There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her    26  , she went to the wise man that is always    27   for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what    28   ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will    29   you with all I have if you can.”
Instead of sending her away or    30   with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥末) seed from a home that has never    31   sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in    32   of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment,    33   at the door, and said in a (n)    34   voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a (n)    35   that I want? It is very important to me.”
   36  , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of    37  . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to    38   all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor,   39   people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She    40   to comfort them till they    41  . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But    42   she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one    43   after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so    44   in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never    45   that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.

On my birthday this year, I decided to do something very different. I had been   36   so much and I wanted to reach out to bring happiness to someone else. So, that   37  , I bought some flowers and went to a hospital. I had no   38   who I was going to present the flowers to, but I would find someone who needed   39  .

I asked the nurses in the hospital, who thought it   40   that I didn’t have anyone in particular to see.   41  , they gave me the room number of a(n)   42   lady, who needed some comfort.

I entered the room with the flowers. The elderly woman looked up, staring at me   43  . She was greatly moved when I told her about my   44   in being there. She was an amputee(被截肢者) and she explained to me that she was very worried   45   they were going to fit her with prosthetic leg(假肢). She knew that as she was getting used to the “  46 ”leg, she would be in  47  .

Later, in the following two hours, we  48  a lot and both felt very happy. I  49   until it was dark. I will always remember how   50   she was the moment she received the flowers from me—a   51  . She called me her angel and said she had no more   52  .

I   53   that story with my neighbor and she   54  that she was going to do the same thing on her birthday. And I hope that she will   55  others to be kind and do the same thing. You never know you might be considered someone’s angel one day.

A. shown            B. told                  C. given                D. bought

A. dusk              B. afternoon          C. hour                 D. night

A. belief            B. sense                C. message            D. idea

A. paying attention to              B. cheering up

         C. looking after                    D. looking down upon

A. strange        B. lucky              C. difficult         D. true

A. Instead        B. Still               C. Besides          D. Therefore

A. young         B. old                C. happy           D. strong

A. angrily        B. suddenly        C. quickly          D. confusedly

A. purpose       B. experience      C. failure            D. trouble

A. unless         B. but                     C. because         D. until

A. thin          B. long                    C. short            D. new

A. surprise       B. pain                    C. need            D. sight

A. talked         B. asked             C. imagined        D. smiled

A. left            B. stood             C. stayed          D. rested

A. painful      B. shy               C. embarrassed   D. moved

A. stranger     B. friend             C. relative       D. doctor

A. fun            B. interest            C. fear                  D. challenge

A. repeated    B. shared             C. said             D. told

A. agreed         B. forgot            C. joked         D. promised

A. force          B. warm                   C. allow         D. encourage

When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was badly crippled (跛脚), and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare, I would be ashamed of the unwanted attention. If ever noticed or bothered, he never let on.
It was difficult to walk together—and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the pace. I will try to follow you.”
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was how he got to work. He went to work sick, and even in bad weather. He almost never missed a day, and would make it to the office even if others could not. It was a matter of pride for him.
When snow or ice was on the ground, it was impossible for him to walk, even with help... Such times my sister or I would pull him through the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance. Once there, he would try to grasp handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice free. In Manhattan the subway station was the basement of his office building, and he would not have to go outside again until we met him in Brooklyn on his way home. w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
When I think of it now, I am surprised at how much courage it must have taken for a grown man to suffer from shame and disability. And I am also surprised at how he did it—without bitterness or complaint.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity, not did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What he looked for in others was a “good heart”, and if he found one, the owner was good enough for him.
Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know exactly what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I don’t have one myself.
He has been away for many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he sensed my reluctance to be seen with him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him how sorry I was, how unworthy I was, how I regretted it. I think of him when I complain about my troubles, when I am envious of another’s good fortune, when I don’t have a “good heart”.
【小题1】How did the man treat his father when he was young?

There has been an outpouring of love for, a 23-year-old disabled woman whose dog was killed in front of her while a groomer(美容师) tried to trim(修剪) its claws.
Calls and e-mails came from as far away as the Upper Peninsula and Arizona as well as Oakland and Macomb counties, offering Laurie Crouch, who uses a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis(硬化症), everything from dogs to money, such as that from Jason Daly of Roseville who said, “ I would like to buy her a new dog.”
A story about the death of Crouch’s pet, Gooch, was printed on the front page of Macomb Daily. Crouch said a man sat on the dog to trim its nails. Gooch died after one claw was trimmed.
Crouch yelled at the groomer to stop when she saw Gooch was struggling to breathe, but she said she was ignored. “If I could have walked, I would have put my hands on her and pulled her off my dog and physically stopped her, but I can’t do that.” Gooch was not a trained service animal, but naturally helped Crouch by picking up things for her.
“This case is absolute animal abuse(虐待),” Larry Obrecht, division manager of the Oakland County Animal Shelter in Auburn Hills, said.
People who read the story contacted Oakland Press to offer help. A message, from Rebecca Amett of Giggles N Wiggles Puppy Rescue, in Roseville, said, “We have puppies to donate … and want to help the young woman who lost her service dog.”
“When Gooch was with me, I was happy,” Crouch said, “I think I can be happy again but no animal can replace Gooch. There’s never going to be another Gooch out there but I think I will find a dog that can bring me joy again.”
【小题1】What does the passage mainly tell us?

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。
"A parcel arrived for you today," my father told me, as we were driving home from work．"It's quite big．" "Oh, really?" I wondered out loud．"Have you   36  anything? Maybe from Amazon or eBay or something…?" my father continued．"No, Dad．I'm  37 only one thing, but that should arrive in a（n）   38  ．"
On Sunday, I will participate in a（n）   39  activity with some friends,' and．I had asked Bluebell if she could send me some of her homemade smile cards to  40  on the day．Since smile cards would have fit into an envelope,'! couldn't imagine what else could be in the  41 I became increasingly  42 as we continued to drive home．As soon as we arrived, I  43 to open the package．It had a neat, hand-written label （标签）on it．"There might be something easy to  44 inside," my father said, as he handed me some scissors．"Be careful when you open it．"
The package was filled with all sorts of kindness   45  I First, some beautiful colorful posters with kindness ideas and   46  fell onto the floor．There were also loads of wrist bands （护腕）, which I will   47  at our kindness activity．   48  , there were three envelopes in the package——two of them had the most cleanly and neatly   49  smile cards, and the third had a wonderful card inside, which   50  , "Thank you very much for your kindness．．．loads of love, Bluebell．"
"This is really   51 ," my father said．My mother and sister enjoyed the package as well．Bluebell put ．the biggest  52  on all of our faces! When I had asked her for some of her homemade smile cards to   53  some kindness during our activity, I never expected to 54  such a wonderful package filled with all sorts of kindness and inspiration!
You have  55  made my day．Bluebell!

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