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| The night started our ordinarily enough.Jack and Tara,our__1__,were in their small beds surrounded by toy animals.My husband,Pat,and I went to sleep__2__. __3__after midnight,Jack quietly touched me."Mommy,I want to stay with you.I promise I won't tak  e much room." I shifted__4__to make room.My son soon fell asleep.An hour later,Tara cried and I carefully went downstairs."Mommy,my__5__is all stuffed up (堵住)．I can't really breathe very  well.Will you please__6__with me a little while?" Tara doesn't often get up at night,__7__I decided to be there for her.She soon fell asleep.I returned to my own bed.I was determined to sleep.But to my__8__,I found Jack sleeping on my side of the bed.He looked so__9__that I couldn't remove him.Quietly and carefully,I lay down between__10__and Jack. I did manage to get some sleep__11__I heard Tara's voice again.I returned to__12__Tara."Mom, please lie down with me a little bit.I had a bad dream,and I'm so__13__.""Of course,honey.It was only a dream.Mommy's here and__14__is okay." We fell asleep__15__each other's arms. Even in my sleepy state,I thought of__16__these nights of merrygoround (一连串的繁忙活动) will be over.In their place,my twins will be grown.__17__before I'm ready,our children's rooms will be much too __18__and empty.So it is especially on days when I'm worn out after a  night on this mom's merrygoround that I remind__19__that these very days and nights are,in fact,"the good old days",ever so__20__. | |||
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B. twins B. in B. Every time B. kindly B. mouth B. stay B. so B. anger B. heavy B. Tara B. when B. look after B. exciting B. anything B. on B. how soon B. No wonder B. quiet B. my husband B. precise |
C. daughters C. out C. Sometime C. rudely C. heart C. talk C. no matter when C. disappointment C. content C. Pat C. after C. watch out C. excited C. everything C. by C. how long C. No problem C. still C. my friend C. precious |
D. students D. upstairs D. Anytime D. impatiently D. eye D. play D. however D. surprise D. sad D. my mother D. while D. take care D. scaring D. nothing D. in D. how much D. No worry D. calm D. myself D. previous |
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| 完形填空 One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is __1__. Once I heard a bald man said,"Whenever I enter a room,all I see is hair."Once you've __2__what your missing tile is,explore whether acquiring it will __3__make you happy.Then do one of the three things: get it,replace it with a different __4__,or forget about it and __5__the tiles in your life that are not missing. We all know people who have had a relatively __6__ life,yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy. The first __7__is gratitude.All happy people are grateful.Ungrateful people cannot be happy.We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to __8__,but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. The second secret is awareness.We should __9__that happiness is a byproduct of something else.The most obvious __10__are those pursuits that give our lives purpose-anything from studying insects to playing baseball.The more passions we have,the more happiness we are __11__to experience. Finally,,the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our __12__has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier.We need a spiritual faith,,or a philosophy of life.Whatever your philosophy is,it should __13__this truth: if you choose to find the __14__in every situation,you will be blessed,and if you choose to find the awful,you will be cursed.As for happiness itself,this __15__depends on your decision to make. | ||||
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