B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择正确答案)

A few years ago, my two-year-old son pointing at a dozen of “stood” color marker-pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.” With the encouragement of such a ____, he quickly collected another handful of long and thin ball-pens, trying to do the same-making them stand up on the table. Little by little, his face _______— red and finally he cried out, “Mummy, help!”

____ all the ball-pens in his hand had either sharp or round ends, I said casually, “Mummy can’t help you on this.” But immediately he cried loudly and fell to the floor. A moment later, he ran back to the table, and_________ trying to keep the ball-pens standing up.

Without knowing why the ball-pens can; t stand up, my son had accepted the impossibility after many times of ______tries. He put aside all the ball-pens, and kept only those marker-pens for this standing up “game”. This time he succeeded in this way. Clearly, he already learned to let go of this useless try.

Being persistent is not easy. But sometimes, it is even harder to let go. In our daily life, perhaps many headaches can be____ if we know how to realize those unlikely achievable goals, and then decisively let go of them immediately.

1.A.reply B.present C.photo D.success

2.A.turned B.guided C.held D.lifted

3.A.Knowing B.Noticing C.Believing D.Understanding

4.A.stopped B.continued C.enjoyed D.finished

5.A.failed B.passed C.wanted D.died

6.A.connected B.stopped C.started D.avoided

Simon was a middle-aged leather businessman. He always failed in his career, which made him a depressed(沮丧的) man. So he often _____________ that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so disappointed with the city that he had to leave.

So his family moved to another city. It was the ______________ of a weekend. When Simon and his wife were busily tidying up their new home, the light suddenly went out. They had to _________ work. Simon was regretful to have forgotten to bring along candles and had to wait ________ in a low mood. Just then he heard slight, hesitant(犹豫不决的)knock on his door that sounded _____________ in the quiet night.

“Who’s it?” he wondered, since Simon knew ________________ in this city. And this was the moment he especially hated to be disturbed, so he went to the door and opened it ______________. At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have candles? I’m your ______________. ” “No,” answered Simon quickly and shut the door in ______________. “What a nuisance (讨厌鬼)!” He complained over it with his wife. “No sooner had we settled down than somebody came to________ things.”

After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside.________ this time she was holding two candles, saying, “I live upstairs. My grandma told me you might need candles. She sent me here to give you these.” Simon was very______________ by what he saw. When he became fully aware, he said, “Thank you and your grandmother. God bless you!”

At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his ________________ in life. It was his loneliness with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was actually nobody else but _____________, for his life had been darkened by his cold _____________.

1.A.hoped B.told C.complained D.advised

2.A.morning B.afternoon C.evening D.noon

3.A.change B.stop C.talk about D.think about

4.A.helplessly B.worthlessly C.fearlessly D.cheerlessly

5.A.noisy B.clear C.terrible D.strange

6.A.somebody B.nobody C.something D.nothing

7.A.surprisingly B.impatiently C.slowly D.willingly

8.A.friend B.relative C.student D.neighbor

9.A.fear B.danger C.anger D.silence

10.A.ask B.destroy C.buy D.borrow

11.A.But B.And C.So D.For

12.A.frightened B.pleased C.puzzled D.surprised

13.A.failure B.sadness C.complaint D.business

14.A.itself B.himself C.the girl D.the wife

15.A.opinion B.behavior C.mind D.look

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