“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”

Annabel, my close friend, stunned me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting. “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”

My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.

In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”

“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.

“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”

My jaw dropped. “What did you do?”

“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”

“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”

My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!

God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.

What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?

  A. The writer is a good athlete.      B. The writer scolds herself too much.

  C. She is encouraging the writer.      D. A gold medal is not a big deal.

What does the writer intends to tell us through the second and third paragraphs?

  A. She has low self-esteem over some small things.

  B. She often makes serious mistakes in daily life.

  C. She is a third-grade teacher.

  D. She cares too much about her appearance.

We can infer that the underlined word “slob” might be _____.

  A. something untidy         B. someone dangerous

  C. something dirty           D. someone lazy

What does the writer mean by the last sentence of the passage?

  A. She is ready to turn to God for help.

  B. She will be kind to all children.

  C. She won’t insult herself as well as others.

  D. She is willing to be a child of God.

Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital,a care clinic for the aged and dying patients,during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21.

Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially-decorated “careful huts”.They talked with them and gave massages to patients kept in their beds.

“I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up,”said Deng Yetao,20,a third-year student.“But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies.They are afraid of the coming death.Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.”

“Even though they are suffering a lot,the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us.Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share.Instead of doing them a favor,I felt I was gaining a valuable lesson,”said Mao Xiaohua,another third-year student.

The fact that most of the patients in the 80-room clinic are aged people with diseases which will lead to death soon made the volunteers hearts heavy.

Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic,according to a survey by the hospital.“For people at this stage of their lives,loneliness is even more dreadful than death itself,”said Li Wei,president of the hospital.

Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programme.A total of 330 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital.Many continue to offer services in their spare time.Some of them volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.

Yin Hang,a student from Beijing Medical College,said he felt “the glory of life”as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding his hands.

1.Youth volunteers from Beijing University went to Songtang Hospital to _____.

A.pay a visit to the aged?

B.talk to the aged

C.show their love for the aged?

D.help the aged out

2.What the aged are most worried about is _____.

A.loneliness

B.death

C.physical pains

D.wealth

3.When volunteers know most of the aged people are dying patients,they feel _____.

A.sad

B.worthless

C.satisfied

D.disappointed

4.After reading the passage,we know _____.

A.the youth are fond of doing popular things

B.the Second Youth Service Day is started by the Chinese government

C.91% of the aged in China are facing death

D.the volunteers are taking an active part in the act

 

My family came to America in 1985.__1__of us spoke a word of English.Each morning,I disliked going to school for fear of not __2__what people were saying.

Very soon my mother noticed something was__3__me.The pain and care I saw in her moon?shaped eyes made me burst into tears.I explained to her the __4__I had of going to school.“Learning English is not__5__,” my mother said.She cheerfully __6__the two of us work together to learn the language at home.The__7__and determination my mother had were admirable because English was as __8__ to her as it was to me.

That afternoon,I saw my mother in a different light as she __9__me by the school fence.Although she was the__10__of all the mothers there,her face with her welcoming smile and big,black eyes was the most __11__.The afternoon sun shone__12__on her long,black hair creating an atmosphere that __13__ her from others.

My mother and I immediately began reading together and __14__five new words a day.My mother,with her encouraging __15__,made the routine fun and interesting.The fact that she was sacrificing her__16__ time before going to work so that I could learn English made me see the __17__she possessed.Very soon I began to comprehend what everyone was saying.

It has been seven years since that reading __18__with my mother.She is now 43 and in her second year at college.My brother and I have a strong __19__ of who we are because of the strong values my mother established for herself and her children.My__20__and gratitude for her are endless.This is why my mother is truly the guiding light of my life.

 

Mickey was a cheerful boy. He didn’t  36  whatever people said to him. He never  37
anyone. Even our teachers liked his  38  . I always wondered why he never got  39  . I found the secret in his bedroom.,
When I first came to Mickey’s house, I was  40  to the wall of his bedroom.The huge wall was a unique collage (拼贴画) of thousands of  41  and shapes! “Some people at school think I never think  42  of anyone.”Mickey started to  43  to me, “and that nothing at all bothers me, but that’s not  44  . I used to get angry easily. But years ago,  45  the help of my  parents.I started a small collage.I could  46  any kind of material and color for it.On every little piece I stuck I  47  some bad thoughts.”
I looked  48  atthe wall. In each one of the small pieces I could read,in tiny  49 ,   “fool”, “idiot”, “pain”,“  50  ”, and a thousand other negative thing.
“Now I like the collage so much that, each time someone makes me angry, I couldn’t be 51  . They’ve given me a new piece for my work of art.”
I never  52  how an ordinary classmate had shown me the secret of changing the  53  times into a chance to smile.On that very day, I began my own  54 . I recommended it to my friends and we all became more  55  .

【小题1】
A.thinkB.mindC.respectD.believe
【小题2】
A.hurtB.acceptedC.helped D.begged
【小题3】
A.headB.body C.score D.character
【小题4】
A.proudB.excitedC.angry D.surprised
【小题5】
A.changedB.attractedC.annoyedD.stopped
【小题6】
A.placesB.spotsC.photos D.colors
【小题7】
A.badlyB.seriouslyC.easily D.fully
【小题8】
A.showB.explainC.point D.shout
【小题9】
A.badB.perfectC.trueD.obvious
【小题10】
A. forB.withC.onD.at
【小题11】
A.useB.enjoyC.receiveD.plan
【小题12】
A.gotB.lostC.found D.added
【小题13】
A.closelyB.completelyC.quickly D.slowly
【小题14】
A.lettersB.signsC.notes D.names
【小题15】
A.luck B.pleasureC.bore D.fun
【小题16】
A.busierB.sadderC.happier D.smarter
【小题17】
A.spokeB.judgedC.remembered D.forgot
【小题18】
A.madB.difficultC.popular D.good
【小题19】
A.collageB.paintingC.design D.dance
【小题20】
A.cheerfulB.carefulC.powerfulD.thoughtful

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