When I was young, I hated my mother because she worked a lot and didn’t spend much time with me. Then one Friday morning I took part in a three-day self-help program for teenagers. Whether you believe it or not, that weekend changed my life. About 100 other teenagers were there. During the first two days I met a lot of great people. I was glad that I made so many friends there.

On Sunday, the leader did an interesting exercise called “Chocolate or Toys”. He asked a girl which she liked better, chocolate or toys. She chose chocolate. Then he asked her to choose again between chocolate and chocolate. Of course, she didn’t have a choice. This exercise told us that sometimes we don’t have a choice in life, and that sometimes we have to accept something rather than complaining(抱怨).

A girl stood up and started talking about how her mom was a drug addict (吸毒成瘾者) and how much she hated her mother. “I want a new mom,” she cried.“Unluckily, you can’t have one,” the leader said.“You have to accept the mother that you have.”This hit me hard. I knew that, for better or worse, my mom was my mom. I couldn’t choose another mom, but I could try to make the best of the situation.

1.The writer didn’t like his mother when he was young because ________.

A. she didn’t love him B. she was too strict with him

C. she was too busy to be with him D. she was a drug addict

2.The program for teenagers that the writer took part in lasted (持续)________.

A. a week B. three days C. two days D. only one day

3.The writer started to change his thinking ________.

A. before he took part in the program B. during the first two days of the program

C. as soon as he came to the program D. after the exercise named “Chocolate or Toys”

4.From the end of the passage, we can infer (推断) that ________.

A. the writer loves his father

B. the writer’s mom is a bad person

C. the writer’s mom loves her son

D. the writer will try to get along well with his mother

5.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Choices can be made as we like.

B. Everyone should take part in a self-help program.

C. Chocolate can change one’s mind to things.

D. We should try to accept things instead of complaining about them.

A guy was on the side of the road, trying to get a lift on a dark stormy night, with no cars on the road. The storm was so strong that the guy could ________ see a few feet ahead of him. ______ , he saw a car come toward him and stop. The guy, without thinking, got in and closed the door. But then he realized that there was nobody behind the wheel(方向盘).

The car started to move very ________. The guy looked at the road and saw a curve(弯道)coming his way. Feeling frightened, he began to beg God for his life. He had not come out when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly ________ through the window and moved the wheel. The guy was too frightened to move and watched how the mystery happened every time the car was reaching a curve. Finally, although still scared, the guy managed to open the door ‘and ______ out. Without looking back, the guy ______ through the storm all the way to the nearest town and walked into a nearby bar, asking for some wine.

Then, still shaking, he started telling everybody in the bar about the scaring experience he just ____. Everyone listened in _______and became frightened, with hair standing on end, when they realized the guy was telling the _____ because he was crying and obviously was not drunk!

About half an hour later two guys walked into the same bar. Suddenly, one said to the other, “Hey, look! There’s the bad guy who jumped into the car while we were ________ it!”.

1.A. simple B. easily C. hard D. carefully

2.A. Suddenly B. Secretly C. Unluckily D. Hurriedly

3.A. wonderfully B. slowly C. quickly D. comfortably

4.A. waved B. hang C. touched D. appeared

5.A. take B. jump C. keep D. fall

6.A. walked B. cried C. climbed, D. ran

7.A. went through B. heard from C. wrote about D. thought of

8.A. anger B. sadness C. silence D. joy

9.A. joke B. truth C. lie D. story

10.A. pulling B. driving C. pushing D. following

阅读与回答问题

In1882,a baby girl caught such a serious fever that she nearly die. The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving(夺去) her of sight and sound. That poor girl was Helen Keller.

Luckily Helen was not a girl who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She touched and smelt everything she came across. She also learnt to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes.

Just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor- Anne Sullivan. With the help of Anne, Helen soon learnt to read and write in Braille. She also learnt to read people’s lips by pressing her fingertips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations. She also learnt to speak, a major achievement for people who could not hear at all.

Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904. While she was still at college, she wrote The Story of My Life. This was an immediate success and earned her enough money to buy her own house.

She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Finally she became so famous that she was invited abroad and received many honors from foreign universities. In 1932, she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.

After her death in 1968 an organization was set up in her name to combat (与……斗争)blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organizations working with blind people overseas.

1.What made Helen Keller deaf and blind?______________________________

2.How did she explore the world?__________________________________

3.When did Helen meet her private tutor- Anne Sullivan?_________________

4.Which book brought Helen an immediate success?_________________________

5.What’s the aim of setting up the organization- Helen Keller International?__________

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