A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived.

One  1 they arrived to find the schoolhouse was on fire. They dragged(拖) the senseless(无意识的) little boy out of the burning building more dead than alive. The doctor told his mother that her son would surely  2  .

But the brave boy didn’t want to die. He made up his  3 that he would survive somehow, and to the amazement of the doctor, he did survive. When the  4 was past, the mother was told that he would be a lifetime cripple(跛子) with no  5  of the lower part of his body at all.

Once more, the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a  6  . He would walk. But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor(运动神经的) ability. His thin legs were all but lifeless.

Finally he returned from the  7  . Every day his mother would massages(按摩) his little  8 , but there was no feeling. Yet his  9  that he would walk was as strong as ever.

One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the  10 to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. He pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. He walked his way to the white   11 .With great  12 , he raised himself up on the fence(篱笆) . Then, he began dragging himself along the fence and  13  that he would walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence.  14  through his daily massages and his iron determination, he did  15 the ability to stand up, then to walk by himself and then to run. This determined young man, Dr Glenn Cunningham, ran the world’s fastest mile!

1.                A．afternoon       B．evening         C．noon D．morning

2.                A．die            B．survive         C．fail  D．recover

3.                A．mind           B．heart           C．idea D．view

4.                A．disease         B．disaster         C．danger   D．failure

5.                A．effect          B．use            C．good D．work

6.                A．cripple         B．patient         C．trouble   D．winner

7.                A．school         B．home          C．factory   D．hospital

8.                A．hands          B．legs            C．arms D．feet

9.                A．decision        B．dream          C．promise  D．determination

10.               A．street          B．school         C．yard  D．shop

11.               A．fence          B．wall           C．houses    D．door

12.               A．job            B．time           C．effort D．success

13.               A．promised       B．decided        C．insisted   D．predicted

14.               A．Frankly         B．Finally          C．Actually   D．Secondly

15.               A．build          B．improve        C．choose    D．develop

A car drew up outside the Swan Hotel and a young man got out．Pausing only for a moment to see that he had come to the right place，he went into the hotel and rang the bell on the counter of the bar．

Mrs．Crump，the landlady，who was busy in the kitchen at the time，hurried out，wiping her hands．The young man raised his hat．

“Excuse me，”he said．“I’m looking for my uncle，Mr．White．I believe he is staying here．”

“He was staying here．”Mrs．Crump corrected him．“But I’m afraid that he went back to London yesterday．”

“Oh，dear，”said the young man，looking disappointed．“I understood that he was going to stay here until the end of the month．At least that is what his servant told me when I rang up his house．”

“Quite right，”said Mrs，Cramp．“He planned to stay here the whole of July，as he always does． But yesterday he got a telegram to say that his relative was ill．So he caught the train back to London immediately．”

“I wish he had let me know, ”The young man said．“I wrote him a letter saying that I was coming．I’ve had all this trouble for nothing．Well，since he isn’t here，there’s no point in waiting．”

He thanked Mrs．Grump and went out．Mrs．Grump went to the window and watched him drive off．When his car was out of sight，she called out：“You can come out now, Mr．White. He’s gone．”

Mr．White came out of the kitchen，where he had been waiting．

“Many thanks，Mrs．Grump，”he said，laughing，“you did that very well．These nephews of mine never gave me any peace．That young man is the worst of them all．As you see，when he needs money, he even follows me into the country．Well，perhaps next time he won’t warn me by writing a letter!”

1.This story is about a man         ．

2.When his nephew came to the hotel，Mr．White            ．

3.Mr. White didn’t like his nephews because         ．

Last week, I took a sales class for female business owners. The     36   thing the instructor did was ask if anyone had been the victim of a     37   sales experience. Every person in the room    38   her hand.

When she knew details, we learned that the     39   situations had one thing in common. It     40   that whenever a class member had a bad sales experience, it involved the     41   promising something he wouldn’t or couldn’t deliver.

The example I     42  with the class was a current one. I bought a summer membership at our community pool     43   because it advertised a lovely baby pool to which I could escape with my active one and four year-olds. However, every time I’ve used the pool this summer, the baby area has been     44   . Too much chlorine（氯气）,    45   one manager.

I’m sure the pool director was very apologetic that his     46   had been inconvenienced, and that’s nice, but the     47   is that I did not get what I paid for. When the baby pool was closed, I had to swim with my     48   in the adult pool, which did not     49   me the control I wanted and as such, was quite stressful. I would have rather stayed home.

The pool has     50  a customer. I will not be buying a pass next summer.

In work and in life, it is really important not to     51   something you can’t deliver, because at best, it will improve your   52    . At worse, you could lose your job.    53   , before you assure a co-worker or customer that you can get something done, make sure that your boss or someone higher-up isn’t going to step in and force you to     54   your plan. You are not God, so don’t lead people to believe that you     55  the universe.

1.                A．last            B．first            C．latest D．only

2.                A．good           B．miserable       C．bad  D．wonderful

3.                A．raised          B．rose           C．arose D．aroused

4.                A．negative        B．supportive      C．positive   D．pessimistic

5.                A．appeared       B．noticed         C．seemed  D．presented

6.                A．seller          B．buyer          C．shopper  D．assistant

7.                A．told           B．shared         C．held D．spoke

8.                A．roughly         B．correctly        C．naturally  D．precisely

9.                A．closed         B．turned         C．switched  D．forbidden

10.               A．announced      B．claimed        C．declared  D．exclaimed

11.               A．colleagues      B．fellows         C．customers D．children

12.               A．point          B．subject         C．sense D．truth

13.               A．friends         B．students        C．kids  D．cousins

14.               A．supply         B．afford          C．provide   D．undertake

15.               A．gained         B．acquired        C．hurt  D．lost

16.               A．promise        B．serve          C．accommodate  D．explain

17.               A．mood          B．relationships     C．feelings   D．learning

18.               A．However       B．Instead         C．Therefore D．Besides

19.               A．abandon        B．continue        C．change    D．conduct

20.               A．command       B．demand        C．contain    D．control

Work is a part of living —my grandparents understood that. They lived and worked on a farm that has been in my family for 150 years. They raised chickens for eggs , pigs and cattle for meat . Cows were kept for milk and the cream, from which Grandma made butter and cheese. What little yard they had became a garden.

The Depression, therefore, didn’t make much change in their lives. But it did bring an unending flow of men out of work, drifting from job to job, to the farm. The first to show up at the door of the kitchen was a man in rags. He took off his hat and quietly explained that he hadn’t eaten for a while. Grandpa stood watching him a bit , then said , “There’s a stack of firewood against the fence behind the barn (谷仓). I’ve been needing to get it moved to the other side of the fence . You have just about enough time to finish the job before lunch .”

Grandma said a surprising thing happened. The man got a shine in his eyes and he hurried to the barn at once. She set another place at the table and made an apple pie. During lunch, the stranger didn’t say much, but when he left, his shoulders had straightened. “Nothing ruins a man like losing his self-respect,” Grandpa later told me.

Soon after, another man showed up asking for a meal. This one was dressed in a suit and carried a small old suitcase. Grandpa came out when he heard voices. He looked at the man and then offered a handshake.” There is a stack of firewood along the fence down behind the barn I’ve been meaning to get it moved. It’d sure be a help to me . And we’d be pleased to have you stay for lunch.” The fellow set his suitcase aside and neatly laid his coat on top. Then he set off to work.

Grandma says she doesn’t remember how many strangers they shared a meal with during those Depression days-or how many times that stack of wood got moved.

1.When he was asked to move a stack of firewood, the first man who asked for a meal got a shine in his eyes for he was glad that         .

2.The writer’s grandfather asked those jobless men to move the stack of firewood because    ____ .

3.The writer’s grandfather was all of the following but        .

4.The best title for the story would be        .

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   Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952. He was in his first school play when he was eight and he started  16 (act) in TV shows and films while he was still in college. He made many successful films and TV shows but he is  17 (famous) for his Superman films.

   Unfortunately, disaster came in 1995  18  he fell from his horse and broke his back. The doctors did not expect him to live.  19 , he made  20 (amaze) progress. At first, he couldn’t breathe  21  a machine, but he learnt to breathe on his own. He would never walk again but he started a new life with great  22 (courageous).

   The second year after his accident, Christopher returned to film making. He also raised a lot of money to promote medical research into back injuries. He made speeches all over the USA about   23  experiences. This not only drew public attention  24  research into back injuries but also encouraged a lot of people  25 (live) with all kinds of problems.