Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett’s jeans and full of burn holes.

Tired and defeated,  I   36    to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had  37   . He often got almost everything in the house out of    38   . Many windows in our house needed repair due to his breaking   39   to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the emotional   40    Brett had done to our once quiet home.

Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett as  41   as possible, but inside I was shouting. “I don’t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can’t   42  him!” Having wiped my tears, I continued   43   him as before.

When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall(少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping   44  teens.

At the   45   ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had   46   the most to him or her. Brett spoke   47   to his parents and then spoke to me, “You did so much. You were always there, no matter   48   . My mom and dad, I was their kid. But you,   49    troubled enough by me, always   50   me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it.”   51   , I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me   52    .

At that moment, tears   53   in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for   54  . Although I had struggled with silent  55   toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them.

1.A. sat        B. sank             C. bent             D. dropped

2.A. ruined         B. lost             C. torn             D. broken

3.A. danger         B. place            C. trouble          D. order

4. A. off           B. in                   C. up               D. away

5.A. pain           B. injury               C. damage           D. harm

6. A. patiently     B. willingly        C. strictly         D. rudely

7.A. forgive   B. educate          C. stand            D. control

8.A. parenting      B. pardoning       C. comforting       D. feeding

9.A. lazy           B. troublesome      C. disappointing   D. careless

10.A. opening       B. official         C. victory          D. graduation

11.A. afforded      B. meant            C. supplied         D. owed

12.A. lovingly      B. sadly            C. proudly          D. nervously

13.A. where         B. how              C. what             D. who

14.A. unless       B. although         C. because          D. when

15.A. cost          B. lent             C. taught               D. showed

16.A. Astonished   B. Puzzled           C. Encouraged       D. Interested

17.A. surely       B. roughly          C. tightly          D. fiercely

18.A. fell          B. flowed           C. moved        D. gathered

19. A. pity         B. happiness       C. luck             D. success

20.A. love          B. anxiety          C. anger            D. care

It was________ his car after drinking that resulted in the terrible accident doing much damage to his car.

A．due to his driving      B. his losing control of  

C．because he drove        D. to lose his control of

Jack has had no______ experience of this kind of job，but he got the job offer just due to his honesty.

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请将下列各小题中的人物与A-F中的工作匹配起来。

A. Employer: an International School in Beijing

Position: Administrative Assistant

Requirements:

1. Bachelor Degree or above majoring in English; A high-level of Chinese-English and English-Chinese oral and written proficiency

 Computer proficiency (i.e.: Word, Excel)

 Minimum 2 years relevant experience as a professional translator or  

administrative assistant

B. Employer: An International Foreign Trade Company in Shenzhen 

Position: foreign trade clerk (males only)

Requirements:

Be familiar with foreign trade business processes, work experience

preferred

Good at speaking, reading and writing in English

Travelling often both at home and abroad

4.  Strong business sense and negotiation skills

C. Employer: Good Day travel Agency in Guangzhou

Position: Tour Guides

Requirements:

1. Aged less than 30

2. Easygoing, open-minded, willing to meet and good at getting along with people of different kinds, especially foreigners

3. Good at spoken English, acquisition of one more foreign language preferred

4. Fit, adaptable enough for frequent travelling abroad

D. Employer: Bright Foreign Languages School

Position: English Teachers

Requirements:

 College graduates with at least Bachelor degree in English; and those from  

teaching universities are preferred

 Enthusiastic about teaching and have a will for life-long devotion to

education

 Working in the suburban Senior campus. Males preferred

E. Shanghai Daily

Position: English editors

Requirements:

1. A recognized degree in English or a related discipline

2. Excellent writing skills, preferably with editing/journalism experience

3. Teaching or training experience in English or related subjects

Duran Education Group

Position: Teachers

Requirements:

 Native English speakers

 At least 1 year’s teaching experience in college; major in various subjects like  

math, accounting, physics, economy, English etc

 Teaching in the branches of this group in Asia

 Comfortable with living in foreign cultures for a long time.

Mary, an English major, will graduate from college this July. As the chairman of the Students Union, she is thought highly of as good leadership, outgoing, extraverted. She herself looks forward to a job that allows her to travel as much as possible around the world, instead of a sedentary job in the office.

Sarah majored in English and American Literature in a college in Texas and continued to teach there after graduation. She is quite curious about Chinese culture and desires to have a profound understanding of it by staying there for a long time. At the same time, however, loss of income is one concern that holds her back from making her dream come true.

Tim didn’t go to college. He started as an office clerk in a trade company and later rose to get involved in the business due to his hard work and intelligence. He also has taken part-time course of English to improve his competence. Now, he is seeking to make a change in a large-scale company.

Helen, a quiet girl, has been an English-Chinese translator for 3 years. Now tired of spending the whole day translating documents in the office, she wants a new job that involves more responsibilities in addition to written translation.

Jeff is about to graduate with a double degree in Journalism and English. He has taken a 3-month internship in a local newspaper, which arouses his strong interest in working with press. Of course, the ideal job is one that can also use his English proficiency to the full advantage. 

Pierre is a 25-year-old penguin at the California Academy of Sciences. Due to his old age, he was going bald, which made him feel too cold to swim in the pool. Therefore, biologists at the academy had a wetsuit created for this penguin to help him get back in the swimming pool.

Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, penguins depend on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling to jump into the swimming pool and ended up trembling on the side of the pool while his 19 peers played in the water.

"He was cold; he would shake," said Pam Schaller, a senior biologist. Schaller first tried a heat lamp to keep Pierre warm. Then she got another idea: if wetsuits keep humans warm in the cold Pacific, why not make one for Pierre?

Schaller designed the suit, which covered Pierre’s body and had small openings for his flippers.

"I would walk behind him and look at where there were any gaps, and cut and refit and cut and refit until it looked like it was extremely suitable," she said.

One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new suit, but in fact, they accepted his new look. He swam freely and got along with others well, although he was the only penguin with a black stomach.

Schaller couldn’t say for sure whether the wetsuit allowed Pierre to recover his fine feathers, but "certainly we were able to keep him comfortable during a period of time that would have been very difficult for him to stay comfortable".

Pierre will take off his suit after his new feathers grow back.

Pierre felt too cold to swim in the pool because of _____.

  A. not having a layer of blubber     B. having few feathers due to old age

  C. having no wetsuit              D. others penguins rejecting him

The idea of making a wetsuit for Pierre came from _____.

  A. total invention                 B. the use of wetsuit on humans

  C. the use of heat lamp             D. waterproof feathers

Schaller followed Pierre in order to see _____.

  A. whether other penguins would reject him

  B. if anywhere of wetsuit needed to be cut and refit

  C. if the wetsuit kept warm

  D. whether the wetsuit would keep the feathers from recovering

What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?

  A. feeling scared   B. staying alone   C. shaking with cold  D. keeping warm

The best title of the passage is _____.

  A. Wetsuit for An Old Penguin     B. Old Penguin Getting Bald

  C. Unwilling to Swim            D. Strange Look of Pierre