Not long before, my daughter's shoes were scratched with a knife．She burst into   36 ．I took them to the shoemaker to get them   37 ．

       The young apprentice （学徒） glanced at the opening and said, " 38   I can do except replace the upper．" His master looked at them and said to me, "If you   39   me, I will add more scratches on both of the shoes．" _O%

       I was   40   and asked why．

       He explained, "As if the openings were made   41   for the sake of special style and reuse．"

       Two days later I found there were indeed more scratches on   42   shoe, but all the openings were patched （打补丁） by soft red leather with edges sewed by thick thread,   43  more unique and interesting than ever．I couldn't help but   44   the master's skill．

       Another time, my wife's sister's white blouse had been torn, leaving a large opening on the back．My wife   45   the blouse carefully, and then said, "Let me take it   46 _ and mend it．"

       Seeing the blouse again, I was shocked: all the torn parts had been sewed up by thin and   47   thread and they   48   a look of ice crystal （冰晶 ） hanging from a winter's branch． 49   , she had attached a snowman and a cabin made of flowery cotton rags onto the shirt．I 50   with praise, "It's just as beautiful as a piece of   51   !"

       "I was inspired by that craftsman．Patches are supposed to be   52 , but a skillful craftsman can make it take on a kind of perfection," replied my wife．

       Her words inspired me even more: Perfection is   53   to achieve in everything; Patches are unavoidable, so is human's life．Since you can't   54   the existence of wound, you should not expect people's   55   by exposing the wound, which reveals nothing meaningful．

A．laughter       B．cheers       C．tears            D．speech

A．made         B．repaired    C．decorated      D．preserved

A．Anything      B．SomethingC．Everything       D．Nothing

A．trust          B．inform      C．appoint         D．convince

A．annoyed       B．confused   C．disappointed     D．discouraged

A．on purpose    B．by accidentC．in vain          D．beyond control

A．neither        B．any         C．every           D．each

A．remaining     B．growing    C．looking         D．feeling

A．appreciate     B．witness     C．praise           D．describe

A．delivered       B．checked    C．washed          D．ironed

A．outside       B．downtown C．home         D．abroad

A．red         B．white     C．pink            D．purple

A．took on        B．put on      C．decided on       D．focused on

A．Therefore      B．Otherwise C．Anyway        D．Besides

A．sighed         B．signed      C．greeted          D．paused

A．cake          B．art         C．furniture       D．jewellery

A．pretty        B．attractive  C．tough               D．ugly

A．easy           B．improper  C．likely               D．impossible

A．change        B．imagine    C．stand           D．prove

A．respect        B．friendship C．sympathy      D．apology

It might have been a really bad stressful day, feeling trapped inside by the cold and snow which surrounded us. My husband was the first to shift his consciousness. He dressed accordingly and announced that he was going outside to build a giant snowman.
At first he stood alone, piling massive amounts of snow. Soon after a neighbor joined in my husband’s quest to embrace the opportunity the winter presented. Maintaining less than desirable attitudes, we reluctantly put on our snow gear(用具) and headed outside. It wasn’t long before we were smiling and enjoying the abundance of snow that Mother Nature had provided. Others came to our yard one by one to give a hand in the making of our giant snowman.
In the end we all stood back and marveled at what we had created. He was eleven feet high, twenty-five feet around at the base and decorated with many household items supplied by various families. There he stood, our glorious, gigantic (巨人般的) snowman.
People drove by and smiled. Some even stopped to enjoy his existence. The spirit that went into creating him seemed to catch on and we all enjoyed it while the cold temperatures allowed.
With the passing of time, the spring made its way back into our yard and the snowman changed form considerably. In a final effort to save what we created for just a little bit longer somebody stopped by and changed the snowman’s remains to look like a rabbit.
As I prepared for the start of another week, I decided to check my email before going to bed. I found a curious message that contained the subject line: enjoy the snowman. I decided to read the message even though I did not recognize who sent it. The words it contained melted my heart.
The email said: … your neighbor looks on in disbelief! I am sure you people are enjoying the sounds and smells, along with sights of spring. The energy displayed in Mr. Snowman or Ms, is filled with vigor and joyous energy. You and your family keep it up, as this is what the world needs now. Love sweet love. More power to you and your loved ones, keep sharing with the world around.
Perhaps it was more than snowman we built that day. I’d like to agree that it was. The message seems clear. Our circumstances will turn out to be what we make of them. The possibilities are endless and the choice is ours.
60. How did the author plan to spend that cold day at first?
A. By having a busy day.      B. By staying at home. C. By building a snowman.   D. By visiting neighbors.
61. The reason for her husband to make a snowman was that ________.
A. he had to please his neighbors                       B. he was better at it than others
C. he wanted to cheer himself up                       D. he must get the last chance before spring
62. From the passage we can know that the snowman_______.
A. was built only by the author’s family            B. was surprisingly big in size
C. made people more forgiving                   D. made building snowman popular

Have you ever seen snowman ride bicycle? That’s       we look like.

The Abominable Snowman 喜马拉雅雪人

He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The   1   of the Snowman has been around for    __2  . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they   3   this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had   4   caught Yetis on two occasions   5   none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）.

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has   6   . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not   7   the tracks of a monkey or bear and   8   that the Abominable Snowman might really   9  .

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were   10   footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than   11   animal tracks, which had been made   12    as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow.   13  , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was   14   and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,   15  . no evidence has ever   16   been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman   __17  . But if they ever   18   catching one, they may face a real   19  : Would they put it in a   20   or give it a room in a hotel?

A. event       B. story   C. adventure   D. description

A. centuries  B. too long     C. some time  D. many years

A. heard from     B. cared for    C. knew of     D. read about

A. even B. hardly C. certainly     D. probably

A. as    B. though       C. when  D. until

A. developed       B. changed     C. occurred     D. continued

A. entirely   B. naturally    C. clearly       D. simply

A. found      B. declared     C. felt     D. doubled

A. exist B. escape C. disappear    D. return

A. clearer   B. more   C. possible      D. rare

A. huge      B. recent C. ordinary     D. frightening

A. strange  B. large   C. deep   D. rough

A. In the end     B. Therefore   C. After all     D. However

A. imagined      B. real     C. special       D. familiar

A. so  B. besides       C. again  D. instead

A. rightly   B. actually      C. normally    D. particularly

A. lightly   B. jokingly     C. seriously    D. properly

A. succeed in     B. insist on     C. depend on  D. join in

A. decision B. situation     C. subject       D. problem

A. zoo             B. mountain                 C. museum           D. laboratory

I woke up the other day to find that 10 inches of freshly fallen snow was waiting for me outside my door. The flakes were still __36__ heavily too. I didn’t want my little dogs __37__ in it, so I reluctantly __38__ on my heavy coat and grabbed the snow shovel to make a __39__. I had only gotten a bit done, however, _40_ the handle of my old snow shovel __41__ with a “snap”. Laughing and shaking my head, I _42_ to wait out the storm for a while.
It was late in the afternoon when the snow finally __43__ and I trudged(跋涉) over to my Dad’s house to borrow his shovel and _44__ again. By then the 10 inches of snow had turned into a foot and a half. I started out slow setting a steady __45__ and stopping to rest whenever my back started to ache. After a while, though, the __46__ finally broke and the sun peeked out to __47__ me on. The work seemed a lot easier then even though it was still __48__. I even sang a few Christmas carols and __49__ while I cleared out the drives, cleaned off the cars, and shoveled out the paths. After an hour of hard work the job was finally done. _50_, I let the child that still lives __51__ of me fall back into the snow and _52_ a snow angel for the angels in Heaven to see. It felt good walking back to my house after a job well done. It felt even better _53__ around at this wonderful world of white.
I don’t know why life sometimes gives us spring days and sometimes dumps a ton of snow in us. I do know, __54_, that we can pray, laugh, love, and choose _55__ through it all.