【题目】For years I have had no idea what I have been doing with my life. I was a 30-year-old lawyer(律师) in New York. But being a lawyer was never my dream or goal in life. I honestly wanted to be a writer. I have a great imagination and would write amazing stories in my head. But I always knew that being a writer was never possible for me because it was a better financial decision to stay a lawyer.

Recently, I couldn’t fall asleep at my usual time of 10 p. m. and when I did fall asleep I had the same dream over and over again. The dream starts with me in the ocean trying to go for a swim and I’m searching for something, but I start to drown(溺水) and have no control over my body. Then a light shines through the waters and when I look up all I can see is myself in a bright white room writing a novel. Then I hear a voice say repeatedly, “Now is the time to try something new!”

It wasn’t just a dream;it was my opportunity to make something good out of my life. That afternoon, I quit my job at the law firm and I couldn’t have been any happier. My life started at 30, and every day since that point I haven’t stopped enjoying life. I started to write and have been on the best-sellers(畅销书) list for the last two months. Things have definitely turned around.

Change is a good thing; it gives us an opportunity to take a chance. So my two favorite words I live by and so should you are “change and chance”.

1From the first paragraph, we can know that ________.

A. a lawyer is likely to earn more than a writer

B. it is unlikely that the author becomes a writer

C. the author is a 30-year-old lawyer at present

D. the author prefers to be a lawyer rather than a writer

2The second paragraph mainly talks about the author’s ________.

A. strong desire to become a writer

B. difficulty in sleeping at night.

C. wish to have a swim in the waters

D. terrible swimming experience in the ocean.

3The best title of the text might be _________.

A. Change and Choice B. Lawyer or Writer

C. Change and Chance D. Risk or Opportunity

【题目】Eleven-year-old Angela was lying ill in hospital. She was unable to _______. In fact, she could hardly make any _______ at all. Although she believed that she had a good chance of recovering, the doctors said that _______, if any, people who got this disease ever learned to walk again. Even having heard this, Angela was not _______. Lying in her hospital bed, she insisted to her mother that whatever the doctors said, she was _______ she was going back to school again.

After the operations she was moved to a specialized hospital where they could try out some new methods. She did not improve but she still would not _______. The doctors all became fond of her and taught her to imagine what it would be like when she could walk again. Every day Angela would lie there, _______ doing her mental exercises in the hope that she would move her legs one day.

One morning, _______ she was imaging her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: The bed began to _______! “Look what I’m doing! I can do it! I moved! I moved!” she __________. However, nobody heard her because everyone in the hospital was __________. They had felt a movement too and they were running for safety. People were crying and running here and there. Equipment was __________ down all around the patients’ beds. For what had happened was an earthquake. After the shock people didn’t __________ Angela what had really happened. She was lying in bed smiling happily __________ that she had really moved her leg. She never doubted it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, she really is back at school. You see, to someone who thinks that they can __________ the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn’t it?

1A. see B. hear C. talk D. walk

2A. progress B. difference C. movement D. achievement

3A. few B. all C. some D. most

4A. satisfied B. delighted C. surprised D. discouraged

5A. true B. doubtful C. certain D. impossible

6A. get up B. give up C. turn up D. stand up

7A. sadly B. madly C. carefully D. faithfully

8A. as B. since C. after D. before

9A. fly B. move C. roll D. speak

10A. jumped B. wondered C. shouted D. recovered

11A. frightened B. pleased C. touched D. encouraged

12A. rising B. falling C. missing D. gathering

13A. tell B. do C. give D. show

14A. noticing B. supposing C. believing D. discovering

15A. push B. shock C. shake D. save

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