1 . Jack threw the papers on my desk. “Next time you want to change anything, ask me first,” he said loudly. I had changed a long sentence and corrected its grammar—something I thought I was paid to do.
Several days later, he made me angry again. I went to his office, prepared to lose my job if need be, but not before I let the man know how I felt. “What?” he said nervously.
Suddenly I knew what I had to do. “Jack, the way you’ve been treating me is wrong. And it’s wrong for me to allow it to continue,” I said. “I want to make you a promise. I will be a friend.” The next day I brought some cakes to Jack’s office. Every time I saw Jack in the hall, I smiled at him. After all, that’s what friends do.
One year after our talk, I was told that I had breast cancer. When I was in hospital, my friends tried to find the right words to say, but no one could. The last day of my hospital stay, the door opened and Jack walked over to my bed. “Tulips (郁金香),” he placed some bulbs (球茎) beside me and said, “If you plant them when you get home, you’ll be there to see them when they come up.” Tears filled my eyes.
In a moment when I prayed for just the right words, a man with few words said the right thing. After all, that’s what friends do. Now, I have seen those tulips push through the soil every spring for over ten years.
1. Why did Jack throw some papers on the author’s desk?| A．Because he thought her report was very bad. |
| B．Because he received the wrong papers from her. |
| C．Because he wanted her to check the papers again. |
| D．Because he disliked her correction without permission. |
| A．She would treat him like a friend. | B．She would bring him some cakes. |
| C．She would treat him the same way. | D．She would work harder from then on. |
| A．Love. | B．Hope. | C．Honor. | D．Thanks. |
| A．Friends should do anything for each other. |
| B．Friends must help each other to correct mistakes. |
| C．Friends should treat each other with respect and kindness. |
| D．Friends should give advice to each other at the right time. |
1. What happened to the woman?
| A．She was robbed. |
| B．Her house was broken into. |
| C．She lost her purse somewhere. |
| A．Blue. | B．Yellow. | C．Red. |
| A．Polite. | B．Helpful. | C．Frank. |
Molly was a single mother of two. She was new here so she didn’t interact much with her neighbors. However, she’d heard a lot of rumors (谣言) about her 82-year-old neighbor, Mr. Palmer. Some neighbors said he was spiritually sick. However, when she first saw Mr. Palmer, she did feel he was strange with his lonely lifestyle.
One day, Molly ran into Mr. Palmer. He was standing by a signal light and glancing around even after the light went green. Molly realized he needed help to cross the street, so she approached him. “Mr. Palmer. I’m Molly. I’ve only lately moved here. Can I help you?” she asked gently. The old man smiled at her. “Oh, Molly! Yes! Would you mind helping me cross the street?” “Of course not, Mr. Palmer,” she smiled. As they reached the other end of the street, Mr. Palmer thanked her over and over again. After that, Molly realized he wasn’t a strange man but just a lonely soul misjudged by everyone.
Days later, Molly got a new job and was just on a trial period, so she was too busy to babysit her kids, Ben aged 6, who had got epilepsy (癫痫) and Adam aged 4, when she was sometimes on the night shift.
One day, when she was returning home, she noticed Mr. Palmer sitting on a resting chair on his doorway. She stopped by and greeted him. During the chat, Mr. Palmer said he suffered from insomnia (失眠症), and only slept late in the morning for 5 to 6 hours at a time. Molly figured she could ask Mr. Palmer for help to babysit her kids while she was on her night shifts. When she asked him about it, he was happy to help.
When Mr. Palmer arrived at Molly’s house to babysit the kids, they got along well with him. Molly was relieved to see her children happy around Mr. Palmer each time and thought her kids were in safe hands while she left for work.
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However, one day, when Molly got home from work early in the morning, her children and Mr. Palmer were nowhere to be seen.
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The call was from an unknown number, and she was informed that her son Ben was in hospital.
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1.对该同学表示关心;
2.向其提供一些帮助如物资援助等；
3.表达祝愿及鼓励其重建家园的信心。
Dear Katrina,
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Yours,
Li Hua
1. 简述写信事由；
2. 寻求帮助。
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Dear editor,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
For 19-year-old Stuart’s father, Peter, his family was his strength and pride.“Together we achieve but divided, we fall,” he often told his four sons, and Stuart was the youngest. Besides family, there was something else that Peter, 56, cherished and believed kept his family united and strong. It was his treasured farm that was passed on from generation to generation.
One day, however, his 19-year-old son, Stuart, approached his dad and told him he wanted his share of the fortune so that he could move to the city and start living his life alone. It was a terrible blow to Peter, who never wished to see his family break.
“But, you don’t know much about city life. I am afraid you’d wander like a lost lamb. This is your family, and we will always support you,” Peter disappointedly said as soon as Stuart told him his intention to leave the house.
“Dad, I’m nineteen, and I have heard plenty about the city from my friends. I don’t want to waste my time and energy farming with you. I have a purpose in life, and I don’t want to become a farmer like you.”
Peter tried changing his mind. “Son, I can give you your share of the fortune. But dear, this is too early to decide.” However, Stuart insisted on going out, so Peter had to give him his share.
Three years went by. Neither Peter nor his family heard anything about Stuart. One day, when the family least expected it, they saw a young man walk toward them. As he neared, they saw his old and dirty clothes and a face that had lost its charm. It was Stuart! Peter was shocked. “Daddy, I need your help ... I’m hungry,” Stuart cried.
“Oh, my dear ... Please sit down first,” Peter said and brought some tea and bread for him. Then Peter asked why he was in such a poor situation.
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Stuart said he took the money and went to the city.
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Overwhelmed by (被震撼)their love, Stuart was moved to tears.
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8 . I try to be a good father. Cook my kids good dishes, and take them to photo shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, in marathons.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled (缠住)by the umbilical cord（脐带）during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs (四肢). “He’ll be a vegetable（植物人）the rest of his life,” doctors told Dick and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. “Put him in an institution.” But the Hoyts weren’t buying it. They noticed the way Rick’s eyes followed them around the room.
When Rick was 11, they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University. Equipped with a computer, Rick was finally able to communicate. After a high school classmate was paralyzed（使瘫痪）in an accident, and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick said, “Dad, I want to do that.” How was Dick, a man who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. That day changed Rick’s life. “Dad,” he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!”
That sentence changed Dick’s life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. They even decided to try marathons. “No way,” Dick was told by a race official. They weren’t quite a single runner, and they weren’t quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years, Dick and Rick joined the massive field and ran anyway. In 1983, they ran another marathon so fast that they made the qualifying time for the Boston Marathon the following year.
Now they’ve done 212 triathlons and 85 marathons. “ My dad is the Father of the Century,” Rick typed.
1. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?| A．The Hoyts didn’t believe it was true. | B．The Hoyts couldn’t afford any institution. |
| C．The Hoyts couldn’t deal with the situation. | D．The Hoyts had no money for their son’s treatment. |
| A．Why Rick became paralyzed. | B．How Rick started running. |
| C．Why running changed Rick’s life | D．How Rick communicated with others. |
| A．they ran a marathon very fast | B．they got support from a charity |
| C．they met a sympathetic race official | D．they had become very famous in the process |
| A．A boy with a rare disease | B．The greatest dad in the world |
| C．A tough road to world champion | D．Parents' influence on children's future |
1. Why does Jacob Heil decide to climb the highest mountains in the world?
| A．To raise awareness of cancer. |
| B．To challenge himself. |
| C．To win a reward. |
| A．His physical health. | B．The unexpected challenges. | C．The height of the mountain. |
| A．By running. | B．By swimming. | C．By bicycling. |
| A．Serious. | B．Determined. | C．Creative. |
Although sometimes it may seem impossible to get along well with your family, you can take action to improve the situation. The key to
