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                                                                  A Divine Plan
    At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learningdisabled children, the father of one student
delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by those who attended. He began with a question.
"Everything God does is done with perfection. Yet, my son, Shay, cannot learn and understand things
as other children do. Where is God's plan reflected in my son?"
    The audience was stilled by the question. The father continued,"I believe that when God brings a child
like Shay into the world, an opportunity to realize the Divine Plan presents itself. And it comes in the way
people treat that child."
    Then he told the following story:
    Shay and I walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked,"Do
you think they will let me play?"
    I knew that most boys would not want him on their team. Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat
properly, much less connect with the ball. So I approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance from his teammates. Getting none, he took matters into
his own hands and said, "We are losing by six runs(得分). The game is in the eighth inning(回合). He can be on our team and we will try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning."
    In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. At the
top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the outfield.
    In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. They had the potential to win. Would the
team actually let Shay bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game?
    Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat.  At last, understanding what the boy's intentions had been, the
boys from both teams helped Shay win the game for the team and Shay was cheered as the hero.
     "That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face,"the boys from both teams
helped bring a piece of the Divine Plan into this world."

1. Why did the father think most of the boys wouldn't let Shay join them?
A. Because it was a very important game and they couldn't   afford to lose it.
B. Because they knew Shay was physically disabled.
C. Because they didn't get on well with Shay.
D. Because they knew Shay was anything but good at playing baseball.

2. The sentence "Although no hits came his way, he was obviously very happy just to be on the field."
    should be put     at the end of ________.
A. Paragraph 5              
B. Paragraph 6
C. Paragraph 8              
D. Paragraph 9

3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Shay's team would have lost the game without him.
B. The opponent team let Shay score purposely.
C. It was quite by accident that Shay scored.
D. Shay's team let him play because they didn't take the  game seriously.

4. The underlined word "juncture" can be explained by ________.
A. a critical point        
B. a particular place
C. a dilemma                
D. an important game
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     About six years ago, I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young
boy sat down at the next table. I couldn't help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the
woman asked, " So, how have you been?" And the boy---who could not have been more than seven or
eight years old replied, "Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately."
     This incident (小事) stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are
changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I hardly found out we were " depressed" until we were in high school.
     The evidence of  changes in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don't seem
childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults
than they used to.
     Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no
longer exists. Why?
     Human development is based not only on natural biological states, but also on patterns of access to
social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the
new situation. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in gradual stages:
traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
     In the past 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (提示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of
American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation (诱惑), many
children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
     Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social
information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that
must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex
materials.
Title: (1)_____ in Today's Children
Main comparisonsContexts
Different(2)_____ Children in the past just did what they were(3)_____ to.
Children today act as if they were (4)_____.
Different(5)_____ Children in the past(6)_____ experienced depression in the author's view.
Sometimes sadness (7)_____ to children nowadays.
Different
(8)_____ to get knowledgeChildren in the past got knowledge  in (9)_____ and guided stages.
Children nowadays get some knowledge by (10)_____ TV without control.
完形填空
     On a cold winter day in Denver, I waited in line to see one of my heroes, Jack Canfield, the author
of The Success Principles.
     During his talk, Jack __1__for his wallet, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill, and said, "Who wants
this?" __2__ shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would __3__.But I
jumped up, ran up the __4__ to the stage, and grabbed the bill from his hand.As I was launching myself
in the air, thoughts__5__through my mind-was I about to be humiliated(羞辱) in front of 800 people?
Would they __6__security and take me from the stage? __7__my desire for bold action was louder
than any __8__ voice.
     As I got the bill from his hand, he turned to me and said, "Yes, that's it! We can't wait around for
the __9__ to come to us.We must take action to __10__what we want!"
     After his talk, I managed to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his __11__ e-mail address.
Over the next several months, I sent him long e-mails __12__my vision and dreams with him.He kindly
e-mailed back lots of encouragement.But my life got __13__ with other things.I stopped emailing
Jack.
A year later, my dreams had  worn away.I thought Jack would inspire me into action, like a giant _14_
that would show me the way.
     I emailed him, and then emailed him again-but got no __15__.As I sat down at my computer to
check my emails, I __16__ woke up.What was I doing? I was waiting! Now I remembered the crowd,
most __17__ desiring that hundred-dollar bill, while they sat __18__ to their chairs.
     We all have a "Jack" for whom we wait--whether it's a person, a place or a thing.We __19__believe
the gifts of life are just around the corner; and that everything will come in an__20__way if we have
patience. So we don't try.We give up.
     My inspiration came back.I stopped waiting and started things.
(     )1. A. stretched  
(     )2. A. Cheers
(     )3. A. offer  
(     )4. A. path    
(     )5. A. raced    
(     )6. A. ask    
(     )7. A. And    
(     )8. A. careful  
(     )9. A. opportunities  
(     )10. A. attract      
(     )11. A. professional  
(     )12. A. disclosing  
(     )13. A. quick    
(     )14. A. arrow    
(     )15. A. news    
(     )16. A. gradually  
(     )17. A. likely    
(     )18. A. lost  
(     )19. A. sincerely  
(     )20. A. easy  
B. reached  
B. Shouts    
B. greet    
B. road      
B. started     
B. call     
B. So       
B. doubtful    
B. times        
B. accept  
B. secret      
B. describing  
B. busy      
B. gate    
B. notice  
B. suddenly  
B. hopeful  
B. glued  
B. honestly    
B. impressive  
C. stuck  
C. Heads  
C. like    
C. steps  
C. appeared
C. demand  
C. But     
C. meaningful  
C. results    
C. restore  
C. public    
C. presenting  
C. full  
C. symbol  
C. response  
C. immediately  
C. willing  
C. opposed  
C. falsely  
C. early  
D. felt          
D. Hands          
D. choose        
D. route          
D. existed        
D. order          
D. Or            
D. helpful        
D. aims          
D. create        
D. personal      
D. sharing        
D. loose          
D. entrance      
D. reaction      
D. slowly        
D. dearly        
D. devoted        
D. correctly      
D. automatic      
                 
完形填空。

     "Today is the day I start the big diet (节食)," I told my wife as I raised my hand and   __1__,
"No chocolate today!"
     "Oh, has the hospital gift shop   __2__   selling it?" she asked.
     "No," I said. "I'll just have to   __3__   my strong determination."
     But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there   __4__. I knew my
promise would   __5__   disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I'd always be eating a
piece of candy from the   __6__   bag he often shared with me.
     Benton was an eightyearold boy who was    __7__    because of a kind of cancer, which caused
him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen   __8__   old. For the next twentysix months, he was
in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed   __9__   Benton could beat the disease,
until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he   __10__   a headache and lost   __11__   on his
right side. His mom   __12__   him to the hospital.
     Over the next several months, Benton came to our   __13__ many more times. Each time he came,
we   __14__    say hello, while Benton answered the   __15__   by holding out a candy from his bag.
     So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes  
__16__   but not looking into this world.
     "We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?" his mother asked.
     Without thinking of my diet, I   __17__   into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched.
It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece   __18__   me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton's   __19__. As I __20__   it up, I opened the candy and ate it.

(     )1. A. shouted    
(     )2. A. stopped    
(     )3. A. base on    
(     )4. A. once      
(     )5. A. suddenly  
(     )6. A. bottomless
(     )7. A. ill        
(     )8. A. years      
(     )9. A. even though
(     )10. A. found    
(     )11. A. movement  
(     )12. A. hurried  
(     )13. A. home      
(     )14. A. would    
(     )15. A. meeting  
(     )16. A. closed    
(     )17. A. ran      
(     )18. A. at        
(     )19. A. illness  
(     )20. A. put      
B. answered  
B. continued
B. depend on
B. yet      
B. quickly  
B. countless
B. injured  
B. seasons  
B. as though
B. developed
B. touch    
B. brought  
B. room      
B. could    
B. greeting  
B. glimpsed  
B. touched  
B. for      
B. blindness
B. hung      
C. stated    
C. kept      
C. insist on  
C. again      
C. quietly    
C. endless    
C. deaf      
C. months    
C. if only    
C. managed    
C. motion    
C. rushed    
C. office    
C. should    
C. encouraging
C. glared    
C. reached    
C. with      
C. death      
C. set        
D. promised  
D. tried    
D. keep on  
D. early    
D. shortly  
D. beltless  
D. blind    
D. days      
D. as with  
D. provided  
D. sight    
D. carried  
D. hospital  
D. must      
D. praising  
D. opened    
D. felt      
D. on        
D. sadness  
D. gave      
阅读理解。
    It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That's more or less what
happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
    "I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40,
blue lights and siren (警笛) going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed
to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was
going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder."
    But Hyde couldn't go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than
worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to
keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and
stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sightwas not that difficult. Every
turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.
    Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination (目的地). At that point he found another
unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn't needed. Now he was free to try to
stop the driver of the firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panick about.
    "Just about that time," Hyde says, "I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke
and oil going everywhere. He's blown his engine. Now he had to stop."
    "After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn't have a driver's license.
    That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty-a thousand dollars for the new engine-not to
mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.
1. The meaning of "panicked" in paragraph 2 is related to _____.
[     ]
A. happy
B. fear
C. anger
D. hate
2. Why did the driver of the Firebird suddenly speed down the highway?
[     ]
A. Because he was racing with another driver on the road.
B. Because he realized he had to hurry to the accident scene.
C. Because he thought the police officer wanted to stop him.
D. Because he wanted to overtake other cars on the shoulder.
3. The driver of the Firebird _____.
[     ]
A. took a wrong turn on the way
B. had some trouble with his car
C. was stopped by the police officer
D. paid for the expenses of the accident
4. What is probably the best title for the article?
[     ]
A. Losing His Way?
B. Going My Way?
C. Fun All the Way?
D. Help on the Way?
阅读理解。
     I first went to Harrow in the summer term. The school had the biggest swimming pool I had ever
seen. It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite
a habit of this with boys of my own size or less.
     One day I saw a boy wrapped in a towel on the side of the pool. He was no bigger than I was,
so I thought him a fair game. Coming secretly behind, I pushed him in, holding on to his towel so that
it would not get wet, I was surprised to see an angry face come out from the water, and a being of
great strength making its way by strokes (猛力地划) to the shore. I fled, but in vain. He overtook me,
seized me violently, and threw me into the deepest part of their pool. I soon climbed out on the other
side, and found myself surrounded by a crowd of younger boys. "Do you know what you have done?"
they said, "It's Amery; he is in Grade Six. He is champion at gym, and he has got his football honor."
     I was frightened and felt ashamed. How could I tell his position when he was wrapped in a bath
towel and so small? He didn't seem pleased at all, so I added in a most brilliant word, "My father, who
is a great man, is also small." He laughed at this, and after some general words about my rude behavior
and how I had better be careful in the future, the incident was closed.
1. The writer thought Amery "a fair game" because the boy _________.
A. looked like an animal
B. was fond of games
C. was of similar size
D. was good at sports
2. The writer was frightened because _________.
A. he was laughed at by other boys
B. Amery turned out to be in the same grade
C. he pushed Amery hard and hurt him
D. he played a joke on an outstanding athlete
3. By saying "My father, who is a great man, is also small", the writer ________.
A. tried to please Amery
B. challenged Amery
C. threatened Amery
D. admired his father
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The writer could run faster than Amery.
B. The writer liked playing on boys of all sizes.
C. Amery was a student in Grade Four.
D. Amery forgave the writer for his rude behavior.
阅读理解

     A primary school teacher who left a class of 25 pupils in tears after she told them Santa Claus did not
exist has been fired. When excited youngsters became rowdy as they talked a- bout Santa, the supply
teacher said out suddenly, "It's your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day."
     The class of seven-year-olds at Blackshaw Lane Primary School, Royton, Greater Manchester burst in
to tears and told their parents when they arrived home. Mothers and fa- thers then complained about the
incident and were sent a letter by the school saying the teacher, who only worked at the school for one day
last week, has been punished.
     The school has now said it will not hire her again.
     One father said, "My son came home and said that his teacher had told the class that Santa doesn't
exist and it's their mum and dad that put out presents for them. Obviously, they were all talking about
Christmas and being a bit rowdy. She just came straight out with it. "
     "My son was in tears and so was everyone else in the class -- especially as it was so close to
Christmas. I thought it was wrong. He was crazy about it. He's only seven-year-old and it's part of the
magic of Christmas to him. "
     "We told him that she did not believe in Father Christmas because of her religion and he's fine now. "
     "The father described the incident as ' shocking' and believed it was done with malicious intent (恶意地). A lot of parents were angry and complained to the school. The teacher, who was supplied by
Rochdale and Oldham Supply Agency, is still listed and will work with other schools," the agency said.
     However, the head teacher in Angela McCormick refused to comment on the incident.

1. Who felt the angriest about the incident?
A. The teacher who was fired.            
B. The parents whose children cried.
C. The pupils who were in tears.          
D. Santa Claus the teacher talked about.
2. The seven-year-old children cried because of        .
A. something about Santa Claus          
B. the letters by the school
C. their teacher's leaving              
D. the presents left out by the parents
3. We can infer from the passage that       .
A. the teacher was fired and couldn't continue her career in teaching
B. the parents complained about the discipline of the school
C. the little pupils felt disappointed after hearing the news told by the teacher
D. in reality, Santa Claus exists and gives out presents once a year
4. What's the meaning of the underlined word "rowdy"?
A. surprised.      
B. noisy.        
C. discouraged.  
D. annoyed
阅读理解。
      The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner. An elderly man had collapsed while
crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came
to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son.
      From a worn letter located in his pocket, an emergency room nurse learned that his son was a
marine stationed in North Carolina. Apparently there were no other relatives.
      Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to
rush to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp.
Because time was short--- the patient was dying--- the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an
army vehicle. They found the young man walking through some marshes (沼泽) in a military exercise.
He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the only plane that might enable him to reach his dying
father.
      It was dusk when the young marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital. A
nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
      "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the
patient's eyes opened. The medicine he had been given for the pain from his heart attack made his eyes
weak and he could only see the shadow of the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside
the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's
weak ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair, so the marine
could sit by the bed.
      Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young marine sat there in the dimly lit ward
(病房), holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength. Occasionally, the nurse
urged the marine to rest for a while. He refused.
      Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and
the night noises of the hospital --- the banging of an oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff exchanging
greetings, the cries and breathing of other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night.
      It was nearly dawn when the patient died. The marine placed the lifeless hand he had been holding
on the bed, and went to inform the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he smoked a cigarette, his
first since he got to the hospital.
      Finally, she returned to the nurse's station, where he was waiting. She started to offer words of
sympathy, but the marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
     "He was your father," she answered, shocked.
     "No, he wasn't," the marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
     "Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked.
     "I knew immediately there'd been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just
wasn't here. When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I guessed he really
needed me.  So I stayed. "
     With that, the marine turned and left the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North
Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to
Brooklyn for his father's funeral. It turned out there had been two marines with the same name and
similar numbers in the camp. Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record.
      But the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time. And he proved, in a very human
way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
1. An emergency room nurse found out that the old man's son was a marine ______.
A. by calling the Red Cross office in Brooklyn
B. because the old man repeatedly called for his son
C. from a letter found in the old man's pocket
D. form the old man's relatives
2. When the marine was found, ______.
A. he was setting out in an army vehicle with an officer.
B. he was participating in a military exercise
C. he and his fellow soldiers were stuck in marshes
D. he was already with the old man
3. In the hospital, ______.
A. the nurse stayed by the old man's bed most of the night
B. the dying man said a few words to the young man
C. the young marine offered him comfort in the last few hours of the old man's life
D. the night was cold and long, with people coming and going all night
4. The young marine told the nurse that he was not the real son of the old man ______.
A. after the old man died
B. when the nurse sensed something strange
C. before the marine came to the nurse's station
D. as soon as he arrived
5. The mistake was due to ______.
A. the fact that the two marines had the same name and looked alike
B. carelessness on the part of someone in the personnel office
C. the wrong records kept in the North Carolina Marine Corps base
D. the wrong information provided by the Brooklyn Red Cross
6. The sentence "the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time" in the last paragraph
means that ______.
A. the marine was wrong in fooling the dying man
B. the marine did not tell the truth at the hospital until some time later
C. the marine told the real story about him and the old man
D. the marine made the right decision about what he should do

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