I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___1___ on the shelves, the man behind the counter, ___2___, asked if I’d like ___3___. I needed to start ___4___ for college, so I said yes. I ___5___ after school and during summers for the lowest wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most ___6___. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost ___7___ we had at that time ___8___ and found other books we could order. She left the store less ___9___. I’ve always remembered the ___10___ I felt in having helped her.

Years later, as a ___11___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___12___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___13___, hiding his hand in his pocket.

I ___14___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___15___ for free.

I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___16___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___17___.

In the past, while I was ___18___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___19___ I feel as if I work for the ___20___, helping them make sense of the world.

1. A. maps      B. titles   C. articles     D. reports

2. A. the reader      B. the college student   C. the shop owner  D. the customer

3. A. a book    B. a job   C. some tea     D. any help

4. A. planning B. saving C. preparing   D. studying

5. A. read       B. studied       C. cooked       D. worked

6. A. boring    B. surprising   C. satisfying   D. disappointing

7. A. anything B. something  C. nothing      D. everything

8. A. in need   B. in all   C. in order      D. in store

9. A. worried  B. satisfied     C. excited       D. puzzled

10. A. pride    B. failure C. regret  D. surprise

11. A. doctor   B. store owner       C. bookseller  D. TV reporter

12. A. pay      B. cost    C. afford D. spend

13. A. shame   B. honour       C. horror D. danger

14. A. advised B. forced      C. persuaded   D. permitted

15. A. action   B. program     C. treatment    D. operation

16. A. repaired       B. connected   C. injured       D. improved

17 A. pleasure B. sadness     C. interest       D. disappointment

18. A. at the TV station  B. in the Students Union

C. at the U. S. Forest Service       D. at McCarley’s Bookstore

19. A. so B. and     C. but    D. because

20. A. readers B. viewers      C. customers   D. passengers

Pulled from the rubble （碎砖）of the big earthquake after eight days of unimaginable suffering, 8- year-old Kiki Joachin caught the world’s attention. Today he and his 21  struggle to rebuild their home, their lives and their hopes.

When the terrible earthquake broke out, Kiki’s mother 22  from the porch （门廊）of their apartment building  23  her five –year-old-son, David, who was outside fetching water. 24  injured by falling concrete （水泥），she tried to dig through it and  25 toward her five other kids who were 26  in the ruins of their home.  27 , she could make little progress.

For eight days Kiki and his  28  were buried beneath. They curled  (蜷缩)  their bodies in a (n)  29  space, with no food or water, hardly able to move; nearby lay the  30  of their three other siblings（兄弟姐妹）. Kiki 31  as his sister covered them with her T-shirt.

On the eighth day, a neighbour  32  her possessions heard Kiki’s  33  cries for water. Two  34 spent the next four hours 35 drilling through the rubble and finally  36  Kiki and his sister. As Kiki was  37  by the firefighters from the hole, he made a victory gesture.

Now Kiki hopes to be an engineer when he grows up, so he can help 38  his country. His father wants to start a  39  for his family, maybe selling rice and beans, to be able to put another room on the house so his kids can sleep better. Meanwhile, his father and mother are   40 for what they have and the survival of the three children.

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I can still remember when I met my best friend．She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother brought her down to  1     me．I hid behind my motherland she hid behind her grandmother，  3       to look at each other．Soon we lost the 2       and started playing with each other．
In the 7th grade，I first lost touch with her．She was  4     family problems and I deserted her to be with the because they knew she had  5        people．None of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had  6      ．However，every summer we could always sit at each other’s house and watch soap operas，and talk about all the boys we liked．
It was last year when I noticed the problem．I guess I was too devoted in high school to  7       she needed someone there for her．Anyway，she made a new best friend and so did I．Then 1 didn’t know why，but she started cutting herself!
She then was diagnosed（诊断）with clinical depression．At first，1 was very 8 ，but we still stayed in  9 ．I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend basically  10  her and people were calling her  11 ．
Yesterday she came to me and said：“I never knew what a best friend was until you were the only person that would stop me cutting．I  12  you so much，and you didn’t even know you were  13  me．”
We both cried．And I guess a kind of  14  from my life so far is never to give up on your friends．Even if they aren’t as cool as others，or people think they are crazy，they need someone there．If you desert them，you will only be  15  yourself.
1．A．follow      B．meet  C．join   D．support
2．A．scared      B．annoyed    C．worried    D．delighted
3．A．temper     B．interest     C．confidence       D．shyness
4．A．taking up  B．getting through C．going through  D．making up
5．A．happier     B．cooler       C．stronger    D．cleverer
6．A．problems  B．shortcomings    C．partners    D．disabilities
7．A．admit       B．accept       C．consider    D．realize
8．A．calm B．considerate       C．upset D．helpful
9．A．place B．touch C．control     D．mood
10．A．confused   B．bothered   C．reminded  D．deserted
11．A．crazy B．stubborn   C．clumsy     D．stupid
12．A．expect      B．influence  C．appreciate D．demand
13．A．urging      B．blaming    C．helping     D．hurting
14．A．honour     B．favour      C．pleasure    D．lesson
15．A．innocent   B．successful C．guilty       D．reliable

My Forever Valentine 我永远的“情人”

Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly (天真的) thought   1   him as my “Valentine man”.

My first recollection of the   2   he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a gift-wrapped package at my chair. The card was   3   “Love, Dad” and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to   4   my birthstone, a ruby (红宝石). There is   5   difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember   6   that ring with pride that all the cards in the world   7   not surpass (超越).

  8   I grew older, the gifts gave   9   to heart-shaped boxes filled with my   10__   chocolate and always included a   11   card signed “Love, Dad”. In those years my thank-you became   12   of a perfunctory (敷衍) response. The cards seemed less   13  , and I took for granted that the Valentine would   14   be there. I had   15   my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from “significant others” and “Love Dad” just didn’t seem quite   16  .

His final card remains on my desk today. It’s a   17   of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a   18_        of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life.

Those things never   19  , nor does the memory of a man who never   20   being my Valentine.

A. of    B. about        C. up      D. over

A. memory    B. magic    C. puzzle D. presents

A. read B. written       C. shown D. signed

A. recover    B. resemble    C. represent    D. replace

A. much      B. little   C. great   D. less

A. having     B. owning      C. wearing      D. watching

A. could      B. did     C. must   D. should

A. Because    B. Since     C. When  D. As

A. room       B. way    C. honour       D. seat

A. favorite   B. lovely    C. dear    D. precious

A. usual     B. common     C. strange       D. special

A. less       B. little   C. more   D. much

A. important    B. beautiful   C. familiar      D. standard

A. surely     B. always  C. regularly    D. often

A. let  B. kept    C. placed D. remembered

A. suitable    B. enough C. effective    D. sacred

A. signal    B. certificate   C. consequence      D. reminder

A. tradition    B. hobby C. habit       D. custom

A. lose       B. die      C. miss    D. appear

A. thought     B. wanted       C. tried     D. stopped

The Internet has _______(16) effects on our lives.

The first is its value for people who are looking for information. When people are _____________(17)information ,from weather forecasts to __________(18)research, the Internet is now the first place that many people ___________(19).With the ___________(20) of a button or the click of a mouse , a student can _______________(21)knowledge from the information held in the largest libraries and museums in the world .

Another truly wonderful __________(22)of the Internet is the way people use it to build social ties. One of the greatest ________(23)of Internet friendships is that they are ________________(24)common interests, rather than appearance, age or popularity. Young people from different _________(25)and different countries can form lifelong friendships.

The Internet also has its negative effects on our lives.

The ___________(26)  is that it is difficult to _________(27) whether the information is true and accurate. The __________(28) of false information on the Internet becomes more of a problem every day . This is very __________(29)because people can write anything they want,and we cannot always tell if the information is true or not .

Another disadvantage of the Internet is that it is affecting people’s ________(30)lives. As the Internet has gained ________(31),there has been a change in the way people spend their time. Now ,________(32)spending time together in the evenings, some families spend their time ______(33)because one or more members are using the computer. ________(34) some young people spend so much time ______(35)computer games and using the Internet that they have become addicted to computer games.

1.                A．negative        B．positive         C．creative  D．aggressive

2.                A．in need of       B．in face of        C．in charge of    D．in honour of

3.                A．scientific        B．biological       C．academic D．techonological

4.                A．turn to         B．point to         C．refer to   D．leader to

5.                A．catch          B．order          C．give D．touch

6.                A．acquire         B．have           C．require   D．win

7.                A．field           B．area           C．aspect    D．way

8.                A．interest        B．benefits        C．profits    D．kinds

9.                A．concentrated on  B．devoted to      C．abandoned to  D．based on

10.               A．backgrounds    B．families         C．societies   D．groups

11.               A．advantages      B． disadvantages   C．shortages D．shortcomings

12.               A．guess          B．judge          C． suppose  D．think

13.               A．amount        B．quantities       C． numbers  D．total

14.               A．handsome      B．troublesome     C．quarrelsome   D．fearsome

15.               A．private         B．public          C．state  D．personal

16.               A．permission      B．defence        C．popularity D．occupation

17.               A．rather than      B．instead of       C．in exchange for D．in spite of

18.               A．aside          B．apart          C．alone D．abroad

19.               A．In fact          B．In case         C．In turn    D．In all

20.               A．play           B．playing         C．to play    D．played