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This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for, Alice, had gone through a difficult time. She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice. In November I was finally able to get her back to her “home”.
Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen, she was very sad. Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy, I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!
On Christmas Eve, I gave her a surprise by asking if she would like to go to a candlelight service at church that night.
Instead of taking her to my church, I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in. Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her.
The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there.
The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice’s face.
小题1:The underlined word “dementia” in Paragraph 2 probably is _____.
| A.an illness | B.a letter | C.a house | D.a plan |
| A.The candlelight service. | B.Praise from Alice’s friends. |
| C.Thanks from Alice’s daughter. | D.Alice’s happiness. |
| A.Alice’s daughter came to visit her on Christmas Eve. |
| B.None of Alice’s friends came to the church. |
| C.The candlelight Christmas Eve made Alice really happy. |
| D.Alice’s family never got together on Christmas Day in the old days. |
| A.A special candlelight Christmas Eve | B.The dream of an old lonely lady |
| C.My special job | D.The true love |
pile (堆) of rubbish sat a small dog. He was too high up to get down,and there was no way that he could have
climbed up by himself. He had been thrown out with the rubbish by some sick-minded person.
I took him back to my workplace and then home with me. I didn't want to take him to the lost animal
society. However, later that evening, my boss heard that someone had lost their dog and gave them my
number. I was very surprised when the dog's owner phoned me.
She came straight over to fetch him and was very thankful for what I'd done. The dog was sitting on an
electric blanket (毯子) happily playing with a ball when she arrived.
Maybe she'd been putting her rubbish into bags and had left one on the floor. The little dog had jumped
in there,and without realizing where he was, she'd tied the bag and dropped it off at the collection point.
Luckily, he was able to find his way out somehow, and had found himself high up.
It made me feel very silly for jumping to such a wrong conclusion. It was obvious (明显的) that she
loved her dog very much, and I felt sorry for what I'd been thinking about its owner all afternoon.
Now I'm never sure that something happened in a certain way, no matter how obvious it appears. And
when I hear people drawing a conclusion without the facts, I tell them about the dog on the rubbish pile.
B. He climbed there on his own.
C. He was driven there by someone.
D. He followed the writer there.
B. she was waiting for the owner
C. she wanted to keep him home
D. she'd like to give him to the boss
B. There are really sick-minded people.
C. We should correct mistakes in time.
D. Facts must come before conclusions.
Meng Meihui,14,from Dongying, Shandong, loved reading certain pieces of work. But she paid particular attention to her classmate’s every composition, just to find her faults.
“Everyone said she was better at writing than me. I didn’t believe it. I wanted to beat her,”Meng said. Meng was caught by the green-eyed monster-jealousy(嫉妒)
Jealousy is _____among students. Most people may feel a little bit unhappy when others are better than them. It’s natural. However, if students don’t change theirs mindset(思维方式)and deal with it well, jealousy can bring out many problems.
Su Lulu, 14, from Xiamen, Fujian, said those who are too jealous of others might lose _____easily.“Few people like those who always try to find faults in others,” Su said. “A popular student should be open-minded.”
Besides affecting students’ interpersonal(人际间的)relationships, jealousy may also limit students’ development.
Meng said that during that time, she paid too much attention to her competitor(竞争者)and_______to improve herself. “It was tiring and useless,” she said.
Luckily, Meng_____ realized the problem. She stopped her silly behavior and focused on her own progress.
Wang Xiao, a psychology(心理学)teacher at Huangshi Foreign Language School, Hubei, agreed with Meng’s practice. Wang said the best way to deal with jealousy is to turn it into motivation(动力)
“___those who are better than you and focus on yourself, ” Wang said. “It’s more important to improve yourself than to be better than others.”
Wang also suggested that students be confident about themselves. “Everyone has their advantages and disadvantages. Don’t _______your disadvantages with others’ advantages,” he said.
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My father was my hero, all throughout my ___31____. The father ___32____eight children, he knew his great duty.
When I was very little, he ___33____to be so large. In my eyes he could do ___34____, we all knew he was in charge. He was a man of great strength both physically and in ___35____, but in him there was a gentleness, he found ___36____to be outgoing and kind.
Many ___37____of childhood were greeted with a kiss, and songs to me as I awoke, those days I surely miss. He made me ___38____ so special, "Miss America" he would sing. I knew I had my ___39____ love. It gave me courage to do almost anything. He loved her and his children, so much he gave up years of his life ,caring for this woman, his wife. Day and night he fought hard for years with her ___40____.
From __41_____I learned to stand up tall, to be ___42____ of who I am. Strength and decisions were the qualities of this fine man. As the years of his life reduced day by day, that strength kept him __43_____.
Twenty days later his own time was at an end. I lost my hero, my father, a man ___44____ was my friend. For I am my father's daughter, one day we will meet again. But until then I will remember, and the love will ___45____end.
| 31.A work | B life | C study | D time |
| 32.A in | B from | C of | D for |
| 33.A appeared | B wanted | C used | D liked |
| 34.A things | B something | C nothing | D anything |
| 35.A mind | B head | C body | D arms |
| 36.A result | B routes | C ways | D steps |
| 37.A minutes | B days | C years | D months |
| 38.A look | B sound | C realize | D feel |
| 39.A mother’s | B father’s | C friend’s | D brother’s |
| 40.A illness | B business | C sadness | D tiredness |
| 41.A he | B her | C himself | D him |
| 42.A proud | B pride | C great | D nice |
| 43.A living | B lively | C live | D alive |
| 44.A whose | B who | C which. | D whom |
| 45.A always | B ever | C never | D hardly |