It was the first snow of winter — an exciting day for every child but not for most teachers. Up until now, I had been able to dress myself for recess(课间休息), but today I would need some help. Miss Finlayson, my kindergarten teacher, had been through first snow days many times in her long career, but I think she may still remember this one.
I managed to get into my wool snow pants. But I struggled with my jacket because it didn’t fit well. It was a hand-me-down from my brother, and it made me wonder why I had to wear his ugly clothes. At least my hat and matching scarf(围巾) were mine, and they were quite pretty. Finally it was time to have Miss Finlayson help me with my boots(靴子). In her calm, motherly voice she said, "By the end of winter, you will be able to put on your own boots.” I didn’t realize at the time that this was more a statement of hope than of confidence.
I handed her my boots and stuck out my foot. Like most children, I expected the adult to do all the work. After much wiggling and pushing, she managed to get first one into place and then, with a sigh, worked the second one on too.
I announced，“They’re on the wrong feet.” With the grace that only experience can bring，she struggled to get the boots off and went through the joyless task of putting them on again. Then I said，“These aren’t my boots, you know.” As she pulled the offending boots from my feet, she still managed to look both helpful and interested. Once they were off, I said，“They are my brother’s boots. My mother makes me wear them, and I hate them!” Somehow, from long years of practice, she managed to act as though I wasn’t an annoying(烦人的) little girl．She pushed and shoved, less gently this time, and the boots were returned to their proper place on my feet. With a great sigh of relief, seeing the end of her struggle with me, she asked, “Now, where are your gloves?’’
I looked into her eyes and said, “I didn’t want to lose them, so I put them into the toes of my boots.”
【小题1】According to the passage, the little girl got_______from her brother.

— How is everything going on with you in America.
—Quite well. Not so smoothly as I expected, _______.

 We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears.  36 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 37  to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.

     For three years, no matter  38 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On   39   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime  40   out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.  41   , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I  42   all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how  43  I expected to see her each morning. You might say I   44   her.

“Did she have an accident? Something  45 ?” I thought to myself about her  46  .  Now that she was gone, I felt I had  47  her. I began to realize that part of our  48   life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 49 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who  50   walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are   51   markers in our lives. They add weight to our  52   of place and belonging.

Think about it.   53   , while walking to work, we mark where we are by  54  a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though  55  , person

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    I believe in miracles(奇迹)because I've seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a  36   in my upper jaw,”she said. “I told my own dentist it's nothing, but he   37   I come to see you.”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would    38   to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the    39   of her mouth. A careful examination later   40  that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

    During her next appointment, I explained to her the   41  of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just  42 . ”

    I thought otherwise. After considerable   43   on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to   44   me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon(外科医生). She saw him, but as I expected,    45   treatment.

    About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and   46   .

  “How are you?”I asked.

  “I’m just fine, honey, ”she responded  47  high spirits.“When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”

      Surprised to see her at all, I answered   48   ,“Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it. ”

      I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had   49  nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness    50   .

      I had read of such things happening, but had    51   seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I've seen many others, because they keep getting   52   to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle,   53   through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to   54   the miracles of one another.

      Since my first miracle, I've come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 55 we choose to find it.

A. cut                     B. pain                      C. wound              D. cancer

A. declared             B. suspected               C. promised          D. insisted

A. refuse                 B. continue                C. attempt             D. manage

A. roof                   B. corner                   C. bottom             D. surface

A. confirmed           B. convinced              C. considered               D. conducted

A. possibility           B. importance          C. seriousness        D. resolution

A. old                     B. sick                      C. fine                  D. glad

A. permission          B. support                 C. approval           D. effort

A. persuade             B. please                   C. encourage        D. astonish

A. declined            B. provided               C. received           D. required

A. healthy             B. elegant                  C. optimistic        D. humorous

A. to                     B. in                                C. with                 D. by

A. worriedly          B. confusedly             C. patiently           D. confidently

A. covered            B. reached                 C. spread              D. grown

A. cured                B. faded                    C. expanded          D. remained

A. ever                 B. also                      C. never                      D. already

A. easier               B. rarer                     C. happier             D. closer

A. or                    B. so                         C. yet                   D. for

A. read                 B. make                    C. keep                 D. see

A. whatever           B. wherever               C. whoever           D. whichever

During a recent vacation I visited Dusseldorf,a city in the dormer West Germany.The nine-day trip left a deep impression on me.I arrived at Dusseldorf airport at six.It was already dark outside.The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to 36   .I decided to telephone the youth hotel.But to use the 37 I needed some coins. I asked a lady for help.To my  38,she 39 me five coins to use!But all the phones in the 40  needed phone cards.And phone cards could only be 41  at post office during the daytime.I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to call the 42  .An old gentleman helped me.He couldn’t speak English but 43  that I needed to make a phone call.He showed me where the 44   was and inserted(插入) his phone card.I called the youth hotel and found a place to stay that night.The kindness of the German people made me feel  45   and it seemed that I was not far from 46 .And my first day in Germany wasn’t as 47  as I expected previously.

Whenever I went,I asked people for 48 .What surprised me most was that almost every young German could tell me the way in  49  English.Older Germans couldn’t speak English so well, 50  ,they would try to help me whenever they could. One middle-aged man I asked for  directions even  51  me to the place I was looking for.My experience in Germany completely changed my 52  of Germans.Before,I thought they were unfriendly to foreigners. In the World War II in the 1940s,Germans were always 53  .But things have 54   since then.And Germans today couldn’t be more  55  ,in my opinion.