1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Some people live in the world for body while others for dignity.

I once took a walk along the street on a Saturday dusk,     1     a Pepsi can in my hand. An old woman in ragged clothes,     2     was living on collecting used cans, jars and tins, moved slowly towards me, with a bag on the back! Walking nearer, she looked up at me and then fixed her eyes on my can. At that time, I hadn’t finished my cola, so I gave     3     several coins instead.

She stared at me for a few seconds and handed back the money. Quite     4     (confuse), I asked: “Why not? Isn’t that     5     you want?” “I am not a beggar, ” she said seriously, word by word. Instantly, I felt so sorry. I     6     (intend) to help her, completely misunderstanding her.     7    ,I hurt her. What I could do at that moment was only to drink up the cola and handed her     8     emptied can. This time, she gave me a smile with     9     (satisfy) and gratitude in her eyes. The woman is poor in material life but is so    10     (respect) as a man. I am not only moved but also have learned a good lesson.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

An old story is told of a king who had a close friend. The friend had a habit of commenting on situations even terrible     1    (thing) happening in his life, “This is good!”

One day the king and his friend were hunting. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had     2    (obvious) done something wrong in preparing the gun, for after     3    (take) the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation, the friend     4    (argue) as usual, “This is good!” The king replied, “No, this is not good!” and sent his friend to prison.

About a year later, the king was hunting when cannibals (食人者) captured him     5     took him to their village. They tied     6    (he) hands, stacked (堆积) some wood, set up a stake (桩) and bound him to the stake. As they came near     7    (set) fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. They never ate anyone that was not whole. So they sent him on his way.

Returning home, he remembered the event that had taken his thumb. He went immediately to the prison to speak     8    his friend, “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was gone.” He told the friend everything     9     had happened. “Sorry for sending you to prison for so long.”

His friend just gave a     10    (nature) reply, “This is good!” “What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent you to prison for a year?” “If I had not been in prison, I would have been with you.”

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式

Last Monday morning, I was     1     (cycle) along a street in the rush hour on my way to an interview     2     an important job. A yellow car passed by me and     3    (sudden) stopped. I had to brake my bike hard and of course, I     4    (fall). I was so angry I stopped the driver and kept on     5     (shout) at him rudely.

    6    (unfortunate), I was in time for the interview. By chance, one of my     7    (interview), the manager of the company, was no other than the driver of the yellow car. Luckily, the manager was not angry with me     8    my rudeness.     9    , he offered me the job. So I said to everyone jokingly that I could tell my manager     10     I thought of him.

4 . 阅读下面短文,在空格处填入一个适当的词或括号中词语的正确形式。

I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate     1     a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello     2     him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought,“Why not offer him a piece of chocolate?” So I did. He was quite     3    (surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn’t usually do things like this for     4    (stranger)—at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really unusual dialect, and the train was loud.

Then he opened one of his bags and gave me     5     handful of freshly picked cherries,     6     (explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really     7    (love), better than those in the shops, and I     8    (enjoy) them very much. It had been just an impulse(冲动) to offer him a piece of chocolate, but if I had not done so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries,     9     I didn’t even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it’s     10    (general) true that if you give, you will receive.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

I recently heard a story about a famous scientist. When he     1    (ask) why he was able to succeed, he gave the answer. It all came from an experience with     2     mother when he was about two years old. “I was trying to get a bottle of milk from the fridge when I lost the bottle and it fell, spilling (溢出) the milk all over the floor-a sea of milk! I got     3     (frighten) and I didn’t know what to do!” he said.

Instead of     4    (punish) him, his mother asked him to play in the milk for a while. Then she said, “ You know, we failed in how to     5    (successful) carry a big milk bottle with two tiny     6    (hand) just now. Let’s go out in the yard and fill the bottle     7     water to see if you can discover a way to carry it.”

This famous scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he     8    (know) he didn’t need

to be afraid to make mistakes     9     were actually opportunities for learning something new. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually learn something     10    (value) from it

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled A Real Test in My Life before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how     1    (terrible) shy I was with so many eyes     2    (fix) upon me. I had no     3    (choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech,     4     was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part     5    (lie) in my oral presentation from my memory — for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began     6     I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my listeners were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back,     7    (deliver) my speech with difficulty. After     8     seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding — I made     9    ! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with my confidence building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way to success is our fear. Overcome it     10     we will be able to achieve our goals.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

For 72 years, Lisa Gumpel kept a secret. “For a long time, I was determined not to tell anyone about it,” said Gumpel, 85 years old,    1     finally settled in Minnesota after the war and now lives in the Twin Cities.

She told people that she and her two sisters were among 669 Jewish children     2    (save)by a kind man to escape from the Nazi concentration camp in 1939. Their rescuer was    3    British businessman named Nicholas Winton, who also kept the story to     4    until his wife found a list of the children's names.

Gumpel was shocked in 1988 when the     5    (true) about Winton's one-man rescue operation finally came out. “Nobody knew that he actually did all     6    himself,” she said. “He worked so hard to save lives.”

Winton still doesn't think that he's a hero, arguing that his life was never    7     danger and that he was doing    8     he feels every person should do.

A party was held for him and the people he'd saved. Gumpel was    9    (excite) when she finally met him. “He still    10    (treat) us all like we're his kids,” she said with a warm smile on the face.

10 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Everyone likes to have friends who are     1    (rely). When what we say matches what we do, we earn trust and friendship. Therefore, the    2     (important) of keeping one's promise cannot be stressed too much.

There was a story of someone    3     （break）his promise to his friend. Two men     4     were travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threatened them. They had not gone far when a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good climber, and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other, seeing that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat     5    his back and pretended to be dead.

The Bear came up to him and sniffed at him. The Bear thought the man was dead, so he went off into the wood again without hurting him. When he had gone, the other traveler came down from his tree, and smilingly asked his companion what the Bear     6    (say) to him.“My     7    (good) friend, ” he said, “I saw the Bear put his mouth close to your ear. ” “He told me to tell you, ” replied the other    8     (calm), “that you were     9    great coward, and that in future I should not trust those who make fine promises, but will not stand by their friends in danger. ”Don't trust fine promises     10     you are sure of the person who makes them.