In 1995, Oseola McCarty donated $ 150, 000 --most of the money she made in her lifetime--to the University of Southern Mississippi. She just wanted to help poor students. Her friends and neighbours were surprised at the news. McCarty was a good woman and was always friendly and h 【小题1】 . But everyone in her town knew that she was not r 【小题2】
Oseola McCarty was born in 1908. She had to leave school when she was eight to support her family by w 【小题3】 other people's clothes. She made only a few dollars a day. Oseola washed the clothes by hand. Then she h 【小题4】 the clothes to dry. She did this for nearly 80 years. In the 1960s , when many people began to buy their own washers(洗衣机) and dryers（烘干机）, McCarty didn’t have much work to do, so she started to iron clothes i 【小题5】 .
McCarty n 【小题6】 married or had children. Her life was simple. She went to work and to church. She had a black-and-white television, b 【小题7】 she didn’t watch it very often. It only had one channel. Oseola McCarty s【小题8】 money all her life and finally had about $ 250, 000.
In an interview with the University of Southern Mississippi News, McCarty said, "I can't do everything, but I can do s 【小题9】 to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more." This quiet exceptional cleaning lady has t 【小题10】   the world a lesson in giving.

选词填空。根据短文内容，从方框中选择适当的选项完成短文。（有两个选项是多余的）（10分）

A. to plan      B. mountains   C. money   D. One     E. history   F. called   

G. holiday      H. pay        I. any      J. tickets    K. to get    L. everything

Many people like traveling. They go to the    1  , the seaside or forests. Some people like    2 , so they like to visit some old interesting places. In many countries, the travel agencies can help you    3   your holiday. You can tell the travel agency what kind of    4    you like and how much    5   you want to spend and the travel agency will give you a lot of information about where to go, how    6   there, where to stay, and what kind of activities you can do there.    7  of the ways of travel is    8   “package” travel.

That is, you just    9  the money. And the travel agency will plan    10   for you, including the ticket for the train or plane, the hotel, the activities and so on.

I didn’t think I had a passion(激情). I would sit in front of the TV all day, thinking about nothing but the next show.

It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.

On that day I went with my mum to drive my sister to the gym. I was bored. Then, as my mum stopped at a red light, s 1. on the side of the road caught my eye. It was a man dressed in rags (衣衫褴褛). He was homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I had seen many like him b2. .

But in some ways he was d 3. . This man was not sitting down with a sad expression. He had a radio in his hand and was dancing h 4. to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious(珍贵)thing he had.

“ Mum, why does that man have A、radio even thought he’s homeless?” I asked.

“He bought it,” she replied.

“But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He w 5. it on something he doesn’t need.”

“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important things. We need happiness, too.”

That man must c 6. enough music to buy a radio instead of food or clothes. I soon realized that happiness is the k 7. to life.

Without it, there’s nothing to look forward to. A passion gives a person the happiness they need to keep going.

1Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once (将下列单词词组填入空格。每空格填一词，每词只能填一次

My mother was a housewife. She thought that successful people spent a lot more time __1___than watching TV. So she asked my brother and me to read two books every week in our free time. She would check them with marks, __2___she couldn’t read the books at all.

When I went to school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted cool __3___ and hung out with friends. I went from being an A-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. One night, I complained about not having enough Italian T-shirts. Then my mother gave me all her money. She said I could get the money __4__ to buy shirts if I finished buying all things the family needed. I was very __5__that, but after I bought those things, there was no money left. I got to know how _6__ it was for my mother to do all this. I went back to my studies and become an A-student again. Finally, my dream __7__ and I become a doctor.

My story is really my mother’s story--a woman with little education greatly changed my life as a __8__. So, I believe there is no job more important than parenting.

选词填空。从方框中选出可以填入文中空白处的选项，并将其填入短文后相应题号的横线上。 （其中有两个选项是多余的）（10分）