Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment --- to draw a picture of__21__for which they were thankful.

Most of the class might be__22__economically disadvantaged, but still many would__23__the holiday with turkey and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the__24__of most of her students' art. And they were.

But Douglas made a__25__kind of picture. Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher's true child of misery，__26__ and unhappy. As other children played at breaks, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess at the pain Douglas felt__27__those sad eyes.

Yes, his picture was different. When__28__to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a__29__. Nothing else. Just an empty hand.

His abstract image captured the__30__of his peers. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers__31__turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and__32__people. Still others guessed it was the hand of God, for God feeds us. And so the discussion went－until the teacher__33__forgot the young artist himself.

__34__the children had gone on to other assignments, she__35__at Douglas' desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy looked away and murmured, “It's yours, teacher.”She recalled the__36__she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there, as she had the other students. How__37__had she said, “Take my hand, Douglas, we'll go outside.”Or，“Let me show you how to hold your pencil.”Or，“Let's do this together.”Douglas was most__38__for his teacher's hand. In fact，people__39__not always say “thanks”．But they'll remember the hand that__40__.

Brushing aside a tear, she went on with her work.

21．A. anything     B．something     C．nothing        D．everything

22．A. suggested    B．affected       C．encouraged     D．considered

23．A. celebrate     B．share         C．like           D．avoid

24．A. purposes     B．subjects       C．persons        D．examples

25．A. good        B．encouraging    C．different       D．exciting

26．A. merry       B．naughty       C．weak          D．lively

27．A. behind      B．beside         C．before         D．around

28．A. hoped       B．asked         C．forced         D．persuaded

29．A. gift         B．person         C．hand          D．wonder

30．A. thought      B．description     C．respect        D．imagination

31．A. raise        B．need          C．buy           D．sell

32．A. look at      B．care for        C．take away      D．drive off

33．A. always      B．almost         C．usually        D．therefore

34．A. Before      B．Now that       C．Since          D．When

35．A. stared       B．aimed         C．paused         D．glanced

36．A. chance      B．forms         C．ways           D．times

37．A. seldom      B．often          C．soon           D．much

38．A. thankful     B．calm          C．pleased         D．comfortable

39．A. could       B．must          C．should          D．might

40．A. moves on    B．sticks above    C．reaches out      D．puts out

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项A.B.C.D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my 21  , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I _22  _ told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our _23_  much better than an IQ test. We 24   that Michael’s score must have been a _25  and we should treat him __26___ as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got 27 grades in the school, especially 28 biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael _29_ Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than _30_ . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 31  the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the _  32_ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say _33  , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the _34 _ we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then _35 _ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had _36 _  the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be _37 _ .
Children often do as _38 _ as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, _39_  of them. That is, tell a child he is “ _40_”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.

One rainy night many years ago ,an elderly couple entered the hall of a small hotel in Philadephia. The couple walked to the front desk hoping to get some  21  for the night. “Could you give us a  22  here?” the husband asked.
The waiter, a  23  man with a bright smile, looked at the couple and   24  that there were three meetings in town. “All of our rooms are taken,” the waiter said. “  25  I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you be  26  to sleep in my room? It’s not  27  a suite(套房)，but it will be good enough to make you  28  for the night.”
When then couple refused 39 , he explained, “Don’t worry about me.”So the couple   30  . The next morning, the elderly man said to the waiter, “you are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best   31  in America. Maybe someday I’ll   32  one for you.” The waiter looked at them and  33  .Then they drove away.
Two years passed. The waiter had almost  34  it when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled（提起）that   35  night and enclosed（附上）a round-trip to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit.
The old man 36  knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose  37  him in New York and led him to Fifth Avenue and 34^th Street. He  38   to a great new building there.
“That is the hotel I have just built for you,” said the elderly man.
“You must be 39  ,” the young man said.
“I’m not,” said the elderly man.
The elderly man was William Waldor-Aster, and that 40 building was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young waiter who became its first  manager was George Boldt.

One day my 5-year-old daughter, Mini, ran to the window crying: "A Cabuliwallah(喀布尔商贩)!A Cabuliwallah!" In the street below was Rahmun,a Cabuliwallah passing slowly along. Mini called him  21   ,but when he looked at her she ran away scared.    As time went by, they got to know each other and started to    22   together,

laughing and talking all the way. Rahmun would give her grapes and strawberries,spending the Iittle money he had 23   her. The two often enjoyed jokng together.Rahmun   24   say: "Well, little one, when are you going to the father-in-law's house?"Mini did not understand this and was   25    .

One morning,l saw Rahmun being led away by the police. There was some blood on his clothes .I   26 a neighbor had owed Rahmun money but denied it,and that in the course of the   27   Rahmun had struck him. On a charge of murderous attack, Rahmunwas   28   to prison.

Time passed. Mini grew up and we were making arrangements,for her  29    .I was sitting in my study   30   someone entered. It was Rahmun, his face pale and dirty and I could   31  recognize him! He said all those years ago Mini -had reminded him of his own daughter in Kabul. It was his belief that Mini was   32  the same. He  had   once   33   Mini running to him calling 66 A Cabuliwallah!" and pictured them laughing and talking together.

The two were now reunited. But when he made   34  once more, Mini's face turned red. They could not recover their old  35   .When Rahmun left,  l gave  him a bank note,   36  : "Go back to your own daughter, and may the happiness of your meeting bring good  37   to my child!"

Having made this  present,I had to  38   the electric lights and the music band  I had intended for the wedding and the ladies in the house were   39   .But to me the wedding was all the   40   for the thought that in a distant land a long-lost father met again with his child.

1.                A．loudly          B．proudly         C．seriously  D．firmly

2.                A．work out        B．run out         C．hang out  D．stand out

3.                A．in             B．on             C．to   D．at

4.                A．would          B．should          C．must D．could

5.                A．concerned      B．frightened       C．puzzled   D．ashamed

6.                A．insisted         B．doubted        C．announced    D．heard

7.                A．escape         B．quarrel         C．communication D．bargain

8.                A．punished       B．admitted        C．dropped  D．sentenced

9.                A．wedding        B．birthday        C．graduation D．promotion

10.               A．while          B．after           C．unless D．when

11.               A．nearly         B．actually         C．hardly D．simply

12.               A．even          B．still            C．just   D．yet

13.               A．caught         B．imagined       C．avoided   D．kept

14.               A．jokes          B．comments      C．suggestions D．requests

15.               A．belief          B．impression      C．friendship D．energy

16.               A．reading        B．writing         C．telling D．saying

17.               A．fortune        B．treasure        C．support   D．comfort

18.               A．put off         B．give up         C．turn to    D．care about

19.               A．moved         B．delighted       C．worried   D．disappointed

20.               A．clearer         B．easier          C．brighter   D．quieter

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

John stood up and studied the crowd of people who were making their way through the station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he16 , the girl with a(an) 17 . The story had begun twelve months before in a 18 . Taking a book off a shelf he found himself 19 by the notes penciled in the margin(空白处，白边).The soft handwriting20 a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the 21 owner’s name, Rosanna.

During the next year the two grew to know each other through the 22 . Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. The day finally came for their first 23 —7:00p.m. at the station.

A beautiful young girl in a green suit was coming toward him, whose  24 was (were) tall and slim. John started to walk towards her with delight, entirely forgetting to  25 that she was not wearing a rose. He  26 made one step closer to her, and then saw Rosanna, a short and fat woman well past 40, with a rose on her coat was standing almost directly 27 the girl. The girl in the green suit quickly walked away.

John felt  28 he was split(撕开) in two, and there he stood. His fingers gripped（紧握） the worn leather copy of the  29 that was to identify him to her. He knew this would not be 30  something perhaps even better than love. John felt choked by the bitterness of his 31 . “I’m John, and you must be Rosanna. I am so glad you could meet me, may I take you to 32  ?”

The woman’s face broadened into a big smile. “I don’t know what this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit who just  33 begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said 34 you were to ask me out to dinner, I should tell you that she is waiting for you in the big  35 across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”