Dear Mr. Rupp,

The day I met you was the first day of high school. We liked each other immediately. You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, like how I should get my ass to Berkeley where I belonged. I’m still there, by the way. I wish you were still around, too.

I remember your laugh, which would start with a rough guffaw(狂笑) and end with a hacking smoker’s cough that would make even the most rebellious (叛逆的) teenager decide to lay off the cigarettes. I remember the way you didn’t lower your standards, yet still refused to give up on us. You were tough on us, and we were tough on you. Love is tough sometimes.

The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005—four years after I graduated. I had just become a teacher, like you, and it had given me a new appreciation for the work you did with countless high school students over the years.

It’s hard to say what I’ll miss the most about you. There are simply too many memories to sort through those four years, and it hurts to think you’ll never read this letter. I want to believe that you knew how much you meant to your family, your students, your community, and your colleagues, but that would be a lot of realization to handle, even for you.

You changed the lives of everyone around you. Even now, you are reminding me to cherish life and its brevity and beauty, and to tell the people I love how much they mean to me before it is too late.

Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend—I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.

To infinity and beyond,

Teresea

1.What does the underlined phrase “lay off” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

A. likeB. get intoC. give outD. throw away

2.When did the author meet her teacher—Mr. Rupp?

A. In 1997.B. In 2001.C. In 2005.D. In 2009.

3.Why did the author write a letter to her teacher in 2005?

A. She wanted to tell her teacher that she had become a teacher.

B. She had some difficulties in study and needed her teacher’s help.

C. She wanted to be a teacher and needed her teacher’s instruction.

D. She wanted to borrow some books from her teacher.

4.When the author wrote this letter, her teacher—Mr. Rupp was_______.

A. about to dieB. seriously ill

C. deadD. in good shape

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town.Most of the ________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie.He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his ________.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, ________ anything that needed to be done.He became a close friend of mine, ________ he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my ________. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was ________. I didn’t have the ________ to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might ________ me he had died.

Several ________ later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.When I ________ who it was, my eyes filled with tears.He was ________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look ________ his face, he replied yes.I ________ how I knew him and that I had spent many days talking with him in the hospital.His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever ________.

He began to tell me that ________ he lay there comatose(昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could ________ me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie ________ believed that it was my voice and ________ that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with ________ every day.I know that I made a(n) ________ between his life and his death.

1.A. timeB. energyC. effortD. money

2.A. interestsB. requestsC. conditionsD. opinions

3.A. talking aboutB. looking afterC. pointing outD. helping with

4.A. so thatB. even thoughC. soon afterD. as if

5.A. handB. headC. noseD. arm

6.A. killedB. lostC. goneD. changed

7.A. energyB. chanceC. courageD. time

8.A. cheatB. tellC. remindD. warn

9.A. daysB. weeksC. monthsD. years

10.A. recognizedB. wonderedC. heardD. asked

11.A. wellB. aliveC. happyD. alone

12.A. atB. onC. behindD. in

13.A. apologizedB. rememberedC. explainedD. admitted

14.A. dreamedB. seenC. wantedD. received

15.A. becauseB. ifC. unlessD. although

16.A. noticeB. feelC. imagineD. watch

17.A. hardlyB. quicklyC. firmlyD. nearly

18.A. humorB. dutyC. touchD. success

19.A. sorrowB. excitementC. regretD. joy

20.A. effortB. wishC. differenceD. decision

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