1 .           For much of my childhood, my mother filled the evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted (编织) hats for babies, and at other times she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn't _______ when one evening my mother announced she'd start a new project.
          “I'm going to telephone neighboring _______ every night,” said my mother.
          “Every night? But you don't even _______ these people.”
          “Doesn't matter,” she said. “What's important is that I want to listen.”
          I was sixteen years old and couldn't figure out why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two elder sisters to call _______ she felt lonely.
          My _______ didn't affect my mother's project. That evening after supper, she settled on the sofa with the phone and began making phone calls.
          For a while, I listened as she asked the lady on the phone about her day, what she had eaten for dinner, and asked if she had _______ that the beautiful roses had come out in a neighboring park. When she finished the call, I said, “What do you _______ whether she had cookie or cream pie for dessert?”
          My mother replied, “I'm the _______ person she talked to today.”
          It took me nearly thirty years to understand the _______ of what she was doing. Now, as my mother is nearing sixty, I find myself thinking about those nightly ________ she used to make.
          I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I'm the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just ________ as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole a piece of cheese from the kitchen.
          I ________ that my mother's calls were lifelines (生命之线 ) that kept lonely seniors connected to the world. Somehow, she managed to work full-time and ________ a family while improving the lives of others.
          That kind of ________ needs commitment (奉献，投入) and organizational skills that I do not have. While she freed several seniors from ________, I struggle to call just one － my mother.1.

A．interested

B．satisfied

C．surprised

D．excited

2.

A．teenagers

B．children

C．juniors

D．seniors

3.

A．meet

B．know

C．pass

D．find

4.

A．because

B．if

C．though

D．until

5.

A．doubt

B．advice

C．answer

D．praise

6.

A．decided

B．felt

C．noticed

D．imagined

7.

A．hate

B．love

C．mean

D．care

8.

A．only

B．early

C．first

D．last

9.

A．difficulty

B．importance

C．possibility

D．difference

10.

A．visits

B．orders

C．calls

D．cries

11.

A．think

B．listen

C．talk

D．write

12.

A．realize

B．explain

C．express

D．recognize

13.

A．protect

B．start

C．affect

D．support

14.

A．service

B．experience

C．promise

D．tradition

15.

A．hopelessness

B．illness

C．loneliness

D．helplessness

2 . When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.

Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”

With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans' business makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.

1. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Run a Corporation Well	B．Strength Comes from Peace
C．How to Achieve a Big Dream	D．Family Unity Builds Success

2. What can we infer about the An’s daughters?

A．They went out to work for themselves before graduation.

B．They all would not like to work in their family business.

C．They were deeply influenced by what Helene taught them.

D．There always were disagreements among family members

3. Helene once used chopsticks to show ______.

A．the quality of the chopsticks	B．the difficulty of being united
C．the strength of family unity	D．how to be a strong person

4. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An’s family ______.

A．began to run a restaurant in 1975	B．left Vietnam without much money
C．bought a restaurant in Los Angeles	D．opened a sandwich shop in San Francisco

3 . Once there lived a rich man     1      wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved     2     (he) help.

In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed     3      very large stone. Then he     4     (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.

“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man,    5     he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way.    6      man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove    7    . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, saying to himself, “The night     8     (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.” Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength     9     (move) it. How great was his surprise at last!     10      the stone, he found a bag of money.

4 . One day, a well-known speaker was invited to give a lecture to an audience of 200. He started his lecture by

________a $ 20 bill. He looked around the room, and asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?”________ started going up.

He said, “I am going to ________ this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He crumpled up (揉皱) the 20-dollar bill. He then asked, “Who ________ wants it?” Still the hands were ________ in the air.

“Well”, he replied,“________I do this ?” And he dropped it on the ________ and started to step on it with his shoes. He picked it up. Now it was crumpled and ________.

“Now, who wants it?” Still the hands went into the air.

“My friends, we have all learned a very ________ lesson. No matter what I did to the ________, you still want it because it doesn’t decrease in ________. It is still worth $20, with ________ we can buy what we need.

Many times in our lives, we are ________, and trampled（踩）underfoot by the decision we ________ and the circumstances that come our way. We feel ________we were worthless. But no matter what has happened or what may happen to us, you will never ________ your value. Dirty or clean, you are still priceless to those who do love you. The worth of our lives is determined not by ________ we do or who we know, but by who we are. You are

________. Don’t ever forget it.”

If you ________ this lesson in mind, it will help you to ________ again when you fall. Each time it makes you grow much stronger.

1.

A．holding up

B．picking up

C．keeping up

D．bringing up

2.

A．Chats

B．Voices

C．Hands

D．Talks

3.

A．pass

B．give

C．show

D．lend

4.

A．ever

B．even

C．also

D．still

5.

A．on

B．off

C．up

D．out

6.

A．What for

B．How come

C．What about

D．What if

7.

A．floor

B．desk

C．shelf

D．dustbin

8.

A．usable

B．small

C．dirty

D．old

9.

A．meaningless

B．amazing

C．rare

D．valuable

10.

A．money

B．paper

C．book

D．card

11.

A．shape

B．value

C．quality

D．size

12.

A．which

B．what

C．that

D．it

13.

A．warned

B．pushed

C．dropped

D．reminded

14.

A．prefer

B．receive

C．face

D．make

15.

A．as though

B．even though

C．if only

D．only if

16.

A．take

B．lose

C．miss

D．win

17.

A．how

B．what

C．where

D．who

18.

A．honest

B．wise

C．young

D．special

19.

A．keep

B．forget

C．impress

D．leave

20.

A．stand up

B．put up

C．take up

D．jump up

5 . Despite the great progress in medical science, human beings are constantly attacked by cancer, which means death. A woman named Bonnie suffered a _______ of discomforts caused by the treatment of cancer. She didn’t regard cancer as a ________ disease, but a laughing matter. She treated it in a humorous way. To put it in ________ way, she is teaching people that even though cancer isn’t ________, we can treat it in a humorous way.

Her second child was going to be born three months away ________ she was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly, a ________ mother turned into a helpless woman afraid for her own ________. It was after she had had her baby ________ that she had an operation.________ came chemo (化疗) and her life seemed to be made up of fears and ________. But the ________ moment in her life came after she lost all her hair and a free wig(假发) arrived. She ________ it on as her older son Kyler watched.

“That was when I decided how to ________ it: crying over this bad wig or laughing about it.________ way would make _______ remember it.” Bonnie said. She spent a lot of time looking for anything funny from cancer patients. She got a lot out of collecting ________ stories. She started laughing a lot, finding it the perfect medicine. Using herself as a bald (光头) model, Bonnie ________ to design her own greeting cards and calendars, making fun of the sufferings of chemo.

“To have joy, we badly ________ to laugh,” she said.

Clearly, you can increase your confidence to ________ over any disease and trouble ________ laughing.

1.

A．set

B．way

C．series

D．pack

2.

A．deadly

B．seriously

C．terribly

D．fearfully

3.

A．the other

B．another

C．other

D．others

4.

A．serious

B．painful

C．fierce

D．fun

5.

A．before

B．when

C．while

D．until

6.

A．happy

B．sad

C．fortunate

D．sick

7.

A．son

B．illness

C．life

D．operation

8.

A．made

B．delivered

C．attended

D．opened

9.

A．Here

B．Later

C．Thus

D．Then

10.

A．failures

B．loneliness

C．tears

D．wonders

11.

A．highest

B．lowest

C．great

D．ugly

12.

A．wore

B．carried

C．fastened

D．tried

13.

A．deal with

B．do with

C．go with

D．meet with

14.

A．All

B．Any

C．Either

D．Both

15.

A．myself

B．my son

C．everyone

D．my husband

16.

A．detective

B．romantic

C．humorous

D．different

17.

A．set out

B．get down

C．set about

D．set down

18.

A．need

B．ought

C．want

D．long

19.

A．think

B．get

C．run

D．take

20.

A．in terms of

B．by the way of

C．through the method of

D．by means of

6 . Once Dr．Mellinkoff invited me to join him at the hospital to discuss interesting cases with his   students．The case at hand was a Guatemalan man, aged 34, who had a fever and many other medical ^problems．His condition was not improving, and there was not much hope he would live．
Dr．: Mellinkoff asked to see the patient．He introduced himself in Spanish and, in a very gentle voice, asked how he felt．The patient smiled and said everything was all right．Then the doctor asked if he was able to eat．The patient said that he had no desire to eat．
"Are you getting food you like?"
The patient said nothing．
"Do you get the kind of food you have at home?"
The answer was no．
The doctor put his hand on the man’s shoulder and his voice was very soft．
"If; you had food that you liked, would you eat it?"
"Yes, yes," the patient said．
The change in the patient’s appearance couldn’t have been more obvious．Nothing was said, but it was easy to tell that a message had been sent and! had also been received．
Later, the doctor asked why the Guatemalan man wasn’t getting food he could eat．One of the students said, "We all know how difficult it is to get the kitchen to make special meals．"
"Suppose," the doctor replied, "you felt a certain medicine was absolutely necessary but that our hospital didn’t carry it, would you accept defeat or would you insist the hospital meet your request?"
"I would probably insist," the student said．
"Very well," the doctor said．"You might want to try the same method in the kitchen．It won’t be-easy, but I can help you．Meanwhile, let’s get some food inside this man as fast as possible, and stay with it．Or he’ll be killed by hunger．By the way, there must be someone among you who can speak Spanish．If we want to make real progress, we need to be able to talk with him．"
Three weeks later．Doctor Mellinkoff told me that the Guatemalan man had left the hospital under his own power．It takes more than medicine to help sick people; you also have to talk to them and make them comfortable．
1. The patient had no desire to eat because

A．he was not hungry	B．he was seriously ill
C．he was given special meals	D．he was not satisfied with the food

2. According to the passage, we can conclude that       .

A．the patient’s native language was Spanish

B．the patient’s illness was caused by hunger

C．Dr. Mellinkoff performed an operation on the patient

D．the hospital failed to provide the right medicine for the patient

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe Dr. Mellinkoff?

A．Cold.

B．Considerate.

C．Curious.

D．Careless.

4. What do you think Dr. Mellinkoff wanted to tell his students in this case?

A．Doctors should be good at foreign languages.

B．Doctors should know their patients’ real problems.

C．Doctors should try to improve their medical skills.

D．Doctors should have a good relationship ith their patients.