Michelle was eight years old when she heard her mom and dad talking about her little brother, Jack, now only an infant (婴儿). He was very sick and they were completely out of money. Only a very costly operation could save the baby now but there was no one to whom they could turn for the money needed. She heard Daddy say to her tearful mom, “Only a miracle can save him now.”
At the words, Michelle went to her bedroom and took out all the coins from her little moneybox. After counting the coins three times, she slipped out the back door and made her way to the drug store six blocks away…
She waited for a long time before the pharmacist (药剂师) turned around and asked her, “And what do you want?”
“Well, it’s about my brother,” Michelle answered. “He’s really, really sick ... and I want to buy a miracle.”
“I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist. “His name is Jack and he has something very bad growing inside his body and my daddy said only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry but I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said.
“Listen, I have the money to pay for it.” And with these words, Michelle poured out all the coins from her pockets.
At this time, a well-dressed man behind Michelle stooped down and asked the little girl, “I’m selling the miracle you want. Tell me how much money you have.”
“One dollar and eleven cents.” Michelle answered in a low voice. “And it’s all the money I have, but I can get some more.”
“Well,” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents—the exact price of a miracle for your little brother. Show me the place where your brother lives.”
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2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
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Holding the man’s hand firmly, Michelle took him home.
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When asked why he chose to help the family, the man detailed.
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Luke went down the stairs slowly as he wished he could have stayed in bed. It was his birthday, but it felt like almost everyone had forgotten it. His mom always makes him breakfast in bed for his birthday. But there was no breakfast today. Luke held onto a little bit of hope as he walked into the kitchen and hoped to see that there were presents waiting for him on the counter. No gifts.
Luke was at a loss and very sad when the doorbell ring scared him. “Maybe it’s a present for me.” Luke thought as he excitedly opened the door. “Luke Farsi?” A man asked. “Yes, that’s me.” Luke answered. “We have your Bentley that was being dropped off today. We just need a signature(签字).” “A Bentley car?” He couldn’t believe his eyes.
Luke rushed back and saw his dad tying his tie in the mirror. “Thank you,dad!Thank you!” Luke shouted and hugged him. “Oah! What’s this all about?z” His dad asked as he tried unsuccessfully to pull Luke off him. “You got me a car for the day?” Luke asked as his dad stood there surprised and then he let out a sigh as he began remembering. “Now why would we do that? It’s not like it’s your birthday or anything. It’s a borrowed car for some business meetings.Can I have the keys?” his dad asked.Luke unwillingly put the keys into his father’s hand. “Thank you. I will be back tonight sometime.” His dad said as he opened the front door and unlocked the Bentley. “Everyone forgot about my birthday.” Luke slowly walked to his small old car to get to school.
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1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
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Luke was starting his car when he received a phone call from Penny, his best friend.
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Luke entering a room in the restaurant, “Surprise!” shouted his father, with a big smile on his face.
There are a number of volunteer organizations out there that deal in things like clothing donation and the sale of remaining books. Retired schoolteacher Cathy McAllister has been a member of such an organization, VNSA, since 2012.Her duties in this regard involve working throughout the year to help prepare the books for their February sale and acting as personnel chair for the sale itself. This means that she helps coordinate(协调)all the other volunteers that help out before, during, and after the event.
It was before the 2019 book sale and Cathy once again found herself sitting among a towering pile of books and sorting through them to ensure that they would be in go0d enough condition to resell. As she was sorting, she came upon a book. The slightly broken book was in fair condition but it was one of four copies she had already found, and she a saved three of those already. The others had been much more gently used as well. Though she didn't like doing it, she had done this long enough to know that the only remaining choice was to throw it into the pile for repurposing.
A greedy book lover herself, Cathy felt guilty about throwing away a perfectly good book. Before she threw it away, she decided to check for more serious damage inside that might justify her giving it up. She opened the cover and moved to fan through the pages when she noticed something unusual.
When she opened the cover, Cathy was surprised to see that a part had been hollowed out inside the book. It looked as though someone had taken an X-Acto knife and rather expertly hollowed out a significant space. What's more, the book's previous owner had chosen to hide something in that space. She looked down and saw that someone had hidden four packages in the space, each containing ten$100 bills. Cathy's first thought was that the bills were toy money that perhaps a kid had hidden inside as part of some childish game or something.
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But Cathy soon realized that these were real $100 bills.
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Luckily for Cathy, the book also contained the name of the book owner.
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As the mother of an eleven-year-old girl, I have read several books that tell parents how to bring up a girl to be beautiful, elegant, confident, and rich. However, I have always believed that girls need to be brave above all else, but this is easier said than done.
I still remember I couldn’t see the screen directly when my daughter switched to the animal channel, which was broadcasting a show about snakes. I stood as far away from the TV as possible, too scared to open my eyes. However, my little angel was not scared of the snakes. In fact, she watched the show with a keen interest. I was relieved that my daughter didn’t get too many genetic phobias(遗传恐惧症). Even to this day, she is still obsessed with challenging herself with new things.
This year, I got a chance to study in Singapore for six months. After the novelty of the first few days had gone, I found myself missing my family. With the summer vacation approaching, my husband agreed to make good use of the fact that I was staying in Singapore. He brought our daughter out to visit me and to enjoy the new experience in a new country.
The reunion day finally came. My husband and my daughter arrived in the second week of July. I was so looking forward to seeing them. I had made many preparations for their visit. On the first day, I arranged for us to see Gardens by the Bay. When we walked out of the MRT station, we were amazed by the sight of the Super Trees. When my daughter saw lots of people walking on the Skyway, she couldn’t help shouting excitedly that she wanted to have a try. The Skyway is a 22-meter-high suspension bridge from which you can enjoy a birds eye view. Last time I came here with my friends, I firmly rejected their repeated attempts to challenge me to go up there. It was like the day with the snakes all over again. But could I really reject my little angel?
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When his 13-year-old son came home late from school last week, John Smith figured he had just gone on "one of his usual walks". It wasn't until the next day that Mr. Smith found out his intellectually disabled boy, Micheal, had been found in a Winnipeg garbage bin as temperatures dipped to -15°C.
Mr. Smith said his son had been beaten by two men, thrown in the Dumpster and left to freeze. He was found a few hours later by a woman who let him out. "I was very angry with the guys who would do this to my son," Mr. Smith said in an interview Thursday. "You can see he's a harmless child. He doesn't talk much. He keeps to himself and two men have hurt him."
The young teenager wasn't seriously hurt, but Mr. Smith said he's not letting him walk home alone anymore. The father's faith in humanity is a little shaken. Mr. Smith said he couldn't believe there were people out there who would pick on a young boy simply walking home from school. He's only been able to get bits and pieces of what happened from Micheal who is "too scared to talk about it".
"We are sure we are living in a society that we all care about our children. But we feel so sad and angry with that. For the children like my son! We can't help them? We can't protect them?” said the father.
Nicole Langlois, who works nearby, said that she heard weak cries for help as she walked past the large garbage container, but was not sure where they were coming from. So a few hours later she went back again to the garbage container and tried to find what happened. To her great surprise, she found the boy sleeping and covered with garbage.” All he kept saying was, 'Help. They pushed me in here,'" Langlois said. "I kept trying to talk to him and ask him who and he didn't talk back to me." As soon as she helped him out, he ran away and headed for home a few blocks away.
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2．应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3．续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
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"Words can't describe how grateful the family is to Langlois," Mr. Smith said.
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The family contacted police, who are investigating.
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When I was 9 years old, I used to cut grass for Mrs. Long. The elderly lady paid me very little, for she hadn't much money. But she did promise me.When Christmas comes, I shall have a present for you.‖ I spent much time wondering what it would be. The boys I played with had baseball gloves and bicycles and ice skates, and I was so eager to acquire any one of these that I convinced myself that Mrs. Long intended choosing from among them.
It would hardly be a baseball glove, I reasoned with myself. A woman like Mrs. Long wouldn't know much about baseball. Since she was old and weak, I also ruled out the bicycle, for how could she handle such a large item.
On my last Saturday at work, Mrs. Long said, '' At Christmas you come to the door and collect the present. '' These words clinched(确定)my guess. Since she was going to have the present in her house and handle it herself, unquestionably she was giving me a pair of ice skates.
I became so convinced of this that I could imagine myself upon the skates and the excitement they brought me. As the cold days of November arrived and ice began to form on the ponds, I began to try my luck on the ice. ''Get away from that ice! '' a man shouted.
''It's not strong enough yet. ''
As Christmas approached it was with difficulty that I restrained (抑制) myself from reporting to Mrs. Long and demanding my present. On the 21st of December, icy weather froze all the ponds so that boys who already had ice skates were able to use them. My longing to possess mine became overpowering.
So the next day I could control myself no longer and presented myself at Mrs. Long's door. ''I've been waiting for you, '' she said with a smile.
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Desiree, a 4-year-old girl, was sobbing quietly over her father, Ken, who had died nine months earlier. She was hugging a photograph of her father with her fingers running around his face. “Daddy”, she said softly, “Why won't you come back?”
Instead of gradually adjusting to her father's death, Desiree refused to accept it “Daddy will be home soon,” she'd tell her mother. “He's at work.” When she played with her toy telephone, she pretended she was chatting with her father “I miss you, Daddy,” she'd say. “When will you come back?” Desiree's situation made her mother worried.
Days later, it was Ken's birthday. “How will I send him a card?” Desiree asked her mother “How about if we tie a litter to a balloon.” her mother said, “and send it up to heaven?” Desiree's eyes immediately lit up.
Her mother took her to a store and Desiree picked out a balloon with HAPPY BIRTHDAY above a drawing of The Little Mermaid (美人鱼). Desire and her father had often watched it.
The child's eyes shone as they were on the way to Ken's grave. Then Desiree dictated (口述) a letter to her Dad. “Daddy, Happy birthday, I love you and miss you,” she rattled off (快速说). “I hope you get this and can write to me on my birthday in January.”
Her mother wrote the message and their address on a small piece of paper, which was then wrapped in plastic and tied to the end of the string on the balloon. Finally, Desiree let fly the balloon. For almost an hour, they watched the shining spot of silver grow smaller and smaller till disappear. “Now Dad's going to write back to me,” Desiree said confidently.
Every day since they'd flew the balloon, Desiree had asked her mother, “Do you think Daddy has my balloon yet?” Several weeks passed, and she stopped asking.
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Desire's fifth birthday came and later on the afternoon, a package arrived.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Meredith family lived in a small community. As the economy was in decline, some people in the town had lost their jobs. Many of their families were struggling to make ends meet. People were trying to help each other meet the challenges.
Mrs. Meredith was a most kind and thoughtful woman. She spent a great deal of time visiting the poor. She knew they had problems, and they needed all kinds of help. When she had time, she would bring food and medicine to them.
One morning she told her children about a family she had visited the day before. There was a man sick in bed, his wife, who took care of him and could not go out to work, and their little boy. The little boy -his name was Bernard-had interested her very much.
“I wish you could see him,” she said to her own children, John, Harry, and Clara. “He is such a help to his mother. He wants very much to earn some money, but I don't see what he can do.”
After their mother left the room, the children sat thinking about Bernard. “I wish we could help him to earn money,” said Clara. “His family is suffering so much.”
“So do I,” said Harry. “We really should do something to assist them.”
For some moments, John said nothing, but, suddenly, he sprang to his feet and cried, “I have a great idea! I have a solution that we can all help accomplish(完成).”
The other children also jumped up all attention. When John had an idea, it was sure to be a good one. “I tell you what we can do,” said John. “You know that big box of corn Uncle John sent us? Well, we can make popcorn(爆米花), and put it into paper bags, and Bernard can take it around to the houses and sell it.”
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When Mrs. Meredith heard of John's idea, she thought it was a good one, too.
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With everything ready, Bernard started out on his new business.
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Growing up, we didn’t have much money. Actually, we had very little. We lived in a small house with holes in the floor. We wore old clothes and had little food. With three little mouths to feed, my daddy worked as a gatekeeper in a middle school and then farmed our own small field until dark. Daddy provided the best he could for us and mama made our clothes on her old sewing machine. We could have easily applied for welfare, but my parents wouldn't think of it. Our family was full of love and proud of hard work
Then I was in the third grade, in Mrs. Harper’s class. One day, Mrs. Harper brought a huge box of toys to school to give to “poor” children. Everyone was invited to bring some of his or her own toys from home to put in the box. Needless to say. I had hardly any toys of my own to offer.
My eyes got big the next day when I looked into that box. It was like a dream world to me — so many colorful toys! Clearly, Mrs. Harper saw the curious look on my face, and although I never asked with a smile, she let me pick out two toys for myself from the box. I was so thankful and thought that I was the luckiest girl in the whole world!
When I got home. I couldn't wait to show mama what I brought from the school. She admired the toys and asked where I got them. I told her about the box for the poor children and that Mrs. Harper had let me pick two toys from the box！Mama thought for a few seconds and said in a very sweet way, “No…no, You can’t keep these two toys.”
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Mama explained to me that those toys were for “poor” children.
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Mrs. Harper said she understood what mama meant.
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Marmi, my big sister, was eagerly looking for a pup(小狗) to look after and love all her life, so she would ask Mummy many times for a pup of her own, but the answer was always no. You see, my mum is not very fond of dogs, never has been, and always says they're too big a responsibility. She's just not a dog person. Well, that didn't stop my sister from looking or hoping for a dog. She used to search online for her favourite breed(品种). Until one day Marni found some Cavapoo pups advertised for sale. She immediately showed Mummy and begged to go and see them. Not sure how my sister persuaded her, but to our surprise, Mummy said we could go and have a look at them but not to get high hopes. Marni rushed everyone in the car before Mummy changed her mind. Off we sped to the advertised breeder's house which luckily wasn't too far. We got to the house and I bet I could hear my sister's heart dancing with excitement. As we rang the doorbell, we could hear cute little barks coming from inside. We went in and saw lots of little black pups excitedly jumping around. There were other people there too, so we needed to choose one fast if you know what I mean. It was rather crowded but the breeder let us hold and cuddle(搂抱) the pups. The breeder handed a little confident pup to Marni. The little pup seemed an old friend with my sister. But after a lot of cuddles, Mummy said we had to go and would have to think about it.
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1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好;
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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As we were walking towards the door, the little pup followed my sister out.
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The little pup made a mess(杂乱) of our home.
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