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Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to 36 my father, who’d moved there to find 37 work when I was three years old. He had a job at a restaurant and only visited us 38 every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the 39 when I was 40 to leave. Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English in a few weeks.
When I 41 in the US and started 8th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was speaking a(n) 42 language I couldn’t understand. I 43 that life had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek(呆子) class. The teachers were always 44 my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the worst thing was having to read 45 .
46 after almost seven months of complaining about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things. 47 just made my life worse. If I was going to 48 in this new concrete jungle, I had to 49 . I began to learn English by reading newspapers on my own 50 school. After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers 51 my improvement and moved me into a more 52 English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that I wanted to buy without 53 frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again, 54 I didn’t hear foreign talk. I 55 understand people.
1. A.find B.join C.see D.help
2. A.good-looking B.well-dressed C.better-paying D.highly-thought
3. A.once B.other C.each D.only
4. A.case B.condition C.situation D.state
5. A.packing B.trying C.managing D.arranging
6. A.reached B.entered C.got D.arrived
7. A.strange B.unusual C.standard D.foreign
8. A.hoped B.wished C.expected D.demanded
9. A.staring B.looking C.checking D.watching
10. A.texts B.newspapers C.English D.poems
11. A.Although B.Even if C.But D.Since
12. A.It B.They C.I D.Things
13. A.live B.study C.survive D.continue
14. A.adapt B.adopt C.adore D.admire
15. A.for B.in C.after D.at
16. A.made B.noticed C.concerned D.remember
17. A.modern B.advanced C.difficult D.convenient
18. A.even B.ever C.some D.any
19. A.if B.though C.ever D.because
20. A.could B.should C.would D.might
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Only when he reached the teahouse it was the same place he’d been in last year.
A. he realized B. realized he C. had he realized D. did he realize
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One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered.and they all admired his heart for it was 41 . There was not a scar in it. Suddenly, an old man appeared and said, “Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as 42 .”
The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s 43 . It was full of scars, it had places 44 pieces had been removed and other pieces 45 in, but they didn’t fit quite right, and there were several 46 edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gaps where whole pieces were missing.
The young man laughed. “ 47 your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”
“Yes,” said the old man, “Yours 48 perfect but I would never trade with you. You see, every 49 represents a person 50 I have given my love. I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they 51 me a piece of their heart that fits into the 52 place in my heart. But because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we 53 .
“Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart 54 , and the other person hasn’t returned a 55 of his or her heart to me. These are the empty gaps—giving love is 56 a chance. Although these gaps are painful, they 57 open, reminding me of the love I have for those people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have been waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?’’
The young man walked up to the old man, 58 his perfect heart, and tipped a piece out. He 59 it to the old man.
The old man placed it in his heart, then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It 60 , but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side.
A.ugly B.perfect C.beautiful D.hurt
A.mine B.his C.theirs D.ours
A.coat B.appearance C.face D.heart
A.that B.which C.where D.whose
A.cut B.set C.put D.brought
A.smooth B.rough C.broken D.pretty
A.Comparing B.Compared C.Compare D.Compares
A.looks B.seems C.is D.fits
A.one B.heart C.piece D.scar
A.on whom B.in whom C.with whom D.to whom
A.take B.give C.lend D.pass
A.empty B.full C.original D.first
A.had B.gave C.shared D.owned
A.in B.away C.off D.up
A.lot B.sheet C.piece D.pile
A.making B.taking C.keeping D.bringing
A.keep B.cut C.come D.stay
A.carried away B.reached into C.took out D.brought up
A.offered B.took C.passed D.served
A.fit B.hit C.beat D.set
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