【推荐1】“Mom, stop. STOP!” yelled my mom outside my bedroom. At 7 am, I ________ to her yells. It was the weekend and I wanted to sleep. ________ a loud knock on the door ________ my chance of sleeping. “Maggie, get up quickly and help with your grandmother,” my mother ________ me eagerly.

I quickly entered my grandmother’s room and ________ her when we were going downstairs as she walked slowly. We ________ made it to the living room. Now, I had to get her to sit down to watch TV quietly. “ I have to go to work!” she argued, ________ toward the front door. “ I have to go and meet with Fran!” she ________, referring to her daughter, who lives nearly one hundred-twenty miles from here. This argument continued ________ I convinced her to sit down.

I poured out a ________ from a medicine bottle. She hesitated, and then swallowed it down with a glass of water. We returned our ________ to the TV and soon she fell asleep. 15 minutes later, she woke from her nap, becoming ________. The rest of the family came in to greet her. She smiled at everyone, and made jokes, like a ________ person.

My grandmother is________Alzheimer’s（阿尔茨海默症）．One out of five people develops the________by age 80. Symptoms include forgetting words. They also________ to recognize friends and family members or perform________tasks like dressing themselves. As of today, Alzheimer’s is too ________ to defeat, but there are treatments to alleviate（减轻）the symptoms.

The disease affects both the________and the family members. It's________. But it's someone in love. We are willing to fight it with love, which is just as powerful.

1.

A．stayed up

B．woke up

C．broke up

D．warmed up

2.

A．Besides

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Otherwise

3.

A．deserved

B．increased

C．improved

D．ruined

4.

A．warned

B．urged

C．helped

D．taught

5.

A．supported

B．encouraged

C．drove

D．urged

6.

A．quickly

B．patiently

C．surely

D．finally

7.

A．walking

B．rushing

C．glancing

D．leading

8.

A．assumed

B．expected

C．added

D．supposed

9.

A．after

B．unless

C．since

D．until

10.

A．coin

B．pill

C．ball

D．bill

11.

A．attraction

B．hesitation

C．condition

D．attention

12.

A．anxious

B．confused

C．calm

D．angry

13.

A．normal

B．popular

C．remarkable

D．noisy

14.

A．dying from

B．curing

C．studying

D．suffering from

15.

A．discovery

B．disease

C．disability

D．dislike

16.

A．pretend

B．tend

C．struggle

D．agree

17.

A．new

B．basic

C．fresh

D．hard

18.

A．complex

B．common

C．costly

D．unique

19.

A．children

B．doctors

C．patients

D．nurses

20.

A．troublesome

B．inspiring

C．puzzling

D．promising

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C、D) 中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
After my mother passed away, my dad tried even harder to stay healthy and active. Each morning he swam in the pool, and no matter how he felt, he would _____ swim one more lap (圈) than the previous day, just to prove there was always room for ______
By his late 70s, in spite of his swimming, his strength and energy had noticeably ______ By age 81, he was in poor health because of heart problems and arthritis (关节炎). He pretended he didn’t ______to lean heavily on me for support as we walked slowly, I pretended not to _____, and naturally held him. One day he said, “In case of an emergency, I do not _____to be kept alive by any medical means. I’ve made an official will for that ______”
A month later he had a heart attack. In the emergency room, _____, he told me his wish. He was _____with intensive care (重症护理), but he still had his sense of _____, asking me, “Does this mean we can’t keep our lunch date tomorrow?” Then he turned toward the wall next to his bed, and _____to look at me. There was a miserable silence between us. Then he said, “I don’t want you to _____me as a helpless old man. ______you won’t, darling! And please go now.”
Those were my father’s last ______ I had regretted not holding his hand and telling him of my love as he had passed on, _____a dream set me free. My father came to visit me in the dream and told me his _____of the story:
I’m telling you the truth, my darling daughter. I _____you love me as I love you. And I did not want you there _____my death. That was what you wanted, not what I wanted. My death was ____, just the way it was. There are two sides to everything－_____death.1.

A．never

B．seldom

C．occasionally

D．always

2.

A．success

B．activeness

C．improvement

D．feeling

3.

A．decreased

B．increased

C．recovered

D．protected

4.

A．like

B．dare

C．need

D．expect

5.

A．accept

B．notice

C．mention

D．believe

6.

A．pretend

B．order

C．believe

D．want

7.

A．situation

B．decision

C．condition

D．subject

8.

A．instead

B．again

C．besides

D．moreover

9.

A．curious

B．satisfied

C．uncomfortable

D．unfamiliar

10.

A．reasoning

B．purpose

C．humor

D．direction

11.

A．failed

B．refused

C．tended

D．intended

12.

A．remember

B．treat

C．recognize

D．accept

13.

A．Promise

B．Permit

C．Forbid

D．Try

14.

A．lessons

B．suggestions

C．awards

D．words

15.

A．unless

B．if

C．until

D．because

16.

A．ground

B．side

C．step

D．line

17.

A．doubt

B．imagine

C．know

D．require

18.

A．before

B．after

C．at

D．without

19.

A．perfect

B．incredible

C．amazing

D．imaginable

20.

A．mostly

B．nearly

C．even

D．ever

【推荐3】How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the ___to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first ___drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a ____ that, in the past, would have started him ___again.For a few years we were afraid to bring it up ___this addiction would begin again.

“I had this little poem that I would ___to myself at least four to five times a day,”was Dad’s reply to my 18-year-old unasked question.“The words were a constant ___to me that things were   ____so hard that I could not deal with them,”Dad said. Then he ___the poem with me. The poem’s ____, yet profound words immediately became ___of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this   ____with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a ___of daily sayings of wisdom with one listed for each day of the year.

It has been my   ___that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own ____.

I   ___opened the book to April 17 to see   ____words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was ____when I looked at the page, and then   ____of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my cheek. There, on my birthday, was the very poem that had _____my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静的心) Prayer.

God grant me

The serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

1.

A．opportunity

B．courage

C．desire

D．interest

2.

A．gave up

B．took up

C．went on

D．held on

3.

A．company

B．habit

C．situation

D．group

4.

A．working

B．disappearing

C．smoking

D．drinking

5.

A．even though

B．for fear that

C．as far as

D．as long as

6.

A．recite

B．write

C．send

D．introduce

7.

A．challenge

B．pressure

C．warning

D．reminder

8.

A．never

B．even

C．always

D．still

9.

A．discussed

B．shared

C．analysed

D．polished

10.

A．extraordinary

B．well-written

C．simple

D．moving

11.

A．all

B．that

C．none

D．part

12.

A．conversation

B．conflict

C．argument

D．lesson

13.

A．number

B．book

C．pack

D．calendar

14.

A．habit

B．practice

C．experience

D．advice

15.

A．favorite

B．birthday

C．schedule

D．vacations

16.

A．hesitatingly

B．precisely

C．suddenly

D．hurriedly

17.

A．where

B．whether

C．what

D．how

18.

A．astonished

B．delighted

C．confused

D．relieved

19.

A．eyesight

B．feelings

C．tears

D．looks

20.

A．troubled

B．attracted

C．pleased

D．benefited