My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which caused my father to be extremely tightfisted(吝啬) with money.
When we children became    16  that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)   17  to ask our father from some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, “If you’re old enough to ask, you’re old enough to    18 .” And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.
He didn’t    19  his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when    20  of us had a car, so we had to ride a    21  whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, Dad never met us, 22  in bad weather. If someone    23  (and my brothers did a lot), he’d say in his    24  father-voice. “That’s what your legs are    25  !”
One spring morning I was on the bus home from    26 . Tests and long hours in labs had    27  me exhausted. As other students were    28  at their stops. I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus came to a    29  at my destination, and I    30 , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.
The row of privet hedge(树篱) came into    31 , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray    32  along the top of the hedge toward the house.
It was the top of my father’s head. I    33  then, each time I came home, he would stand behind the hedge, watching,    34  he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care,   35 .
Upon reaching home, I found my father innocently in his chair. “So! It’s you!” he said, his face lengthening into surprise.

My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which caused my father to be extremely tightfisted(吝啬) with money.

When we children became    16  that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)   17  to ask our father from some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, “If you’re old enough to ask, you’re old enough to    18 .” And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.

He didn’t    19  his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when    20  of us had a car, so we had to ride a    21  whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, Dad never met us, 22  in bad weather. If someone    23  (and my brothers did a lot), he’d say in his    24  father-voice. “That’s what your legs are    25  !”

One spring morning I was on the bus home from    26 . Tests and long hours in labs had    27  me exhausted. As other students were    28  at their stops. I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus came to a    29  at my destination, and I    30 , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.

The row of privet hedge(树篱) came into    31 , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray    32  along the top of the hedge toward the house.

It was the top of my father’s head. I    33  then, each time I came home, he would stand behind the hedge, watching,    34  he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care,   35 .

Upon reaching home, I found my father innocently in his chair. “So! It’s you!” he said, his face lengthening into surprise.

1.                A．aware          B．certain         C．surprised D．excited

2.                A．attempt         B．suggestion       C．trouble   D．plan

3.                A．spend          B．earn           C．survive   D．raise

4.                A．strengthen      B．soften          C．take D．show

5.                A．neither         B．each           C．all   D．none

6.                A．bicycle         B．car            C．train     D．bus

7.                A．especially       B．only           C．even D．once

8.                A．refused        B．complained      C．cried D．intended

9.                A．strangest       B．lowest          C．softest   D．scariest

10.               A．on            B．in             C．by   D．for

11.               A．work          B．home          C．town D．college

12.               A．led            B．made          C．found D．proved

13.               A．treated         B．received        C．met  D．greeted

14.               A．stop           B．house          C．street D．corner

15.               A．stepped off     B．went off        C．jumped on D．climbed on

16.               A．mind          B．view           C．flower D．leaf

17.               A．shining         B．flying          C．failing D．moving

18.               A．understood     B．thought        C．imagined  D．realized

19.               A．since          B．after           C．until D．though

20.               A．after all        B．above all        C．in advance D．in total

Try It a Different Way

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a though working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he   1   have been, like his father or like most of his childhood pals, a construction worker or a policeman. But he wanted   2  . Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to act. “I wasn’t a   3   actor, but I had a driving need to do something   4   with my life,” he says.

He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his   5  . but he didn’t make   6  . For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter,   7   at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his   8   career.

In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his   9  neighborhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was   10   to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s   11   and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer   12   to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

His   13   grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was   14   out of work and out of cash   15   he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script but every studio

  16   it down. Moresco believed so   17   in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.

The movie, Crash,   18  into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It won three Academy Awards－Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing.

At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an   19   success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about the   20  to get it done.”

1．A．must                     B．should                 C．can                     D．need

3．A．simple                   B．strict                   C．firm                    D．good

4．A．different                B．impressive           C．effective              D．special

5．A．occasion               B．treasure               C．fortune                D．possibility

6．A．it                          B．one                     C．this                     D．that

7．A．communicating      B．entertaining          C．practising            D．volunteering

8．A．afforded                B．chosen                C．respected            D．offered

9．A．early                     B．worn                   C．old                      D．passed

10．A．turned                 B．pointed                C．belonged             D．related

11．A．arresting              B．injuring                C．killing                  D．shooting

12．A．advised               B．happened             C．intended              D．planned

13．A．influence             B．ambition              C．success               D．reputation

14．A．again                   B．even                    C．finally                 D．still

15．A．before                 B．when                  C．since                   D．while

16．A．let                       B．looked                 C．took                    D．turned

17．A．strongly              B．hardly                 C．deeply                 D．bravely

18．A．moved                B．slipped                C．fell                      D．put

19．A．effortless             B．enjoyable             C．overnight             D．optimistic

20．A．ways B．lines  C．manners   D．actions

After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措) with the   1.  of earning a living,   2.  the little children.

One  3.  evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd (牧羊犬) on our  4.. This wonderful strong animal   5.  to enter the house and make it his   6. . The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day,   7. we could inquire around the neighborhood for his  8.. That night I slept  9.  for the first time in many weeks.

The following morning we   10.  to find German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were   11.  to see German racing to the gas station after us. 12.  was he going to be left behind.

On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’t appear, we were all   13. . The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed   14.  Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more   15.  of German. We stopped thinking about   16.  he belonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered   17.  his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.

Each week, between German’s visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his   18. . Then one Monday morning we   19.  his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how   20. and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.