"How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years?" It took me almost 20 years to have the　　1　　to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first 　 2　 drinking, the whole family was on　　3　 and needles every time he got into a 　 4　 that, in the past, would have 　 5　 him drinking again. For a few years we were 　 6　 to bring it up 　 7　 that the drinking would begin again.

"I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day." That was Dad's　　8　 to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The words were a constant (经常的)　 9　 to me that things were　　10　 so hard that I could not deal with them," Dad said. Then he 　 11　 the poem with me. The poem's 　 12　 , yet profound(深刻的)words immediately became 　 13　 of my daily routine(日常事务) as well.

About a month after this talk with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one 　 14　 for each day of the year.

It has been my experience that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own 　 15　 .

I 　 16　 opened the book to November 10 to see 　 17　 words of wisdom this book had in store for me. The moment I glanced at the page, tears of　　18　 and appreciation　　19　 down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had 　 20　 my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静) Prayer:God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

1. A. chance B. courage C. ability D. right

2. A. gave up B. took up C. started D. continued

3. A. thread B. duty C. fire D. pins

4. A. situation B. habit C. condition D. house

5. A. stopped B. made C. started D. asked

6. A. sure B. uncertain C. afraid D. eager

7. A. on condition B. for fear C. in case D. providing

8. A. reply B. words C. excuse D. explanation

9. A. fear B. imagination C. thought D. reminder

10. A. never B. seldom C. always D. ever

11. A. discussed B. shared C. offered D. talked

12. A. simple B. long C. wonderful D. boring

13. A. all B. that C. any D. part

14. A. listed B. included C. read D. said

15. A. character B. birthday C. qualities D. favorites

16. A. doubtfully B. carefully C. happily D. hurriedly

17. A. where B. whether C. what D. how

18. A. disbelief B. anger C. sorrow D. regret

19. A. hung B. pulled C. rolled D. pushed

20. A. troubled B. disturbed C. pleased D. helped

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　Mr and Mrs Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year, They 　1　their car outside and went in. Mr Moore had never got drunk (醉) before, so he was 　2 　not to drink too much, 　3 　his friends asked him to drink more 　4 　.

　During the party, Mrs Moore found that she had 　5 　to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the car and 　6 　it for her. He 　7 　so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn (喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought 　8 　might be in need of help and went over to the car with the 　9 　. He found a small black bear sitting in the driving seat and blowing the horn.

　When Mr Moore 　10　the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to 　11　that his story was 　12　, he found that the car with the 　13　in it had gone. There were so many 　14　about Mr Moore's black bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement (广告） in the newspaper; “If any one saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel 　15　the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”

　Two days later 　16　Mrs Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet (宠物) bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that　17　he had blown the horn.

　Mrs Richards did not 　18　to think there was anything 　19　 about that. “Our bear likes blowing car horns,” she said, “and we don't 　20 　when we are not driving the car.”

　　　Can you imagine(想象)what life would be 　21　if there were no telephone? You could not call on your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire broke out in your house, you could not call the fire department (救火队). If somebody were sick ,you couldn't call a doctor.

　　　In our daily (日常) life we need to talk with each other. We do this 　22　by speaking to others and listening to what they have to say to us, and when we are close to them we can do this very easily. But, our voices will not travel very far even when we 　23　, and it is thanks to the invention of the telephone that we are able to talk with one another and ask something when we are in different places. We can hear each other as clearly 　24　we were in the same room.

　　　Alexander Graham Bell made this possible. He spent all his spare time experimenting (实验)。 He worded so hard in his research that he had 　25 　time to make money (挣钱) and was very poor at one time.

　 The May Day holiday gives Chinese families a good chance to travel and leave behind the daily routine（日常琐事）.

　 When the seven-day vacation was first put in place in 2000, groups of Chinese tourists went to the mountains “to see temples and get off buses to take photos”. However, as Chinese travellers diversified（使多样化） their interests, more and more people decided to travel on their own.

　 Millions of families with their own cars prefer to travel by car.

　 Cui Xiaotang, a career（职业） woman, and her two friends left from Beijing Saturday in a car. They did not have a firm destination but drove southwards. “Maybe when there is no road for cars, we will stop and stay one night in a local farmer’s house,” Cui said excitedly about her plan.

　 Exchanges between north and south and between cities and rural areas are two trends emerging（出现） during the holiday.

　 Northerners can enjoy the beauty of southern rivers, while southerners can travel to cooler parts of the country.

　 While millions of travellers made their way to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, people there decided to go somewhere else.

　 A large number of tourists join groups with plans to travel abroad. Every year, those groups go farther and farther away. There are also those, however, who choose to stay where they are.

　 Sun Bin, a graduate student representing a large number of “stayers”, chose the simplest way to avoid tourist crowds during the holiday. “I’d rather stay in the Beijing Library for the seven days to read National Geographic magazine. I have the whole world in my mind but avoid queuing up in the airport,” he said.

1. More and more people would like to travel on their own, because ______.

　　 A. they have more money

　　 B. they have their own cars

　　 C. they don’t like traveling with strangers

　 D. they have their own interests

2. The underlined word “stayers” refers to those who ______.

　　 A. choose to stay where they are

　　 B. choose to stay in the library

　　 C. go home during the holiday

　　 D. stay in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou

3. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?

　　 A. Some people would like to travel abroad during the May Day holiday.

　　 B. Some people would like to take adventure travel.

　　 C. People with their own cars would like to travelon their own.

　　 D. Some people would like to go to rural areas to have a taste of country lifestyle.

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