One day, I fainted because of low blood pressure. It scared my parents. The doctor said that I must rest for a while. I agreed to take it easy but, as I stepped to the door, I saw my dad pushing a wheelchair in my direction! Feeling the color burn my face, I asked him to push that thing right back to where he found it.
I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were fine for other people but not for me, as my father wheeled me out into the main street, people immediately began to treat me differently.
Little kids ran in front of me, forcing my father to stop the wheel chair suddenly. People looked down at me, pity in their eyes. Then they would look away, maybe because they thought the sooner they forgot me , the better they would feel.
“I’ m just like you!” I wanted to scream. “The only difference is you’ve got legs, and I have wheels. ” But I had to taste the bitterness (痛苦) by myself.
People in wheelchairs are not different. They see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces, I finally understood: I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not want to be treated．I realized it is some of us with two healthy legs who are truly disabled.
1. The author once ________ when she was healthy.
| A．laughed at disabled people |
| B．took pity on the people in wheelchair |
| C．wished herself to sit in a wheelchair |
| D．saw some healthy people moving around in wheelchairs |
| A．瘫痪 | B．康复 | C．晕倒 | D．出诊 |
| A．felt curious about it | B．refused to accept it right away |
| C．thought it was ready for his father | D．got ready to move around in it at once |
| A．Life is always the best teacher. |
| B．People often eat their bitter fruit. |
| C．Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. |
| D．Life is so changeable that nobody can know it until it happens. |
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【推荐1】There was a man named Zhou Chu who lived during the Western Jin Dynasty（265-316）. He was very strong—stronger than any other man in the village. People were scared of him because he often bullied（欺负）villagers. At that time, a man-eating tiger and a deepwater monster（怪物） lived nearby. They often caused trouble for the village. People called them, along with Zhou, the "three evils"（三害）.
One day, some villagers asked Zhou to help them kill the tiger and the monster. After three days of fighting, Zhou finally killed them and came back. But the villagers thought he was dead. They celebrated his death. After seeing this, Zhou realized how much he was hated and decided to make a change.
He visited a famous scholar（学者）named Lu Yim. Lu told him, If one realized what is good in the morning, he can change his behavior in the evening. Just do what you think is right." From then on, Zhou became a good person and stopped bullying others. Later he became a great soldier（战士）and died protecting his country.
Zhou Chu is a great example of the Chinese saying: "A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold." We all make mistakes. But it's never too late to correct them. On the other hand, we should also be more tolerant（宽容的）of those who sometimes make mistakes. Maybe they've made mistakes in the past, but they can do great things as long as they return to the right road.
1. According to the passage, who were the three evils?| A．The man-eating tiger, the deepwater monster and Zhou Chu. |
| B．The villagers, the man-eating tiger and the deepwater monster. |
| C．The man-eating tiger, the deepwater monster and the enemies. |
| D．Some villagers, the famous scholar and the deepwater monster. |
①Zhou decided to be a good person.
②Zhou killed the tiger and the monster.
③The villagers thought Zhou was dead and celebrated his death.
④Zhou Chu often bullied villagers.
⑤Zhou became a great soldier and died for his country.
| A．②③④①⑤ | B．②③①④⑤ | C．④②③①⑤ | D．④③②①⑤ |
| A．一心不能二用 | B．浪子回头金不换 |
| C．一失足成千古恨 | D．玉不琢，不成器 |
| A．Zhou Chu was the strongest person in his village. |
| B．It's never too late for everyone to correct his mistakes. |
| C．The villagers were afraid of Zhou Chu because of his looks. |
| D．Zhou Chu learned a good lesson from the villagers and Lu Yun. |
【推荐2】Larry seemed always silent and didn’t have any friends. His teacher Mr. Brown noticed this. One day, he asked Larry to meet him after class.
Mr. Brown said, “I see that you don’t talk to anyone or show any interest in anything. What’s wrong?” Larry answered, “Sir, I have a very difficult life. I have to face some very sad incidents (事件) and I keep thinking about them. Because of this, I can’t focus (集中) my attention on anything and don’t even feel like talking to anyone.”
Mr. Brown listened carefully, thought for a while and said, “Would you like some lemonade (柠檬水)?” Larry felt a little surprised and nervously answered, “Yes, thank you!”
While preparing lemonade, Mr. Brown added more salt on purpose (故意) and kept the quantity (量) of sugar low. Larry made a strange face as soon as he drank a sip of that lemonade. Seeing this, Mr. Brown asked, “You don’t like it?”
“Um…it’s just that there is a bit too much salt in it,” Larry answered.
Mr. Brown stopped him, “Oh, it doesn’t matter. I will throw it away.” As the teacher was lifting the glass to take it away, Larry stopped him and said, “Sir, please don’t throw it away. If we put a little more sugar in the lemonade, it will be fine to drink.”
Hearing this, Mr. Brown said happily, “This is what I want to hear from you. To improve the taste of lemonade, we don’t need to remove the salt from it, and we can just add some sugar to it. Similarly, we cannot remove sad things that have already happened to us, but we can add sweetness of good experiences in our life. If you keep on crying about your past, neither your present will be right nor the future will be bright.”
Larry realized (意识到) his problem and promised to live a positive (积极的) life.
1. What does the underlined “ this” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Larry had to face many sad things. |
| B．Larry couldn’t listen carefully in class. |
| C．Larry didn’t show any interest in anything |
| D．Larry was always silent and had no any friends. |
| A．Larry was thirsty | B．it could help make Larry relaxed |
| C．Mr. Brown wanted to teach him a lesson | D．Mr. Brown wanted to try its special taste |
| A．Mr. Brown threw the lemonade away. |
| B．Mr. Brown wasn’t good at making lemonade. |
| C．Larry felt happy after drinking the lemonade. |
| D．Larry decided to focus on the sweetness of life. |
| A．We can improve the taste of the lemonade with more salt. |
| B．We can live a happier life if we see things from the bright side. |
| C．If we can’t do with the bad things in our life, we won’t be happy. |
| D．If we stop thinking about the sad incidents, difficulties will not go into our life. |
1. Accepting Yourself
The idea of happiness is difficult to understand if you are not at peace with yourself. Learn to accept yourself as you are. Your next step will be to improve your attitude for tomorrow, for the next day, for the day after that, and so forth.
By beginning to accept reality, you will come to the final point of true happiness. Only when you are at peace with yourself, will you finally be able to admit(承认) that you are, in fact, a happy person.
2. Forgiving Others
Forgiving others is a true show of humanity(入性) which also allows us to feel more at ease. When you learn to forgive, you also learn to keep a firm hold on your life. To forgive is to open the doors of personal satisfaction. Yet you simply open your mind to answer, " Do I really want to allow my anger to grow and eat me from inside out?"
3. Helping Your Neighbors
When a friend seems to be suffering from a state of depression(沮丧) , it's quite easy to help him or her out of the trouble. The best attitude to have in this situation is to make him or her understand that he or she is not alone.
If you come to save a friend in need, you'll feel a lot more at peace with yourself. You will feel high—spirited by knowing that someone is looking at life on the brighter side thanks to your kind words.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填人题前括号内。
1. What’s the wriyer’s purpose in mentioning what Jules Renard said?
| A．To please the readers. |
| B．To encourage the readers. |
| C．To lead in the topic of the passage. |
| D．To support the topic of the passage. |
| A．Acceping Yourself | B．Forgiving Others. |
| C．Helping Your Neighbors | D．Keys to Happiness |
| A．change our lifestyle | B．appreciate ourselves |
| C．make more friliends | D．learn from others |
| A．a kind helper | B．a big dreamer |
| C．an good learner | D．a rich giver |
| A．Mrs. Brown,dreaming of having a better—paid job. |
| B．Mrs. Black, loving his teaching job deeply. |
| C．Mrs. Rowling, being unwilling to face failure. |
| D．Mrs. Lee, refusing his best friend’s apology. |
【推荐1】Even though my grandfather was a farmer, my grandmother would iron his work clothes every day.
Because I watched her do this through my childhood, I figured every old woman in the world did it. But as the years passed, I began to question this practice. Why in the world did grandfather need his work clothes ironed? Most days, he never saw anyone but me and maybe a few other crusty (易怒的) farmers.
Grandmother never ironed my clothes, and I surely didn’t see any use in doing it for myself. My clothes were usually so dirty by 9 a.m. that any sign of ironing would be long gone.
One day when I was about 13, I asked grandmother about it. I wanted to know why she thought it necessary to devote time and effort to pressing clothes that were rarely seen and would be dirty in just a short time.
Her reply was as sweet a sentiment as I have ever heard.
She told me that grandfather was the most handsome man in the world. She loved every chance she got to show him off and make the rest of the world jealous (妒忌) that he was hers.
She said, “I want him to feel beautiful. I iron his clothes every day because for all these years, he has made me feel beautiful. He is a man worthy of respect.”
The years went on, and I watched grandmother and grandfather grow old together. I was probably 30 when I understood what beauty really was---it was grandmother ironing grandfather’s clothes happily.
1. In Paragraph 2, what may the underlined words “this practice” mean?| A．Grandmother never ironed my school clothes. |
| B．Grandfather didn’t need his work clothes ironed. |
| C．Grandfather never saw anyone but me and some farmers. |
| D．Grandmother always ironed grandfather’s work clothes. |
| A．Because he wanted to make his grandmother feel beautiful by ironing her clothes. |
| B．Because he never saw anyone but his grandfather and maybe a few other farmers. |
| C．Because he loved every chance he got to show off and make the rest of the world jealous. |
| D．Because his clothes were often so dirty by 9 a.m. that nobody could see any sign of ironing |
| A．The Ironing with Love | B．My Beautiful Grandmother |
| C．Let Others Green with Envy | D．Make His Clothes Beautiful |
【推荐2】Why is the sea salt? Long before we discovered scientific ways of thinking about it, we explained it in a story. Even though the answer isn’t scientific, it holds some other truth in it—especially about the human heart.
Long ago, a poor old couple lived on the coast. One day, an old storyteller came to their village. The old couple gave him a meal. In return, he gave them a coffee mill（磨粉机）and said, “Say, ‘Mill, please grind（磨粉）’,” and it’ll make whatever you want, to stop it, say ‘Mil, please cease（停止）grinding’.”
Soon the old couple had a much better life. They’d been happy people, and they didn’t need much more. But the young couple next door were never satisfied. When they saw the old couple wearing good clothes and buying good food, they burnt with envy（羡慕）. So one day, the young husband went to the old couple’s house secretly and heard, “Mill, please grind hot chocolate!” He was surprised to see it coming out.
Then the young couple stole the mill from the old couple. With it, they rode a horse and set off down the coast, where no one would know them. Along the way, the husband showed proudly and asked, “What do you want it to make?” “Oh, I don’t know. Why not salt?” the wife said. “Mill, please grind salt!” he said. “It works!” the wife shouted. But then they noticed the salt went everywhere. “Make it stop,” the wife said. But the husband didn’t know how. “Mil, please stop grinding! Please, no more!” His words didn’t work. The mill kept grinding. Finally, the young husband threw the mill into the sea as far as he could.
And there it’s been, for hundreds of years, endlessly grinding salt. That’s why the sea is salt.
1. Put the things happened to the mill in correct order.a. It began to produce salt. b. The young husband threw it.
c. The young couple stole it. d. The old coupe got it.
| A．b—d—a—c | B．b—a—d—c | C．d—a—c—b | D．d—c—a—b |
| A．The coffee. | B．The horse. | C．The mill. | D．The chocolate. |
| A．sorry—sad—excited | B．thirsty—excited—afraid |
| C．happy—nervous—proud | D．surprised—thankful—happy |
| A．Being patient. | B．Working properly. | C．Being satisfied. | D．Listening carefully. |
【推荐3】There was once a man called Mr. Flower, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flower's glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen were often tempted to throw a stone at one of Mr. Flower's glass-houses. So Mr. Flower did his best to be in or near his glass-house at the beginning and end of the school day.
But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flower had tried in many ways to protect. his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden, but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.
At last Mr. Flower had a good idea. He put up a large notice made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flower had no further trouble,the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. It was Mr. Flowers' hope to________.
| A．build glass-houses in his free time |
| B．grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup |
| C．win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color |
| D．grow a rose with the longest name |
| A．throw stones at Mr. Flower from their school |
| B．throw stones at Mr. Flower's glass-house |
| C．be in or near by Mr. Flower's glass-houses |
| D．play with Mr. Flower near his glass -houses |
| A．at times when school-boys were walking near them |
| B．all the school day when there were no boys about |
| C．in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day |
| D．where he could not be seen by the passing boys |
| A．be on watch in his free time | B．ask the headmaster for help |
| C．pick up all the stones around his garden | D．do all the above |
| A．write some words on the notice |
| B．put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses |
| C．send for policemen |
| D．give the boys something else to throw stones at |
