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Before dinner my wife wanted me to go to the store to get some soft drinks. It seemed that this would be a good time to let my teenage daughter Holly get a little driving. I drove her to the store and my car with her, and then I came back home with my son. He spoke of the car. I was a little proud, for it was the nicest car I had     owned.   , I said, “Guy, my heart is not     that car. I like it but it is just metal. It won’t last forever. Never set your heart on anything that is    .”

   It was at that moment     I heard a noise on our street. My son went out and then he shouted, “Dad! Holly damaged your car.”

    My heart    and my mind was flooded with conflicting thoughts. Was     hurt? Who else was involved? As I ran to the door, I heard a voice in my heart say: “ Here is a     to show Holly what you really love. She will never forget it.” Holly was not hurt    , but when I reached her, she was crying and saying over and over again, “Oh, Dad, I’m sorry. I know how much you love this car.” I held her in my arms.

    Later that week a friend asked what happened to my car. I told her the whole    . Then she said, “That happened to me when I was a girl. After I     my Dad’s car, my father,    , knocked me to the ground and began to kick me.” Over forty years later she still felt the    . It was a deep wound on her soul.

I have repaired my car, but there are     some scratches (划痕) on it. Every day they    me of the really priceless things in my life. Every day it reminds me of what really     in my life. One day, when Holly thinks back on her life, I want her to know that I love her a thousand times more than any piece of    .

A. practice         B. exercise             C. training                D. lesson

A. gave                     B. left                   C. kept                     D. got

A. admiringly            B. proudly             C. deeply                  D. curiously

A. just                      B. already              C. even                      D. ever

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

A. set up                    B. set aside            C. set on                     D. set down

A. temporary             B. metal                C. nice                       D. contemporary

A. when                    B. as                     C. that                       D. until

A. struck                    B. sank                  C. beat                       D. ached

A. anyone         B. someone            C. my car                   D. my son

A. chance         B. time                  C. turn                       D. lesson

A. mentally             B. physically          C. lightly                   D. painfully

A. story                   B. truth                 C. explanation            D. process

A. borrowed            B. drove                       C. used                      D. ruined

A. nevertheless        B. moreover           C. or rather              D. on the contrary

A. guilt                   B. pain                  C. embarrassment       D. terror

A. still                    B. yet                    C. just                       D. only

A. remember           B. remind              C. warn                     D. inform

A. values                 B. happens             C. cares                     D. matters

A. property              B. equipment                C. treasure                 D. fortune

One day a girl gets a package in the mail. It contains US$3,000___31__cash and a letter from ????her late (去世的) Aunt Peg. Aunt Peg has something useful to pass __32___to her niece, but a rather unusual way of going about it. The girl __33___ (give) a set of instructions: "Go to an address in New York and pick up a package, get a passport and buy yourself a one-way ticket to London." ___34___ she flies she is told to make sure she only takes ___35___she can fit into a backpack. No money, credit cards, camera. No mobile phone ___36____ laptop. And once she gets to Europe she can't call or even e-mail home. On the plane, Ginny opens the New York package. It sends her to a flat in London where a man___37__ (name) Richard seems to be expecting her.

This is __38____ US author Maureen Johnson's hit teen novel, "13 Little Blue Envelopes" opens. ___39____ heroine (女主人公) is Ginny, a quiet, 17-year-old girl , __40___ has a great adventure ahead of her.

Susan Sontag (1933 ------ 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature.  For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything----- to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing.  When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art.  With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poorly-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture.  In Notes Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. Notes on Camp, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward.  In Illness as Metaphor ------published in 1978, after she suffered cancer ------ she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed (被压抑的) personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease.  In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America, her story of a 19^th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.  But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.
“Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending… is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.”  And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
【小题1】It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that Sontag _________.

For the last couple of weeks, I had been stuck in front of my computer working on a project that was very important to me. My every waking hour was consumed by the project and although I imagined that I would feel happy after completing parts of the project, I was confused to find that instead, I was feeling rather depressed. I tried a range of methods to help cheer myself up. I had a relaxing bath, cooked a delicious meal to enjoy with my family and even watched a lighthearted movie, but to no avail. It was only when I turned to meditation(沉思)for a solution that the answer came to me: turn to nature!
The very next day, I grabbed my camera and a bottle of water and set off to spend a few hours walking in a nature reserve, even though it was pouring with rain. Within a couple of minutes I felt alive again. To be honest, I felt like a young school girl again and had to stop myself from hopping along the path singing, "I'm singing in the rain", a song I used to sing when I was a child. I think as adults we often try too hard to control our inner children and as a result we restrain(限制) our own spirits, which only leads to depression and stress.
Interestingly, it has been shown that people who spend 40 minutes walking in a nature reserve have a drop in their blood pressure levels, but this does not happen when they spend a similar amount of time walking in a busy city centre.
If you feel a little low in spirit and know that you have spent too much time indoors, relax completely, remove your shoes and let your inner child come out and play.
【小题1】 The author felt depressed because she __________.

Maureen stood by the lake. Suddenly the children came running through the trees with sharp cries of ___36___. They rushed up to the ___37___, leaning over the clear water, watching the crowds of tiny fish. Some children demanded loudly to go to the boats, but ___38___ those who had been left behind at the ice-cream stall(小摊) came running up to make some announcement or other, and they all ___39___ the water and dashed back the ___40___ they had come. With growing excitement, Maureen ___41___ them.

When she ___42___ what had been running for, she stopped running. They were ___43___ things again. The toy stall was ___44___ and they were crowded around it. Behind the ___45___ a calm middle-aged woman was selling a great variety of small rubbish. She took ___46___ from the forest of small hands in exchanging for little boats, plastic dolls, yellow pencils, anything. Maureen leaned against a ___47___, looking on. The idea of ___48___ washed against her face like a strong current(流), trying to draw her in.

Nona Parker www..compushed out to the edge of the group and ___49___ what she had bought on the ground so that she could see what money she had left in her white purse. Under Maureen’s ___50___ lay a boat, a mouth organ(口琴) and a brown load of bread. Maureen was so full of the ___51___ for the things like that she couldn’t bear to look at it. She turned her ___52___ sharply. Her face was against the tree. She shut her eyes and ___53___ eagerly for some money, for the price of a set toy plates. In a moment, she opened her eyes, ___54___ she didn’t turn back to the stall. It was too ___55___ to see the others buying whatever they wanted. She rubbed almost round the tree, her eyes on the ground.

36. A. fright         B. surprise       C. shout         D. excitement

37. A. space          B. hill           C. lake          D. river

38. A. what’s worse         B. all at once      C. all the time      D. more or less

39. A. left                 B. polluted       C. painted         D. entered

40. A. street          B. way          C. boat          D. restaurant

41. A. ran after            B. searched for   C. glared at      D. got rid of

42. A. blamed       B. saw          C. praised         D. helped

43. A. destroying        B. stealing       C. buying         D. eating

44. A. closed         B. tall           C. dull          D. open

45. A. toy                 B. stall          C. building       D. mirror

46. A. fish            B. advice         C. money              D. food

47. A. tree            B. wall                C. stall         D. car

48. A. leaving       B. running       C. sleeping        D. spending

49. A. laid            B. let            C. drew          D. tasted

50. A. feet            B. eyes                C. shoulder       D. hands

51. A. edge           B. tiredness      C. wish          D. relation

52. A. friend         B. suggestion      C. way           D. head

53. A. went           B. stood           C. prayed        D. searched

54. A. even if        B. if             C. so             D. but

55. A. painful       B. nervous       C. enjoyable       D. near-sighted