When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch(接球) with me. I wasn’t very good at it,   16   we would play anyway. He was always telling me “Keep your eye on the ball” as I would not be able to catch even the   17   of throws.

As I got   18  , we didn’t play catch as much. If I had a problem and would go to my father to ask for his   19  , he would try to   20   with me and say “Keep your eye on the ball”. We would both laugh   21   usually that advice was not useful to the problem, but he would try to make me   22  .

My father became   23   in 1995 when I was 23. There weren’t any more conversations, as he suffered from a stroke(中风).   24   could not speak. He could only give   25   words, which were sometimes hard to understand. I seemed to be pretty good at   26   his lips(唇) after a while, even better than the   27   who were caring for him there.

During one of our last conversations, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my boyfriend.   28  , I could read his lips: “Keep your eye on the ball.” We both smiled.

That was the last time I saw my father   29   he passed away.

Sometimes, all these years later, when I get in trouble, I just   30   myself “Keep your eye on the ball”.

1.A. so                            B. and                                    C. but                                   D. or

2.A. fastest                          B. easiest                             C. slowest                            D. highest

3.A. taller                            B. heavier                            C. younger                          D. older

4.A. words                           B. advice                    C. answer                            D. thought

5.A. joke                     B. play                                  C. discuss                             D. stay

6.A. because             B. when                               C. since                                D. though

7.A. cry                       B. sad                                   C. shout                               D. smile

8.A. tired                             B. ill                                      C. angry                               D. free

9.A. We                      B. I                               C. He                                    D. They

10.A. throat                        B. finger                     C. body                                D. mouth

11.A. feeling                       B. reading                            C. hearing                            D. keeping

12.A. children           B. nurses                             C. parents                            D. friends

13.A. However                   B. Therefore                       C. Once again            D. Many times

14.A. after                           B. before                             C. as                                      D. until

15.A. comfort            B. believe                            C. tell                                    D. enjoy

There are many kinds of friends. Some are always 1 you, but don't understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but understand you. Many people will step in your life, but only 2 friends leave footprints (脚印).

  I shall always recall (回忆) the autumn and the girl with the 3 . She will always bring back the friendship between us. I know she will always be my best friend.

  It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves 4 on the cool 5 . In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, 6 to the sound of them.

  Autumn is a 7 season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me 8 . But one day, the sound of a violin 9 into my ears like a stream (小溪) flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was 10 in playing her violin.

  I had 11 seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music,① I didn't know that I had been 12 there for so long but my existence (存在) did not seem to disturb her.

  Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building 13 I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became 14 . 15 we didn't know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believe she also loved me.

  Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly 16 . To my astonishment (惊讶), the girl came over to me.

  “You must like violin.” she said.

  “Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

  Suddenly, a 17 expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

  “I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that 18 me.” she said.

  “In fact, it was your playing 19 gave me a meaningful autumn,②” I answered, “Let's be friends.”

  The girl smiled, and so did I.

  I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure (身影) of the girl. She is like a 20 —so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light③ that it makes the autumn beautiful.

  根据文章内容，选择正确答案：

A. with         B. for           C. against        D. to

A. good         B. true          C. new            D. old

A. sound        B. song          C. play           D. violin

A. shaking      B. hanging       C. falling        D. floating

A. wind         B. snow          C. air            D. rain

A. watching     B. listening     C. seeing         D. hearing

A. lively       B. lovely        C. harvest        D. lonely

A. up           B. off           C. down           D. over

A. flowed       B. grew          C. entered        D. ran

A. lost        B. active        C. busy           D. interested

A. once        B. never         C. often          D. usually

A. waiting     B. stopping      C. standing       D. hearing

A. because     B. so            C. when           D. but

A. interesting B. moving        C. encouraging    D. exciting

A. But         B. However       C. Even           D. Though

A. stopped     B. began         C. gone           D. changed

A. happy       B. sad           C. strange        D. surprised

A. surprised   B. excited       C. encouraged     D. interested

A. that        B. which         C. it             D. who

A. song        B. dream         C. fire           D. sister

When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said” the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.

Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at and time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1.How do you understand ‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate,…’？

2.Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?

3.Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?

a. Point 1.  b. Point2.  c. Point3.  d. Point 4.  e. Point 5.

4.It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through      .

5.The best heading for the passage is      .

We didn’t know where it was ________ the other tourists in our group stayed for the night until the tsunami was over.

A.that            B.which         C.when          D.why ?

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My son Joey was born with clubfeet （畸形足）. The doctors told us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally   36   would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in   37  . By the time he was eight, you   38   he had a problem when you saw him walk.

The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would

  39  and play, too. We   40   told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to   41   as wall as the other children. So he didn’t know.

In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross country  42  . Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others perhaps he   43  that the abilities that seemed to come   44   to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the  45

team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential （可能性）to    46  points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never   47   the team, so he didn’t know.

He   48   to run four to five miles a day, every day even the day he had a 103 degree fever. I was   49  , so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt, “  50  ,” he said．He had two more miles to go. The sweat   51     his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he   52    straight ahead and kept running.. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a 103 degree fever. So he didn’t know.

Two weeks later, the name of the team runners were    53   . Joey was number six on the  list. Joey had made the team. He was only in seventh the other six team members were all   54  .

We never told him he shouldn’t   55   to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it, so he didn’t know. He just did it.

36．A．however         B．or    C．but         D．though 

37．A．attention        B．development  C．circulation      D．treatment

38．A．wouldn’t know B．didn’t imagine       C．shouldn’t find        D．couldn’t identify

39．A．keep just out  B．jump right in         C．stand only behind    D．sit still away

40．A．never      B．generally        C．often       D．sincerely

41．A．live        B．jump       C．run         D．hope

42．A．competition    B．class       C．game      D．team

43．A．meant     B．sensed     C．showed  D．noticed

44．A．eventually      B．suddenly        C．safely      D．naturally

45．A．entire      B．same       C．other       D．all

46．A．score      B．collect     C．pay         D．catch

47．A．join        B．enter       C．make      D．keep

48．A．liked       B．continued       C．hoped     D．aimed

49．A．moved    B．excited    C．encouraged     D．worried

50．A．Never mind    B．Okay      C．Don’t worry  D．Sorry

51．A．ran down       B．came from      C．dropped off    D．came down

52．A．stood      B．looked    C．faced      D．glanced

53．A．made      B．called      C．designed         D．checked

54．A．sixth-graders         B．seventh-graders      C．eighth-graders        D．fifth-graders

55．A．expect     B．fight       C．avoid      D．refuse