Dear Students,

I am very happy to be your guest speaker today. It is a great pleasure to visit your school and to meet all of you.

I would like to tell you about myself. I have been a news reporter for the past fifteen years. I __46__ this job so I could travel the world,but job has taught me many unforgettable lessons. The work is sometimes __47__. I have seen famines(饥荒),earthquakes,poorness and death. But I have __48__ seen courage,hope and happiness.

In India,I visited a city where there were many homeless children. Some were as young as four years old. They lived in the __49__ and depended on themselves by begging or stealing. But then a wonderful lady called Rosa opened a home for them. Within one year,she was __50__ two hundred children. She clothed them,fed them and taught them. She gave them __51__.

__52__ time,I was in Turkey after a terrible earthquake. In one place,I found an old lady whose house was destroyed. Her son was missing and rescue(救援) workers said there was no chance that he was still alive. But the old lady did not __53__ hope. For four days,she moved heavy stones one at a time by herself. She did not stop __54__ she found her son. He was alive.

Here in China,I met a young boy who was seriously ill. He had had twenty operationsand spent nearly his whole life in hospital. I thought he would be __55__,but when I met him,his smile was so warm and welcoming.

In life,we need good models that we can admire and learn from. When my life is difficult,I try to remember the courage and goodness of these three people.

1.

A.found

B.had 

C.chose

D.liked

 

2.

A.interesting

B.important

C.easy

D.difficult

 

3.

A.never

B.also 

C.ever

D.already

 

4.

A.hotels

B.streets

C.houses

D.classrooms

 

5.

A.looking over

B.looking after

C.getting on well with

D.paying for

 

6.

A.money

B.food 

C.medicine

D.hope

 

7.

A.One

B.Another

C.The other

D.Other

 

8.

A.give out

B.give up

C.give back

D.give away

 

9.

A.until

B.while

C.when

D.after

 

10.

A.happy

B.unlucky

C.sad 

D.friendly

 

Three days ago, the boss of a gold shop received a letter. As he was very busy, the letter was on his desk till dinner time. When he opened it, a $1000 note fell out onto the desk. With the note was a short letter:

Dear sir,

I got married forty years ago. Unfortunately, at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I got no job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.

I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away for a moment, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend’s finger. So I left the shop with the ring but I didn’t pay for it. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience(让我良心不安)all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $100, and I think that is about ten times at today’s price.

Now, I am sending you that amount.

                                                        Yours truly,

                                                        A customer

  After reading the letter, the boss said,“Well, life is always full of surprise!”

1.The boss of the gold shop got a _________ 3 days ago.

   A. ring                      B. letter                    C. gold

2.The underlined word“unemployment”means“______”in Chinese.

   A.辞职                     B.失业                    C.就业

3.The ring the customer put into his pocket was __________ 40 years ago.

   A.$1000                    B.$10000                 C.$100

4.The customer wrote to the boss in order to ________.

   A. send the money for the ring      B. say thanks to him       C. return the ring

5.Which is NOT wrong according to the passage?

   A. The boss opened the letter by himself.

   B. The boss didn’t think life was always full of surprise.

   C. When the customer’s wife knew the fact, she was annoyed.

 

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