After a long day at school, I walked home with my heavy schoolbag . By the time I got home, I was sweaty,  16  and hungry. I threw my things on the couch and grabbed something from the kitchen to  17  . I passed by the living room and wished I could watch TV , but I knew my  18   would take me the whole night. I grabbed my schoolbag and went  19  to my room, feeling defeated. I tried to understand chemistry and  20  sleepiness at the same time. I was stressed out and  21  . I wanted something to cheer me up .

Later in the evening , I  22  the sound of the front door opening. And I waited for it—the sound of my mom singing .  23  she sings off-key (跑调), it made me excited that she was here. I ran down the stairs to greet my mom. We  24  and I ran back upstairs to do homework again. I like it when my mom was happy. Her  25  flowed down to me and I got the strength to  26  the stress again.

Sometimes, I wonder how my mom can still be  27  after coming back from work. Every weekday, she wakes up  28  in the morning to go to work and spends an hour on the bus before getting downtown . At a  29  factory, she works standing for the whole day and draws patterns for clothes over and over. After work, she gets stuck in  30  for two hours on her way back home. When I  31  my school life with her work life, I should not be the one to  32  . At least I have some fun things to do at school, while one mistake at work can cost my mom her job. I  33   that my mom has a positive attitude and lives her life with a joyous heart even though there may be   34  . Seeing her happy makes me feel  35  , too.

1.A. heavy      B. busy             C. sleepy           D. unlucky

2.A. keep           B. eat          C. give                 D. watch

3.A. dream          B. supper           C. homework         D. experience

4.A. aside          B. upstairs         C. outwards             D. nearby

5.A. put off            B. fight off        C. refer to             D. research into

6.A. bored          B. shocked      C. worried          D. frightened

7.A. made           B. recorded         C. imagined         D. heard

8.A. Unless         B. Though       C. If               D. As

9.A. agreed         B. debated      C. hugged           D. celebrated

10.A. need          B. idea         C. faith                D. energy

11.A. face          B. change       C. accept           D. leave

12.A. creative      B. careful          C. positive         D. professional

13.A. early         B. naturally        C. fast             D. regularly

14.A. furniture     B. tobacco      C. car              D. clothing

15.A. task          B. traffic          C. communication        D. examination

16.A. replace       B. exchange     C. connect          D. compare

17.A. complain      B. decide       C. study                D. play

18.A. achieve       B. notice           C. appreciate           D. improve

19.A. lies          B. difficulties         C. confusions       D. accidents

20.A. successful        B. skillful     C. good                 D. important

Each of us fails from time to time．If we are wise, we accept these failures as a  1  part of the learning process．But all too often as parents and teachers we disallow this  2  right to our children．

When I see a child  3  to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie．

    Donnie was my youngest third grader．His  4  of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed．He  5     answered questions — he might be wrong．

I tried my best to build his  6．But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned （安排）to our classroom．

   She was young and pretty, and she loved children．My pupils, Donnie included,7  her．

   One morning, we were working math problems at the chalkboard．Donnie had 8  the problems with painstaking neatness．Pleased with his progress, I 9  the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials．When I returned, Donnie was in 10 ．He’d missed the third problem．

   My student teacher looked at me in despair．Suddenly her face  11．From the desk we shared, she got a container filled with pencils．

   "Look, Donnie," she said, kneeling beside him and gently 12 the tear stained face from his arms．"I’ve got something to13 you．" She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk．

   "See these 14 , Donnie," she continued．"They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me．See how the erasers are 15 ? That’s because we make mistakes too．But we erase the mistakes and try again．That’s what you 16  learn to do, too．"

    She kissed him and stood up．"Here," she said, "I’ll leave one of these pencils on 17 desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 18 teachers．" Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a smile．

    The pencil became Donnie’s  19  possession．That, together with Mary Anne’s frequent encouragement, gradually 20  him that it’s all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again．

2．A．correct                 B．same                   C．important        D．natural

3．A．suffering               B．object                  C．fall                      D．subject

4．A．fear                      B．lesson                 C．chance               D．sense

5．A．always                  B．often                   C．never          D．seldom

6．A．self-protection       B．self-improvement C．self-confidence    D．self-learning

7．A．respected              B．disliked                C．avoided               D．mined

8．A．worked out           B．copied                 C．gone over            D．leaned

9．A．left                       B．offered                C．missed            D．parted

10．A．surprise               B．astonishment        C．anger                  D．tears

11．A．darkened             B．brightened           C．pulled                  D．loosened

12．A．lifting                  B．picking                C．holding                D．pushing

13．A．help                    B．show                  C．reward                D．promise

14．A．pencils                B．mistakes              C．marks                 D．containers

15．A．used                   B．built                    C．worn                  D．damaged

16．A．may                    B．must                   C．will                     D．can

17．A．my                     B．someone’s           C．the teacher’s        D．your

18．A．still                     B．also                     C．even                   D．not

19．A．prized                 B．own                    C．kept                    D．expected

20．A．warned               B．informed             C．persuaded      D．reminded

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

1.He c_________ that we should come back before 9 o’clock.

2. An e___________ is a kind of machine for raising and lowering something.

3.If you want to read quickly and well, you should enlarge your v__________.

4.People aged from 13 to 19 are called t__________.

5. His friend has _________(遭受) from lung cancer for some years.

6.They carried out a s_________ of experiments to test the new drug.

7.The mother________(使平静) the little boy by telling him a story.

8.I’m rather _________(挂念的) about your health.

9.He made a long j_________ from Beijing to London.

10. The doctor p___________ him to give up smoking finally.

完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Now ,”Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are going to discover our professions .”
The class seems to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _36 _. “Yes, you will all be searching for your future  37 . Each of you will have to   38  someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”
Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This _39_ I had to go to interview a true-blue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him_40_ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”I shook my head.
“How about some   41_ ?”I shook my head again .
Finally , I thought he realized I was   42 , and I got my first big tip as a  43 : “Never,never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you’ll run into. ”After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from   44  in class. I got an A on the entire project.
Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I _45 _Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t __46__me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was and   47  all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood. _48__gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was   49 .
For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, __50 __ stories from murders to airplane crashes and   51  choosing my strongest area.  52 _ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been __53__Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.
I get  54  all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”
“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could  55 her.