  every item he has sent. You don’t know how much   48  the letters has made my day. I just love them.” While I was walking down to school after our   49 , many thoughts came to me. Mary doesn’t have a lot to fill her days,   50  she was a mother to a number of children herself who receives fairly regular visitors. The small   51  of getting some mail—pictures drawn by the hand of a young child—has brought   52  to her days, just as my visit to my grandparents does.
I have decided that my son should   53  this practice. He should also start sending some items to his grandparents in Perth as well. It will most   54  make their day.
It’s doing the little, simple things that can often make a big   55  in someone’s life.

【小题1】
A.habitB.attitudeC.styleD.form
【小题2】
A.hidingB.writingC.drawingD.putting
【小题3】
A.handingB.holdingC.postingD.writing
【小题4】
A.openedB.setC.choseD.saw
【小题5】
A.kindB.surprisedC.carefulD.honest
【小题6】
A.meant B.askedC.hatedD.refused
【小题7】
A.actuallyB.suddenlyC.hardlyD.partly
【小题8】
A.intelligenceB.strengthC.moneyD.time
【小题9】
A.metB.visitedC.datedD.called
【小题10】
A.cryingB.lyingC.laughingD.standing
【小题11】
A.humorousB.embarrassedC.confusedD.amused
【小题12】
A.copiedB.boughtC.keptD.examined
【小题13】
A.receivingB.writingC.paintingD.exchanging
【小题14】
A.reportB.expressionC.talkD.discussion
【小题15】
A.unlessB.butC.soD.although
【小题16】
A.chargeB.offerC.actD.help
【小题17】
A.worthB.happinessC.valueD.future
【小题18】
A.addB.methodC.continueD.judge
【小题19】
A.certainlyB.unfortunatelyC.accidentally D.confidently
【小题20】
A.pointB.differenceC.senseD.living

China has become Volvo's third largest market, with more of its car models to go on sale in the world's largest auto(汽车) market this year, Chief Executive Office (CEO) of Volvo Cars China said in Tianjin.
Alexander Klose, CEO of Volvo Cars China, told Xinhua at the Ninth Tianjin International Automobile Trade Show, being held from Friday to Wednesday.
Klose said Volvo Cars had entered a new time of fast development, adding that its sales volume in China roared in 2010.
Up to the end of September, Volvo's global sales volume was up 12.5 percent year on year(同年比), compared with 52 percent year-on-year rise in China, he said.
Two new Volvo sales centers opened in Beijing within merely one week in early October, about two months after east China's ZhejiangGeely Holding Group Co acquired(购得)the Swedish brand from the US auto giant Ford for $1.5 billion in early August.
Klose said he was confident of seeing tremendous(巨大的) growth in China's auto market in the next five years. "As the Chinese government has increased the tax rate for large displacement (排量)cars already, we now have a lot of cars below three liters(升), and I think we'll stick to that strategy, as you can see now the XC60 which was introduced today is just two liters," he said.
"As the technology advances, we'll probably even see 1.6 liter engines or 1.5 liter engines in the future," he added.
Volvo Cars is not the only automaker hoping to take advantage of China's rapidly growing auto market.
Bentley, the famous British luxury(豪华) carmaker, will open a new sales center in China at Tianjin Thursday, which is the 11th one in China, according to a press release(新闻发布) by Shanghai-based Zenith Integrated Communications Corp (Zenith) Saturday at the auto show.
Zenth is the public relations agent of Bentley in China. The automaker has sold 421 limousines(大型豪华轿车) to China in 2009, and the goal for 2010 is 777, the release said.
【小题1】The word underlined in the third paragraph would probably be___.      

A.shouted loudlyB.increased in large numbers
C.reduced rapidlyD.burned brightly
【小题2】From this passage we can infer that ___.                       
A.The Ninth Tianjin International Automobile Trade Show was held from Friday to Wednesday.
B.Volvo Cars is a world-famous carmaker in Britain.
C.Of all the auto sales volume Volvo sales volume is only number one in China
D.Volvo sales centers are developing very fast in China recently
【小题3】The text is mainly about____.                       
A.China Becomes Volvo's 3rd largest market
B.Volvo Cars in China
C.Volvo Sales Volume in China
D.Carmakers in China
【小题4】How many carmakers are mentioned in this passage which opened and will open new sales centers in China recently?                                 
A.OneB.TwoC.ThreeD.Four

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