【推荐2】Grady threw down his backpack and slammed the car door shut.

“This is going to be a really ______week,” he said unhappily to no one ______ . He looked around the campground. Hundreds of tall and green fir (冷杉) trees, some as tall as church towers, covered the mountainside, giving it the appearance of a green carpet. The sun would be setting soon. Then, Grady thought, maybe the______wouldn’t be unbearable. But actually even up here in the ______the hot stickiness of July was closely attached to him.

Grady hated camping, but it was something his family______father liked cooking over an open fire, telling stories about how to______every summer. His things like bear attacks and swarms (蜂群) of bees. His mother and younger brother Jared liked to hike and take pictures of animals. Jared had a collection of bug pictures that he’d attached to the walls in his half of their room. Grady thought they were just scary and proof that Jared was a______kid.

They setup camp — two______, one for his parents and one for himself and Jared. While everyone else started preparing dinner, Grady, looking for someplace to cool down, set off for the nearby stream, which was deep enough to ______in.

As he ______the stream, something caught his eye. There was a (an)______black bear baby — no more than two feet tall with a lovely face. It was playing pretty______at the water’s edge,______its surroundings. Grady moved closer to get a better look. Then Grady heard a sound ______him. He remembered his father saying that bear cubs would never be ______. Then he turned around and saw the cub’s mother moving swiftly towards him...

1.

A．risky

B．lengthy

C．peaceful

D．interesting

2.

A．in particular

B．in advance

C．in brief

D．in silence

3.

A．dust

B．campground

C．heat

D．sun

4.

A．river

B．sky

C．tower

D．mountain

5.

A．believed in

B．stuck to

C．came across

D．lived through

6.

A．survive

B．experience

C．explore

D．recognize

7.

A．sensitive

B．smart

C．strange

D．tough

8.

A．beds

B．rooms

C．tents

D．plates

9.

A．dig

B．swim

C．hide

D．sink

10.

A．crossed

B．imagined

C．approached

D．left

11.

A．cute

B．aggressive

C．injured

D．huge

12.

A．cautiously

B．joyfully

C．forcefully

D．nervously

13.

A．attacking

B．destroying

C．hating

D．ignoring

14.

A．above

B．below

C．behind

D．besides

15.

A．alone

B．awake

C．smart

D．scared

【推荐3】I was touched, so much. A while back, my three-year-old son and I settled back for his goodnight routine. We lay down in his little bed and he said, “Daddy, when I get big can I live with you?” I _______ him he could live with me any time he wanted to.

A moment later he said, “When you die you’re going to feel _______ on your face and it will be me touching you.” Then he promised, “I will kiss you.” He moved over, kissed me. I was aware of tears suddenly welling up in my eyes. I didn’t want to explain _______ I was crying; as I opened my eyes to look at him, he was already _______

I spent some time looking at him, _______ the minute and wondering about the depth of the _______ I’d had. It occurred to me that I didn’t remember having much of this kind of _______ time with my father, and that this was a time that would be extremely short-lived. This time of _______ that forms a three-year-old’s life, would soon be _______. What will remain, however, will be the ________ of this short while reoccurring in my mind non-stop. It made all of the difficult ________ of being a father worthwhile.

Sometimes, being a committed father can feel like you’re ________ the doorkeeper, driver, and cleaner in the house. Then you will have “a ________”, one like this in which your child expresses absolute, pure, and ________ love for you.

When your kids have left home and you look back at these years, all of these will be strung together to________ the memories of their lives with you.

1.

A．warned

B．reminded

C．assured

D．convinced

2.

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

3.

A．how

B．why

C．whether

D．when

4.

A．silent

B．upset

C．asleep

D．calm

5.

A．enjoying

B．searching

C．checking

D．expecting

6.

A．sight

B．idea

C．feeling

D．view

7.

A．gentle

B．historic

C．magical

D．simple

8.

A．cleverness

B．truth

C．innocence

D．care

9.

A．valued

B．shaped

C．changed

D．gone

10.

A．effect

B．scene

C．result

D．mark

11.

A．dream

B．work

C．reality

D．career

12.

A．still

B．even

C．just

D．also

13.

A．process

B．course

C．period

D．moment

14.

A．unconditional

B．insignificant

C．sufficient

D．inaccessible

15.

A．consist of

B．contribute to

C．make up

D．count on

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When asked by Conan O’Brien if his daughters had smartphones, comedian Louis CK explained that he had ____replied, “No, you can’t have it. It's bad for you. I don’t _____ what you want.” This hit home for me because at the time, I was in difficult negotiations with my ten-year-old daughter ________ one. And frankly, she was winning. CK added, “I’m not raising the ________--- I’m raising the grown-ups that they’re going to be. So just ________ the other stupid kids have phones doesn’t mean that my kid has to be stupid, or ________ she’ll feel weird.” OK, I was sold.
Cell phones are “toxic, especially for kids,” he said, because they don’t help them learn empathy, one of the nicer human _____ When we text, the ________ we get is in cold, hard text-speak. Why are kids ____? he asked. “Because they’re trying it out. They look at another kid and go. ‘You’re fat.’ Then they find the kid’s unhappy, and they think, Ooh, that doesn’t feel _____” There, they’ve experienced empathy. Texting “you’re fat” allows you to bypass the pain you’ve caused.
CK went on to explain to us that smartphones rob us of our ability to be _____ Kids use smartphones to ____y!!! After all, one of the joys of being human is allowing our minds to ________. With cell phones, kids are always preoccupied. They never daydream, ________ in class. And here’s something else we’re _____ out on thanks to Steve Jobs’s little device: our right to be ________. This was a right I hadn’t realized I desired until CK pointed out that it’s yet another of the essential human emotions.
“Everybody’s murdering each other with their cars” as they text, CK screamed, because they fear being alone. Too bad —they’re missing out on a life affirming experience.
“I was in my car one time, and Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Jungleland’ came on,” he said. “And he sounds so far away. It made me really sad. And I think, OK, I’ve got to get the phone and write hi to 50 people. I was ____ for the phone, and I thought, Don’t! Just be sad.” So CK ________ over and allowed himself to sob like a little girl ________ that brand-new four-poster bed for her American Girl doll. “It was beautiful. You’re lucky to ________ sad moments,” he said. And because he didn’t fight and push it away with that little phone, because he allowed himself to be miserable, his body released endorphins(内啡肽). “And that’s why I don’t want to get phones for my kids.” CK said. And I suppose I don’t either.1.

A．hardly

B．simply

C．voluntarily

D．specially

2.

A．reject

B．care

C．neglect

D．separate

3.

A．by

B．from

C．over

D．beyond

4.

A．children

B．money

C．standard

D．doubts

5.

A．after

B．unless

C．though

D．because

6.

A．otherwise

B．nevertheless

C．rarely

D．moreover

7.

A．emotions

B．hobbies

C．issues

D．weaknesses

8.

A．error

B．response

C．trouble

D．danger

9.

A．proud

B．stupid

C．mean

D．delighted

10.

A．upset

B．awkward

C．good

D．crazy

11.

A．creative

B．smart

C．critical

D．alone

12.

A．spare

B．occupy

C．value

D．miss

13.

A．focus

B．wander

C．make

D．occur

14.

A．even

B．still

C．ever

D．except

15.

A．figuring

B．finding

C．missing

D．taking

16.

A．capable

B．accessible

C．changeable

D．miserable

17.

A．reaching

B．answering

C．applying

D．begging

18.

A．pulled

B．turned

C．got

D．came

19.

A．reminded

B．denied

C．rewarded

D．neglected

20.

A．live

B．share

C．ignore

D．spare

【推荐2】It was two days before we would leave our house. I thought back to the old days in the house. However, we were saying _________.

My husband said some things like the rocking chair and the kitchen table wouldn’t _________ in the truck. I said, “But we have to take them!”

“But there is not enough room,” he said.

We lived on the east side of Mississippi and our parents were in the west, so we always _________ to move out there to be with the people we missed. When a chance came for my husband to work in the west, we decided to _________.

“Could we get a bigger truck?” I asked, still trying to bring everything along with us.

“Amy, this is the biggest truck,” my husband said. I stood in the garage. _________ that we had to leave behind some furniture, I felt upset. So I called my mom.

“Hi, honey. How’s the _________ going?” my mom asked.

“Some furniture is not gong to fit,” I said, trying to keep my voice _________ and not to burst into tears. “It’s hard to leave them behind. I sat in that rocking chair and read stories to Azure. I sat at that kitchen table with my _________.”

“Honey, these things are not the _________. You don’t need the rocking chair to remember ________________ to Azure. You don’t need your kitchen table to remember family dinners. You’ll always ________________ those memories whether the things come with you to your new ________________ or not. And you don’t have to ________________ about losing the memories.” my mom said.

My mom was ________________. We’ve been very happy in our new home. Though we have half as many things we did before, we have not ________________ the memories of our old home.

1.

A．yes

B．no

C．goodbye

D．hello

2.

A．fit

B．crash

C．survive

D．crack

3.

A．afforded

B．offered

C．chose

D．intended

4.

A．battle

B．update

C．move

D．chat

5.

A．Explaining

B．Believing

C．Thinking

D．Expecting

6.

A．comparison

B．packing

C．design

D．living

7.

A．professional

B．familiar

C．specific

D．normal

8.

A．friend

B．family

C．neighbor

D．ancestor

9.

A．memories

B．customs

C．transitions

D．emotions

10.

A．announcing

B．posting

C．writing

D．reading

11.

A．remove

B．reduce

C．have

D．identify

12.

A．house

B．company

C．country

D．account

13.

A．hear

B．talk

C．learn

D．worry

14.

A．eager

B．right

C．generous

D．confident

15.

A．stirred

B．promoted

C．lost

D．suffered

【推荐3】When I was a boy growing up I cannot once ever remember either my mom or my grandmother wasting food. Anything we didn't eat at one meal was _________, stored, and served as leftovers later on. I can _________ my grandmother making a huge pot of brown beans with a large cake of cornbread. We would all eat until we were _________ but there was always about half of the beans _________. A few days later Grandmother would take those _________ out of the refrigerator, boil pasta, add parsley and _________ them all together into her delicious Pasta Fasule (意大利面食). And I also remember when I _________ my mom fry bacon for us in the mornings she would always take the butter and _________ pour it into a container. Then she later would _________ it to flavor up (调味) so many other dishes.

I learned their __________ well and after I grew up I tried to never __________ food myself. I always __________ the week's meals ahead of time and only bought what was on my shopping __________ so nothing went to waste. Every   __________ went into our stomachs and any leftovers were later eaten by either myself, my boys, or my dogs. To me throwing food in the trash was just __________. All the work it took to grow it, harvest it, and prepare it needed to be     __________ and not wasted.

I __________ something else over the years, however: When it comes to __________ there are no leftovers. Each moment that you don't live is __________ forever. Life cannot be saved. Life cannot be __________. Life has to be lived, TODAY!

1.

A．thrown

B．abandoned

C．saved

D．poured

2.

A．remember

B．witness

C．imagine

D．assist

3.

A．uncomfortable

B．full

C．unbearable

D．content

4.

A．picked out

B．left over

C．made use of

D．fed up with

5.

A．cakes

B．pots

C．dishes

D．beans

6.

A．roll

B．dip

C．mix

D．fry

7.

A．watched

B．felt

C．heard

D．helped

8.

A．frequently

B．carefully

C．curiously

D．abruptly

9.

A．swallow

B．remove

C．digest

D．use

10.

A．recipes

B．experiments

C．lessons

D．procedures

11.

A．make

B．purchase

C．reserve

D．waste

12.

A．planned

B．cooked

C．distributed

D．collected

13.

A．bill

B．list

C．bag

D．spot

14.

A．vegetable

B．soup

C．material

D．meal

15.

A．wrong

B．common

C．awesome

D．endless

16.

A．confirmed

B．ignored

C．recycled

D．honored

17.

A．regretted

B．admitted

C．learned

D．expected

18.

A．living

B．thinking

C．shopping

D．ending

19.

A．broken

B．lost

C．hidden

D．occupied

20.

A．replaced

B．transformed

C．stored

D．defeated