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We’ve all heard the phrase “love is patient”, but one couple in
In 1941, Willard Mason and Llah Ost, both senior 2 students, became engaged to be married and began planning their lives together. But Willard moved away to work at Willow Run Bomber Plant, where he met and fell in love with a woman named Helvi. He broke off his long distance engagement to Llah and married Helvi in 1942. Llah later found love with someone else. Both had happy marriages and raised families.
Then, in 2003, Helvi died. A year later, Willard found himself back in his hometown, where by chance, he ran into Llah’s brother. He informed Willard of the death of Llah’s husband, and encouraged him to call her.
After that first phone call, the couple began dating. Willard made the drive from his home near Houghton Lake to Llah’s home in
“We get along perfectly,” Willard told AZ Central on Monday. “We’ve never had an argument, she’s a great cook, and she takes care of me.”
Although both Willard and Llah are saddened by the 62 years they spent without each other, neither seem to have any regrets. Willard told AZ Central, “You don’t know how our lives might have turned out if we’d gotten married in 1941, but now she has a wonderful family, and so do I.”
56. What does the writer probably mean by saying the phrase “love is patient”?
A. To win love needs a good-natured tolerance(宽容) of waiting.
B. Love can make someone ill in hospital.
C. Love can also help one set a world record.
D. To win love needs a whole new level of cooking skill
57. What caused the failure of Willard and Llah’s engagement?
A. Their unhappy company with each other.
B. Llah’s new love with someone else.
C. Their being far away from each other.
D. Willard’s escape from his family.
58. After Willard’s wife died, he came back to his hometown _______ there.
A. in order to date with Llah
B. and got informed of Llah’s husband’s death
C. to ask Llah to move in with him
D. and was told that he needed a new pacemaker
59. Which of the following should be the best title for the passage?
A. A Car Accident Brought about Reunion
B. Second Marriage and Second Happiness
C. No Argument in a Reunited Family
D. Reunited after 62 Years.
查看习题详情和答案>>When I was about 12，I had an enemy，a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings．
Week by week her list grew：I was very thin；I wasn’t a good student；I talked too much；1 was too proud，and so on．I tried to bear all this as long as I could．At last，I became very angry．I ran to my Daddy with tears in my eyes．
He listened to me quietly，then he asked，“Are the things she says true or not? Janet，didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well，you now have that girl’s opinion．Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true．Pay no attention to the other things she said．”
I did as he told me．To my great surprise，I discovered that about half the things were true．Some of them I couldn’t change（1ike being very thin），but a good number I could and suddenly I wanted to change．For the first time I got a fairly clear picture of myself．
I brought the list back to Daddy．He refused to take it．“That’s just for you，”he said．“You know better than anyone，the truth about yourself．But you have to learn to listen，not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt．When something said about you is true，you’ll find it will be of help to you．Our world is full of people who think they know your duty．Don’t shut your ears．Listen to them all，but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do．”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments．In my life，I've never had a better piece of advice．
1．Which do you think would be a best title for this passage?
A．Not an Enemy，but a Best Friend
B．the Best Advice I've Ever Had
C．My Father
D．My Childhood
2．What does“Week by week her list grew”mean?
A．Week by week，my shortcomings grew more serious．
B．She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer．
C．I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on．
D．Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me．
3．Why did her father listen to her quietly?
A．Because he believed that what his daughter’s “enemy”said was mostly true．
B．Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while．
C．Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment．
D．Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth．
4．What did the father do after he had heard his daughter’s complaint?
A．He told her not to Pay any attention to what her“enemy”had said．
B．He criticized her and told her to overcome her shortcomings．
C．He told her to write down all that her“enemy”had said about her and pay attention only to the things that were true．
D．He refused to take the list and have a look at it．
查看习题详情和答案>>I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He he was racing those cars around a great track, which in was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this？” to the Oscar.
“Sure,” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother . “Put that back immediately！”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ？Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the of the future better than the history of the past，” said Thomas Jefferson. I . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
1.A.discovered B. inferred C. preferred D. worried
2.A.spend B. live C. affect D. enjoy
3.A.struggle B. work C. succeed D. concentrate
4.A.story B. fact C. idea D. figure
5.A.wrote B. told C. knew D. heard
6.A.saw B. recognized C. met D. visited
7.A.careful B. small C. lonely D. clever
8.A.pretended B. believed C. insisted D. suggested
9.A.fact B. case C. turn D. need
10.A.cared B. asked C. won D. looked
11.A.act B. leave C. play D. wait
12.A.running B. getting C. pointing D. shouting
13.A.shouted B. noticed C. suffered D. breathed
14.A.selling B. keeping C. earning D. sharing
15.A.special B. comfortable C. expensive D. necessary
16.A.rest B. cheat C. stop D. sit
17.A.difficulties B. events C. failures D. achievements
18.A.time B. future C. body D. brain
19.A.idea B. meaning C. dreams D. thoughts
20.A.obey B. permit C. wish D. agree
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My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. At this rate he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and pleaded for help.“
Please God, I can’t do anything more for my son. I’m at the end of my rope. I’m
giving the whole thing up to you.” I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” Before he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It’s out of my hands.” For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, “Thank you for your time”, and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I nodded. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That’s when I knew I had to make you proud.”
By saying “Karl became withdrawn”, the author means that the boy changed entirely and ______.
A. preferred to stay alone at home B. lost interest in his studies
C. refused to talk to others D. began to dislike his mother
There was silence on the other end of the line because______.
A. the speaker was too moved to say anything to the mother
B. the speaker waited for the mother to finish speaking
C. the speaker didn’t want the mother to recognize his voice
D. the speaker was unable to interrupt the mother
The sentence “he even made the honor roll means that______”.
A. he was even on the list to be praised at the parent-teacher meeting
B. he was even on the list of students who made progress in grades
C. he was even on the list of students who had turned themselves around
D. he was even on the list of the best students at school
What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Children in single-parent families often have mental problems.
B. Mother’s love plays an important role in teenagers’ life.
C. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers.
D. School education doesn’t work without full support from parents.
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