As a music teacher for twenty-seven years, I have always known that music touches the soul. It can break through all kinds of barriers to reach students in a very special way. It can be the means for each child to find their light.

A few years ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to teach pre-school students one afternoon a week. One of my most memorable students was Vanessa. She was five years old, had difficulty walking, and could not speak. We mostly sat on the floor for our music lessons and Vanessa liked to sit on my lap. One of her favorite songs was John the Rabbit. It was a call and response song where I sang the call and the students clapped two times while singing the repeating phrase, “Oh, yes!” Vanessa liked to put her hands together with mine and clap with me. We performed that song during every class, Vanessa and I clapping together. She never said or sang a word.

One day late in the school year, when the song was finished, Vanessa turned around, looked me in the eye, clapped her tiny hands two times and said the words “Oh, yes!” I opened my mouth and could not speak. Through music, we had made a connection.

Several years later, I came across Vanessa on the street in town. I stopped my car and waved to say hello. She waved back with a big smile on her face and then clapped her hands two times, mimicking(模仿) the song we had performed in our music class. This precious little girl, through her connection with music, left an impression on me that will last forever.

Every child has the ability to learn and grow. It is up to us educators to discover the way to reach each and every one of our students. We all must find each child’s light.

1.The author thinks music ________.

   A. can make children calm down                  B. can connect heart to heart

C. is difficult for pre-school students             D. is a good means to find a job

2.According to the second paragraph, Vanessa ________.

A. got used to singing songs                         B. was too shy to speak

C. was the youngest in the class                    D. enjoyed the author’s classes

3.When Vanessa spoke the words “Oh, yes!”, the author felt ________.

   A. surprised                    B. happy               C. frightened         D. satisfied

4.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

   A. The author has been in touch with Vanessa for several years.

B. Vanessa became as healthy as other children.

C. The song made a deep impression on Vanessa.

D. Being a good educator became Vanessa’s dream.  [

The boss _____ 30 dollars from my salary without any good reason.

A．brought down      B．kept back          C．cut off            D．held up

A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a   36 , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it  37  from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles,   38 everywhere. I tried to use a broom, 39 with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen．

For the next week, every time I was in the   40 , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept   41  . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and  42  12 frozen peas hidden underneath．

At the time I found those few remaining  43 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful  44  I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded  45  those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my   46  had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble   47  his new surroundings and the 48  of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．

When life gets you   49  , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never  50  , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be  51  , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas   52 , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them   53  you’ll start to feel whole again．

The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to   54 , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,  55  will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?

1.                A．drink          B．fruit           C．vegetable D．meat

2.                A．moved         B．walked         C．ran  D．slipped

3.                A．rubbed         B．rolled          C．grew D．existed

4.                A．but            B．and            C．although  D．so

5.                A．bedroom       B．living room      C．kitchen   D．storeroom

6.                A．getting up       B．turning up       C．taking up  D．using up

7.                A．found          B．ate            C．left  D．planted

8.                A．presents        B．cans           C．vegetables D．peas

9.                A．man           B．child           C．woman   D．boy

10.               A．of             B．for            C．with  D．in

11.               A．wife           B．life            C．son   D．friend

12.               A．turning to       B．leading to       C．adjusting to D．adding to

13.               A．thank          B．love           C．help  D．loss

14.               A．down          B．near           C．close D．wide

15.               A．get it          B．make it         C．take it D．leave it

16.               A．grew          B．bought         C．collected  D．frozen

17.               A．eventually      B．fortunately      C．properly   D．specially

18.               A．both           B．all             C．either D．each

19.               A．call on         B．put on         C．bring on   D．move on

20.               A．while          B．because        C．since D．or

 My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It was the first time in our life that we would __36__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had __37__ it.

Later in bed, I __38__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the __39__ from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to __40__ college.

The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to the city __41__. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __42__. He finally said, “I never went to college and __43__ of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is __44__ and I don’t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __45__. When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be __46__ in the big town and I would be __47__ the life home.

Then my father __48__ the Bible that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must __49__ it. He just said, “This can help you __50__ you will let it.”

When I finished school I took the Bible __51__ to my father. But he said he wanted me to __52__ it.

Now, too often, I remember. It would have been so __53__ to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. My father could give me only a Bible, but now I don’t really believe that I gave her half as __54__ as my father gave me. So the next morning I __55__ up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note “This can help you.” I said, “if you will let it.”

1. A. worry         B. separate         C. stay             D. travel

2. A. left              B. stood                C. enjoyed          D. tried

3. A. wasted            B. spent                C. remembered       D. killed

4. A. policemen     B. workers          C. cattle               D. birds

5. A. graduate from B. go away to           C. set out              D. set up

6. A. very late     B. far away         C. too soon         D. once again

7. A. speech            B. living               C. promise          D. progress

8. A. some          B. one              C. none             D. all

9.A. impossible     B. different            C. difficult            D. favorite

10. A. work out     B. die out              C. hold out         D. break out

11. A. happy            B. alone                C. free             D. lost

12. A. losing           B. spending         C. missing          D. living

13. A. brought about    B. brought out          C. brought up           D. brought down

14. A. refuse           B. mark             C. follow               D. take

15. A. if               B. unless               C. but              D. though

16. A. down         B. up               C. back             D. away

17. A. keep         B. return               C. post             D. sell

18. A. popular          B. strange          C. ready                D. nice

19. A. much         B. many             C. far              D. good

20. A. set              B. turned               C. gave             D. wrapped

Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped(绊倒) and dropped all his books. Mark  21  and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Then as they walked along together, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history,  22   he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects. He also learned that he had just  23  with his girlfriend.

They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was  24  in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly. They then became good friends and later entered the same senior high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks  25  graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. Bill  26  him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a  27  for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping 28  .But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I  29  that if I had killed myself, I would have  30  that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you picked up my life as well.”

21. A. sat down    B. lay down      C. knelt down    D. slowed down  

22. A. and         B. but           C. but hat       D. and that

23. A. fallen in love               B. broken up     C. got along well  D. done away

24. A. invited     B. allowed       C. stopped       D. interested

25. A. after       B. from          C. before        D. since

26. A. asked       B. informed      C. remembered    D. reminded

27. A. note        B. message       C. sign          D. mess

28. A. medicine    B. pilled        C. bags          D. clothes

29. A. wondered    B. doubted       C. realized      D. forgot

30. A. missed      B. lost          C. seized        D. spent