【推荐1】I was standing across the lady in the laundry (洗衣店). I got angry as I thought she had _______ my pants. The woman stated _______ that I hadn’t dropped my pants there.

“Can’t you just check to _______ if there are some blue pants lying around somewhere?” I asked. She said that I didn’t bring any pants _______ she always double checked people’s orders. She went to try one more time and I thought about the last time I had seen them. When she _______ empty-handed, I suddenly had a(n) _______. “Hold on a second,” I said nervously. “I need to _______ my wife.” I asked my wife to look in the drawer (抽屉) where I usually collect the dirty clothes. Then I _______ until my wife got back on the phone. “Yeah, you’ve got some blue pants in here,” she said.

It’s not the first time I’ve _______ made negative assumptions (假定). Once I got ________   with a waiter who ignored me when I spoke to him from behind. When he finally ________, I realized he was deaf.

I always give myself ________ to read people’s minds and make assumptions with very little ________. We apparently think we don’t need to check our assumptions. We’re always ________ to give the thing a little bit of ________, which people need regardless of whether our assumptions are right.

1.

A．sold

B．hidden

C．lost

D．stolen

2.

A．firmly

B．slowly

C．quickly

D．rudely

3.

A．guess

B．request

C．imply

D．see

4.

A．if

B．because

C．though

D．when

5.

A．returned

B．came

C．left

D．joined

6.

A．note

B．plan

C．problem

D．idea

7.

A．save

B．call

C．find

D．help

8.

A．apologized

B．agreed

C．argued

D．explored

9.

A．honestly

B．bravely

C．unfairly

D．finally

10.

A．annoyed

B．happy

C．frightened

D．excited

11.

A．went around

B．looked around

C．came around

D．turned around

12.

A．time

B．energies

C．permission

D．opportunities

13.

A．information

B．order

C．translation

D．instruction

14.

A．easy

B．unwilling

C．uncertain

D．ready

15.

A．ignorance

B．kindness

C．mercy

D．inspiration

【推荐2】I shopped today. While I was_______at the grocery store, a woman followed behind me. She was standing by one of those shopping carts with the_______in front. The basket held just a few_______：some apples, corn, a loaf of bread, some canned goods, and a bunch of beautiful coral colored roses. Several times I_______her looking at those lovely roses and_______. I told her that they were, indeed, very lovely roses. She said, "I really do love them, and they’re my_______color.”

Well, just as I was _______, I heard her say to the _______, "You can put those roses back. I really couldn’t _______ them." I turned around and asked her if she would allow me to get them for her. She________her head and said, "Why would you want to do that? You ________ don’t have to." I replied that I just wanted to especially since she________them so much. She still seemed hesitant so I told her that she would be doing me a great kindness if she would________me to gift them to her.

With tears in her eyes, she________and said, "I really do love them. Thank you.”

On the way home I was reminded of a ________ I had heard decades ago and I've loved it ever since. The song is Bread and Roses. It's a ________ song on many levels and reminds us that we all need food, but we all also need ________.

A line from this song fits this________ perfectly, I thought. It reads: "________starve as well as bodies. Give us________, but give us roses, too.”

1.

A．calming down

B．checking out

C．packing up

D．hanging around

2.

A．goods

B．bag

C．customers

D．basket

3.

A．roses

B．cakes

C．items

D．drinks

4.

A．caught

B．suggest

C．had

D．sensed

5.

A．suffering

B．smiling

C．hesitating

D．bargaining

6.

A．favorite

B．suitable

C．attractive

D．similar

7.

A．entering

B．leaving

C．responding

D．wandering

8.

A．companion

B．manger

C．cashier

D．stranger

9.

A．drop

B．enjoy

C．store

D．afford

10.

A．shook

B．turned

C．nodded

D．moved

11.

A．probably

B．sincerely

C．certainly

D．finally

12.

A．needed

B．considered

C．studied

D．loved

13.

A．ask

B．invite

C．force

D．allow

14.

A．cheered

B．agreed

C．refuse

D．insisted

15.

A．song

B．play

C．book

D．film

16.

A．noisy

B．beautiful

C．funny

D．new

17.

A．peace

B．power

C．beauty

D．medicine

18.

A．situation

B．position

C．style

D．standard

19.

A．Bodies

B．Brains

C．Eyes

D．Hearts

20.

A．money

B．time

C．bread

D．chance

【推荐3】"What's it like to have a gap between your teeth?" a girl asked me one day.
Nobody had ever ____ before. My hand unconsciously rose to cover my mouth. But, as she looked at me, sincerely waiting for____, 1 realized she was not trying to be rude. "I never think about it," I truthfully replied. She nodded and turned away. I was left wondering if people____ me and saw only gappy teeth.
Later that day at home, I began to ____ my teeth again. I felt upset. I thought my life would be somehow better if my teeth were not gappy. How I wanted the perfect teeth that everyone else seemed to have!
Of course, Mom ____ everything . She has lived her entire life with gappy teeth, and tried to convince me that there was nothing to ____ When I refused to listen, she told me I could get the surgery to close the gap if it was that important. "Let's be ____though," she said. "If everyone got surgeries to become pretty, everyone would be exactly the same. There is beauty in differences."
Her ____ made me consider my teeth seriously. The thought of losing my gap was more terrible than the reality that people were going to notice it. I realized how important it was to me. It is part of my____.
Nowadays many people do ridiculous things to realize their dream of "perfection." The____ is that no one is perfect. When all potential for ugliness is removed, so is all of the potential for ____.
So if that girl ever asked about my teeth ____ I would truthfully answer. "You know? It's really cute."1.

A．faced

B．guessed

C．asked

D．imagined

2.

A．an offer

B．an answer

C．a suggestion

D．a result

3.

A．heard of

B．thought of

C．talked about

D．looked at

4.

A．consider

B．brush

C．cover

D．appreciate

5.

A．admitted

B．noticed

C．controlled

D．changed

6.

A．worry about

B．put off

C．give up

D．wipe out

7.

A．friendly

B．lovely

C．honest

D．helpful

8.

A．words

B．jokes

C．dreams

D．acts

9.

A．ability

B．decision

C．goal

D．identity

10.

A．possibility

B．purpose

C．truth

D．choice

11.

A．courage

B．wisdom

C．kindness

D．beauty

12.

A．once

B．again

C．too

D．instead

【推荐1】Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight on the way from Boston to Los Angeles. A flight attendant asked a(n) _________ question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on _________ know American Sign Language?”

Clara, 15 at the time, _________ the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the _________. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf.” she said. The passenger _________ to want something, but he was travelling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t _________ what he needed.

Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her _________ in reading and knew she’d be able to finger words into the man’s palm. So she _________ her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the side of Tim Cook, _________ taking his hand, she __________. “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water. After that, she responded to his needs several times.

On her third __________, she stopped and stay a while. “He didn’t need anything. He was __________ and wanted to talk.” Clara said. So for the next hour, that was what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had __________ become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman.

“Clara was __________,” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could __________ Cook was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel.

1.

A．simple

B．urgent

C．unsure

D．vital

2.

A．earth

B．duty

C．business

D．board

3.

A．pressed

B．left

C．fastened

D．struck

4.

A．story

B．mystery

C．scene

D．situation

5.

A．presented

B．seemed

C．happened

D．argued

6.

A．take out

B．pick up

C．figure out

D．give up

7.

A．interest

B．habit

C．efficiency

D．difficulty

8.

A．loosened

B．tightened

C．drew

D．broke

9.

A．Desperately

B．Gently

C．Apparently

D．Merely

10.

A．signed

B．said

C．begged

D．shouted

11.

A．section

B．operation

C．visit

D．flight

12.

A．missing

B．ambitious

C．holy

D．lonely

13.

A．suddenly

B．extremely

C．entirely

D．gradually

14.

A．sensitive

B．independent

C．amazing

D．safe

15.

A．assume

B．tell

C．predict

D．confirm

【推荐2】One day, a 10-year-old boy held a dollar coin in his hand and asked the shop owners along the street, “Excuse me, do you sell _______?”

Throughout the day, the _______ boy went in and out of many stores, asking the _______ question, but each time he was _______.

Then, at the sixty-ninth store, a 60-year-old grandpa _______ and asked the little boy, “Why do you want to buy God?”

The boy told him that his parents had died when he was still a baby and his uncle was now _______ him. But several days before, his uncle was ill in hospital. The doctor told the boy that only God could _______ his uncle. The little boy thought that God must be a _______ thing. And he had a _______ if he could buy God and let his uncle eat, then his uncle would be fine.

“How much do you have?” the old man asked.

“One dollar,” ________ the child.

“My boy, God’s price is exactly one dollar,” said the old man

Then the storekeeper took a bottle of “God” from the shelf. “Take it, boy! When your uncle drinks it, he will get well soon.”

The little boy ________ to the hospital and shouted happily to his uncle, “Uncle, I bought God back and you will get well soon.”

The next day, a medical team ________ the world’s top medical experts came to the hospital. The ________ was very successful. The hospital told the boy’s uncle the bill had already been paid by a rich elderly man.

The little boy’s uncle went to the ________ to thank the old man. But he was away on holiday, ________ a letter.

“You don’t need to thank me. The bill has been paid by your nephew (侄子).To save you, he went into every store to buy God. Thank God, he was the person that saved you!”

1.

A．water

B．bread

C．God

D．mum

2.

A．excited

B．tired

C．angry

D．frightened

3.

A．interesting

B．different

C．serious

D．same

4.

A．refused

B．stopped

C．supported

D．offered

5.

A．guessed

B．smiled

C．silenced

D．complained

6.

A．raising

B．serving

C．protecting

D．controlling

7.

A．govern

B．answer

C．save

D．limit

8.

A．fool

B．rude

C．active

D．wonderful

9.

A．trick

B．belief

C．curiosity

D．adventure

10.

A．repeated

B．replied

C．reminded

D．require

11.

A．moved

B．jogged

C．rushed

D．pointed

12.

A．made of

B．made from

C．made up

D．made up of

13.

A．story

B．operation

C．team

D．patient

14.

A．store

B．hospital

C．company

D．street

15.

A．writing

B．posting

C．leaving

D．answering

【推荐3】When 45-year-old Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (胰腺癌), he chose to focus on living rather than dying. As a computer science _______ at Carnegie Mellon University, Pausch was selected to deliver a “last lecture”. This well-known and popular campus _________ allowed professors to share worldly _________ with all the students in this school as if they were dying and had one last lecture to give.

The only _________ in Pausch’s case is that Pausch really was dying, a fact that only _________ him more rather than discouraging him. He delivered his last lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, on Sept. 18, 2007, in the _________ McConomy Auditorium (大礼堂).

Pausch began by sharing his boyhood dreams, some of which he had achieved and others he hadn’t. He _________ the importance of having dreams and how anyone can still learn a lot by reaching for those dreams, _________ they don’t always succeed. He shared the values and lessons through experience, which he hoped to _________ to others: honesty, hard work, gratitude.

Pausch’s last lecture __________ a great deal of praise and attention __________ it even became a YouTube __________, and in October 2007, he __________ a version on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He __________ the lecture into a book by the same name, which __________ became a best-seller. Readers were deeply __________ by the book’s description of Pausch’s lifelong philosophy and the way it revealed the fundamental __________ of his motivation to live on一his three young children.

Randy Pausch __________ on July 25, 2008, but his __________ still lives on in the recorded lecture and his book. He __________ to motivate us all by encouraging us to never give up on our childhood dreams.

1.

A．student

B．engineer

C．professor

D．programmer

2.

A．tradition

B．atmosphere

C．principle

D．system

3.

A．success

B．fortune

C．courage

D．wisdom

4.

A．difference

B．challenge

C．dilemma

D．contradiction

5.

A．convinced

B．inspired

C．surprised

D．bothered

6.

A．distributed

B．packed

C．covered

D．blocked

7.

A．illustrated

B．suspected

C．adjusted

D．realized

8.

A．only if

B．in case

C．so that

D．even if

9.

A．turn over

B．hand in

C．pass on

D．give out

10.

A．allocated

B．appreciated

C．received

D．reflected

11.

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．so

12.

A．hit

B．symbol

C．comment

D．advertisement

13.

A．invested

B．announced

C．regulated

D．presented

14.

A．turned

B．divided

C．expanded

D．classified

15.

A．frequently

B．gradually

C．quickly

D．formally

16.

A．distracted

B．impressed

C．amused

D．worried

17.

A．effect

B．theory

C．source

D．standard

18.

A．died away

B．died off

C．passed out

D．passed away

19.

A．voice

B．status

C．quality

D．appearance

20.

A．promises

B．continues

C．deserves

D．determines