1 . John entered a college and often worked late until 12 at night. He fell into the ________ of smoking a year ago. He smoked so much that he ________ had a cigarette on his lips. He ________ while he read, while he watched television and________ while he drank a cup of coffee or tea. He smoked nearly forty cigarettes a day, but he was ________ about it.

       John’s friend, Frank, ________ many times to ________   him not to smoke. “Smoking is bad for your _________!” he said, “You’d better give it up.” But his advice didn’t _________.
       Before long, John ________   that he often got a bad cough, ________ he went to see a doctor. The doctor _________ him carefully and asked whether he often smoked. John told him the ________. Then the doctor told him that his cough was ________ by smoking and he wouldn’t get any better unless he stopped smoking.

“If not,” said the doctor, “you will never ________ from your cough and some other illnesses may also be caused.” John became ________ and made up his mind to give up smoking. At the beginning, it was very ________ for him. Every ____ when he wanted to smoke, he got something to eat. At last, he was not ________ smoking at all. And he no longer had ________.

1.

A．hole

B．habit

C．interest

D．love

2.

A．still

B．sometimes

C．never

D．always

3.

A．stopped

B．smoked

C．ate

D．played

4.

A．ever

B．just

C．even

D．only

5.

A．happy

B．angry

C．doubtful

D．curious

6.

A．forgot

B．explained

C．1eft

D．tried

7.

A．advise

B．force

C．order

D．call

8.

A．friendship

B．study

C．health

D．sleep

9.

A．continue

B．work

C．return

D．answer

10.

A．recognized

B．understood

C．found

D．showed

11.

A．but

B．so

C．though

D．or

12.

A．saw

B．judged

C．watched

D．examined

13.

A．truth

B．reason

C．accident

D．disease

14.

A．followed

B．kept

C．caused

D．resulted

15.

A．differ

B．recover

C．hear

D．suffer

16.

A．disappointed

B．sad

C．sorry

D．worried

17.

A．boring

B．tiring

C．difficult

D．1ate

18.

A．day

B．time

C．way

D．second

19.

A．surprised at

B．certain about

C．afraid of

D．interested in

20.

A．troubles

B．pains

C．coughs

D．cigarettes

2 . Boundaries are everywhere. Some are for security. Some are for privacy. But some are just for us to _________.

One day, after supper, I took a walk on the _________. Taotao, my 5-year-old son, was bouncing excitedly behind me. He _________ a thin stick and acted as the Monkey King all the time. The sidewalk was paved by red bricks, _________ sharply with the pitch (沥青)-paved bikeway and formed a clear _________. “Use the sidewalk. It’s safe”, I _________ my son frequently.

Suddenly a maple leaf was blown off and _________ quietly on the bikeway, about two steps away. Taotao was totally _________. He stopped, bent down and tried to fetch it but failed. He _________ his stick, tried hard again but still failed. A bit _________, he stood up and moved one step forward, but not beyond the boundary. After several more attempts with the stick, the leaf was still not moving to him. I was right beside him, worried a lot about his further _________.

Finally, he stood up, threw away the stick _________, stepped across the boundary and picked up the leaf directly. Yeah! I saw a _________ smile on his face!

Many times we _________ our thinking within a boundary and can’t find a good solution; many times we hold existing _________ at hand, never thinking about whether they are still useful. We are not lacking in knowledge but short of knowing how to break the thinking boundaries.

1.

A．build

B．adjust

C．break

D．expand

2.

A．driveway

B．crosswalk

C．bikeway

D．sidewalk

3.

A．rolled

B．hid

C．swung

D．bent

4.

A．joining

B．contrasting

C．comparing

D．connecting

5.

A．boundary

B．style

C．figure

D．pattern

6.

A．threatened

B．urged

C．inspired

D．reminded

7.

A．laid

B．landed

C．sank

D．put

8.

A．absorbed

B．excited

C．controlled

D．trapped

9.

A．threw away

B．picked up

C．sent off

D．reached out

10.

A．annoyed

B．satisfied

C．delighted

D．concerned

11.

A．findings

B．vision

C．observation

D．progress

12.

A．heavily

B．carefully

C．accidentally

D．repeatedly

13.

A．bitter

B．sweet

C．embarrassing

D．curious

14.

A．restrict

B．start

C．close

D．operate

15.

A．facilities

B．materials

C．tools

D．weapons

4 . Two weeks earlier, my husband, Russ, had gotten an early-morning call telling us to move to a safer place immediately. The wildfire tearing through Northern California had spread and _______ our way.

We’d jumped in the car with our cats and a few belongings. For days, we’d _______ from hotel to hotel, desperate for news. What finally came wasn’t _______. Our house had been right in the fire’s path.

Now we’d been given _______ to return. I wasn’t prepared for what awaited us. Our house was nothing but_______. Photos and my precious collection of inspirational books — all gone, I wiped away tears as we dug through the ash (灰) and debris (残骸). How will we _______ this?

How will we go on? It felt as if our lives had been_______.

Russ _______what we’d found into the car. “Let’s go, ”he said. I turned to get in the car. That’s when I noticed something stuck to my shoe. A piece of paper, dirty with _______. I picked it up. Its edges were________, yet the words were surprisingly ________ : “If life seems difficult, I pause and________the blessing sometimes hidden within every circumstance. With new ________I begin again. ”

Words that must have come from one of my books, a passage I couldn’t ________ but now said everything I needed to ________. Words that rose from the ashes. I framed that scrap of paper. It now sits in a place of honor in our new home, a reminder that we can begin again.

1.

A．cleared

B．headed

C．prevented

D．pointed

2.

A．begged

B．lived

C．asked

D．moved

3.

A．good

B．true

C．bad

D．false

4.

A．encouragement

B．reward

C．advice

D．permission

5.

A．ruins

B．flames

C．dangers

D．flowers

6.

A．refuse

B．clean

C．survive

D．remember

7.

A．saved

B．destroyed

C．decorated

D．enriched

8.

A．counted

B．hid

C．discovered

D．put

9.

A．ashes

B．water

C．fire

D．spot

10.

A．watered

B．cleaned

C．smoked

D．folded

11.

A．pleasant

B．sincere

C．clear

D．simple

12.

A．reflect on

B．carry on

C．put on

D．cheer on

13.

A．success

B．burden

C．information

D．courage

14.

A．analyze

B．understand

C．recall

D．recite

15.

A．judge

B．hear

C．forget

D．ignore

5 . Though Armenia isn’t exactly ready for groups of foreign hikers, the country rewards those who make the effort. When my son recently finished graduate school, I seized the_________to spend a week hiking_________him in my own father’s homeland. Not long ago, no outsider would have considered such a_________through the former Soviet Republic. But we_________the paths with hikers from Australia, Canada, England and France,_________we left hoping to return.

Armenia isn’t for every_________. “You often will not find marked trail heads, and if you find a map, it will_________be written in Armenian — which doesn’t_________the Latin alphabet.” We couldn’t find a guide until we arrived in the country, and then we had to_________. After spending a day in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, we visited the Dilijan National park. In the forested national park, we__________, the ruins of a 1,000-year-old monastery (修道院)__________in a mountain top clearing. That__________me of the people who hiked to the site to__________when it was built. “It seemed such a very different__________from driving to a church parking lot these days.”

Marc and I never did reach the summit (山顶) of Aragats, Armenia’s__________mountain. That would have__________the climbers to cover 6,000 feet in one day. and when a storm__________, we settled on the mountain’s secondary peak.__________so, “we weren’t disappointed.” A mountain doesn’t always__________to a climber’s first attempt, and a country doesn’t reveal all its treasures in a week. Our adventure, we know, had “only scratched the__________.”

1.

A．control

B．power

C．opportunity

D．initiative

2.

A．without

B．for

C．about

D．with

3.

A．chance

B．trip

C．job

D．moment

4.

A．crossed

B．made

C．blocked

D．searched

5.

A．so

B．or

C．but

D．and

6.

A．adventurer

B．cyclist

C．climber

D．foreigner

7.

A．strictly

B．hardly

C．probably

D．mainly

8.

A．use

B．take

C．adapt

D．master

9.

A．go around

B．look around

C．gather around

D．ask around

10.

A．came up

B．came across

C．came over

D．came about

11.

A．waiting

B．sleeping

C．sitting

D．waving

12.

A．cured

B．reminded

C．warned

D．robbed

13.

A．pray

B．live

C．study

D．survey

14.

A．life

B．experience

C．account

D．custom

15.

A．steepest

B．highest

C．shortest

D．largest

16.

A．forced

B．enabled

C．caused

D．required

17.

A．signaled

B．promised

C．passed

D．threatened

18.

A．Quite

B．Yet

C．Even

D．Still

19.

A．give up

B．give away

C．give in

D．give out

20.

A．surface

B．line

C．site

D．spot