【推荐2】I was aged 9 the moment I discovered my father was seriously sick. It was 1994, but I can well remember my mother’s words as though it were yesterday: “Maggie, I don’t want you to take ______ from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very cautious when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family ______. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could attend to himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it ______ to me to look after him.
We couldn’t _____ all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t ______ buy food for dinner. I ______ sit in class feeling completely ______. The teacher’s words were ________ as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not ______ my burden with anyone. I had seen how people ______ to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be _____. When my father was ______ to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too fragile to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his ______ a secret, I was truly ______ when he reached his final days. ______ and down, I called a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support. That day, she ______ me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life. I was 15 when my father ______ on. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call ______ to AIDS. I do.1.

A．trust

B．joke

C．food

D．fun

2.

A．disease

B．project

C．challenge

D．secret

3.

A．fell

B．sent

C．chose

D．left

4.

A．afford

B．offer

C．select

D．prepare

5.

A．only

B．even

C．yet

D．still

6.

A．might

B．should

C．could

D．would

7.

A．moved

B．lost

C．bored

D．nervous

8.

A．rolled

B．eaten

C．proved

D．drowned

9.

A．pack

B．compare

C．share

D．affect

10.

A．applied

B．escaped

C．reacted

D．referred

11.

A．cruel

B．curious

C．considerate

D．confused

12.

A．admitted

B．concerned

C．removed

D．sentenced

13.

A．dream

B．promise

C．instruction

D．condition

14.

A．calm

B．religious

C．unprepared

D．devoted

15.

A．Red

B．Black

C．Green

D．Blue

16.

A．kept

B．talked

C．reminded

D．replied

17.

A．died

B．hid

C．passed

D．sighed

18.

A．relief

B．attention

C．support

D．Trouble

【推荐3】I remember looking out the blurred (模糊的) icy window saw my son imprinting his little________in the clean, white snow. I decided to step out to feel the________, cold air. The freezing rain made the tree branches sparkle like glass and blurred the windows from being________by ice. A few minutes going by, his red jacket slowly disappeared in the________. Not knowing why he wanted to go out in this weather, I let him out________. I wanted him to experience his________, along with feeling playing in the snow,________I didn't let him out often.

Yes, I'm a________overprotective mom. I decided to________and allow my son to live his own life. He had friends to________him but I still worried about him. What if he________and fell? What if he was bleeding? Oh God, why did I let him go out without me? I lay on the couch thinking of all the endless________that something wrong happened. Why was I so________? I hope my son wasn't like that. After an hour passed by, my son finally came home, perfectly safe and________. Hardly anyone touched a hair on my little boy's head He was the type to ________his food and toys, and just be super friendly; it was my favorite part about him. He was just the cutest, caring boy ever.

1.

A．figure

B．footprints

C．shadow

D．mark

2.

A．damp

B．thick

C．faint

D．fresh

3.

A．pressed

B．printed

C．covered

D．blown

4.

A．distance

B．darkness

C．sidewalk

D．sunlight

5.

A．anyway

B．instead

C．somehow

D．otherwise

6.

A．education

B．hardship

C．freedom

D．childhood

7.

A．when

B．after

C．until

D．since

8.

A．simply

B．pretty

C．sharp

D．deeply

9.

A．give up

B．make it

C．let go

D．get away

10.

A．support

B．accompany

C．comfort

D．appreciate

11.

A．lost

B．hurt

C．cried

D．slipped

12.

A．consequences

B．difficulties

C．possibilities

D．explanations

13.

A．annoyed

B．pessimistic

C．frustrated

D．desperate

14.

A．natural

B．calm

C．brave

D．sound

15.

A．share

B．make

C．enjoy

D．treasure

【推荐1】请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can _________remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a _________ can do strange things to people. It ___________to me the other day that I might not have come to ___________life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the _________ of them made me appreciate more _________ I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of___________to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a___________to live, you might call it—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with _________.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ____________ and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say ____________ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, ____________ imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the complex pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most ____________things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was____________ me and I was ____________. "I can’t use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words ____________ in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ____________: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ____________ a successful game of baseball, which we called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of ____________ and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was absolutely____________ because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.1.

A．strongly

B．definitely

C．vaguely(模糊地)

D．clearly

2.

A．catastrophe

B．content

C．caution

D．category

3.

A．struck

B．occurred

C．hit

D．referred

4.

A．determine

B．hate

C．influence

D．love

5.

A．confidence

B．darkness

C．misery

D．loss

6.

A．who

B．where

C．what

D．why

7.

A．adjustments

B．assumptions

C．attractions

D．appointments

8.

A．purpose

B．potential

C．pressure

D．preparation

9.

A．sight

B．baseball

C．blindness

D．adaptation

10.

A．acknowledged

B．collapsed

C．appreciated

D．blamed

11.

A．belief

B．information

C．understanding

D．research

12.

A．despite

B．regardless

C．beneath

D．in spite

13.

A．extreme

B．elementary

C．extraordinary

D．efficient

14.

A．abusing

B．encouraging

C．teasing

D．laughing

15.

A．injured

B．worried

C．disappointed

D．hurt

16.

A．stuck

B．impressed

C．occupied

D．held

17.

A．useless

B．dull

C．uninteresting

D．impossible

18.

A．made

B．produced

C．invented

D．discovered

19.

A．promises

B．purposes

C．intentions

D．goals

20.

A．out of control	B．out of question
C．out of sight	D．out of reach

【推荐2】A mother who worked as a dinner lady at a primary school to make ends meet is celebrating after being admitted as a headmistress. Rosalind Brotherton took a job serving_________to children following the breakdown of her marriage, but just nine years later she is_________a school of her own.

While_________as a dinner lady at Swan Lane First School, she also studied for an Open University_________in History. After graduating in 2005, Ms Brotherton studied_________her teaching qualification before joining a_________as a trainee teacher. She moved to another school where she_________the headmistress.

Ms. Brotherton said, "My marriage_________when I was 30 and I wanted to help provide for my children and do something for_________. I started doing my degree at the Open University. I worked as a dinner____________and a learning assistant (助手) at a school,____________I was working with children and that inspired (启发) me to become a teacher."

It took Ms. Brotherton five years to____________a degree and in the following year she was trained to be a teacher at Swan Lane First School with the University of Worcester. Ms. Brotherton added. "The higher I went the____________ I felt I could make things: better for children. I think that that has____________me to love learning and enjoy learning. There are more____________and strains as a teacher but it's____________. As a dinner lady you can____________relationships. As a head teacher I____________have those but I have to work hard to make sure that I don't____________myself in the office. I have to walk in the playground and be____________to the children."

1.

A．food

B．water

C．clothes

D．milk

2.

A．selling

B．buying

C．running

D．following

3.

A．working

B．leaving

C．judging

D．considering

4.

A．seat

B．degree

C．honor

D．scholarship

5.

A．by

B．with

C．for

D．on

6.

A．factory

B．club

C．school

D．team

7.

A．became

B．showed

C．appeared

D．sounded

8.

A．gave up

B．broke down

C．set off

D．held on

9.

A．himself

B．themselves

C．myself

D．yourself

10.

A．teacher

B．lady

C．visitor

D．volunteer

11.

A．so

B．but

C．and

D．although

12.

A．find

B．know

C．learn

D．get

13.

A．better

B．farther

C．more

D．fast

14.

A．helped

B．allowed

C．persuaded

D．driven

15.

A．progress

B．plans

C．disasters

D．stresses

16.

A．abstract

B．bitter

C．enjoyable

D．cruel

17.

A．usual

B．strong

C．old

D．tall

18.

A．only

B．still

C．ever

D．even

19.

A．free

B．face

C．shut

D．open

20.

A．comfortable

B．suitable

C．favorable

D．available

【推荐3】Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ambition   _______   ended in 2010 when Hill was in a car accident, which put the 17-year-old high school senior in hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have   _______   any hope of a dancing career. But for Hill, it was the   _______ . Far from being a   _______ , her wheelchair encouraged her to fight. “I want to prove to everyone including myself that I’m still normal,” she said, “whatever normal means.”

Normal for her meant   _______ , so Hill did it in her wheelchair alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. Half of her body was taken away from her, so she had to   _______   it with her hands. It definitely took a lot of   _______   and patience.

After graduation from high school, Hill wanted to   _______   her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had   _______   various spinal (脊椎的) injuries but share her   ________ , and invited them to dance with her.

The   ________ experience made Hill wish to reach more people. She moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she called the Rollettes. “I want to   ________   the stereotype of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you're walking or you're   ________ .” Dancing on ________ ,the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast-paced and fulfilling as the foot-based   ________ .

Every year Hill holds a dance camp called the Rollettes Experience for wheelchair users to help them bring out their acting   ________ . In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they   ________ . “It’s so powerful to have my teammates in my life, because they’re my teachers. I have more   ________ ,” one dancer excitedly commented.

Chelsie Hill   ________   what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She has been chasing her dream in the wheelchair. She’s a dancer. The Rollettes have helped her find something else just as   ________ .

1.

A．simply

B．nearly

C．suddenly

D．unfortunately

2.

A．adopted

B．abandoned

C．raised

D．ruined

3.

A．beginning

B．nightmare

C．result

D．miracle

4.

A．accident

B．obstacle

C．companion

D．disability

5.

A．dream

B．dancing

C．performance

D．teamwork

6.

A．move

B．drag

C．remove

D．seize

7.

A．bumping

B．rejecting

C．turning

D．learning

8.

A．design

B．expand

C．employ

D．change

9.

A．suffered

B．witnessed

C．treated

D．ignored

10.

A．identification

B．accomplishment

C．determination

D．requirement

11.

A．interesting

B．challenging

C．amazing

D．embarrassing

12.

A．put forward

B．take off

C．figure out

D．break down

13.

A．laughing

B．dreaming

C．marching

D．rolling

14.

A．wheels

B．mats

C．stages

D．hands

15.

A．activity

B．variety

C．creativity

D．community

16.

A．style

B．award

C．talent

D．personality

17.

A．lived

B．studied

C．understood

D．belonged

18.

A．moved

B．partners

C．confidence

D．pressure

19.

A．applied

B．absorbed

C．attained

D．accumulated

20.

A．fulfilling

B．relaxing

C．convincing

D．approving