【推荐2】I loved my first grade teacher. Her name was Mrs. Gross but there was nothing gross about her. I wasn't sure what her ______ was at the time but she already looked very grand-motherly. She was ______ and soft-spoken. Unlike some teachers she never yelled at or ______ her students. Every day I arrived at her classroom and sat ______ at my desk with a big smile on my face.

One such memory is still with me to this day. We were doing subtraction math problems ______ on the chalkboard while Mrs. Gross walked through the classroom ______ our work. I finished first and ______ my head just as she looked at my work and said: “This is really good work, Joe. You are a smart boy.” As she walked on she gently ______ my shoulder and I felt a tingle in my heart. It felt so good to   ______ . From that moment on I always tried my best. I always wanted to be as smart as she thought I already was.

Would I have done as good in ______ if I hadn't had Mrs. Gross as my first grade teacher? I don't think so. She awakened a ______ in me to be the best person I could be.

David Whyte wrote, “People are hungry, and one good word is ______ for a thousand.” I think the good words Mrs. Gross gave me helped me to ______ my good words with others. Mrs. Gross showed me just how much ______ one soul can have on another. And I am ______ for putting her in my life.

1.

A．age

B．face

C．name

D．nationality

2.

A．honest

B．shy

C．gentle

D．curious

3.

A．praised

B．annoyed

C．criticized

D．encouraged

4.

A．quietly

B．happily

C．anxiously

D．awkwardly

5.

A．sent

B．laid

C．showed

D．locked

6.

A．looking on

B．checking on

C．agreeing on

D．calling on

7.

A．lifted

B．hung

C．turned

D．nodded

8.

A．hit

B．touched

C．shook

D．rubbed

9.

A．awarded

B．honored

C．understood

D．appreciated

10.

A．life

B．math

C．spirit

D．reality

11.

A．soul

B．desire

C．response

D．concern

12.

A．diet

B．bread

C．rescue

D．relief

13.

A．talk

B．compare

C．link

D．share

14.

A．change

B．effect

C．strength

D．courage

15.

A．fearful

B．thoughtful

C．grateful

D．sorrowful

【推荐3】You've been away from us for one year; you told us a lie which I came to know not long ago.
On this special day for teachers across the country, I can ____keep myself from telling your white lie(善意的谎言) to those who would lend me an ear.
Do you still remember the happy _____about six years ago? We fixed our eyes upon you at your _____.You, a beautiful young lady, ____ us that you would live in our village.
Soon after, we began to find you were part of your students and their simple honest parents. The villagers found their children ______more time on their books ____ after doing their homework and housework. Yet they still ____ that one day you might leave. You ____a smile all the time, which reduced to some degree their____ of your leaving. You went all out in the ____ of your students, helping them not only in their studies but also in their tuition(学费).You often emphasized to us the ____ of one's life, so that must have been what you were ____ in those five years!
One cold morning when class began, you entered the room ____ you had been crying ____ In your class, we ____ but looked away from your eyes. You ____for some time as if you were ____to find the right word…you said you would go away and would never be back to teach because your boyfriend wanted you more…
On the following morning, we ____ you the very best and the villagers gave you their ____The train took you away and your broken ____The other day I happened to hear my parents chatting that you had lung cancer and left the world soon after you waved goodbye.1.

A．forever

B．seldom

C．soon

D．hardly

2.

A．scene

B．condition

C．sign

D．sight

3.

A．report

B．explanation

C．arrival

D．speech

4.

A．promised

B．answered

C．permitted

D．agreed

5.

A．shared

B．spent

C．paid

D．devoted

6.

A．even

B．ever

C．soon

D．still

7.

A．considered

B．feared

C．supposed

D．doubted

8.

A．gained

B．presented

C．wore

D．pretended

9.

A．difficulty

B．question

C．trouble

D．fear

10.

A．teaching

B．middle

C．field

D．course

11.

A．way

B．wealth

C．value

D．cost

12.

A．after

B．with

C．for

D．against

13.

A．as long as

B．now that

C．as if

D．even though

14.

A．happily

B．bitterly

C．angrily

D．anxiously

15.

A．listened

B．talked

C．discussed[

D．studied

16.

A．explained

B．stopped

C．talked

D．spoke

17.

A．worrying

B．thinking

C．crying

D．trying

18.

A．hoped

B．expected

C．brought

D．wished

19.

A．thanks

B．satisfactions

C．expressions

D．rewards

20.

A．class

B．heart

C．class

D．memory

【推荐2】I was on a plane returning home to Dallas, Texas after completing my duty in Vietnam. There were no hometown parades for us veterans (退役老兵) from that ____ war and I had been warned about the unfriendliness from our countrymen at that time. ____, I was just trying to get home without incident.

I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, ____ eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting in the seat next to me, which ____ my loneliness. A little girl, not more than 10 years old, suddenly ____ in the passage. She smiled and, without a word, ____ handed me a magazine. I accepted her ____ together with her quiet “welcome home”. I turned to the window and wept. Her small ____ of caring was the first I had ___ in a long time.

I believe in the ____ between strangers when we reach out to one another.

Today, that young girl ____ has no memory of what happened years ago. I like to think of her as having grown up, continuing to ____ others and teaching her children to do the same. I know she might have been told to give me the “____” by her parents. It doesn’t matter why she gave me the magazine. The ____ thing is she did.

From then on, I have followed her ____ and tried, in different ways for ____ people, to do the same for them. I know that my ____ since then are all due to that little girl. Her offer of a magazine to a tired, scared and ____ soldier has echoed (产生回响) throughout my ____. I have to believe that my small gestures have the same ___ on others.

1.

A．fair

B．great

C．unpopular

D．unexpected

2.

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Besides

D．Meanwhile

3.

A．making

B．keeping

C．reducing

D．avoiding

4.

A．resulted from

B．accounted for

C．added to

D．contributed to

5.

A．screamed

B．appeared

C．jumped

D．waved

6.

A．anxiously

B．casually

C．unconsciously

D．shyly

7.

A．admiring

B．offering

C．apology

D．invitation

8.

A．gesture

B．discussion

C．idea

D．exchange

9.

A．predicted

B．imagined

C．experienced

D．evaluated

10.

A．coincidence

B．connection

C．conflict

D．conversation

11.

A．ridiculously

B．surprisingly

C．unfortunately

D．undoubtedly

12.

A．panic

B．tease

C．touch

D．judge

13.

A．gift

B．lesson

C．reminder

D．reward

14.

A．important

B．unusual

C．appropriate

D．concrete

15.

A．advice

B．dream

C．example

D．requirement

16.

A．old

B．wounded

C．homeless

D．different

17.

A．worries

B．attempts

C．puzzles

D．emotions

18.

A．unfit

B．tough

C．lonely

D．desperate

19.

A．life

B．duty

C．career

D．journey

20.

A．stress

B．effect

C．threat

D．consequence

【推荐3】Once there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in bed, unable to_________.

Because other children weren’t_________to come near him, he_________greatly, and spent his days feeling sad.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the_________.Time passed, and his feeling of_________just grew. Until one day he saw a_________shape in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in through the_________window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, turned around, and_________.

The boy was very_________.He was still trying to work out what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey, busy blowing up a balloon(气球).__________, the boy asked himself what that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy looking__________appeared out the window, he began to laugh suddenly and found it hard to__________.The boy didn’t tell anyone about this because who would have__________him? Even so, those strange characters put joy back in his heart, and in his body. Soon, his__________had improved so much that he was able to go back to__________again. There he got to talk to his best friend all the strange things he had__________. He saw something sticking out of his friend’s school bag. The boy asked his friend what it was.__________his friend had to show him what was in the__________: There, inside, were all the fancy-dress suits that his friends had been using to try to__________the little boy!

From that day on, the little boy always did his best to__________that no one felt sad and alone.

1.

A．listen

B．move

C．speak

D．eat

2.

A．allowed

B．ordered

C．forced

D．taught

3.

A．used

B．grew

C．helped

D．suffered

4.

A．street

B．garden

C．window

D．door

5.

A．fear

B．happiness

C．shame

D．sadness

6.

A．round

B．different

C．big

D．strange

7.

A．small

B．open

C．broken

D．double

8.

A．left

B．smiled

C．stood

D．escaped

9.

A．worried

B．surprised

C．afraid

D．sick

10.

A．For example

B．In fact

C．At first

D．In all

11.

A．birds

B．characters

C．people

D．friends

12.

A．stop

B．run

C．smile

D．count

13.

A．visited

B．helped

C．believed

D．thanked

14.

A．quality

B．service

C．skill

D．health

15.

A．hospital

B．church

C．school

D．work

16.

A．seen

B．remembered

C．heard

D．collected

17.

A．Quickly

B．Finally

C．Luckily

D．Suddenly

18.

A．hand

B．pocked

C．bag

D．box

19.

A．call up

B．call on

C．wake up

D．cheer up

20.

A．make sure

B．find out

C．work out

D．point out