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阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

When I was seventeen, I found a watch while walking down the hallway of my high school. As I picked it up , greed( 贪心) suddenly came over me and I decided to      1  it.

When I got home from school, I found my mother cooking dinner in the  2  . I proudly held out my prize for her to see. Mom was  3 that I had kept the watch instead of turning it in. Mom then  4 me to drive straight back to the school and take the watch to someone at the office. I started to argue, but after taking a good look at the expression on Mom’s face, I realized that it would get me 5 .

As time passed，I forgot all about the watch until four years later.

While I was attending college, I had managed to get a  6 at a Walmart pushing carts off the parking lot. One morning, I found a checkbook that had been left in a shopping cart. __7  , I gave it to the employee there so that the customer(顾客) who had lost it could pick it up.

Later, as I was outside pushing carts, a man came up to me and told me that his wife had left their checkbook in a shopping cart the night before. When he told me his name, I realized that he was the owner of the checkbook I had found. I  8 to him that he could go inside and claim it at the service desk. The look on the man’s face was full of thankfulness. He pulled out his wallet and  9  me some cash(现金), but I refused. I was proud of myself, prouder than I had been in a long time, and I wasn’t about to let something like  10 ruin（毁灭）that.

Suddenly, the lesson my mom had taught me that day came into focus. Mom wanted to make sure that her son would always be 11  . Because of her, I did the  12  thing when I found that checkbook. Because of her, I had been rewarded with a feeling of self-worth that no amount of money could buy.

1. A. sell                         B. use                      C. keep         D. wear

2. A. study                     B. bedroom             C. bathroom            D. kitchen

3. A. sad                         B. angry                   C. worried               D. upset    

4. A. ordered                 B. advised                C. allowed               D. helped

5. A. somewhere             B. anywhere             C. nowhere             D. everywhere

6. A. prize                       B. job                      C. position               D. choice     

7. A. Happily                  B. Luckily                C. Immediately         D. Proudly

8. A. explained               B. expressed            C. promised             D. proved  

9. A. threw                      B. offered               C. showed               D. lent   

10. A. money                  B. regret                  C. praise                  D. pride    

11. A. excellent               B. confident             C. kind                    D. honest

12. A. terrible                  B. important             C. right                    D. wrong

I want to know ______yesterday.

A. what Mary will do B. what will Mary do

C. what Mary did D. what did Mary do

Several new schools _________ in Fengtai District next year.

   A. will build    B. were built   C. will be built   D. built

 Sam and his friends _______ here for ten years.

  A. live       B. lived        C. are living   D. have lived

Kate ______ well last night. She had a headache.

A. didn’t sleep   B. doesn’t sleep   C. hasn’t slept   D. won’t sleep

 —_______ is your home from your school?

   —Quite near. It’s about 10 minutes’ walk on foot.

A. How long              B. How often                C. How far                 D. How many

Frank ______ a film with me if he’s free next Saturday.

A. sees        B. saw        C. has seen       D. will see

 My little brother _______ speak English because he is only six months old.

    A. can’t    B. mustn’t    C. shouldn’t     D. needn’t

—What is your grandpa doing, Emma?

  —He ______the flowers in the yard.

A. waters    B. is watering   C. watered    D. will water

 My mother often teaches me how_______.

A. cooks        B. cook         C. cooking        D. to cook