A. hands     B. qualities      C. worked     D. curiosity    E. pretty

F. looks      G. ashamed     H. applied     I. taste        J. information

When I succeeded in becoming a part-time employee of Nokia China last summer, many friends asked me how I survived the interview.

I once asked myself the same questions. Many of my peers also __1._ for the job, including some very competitive and intelligent students from famous universities.

But why did the interviewer pick me instead of them?

Finally, _2.__ pushed me to ask the interviewers after we became colleagues. The answer was that I appeared confident but humble, responsible and communicative. They evaluated people not just on their academic certificates, but on the base of their __3.__ and abilities. I happened to be the right person.

To be frank, I once felt __4.__ of being a student from an unknown college, and I think this may apply to some of you. I thought my future was ruined. It was only at the time of my successful interview that I finally understood the famous saying --- “You decide where you go.”

A wide range of skills is important these days. I used to work for Master Kong. My job was to cook instant noodles for customers. I had regarded it as a piece of cake, but I failed constantly. I had to cook the noodles for the right amount of time to make them __5.__ good. Moreover, the noodles could only remain in a plastic cup of five minutes, or the taste would be ruined.

This experience taught me never to look down on anything, and always remain humble.

I also __6.__ as a volunteer for a beach volleyball event. My job was to help foreign visitors experience the beach. I thought it would be very easy because my oral English was __7.__ good. But when I went to talk with a group of foreign guests, I suddenly realized that I did not know a single beach volleyball term. I was embarrassed.

After this, I read brochures in both Chinese and English every day to learn the terms for facilities and related words. This allowed me to deliver accurate __8.__ to foreigners, and I was happy to work responsibly.

After these experience, I’m more confident and I strongly believe that my fate is in my  __9.__. It has certainly helped me make a giant step closer to my dream of graduating with prospects for the future. I hope my advice will benefit you as well.

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky   36   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   37  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   38  , Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue   39  and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.

Kathy managed to   40  me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure（安慰）me that Perky would find a new   41  . But I was far too clever to   42  that such a thing was possible.

Forty years later, I watched my own   43  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   44  of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   45  of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称）to   46  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   47  Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   48  that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

"The best thing   49  Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the   50  we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just   51  down and landed on my finger."

When I was finally able to   52  , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates, the locations and the pictures of the bird all   53  . It seems our two families had been  54   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were   55   ! Perky lived!"

1. A. what              B. how              C. which            D. where

2.A. food               B. nest             C. friend           D. family

3.A. joy                B. horror           C. disappointment   D. satisfaction

4. A. pleasure          B. sadness          C. treasure         D. sense

5.A. forgive            B. comfort          C. help             D. delight

6.A. parent             B. home             C. master           D. life

7.A. imagine            B. suppose          C. doubt            D. believe

8. A. birds             B. happiness        C. worries          D. children

9.A. parents            B. birds            C. interests        D. games

10.A. first             B. best             C. last             D. happiest

11. A. catch            B. find             C. buy              D. have

12.A. Suddenly          B. Fortunately      C. Then             D. However

13.A. announced         B. said             C. told             D. hoped

14. A. in               B. about            C. of               D. on

15. A. day              B. place            C. way              D. story

16. A. floated          B. slipped          C. settled          D. went

17. A. think            B. speak            C. interrupt        D. explain

18.A. came up           B. turned up        C. turned out       D. matched up

19. A. known            B. fastened         C. connected        D. introduced

20.A. right     B. wrong            C. silly            D. mad

完形填空（共20小题，每题1.5分，共30分）
Today I am known for my voice. But it  31  a long time to believe I could read well. When I was young I stuttered (结巴)  32  badly that I was completely  33  to speak in public.
34  , when I was 14, Professor Donald Crouch came to our school. He was a retired college professor. He held a book of poems  35   it were a diamond necklace. When he heard our school was  36  Shakespeare, he could no longer   37  not being a part of our school.
When he  38  that I not only loved poetry but was  39  it, we became closer. There was, however, one  40   between us—Professor Crouch could not stand the  41  that I refused to read my poems to the class.
“Jim, poetry is 42 to be read aloud,” he said. “You should be able to speak those beautiful words.” I shook my head and  43  .
Then he tricked me. After handing in a poem, I waited for his  44 . It didn’t come. Instead, one day as the students gathered together, he said to me, “Jim, I don’t think you wrote this.” I  45 him in disbelief. “Why”, I started, “of course I  46 !” “Well, then,” he said, “you’ve got to prove it by getting up and reciting it  47  memory.”
With knees shaking, I walked up. For a moment I stood  48 . Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way through!
Afterwards, Professor Crouch congratulated me, and  49  me to read other writers’ poems before the public.
Before long, I discovered I did have a (n) 50  and found my fellow students actually looked forward to hearing me recite.

I was sitting in class one day when a new kid came in , He was called Christian and he was short and wore a pair of glasses, He walked up to the teacher and told her ,very  36   ,that he was new , The teacher  37  to the empty desk next to me . He sat down , looked briefly at me ,and then looked  38   . I didn’t think he was very nice , and certainly not the   39  I would like to become friends with ,

Over the year，I 40 talked to him，but he smiled at me when our eyes met, always shyly, He never talked to anybody   41 me.

But one day I  42  the unkind kids who were teasing him．We made fun of him   43  in my head I knew it was wrong . “Haven’t you got any friends ?”A kid asked Christian，who had walked past us  44   .“No，he hasn’t got any friends．He’s too  45   .”I said．

Then Christian looked up at me with the saddest eyes I had ever seen. My heart    46 .

In the weeks that followed, he never met my47 in class and never smiled at me. It was really hard for me to  48  to write him a note asking him to   49  it . I knew I had to because I couldn’t    50 the guilt and sadness that I felt  51  I saw him .

The next day in class, I wrote him a note   52 . About five minutes later .I turned and saw tears in his eyes. Later he told me that I would never realize how much my apology had  53   to him. Over the years at high school, we became    54 friends.

Apologies can really change your life , so never55  a chance to tell somebody you are sorry,

When I was young, my father used to grow carnations(康乃馨) ----- a kind of flower which was red, pink and white. He took care of them with much love and devotion. Every day he came back home from work, he would enjoy watching them. Everyone who saw them admired them for their beauty. And he used to tell us, “No one should touch my flowers.”
One day, my younger sister Clemence, who loved dad very much, wanted to help him. So she cut the carnations from their stems(枝干) one by one and arranged them on the ground. She believed that dad would be very pleased to see them that way.
When mom and I realized what my sister had done, we became completely speechless. However, my sister had no idea why no one showed her any appreciation. When my dad arrived, he went straight to see the flowers as usual. Seeing his flowers lying on the ground like dead animals, he was shocked at first. He looked towards the street to see if it was any of the neighbor’s children who could have done it. Then he looked at mom in silence. Finally mom, who always taught us to tell the truth no matter what, said, “No bad neighbors did this great job, only your lovely daughter Clemence.”
Dad’s face changed into a smile and then he said, “Do I have a better flower than my lovely daughter?” My younger sister smiled and hugged dad strongly.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?