The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My  36 began when I was just a kid. I   37  becoming a doctor.
My mother was a domestic. Through her work, she observed that  38 people spent a lot more time reading than they  39   watching television. She announced that my brother and I  40 watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and 41 her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later, we realized her marks were a  42 . My mother was Illiterate(不识字的，文盲的)。
When I entered high school I was a(n) 43  , but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes.  I wanted to  44 the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from  45  her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy  46 food and pay the bills. With everything  47 , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very  48  with that arrangement but once I got through distributing money, there was  49 left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to  50 our heads and any kind of food on the table, 51  buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my  52 and became an A-student again, and eventually I  53 my dream and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother’s story—a woman with  54  formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. There is no job  55 than parenting.（养育） This I believe.

When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work. There was one specific event that was   1    for me. I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the ___2_ out in the streets. After that I went to a homeless shelter(避难所) not far from the Bay Bridge. I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to join in . She wanted to help,   3    she made many chocolate chip cookies for me to __4_____ and hand out to people. When getting to the shelter, I passed out the   5   . I began making sandwiches and shared them with the crowd. I had the containers with my sister’s cookies in them and began to walk around, offering them to anyone near me.
I walked   6  to an old gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a cookie?” He stopped and turned around, looked at me   7  and said, “What did you say? Did you call me sir?” I told him I had , and his eyes  8  a little bit and said, “No one has ever called me sir.” So he was completely   9 . It struck me.
I explained I had been raised that regardless of (不顾)   10  and social status（地位）, everyone deserved(值得）  11 . It saddened me to think that just because he was homeless, no one offered him the honor . It broke my heart. I just didn’t understand   12  no one ever called him sir. I had never thought that anyone was   13   me because I wasn’t raised that way. Every single person deserves to be treated with respect. Years later, I still carry that   14    and the lesson it taught me. Somtimes, what we take for granted can really make a difference in   15  life.

My grandfather was a teacher.He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen.I know that he was a kind and gentle man at heart，because when I was young(and he was old)，he gave me presents，and seated me on his knees，and told me stories，but I believe the boys at his school were afraid of him.

At school，when he walked into a room full of noisy boys，there was silence at once.When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes，that boy went red in the face，and looked down at his shoes.If a boy brought him poor，careless work，which was not the best that boy could do，my grandfather picked up the boy’s book and threw it across the room，shouting，“Do it all again，and bring it back early in the morning！”If the boy was late，or if he forgot to bring the work，he had to do it again and again，and yet again.My grandfather never forgot.

He was a very different man at school from the man I saw day by day in his own home.

41．I know my grandfather was kind and gentle，because________.

A．he was the headmaster of a boys’school

B．he gave me presents and told me stories

C．he told me stories about how kind he was

D．he never scolded me

42．When he looked at a boy in a certain way，that boy________.

A．went red in the face and could not return my grandfather’s look

B．looked back at my grandfather’s red face

C．changed another one

D．went red in the face because his shoes were dirty

43．My grandfather didn’t like to receive________.

A．worse work than he could do himself

B．work that the boys could not do

C．work that was not as good as the boys could do

D．the work that the boys did

44．When he received poor work，my grandfather________.

A．shouted at the boy and threw his work across the room

B．went red in face

C．threw the book on the floor，and shouted across the room

D．threw the book at the boy

45．He was a different man at home because________.

A．he didn’t get angry at school like he did at home

B．he was not as gentle as at home

C．he didn’ t throw books about at school like he did at home

D．he didn’t usually get angry at home

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。
When my children were small, the toughest part of the day was getting to work. There were diapers(尿布), formula(奶粉),  36  of clothes to worry about for the children. There was their breakfast, and I must  37  they were clean and ready for the day. It was pretty chaotic(混乱的). I have always been one to  38  more about making sure everyone else had what they needed than to take care of myself. 39 , I had my clothing and my packed lunch set out so that I could quickly get ready and then turn my  40  back to getting the children ready.
I tried to keep my  41  pretty easy in the morning. There just wasn’t time, but that was OK as long as I kept moving. I would manage a  42  look at myself in the full-length mirror just before I  43  out the door.
Once a week we had management team  44  and it was important to be there on time and to appear relaxed and  45 . We would go around the conference table, each  46  on successes and areas of concern. When it came around to my  47 , all eyes would be on me as I had my chance to brag(自夸) on my programs and increasing  48 .
I thought I was pretty  49  at playing the role of the cool, calm, collected program manager 50  one week I arrived at one of these management team meetings and as the  51  went around the table, getting to me. There were  52  looks on the faces of the others looking at me. I started to feel a little  53  as that “ what’s going on?”  54  grew more intense. My closest colleague started doing this strange nodding thing in my direction. It was then that I  55  that I had my dress on inside-out.

第二节 完形填空 (共20小题, 每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第36至第55小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Many years ago, when I was a man in my twenties, I worked as a salesman for a piano company．
We   36   our pianos all over the state by advertising in small town   37 ．Every time we advertised ,we   38   receive a reply on a postcard ,which said , “ Please bring me a new piano for my little   39  ．It must be mahogany ( 红木 )．I can pay $10 a month with my egg money．” Of course ,we could not sell a new piano   40    $10 a month .   41   her cards kept on coming．
A couple of years   42   , I owned my own piano company, and when I   43   in that area, the postcards started coming to me．For months, I ignored   44  ．What else could I do?
But then, one day I   45   to be in the area and have a mahogany piano on my little truck．I decided to look the old lady up. Though I knew that I was about to make a    46   business decision, I took the new piano in the house and placed it   47   I thought the roof would be least likely to let in rain on it．I told the old lady and the little barefoot girl to try to   48    the chickens off it, and I left sure I had just   49   a new piano!
But the   50   came in, all 52 of them as agreed, sometimes with coins．It was incredible! One day years later, I was in Memphis on other   51  ．As I was sitting at a bar having a drink, I heard the most beautiful piano music．I looked around, and there was a lovely young woman playing a very nice grand piano．She   52   at me , and when she took a   53   , she sat down at my table．
“Aren’t you the man who sold my grandma a piano a long time ago?”
My Lord, it was her! It was the little barefoot girl! I   54   remembered．I did have to go as soon as possible because men don't like to be seen   55   in public．
36. A. made       B. sold       C. fixed         D. delivered
37. A. books      B. villages      C. shops          D. newspapers
38. A. would      B. may       C. must          D. can
39. A. son          B. child      C. granddaughter    D. baby
40. A. with        B. for         C. to                  D. on
41. A. And         B. So         C. Therefore      D. But
42. A. ago         B. later       C. before         D. past
43. A. worked     B. went      C. advertised      D. succeeded
44. A. it         B. them      C. this           D. that
45. A. happened     B. decided      C. started         D. wanted
46. A. great       B. wise       C. good          D. terrible
47. A. when       B. there       C. where         D. that
48. A. feed        B. keep      C. leave          D. drive
49. A. given away  B. put off          C. sold           D. thrown away
50. A. payments     B. money          C. possessions      D. postcards
51. A. time        B. chance          C. business        D. matter
52. A. looked     B. stared     C. laughed         D. smiled
53. A. break           B. bread     C. drink         D. list
54. A. slowly     B. suddenly    C. carefully       D. excitedly
55. A. exciting          B. talking          C. crying         D. speaking