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    Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to   36   in order to pay the high school cost for my brother and me. They don’t act in the   37   ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too   38   for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Lovers’ Day is even more out of   39  .

    One day, Mom was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I sat   40   beside her. “Mom, I have a question. Is there   41   between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.

Mom stopped her work and raised her head with   42   in her eyes. She didn’t answer immediately. She    43   her head and continued to sew the quilt.

    I was very worried because I thought I had   44   her. I was very regretful and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:

    “Susan,” she said   45  , “Look at this thread. Sometimes it   46  , but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and long-lasting. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can    47     be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is   48  .”

    I listened carefully but I couldn’t   49   her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned home, they both looked   50  . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and sunset, my mother helped my father walk   51   on the country road.

    “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

    “Susan ,” he said kindly. “To tell you the truth, I just like   52   with your mom.”   53  his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

    Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and   54  . But from this experience, I understand that love is just    55   in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

1. A. stay up               B. rise early               C. earn money               D. sleep late

2.A. magic              B. romantic             C. unbelievable         D. attractive

3. A. simple                B. easy                 C. common               D. unusual

4.A. the question           B. question             C. reach                    D. control

5.A. carefully          B. silently             C. certainly                D. happily

6.A. feeling                B. love                 C. quarrel                  D. smile

7. A. anger             B. pleasure             C. surprise             D. happiness

8. A. raised                B. shook                    C. nodded               D. bowed

9.A. hurt               B. injured                  C. damaged              D. harmed

10. A. sadly                B. excitedly                C. regretfully              D. thoughtfully

11. A. happens              B. exists                   C. appears              D. shows

12.. A. ever                B. often                    C. always                   D. hardly

13.A. inside                B. valuable             C. true                 D. priceless

14. A. believe              B. understand               C. accept                   D. obey

15.A. quite healthy         B. very pale                C. fairly red               D. much surprised

16. A. continuously         B. worriedly                C. repeatedly               D. slowly

17. A. living               B. chatting             C. walking              D. sitting

18. A. Reading              B. Seeing                   C. Noticing             D. Examining

19. A. fresh roses          B. gold ring                C. sweet kisses         D. beautiful jewelry

20. A. a thread             B. a needle             C. the cloth                D. the cotton

One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been   1 me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly accepted. It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could hurry my moves, because she  2  to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I   3  she had strict sleeping habits, 4   I thought she ought to be able to 5  some of this strictness. I said to her, “ 6 , you can stay up late for once. We’re having   7 .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked 8 . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it 9  , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we 10  for another ten minutes, until suddenly my daughter burst into tears, and admitted that she was beaten.

Clearly I had made 11 . I had started the evening wanting to have a 12   time with my daughter but had allowed my desire to win to become more 13  than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win 14  me well. As a parent, I   15  that it got in my way. So I had to change.

1.                A．guiding         B．asking          C．training   D．advising

2.                A．agreed         B．needed         C．begged   D．hated

3.                A．knew          B．learned         C．guessed  D．heard

4.                A．so             B．for            C．but  D．or

5.                A．put up         B．take up         C．pick up   D．give up

6.                A．As usual        B．Go ahead       C．By the way D．Come on

7.                A．patience        B．luck            C．fun  D．success

8.                A．excited         B．proud          C．anxious   D．angry

9.                A．well           B．again           C．fairly D．regularly

10.               A．discussed       B．continued       C．counted   D．argued

11.               A．a mistake       B．a decision       C．an attempt D．an effort

12.               A．free           B．different        C．full   D．happy

13.               A．important       B．attractive       C．practical   D．interesting

14.               A．offered        B．served         C．controlled D．taught

15.               A．realized        B．apologized      C．imagined  D．explained

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new ___36____. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labour through your work, you __37___ say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is ___38____. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered __39___ this is so , but it leads to such familiar monologues （自言自语）__40___ “Get up , John ! You’ll be late for work again!” The ___41___ explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature—and —energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ___42___ when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can’t change your ___43___, but you can make your life ___44___ it better. Habit can help. Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late ___45___. Counteract （打乱）your cycle to some extent by ___46___ staying up later than you want to . If your energy is ___47___ in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, ___48___ before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam(打起精神) and work better ___49___.
Get off to a slow start ___50___ saves your energy. Get up with a yawn （呵欠）and ___51___ . Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before ___52____ on the floor. Avoid the ___53___ search for clean clothes by laying them out ___54___. Whenever possible , do routine （常规的）work in the afternoon and save tasks ___55____ more energy for your sharper hours .

Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new  1  in high school.

2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛)for cheerleaders(啦啦队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be      3  for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4   read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5   as the list ended without her name. Feeling  6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 7  . She moved on to English and history, and was8   to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to  9  math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school    10  . Mrs. Biden wasn’t as 11   as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough 12   for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled 13  and left. “Why is high school so  14  ?” she sighed.

Later in 15  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  16  . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to 17   at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to  18 . High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the   20  fish you can be.”

1.                A．processes       B．exercises       C．challenges D．decision

2.                A．Therefore       B．Besides         C．Otherwise D．However

3.                A．difficult         B．interesting      C．boring    D．easy

4.                A．editor          B．judge          C．candidate D．boss

5.                A．jumped         B．raced          C．stopped  D．sank

6.                A．strange         B．lonely          C．awful D．happy

7.                A．struggling       B．complaining      C．working  D．improving

8.                A．ashamed        B．relieved        C．shocked  D．disappointed

9.                A．put up         B．give up         C．worry about   D．prepare for

10.               A．committee      B．team           C．radio D．newspaper

11.               A．enthusiastic     B．realistic        C．sympathetic    D．artistic

12.               A．speakers       B．writers         C．cheerleaders   D．readers

13.               A．widely         B．brightly         C．excitedly  D．weakly

14.               A．similar         B．familiar         C．different  D．ordinary

15.               A．physics         B．math           C．English    D．history

16.               A．pleasure        B．sorrow         C．trouble    D．hope

17.               A．fit in           B．get around      C．stay up    D．look out

18.               A．swim          B．escape         C．ask   D．try

19.               A．in return for     B．instead of       C．in terms of D．in case of

20.               A．slimmest        B．gentlest        C．best  D．smallest