Compassion is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into actions. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are out main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register(收款机)with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash (现金), had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.

I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.

Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable. “Change it to me,” was all he said.

What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.

41. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits_________.

A.promised to obey the store rules    

B.forgot to take any money with him

C.hoped to have the food first and pay later   

D.could not afford anything more expensive

42. Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?

A.kind and lucky        B.poor and lonely

C.friendly and helpful D.hurt and disappointed

43. The writer acted upon the store rules because_________.

A.he wanted to keep his present job  

B.he felt no pity for the old gentleman

C.he considered the old man dishonest     

D.he expected someone else to pay for the old man

44. What does the writer learn from his experience?

A.Wealth is more important than anything else    

B.Helping others is easier said than done

C.Experience is better gained through practice

D.Obeying the rules means more than compassion.

My husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___36___, but the commercial aspects (方面) of it. Knowing he felt this ____37__, I decided one year to__38__the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something __39_just for Mike. The idea came in an unusual way.
   Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was____40__at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match___41____a team sponsored(资助) by a church.
   These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so____42___that shoestrings(鞋带) seemed to be the only thing holding them together,___43_____our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
   As the match began, I was___44___to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet(头盔) designed to___45____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not____46___ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ____47__up from the mat(垫子), they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit___48____.
   Mike, seated beside me, shook his head___49___, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential(潜力), but___50___like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved__51____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the __52____for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and ___53____some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
   On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his____54___from me. His smile was the____55___ thing about Christmas that year.

【小题1】
A.the giftB.an envelopeC.the wrestling D.Christmas
【小题2】
A.wayB.joyC.musicD.fear
【小题3】
A.buyB.avoid  C.wearD.give
【小题4】
A.beautifulB.expensive C.specialD.new
【小题5】
A.wrestlingB.weightliftingC.shootingD.boxing
【小题6】
A.atB.against   C.forD.on
【小题7】
A.bigB.small  C.wornD.cheap
【小题8】
A.becauseB.if  C.soD.while
【小题9】
A.frightenedB.disappointedC.pleasedD.surprised
【小题10】
A.coverB.surround   C.protectD.hide
【小题11】
A.carryB.afford  C.designD.expect
【小题12】
A.gotB.dressed    C.turnedD.cheered
【小题13】
A.defeatB.evidence   C.chargeD.mistake
【小题14】
A.gentlyB.sadly  C.nervouslyD.gladly
【小题15】
A.runningB.winning   C.losingD.shaking
【小题16】
A.workmatesB.parents    C.friendsD.kids
【小题17】
A.invitationB.idea   C.careD.money
【小题18】
A.returnB.sold   C.boughtD.left
【小题19】
A.giftB.warning    C.praiseD.love
【小题20】
A.brightestB.funniest C.ugliestD.darkest

第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文。掌握其大意,然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将其涂黑

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession   36  in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the   37   of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I

am a good friend to my   38  .I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约)   39   what they

say.I am a good friend to my friends,and they   40   me.Without them,there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today:Get a   41  .A real life,not a desire of the next   42  ,the bigger paycheck,the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not   43  .Find people you love,and who love you.And remember that love is not   44  ,it is work.   45    the phone.Send an e-mail.Write a letter.And realize that life is the best thing and   46  yon have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to    47   our lives,oar days,our hours,and our minutes.It is so easy to exist   48  to live.I learned to live many years ago.Something really,really   49   happened to me,something that changed my life in ways that,if I had my choice,it would never have been changed at all.And what I learned from it is what,today,seems to be the hardest   50  of all.

I learned to love the   51  ,not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it.completely and totally.And I tried to do that.in part,by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them   52  :Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy-

And think of life as a deadly   53  ,because if you do   54  it ought to be lived,you will live it with joy and   55  .

36.A.come           B.stand                  C.take                    D.block

37.A.body           B.star                    C.center                    D.planet

38.A.child           B.husband              C.mother                   D.friend

39.A.mean           B.express               C.concern                  D.convince

40.A.for              B.of                      C.with                   D.to

41.A.job              B.family                C.life                     D.home

42.A.promotion    B.success                C.baby                 D.accomplishment

43.A.busy            B.guilty                    C.immature            D.alone

44.A.game           B.fun                     C.enthusiasm          D.leisure

45.A.Pick up       B.Take up              C.Hold up              D.Get up

46.A.whether       B.what                   C./                                   D.that

47.A.waste                 B.spend                    C.kill                      D.pass

48.A.in favour of   B.instead of            C.in spite of           D.in honoue of

49.A.nice            B.fierce                        C.bad                    D.great

50.A.decision       B.method               C.1ife                    D.lesson

51.A.trip             B.journey               C.tour                    D.travel

52.A.this             B that                       C.it                       D.follows

53.A.routine        B.acquaintance       C.illness                 D.enemy

54.A.as if           B.how                   C.as                       D.than

55.A.delight        B.sorrow                C.anxiety               D.passion

 

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