Once upon a time, a Japanese man wanted to rebuild his house. First he had to tear the walls open .Japanese houses  36  have hollow(空的)spaces between the wooden walls. As he was  37  them down, he found a lizard(蜥蜴)  38 there because a nail(钉子)from the outside had been hammered into one of its feet. Seeing this, he felt  39 for it, and at the same time was curious about it.
     He knew very well that the  40  had been hammered 10 years before when the house was first  41   . What had happened since? The lizard had  42  for 10 years! To be stuck in a dark wall for 10 years without  43 —it hardly seems possible, and is hard to   44  . Then he wondered how the lizard could have lived for 10 years without moving a single step —since its   45  was nailed! So he stopped work and began to   46  the lizard. He wanted to know what it had been doing, and what and   47  it had been eating.
     A short time later another lizard   48  with food in its mouth. He was shocked, and at the same time deeply   49  . Another lizard had been feeding the stuck one   50 the past ten years.
     "What love  51 in this tiny creature! What can love do? It can do  52 ! Just think, one lizard has been   53  another untiringly for 10 long years, without   54 hope that its partner would be saved,"the man marvelled.
     If a small creature like a lizard can   55   like this, just imagine how we could if we tried

Adults（成年人）usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get onto the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg（乞讨）. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and a stench (恶臭) came out of the house and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire (百万富翁). They waited outside his house expecting to share the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant (有意义的) for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than（除了）staying focused on（专心于）the things we enjoy doing.
【小题1】The underlined part in the first paragraph may mean ______.

A．Make great plans for your life.

B．Keep on doing what you like.

C．Do something that is good to society.

D．Depend on yourself rather than others.

____he was not satisfied with his power.

A, King as  he was   B, King as was he    C,A king as he was  D,A king as was he

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~35各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A handsome, middle aged man walked quietly into the cafe and sat down. Befor he  16  ,he couldn’t help but  17  a group of younger men at the table next to him. It was  18  that they were making fun of something about him and it wasn’t until he remembered he was  19  a small pink ribbon-on the lapel(翻领) of his suit that he became aware of what the  20  was all about.
The man paid  21  attention to all this, but the whisper and laughter began go get to him. He looked one of the   22  men straight into the eye, placed his hand beneath the    23  and asked, “This?”
With that the young men all began to laugh out loud. The man he had   24  said, “Hey, sorry man, but we were just commenting on how   25  your little pink ribbon looks against your blue jacket!”
The middle-aged man   26  invited the joker to come over to his table, and politely seated him.   27  as he was, the young guy had to, not really sure why. In a   28  voice, the middle-aged man said, “I wear this ribbon to bring   29  about breast cancer. I wear it in my mother’s   30  .”
“Oh, sorry. She died of breast canner?”
“No, she didn’t. She’s alive and   31  . But her breasts nourished me as a baby, and were a soft   32  place for my   33  when I was scared or   34  as a little boy. I’m very grateful   35  my mother’s breasts, and her health.”
16.A.ordered    B.sponsored    C.realized    D.left
17.A.notice    B.meet    C.glance   D.catch
18.A.common    B.strange    C.natural    D.obvious
19. A.showing    B.wearing    C.hanging    D.fixing
20. A.fun    B.talk    C.joke    D.story
21. A.a lot    B.much    C.many    D.no
22. A.happy    B.rude    C.dishonest    D.selfish
23.A.ribbon    B.lapel    C.jacket     D.suit
24.A.interrupted    B.spoken to    C.scolded    D.questioned
25.A.ugly    B.small    C.big   D.pretty
26.A.quickly    B.calmly    C.cleverly    D.carefully
27. A.Unfortunate    B.Uncertain    C.Unfair    D.Uncomfortable
28. A.high    B.sharp    C.soft    D.loud
29. A.awareness    B.promotion    C.changes    D.lessons
30. A.name    B.honour    C.request    D.sense
31.A.suffering    B.wealthy    C.lucky     D.well
32.A.hiding      B.healing     C.resting    D.sleeping
33.A.hand       B.arm        C.head      D.mind
34.A.hungry     B.lonely     C.proud     D.nervous
35.A.with       B.by         C.in         D.for

Back in 2007, I rented（租） a room in Johor Bahru, Malaysia while studying for my Masters programmed（硕士课程） in Singapore. I travelled daily by   36  across the Johor- Singapore Causeway(穿越湿地的堤道) for my   37 , which were usually in the evening. It was quite   38 

by the time I got back to the bus station in Johor Bahru, and I would still need to take another bus home.

One night, I   39  the last bus and didn’t have enough money to take a taxi. With no other choice, I decided to    40  the two-kilometer journey home, which would have been fine    41 

I were not so tired that day. It also didn’t    42  that the route was pretty rough（凹凸不平的）and dark. But I walked forward with   43  , with the promise of a night’s rest    44  me on. After walking for a few minutes, a car   45  in front of me. The driver, who looked   46 , asked where I was headed. “Not many people walk through here,” he said, and   47   me a ride. He really    48  me up as he went out of his way to get me to my apartment.

What was more   49  , however, was the story behind it. During the ride, the driver told me that when he saw me walking, it made him think of his   50  who used to walk to work by the

  51  road and though he often saw his uncle on the way, he had    52  offered a ride as he was headed in a different direction.    53  his uncle passed away because of an illness, and until today he still feels   54  for not being kinder to his uncle. So when he    55  me walking that night, he just had to stop and help.