1 . It was a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon some fifteen or sixteen years ago. I took my two kids to the local playground. As soon as we got there my daughter headed for the swings(秋千)and asked for a ____. I noticed another little girl ____ to get her own swing going high as I was ____ my daughter to go higher and higher.

I walked over to the little girl and asked ____ she needed help. She smiled and said YES and I soon had her feet flying towards the ____ while she laughed happily. For the next two hours I found myself pushing swings and playing games with my daughter and the little girl. By the time we headed home, I was ____ tired, but my spirits were flying ____ than those swings.

Three years later I was ____ again after a day’s work. Still, I needed to ____ my kids from their school before heading home. I stood in the ____ waiting area waiting for my children. Suddenly, I felt two ____ arms wrapped around my legs. I looked down and there was the little girl I met 3 years before on the ____ smiling up at me. She gave me a big hug before running away to ____ the school bus. As I watched her ____, I didn’t feel tired any more and my spirits were once again ____ with that swing.

The love we ____ with others will find its way back to us. It will travel from heart to heart. It may take seconds or it may take ____. The law of love, ____ is never broken. We will get back what we give. We will harvest what we ____ . The kindness we give and the joy we create will always come back to ____ us.

1.

A．jump

B．pull

C．push

D．climb

2.

A．failed

B．decided

C．stopped

D．managed

3.

A．encouraging

B．helping

C．refusing

D．advising

4.

A．why

B．how

C．when

D．whether

5.

A．clouds

B．ground

C．swing

D．trees

6.

A．finally

B．suddenly

C．physically

D．mentally

7.

A．faster

B．higher

C．more quickly

D．more slowly

8.

A．amazed

B．upset

C．concerned

D．tired

9.

A．look after

B．pick up

C．take away

D．bring up

10.

A．parents’

B．teachers’

C．patients’

D．passengers’

11.

A．strong

B．long

C．tiny

D．weak

12.

A．classroom

B．school

C．kindergarten

D．playground

13.

A．drive

B．catch

C．reach

D．repair

14.

A．hands

B．head

C．face

D．back

15.

A．flying

B．crying

C．running

D．falling

16.

A．own

B．care

C．share

D．find

17.

A．hours

B．days

C．months

D．years

18.

A．though

B．therefore

C．still

D．besides

19.

A．save

B．plant

C．design

D．offer

20.

A．scare

B．interest

C．excite

D．shock

2 . 语法填空

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about     1     (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop,     2     some of them looked very anxious and     3     (disappoint).When the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next     4     the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on a bike     5       (catch ) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused     6     (stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept     7     (ride). He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up to the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked, “Did anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh, dear! It’s     8     (I).”She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, Everyone on the bus began talking about     9     the boy had done, and the crowd of strangers     10     (sudden) became friendly to one another.

3 . 短文填空

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused    1     (let) the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels    2    (give) a space in the cold basement.    3    midnight the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied: Things aren’t always what they seem.

    4     next night the two angels came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable(好客的)farmer and his wife. After sharing their food ,the couple let the angels sleep in their only bed .As     5    (usually), the angels found the farmer and his wife in    6    ( tear). Their only cow died.The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, “Why did you not care about the poor family? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house.The second family had little but was willing to share everything, but you did not help.”

    7    (final)the older angel replied. “When we stayed in the basement，I noticed there was gold kept    8     the hole . Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune，I asked God if I could seal(封口) the wall so he wouldn’t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed，the angel of death(死神) came for his wife..I made up     9    mind to help them,so I gave him the cow instead of the farmer’s wife.Just remember that things aren’t always    10    they seem.”

4 . An old farmer lived on a farm with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early to read his holy. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read holy（圣书） just like you but I don't understand it, What good does reading the holy do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water." The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out (漏出) before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the same took place. He told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water with a basket.

The old man said, " You're just not trying hard enough,"   So the boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!",   "So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been changed from a dirty old coal basket into a clean one inside and outside.

"You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Krishna in our lives."

1. We can learn from Paragraph 1 that the grandson_________.

A．was fond of reading.

B．helped his grandpa on the farm.

C．got up early to carry water every day.

D．liked his grandpa very much.

2. We can learn that by getting water with a basket, the grandson__________.

A．washed the dirt off the basket.

B．kept some water for the future.

C．was punished for what he had said.

D．became stronger and cleverer.

3. The grandfather gave his grandson a lesson by_________.

A．telling him an interesting story

B．having a heated discussion with him

C．asking him to carry water with a basket.

D．performing an experiment for him

5 . One morning, my eyes caught a small poster across the room, which read, “In order to help others, I must help myself first.” I can’t ______ where I got it, but the poster has always been there. I didn’t take notice of it before, but this time, I felt something ______ .

Somehow in my mind there often ______ pictures from a documentary (记录片), which I saw several days ago about the lives of ______ children in Palestinian refugee camps (难民营). Their living ______ are so poor. They live in overly crowded   ______ without electricity or fresh water supply. Schools are ____ a luxury (奢侈) for many children. _______can tell when it will end. They surely need a helping hand.

I sincerely hope that there will be some helping hands which can give hope to these children ______ they can start to appreciate a good and _____ world. At that moment, I   _____ that the joining of many helping hands must start with one helping hand and that was mine. But how do I go about doing this? I was silently lost in my own ___

“What are you thinking?” My silence was______ by my dad. I asked him, “How can I be a helping hand?” He ____ a deep breath. Then he said, “To be a helping hand, ____ , you have to be successful in whatever you ____ to be.”

He walked out of the room and soon came back with a ______in his hands. He handed it to me and said, “Spend some time reading this and ____ you will understand what I meant.” After spending the whole day reading the book, I realized that “in order to help others, I must help myself first” has a deeper-rooted ____. Helping myself means I have to be ____ so that I can help others with my helping hands.

1.

A．imply

B．admit

C．suggest

D．remember

2.

A．exciting

B．different

C．strange

D．similar

3.

A．exist

B．stand

C．arrive

D．appear

4.

A．dishonest

B．careless

C．helpless

D．public

5.

A．conditions

B．houses

C．positions

D．rights

6.

A．tents

B．castles

C．classrooms

D．trees

7.

A．placed

B．named

C．read

D．considered

8.

A．Anybody

B．Somebody

C．Nobody

D．Everybody

9.

A．as if

B．so that

C．in case

D．even though

10.

A．caring

B．thoughtful

C．quiet

D．deep

11.

A．agreed

B．realized

C．minded

D．appreciated

12.

A．ideas

B．dreams

C．eyes

D．thoughts

13.

A．settled

B．killed

C．broken

D．destroyed

14.

A．lost

B．felt

C．took

D．heard

15.

A．first of all

B．all of a sudden

C．as a result

D．at the end

16.

A．dislike

B．choose

C．desert

D．learn

17.

A．poster

B．pen

C．book

D．picture

18.

A．personally

B．hopefully

C．generally

D．crazily

19.

A．meaning

B．opinion

C．cause

D．impression

20.

A．practical

B．demanding

C．generous

D．successful

6 . After a few moments, my passenger started a conversation. It began ordinarily enough: “How do you like driving a cab?”

“It’s OK,” I said. “I make a living and meet interesting people sometimes. How about you? His reply intrigued me.

“I would not change jobs even if I could make twice as much money doing something else.”

I’d never heard that before. “What do you do?’’

“I’m in the neurology department at New York Hospital.”

Then I decided to ask for this man’s help. We were not far from the airport.

“Could I ask a big favor of you? I have a son, 15, a good kid. He wants a job, but a 15-year-old can’t get hired unless his old man knows someone who owns a business, and I don’t.” I paused. “Is there any possibility that you could get him some kind of summer job?”

He didn’t respond for a while. Finally, he said: “Well, the medical students have a summer research project. Maybe he could fit in. Have him send me his school record.”I tore off a piece of my brown lunch bag, and he scribbled his name on it and paid me. It was the last time I ever saw him.

After I nagged, yelled, and finally threatened to cut off his pocket money, my son Robbie sent off his grades to the guy the next morning.

Two weeks later, when I arrived home from work, my son was beaming. He handed me a letter from my passenger, saying he was to call my passenger’s secretary for an interview.

Robbie got the job. He did minor tasks, unpaid, but he fit in well. The following summer, he worked at the hospital again with more responsibility. As high school graduation neared, Dr Plum was kind enough to write letters of recommendation for Robbie and he was accepted by Brown University. Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief president at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Some might call it fate, and I guess it was. But it shows that something as ordinary as a taxi ride can change your life.

1. What does the underlined word “intrigued” in the second paragraph mean?

A．interested

B．confused

C．benefited

D．challenged

2. After the author got the passenger’s name, he ___________.

A．found that his son got the summer job immediately.

B．found his son wasn’t interested in getting a summer job.

C．had difficulty persuading his son to send his school record.

D．asked for his help more than once.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A．The author loves his job and devotes himself to it.

B．Robbie was very eager to work at New York Hospital.

C．The small summer job led to Robbie’s career.

D．Dr. Plum promised to help the author without hesitation.

4. The author develops the article mainly by________.

A．providing examples

B．following the natural time order

C．making comparisons

D．presenting causes and effects

7 . If you are human, you can’t help but experience times when everything seems to be going wrong. You must also _______as if your life is completely out of control at times. It is during those “down times” that words of encouragement from family, friends, co-workers or_______strangers can boost(增强)your spirits. It is also during those _______that negative words can be devastating (毁灭性的) and sink you deeper and deeper into depression.
For example, consider this story about a group of _______who were traveling through the woods when _______of them fell into a deep pit(坑). All of the other frogs gathered around the _______. When they saw how _______the pit was, they told the two _______frogs they would never get out.
The two frogs didn’t obey what other frogs said and tried to _______ out of the pit. The other frogs kept telling them not to jump, ________it was in vain. Finally, one of the frogs followed what the other frogs were saying and simply ________ He fell down and ________. The other frog continued to jump as ________as he could. Once again the crowd of frogs shouted at him to ________ the pain. The more they ________, the harder he jumped and finally he ________to safety.
When he ________, the other frogs asked him why he continued to jump when they were all ________him to simply quit. The frog ________to them that he was a little bit deaf. He thought they were ________him all the time.1.

A．think

B．experience

C．seem

D．feel

2.

A．so

B．just

C．even

D．ever

3.

A．processes

B．times

C．courses

D．practices

4.

A．frogs

B．mice

C．dogs

D．cats

5.

A．two

B．three

C．many

D．few

6.

A．hole

B．pit

C．water

D．well

7.

A．muddy

B．wide

C．deep

D．long

8.

A．uncomfortable

B．unpleasant

C．unhappy

D．unfortunate

9.

A．run

B．walk

C．climb

D．jump

10.

A．so

B．as long as

C．because

D．although

11.

A．gave out

B．gave up

C．gave away

D．gave off

12.

A．died

B．wounded

C．destroyed

D．damaged

13.

A．fast

B．hard

C．easily

D．swiftly

14.

A．help

B．ban

C．forbid

D．stop

15.

A．cried

B．spoke

C．shouted

D．read

16.

A．get it

B．forget it

C．use it

D．made it

17.

A．turned out

B．kept out

C．got out

D．held out

18.

A．taking to

B．shouting at

C．throwing at

D．speaking to

19.

A．explained

B．announced

C．introduced

D．told

20.

A．encouraging

B．helping

C．pulling

D．dragging

8 . One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about being late for school. There were many people       1    (wait) at the bus stop, and some of them looked very anxious and     2    (disappoint). When the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next     3     the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on a bike caught my attention. He     4    (ride) beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver,     5     he refused to stop     6     we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept riding. He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy came up to the door of the bus, and I heard an     7    (excite) conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked, “Did anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh dear! It’s       8    (I).” She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully. Everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy     9    (do), and the crowd of strangers     10    (sudden) became friendly to one another.

9 . Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials to make the light bulb. When none worked successfully, his assistant __1_, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”

Thomas Edison replied very __2_, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have _3__ a lot. We now know that there are two thousand materials which we cannot _4__ to make a good light bulb.”

If you learn from your mistakes, then you are _5__. If you learn from someone else’s mistakes, then you are a genius. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines __6__ daily and failure is nothing more than a few small __7_ repeated daily.

How __8_ the above lines are! Success takes __9_. We’ll make mistakes _10__ we do things in too much of a hurry. When we do not practice disciplines in life, we don’t build enough confidence to __11__ new and challenging tasks which are important and matter in life. Our confidence __12__ what we think of ourselves and whether we believe in ourselves. We are all born with exceptional __13__, but only a few really _14___ their true potentials and make efforts in life and the others just lead a(n) _15__ life. Do you want to be exceptional?

Success is a fruit which everyone wants to _16__, but it is not found everywhere and no one can __17_ it without serious efforts.

Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don’t will find a(n) _18__!

Success depends on previous __19__, and without it we will end in failure.

When you are __20__, please enjoy it and give your hand to others who want to accomplish something.

1.

A．celebrated

B．complained

C．explained

D．answered

2.

A．confidently

B．madly

C．carelessly

D．angrily

3.

A．remembered

B．refused

C．learned

D．ordered

4.

A．test

B．ignore

C．invent

D．use

5.

A．healthy

B．enthusiastic

C．intelligent

D．generous

6.

A．shown

B．prevented

C．recorded

D．practiced

7.

A．errors

B．machines

C．jobs

D．steps

8.

A．common

B．strange

C．familiar

D．true

9.

A．effect

B．time

C．drugs

D．roles

10.

A．as though

B．so that

C．unless

D．if

11.

A．keep

B．attempt

C．give

D．see

12.

A．depends on

B．sets aside

C．turns down

D．sets up

13.

A．appearance

B．experiences

C．qualities

D．feelings

14.

A．own

B．realize

C．provide

D．research

15.

A．active

B．hard

C．rich

D．average

16.

A．sell

B．draw

C．eat

D．praise

17.

A．achieve

B．watch

C．offer

D．recognize

18.

A．story

B．excuse

C．key

D．plan

19.

A．preparation

B．influence

C．life

D．generation

20.

A．powerful

B．wonderful

C．successful

D．hopeful

10 . An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a crow(乌鸦) landed on their window.
The father asked his son, “What is that?”
The son replied, “That is a crow.”
After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is that?”
The son said, “Father, I told you just now. It is a crow.”
After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for the third time, “What is this?”
This time his son shouted at his father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already. ‘IT IS A CROW.’ Are you not able to understand this?”
A minute later the father went to his room and came back with a diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page:
Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question. I did not at all feel angry, but instead felt affection for my son.
If you parents reach old age, do not look at them as a burden, but speak to them gently, and be kind to them. From today say this aloud, “I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered me with love. I will take care of my old parents in the BEST way no matter how they behave.”
1. The writer mainly intends to ______.

A．tell us the function of a diary

B．call on us to love our parents

C．teach us what a crow is

D．introduce a pair of son and father

2. According to the passage, the son felt _____ when his father kept asking the same question.

A．puzzled

B．angry

C．grateful

D．surprised

3. We can know that the father wrote this diary at the age of ______.

A．eighty	B．forty-give
C．thirty-eight	D．thirty-five

4. The old man brought out the diary, which he had kept since his son was born, because ___.

A．he forgot what had happened

B．he would like his son to read it

C．it could remind himself of the past

D．he wanted to find what a crow was in his diary