文章大意：这是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者通过自己学车和丈夫教儿子学车的经历，感悟到学习人生的课程很像学习骑自行车，有些人生课程是痛苦的。我们不能选择在哪里学习它们；我们并不总是有好老师，我们也不总是做好准备，但是在新的一年里，当生活的课程来了，你可以从耐心和善良的老师那里学到；你可能会被支持和鼓励包围。也许会有人陪在你身边直到你胜利。
4 . For my 8th birthday my ________ was a shiny blue bike. My older sisters decided to teach me to ride. We lived on Edgewood Avenue at the top of a steep hill. My ________, Agnes and Christina, put me on my bike and ________ me hard, yelling instructions, “Peddle! Steer! Use the brakes!” Needless to say, I was rushing down the street ________ trying to hold on.
I bumped into the curb (路缘), ________ over the handlebars onto the sidewalk, skinning my knees, hurting my hands and crying loudly. Instead of offering ________, my sisters yelled at me ________ I hadn’t listened to their instructions. Weeks ________ before I tried again. This time I walked my bike to the ________ parking lot behind the schoolyard. I kept repeating the instructions to myself and after a few awkward ________ and even more painful spills I learned to ride a bike.
Learning life lesson is ________ like learning to ride a bike. Some life lessons are ________ to learn. We don’t always get to choose where we learn them; we don’t always have good teachers and we are not always ________. Sometimes we find ourselves madly trying to hold on.
But things are different now.
My husband, Rich, ________ my sons to ride a bike. First he raised their training wheels a little and they rode around the block getting used to the unstable ________. After he removed the training wheels he would run along the side of the bike holding on to the seat to ________ them. Up and down our street they would go with Rich calling out, “You ________ have it! You’re doing great!” until my son would call out “Let go”. Rich would let go but still run along, just ________. It was a happy day in the neighborhood.
When the life lessons come along in this New Year you may ________ them from a patient and kind teacher; you may have them surrounded by ________ and encouragement. And you may have someone stay by your side until you have found victory.
1. | A．dream | B．reward | C．gift | D．aim |
2. | A．brothers | B．sisters | C．friends | D．classmates |
3. | A．stuck | B．turned | C．knocked | D．pushed |
4. | A．wildly | B．carefully | C．slowly | D．instantly |
5. | A．jumping | B．flying | C．moving | D．leaving |
6. | A．sadness | B．happiness | C．excitement | D．sympathy |
7. | A．although | B．until | C．because | D．while |
8. | A．passed | B．remained | C．happened | D．changed |
9. | A．crowded | B．busy | C．covered | D．empty |
10. | A．experiments | B．attempts | C．fights | D．conflicts |
11. | A．though | B．even | C．much | D．still |
12. | A．wonderful | B．comfortable | C．dangerous | D．painful |
13. | A．ready | B．perfect | C．wrong | D．strong |
14. | A．forced | B．taught | C．allowed | D．ordered |
15. | A．practice | B．habit | C．development | D．feeling |
16. | A．repair | B．fix | C．steady | D．move |
17. | A．almost | B．usually | C．always | D．seldom |
18. | A．in time | B．in relief | C．in turn | D．in case |
19. | A．accept | B．learn | C．refuse | D．avoid |
20. | A．blame | B．complaint | C．support | D．criticism |
