A young and successful executive was traveling down a street , going a bit too fast in his new car; He was         for kids rushing out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

       his car passed a brick        the car’s side door, He pressed hard the         and spun the car back to the         from where the brick had been thrown,.

He jumped out of the car,        a kid and pushed him up        a parked car,shouting,”what was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?”        more and more angry, he wen on “That’s a new car and that brick you threw is gonna        a lot of money, Why did you do it?””Please ,mister,please,I’m sorry, Ididn’t know what else to do!”      the youngster, “It’s my brother”,he said ,”He fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t        him up”,Sobbing ,the boy asked the executive, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair?”He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.”

      beyond words, the driver tried to       the rapidly swelling lump(块)in his throat, He       the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his       and wiped the scrapes (擦伤)and cuts,      to see that everything was going to be okay.

“Thank you ,sir, And God bless you,”the       child said to him ,The man then watched the little boy      bis brother to the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long slow walk back to his car, He never did       the side door ,He kept the dent(凹痕)to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your      .

1.A、looking              B、watching               C、caring                    D、waiting

2.A、Before                        B、After                     C、as                           D、while

3.A、hit                     B、blocked                C、dropped               D、scratched

4.A、hit                      B、brakes                            C、brick                      D、wheel

5.A、spot                   B、which                    C、that                        D、this

6.A、saw                    B、found                    C、stopped                D、grabbed

7.A、on                      B、in                           C、against                  D、towards

8.A、Remaining                  B、Growing                C、Building up           D、Making up

9.A、cost                    B、spend                    C、use                        D、take

10.A、begged                     B、required               C、asked                    D、wondered

11.A、get                            B、pick                        C、lift                          D、put

12.A、Worried                   B、Depressed           C、Moved                  D、Surprised

13.A、chew                        B、melt                       C、spit                        D、swallow

14.A、helped                     B、pulled                   C、held                       D、took

15.A、medicine                 B、handkerchief       C、belt                        D、money

16.A、demanding              B、expecting             C、checking               D、wanting

17.A、delighted                 B、sad                         C、helpless                D、grateful

18.A、push                         B、bring                     C、hand                      D、raise

19.A、recovery                  B、repair                    C、reform                           D、record

20.A、information             B、help                       C、attention              D、notice

A flock of wild ducks were flying in formation, heading south for the winter. They formed a beautiful V in the sky, and were admired by everyone who saw them from below.

One day, Wally, one of the wild ducks in the formation, spotted something on the ground. It was a barnyard with a flock of _    ducks who lived on the farm. They were waddling around on the ground, quacking merrily and eating _    that was thrown on the ground for them every day. Wally liked what he saw. "It sure would be nice to have some of that corn," he thought to himself. "And all this flying is very tiring. I'd like to just __   around for a while."

So after thinking it over a while, Wally left the formation of wild ducks, made a sharp __  , and   for the barnyard. He landed _    the tame ducks, and began to waddle around and quack    . He also started eating corn. The formation of wild ducks continued their journey South, but Wally didn't care. "I'll __   them when they come back North in a few months," he said to himself.

Several months went by and __  enough, Wally looked up and spotted the flock of wild ducks in formation, heading north. They looked beautiful up there. And Wally was tired of the   . It was muddy and   he waddled, there was nothing but duck doo. "It's time to leave." said Wally.

So Wally _  his wings furiously and tried to get airborne. But he had gained some   from all his corn-eating, and he hadn't exercised his wings much either. He finally    the ground, but he was flying too _    and slammed into the side of the barn. He fell to the ground with a thud and said to himself, "Oh, well, I'll just wait until they fly __   in a few months. Then I'll rejoin them and become a wild duck again."

When the flock flew overhead once more, Wally again tried to    himself out of the barnyard. But he simply didn't have the strength. Every winter and every spring, he saw his wild duck friends flying overhead, and they would    to him. But his attempts to leave were all    .

    Eventually Wally no longer paid any attention to the wild ducks flying overhead. He hardly even noticed them. He had   , become a barnyard duck.

1.A. tame                              B. ugly                                   C. beautiful                            D. wild

2.A. food                              B. grain                                 C. corn                                    D. vegetable

3.A. rest                                B. waddle                    C. walk                                    D. fly

4.A. turn                   B. dive               C. land                                     D. circle

5.A. hurried                B. looked             C. left                                      D. headed

6.A. between               B. among             C. behind                                D. within

7.A. loudly                                B. sadly               C. merrily                               D. eagerly

8.A. see                   B. recognize           C. leave                                       D. rejoin

9.A. strange                B. lucky              C. sure                                    D. natural

10.A. barnyard          B. corn               C. waddling                         D. quacking

11.A. every day             B. every time                 C. everywhere                            D. nowhere

12.A. flapped           B. spread                    C. removed                           D. opened

13.A. strength         B. skills                      C. friends                             D. weight

14.A. got off          B. got to               C. got up                                          D. got back

15.A. slowly          B. fast                   C. high                                     D. low

16.A. back            B. south                C. north                                      D. overhead

17.A. lift             B. fly                        C. struggle                              D. rise

18.A. call out          B. come back                          C. come over                         D. call back

19.A. in return              B. in need                            C. in vain                                 D. in place

20.A. after all                B. above all                    C. therefore                          D. however

12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."

When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a train, he felt great. His journey was so mind-blowing that he couldn’t keep it to himself: he decided to take all his classmates to go on a ride with him. When he found that some of his classmates couldn’t pay the fare, he collected cans (罐子) and bottles and raised more than $1,000 for them.

That trip was such a happy one that he made it a yearly action. "It never gets boring for some reason; it’s just fun," he said. "It really lets people get away from their busy life and have fun.

Every October, Robertson takes a new group of children to ride on the train —but now, he has a problem. Several disabled children were refused because the train was not accessible (可用的) to disabled people. "He was angry to think that children of his own age couldn’t ride a train," his mother said.

But he wouldn’t say no: he recently sent a letter to the train office for help. To his surprise, the leader, Ty Pennington, accepted the letter in person. He said that he and his workers would work on making a train accessible to disabled people.

1.The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train, ________.

A．he was frightened by it

B．he acted as a driver

C．he watched it for hours

D．he fell in love with it

2.The author says John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan, because he ________.

A．was greatly attracted to trains since early childhood

B．said so in Good Morning America

C．took a group of disabled children to travel by train

D．was taken to a train the day he was born

3.The underlined words "mind-blowing" can be replaced by ________.

A．important         B．terrible           C．amazing           D．disappointing

4.The disabled children were refused to get on the train because _________.

A．the trains then weren’t accessible to the disabled

B．Robertson had not saved enough money for the tickets

C．they couldn’t afford the train tickets

D．the driver would not allow them to do so

5.According to the last paragraph, we can see that Robertson is a ________ child.

A．helpful and crazy                       B．kind and clever

C．kind but boring                         D．lazy but kind

David rode so fast that he couldn’t        hitting a passer-by and he fell off the bike.

  A. avoid      B. enjoy C. stand           D. stop

Would you believe that the first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman? His name was Laurent Clerc. He became a friend of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and together they founded America's first school for the deaf.
Laurent Clerc was born in a small village near Lyons, France, on December 26, 1785. When he was one year old, he fell into a fire, losing both his hearing and his sense of smell.
At 12, Laurent entered the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris where he did well in his studies. After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher.
Meanwhile, in America, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was studying to be a minister. He was very concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for the deaf. Therefore, in 1815, Gallaudet sailed to London, England to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people. While he was there, he met a French educator of the deaf who invited him to go to Paris to spend three months learning at the Royal Institution for the Deaf, the school where Laurent Clerc was teaching. Gallaudet accepted the offer. The two worked and studied well together. When the time came for Gallaudet to return, he asked Clerc to come with him. Clerc accepted on one condition: that he would stay in America only a short time.
The two men set sail on June 18, 1816. The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean took 52 days; however, Clerc and Gallaudet put the time to good use. Clerc studied English, and Gallaudet studied sign language. They discussed the school for the deaf which they planned to open. On the long trip, they had many conversations about education and deafness. The year after they arrived, they founded a school for the deaf in Harford, Connecticut.
At the school, Clerc led a busy life. He taught signs to Principal Gallaudet; he taught the pupils; and he taught hearing men who came to the school to study deaf education.
In 1819, Clerc married Eliza Crocker Boardman, one of his pupils. They had six children. He retired from teaching in 1858. Although he had intended to return to France, he never did. He died on July 18, 1869 in the United States.
【小题1】Why did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sail to London?