短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Dear Mum and Dad,

1.The college entrance examination is around the _____,

2.I wish I could have a heart-to-heart talk with you. T______ to

3.your _____(鼓励) and unselfish love, I have been

4._____ great progress in my studies. It will be less than

5.three weeks before I take the exam, _____ makes me under

great pressure. Therefore, good studying conditions and timely

6.help will _____ me a lot of good.

My dream is the very one you always have. In order to make full

7.use of the time, I decided to make a few _____ (详细的) study plan

8.for the exam. What’s _____, it’s also necessary that I do some

9.p_____ exercise once in a while so that I can keep fit.

10.All in all, I’m quite _____ (自信)of my future life and I do wish

you good health and a happy life.

(2013·高考辽宁卷)________everyone here，I wish you a pleasant journey back to your country.

A．By means of?? B．On behalf of

C．In search of? D．For fear of

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I can’t count the times I called my sister and said, “____2____” She would gasp and stammer(结结巴巴): “I can’t. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.” And my personal favorite response: “It’s just Monday.” She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.

___3__The days get shorter, and the list of promise made to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we are awoken, and all having to show for our lives is repetition of “ I’m going to”, “ I plan on” and “someday, when things are settled down a bit.”

When anyone calls my “seize the moment” friend, she is open to adventure and available for trip. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious.___4___My lips have not touched ice cream for 10 years. I love ice cream. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

___5___Do something you want to….., not something on your SHOULD DO LIST.

A．Now go on and have a nice day.

B．Just possible, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

C．Life has a way of going faster as we get older.

D．So I won’t feel sorry because I have changed my attitude to life.

E. How about going to lunch in half an hour?

F. She used to promise to do something instead of doing it right away.

G. You talk with her for a while and you’re ready to change your attitude to life.

Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then . It wasn’t easy getting hired. I had to fight my way in to a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found , you were in .

Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I struck with it.

Instead, I had made a decision to leave.

I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk, ” I began awkwardly. “I came to the Globe when I was twenty —four. Now I’m forty . There’s a lot I want to do in life. I’m resigning. ”

“To another paper? ” he asked.

I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything, not trusting myself just then.

I handed him a letter that explain everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe had taught me in a thousand ways. That we were at a rare turning point in history, I wanted to be directly engaged in the change.

“I am glad for you , ” he said , quite out of my expectation. “ I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can do deal with. But much of it we can’t ,” he went on. “I wish you all the luck in the world, ”be concluded. “And if it doesn’t work out , remember ,your star is always high here.”

Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody—even though I’d be risking all on an unfamiliar venture : all the financial security I had carefully built up.

Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property.

I’m resigning, Bill, ” I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry of dismayed either. After a pause, he said, “Golly, I wish I were in your shoes.”

From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous         .

       A．newspaper              B．magazine         C．temple             D．church

If the writer stayed with the globe,         .

       A．he would be able to realize his lifetime dreams

       B．he would let his long favourite dreams fade away

       C．he would never have to worry about his future life

       D．he would never be allowed to develop his ambitions

The writer wanted to resign because     .

       A．he had serious trouble with his boss

       B．he got underpaid at his job for the Globe

       C．he wanted to work in the new media industry

       D．he had found a better paid job in a publishing house

By “I wish I were in your shoes. ”(in the last paragraph), Bill Taylor meant that     . A．the writer was to fail                                   B．the writer was stupid

       C．he would do the same if possible           D．he would reject the writer’s request